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Droid Washing Guide

"Droid washing", or more generally "washing", is a method to gain Advanced Trade Points (ATPs) quickly for a high cost. It involves artificially trading large quantities of credits with planets and neutral starbases by repeatedly buying and selling the same items. The term "droid washing" comes from the fact that droids are one of the most common items used to wash, due to their high planet trade price making them very AP-efficient.

Cost to droid wash

Players gain 1 ATP per 4 million credits earned through trades at planets, non-player-owned starbases, black markets, Gem Merchants, and Faction Smelting Facilities. The price to buy an item from a planet or starbase is 1.25 the cost to sell the item, regardless of what the item is or what its initial selling cost is, and the selling cost is determined by the maximum quantity the planet or starbase is able to buy. Therefore, how many credits you will lose to gain 1 ATP is only dependent only on the maximum quantity of the item you can sell to the planet or starbase. The formula is given below:

$CostPerATP(item_{max}) = 4000000 * ((10^{-\frac{1}{item_{max}}} * 1.25) - 1)$

Items to droid wash

As the cost of droid washing is only dependent on the maximum quantity of items the planet (or starbase) is willing to buy, and the maximum quantity of items the planet is willing to buy is dependent on the planet's population, most items will earn an equal number of ATPs for the same cost. However, more expensive items will earn more ATPs per trade, making them more AP-efficient to wash compared to cheaper items.

Item Image Initial selling cost
Droids

Battleweapons

Handweapons

Stim chips

Droid washing method

To quickly start droid washing:

  1. Identify a planet or non-player-owned starbase with a population of 4,999 or less.
  2. Obtain 20t of multiple items (suggested: droids, battleweapons, handweapons, all varieties of stim chips, and robots).
  3. On the planet or non-player-owned starbase, sell an initial 1t of each item so that there is 1t of it on the planet/starbase.
  4. Once there is 1t of each item on the planet-side of the trade window, enter '19' into both the sell box and the buy box of each item and trade. This should sell 19t of each item to the planet/starbase, and then immediately buy 19t back.
  5. Repeat step 4. until enough ATPs have been earned

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