I have been working with your first pdf from the other day and I have a few things to share on it.
1. As an ASP Pilot I could definitely be making more money per hour straight trading.... BUT This has been all sorts of fun for me so far.
2. I hadn't tried rare trading before and using your pdf has been easy to follow, detailed enough, and pretty much spot on.
3. I still haven't made it to page 3 of the original.
Thanks for putting this together. I know there's lots of rare trade routes out there by other players but I've been having a lot of fun with this. It's a great tour and I should make a pretty penny once I finally get to the end and sell my exploration data. I set my routes to economical and explored each system that I can as I go and it's adding up fast.
Seriously, nice job. It's helped break me out of the boring trade grind.
FYI, I'm just leaving Bast and I've made about 2.9 million so far. Not the best hourly rate but definitely more fun.
Thanks for sharing, maybe it's worth putting your updated route in the OP?
Thanks so much for putting this together. I've been using this for a couple days to go on an exploring adventure, and it's been very fun.
One quick minor comment. On mitchman's route, stop 49, it's recommended to sell Kamitra Cigars in Eshu, but you can't sell them in Eshu. They don't show up on the commodities market, possibly because they are prohibited. You have to wait until Goman to sell them. Like I said, totally minor, but maybe someone else will need that information one day.
Cheers to those who have put effort into these route creations.
I still refuse using these kind of tools. Though it's still unclear to me if I'm an hero now, just an idiot or both.
I am using my one and only ship - a Cobra. Have 40t space and started by filling up around Leesti cluster and then finding some where 170ly away and going and selling all there. Made about 300k on first leg & similar amount of return journey. Not sure how much I started with but probably had 1-200k inc insurance. After that first run profit you are away. Now have a fully maxed A rated Cobra and just go from Rare station to Rare station rather than large jumps between 2 clusters.I'm considering dipping in to trading, doing rares seems fractionally more interesting than straight up bulk runs. I'd appreciate it if you could advise how much seed money is recommended before starting a run like this. Perhaps a suggestion on a trading noob ship and setup, starting with a multi purpose vessel before moving up to a full fledged trader ship?
Much obliged for your help! What has already been provided looks like a wealth of information from hard work.
The way I roleplay/justify this sort of information is that in the real space world, you would get out of your ship now and then, go to the space bar to have a few beers with fellow traders, some of whom are friendly and helpful enough to share their good trade routes.
So in real life are you going to say, "no thanks, I want to search the whole galaxy for myself"?
The only difference is, those in game traders are sharing their knowledge with you here on this forum until the game implements bars where we can chat to each other in game.