Find a High tech system with "seeking luxuries" guys *and* that produces performance enhances *and* sells them cheap. Not so easy. I just spent an hour cruising around high tech systems without finding all three necessary. I've no doubt there are plenty of systems that fit the bill, but none that I've looked at so far.
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Newcomer / Intro Sidewinder to Anaconda quickly - Newbie to Newbie
- Thread starter CmdrBulldog
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I'll find a few for ya. I used Slopey's calc to find one. I just did a global search for any major station close to me that sold enhancers around 6300 credits a piece. What system are you in currently?
Sounds decent. 80k round trip would be about normal, but still pretty good. There's a station to station trade in 18 Scorpii. Walters to Swift with tobacco, and trip back is marine equipment. 1k/ton one way, 598/ton back. I just ran over to Apam Napat (High Tech, Empire) where I bounty hunt, and Langly Hub (outpost, small and medium only) has Perf Enh. for 6630cr, 5500 in stock. Seeking Luxuries all over here and very close to the station. Main station is out of stock but outpost has them. Good spot to run your Cobra. It would be 40k every 3-5 minutes. Very good spot to bounty hunt and mine as well, twin metallic ring gas giants and multiple resource extraction points.
cobra > T6 3 - 6 hours
From there on it's easy.
But you've got the right idea by not giving a shiet and taking some time out to explore. Coz after all, we play games coz they are fun, not a chore!
I recently lost everything (long story) so I had to build back up to my 12 million net worth (which was a lot for me). Quickly got to the t6 using rares trading and then my asp with more rares and general 1.2mil/hr trading (doing palladium and either consumer electronics or progenitor cells on the way back, it's about 290k per round trip x 4 trips /hr with my 104 cargo t6).
Now here's the thing. To get the t7 it will take me at least 17-18 hours. That's about 9 days (2 hours / day).
The t7 will roughly double the income. So 2.4 mill / hr. To get the type 9, that will take another 24 hrs (say we only need 60 million due to re sale value of the t7, and rounding up to 2.5 mill). That's another 12 days.
So to get to a type 9 that's 21 days (3 weeks!) of pretty tedious 2 hrs / day consistent trading. And from there off to the anaconda! For me, I wouldn't even get that far because from what I've read, I only want the python.
Either way.. Whew. Count me out ☺
Obviously some people do like that, I'm not one of them. I applaud those with the dedication to see it through.
I made a post about this before - there is no doubt that trading is the only way to really rack up the $ as no other "job" scales with ship type (bounty hunting, exploring and mining all have a ceiling effect). So for those with the dedication - good luck commanders!
Nah, this isn't a race. I would not care if it took me 6 months to a year to get the ship I want. It's just fun for me to see how fast I can go, and trading is fun anyways. If I liked mining as much I would be doing that most of the time and switching to bounty hunting for an hour or two every day. For me it's either this, or go back to playing Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn = )
+Rep for the OP for the guide.
Personally, if i played that way i would simply uninstall the game after a few days. I can't think of a more boring thing to do than mindlessly repeat trade runs and use third party tools to help you "win".
If i were going to do trading (which i've done very little of except for some rare runs early on) i'd probably go hunting myself for interesting routes. Once found, do them a few times, and then go looking for a new route. This way it would keep things fresh.
No need to rush to the big ships. Years worth of play in this game. Grinding to get to "end game" would simply reduce that years worth of play down to months worth of play. I don't see the point.
Personally, if i played that way i would simply uninstall the game after a few days. I can't think of a more boring thing to do than mindlessly repeat trade runs and use third party tools to help you "win".
If i were going to do trading (which i've done very little of except for some rare runs early on) i'd probably go hunting myself for interesting routes. Once found, do them a few times, and then go looking for a new route. This way it would keep things fresh.
No need to rush to the big ships. Years worth of play in this game. Grinding to get to "end game" would simply reduce that years worth of play down to months worth of play. I don't see the point.
Well I kinda based myself in Eravate, but I don't mind to travel some to find a good earning opportunity. Eravate is a nice system to begin with, you have decent industrial and agri stations, so you can trade in-system well with the smaller ships. There's also a good high tech (LTT 7548) within a reasonable jump range but it doesn't have luxury seekers. Main reason for staying somewhere near Eravate is I got some good rep with the factions there so can get some good missions.
[edit] found one now. LP 390-16, can make a bit over 1100 or so per ton on a 69 Ls journey. around 128K per trip, with 112 cargo space.
[edit] found one now. LP 390-16, can make a bit over 1100 or so per ton on a 69 Ls journey. around 128K per trip, with 112 cargo space.
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And it got decent commodity trade routes near by, as well as a good bounty hunt area with a beacon very close to an outpost for re-fuel/re-arm/claims.
Made my first few millions hunting bounties there, and bagged a 144k Deadly Anaconda there yesterday.
Several High Tech systems is in the area actually, I have my ships parked in GD 219.
It's a good area, I like it there
Awesome! Also Cantjarisni is close to you. Tepper city sells Perf Enh. for 6700. 10000 in stock. Should be a smuggler within 10Mm of the starport. I think you will find as I have that systems like Eravate are all over the place. I've done alot of trading there, and also in Amahu (close to you) and Maheou Ti (which sells the goodies for the big ships, A6 drives, etc).
I'm done! Final update on top!
the figure you would have been quoted would be on a per hour basis.
look at the recent thread on Seeking luxuries..
At the height of the "Tenche run" was making 168k per trip with a stock Asp (120T) every 4 minutes = 15 runs per hour = 2.52 mil /ph.
This is all very good if you can stand the grind, personally I ran it for a couple of hours and got bored.
if you find the right trade route with 232t you can easily make 2m+ per hour.. when you do, just keep it secret, because the minute you broadcast it on these forums 20+ commanders will flock to the route and with the new trading changes, the route will become non profitable very quickly...
Copy that. It was strange though that it said 1.75mill for 232 canisters sold, but only got about 100k. Guess it has something to do with the nerf aafter 1.1. But I must say, yesterday was a strange day!
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Okay, subsequent to my last post in this thread, my new preferred method to get from a sidey to a hauler or even a cobra is exploring.
Make sure your ship has at a minimum a basic discovery scanner. Then all you need to do is head to the edge of populated space jump from star to star, scanning each one as you go. You have to go to unexplored systems. There’s heaps in populated space, but it’s easier if you go to the edge of populated space. Don’t bother scanning anything else in the system, just scan the star and jump to the next unexplored system. To scan the star, you need to wait for the message “new astrological object discovered” to appear in your HUD (sometimes takes 4 or 5 seconds after you’ve jumped into a new system). Then you target the star and your ship starts scanning it. Depending on the type of star, you’ll get anything from a few hundred credits to 10,000 credits or more (the stars that are blue in colour in your galaxy map tend to be the ones that pay the most).
Buy a fuel scoop as soon as you can afford one so you don't have to keep going back to dock and re-fuel.
A couple of hours of scanning stars will net you a few hundred thousand credits. You have to make it back to port without being destroyed to sell your data. If you get destroyed, you'll lose your data and your pay cheque.
Make sure your ship has at a minimum a basic discovery scanner. Then all you need to do is head to the edge of populated space jump from star to star, scanning each one as you go. You have to go to unexplored systems. There’s heaps in populated space, but it’s easier if you go to the edge of populated space. Don’t bother scanning anything else in the system, just scan the star and jump to the next unexplored system. To scan the star, you need to wait for the message “new astrological object discovered” to appear in your HUD (sometimes takes 4 or 5 seconds after you’ve jumped into a new system). Then you target the star and your ship starts scanning it. Depending on the type of star, you’ll get anything from a few hundred credits to 10,000 credits or more (the stars that are blue in colour in your galaxy map tend to be the ones that pay the most).
Buy a fuel scoop as soon as you can afford one so you don't have to keep going back to dock and re-fuel.
A couple of hours of scanning stars will net you a few hundred thousand credits. You have to make it back to port without being destroyed to sell your data. If you get destroyed, you'll lose your data and your pay cheque.
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