I'd just like a general idea of what's considered a decent per-hour income for a T6 fitted with an A-class FSD and 104 cargo capacity. I'm currently searching everywhere around LHS 3447 within a 60 LY radius, and I'm struggling to find a trade route that nets more than ~1.2 million credits or so per hour. At this pace, bounty hunting feels almost as profitable as trading, although the latter is supposedly several times more profitable. Am I doing something wrong? How far out would I generally have to go in order to find routes that net more than ~150k per haul?
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Newcomer / Intro Trading - need some advice.
- Thread starter Ransurias
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I would be tempted to give rares a bash if I were you.
Too volatile (and apparently not all that profitable as a stable, long-term source of income). There has to be some general commodity route or another out there somewhere that nets more than ~1500 - 1700 profit per ton. Unfortunately, I'm finding near-equilibriums everywhere I check. People don't want to buy things for much more than what they're selling for in a high-supply area in spite of how high demand is.
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What do you mean 1,500-1,700 - each way or round trip? If each way, it is as good as it gets. If round trip, it is about 60% of what a really good trading route brings.
I agree, with my T6 i could generate 1.2 million an hour and that was a short trunaround time of 7 minutes. you will be hard pressed to make more than 1.2 million an hour at 100 T cargo. The high end routes are harder to find than rares, and the general advice on the forum is that you do not do rares with a T6 and bigger. I now run a T7 for about 2.5 million an hour
and when I climb into a T9 it will be 1 million a trip Fly safe CMDR o7
i recognise that place isnt it very near one of the starting points? might have better pickings a few hundred Ly away from a start point.