Finally found my best trade route! stoked!

Beatz0121

Beatz0121
super stoked! after so much searching. Its $887 one way and $1741 back. $2628 total. Only a 17LR jump between systems. one system is 30LS and the other is 250LS but thats OK! trip takes me about 10 min and I make 600K. So about 3.6 million an hour if stick on it, no breaks. I alt tab a lot lol. Will be working towards my type-9 and vulture, then eventually and Anaconda! once I have my conda I am going to do what ever I want. Not even worry about credits.
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Midian27

Midian27
After you get the 150 million for a conda you'll realize its going to cost another 150 million to get a good kit on it.
 
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Midian27

Midian27
pippo said:
That is 40 hours or so to get a stock Anaconda, talk about grinding.
Anyway, good find.
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Yup, I used audio books to pass the time. Now I'm at 600 million in game assets and I don't trade much anymore lol. Have all the ships I want at the moment.

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Just the A grade power plant on the conda is 156 million or so. Luckily you don't really need all that power, I run a B rated on mine for the extra power plant health.
 

Egg90

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Gratz. It takes some searching but when you find a good one it sure feels like you've hit the jackpot :)

I've just moved on from a 3 way route that got me from Type 7 -> Clipper -> Python -> Type 9, that was 1,100c 1,200c & 1,450c per ton and took about 20mins for a round trip. I left it to rank up in Fed space and have found a very short 900c 1200c route with some civil war action for when I feel like jumping in the Cobra, happy days! :)

Out of interest what was the 1,740c commodity? My 1,450c on Imperial Slaves is the best I've come across so far.
 
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smsKONG

smsKONG
Don't burn out on the grinder;)

Gave up trading a few weeks back after every good route I found started to collapse within the hour.
Don't tell anyone but I'm making more credits per hour bounty hunting than I have ever made trading!
 

Jackie McMackie

Jackie McMackie
You've played for this long, I'm surprised you haven't thought about spending more on the loadout than the ship...

All my parts cost like at least a total of 6 times what my ship is worth...

Good job on the route though!
 
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Beatz0121

Beatz0121
Jackie McMackie said:
You've played for this long, I'm surprised you haven't thought about spending more on the loadout than the ship...

All my parts cost like at least a total of 6 times what my ship is worth...

Good job on the route though!
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Not sure I understand. I have like 32 million into this ship. I was aware. I just wanted to put a funny meme.
 
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Dr Evil

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Be patient and keep on grinding, once you get into your anaconda or T9 the trading routes become paved with credits.

Here's my trade income, 8 min round trip if I lean heavily on boost in and out of the station, 9 mins if I chill out.

Trade configured Anaconda with 452 tons cargo capacity, nets me 9 mil/hr on this route.

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jpaulwilson1982

jpaulwilson1982
Congrats and good job, Beatz. I had a nice little trading route myself, selling gold from one station to the other- a station around a planet, to another station at that planet's moon. I worked that route until I earned a couple million credits, then I started banging my head on my keyboard from boredom and went back to exploring and combat. It's not that Elite's trading is any worse than in other space games- I just never liked it. I only do it when I have to.

Good luck on your trade runs! May all your foes be incinerated! :D
 

Yank31

Yank31
Grats dude.

I see you've taken good care of not sharing that one, despite acting so "surprised" when we all told you, in your last thread, that sharind a route was not a good idea.

Oh well. Lesson learned I guess. And that's a good route, enjoy!
 

bsnaylor

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the only thing a Conda is good for is well....more trading (IMO). So don't get too excited. It's like flying the Starship Enterprise on manual, not done. :)
Before the flames start, note the "IMO". :D
Saying that, it can be quite nice for exploring though if that's your bag.
If you want a ship you can actually "fly", change your goal to a Python - a great (and brutal combat) all rounder when pimped up. :D
Nice route though too btw :)
 
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markzed

markzed
I am getting about 2300 for my Pally-Extractors loop, but now I have a Python (Clipper parked up) I can search out more outpost routes and maybe improve my figures to something similar to yours.

Well done, Sir.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
Midian27 said:
Yup, I used audio books to pass the time. Now I'm at 600 million in game assets and I don't trade much anymore lol. Have all the ships I want at the moment.
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My tactics exactly. I play elite differently to other games. I love it, and have put in hundeds of hrs. To those who find trading or exploring dull I see their point but for me with an audio book on the time flies by, and then a quick pause if i need to fight.

So far listened to "The mote in god's eye", "Enders game" and now on a childhood fave of mine, "Dune".

that is a hell of a trade route!.
 
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