Why isn't anyone meta alloy trading?

I get the upfront cost is expensive, but ~700 tons of cargo at ~47k credits per ton profit, equals ~33mil credits profit, per run, and it wouldn't even take that long. So, why is no one doing it?
 
I get the upfront cost is expensive, but ~700 tons of cargo at ~47k credits per ton profit, equals ~33mil credits profit, per run, and it wouldn't even take that long. So, why is no one doing it?
There is a certain type of players who will just grind whichever exploit is most profitable at the moment. This is not it.
The rest of us just do whatever we find fun. If I happened to be at a place to buy meta alloys, I would buy some, then sell them somewhere else and then go do something else. But I don't think I would do rounds of this just because it's easy money. Where's the fun in easy money? :)
 
You can buy them now.
You were always able to buy them in Maia, that's not new. I think though you only get a certain amount. Could be wrong though. Apart from that, the risk/reward ratio isn't really good enough, and mining for example pays more. Exploration as well if you really go for profit.
 
I made my first hundred mil harvesting metaalloys in Merope (many years ago, before core mining!)

.....I don't recommend it, the grind was soul crushing!
Took sooooo long....I'm getting flashbacks just thinking about it....
Shudder
 

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Yeah, should be difficult getting those 700tons - at 1 ton at a time ;)
 
There is a certain type of players who will just grind whichever exploit is most profitable at the moment. This is not it.
The rest of us just do whatever we find fun. If I happened to be at a place to buy meta alloys, I would buy some, then sell them somewhere else and then go do something else. But I don't think I would do rounds of this just because it's easy money. Where's the fun in easy money? :)

Was this a subtle dig at the profitability of mining? If so, well played.

-k
 
I made my first hundred mil harvesting metaalloys in Merope (many years ago, before core mining!)

.....I don't recommend it, the grind was soul crushing!
Took sooooo long....I'm getting flashbacks just thinking about it....
Shudder
I did the meta alloy CG. It was better than flying through a rock field holding the pulse button and crossing your fingers....

You were always able to buy them in Maia,
Not before the CG you weren't. You're welcome btw. ;)
 
meta-alloys are super supply-limited in the spots they're available at.

it's better just to trade one of a dozen or so high-sell commodities which can be bought anywhere in the bubble and sold anywhere in the bubble for good price
 
I did the meta alloy CG. It was better than flying through a rock field holding the pulse button and crossing your fingers....

Not before the CG you weren't. You're welcome btw. ;)

If that meta alloy CG was back when Meta Alloy has been discovered, I joined it myself. Memory's a bit hazy about that though. :D
 
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