CMDRs that have Type-9 or Anaconda, could you tell me how much does it cost to fill up your tank? My trade route is between systems 15 LY apart and in a Clipper that's 2160 Cr of fuel one way. With travel time (since T-9 must jump twice vs direct jump on Anaconda) factored in my numbers show that Anaconda win in the profitability department by a bit. The only factor currently unknown to me is how much will it cost to fill the tank. The numbers are close enough that if Anaconda is much more expensive to fill up it might actually flip the advantage to Type 9
Anaconda & Type-9 fuel price?
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I would pay around 300,000c for a full tank in Type-9. Did the math on my current route, it works out cheaper to lose 16T cargo and fit an A3 scoop. Brings tonnage down from 500T to 492T I still make 1.4 million on a round trip so it's all good.
Would normally ditch the scoop, but my route is 25LY, was burning around 150,000c worth of fuel one way. Obviously I could fly the route in Economy mode and save cash, but I'm happy with the scoop.
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300K credits for a type 9 with a drained tank.
it's ok as long as you are making more than you have to pay in fuel.
it's ok as long as you are making more than you have to pay in fuel.
Am trying to see your logic here... You can buy a Type-9 for 65 mill from LHS 3447, you will go from a shieldless clipper hauling 248T to a shielded Type-9 hauling 500T .
Within a week of owning my Type-9 I could afford an Anaconda, and my ED time is very limited.
fuel is not an issue in a Type-9, just buy a good scoop and haul 468T, still a massive amount of extra profit over the Clipper. Only takes me a minute or so to scoop 34T of fuel in my T9
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I did an Excel spreadsheet. My starting data is that I have 26,4m cr (2 days ago or so) in hand, on a 2,937cr/roundtrip route, playing 2 hours of solid trading (more like 3 hour of distracted trading while browsing forum, so I reckon it's equal to 2 hours). Clipper is 240 tonner, my target is the cost of fully fitted next ship (all D except A FSD) with enough money on hand for insurance & a full hold of my most expensive cargo (Palladium was used). That comes to 182,4 M for Anaconda, 111 M for T9.
The trade route is 15 LY apart, I stopwatched several of my Clipper trips and I set onto around 5 trips/hour (it's more like 5.5 trip, but I use the time where I mess up my station approach twice). With T-9 I ASSUME that I will do 3.5 round trips per hour (both slower and T-9 have an extra jump to make due to weaker FSD). T9 will have 500 tons of cargo. I will IGNORE repairs due to dings and fuel expenses, so let's assume no fueling, no repair.
All stats inputted, I will make roughly 7M/day in Clipper, 10.2M/day in T-9. To reach Anaconda money, I will need 23 days (remember that I got 26M already on hand). To reach T9, I will need 13 days (factoring 26M on hand), and then to get to Anaconda using T-9, I will need 18 days. 13+18=31, which is longer than 23 days.
On LHS-3447, I am thinking about it (really), but it's 220LY away and getting there, buying, fitting getting it back to my lucrative route will take 2 hours at least (that's assuming I can find the top FSD on the same dock). Let's assume I got every single module discounted & fitted as they are available at the discounted dock that's a 11M discount. That's 1.5 day/3 hours (lets count it as 2 days) of playtime saved on the Clipper-T9-Anaconda side of grind. That's still 31-2=29 days.
I guess another factor is that I will not sell my T-9. I already own it so it will stay that way (all my unused ships are stripped bare in "drydock"). I will strip it So that's 22.5 Million of modules (discounted modules, assuming I can remove them all, but they can't all be removed so it's a bigger number than reality), that's 2 days of T-9 grinding saved. 29-2=27 days.
Once you got to T-7/Clipper, it's much faster to just aim for Anaconda as your next trading ship than going Python-T9-Anaconda. I was going for Clipper-Python-Anaconda which will actually make it 1 day faster that Clipper-T9-Anaconda (but much more fun), but then they nerf the Python...
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