Best Trade Route CR/Ton
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A lot of 3rd party tools that can help you out... most will not give their route away, but it's not that hard to find one.
https://eddb.io/
http://etn.io/
http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/
https://eddb.io/
http://etn.io/
http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/
cr/t is a quite inadequate measurement for a good route. cr/h is what matters.
Great so I'm curious if anybody has any routes that are better than 5k/ton or better than 5M/hr. Credits/ton is absolutely an important metric and yes, you obviously want a shorter route but if you haul credits per hour do you have a better than 5M/hr route because if so I'd like to hear about it.
You have to specify the ship, 5m/hr per hour is easy in the big ships. Horizons also pays a big factor if you are doing legal commodity trading, there are routes on the same planet that pay 1 million + (T9/Anaconda/Corvette/Cutter) hauling goods between ports on the same planet, short orbital cruises between ports.
Oh dear god. Just go to g Sothis or Robigo.
Because people cannot think for their selves.
There's loads of information on where to go if you care to have a look.
It really depends on ship. For a Cutter with 704t capacity a good route nets 12-13 mcr/h, with certain powerplay constellations that don't exist yet 15 mcr/h are possible. That translates to about 17000 cr/t/h, from that value you can calculate for any ship.
Yes. I usually look for a reasonable route that can generate a 3 Million credit profit per round trip. I can consistently do 4 round trips per hour at a liesurely pace, 5 if I really try to max the run. So 12 - 15 Mil per hour is easily doable in a trade outfit Cutter.
No real need to jump out to the far reaches unless you really want to.
Too much sense for longstar to comprehend, he needs to know the EXACT credit per hour based on fuel load, LY, installed modules - Distractions from Wife/girlfriend/P-rn time, toilet breaks, interdictions, cmdr jumping efficiency, exact alignment of the starport on exit into normal space...
Well...that type of info can be a little sketchy as of late. Trade data that has been available; via sources such as: INARA and EDDB for example. Has been a bit unreliable. And that data has not been updated/refreshed. For longer than twenty plus days (in some cases). Commodity prices, as well as ship outfitting is not current or available in some searches. To be able to deliver an accurate route. Or acquire a ship or component to ensure, suggested trade route. Success rate. Pertaining to data freshness.
It's usually better to go mining and then look for missions afterwards otherwise no matter where you are mining you'll be chased by NPCs who really want your limpets. It makes mining more painful.
I had some boring trade loop that made about 3.5kCr/ton/loop. The best tips from it would be to make sure there's only one hop, avoid planetary bases and to make sure the stations are close to the star. With more than one hop it takes longer for a loop so you get less Cr/hr. With planetary bases there's a pretty high chance the system you're jumping to after you leave the station will be behind the planet which wastes time. If the station is closer to the star it saves a lot of time and if the station is close to the star then you don't waste much time if you just set the throttle to 75% which makes flying to the station foolproof. All of these things will reduce the time per loop and that increases the profit/hour. With all that you'd probably expect about 12MCr/hour if you can do about 6 loops an hour. It's pretty boring though. The only ships that make that kind of thing worthwhile are type9s and cutters. Everyone says anacondas are good but if you're doing bulk trading you want as much cargo space as possible and that means a t9 or a cutter. The extra jump range of an anaconda doesn't make up for the lack of cargo space.
As for 10k/ton, the only way to get that would be long range trade missions from sothis/ceos/aditi/wherever. They're much more interesting than bulk trading.
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Are you for real? Ugh. You sound very rude to me - surely such a tone wasn't called for - however, I don't know the background, nor want to. Putting that aside:
Making over 5 million an hour in an Anaconda is very easy, yes. I'd say over 9 is realistic without killing yourself. Personally, I'd suggest a one-jump strategy of over 1700CR/ton average on round trip. The jumps you can do in an hour is important. Poster above is right IMO - if you want to get near 12 mil, T9 or Cutter is better. But there's the factor of interdictions - they can make getting 6 round trips per hour very difficult. I usually average five to five and a half.
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Why do you feel entitled that people just give you the information, when you rudely demand it.
Find it yourself like we did.
Do the leg work yourself, rather than get y people wont spoon feed you.
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