concerning fast tracking, here a nice tab i have found in another thread:
Some quick calculations, I posted this some time ago.
| Cost | Cost + Upgrade | Cargo Size | Trip Profit | Trips to Upgrade | Hours to Upgrade | Days to Upgrade (2h/day) |
Sidewinder | Free | Free | 8 | 8000 | 10 | 2 | 1 |
Hauler | 52720 | 79080 | 18 | 18000 | 27 | 5 | 2 |
Cobra | 379718 | 569577 | 44 | 44000 | 23 | 4 | 2 |
Type-6 | 1045945 | 1568917 | 104 | 104000 | 237 | 39 | 20 |
Type-7 | 17472252 | 26208378 | 216 | 216000 | 274 | 46 | 23 |
Python | 56978179 | 85467268 | 284 | 284000 | 103 | 17 | 9 |
Type-9 | 76555842 | 114833763 | 500 | 500000 | 211 | 35 | 18 |
Anaconda | 146969451 | 220454176 | 500 | 500000 | 186 | 31 | 16 |
Imperial Cutter | 208969451 | 313454176 | 800 | 800000 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| | | | | | Total: 179 | Total: 89 |
Based on a trade route of Cr2000 for the loop and being able to do 6 loops an hour (each loop takes 10-12 minutes) it takes roughly 180 hours to progress to a well specified Imperial Cutter just using trading.
e.g. - fast depends on your definition of slow.
anyway, with the CR you have available, you are good for taking a python or t9 for state depending trading after yu have reached top 50% in all active CG in the bubble:
trade medicines fom boom systems to systems in outbreak or war/civil war, trade between a boom industrial or hightech to a boom extraction system. you'll easily find a 1-2 jumps route netting 3000 cr/t a-b-a. this can go up to 4500 cr/t a-b-a.... i for exampel currently import medical diagnostic equipment from a hightech economy to facece (military/extraction), and export gold back - that's 4700 cr/t profit each 8 minutes, or 18,5 mio cr/h in my trutter.
here is a list i made for myself in 2.2.
- you can use eddb.io to search for supply of commodities, but you have to check for the appropriate state via galaxy map and system map, because those states can change once a day, a no thrid party tool can keep up with that.
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a general hint: an anaconda will not change the enjoyment of your game. you can simply as well do what you enjoy - there is nothing ingame which you can't do and survive in a cobra mkIII