Can't get it right

[UnhappyDev]

You cant make money from trading with such a low amount of money; it will take forever. In the early days with your Sidie you should be doing courier missions. No cargo space required and easy money. Once you have a Hauler and a few hundred k credits you can look at trading.

This ^^ You don't have enough credits to be profitable as a trader. Do some simple BB missions and build your bank balance up.

Once you have > 200,000 you could try trading imperial slaves - look for Zemina Torval control systems (use galaxy map powerplay tab to find them). This is where the cheap slaves are - just sell them to a neighbouring system

 

[Anon Ctrl]

Hi I'm in LFT 37, Zemina territory I believe and am looking at doing some trading runs. I have the C MK III and enough credits as outlined above. I am willing to trust someone to help me from here, lol.

 

[UnhappyDev]

Hi I'm in LFT 37, Zemina territory I believe and am looking at doing some trading runs. I have the C MK III and enough credits as outlined above. I am willing to trust someone to help me from here, lol.

Well, if you're playing in open (and I hope you are ) watch out for pirates - they are to be found around the slave trading systems.

 

[Anon Ctrl]

Yep, always in open.

 

[Bieltan]

PM me for a route OP.

 

[3Wood]

Did someone mention Robigo?

 

[Mole HD]

Did someone mention Robigo?

Shame on you lol

 

[iconoclypse]

Personally, I think all of the existing trade tools are lacking. They are way too dependant on you being in the right place, and all too frequently revolve heavily around slavery. In '84 it was as simple as finding a Poor Agricultural and Rich Industrial in proximity. There are many more variables in ED however. If you don't want to rely on going where the tools point you and you don't want to wing up, you know like maybe doing it yourself, heaven forfend, then you can see on the commodities page where a system imports from or exports to. Do a dry-run or two (taking a gamble is where you're losing money), note down some of the commodities that seem to have a price that varies significantly from the galactic average. With a little research it's possible to spot reliable profits. Try to stick to one-jump loop trades. Then, patience. Near the starting systems I took Mineral Extractors from Eravate to Potriti, then returned with Superconductors.

 

[Rodafowa]

Personally, I think all of the existing trade tools are lacking. They are way too dependant on you being in the right place, and all too frequently revolve heavily around slavery.

You can tell eddb.io not to show you trades for certain goods, though. I got it to filter out Slaves and Imperial Slaves because I'm a big enough bleeding heart to feel weird about making money trading imaginary people*. I made my first 10m or so on a route that earned me about 350K for a 15-minute round trip.

* - I'm bang up alongside the idea of making money KILLING imaginary people, mind. I've met imaginary people. They're ****s.