Greetings CMDRs,
some time ago ED got trading UI changes. Unlucky for me I was past Colonia when that happened, taking advantage of previous exploration changes. With little forum help I managed to quickly return to the Bubble, dusted off my Anaconda and went in search for lucrative trade routes for fame and glory. But mostly credits. Found pretty nice loop, about 5M profit per circle. Quickly I realized that 450-ish cargo space isn't enough.
Since I wanted to strike 2 birds with one rock I decided to buy Federal Corvette. I know, I know, there are better ships with more cargo space for real trucking. But I wanted Corvette and Corvette I bought. 548t was an upgrade and my profit grew. Then my source route started to dry out and I searched for new place to exploit. Here comes the lack of in-game UI. Sure, we can now compare prices with other markets and see if we loose or profit and approximetly how much. Very handy indeed but there's a catch - you need to visit given station first. So essentially new tool, prety nifty but in reality totally unusable due to restrictions. Unless you spend whole day flying in the area and visiting every potential station to gather data.
Buying trade data also doesn't work, why should it. I tried. Picked target station, "buy data" unavailable. And when it's available it doesn't work. Or I don't understand how it works. I bought the data but sitting at the source station and trying to set newly purchased info to comparison tool - search says no data available. So EDDB and Inara once again. Not to mention it requires less clicks to check anything. Few minutes later I had whole thing set up.
Once again it turned out I need more cargo space. I was reluctant to buy anything bigger (Cutter is my final reward for fulfilling my personal goals so currently not an option) but I broke - and bought T-9. Slightly over 750t and now we're talking. Compared to Corvette it handles like wet brick, Corvette feels like dancing. Anyway, it's not a nible fighting I'm expecting from that ship, but large cargo space and it works just fine.
Since my original route died, I believe I finally delivered enough Basic Medicines for them to end outbreak, I had to find other. Not far from where I was I got 3 system triangle loop which gives me 10.5M of profit. Acceptable but I wouldn't complain if it be even more. I know that best incomes are from Python but there is something in bulk trading. Trying to play with Inara to pinpoint those lucrative loops but so far i had 12k profit per tone, now dropped to 9k.
At least credits flow is steady and my trading rank got bit higher.
some time ago ED got trading UI changes. Unlucky for me I was past Colonia when that happened, taking advantage of previous exploration changes. With little forum help I managed to quickly return to the Bubble, dusted off my Anaconda and went in search for lucrative trade routes for fame and glory. But mostly credits. Found pretty nice loop, about 5M profit per circle. Quickly I realized that 450-ish cargo space isn't enough.
Since I wanted to strike 2 birds with one rock I decided to buy Federal Corvette. I know, I know, there are better ships with more cargo space for real trucking. But I wanted Corvette and Corvette I bought. 548t was an upgrade and my profit grew. Then my source route started to dry out and I searched for new place to exploit. Here comes the lack of in-game UI. Sure, we can now compare prices with other markets and see if we loose or profit and approximetly how much. Very handy indeed but there's a catch - you need to visit given station first. So essentially new tool, prety nifty but in reality totally unusable due to restrictions. Unless you spend whole day flying in the area and visiting every potential station to gather data.
Buying trade data also doesn't work, why should it. I tried. Picked target station, "buy data" unavailable. And when it's available it doesn't work. Or I don't understand how it works. I bought the data but sitting at the source station and trying to set newly purchased info to comparison tool - search says no data available. So EDDB and Inara once again. Not to mention it requires less clicks to check anything. Few minutes later I had whole thing set up.
Once again it turned out I need more cargo space. I was reluctant to buy anything bigger (Cutter is my final reward for fulfilling my personal goals so currently not an option) but I broke - and bought T-9. Slightly over 750t and now we're talking. Compared to Corvette it handles like wet brick, Corvette feels like dancing. Anyway, it's not a nible fighting I'm expecting from that ship, but large cargo space and it works just fine.
Since my original route died, I believe I finally delivered enough Basic Medicines for them to end outbreak, I had to find other. Not far from where I was I got 3 system triangle loop which gives me 10.5M of profit. Acceptable but I wouldn't complain if it be even more. I know that best incomes are from Python but there is something in bulk trading. Trying to play with Inara to pinpoint those lucrative loops but so far i had 12k profit per tone, now dropped to 9k.
At least credits flow is steady and my trading rank got bit higher.
