Don't buy Battle Weapons

Macgyver

Macgyver
Don't make the mistake I did, it is a game breaker.

Filled my ship with battle weapons being sold at a station.
Flew to the system it said was exporting to ... Nope no one buys them anywhere.

no one buys them....
black market for a massive loss
get scanned 1000 times for loss....

no money, can't be $&@?ed starting again spent too many hours already.
why put a sellable commodity in game if it's impossible to sell it?
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
Check your trade runs before you actually run potentially illegal cargo.

Also, you may have gone to the right system, but did you go to the right station?

Z...
 

kurush

kurush
At this point very few things are worth doing in the game. I'll stick to rarities until Frontier fixes most bugs and reputation impact of all other actions gets well documented.
 

Chandley

C
Stations that I know of that buy battle weapons, as of about a day ago.

Station Cost
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USZAA/Clauss Dock 6,966
USZAA/Guest Installation 6,966
USZAA/Patterson Dock 6,966
RESHAS/Luiken City 6,946
BD+29 3029/Nolan Landing 6,906
CD-34 9020/Back Enterprise 6,906
V816 HERCULIS/Hobaugh Hanger 6,898
WOLF 46/Franklin Dock 6,897
DAHAN/Dahan Gateway 6,787
LFT 392/Tudela Installation 6,711
WOLF 46/Fischer Station 6,701
V816 HERCULIS/Willis Installation 6,701
NLTT 12130/Hodgkinson Colony 6,700
ORRERE/Sharon Lee Free Market 6,698
SUYARANG/Shaw Terminal 6,642
BD+29 2405/Markham Hub 6,634
RIEDQUAT/Lavoisier Dock 6,438
RIEDQUAT/Marshall Dock 6,438
TAMOR/Seven Holm 6,360
CHAAC/Lem Dock 6,347
HDS 1879/Shaikh Dock 6,203
GABJAUJAVAS/Vetulani Installation 6,157
RANGCHAN/Boole Ring 6,154
RANGCHAN/Bradbury Station 6,154
RESHAS/Banks Port 6,141
GIRYA GU/Pierce City 6,140
KOMOVOY/Gentle Dock 6,130
NJIKAN/Smeaton Port 6,123
NJANGARI/Lee Hub 6,120
CONDOVICHS/Walters Port 6,105
KOKOIMUDJI/Quinn Orbital 6,105
KOKOIMUDJI/Siodmak Station 6,105
SUYARANG/Treshchov Orbital 6,104
BD+29 2405/Benyovszky Station 6,099
BD+29 2405/Phillips Hub 6,099
NANDH/Nemere Terminal 6,099
BRANGLAL/Gibson Horizons 6,062
BRANGLAL/Skripochka Gateway 6,062
NIMA/Burbank Orbital 6,050
NIMA/Rashid Dock 6,050
NIMA/Rushworth Terminal 6,050
KURU/Carstensz Dock 6,044
KURU/Weiss Gateway 6,044
SHINRARTA DEZHRA/Jameson Memorial 5,432
YGGDRAJANG/Schade Platform 1,904

Trade Dangerous is your friend. I highly recommend it.
 

Macgyver

Macgyver
The game was a lot of fun up until that.
one thing does irk me though... Salvaged loot is always stolen?
thats just silly, companies would offer rewards for returned loot why do we only ever get to sell it on black markets?
it has taken the fun away from the good old days of coming across a NPC battle and nicking a few canisters for profit.
the risk is almost not worth it, getting scanned for a fine of $15,000 for 4 tons of found cargo is !

game is a lot of fun, combat I was quite good and landing was easy.
Mini games are cool, like intradiction , or getting sucked into a Suns gravity.
Just loot is lame, trading sucks and I've lost all my money
ive destroyed maybe 30-40 enemy ships, not one dropped any cargo.
haulers I pirated never dropped anything.

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Chandley said:
Stations that I know of that buy battle weapons, as of about a day ago.

Station Cost
--------------------------------------------
USZAA/Clauss Dock 6,966
USZAA/Guest Installation 6,966
USZAA/Patterson Dock 6,966
RESHAS/Luiken City 6,946
BD+29 3029/Nolan Landing 6,906
CD-34 9020/Back Enterprise 6,906
V816 HERCULIS/Hobaugh Hanger 6,898
WOLF 46/Franklin Dock 6,897
DAHAN/Dahan Gateway 6,787
LFT 392/Tudela Installation 6,711
WOLF 46/Fischer Station 6,701
V816 HERCULIS/Willis Installation 6,701
NLTT 12130/Hodgkinson Colony 6,700
ORRERE/Sharon Lee Free Market 6,698
SUYARANG/Shaw Terminal 6,642
BD+29 2405/Markham Hub 6,634
RIEDQUAT/Lavoisier Dock 6,438
RIEDQUAT/Marshall Dock 6,438
TAMOR/Seven Holm 6,360
CHAAC/Lem Dock 6,347
HDS 1879/Shaikh Dock 6,203
GABJAUJAVAS/Vetulani Installation 6,157
RANGCHAN/Boole Ring 6,154
RANGCHAN/Bradbury Station 6,154
RESHAS/Banks Port 6,141
GIRYA GU/Pierce City 6,140
KOMOVOY/Gentle Dock 6,130
NJIKAN/Smeaton Port 6,123
NJANGARI/Lee Hub 6,120
CONDOVICHS/Walters Port 6,105
KOKOIMUDJI/Quinn Orbital 6,105
KOKOIMUDJI/Siodmak Station 6,105
SUYARANG/Treshchov Orbital 6,104
BD+29 2405/Benyovszky Station 6,099
BD+29 2405/Phillips Hub 6,099
NANDH/Nemere Terminal 6,099
BRANGLAL/Gibson Horizons 6,062
BRANGLAL/Skripochka Gateway 6,062
NIMA/Burbank Orbital 6,050
NIMA/Rashid Dock 6,050
NIMA/Rushworth Terminal 6,050
KURU/Carstensz Dock 6,044
KURU/Weiss Gateway 6,044
SHINRARTA DEZHRA/Jameson Memorial 5,432
YGGDRAJANG/Schade Platform 1,904

Trade Dangerous is your friend. I highly recommend it.
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mugendo

mugendo
Macgyver said:
The game was a lot of fun up until that.
one thing does irk me though... Salvaged loot is always stolen?
thats just silly, companies would offer rewards for returned loot why do we only ever get to sell it on black markets?
it has taken the fun away from the good old days of coming across a NPC battle and nicking a few canisters for profit.
the risk is almost not worth it, getting scanned for a fine of $15,000 for 4 tons of found cargo is !

game is a lot of fun, combat I was quite good and landing was easy.
Mini games are cool, like intradiction , or getting sucked into a Suns gravity.
Just loot is lame, trading sucks and I've lost all my money
ive destroyed maybe 30-40 enemy ships, not one dropped any cargo.
haulers I pirated never dropped anything.

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Thanks, this may have saves my game.

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thanks, this may have saved my game
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I have learned to leave dropped cargo alone if it will risk my rep in a system.
 

Rall

Rall
Zeeman said:
Check your trade runs before you actually run potentially illegal cargo.

Also, you may have gone to the right system, but did you go to the right station?

Z...
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The main problem is the smuggling illict cargo is generally unprofitable, this need to be addressed with Black Market supply and demand. Running guns into a system where they're Ilegal but has a high demand (Warzones) should be profitable, and risky. Even the orginal Elite did this, I made a furtune running drugs, you just can't do this under the current black markets system.
 

Sargon

Banned
Sargon
Goods which are considered illegal in certain stations should be flagged as such during purchase so that one knows the risks.
 

PocketWettie

P
Macgyver said:
ive destroyed maybe 30-40 enemy ships, not one dropped any cargo.
haulers I pirated never dropped anything.
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Try targeting the ships cargo bay in subsystems - I has done this plenty of times and had cargo start falling out.

Just be aware the aiming box is there, but you have to shoot at the correct side of the ship otherwise you are just hitting the hull, not the cargo bay itself. Found it easiest to get them with Beam lasers :) This isn't just being a pirate either, this is when bounty hunting. Generally Wanted Asps and Lakons (type 6,7,9) are carrying crap. SOmetimes good crap sometimes not so good. Sell that to the black market when you go to claim your bounty :)
 

Midnight_Sun323

Midnight_Sun323
Running illegal cargo isn't too difficult. Don't stop at USS's, they may have system security ships that won't hesitate to scan you. Go directly to your station. If you drop in at a horrible angle that will add time to your docking maneuver then jump out and try again. When you come in at a decent angle, go full throttle straight for the letterbox, boosting as much as you can to cover distance, get your clearance on the move. If they start to scan, get into the station ASAP and break the line of sight. If there are ships in the way, just mow over them (probably an NPC anyways). I've found that going silent doesn't seem to help avoid station scans, so save your shields in case you come in pretty rough.

Of course, if you can deal with an outpost, then you have nothing to worry about.
 

Chandley

C
Outposts are easy to get in to with stolen goods as Midnight_Sun323 said, and they do have Black markets. I think there is a list of known black markets floating around the forum somewhere, check that. Or just pick outposts at random. Sadly, the unauthorized outposts (complete with big pirate flag hologram) dont seem to be any more likely to have a black market than anywhere else...

That said, for your legit battle weapons, you just need a station where they are not illegal, and that list should do you. Do check on the system map to make sure of course... things may have changed since that data pull.
 

DAYLEET

DAYLEET
Ive only had mission "BUY" battle weapons, maybe those systems had missions going for weapon, anyways dont wait for the game to do the trading game for you or pilot for you and the game will be a lot more fun, unless you are hoping for a spreadsheet simulator like eve.
 

Phelix

P
If you wanna avoid being scanned you could aim for the letterbox, boost your trusters, then turn off all your systems, fire off a heat sink to lower your temperature (get that cool frosted effect on your windshield) and just drift into the station without detection. I've only pulled it off twice, and failed miserably several times (switching of shields and drifting towards a station at mach 1 without trusters to steer is kind of a gamble, but a bit of a adrenaline boost). If you are a bit quicker then me, you could activate trusters and tune your approach and deactivate before being detected, but I'm too slow. I saw this in a youtube film and had to try it, works amazingly well, but I would want a bit more buttons for deactivating stuff, instead of going over menus to do it.

Other than that, I agree that salvaged goods should not be marked as stolen goods, that is silly...
 

irrstern

I
Don't buy battle weapons... I got the same problem and tried 10 stations, could not sell them on black market either as commodities :(
The only way to solve the problem seems to eject the cargo somewhere - a real expensive bug...

EDIT: seems to be a very evil bug of the p2p/server stuff - similar to the rare exploit (old and still there) that generated the many many pairs of cmdrs replicating rare goods.
synchronization problem between server and client i guess - cannot even eject the cargo!

Ticket open ;)
 
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