Today I just made Elite Trader.
I only really became determined to get to Elite in the last 2 months when I started using my 500t T9 "Black Pig".
I'm thinking to rename her "Black Beauty", as I've really grown to appreciate her.
I tried using the Pig without shields to boost cargo to 532, but lost a lot of money on it.
A few times it felt like a grind, and although I never needed to venture further than 50ly from my home base on the whole I really enjoyed getting to this target
So I analysed all the trading data in my journal files from when they started last October, when I was 12% Tycoon.
This is the top 30 commodities, which were the only ones to make over a million each.
Cargo Tonnage Profit
Imperial Slaves 57038 168459420
Medical Diagnostic Equipment 47616 154688932
Resonating Separators 19721 24442250
Superconductors 20166 23543833
Thorium 13473 20980197
Landmines 10493 11282599
Conductive Fabrics 13568 10672702
Synthetic Reagents 8439 10572887
Military Grade Fabrics 6856 10066036
Advanced Medicines 8143 10058755
Coffee 6825 9292856
Beryllium 7857 9094317
Nonlethal Weapons 17185 8744846
Reactive Armour 11174 7346736
Gold 5130 7145146
Insulating Membrane 4418 5316375
Nerve Agents 1836 3928164
Consumer Technology 4568 3787272
Basic Medicines 6272 2715359
Survival Equipment 4657 2520054
Performance Enhancers 1684 2220429
Skimer Components 2100 2076800
Gallium 2250 1949426
Indium 1441 1847713
Advanced Catalysers 1562 1466296
Animal Meat 1363 1371474
Silver 986 1106207
Palladium 1051 1043523
Bertrandite 1396 1038488
Personal Weapons 1268 1016420
No surprises there I think.
I made Elite trader after making 840M trading profit.
The routes, varying in loop length from 2 to 5 stations long, were all found by my own analysis programs using price data downloaded overnight from the EDDB API.
I spent nearly as long writing the route finding programs as I did playing the game, and enjoyed it just as much.
So thanks to all you traders who contributed their market data to EDDB - and to EDMC which collected all my personal market data as well as transmitting it to EDDB.
My only regret is that systems like EDDB and EDMC are not included in the game, but since FD provide the API used by EDMC I dont feel this is a total exploit.
I only really became determined to get to Elite in the last 2 months when I started using my 500t T9 "Black Pig".
I'm thinking to rename her "Black Beauty", as I've really grown to appreciate her.
I tried using the Pig without shields to boost cargo to 532, but lost a lot of money on it.
A few times it felt like a grind, and although I never needed to venture further than 50ly from my home base on the whole I really enjoyed getting to this target
So I analysed all the trading data in my journal files from when they started last October, when I was 12% Tycoon.
This is the top 30 commodities, which were the only ones to make over a million each.
Cargo Tonnage Profit
Imperial Slaves 57038 168459420
Medical Diagnostic Equipment 47616 154688932
Resonating Separators 19721 24442250
Superconductors 20166 23543833
Thorium 13473 20980197
Landmines 10493 11282599
Conductive Fabrics 13568 10672702
Synthetic Reagents 8439 10572887
Military Grade Fabrics 6856 10066036
Advanced Medicines 8143 10058755
Coffee 6825 9292856
Beryllium 7857 9094317
Nonlethal Weapons 17185 8744846
Reactive Armour 11174 7346736
Gold 5130 7145146
Insulating Membrane 4418 5316375
Nerve Agents 1836 3928164
Consumer Technology 4568 3787272
Basic Medicines 6272 2715359
Survival Equipment 4657 2520054
Performance Enhancers 1684 2220429
Skimer Components 2100 2076800
Gallium 2250 1949426
Indium 1441 1847713
Advanced Catalysers 1562 1466296
Animal Meat 1363 1371474
Silver 986 1106207
Palladium 1051 1043523
Bertrandite 1396 1038488
Personal Weapons 1268 1016420
No surprises there I think.
I made Elite trader after making 840M trading profit.
The routes, varying in loop length from 2 to 5 stations long, were all found by my own analysis programs using price data downloaded overnight from the EDDB API.
I spent nearly as long writing the route finding programs as I did playing the game, and enjoyed it just as much.
So thanks to all you traders who contributed their market data to EDDB - and to EDMC which collected all my personal market data as well as transmitting it to EDDB.
My only regret is that systems like EDDB and EDMC are not included in the game, but since FD provide the API used by EDMC I dont feel this is a total exploit.