Newcomer / Intro Fleet Carriers Buying Tritium

withnail67

withnail67
This afternoon, I took a trip out to Metzili, where I've been storing my Type 9 Heavy and had previously been making a great profit, buying Tritium for around 4,000 credits, shipping it just under 20ly and selling it for around 44,000 credits/tonne. Sadly, the law of supply and demand caught up with me and Metzili has now raised it's price to 40,000.

Looking at the prices to the right of the buy screen for somewhere to get rid of the load I'd just bought, I noticed a Fleet Carrier was paying 60,000/tonne & when I got to it, discovered they wanted around 10,000 tonnes of Tritium. So I turned a quick profit ferrying all they would buy as it was only 72ls from the Station.

My question is; why? Is it just a case of Carrier owners being so rich they can afford to pay a newbie like me to fill them up, rather than do it themselves, or is there some other reason for their apparently generous terms?
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Say, you fill them up with Tritium at 60k.
Next, they jump into the latest mining system and offer to buy LTDs or VOs for 1 Million.
After that, they jump into the latest high sell system where the stations buys for 1.6 Million and offer to sell those same LTDs for 1.4 Million.

Multiply that with, say, half the carrier's capacity, i.e. 10,000 tons, and you'll see why they won't care about paying 20 k over average for Tritium.
 

Dragsham

Dragsham
Very beneficial to both noob haulers and carrier owners.
Fab I think. Not that I've used my carrier for this purpose. Busy when I'm logged in doing other stuff using carriers to their true benefit.
Tritium is more important now than ltds or voids in the sense that u don't have to mine it. Simply buy cheap sell at profit using rich carrier owners as middlemen.
 

Pristine_Bump

Pristine_Bump
If any FC owners that would like 3000T for 60k within 120ly of sol send me a message what I dont want is to fly around with 750T visiting FC,s that no longer require it
 

Rudi Raumkraut

Rudi Raumkraut
withnail67 said:
This afternoon, I took a trip out to Metzili, where I've been storing my Type 9 Heavy and had previously been making a great profit, buying Tritium for around 4,000 credits, shipping it just under 20ly and selling it for around 44,000 credits/tonne. Sadly, the law of supply and demand caught up with me and Metzili has now raised it's price to 40,000.

Looking at the prices to the right of the buy screen for somewhere to get rid of the load I'd just bought, I noticed a Fleet Carrier was paying 60,000/tonne & when I got to it, discovered they wanted around 10,000 tonnes of Tritium. So I turned a quick profit ferrying all they would buy as it was only 72ls from the Station.

My question is; why? Is it just a case of Carrier owners being so rich they can afford to pay a newbie like me to fill them up, rather than do it themselves, or is there some other reason for their apparently generous terms?
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I was in a hurry. 🤷‍♂️;)
Found a system with 16k Tritium for 4k each. Medium only... So I shipped myself 280 each roundtrip, and set a (very) high buy order.
After I have shipped ~1400, the carrier was filled with 7000t and station depleted :D
Was perplexed it worked out that well!

Sometimes (game)time is money ;)
 

withnail67

withnail67
Thanks for clearing that up for me fellow Cmdrs o7

I'm loving these little touches in ED! The introduction of FCs, with their hefty price tag and running costs, could have being pretty meaningless for us newer players - other than as a long term goal or a way to hitch a ride. The fact that they can provide a new ecosystem for us comparative paupers to turn a quick profit is a nice spin off.
 
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