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Newcomer / Intro Found what I think is a good trading router. Is it?
- Thread starter Elprez
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Nah...
You want a min of 2500/Ton for a round trip. You're only at 600/T
Go to the Empire. trade imperial slaves and metals.
Anything between 2500 and 3000 per trip is what you want. Look at profit vs. range. you may be better with 2500 if it's one jump rather than 3000 if it's 5 jumps.
Trading boils down to cr/hr.
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600cr/t isn't bad. It depends on how long it takes station-to-station. It could be much worse; you could be trading scrap and biowaste over 200ly!
I ran a similar intra-system route when I first started. My tip would be to head to the frontier and find a pure industrial economy with no extraction or refinery capabilities, then find a nearby refinery economy and trade metals. They are very lucrative and you'll make cash pretty quickly. Use the filters to sort by population size for the industrial economies. This will be a bit fiddly and time-consuming as the galaxy map only allows one filter to be applied at a time to prevent, I think, people finding great routes really easily.
Others, of course, have their own techniques, and I'm sure they will chime in with them!
I ran a similar intra-system route when I first started. My tip would be to head to the frontier and find a pure industrial economy with no extraction or refinery capabilities, then find a nearby refinery economy and trade metals. They are very lucrative and you'll make cash pretty quickly. Use the filters to sort by population size for the industrial economies. This will be a bit fiddly and time-consuming as the galaxy map only allows one filter to be applied at a time to prevent, I think, people finding great routes really easily.
Others, of course, have their own techniques, and I'm sure they will chime in with them!
As long as you are making a profit it seems you are doing fine. Trading boils down to making more than you spend. You could be making more or less.
There are more profitable trade routes but be careful not to zone yourself into a grind. The mentality of "I have to be making X at minimum or it's a waste of time" is a slippery slope to frustration. As long as you're making profit and enjoying yourself that's all that matters. There's no rush.
Earlier today I logged on to find my normal stomping grounds heavily populated with players. I tried for about 2 hours and couldn't get a stable route going. Everyone was doing the same thing I was and we were just eating the large profit trade routes. I said screw it and decided to trade something less profitable that was more sustainable in the long run.
Earlier today I logged on to find my normal stomping grounds heavily populated with players. I tried for about 2 hours and couldn't get a stable route going. Everyone was doing the same thing I was and we were just eating the large profit trade routes. I said screw it and decided to trade something less profitable that was more sustainable in the long run.
My tip is to aim for at least 1K profit per T and then work up from there.
Obviously the more expensive the commodity you are trading the higher the margin potential. You're never going to make 1K per ton trading scrap, for example.
Obviously the more expensive the commodity you are trading the higher the margin potential. You're never going to make 1K per ton trading scrap, for example.
Things like meat and crop harvesters rarely yield large profits. You want to trade in more expensive commodities such as valuable metals, superconductors, high tier medicines and technologies and the like. Basically just keep on eye on the galactic average price of each commodity to get a feel for what's valuable and what's not.
I agree. And with the silly speed at which prices change, good luck maintaining any kind of profit margin.
I'm bumping around about 4 or 5 systems, and can't keep the profit margin above 1k/t for more than 4 or 5 runs in my T7. It's silly. I have no idea how the T9 guys maintain a margin.