Good Trade Routes ?

Mhansa87

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Evening!


I been space-trucking alot lately and I feel like I do not get the best possible profitt for all my efforts (really more mind-numbing efforts). So therefore i wonder, what routes do you run? what is the profit per ton? :)

The best i have had so far is a tour - detour beetween Duamta and Groombridge 1618, giving me about 800cr/mt on average. Tour - detour takes about 5-10mins.
With my type 6 (112t/cap) this means i earn 537600 per hour.
 

Fyrd Judge

Fyrd Judge
First is to pick the right commodities, go start looking for palladium, who is selling cheapest and who is paying the highest for it.

To do this you either need one of the Traders tools that are on the forums that commanders have been gracious to make and allow others to download and use, or start making you own database, taking notes of ALL the stations you visit and build up over time your very one trading information.
Many on the outer edges of occupied space are doing this now and have created their own profit making routes. From this information you will get a clear idea where and what to deal in and on the way you will find the rare items and illegal products.

If you want to make your own trade routes, i would suggest using the data base in the link below, it is great for the solo trader.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=80605
 
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bazzaman

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Unfortunately rares trading in a 40T+ ship will net 1M+ per hour easily so it's the less tedious thing to do if you can only afford a T6 like most of us.
I found a 1340/616 profit/T route which took 7-8mins, assuming I upgraded to a 100T ship that would become around 1.4M/hr max but you'd be bumbling around in a T6 crashing into things.
 

Mhansa87

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bazzaman said:
Unfortunately rares trading in a 40T+ ship will net 1M+ per hour easily so it's the less tedious thing to do if you can only afford a T6 like most of us.
I found a 1340/616 profit/T route which took 7-8mins, assuming I upgraded to a 100T ship that would become around 1.4M/hr max but you'd be bumbling around in a T6 crashing into things.
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What systems do you run beetween ?
 

bazzaman

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Mhansa87 said:
What systems do you run beetween ?
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Leesti/Orrere/Diso/Lave <---> 39 Tauri/Fujin/Bast/Zeesze, in a 40T cobra 140-160ly, don't wait for all pops and can skip stations if almost full. The rares thread has all this info and probably better routes but this one is easy.
 

mic

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Forget rares in a T6. Find a high population high tech system a bit away from everybody else. The station needs to be relatively close to the main star, and sell some cheap prog cells/performance enhancers or other expensive tech. Note which metalls are in high demand. Berylium, gold, silver, palladium are Nice and expensive..
Now, Load one of each high supply items that sells at least 500 under galactic average and start touring refinery systems. You'll want somewhere with a non-outpost station close to the star, wanting one of your items for +1000CR profit and, of course, a high supply of the metal you want.

It takes a bit of time and traveling, but it is very possible to find a 20-30LY route that'll earn double what you are pulling now.

Good luck!
(Oh and those 3rd party tools are for rookies and slackers!) :D
 
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Zvanya

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Palladium generally gets around 1400/t profit. Return trip Performance Enhancers or Progenitor cells about 1100/t

Extraction >< High Tech.

It seems the main trick is finding places like this that are not being exploited by NPC traders or players, so you're getting high supply going to high demand of the most lucrative commodities.
 

mic

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dragoniv said:
Forget rares *after* a T6. FTFY. I'm making a fair killing in my T6 doing rares, and it's more interesting than repeating the same 30LY schlep, too. :D
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Well, OP didn't specify 'interesting' as a requirement - only CR/hour :)

TBH, I can only do a couple of return trips before I break out the Viper out of storage. In a T7, that's a million in ~30 minutes, but I am a crap combat pilot so I need every credit I can scrape together!
 
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