so I'm looking at swapping trade routes but the new route that I'm looking at doing requires me to fly a medium sized ship. What I am trying to figure out is if it's better to it in a 100T Asp that can jump 25ly... or in a 240T Python that can only jump 18ly... is there any way to calculate the cr/t/hr you make off a route to know which ship will be more efficient over time? I just dont know how to properly factor in the fact that you have to do almost double the number of jumps in the Python.. but your taking more than double of the cargo.. Anyone have any tips?
How do you calculate trade route efficiency in cr/t/hr?
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Am I dumb?
You fly both, record your earnings and time, and do some math?
OK, facetiousness aside, you can use something like http://etn.io/, which will calculate approx. cr/h given a specific build off coriolis or edshipyard. You'll just need to divide by your tonnage.
OK, facetiousness aside, you can use something like http://etn.io/, which will calculate approx. cr/h given a specific build off coriolis or edshipyard. You'll just need to divide by your tonnage.
This thread seems a bit sarcastic to me 
Do a trip in your asp, record the profit /T and how long it took you, 60/time (in minutes) x Tonnage x profit/t = profit/hr
so for example if your asp carrys 100T, and your route takes 15 minutes, at 1000 per T you get 4 x 100 x 1000, 400000cr/hr
do the same with the python and compare
More simply you can guestimate, 240T will come out infront of 100T unless your doing like 8 jumps extra, as it has to take you over 2.4x the time between stations
Do a trip in your asp, record the profit /T and how long it took you, 60/time (in minutes) x Tonnage x profit/t = profit/hr
so for example if your asp carrys 100T, and your route takes 15 minutes, at 1000 per T you get 4 x 100 x 1000, 400000cr/hr
do the same with the python and compare
More simply you can guestimate, 240T will come out infront of 100T unless your doing like 8 jumps extra, as it has to take you over 2.4x the time between stations
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You're using T to mean both time and tonnage.
t = time in minutes
T = tonnage of the ship
P = profit
cr/ton/hr = P/T * 60/t
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As above but the real simple version.
Buy price
Sell price
The difference is profit or loss (sell at high price, buy at low price).
Work that out per ton of cargo and you get profit per ton.
Then work out how many trips you can do per hour and multiply.
E.g.
Profit = 2000 credits per ton.
Time for 1 round trip = 15 minutes.
Profit a 1 Ton ship can make per hour is 8000 tons (4 trips).
P/T/hr = 8000cr
This allow you to multiply by your cargo space (let's say 100T) gives 800,000Cr per hour of trading assuming perfect flying and that the prices don't change. Basically it's so that trade routes can be compared since I could say I make 3mil credits per hour but not mention I'm flying a Cutter with 700T cargo whereas someone with a Cobra couldn't get close to that value
Buy price
Sell price
The difference is profit or loss (sell at high price, buy at low price).
Work that out per ton of cargo and you get profit per ton.
Then work out how many trips you can do per hour and multiply.
E.g.
Profit = 2000 credits per ton.
Time for 1 round trip = 15 minutes.
Profit a 1 Ton ship can make per hour is 8000 tons (4 trips).
P/T/hr = 8000cr
This allow you to multiply by your cargo space (let's say 100T) gives 800,000Cr per hour of trading assuming perfect flying and that the prices don't change. Basically it's so that trade routes can be compared since I could say I make 3mil credits per hour but not mention I'm flying a Cutter with 700T cargo whereas someone with a Cobra couldn't get close to that value
You're using T to mean both time and tonnage.
t = time in minutes
T = tonnage of the ship
P = profit
cr/ton/hr = P/T * 60/t
That's embarassing, fixed