Unknown Up-link gives 200k+ profit i have said this......it doesn't have to be a bought commodity to be considered trading.......I do rare runs and runs to out of bubble colony planets...Unknow link sells to obsidian orbital for 200k+ even though it is lower in the adverage on the inventory screen to which eddb.io goes off of, stop using outsourced trading for profit margin its based on adverage............
well, and how long does it take you to collect 50 unknown links (they actually sell for 600K cr/t at certain places), to make 30 mio of it? i have done the process, you only collect 2 max in your srv, if even if you use an UA to "block" the gate open. shuffle it back to your ship, repeat 25 times. if you can collect 50 in 90 minutes, you are very fast.
it still doesn't add up to 30 mio in 30 minutes.
as i have said above, if you add missions to it (bringing demand goods and count on mission boards to give out missions for it), you might buff your profits to higher levels.
there are two problems taking missions into account:
- you'd need to compare the payout of stacked mining missions to (stacked) trade missions. both add an "unknown" number of income to the activity. but as soon as you add mining or trade missions to it, you can as well compare it to scan data missions or massacre missions.
- the different income by missions would be best tackled by upping the mission reward for mining missions (or reducing the reward of traing missions, but nobody wants that), not by upping the payout for mined ore.
so in this context:
Yes, collect rares while doing colony runs
You seem to forget i said doing rares aswell as colony runs, both included not seperate
nomater what trading is 5-10x more profitable than mining no mater what way or how efficient you are at it
it's not, outside of missions.
you can pretty much make the same cr/h mining in a python as you can make doing the most profitable a-b-a trade run in a python.
as trade scales with cargo space, you can earn around 2 times in a trading cutter of what you can earn in a mining corvette.
now, if we take trading and mining missions into account, yes, i can see that mining mission might need to be buffed - at least on the upper cargo limit of those missions (as because when you buff the "mine 4 T of samarium" missions, the income potential of a large minign ship would probably go through the roof); but generally a buff to payouts of mined ores per ton isn't needed imho.
... I'd say, outside of missions, the mining profits are fine.
missions are hard to factor in. mining missions have a long timeframe of 4-6 days, allowing you to stack them continously.
on the upper end of ships (best ship for job), a bulk trading cutter earns you around double to a mining corvette.
on the middle - trade python vs. mining python for exampel - mining and trading outside of missions is on par.
on the lower end of ships - trade AspE vs. mining AspE - outside of missions, mining will earn you a bit more than bulk-trading, maybe contested by boom trading rares.
if above is correct, there is a problem with mining income for massively specialised high-end mining ships. missions with a bigger number of ore to mine ("36T of samarium") might tackle that.
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on a side note, you can't jump every 10 seconds, you can jump every 45 seconds in best case (server connection), but realistically every 47 - 48 seconds (
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ast-as-you-can-go-minimal-jump-procedure-time).
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maybe, because mining feels tedious for many, or because they fit not enough collector limpet controllers (common mistake), it just feels like as if doesn't earn well enough?
