On my current trade route I make about 4Mcr per round trip.
Will anyone will share a better one?
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Will anyone will share a better one?
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Most profitable trade route
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How many tons of cargo? That’s not bad for 200t.On my current trade route I make about 4Mcr per round trip.
Will anyone will share a better one?
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Edit after seeing Rock Hunter’s link, not bad for 100t!
Try the Cubeo mining missions to see if they still work. Once ranked up, you get about 200 mil per trip, which takes about 10 minutes to complete. You don't mine the stuff. Instead, you buy it from Sarahath, so it's like a trade mission. If you get enough friends to share the missions, you can get enough for a Fleet Carrier in one day. It was still working a few months ago. You refresh the mission board every 10 minutes to stack the missions, or you can nip round all the stations in Cubeo to get them. If you try it, let us know if it still works. Ships to use are T6/Cobra mk5, T8, T9, Corvette, Cutter. Don't waste time shooting any pirates, so there's no point in taking any weapons.On my current trade route I make about 4Mcr per round trip.
Will anyone will share a better one?
BB
Bear in mind that a T9 is very slow and difficult to win interdictions, so build it strong and as fast as possible with two point defence on the back. Research how to escape, and if that doesn't work, consider negotiating with the pirates and give them what they want. In that case don't run or they'll shoot. Once you've ejected the cargo they ask for, you're free to go. You make so much money that you can easily afford to share a bit of the wealth.
You need a speed of around 350m/s to more or less guarantee that you can run away from any pirate You can get that with a Beluga with level 2 dirty drives if you have limited access to engineering. Beluga takes 336T cargo.
Cubeo is Empire, so you'd soon get the rank for a Cutter.
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On my way to Cubeo now
[edit] back playing after years away, when you say refresh, does relogging still work with mission boards?
Please let us know how you get on.
One more thing. The missions will be low when you arrive, but after a few runs, you'll see them start to increase. Eventually, you see the 50 million ones. Some give you a week to complete, others 24 hrs. Make sure that you have the time to complete the 24hr ones otherwise your rep will go down, and so will the missions.
No, but the mission board does a partial refresh every 10 minutes on the 10 minutes of the clock. You have to close it and re-open to see the new missions.
Ok the Cutter is being transferred now, turns out I'm already allied here, missions to mine bertrandite and bromellite etc, is that what I'm buying from Sarahath?
Yes. Let's hope that they still don't care that it isn't mined. Rankin Orbital IIRC.
Not sure about the Bromellite. Bertrandite, Indite, Gold, Silver. Bauxite, Cobalt, Lepidolite should be OK. They're all metals and metal ores.
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Pretty good that you're already allied. I'm trying to remember what else was there. I'm sure that's where I did the grinding for my Cutter, but I can't remember the mission type. It wasn't mining missions.Cheers chaps, I always wondered how people were able to afford fleet carriers
This looks like the fastest grind
Thanks for the replies Cmdrs
Currently using a T9 with Fighter Hangar (Elite Pilot--> spits out pirates )
My Warship is a Anaconda (20Mcr rebuy).
Hate the rebuy on Corvette & Cutter.
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Currently using a T9 with Fighter Hangar (Elite Pilot--> spits out pirates
)My Warship is a Anaconda (20Mcr rebuy).
Hate the rebuy on Corvette & Cutter.
BB
So:
Spent 3 hrs grinding tonight and I've made about 200 million, which is more than I've ever made in one night before so I should be happy, but the Cutter doesn't carry enough even at 792 tonnes
Mathematically, I need to do this every night for just over two weeks to be able to afford a carrier
I need a panther clipper
Like any activity, it takes some experience before you get it optimised in how to stack the missions, so don't judge too quickly.
The next tip is that you should advertise for some partners to share the missions. You don't even have to see your partners - just meet up at the station at a set time to cash in the missions. You can share a wing mission with any of them, and they get all the money for it, even though they didn't do anything, so if you each did the three hours and got 200 million, you'd be able to share at least half of it, so you'd each get 400 million if you only had two partners; however, after some time, you'll all figure out how to do it better so you should be able to at least double that. You can even do it all in solo, then switch to private group, just for the sharing. You can also broadcast a message at the station to ask if anybody wants to co-operate.
Two partners to share with is ideal, and you really need comms of some sort, like Teamspeak. The in-game comms works OK for three in a team, but microphones are necessary because you need to co-ordinate who has shared, who has accepted and who has cashed in due to only being able to share one mission at a time and the guy sharing mustn't cash in before the others have confirmed that they've accepted the mission. You need to choreograph this procedure otherwise it gets very messy and confusing, though fun.
Exactly the same applies to the pirate massacre missions in Ngalinn. I was making about 600 million on my own for a three hour session. On average, 250 million was shareable, but I was optimising earnings as if i were doing it on my own. It would have been more if I selected more wing missions to share rather than the highest non-wing missions. I was giving away that 250million to any random players who were around when I cashed in after I broadcast, " anybody want a free 250 million".
My "best routes" are not ones that you can find on inara or other websites..On my current trade route I make about 4Mcr per round trip.
Will anyone will share a better one?
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This is because they are not A-B round trips.
It rapidly became obvious to me in the beta that the most profitable A-B round trip was always going to have one leg highly profitable in terms of CR/ton and one significantly less so. The way the game simulates its economy ensures that.What you need to find for BEST trade profits is a loop, where every leg has you hauling something mid to high value, each leg is ideally a single jump, or no more than two. Doesn't matter if it is only three legs, like the old "triangle trade" in the Atlantic, or if it has more legs in the loop, but at every leg you're hauling something fairly expensive and at every leg you're buying well below the galactic average and selling well above.
Inara, or other "trading tools" cannot find these for you but they can help you prospect for them. I'll leave it to you to work out how, it isn't exactly rocket science.
And having found one, you keep it to yourself and dont shout about it. Because these routes CAN be crashed if everyone and their cat descends on them. That's why I'm not sharing any of mine.
But on a good one? I'd start being worried if my profits were as low as 4M Cr/hr.
Agreed, but OP did say "4Mcr per round trip" which is rather better (if still not very high).
It isn't really related but I recently brought a new alt to the area I originally (original account) made a lot of money whilst ranking up. Now it seems all the cargo hauling missions are to destinations well over a hundred ly distant. What on earth (or in space) can this possibly be justified by? I mean, come on, there is virtually nothing that can't be sourced from markets within a radius of a few tens of ly so why order 196t of stuff from a station 180ly away?
I think the people that wrote these are extracting the urine.
I think the people that wrote these are extracting the urine.