I am thinking about getting my Elite Trade rank up to Elite I and was wondering in EDO what is the quickest way these days to increase your trade rank.
Quickest Way To Increase Trade Rank?
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fill a FC with palladium. jump to a station offering highest sell price. set FC purchase price to lowest, buy from your FC, sell the palladium to station. only profits at a station count - should be faster than finding and running a high profit a-b-a route.
while your FC is parked offer maximum prices for mined metals, and repeat with those.
it will cost your money, but your trade rank increases.
(not sure though why to do that).
while your FC is parked offer maximum prices for mined metals, and repeat with those.
it will cost your money, but your trade rank increases.
(not sure though why to do that).
another way is stacking a lot of those wing mining missions for non-mining-only commodities. it is 50 mill per mission which count toward trade rank (but less profit than that as you'll buy the commodities).
on the other hand a t9 doing what described above creates beyond 50 mio profit per palladium run from your carrier (much less in real profit though).
but differently to using artificially inflated profits to FC wing mining missions for non-mining-commodities do create a real income.
on the other hand a t9 doing what described above creates beyond 50 mio profit per palladium run from your carrier (much less in real profit though).
but differently to using artificially inflated profits to FC wing mining missions for non-mining-commodities do create a real income.
Buy low. Sell high.
To gain Elite Trade you have to earn over a billion Credits (Approx 1,050,000,000 i think if my numbers are correct), I recently wiped one of my 3 cmdrs and started again with Her. First thing i always want to achieve is to get access to Shinrarta Dezhra, and for that you must be Elite in something.
For me, and i have done the trice, is Mining! Boring, i know, but work your way up in ships as you mine more credits to a T9 Put a little shield on it and the rest is Mining stuff and cargo. You can if you are dedicated do it in a couple of days if you put the hours in. Try to always complete a ship full and sell without logging out, otherwise when you log back in again you will, 95% of the time, get a visit from a Pirate or 3 and in a slow defenceless poorly shield T9 you are done for.
Currently Laser mining for Platinum is slightly better than Panite , not sure on Void Opals, but Laser mining the old way i find is quicker than surface or deep core mining, although that deep core explosion never tires!.
In this re-iteration of Cmdr 3, my only grind was this and just to get access to Shin, now i am enjoying a more relaxed Cmdr 3 game, but by heck the Billion credits helped buy any non rank ship in the game and A class it to my hearts content.
Good Luck.
For me, and i have done the trice, is Mining! Boring, i know, but work your way up in ships as you mine more credits to a T9 Put a little shield on it and the rest is Mining stuff and cargo. You can if you are dedicated do it in a couple of days if you put the hours in. Try to always complete a ship full and sell without logging out, otherwise when you log back in again you will, 95% of the time, get a visit from a Pirate or 3 and in a slow defenceless poorly shield T9 you are done for.
Currently Laser mining for Platinum is slightly better than Panite , not sure on Void Opals, but Laser mining the old way i find is quicker than surface or deep core mining, although that deep core explosion never tires!.
In this re-iteration of Cmdr 3, my only grind was this and just to get access to Shin, now i am enjoying a more relaxed Cmdr 3 game, but by heck the Billion credits helped buy any non rank ship in the game and A class it to my hearts content.
Good Luck.
If OP doesn't have a fleet carrier already then the palladium cheese above isn't workable. Alternative is simply good old fashioned trading. T9, inara, trade routes for good supply, short route, max profit.
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Typically ends up being agronomic treatment for 27k profit per tonne but can go up to 40k if there's a rush on bauxite. That's min 20m per 15 min round trip.
Autopilot, supercruise assist, Netflix on and 10-15 hours later you're Elite and 1bn better off and you've barely lifted a finger.
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Typically ends up being agronomic treatment for 27k profit per tonne but can go up to 40k if there's a rush on bauxite. That's min 20m per 15 min round trip.
Autopilot, supercruise assist, Netflix on and 10-15 hours later you're Elite and 1bn better off and you've barely lifted a finger.
An engineered FSD helps as can the guardian booster. Agronomic treatment and bauxite are low risk as if you get blown up by an NPC while not paying attention then your outlay wasn't much to start with. That's a good reason not to being tempted into start trading gold or silver.
On its own the elite trade rank is useless. But putting trade effort towards Imperial and/or Federal rank also advances trade rank with no extra effort.
I recommend Imperial rank to Duke to unlock the Cutter for an excellent trade ship, then either complete Imperial rank or move on to Federal.
If you already have the Imperial and Federal ranks then
. There are sometimes community goals that will inherently increase your trade rank too.
I recommend Imperial rank to Duke to unlock the Cutter for an excellent trade ship, then either complete Imperial rank or move on to Federal.
If you already have the Imperial and Federal ranks then
. There are sometimes community goals that will inherently increase your trade rank too.These are sometimes the best profits to look out for.
Mining. Platinum for a solid and dependable income, Painite/Low Temperature Diamonds/Void Opals for a higher profit potential, but they are a HUGE PITA when it comes to actually finding high paying stations (not worth the time imo)
Every once in a while FDev hosts a money print CG, but those are not necessarily trade CGs. Therefor: hit the mines
Use T9 (unless u already have Cutter) to do a-b routes from inara. Its earns approx 80-90 mill an hr and its fairly relaxing.
Outfit a python like this.
Go in Robigo, land at Robigo Mines, stack sightseeing missions to Sothis Atmospherics (touristic beacon in Sothis, behind planet A5) - with some planning you can stack like 5-7 missions per run and you can make like 100 millions for the first hour then like 80 millions per hour (less because of mission board depletion) - if you get proficient at using SCA fast drop off, you can do like 6 runs per hour.
You will progress both Trade and Exploration ranks
Once you get allied with the 3 factions at Robigo, you can pick not only cash (up to 5.2 millions per mission) but you can pick Grade 5 materials as rewards (Biotech Conductors, Exquisite Focus Crystals, Modified Embedded Firmware)
I started an alt recently and first did onfoot CZs to earn the 130mill to buy and A rate and be able to afford rebuy and purchase 700t of stuff ina T9. Then just head to inara and search for trade routes.
T9 running Cryolite, Pyrophyllite and silver was how I did it.
Can't stand mining myself but finding a decent market to sell to is the trick.
High population, boom state is generally the best.
Can't stand mining myself but finding a decent market to sell to is the trick.
High population, boom state is generally the best.
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has anyone ever found...
for 10 points.... a profitable trade route which is really profitable on both legs. . I tend to find a good 1 way route but end up doing the return leg empty which I just don't find satisfying. any hints of getting a good too way trade route would be appreciated even if each run is not the "best"
but for Bully's special prize
are there any good multi route trade loops? I would love to have really long multi stop route with each route being worth while.
back in the day when I was in a T6 or asp the rares run was just that once you got going but it does not scale well. would love something like that that I could do in my T9.
thanks
for 10 points.... a profitable trade route which is really profitable on both legs. . I tend to find a good 1 way route but end up doing the return leg empty which I just don't find satisfying. any hints of getting a good too way trade route would be appreciated even if each run is not the "best"
but for Bully's special prize
are there any good multi route trade loops? I would love to have really long multi stop route with each route being worth while.
back in the day when I was in a T6 or asp the rares run was just that once you got going but it does not scale well. would love something like that that I could do in my T9.
thanks
yes. you should look for profit minus galactic average for that.
instead of highest profit, as that is often depending on low purchase, which most often comes with not so good profits on the source end (infrastructure failure and such).
a double economy refinery/high-tech station on leg A in boom with bauxite in demand and agronomic treatment as export, and an extraction economy exporting bauxite with demand for agronomic treatment would be one of the most profitable a-b-a routes.
@Ian Doncaster s https://cdb.sotl.org.uk/ can get you a good idea which commodities have which states increasing their sell price, assuming you know which economy produces which commodities.
i have build a travelling trader cheat sheet for myself 18 month ago ... it might be not up to date:
of course there are, but those change depending on states, so potentially daily.
the old fixed trade routes of 2015-2017 do not work anymore since state depending profits were introduced.
I'm still sometimes doing my m-pad route between six cardinal points of the bubble, but that's m-pad, to check how the bubble changes. but that's not massively profitable.
https://eddb.io/trade/hops can give you multihop trade route to trade along the way.
I'm currently using trade to back an anarchy faction (because anarchies have a real problem with the current set-up of the BGS, and trade is one of the few levers you can pull) - they have a not overwhelming number of L-pad stations, and once you have docked at all, and know which station exports profitable to which station, you can choose each session which systems need a trade influx. that won't make you rich, but you won't starve doing it. it's definetly a good usecase of an L-pad trader.
also of course - a t9 bridge in VR is actually a reason in itself to fly one.
Do you mean for traditional trade missions? I might be stating the obvious:
I find 3-4 station trading routes for source & return missions. Starting of with one good stn, and then add a couple more to support the first and each other. And get allied with the stn factions to get better missions. Then just alternate between the stations focusing on the high-payout missions & doubling up on any additional missions of same commodity to same destination. Giving preference to stns that have quick & easy access. Occasionally trying another stn to add into the loop.
I find I must keep track of the commodities required & destinations on a piece of paper for semi-optimizing my route. I don't follow a fixed route, rather the best destination based on what I need and what I must get rid of using the stns in my little network. Simple short-hand scribbles.
This route will work for a while, but slowly needs to be modified for different stns. I don't look at prices of commodities for these mission loops. Just quantity available.
Its pretty easy. I can do this while watching late night shows.
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thanks I will have to have a look. I must admit as I only play in VR the pad and pen part is a bit of a pain but I guess I will put some effort in.
I'm not a VR player. But it might be easier to do trade missions using non-VR. Task swapping between ED, EDDB, INARA, pencil scribblings, and watching late night shows.
I’ve been running Odyssey exclusively. When I need income I do passenger missions in a Python equipped will first class cabins, A to B tradeing of silver and gold in my cutter, and laser mining platinum. I was surprised the other day when I got a message from the Pilots Federation promoting me to Trade Elite I. Wasn’t expecting that.