Smuggling - what do?

[goemon]

My first post into forums. Also good way to make easy money is to take forbidden goods for transportation(bulletin board) and sell those in black market or commodities market. Dont take legal because those have fee which might be bigger than price one can get from selling. This will decay your reputation but if you want to be a bad ass...

...or a "good ass"... not finishing missions is one of the stronger tools to change a factions influence. but selling them! never had this idea. that's great :-D ... next idea: get battle weapons from a faction you want its influence minimized, and use them to push another factions influence

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

OK, did a bit of experimentation:
- Found a trade route Imperial slaves/Beryllium on a 3rd party tool. Slaves bought in Torval's space with 10% discount.
- Confirmed the profit, did about 2800cr/1200cr per ton
- Going to the nearest black market in Aisling space (slaves prohibited), got 2700cr/t for the slaves but could not find anything profitable to bring back

Maybe I got unlucky on this one (and there are some better smuggling routes with higher profit?), but I have the feeling black markets are an easy/safe way to make some profit (just need to check the map for what is prohibited), one way only.
But regular trade routes are more profitable...if you use the exploit of 3rd party tool...

Now I see on the map that one system controlled by Archon (black market +10%) is pretty close to Torval's space...will need to have a look at that. Maybe a narcotic/imperial slaves smuggling route out there?

 

[Bortas]

Maybe I got unlucky on this one (and there are some better smuggling routes with higher profit?), but I have the feeling black markets are an easy/safe way to make some profit (just need to check the map for what is prohibited), one way only.
But regular trade routes are more profitable...if you use the exploit of 3rd party tool...

Is that so? My current smuggling route profit (smuggling one way, regular commodity the other way) fluctuates between 4k and 4.4k per ton with a single jump. Couldn't find a single jump trade route which yields more than that yet. What was the maximum you could get out of it and with what commodities?

Now I see on the map that one system controlled by Archon (black market +10%) is pretty close to Torval's space...will need to have a look at that. Maybe a narcotic/imperial slaves smuggling route out there?

Interesting idea, but probably not worth it, if it requires more than 2-3 jumps.

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

Is that so? My current smuggling route profit (smuggling one way, regular commodity the other way) fluctuates between 4k and 4.4k per ton with a single jump. Couldn't find a single jump trade route which yields more than that yet. What was the maximum you could get out of it and with what commodities?

Imperial slaves bought at (as far as i can remember) 13715cr, sold at 16415cr.
Now that was only a test...I believed that 13.5k for imp slaves is pretty cheap (maybe i'm wrong) and that black markets at an extraction station where they are prohibited should offer one of the best sale prices.
But reading your comment, I guess I'm wrong.

As a remark, using a Python (can land at outpost), the best legal trade route I could find and experiment was 5 jumps, 4850cr/t/journey.
One jump takes about (from charging FSD to dropping) 45s if not stuck at the loading screen...supercruise and landing takes much longer.

 

[bladebss]

Lft 37.. buy imp slaves.

go to ltt 9821 if you are in a python

go to ugp 619 if you are in a large ship..then buy personal wepons and sell them back to lft 37

but hurry! The system and all its naihgbors ar massively undermined. But its a two hop jump in a conda and I make 1.6 and 0.27 mill

sadly the pirate lord is loosing all the close systems to zemina's slaves. Aparently no one in archon's power cares.

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

Lft 37.. buy imp slaves.
go to ltt 9821 if you are in a python
go to ugp 619 if you are in a large ship..then buy personal wepons and sell them back to lft 37
but hurry! The system and all its naihgbors ar massively undermined. But its a two hop jump in a conda and I make 1.6 and 0.27 mill
sadly the pirate lord is loosing all the close systems to zemina's slaves. Aparently no one in archon's power cares.

Well, I'd say that nobody likes smuggling...
Like for Yi long Rui and his 15% discount on ship and outfitting, or Torval and her 10% on imperial slaves, why would anybody want Archon's controlled systems to disappear (undermined)?
Oh yes, smuggling is not popular...

 

[Mikalus]

Lft 37.. buy imp slaves.

go to ltt 9821 if you are in a python

go to ugp 619 if you are in a large ship..then buy personal wepons and sell them back to lft 37

but hurry! The system and all its naihgbors ar massively undermined. But its a two hop jump in a conda and I make 1.6 and 0.27 mill

sadly the pirate lord is loosing all the close systems to zemina's slaves. Aparently no one in archon's power cares.

We care, but there's only so many of us. What else can we do?