Well, I Finally Did It.
- Thread starter Ralph Vargr
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After an unknown time shooting rocks, I have now launched Traveller Box, K1V-GQZ.
I'm channel #241 on the Fleet Carrier Discord.
It has refuel, repair, and rearm. The UC was too expensive at this time. It has open access, but not Notorious access.
Oh, yes, I bought with lots of rebuys for my ships, and weeks of operations. I did have to sacrifice my Mining Python, though.
Do not be disturbed by the large number of placeholder items in the market. They are there as reminders for me. Anything there with a quantity greater than one is real. The tritium price is there for my alt account to fill the carrier. You can too...
I'm planning on trading laser-mined commodities. Occasionally, I will offer deals on ordinary goods that I find cheap. No weird stuff, sorry. As soon as there is a sufficient balance for the account and the carrier, I will move Traveller Box to one of my First Discovered systems.
Now, I have to fill the thing up by working. You don't want to know...
Glad to see you on the FCOC channels, I'll drop by and say hello
I'm learning my way around.
From a 20 million starting balance, I now have well over thirty weeks of operations built up by trading from the carrier.
The thing that puzzles me is that I will have items discounted up to 80% off, and no one will touch them. About nine light years away is a port that will buy them at above galactic average. Platinum and osmium, for example. Small traders could more than triple their money by jumping nine light years. IRL, these would be "door-busters".
Every night, I sweep the cargo bay floors, and make millions, jumping to that port. I'm deliberately trying to give players a leg up. They won't take it.
Painite, and tritium, seem to be the only products that gather attention. Simply doubling or tripling your money seems so gauche, to these buyers.
I've no desire for Thargoid, Guardian, Human Tech items. No illegal/wacky items, either, to draw unwanted attention. I'm boring (doggie whimper).
From a 20 million starting balance, I now have well over thirty weeks of operations built up by trading from the carrier.
The thing that puzzles me is that I will have items discounted up to 80% off, and no one will touch them. About nine light years away is a port that will buy them at above galactic average. Platinum and osmium, for example. Small traders could more than triple their money by jumping nine light years. IRL, these would be "door-busters".
Every night, I sweep the cargo bay floors, and make millions, jumping to that port. I'm deliberately trying to give players a leg up. They won't take it.
Painite, and tritium, seem to be the only products that gather attention. Simply doubling or tripling your money seems so gauche, to these buyers.
I've no desire for Thargoid, Guardian, Human Tech items. No illegal/wacky items, either, to draw unwanted attention. I'm boring (doggie whimper).
At least The Mistress thinks I'm worth killing. Every time I drop out into the rocks, four to seven NPC's are waiting for me. Plus, the automatic interdiction on the way to my carrier by an Alliance, or Imperial Death Ship, plus assorted Mamba's, Fer De Lances, and Anaconda's. In groups.
Reminds me. Have to cash in my bounties...
Reminds me. Have to cash in my bounties...
I'm learning my way around.
From a 20 million starting balance, I now have well over thirty weeks of operations built up by trading from the carrier.
The thing that puzzles me is that I will have items discounted up to 80% off, and no one will touch them. About nine light years away is a port that will buy them at above galactic average. Platinum and osmium, for example. Small traders could more than triple their money by jumping nine light years. IRL, these would be "door-busters".
Every night, I sweep the cargo bay floors, and make millions, jumping to that port. I'm deliberately trying to give players a leg up. They won't take it.
Similar thing happened to me when I took my previous FC to Colonia.
I filled it up with Tritium, bought in the bubble for ~Cr40k/t, used it to move a bunch of ships to Colonia and then figured I'd offer all the Tritium to players in Colonia at roughly cost-price.
The only result was a bunch of people whining that I was "ripping them off cos Tritium only costs Cr4k/t"
I have no idea how it might be realised but there should really be some kind of "bulletin board" on an FC, which the player can create and, ideally, which can be read remotely somehow.
You show up in busy systems and it's wall-to-wall FCs.
You can open the sysmap, click on each FC and then read it's facilities in it's description but it doesn't give you any insight into what that FC, in particular, might be useful.
Maybe FDev could come up with some way we could create "adverts" for our FCs - roughly the size of one of the small panes in the ship's right-HUD - and then a player could, perhaps, open up the Galnet tab in their right-HUD, click on a page called "Galnet Classified" and it'd display, say, 30 of these "adverts" on each page (in a grid of 6x5), which a player could browse easily.
The same advert would be displayed right in the middle of all the other "Carrier Management" options when you land on an FC too, so you could easily see what the FC was all about upon arrival.
Obviously, it'd be a minefield ensuring the "adverts" didn't use naughty language or advocate naughty things but I think it'd be really cool if they could find a way to do it.
Hell, browsing those adverts would probably be the most interesting thing a player could do half the time!
We have to use Discord for that...Similar thing happened to me when I took my previous FC to Colonia.
I filled it up with Tritium, bought in the bubble for ~Cr40k/t, used it to move a bunch of ships to Colonia and then figured I'd offer all the Tritium to players in Colonia at roughly cost-price.
The only result was a bunch of people whining that I was "ripping them off cos Tritium only costs Cr4k/t"
I have no idea how it might be realised but there should really be some kind of "bulletin board" on an FC, which the player can create and, ideally, which can be read remotely somehow.
You show up in busy systems and it's wall-to-wall FCs.
You can open the sysmap, click on each FC and then read it's facilities in it's description but it doesn't give you any insight into what that FC, in particular, might be useful.
Maybe FDev could come up with some way we could create "adverts" for our FCs - roughly the size of one of the small panes in the ship's right-HUD - and then a player could, perhaps, open up the Galnet tab in their right-HUD, click on a page called "Galnet Classified" and it'd display, say, 30 of these "adverts" on each page (in a grid of 6x5), which a player could browse easily.
The same advert would be displayed right in the middle of all the other "Carrier Management" options when you land on an FC too, so you could easily see what the FC was all about upon arrival.
Obviously, it'd be a minefield ensuring the "adverts" didn't use naughty language or advocate naughty things but I think it'd be really cool if they could find a way to do it.
Hell, browsing those adverts would probably be the most interesting thing a player could do half the time!
I'm learning my way around.
From a 20 million starting balance, I now have well over thirty weeks of operations built up by trading from the carrier.
The thing that puzzles me is that I will have items discounted up to 80% off, and no one will touch them. About nine light years away is a port that will buy them at above galactic average. Platinum and osmium, for example. Small traders could more than triple their money by jumping nine light years. IRL, these would be "door-busters".
Every night, I sweep the cargo bay floors, and make millions, jumping to that port. I'm deliberately trying to give players a leg up. They won't take it.
Painite, and tritium, seem to be the only products that gather attention. Simply doubling or tripling your money seems so gauche, to these buyers.
I've no desire for Thargoid, Guardian, Human Tech items. No illegal/wacky items, either, to draw unwanted attention. I'm boring (doggie whimper).
where is it, i know a few small traders who would love to help?
RV, did ya finally get yourself a bubble taxi? Congrats!
I'm contemplating my third one.
Now the trick is not parking them in everyone else's way. Or maybe the fun is parking them in everyone else's way.
Haven't decided yet.
I'm contemplating my third one.
Now the trick is not parking them in everyone else's way. Or maybe the fun is parking them in everyone else's way.
Haven't decided yet.
Parked at Hyades Sector RZ-N b7-1. Nice place, with one scoopable star. About seven of us there.
Swept the cargo bay floors again. Collected several easy millions.
Restock later today. There's still some platinum left...
Restock later today. There's still some platinum left...