What is the best way to make the most money from your fleet carrier in 2025?
Cmdr Splat
Cmdr Splat
What is the best way to make the most money from your fleet carrier in 2025
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Ok. so there are some ways. But forget that passive income you are thinking about
- park near a mining spot and offer the best prices
- Sell things like meta alloys and praseodymium when Operation Ida needs them for repairs
- Buy outfitting and park near a engineer
- Buy tritium. Jump to Colonia. Sell tritium and Decom your FC
In most cases you will barely make more credits than you pay upkeep
Turn up the services surcharge so when you refuel/repair your ships, a chunk of change goes into the carrier coffers. You won’t get other people to use it, so think of it as one of those round up savings programs for you.
2025? Sell it to NASA.
Sell vital stuff that is in short supply to colony architects.*
Sell Tritium in the black or Colonia.
Sell exobiology data on it.
*Maybe but like most things that haven’t happened we don’t know.
I think Musk or Bezos would give you a better price.
Fit Secure Storage and steal valuable cargo, then sell it into normal markets.
You park it in Paesia at planet 2 with an offer to buy as much platinum as you can afford at a a price of about 220K/T. When full, you use Inara to find where a station is buying platinum for over 280k/T, then jump your carrier to it and offer your platinum at around 250k/T. 5000T will cost you 1.1 billion and get you around 1/4 billion profit. How quickly you fill up and empty will depend on competition from other fleet carriers, so use Inara ro check prices in order to remain competitive.
And if you want, you can do your own mining for platinum in the haz RES to get an additional 200 mil/hr plus loads of raw materials.
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I just wait for gold and silver to go on sale for less than 5K/t. Then I fill the boat up with it and sell it for 44-55K/t.Easy 4-500 million.
Be sure to sell it in a LYR system though.
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Be sure to sell it in a LYR system though.
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Op Ida is done buying for now
Yup,Op Ida is done buying for now
But there are also no titans left, intact. So AXI demand may increase again.
Time will tell.
Good morning commanders
As a solo player I found that stacking metal wing missions in a system like Mahlanja was very lucrative… I could expect to make 25 to 100 million per round trip (one or two jumps only) with a 730 ton cargo hold.
I want to experiment today parking the new fleet carrier near a collection station and then stacking up on missions in Mahlanja. I will collect one or two 50 million credit missions each time and supplement with lower ones like cobalt for example.
I would then fly to the collection station and transport the required goods to the carrier. With my hold full I then plan to fly back to Mahlanja with my hold filled with materials to complete smaller missions and repeat the process until my to do missions are full of 50 million ones only.
I would fill up my carrier with the necessary goods and then relocate the carrier next to the mission giving station to offload.
I feel that at least in theory this will pay more than the 12.5 million profit I am currently making by simply loading the carrier with a single commodity from a low buy system and flying to a high price system to offload.
I’m sure this is already being done (unless I have overlooked something obvious) but I couldn’t find any mention of it or tutorials online.
Fingers crossed.
As a solo player I found that stacking metal wing missions in a system like Mahlanja was very lucrative… I could expect to make 25 to 100 million per round trip (one or two jumps only) with a 730 ton cargo hold.
I want to experiment today parking the new fleet carrier near a collection station and then stacking up on missions in Mahlanja. I will collect one or two 50 million credit missions each time and supplement with lower ones like cobalt for example.
I would then fly to the collection station and transport the required goods to the carrier. With my hold full I then plan to fly back to Mahlanja with my hold filled with materials to complete smaller missions and repeat the process until my to do missions are full of 50 million ones only.
I would fill up my carrier with the necessary goods and then relocate the carrier next to the mission giving station to offload.
I feel that at least in theory this will pay more than the 12.5 million profit I am currently making by simply loading the carrier with a single commodity from a low buy system and flying to a high price system to offload.
I’m sure this is already being done (unless I have overlooked something obvious) but I couldn’t find any mention of it or tutorials online.
Fingers crossed.
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I've done lots of missions like that but very rarely needed more than one jump from the source to the mission station. Thus, my carrier would only have slowed things down.
Now and then I stockpile some stuff there in anticipation of upcoming missions though.
It worked quite well and I made a decent amount of money as I had a fair idea what mission materials would spawn at the station. I stocked up the carrier with said items and jumped into the system. Unfortunately there were already six gajilliion carriers already parked there with (I’m assuming) similar ideas.
Despite parking further down the proverbial road, I made plenty of cash. I’m not sure I profited any more or any faster than without the carrier, but at least it’s being used
Side note: this is my first foray into pancake activities as I’m a VR player and it was a pleasant surprise when it turned full 3D for the carrier jump sequence.
I really hope Frontier can allow us to at least access carriers in VR, if not the first person shooter stuff.
Despite parking further down the proverbial road, I made plenty of cash. I’m not sure I profited any more or any faster than without the carrier, but at least it’s being used
Side note: this is my first foray into pancake activities as I’m a VR player and it was a pleasant surprise when it turned full 3D for the carrier jump sequence.
I really hope Frontier can allow us to at least access carriers in VR, if not the first person shooter stuff.
"Metal wing missions"? Please elucidate.