but the food will turn bad....

Diamonds, Cadiz base, 176. Diamonds, New Tokyo, 1650.

Ok, beat this:
I don't remember where because i haven't used that route, but i remember a place where you can sell Alien Organism for amazing 2000. And you can bay them in Omicron Beta for lousy 100.
Now THAT is what I call a profit

Friendly is a term, in which hate must exist...

You should check out the Cargo Calculator program (or whatever it's called). There are a couple postings on this. The best round trip rout apparently is Honshu<-->Cambridge. The profit (round trip) is $2389. Alien Organisms might make for a good single run profit, but what will you take back? Unless you set up a 3-point or 4-point or more-point rout, it will only be profitable one way.

Yea, i sold alien organisms for 2000 at one of the california planets, the something minor; it was being terraformed. But that was before i got stuck on mission 6...

in cambridge you can sell them aswell for 2k

Alien organisms are perishable, so you probably won't make it with as many as you would with a non-perishable item.

Best One Way profit:

For a 70 cargo Sabre:

Alien Organisms: Ruiz Base (Omicron Beta) => Planet California Minor (California)
$1900 profit per unit ($133000 profit total)

For a 275 cargo Dromedary:

Alien Organisms: Ruiz Base (Omicron Beta) => Planet California Minor (California)
$1900 profit per unit ($522500 profit total)

Best 2 way profit:

For a 275 cargo Dromedary:

Optronics: Planet Honshu (Honshu) => Planet Cambridge (Cambridge)
$1189 profit per unit ($326975 profit total)
Luxury Food: Planet Cambridge (Cambridge) => Planet Honshu (Honshu)
$1200 profit per unit ($330000 profit total)

Now for something interesting: (3 point trade)

Luxury Food: Planet Cambridge (Cambridge) => Planet Denver (Colorado)
$1200 profit per unit ($330000 profit total)

Luxury Consumer Goods: Planet Denver (Colorado) => Ainu Depot (Hokkaido)
$1206 profit per unit ($331650 profit total)

Engine Components: Ainu Depot (Hokkaido) => Planet Cambridge (Cambridge)
$825 profit per unit ($226875 profit total)


Now for something Interesting part Deux (5 Point trade pattern)

Diamonds: Darmstadt Depot (Stuttgart) => Planet Leeds (Leeds)
$990 profit per unit ($272250 profit total)

Beryllium: Stokes Mining Station (Leeds) => Planet Los Angeles (California)
$540 profit per unit ($148500 profit total)

Luxury Consumer Goods: Planet Los Angeles (California) => Ainu Depot (Hokkaido)
$1224 profit per unit ($336600 profit total)

Cardamine: Ainu Depot (Hokkaido) => Planet Manhattan (New York)
$1020 profit per unit ($280500 profit total)

Luxury Consumer Goods: Planet Manhattan (New York) => Planet Baden-Baden (Stuttgart)
$1080 profit per unit ($297000 profit total)

For a 275 Cargo Dromedary: Profit of 4854 per cargo space for a total profit of $1334850.

For a 70 Cargo Sabre: Profit of 4854 per cargo Space for a total profit of $339780


This isn't figuring in time but there should be only a few systems in between each. Can you make quicker profit? Sure. Going back and forth between 2 worlds sometimes can get you more, but this is more adventurous and gives you a ture of some of the interesting places. I could even do one doing a tour of the border wordls such as the tau, omegas and omnicrons... =)

Not to be a nitpicker or anything, but if you take perishable goods (Alien organisms/luxury food), some of them are gonna die enroute, so you can't just multiply profit by cargo capacity.

Also, for the Ruiz -> California Minor Alien organisms route, don't waste $100 per unit buying them, they're all over the minable rocks floating around Omicron Beta

Edited by - Longbow on 17-03-2003 00:42:20

Incidentally, I did work out a simple one-shot triangle trade. I had just made flown my clydesdale to manhattan, but wanted to buy a humpback

Manhattan (luxury goods) -> New Berlin
buy Humpback
New Berlin (engine components) -> Cambridge
Cambridge (alien food) -> Manhattan.

Course, some of the border space between Rheinland and Bretonia is pretty nasty (cost me a lot in repairs), and the Humpback is sooo slow.

But it's pretty fun when you can get multiple errands done in one trip

ER

Im not sure the customers in Manhattan will appreciate "Alien Food". Try "Luxury Food" instead

Cheers
Sid

Yeah, I guess the alien food is, like, people.

Good point

ER

One of the best (profits and fastest) routes i found was artifacts from cadiz $138(right outside base is the JH to cambridge) to NewLondon you make over 1000 per unit but only travel through one jumpgate and one jumphole...then rtn to cadiz with engine component or light arms i cant remember which (about 700 profit)

rinse and repeat

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