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Pirating 101

If you are stuck in a mission and do not know how to continue, this is the place to ask for help. Missing that elusive Level 10 Shield? Don''t know where to find the lost Ohtori ship? This is the only place where spoilers are allowed!

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:18 am

Pirating 101

been playing a pirate.. lane hacking and hit and run cargo stealing at planets and ports.
This is such an easy way to make cash..

my set up:
Dromedary
level 7 shields at ainu base in hakkaido
magma blasts all around (turrets too) at manhatten (fully decked out 3 shots blows up a cannister on a transport without hurting transport)

basicly shooting the cannisters out from transports.

good profit area New tokyo -> narita station (narita buys elemtals gold,silver betryllium, hight temp alloys ets at decent prices)
lux goods at new tokyo transports (kinda rare)
average per run 175k-400k

average about a million credits in about 30 min - 1 hr depending

total kills to date only 2 (oops) factions are all nuetral
total money in ship 4.8 million

its fun and so cheesey

to start get nuetral with hackers and rogues buy dromedary and haul a load of cardimine to manhatten then buy lux goods and magmahammers and then lux goods from manhatten to ainu then buy shields and go lane hack and robbing
fast and fun way to make credits!

Edited by - redlance on 31-03-2003 03:19:55

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:29 am

1 million credits in 1 hour??? no way

Edited by - Juggernaut on 31-03-2003 03:28:53

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 3:28 am

i thought it was jsut easier to fill a dromdrey with cadamine from the outcast planet, and fly to manhattan
fly back with phramacuticles

if your l33t like me, you can make a two way trip in 30 mins
~500,000 back and forth

1 mill in one hour too

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 3:59 am

its possible to make a million per hour, thats IF those transport with what you want DO fly past... if ure unlucky and all those that passes are just filled with water, it w ill take forever

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:05 am

What is this garbage. Should be called "How to be a Bragart 101". Nothing you say is in anyway helpful to a new user, if you cannot be truly helpful SHUTUP!!!!

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:18 am

Viper, chill out, man. These forums are to share things you find and ideas you think others may like, and they don't all have to be for n00b's like you. If you don't like his idea, just move on.

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:42 pm

It is almost impossible to make 1 million in one hour... Because there are so many factors that have to be on your side.

I mean.. Ist impossible to be n3utral to everyone.. There will always be one party that doesn't like you. And they will cross you on the way to your goal... more then oth3rs. You can say that if you play an evening, maybe like 4 h0urs or so.. That you could make 2-3 Million trading Di4m0nds, Hfuel oder Artifacts with the Dromedary (its better then the gayback nazi Freighter) and kann withstand harder hits to However... You can fly w4y out to the Border W0rld Syst3ms and l4nd on Corsair / outcast Planets to fight missions that take you 2 minutes for 200000$ easily. I always l0ve the one's: Kill this Person. Bec4use you just have to destr0y like 3 Fight3rs.. 2 of the First w4ve, the guy will come with the second wave... You launch some missles and work him. Then you fly away... Th3re maybe 9 or more Fighters after you, but any half decent Pilot can elude them easily. Takes you aber 2-8 minut3s to do missi0ns like that... Tr4ding is only fun at the start of the game, using the Rhino and then quickly switching to the Dromedary. Using it to make 2 or 3 good runs, buy a Sabre and be happy

j00 = f4rm3d!

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Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 2:50 pm

It's quite possible to become neutral with everyone, you just have to balance everything perfectly.

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 6:12 pm

ok since some were whining this was not too informative or how to become nuetral etc etc.. i will go step by step

make new character
sell guns..
buy 2 lavablade II's
1 lavablade 1 (or skip if your really talented )
goto fort bush
there are 2 stations in this area fort bush and another station. go behind the other station.. you will see 2 storage depots. the gold one contains scrap metal (junk)
the silver contains H-fuel. wait till noone or almost noone is around blow up one silver tower get 16 units H-fuel. Run like bloody hell to manhatten jump gate and goto manhatten and sell
buy frieghter
go back kill remaining 3 towers at fort bush collect 48 units of h-fuel sell at manhatten buy 80 lux goods. now you are nuetral with outcast rogues and lanehackers and your are natuarlly nuetral with golden chrysantheums and blood dragons. goto hakkaido sector(there will be no RED NPC's along the way ) c6 to ainu sell lux goods. 80k in hand buy 80 cardimine back to manhatten sell buy hfuel goto mactan base in magellan sell hfuel. buy dromedary and buy cardimine 111 holds goto manhatten sell buy magma hammers [ and magma hammer turrets full hold of lux goods goto ainu drop off lux goods now ya have 600k buy level 7 shields with refresh at 86 goto narita station. (or run cardimine to roppongi for a quick 150k)
after yer empty goto trade lane jump out at 2nd or 3rd lane and hack. no luck then goto next trade lane repeat till ya find a tranny carrying lux goods gold silver betryllium high temp alloys or boron or construction machinery or lux food (rare) or diamonds (very rare but seen it a few times in shi ko ku at deshima station) dont just sit thier waiting for transports.. good places to launch and dock to respawn transports is narita and shinjuku station in 2-3 dockings you are bound to find one of the above. i had 1 mill in 1 hours time easy. No kills and as long as ya dont kill anyone sectors forget hostilites after ya leave a decent distance and come back.

Edited by - redlance on 31-03-2003 19:16:27

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 6:33 pm

2 Luger C, 2 SunRail, 2 Catapult, Flamecurse 1 turret, sunslayer torps, driller mines, and advanced countermeasures, rounded out by an advanced thruster and a lvl. 8 shield gen. It isn't maxed out, but it still makes AI scrap in a hurry.

Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless

Post Mon Mar 31, 2003 9:40 pm

i thought dromedary can only take max lvl6 shields?

Post Tue Apr 01, 2003 1:30 am

Um..... ya I've made 2,440,800 in one hour... so I beat 1 million.

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