It's long. But certainly profitable. And possibly somewhat risky because of the contraband smuggling. You could also ship Engine Components from Planet Honshu/HONSHU to Freeport 4/MAGELLAN, or if you need a return route Engine Components from Planet Honshu/HONSHU to Planet Cambridge/CAMBRIDGE and Luxury Food all the way back.

Thx, and I don't think it's that long, it's the shortest profitable run I could find.

I was shown another trade route. Bought luxury consumer goods at Manhattan - sold them at New London - bought luxury food at New London - sold them at Manhattan. I don't know about the ones you mentioned, but I got quite a lot from this one...especially when I had a humpback.

All I know is that is was certainly better than the Fort Bush - Pittsburgh trade run I was doing before.

The best one I managed to find on my own was to take Lux. Consumer goods from Roppongi (New Tokyo) to Ainu, and Cardamine back. It's really short (12 minutes roundtrip) and makes 265000 in a dromedary. That's about 22,000 credits/minute. Time your Manhattan run and compare, then you'll see which is better.

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Captain Nemo started a thread earlier titled "Thanx for BEST trade route! (4Mil/hour) ." Worth a read if trading is how you prefer to make money.

I agree with the posters on that particular thread-- The New Berlin - Sigma 13 route hauling cardamine one way and engine parts the other is by far THE fastest way I've seen to make money through trade. Just one jump, and the jump holes are agreeably close to your destinations. Round trip in 4 minutes if you have it down to a science.


Edited by - Chandrasekhar Limit on 14-04-2003 22:45:23

I found a pretty profitable, short and easy trade route... buy diamonds from Planet Cambridge, sell them at Leeds, then buy manufacturing equipment (?) from Leeds, head back to Cambridge, and so on. Short but efficient. I've found much better ones but they're longer. I'm too damned impatient to go across the whole sector, takes ages. Is this universe of Digital Anvil's actual size?!

@Chandrasekhar Limit: That may work in SP, but in MP there is no jumphole between New Berlin and Sigma-13 unfortunately.

That's true...I was all excited to go make loads of money, and then there was no JH for me to use. Oh, well.

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Matt, I have noticed that one to. But uhm. There is an even better one out there in that area. Just combine the two. So you get. From Planet Leeds, take pharmaceuticals to Glasgow Outpost, From the outpost take Alien Organisms to Cambridge Research Station. Then take diamonds from Planet Cambridge back to Planet Leeds

About the Alien Organisms. Yes I know, they are highly perishable and you'll lose about 6 of them during the trip but you can sell each one with a profit of $600, so it's worth it.

the best - and quite short - traderoute i know so far, is from new london => cadiz base (omega-5) with light arms and then back artifacts.
gets you 107 credits per minute and cargo units and the whole trip takes about 14 minutes.

seeing that the new berlin => sigma-13 jumphole is CLOSED in multiplayer, thats the best trade route so far.

A fun little route I found was like this

small arms from Detroit Munitions to Honshu, then a short trip to new tokyo
engine parts from New Tokyo to Mactan in Magellan (pays bigtime)
cardamine from Mactan to Manhattan (easy with the direct jump magellan->new york, then a short trip to Detroit and start over

The advantage of this run is that one of my two enemies at the moment (Xenos and Mollys) are on the way, and I like a bit of excitement... The trip from Detroit to Honshu pays the least, and suggestions would be welcome.

Actually I like to change my trips constantly to keep from getting too bored.

The quickest most profitable trade route in the game is diamonds from new berlin to new tokyo and then nomibium (sp?) back to the ring next to planet berlin. A round trip takes about 30-40mins via sigma13 if you have a dromedary or humback you can usually make 500k -600k a round trip.

Shill,
there is a good dissertation about Fast/Most Profitbale trade routes in another thread called ANOTHER TRADE ROUTE by JWORLEY.

Basically, because time is money, we need to measure a trade route profitability in terms of how much we can make over a finite period of time, rather than how much we can make in one round trip.

The consensus seems to be that we should measure profitability in terms of Cargo Unit per minute (or total nett profit per hour) to keep everything consistent; for example:

If you make a total 500k nett profit for a round trip carrying 275 units each way (of whatever you choose) and the round trip takes 30 minutes, the profit you make is 1 Million per hour (500k * 2 round trips per hour), your profit per Cargo Unit per Minute is 60.60 (i.e. 500,000 / 275 / 30).

If you make a total 250k nett profit for a round trip carrying 275 units each way (of whatever you choose) and the round trip takes 12 minutes, the profit you make is 1.25 Million per hour (250K * 5 round trips per hour), your profit per Cargo Unit per Minute is 75.75 (i.e 250,000 / 275 /12)

As you can see, the first route is more profitable for a single run, but over the same period of time you earn more with the second.


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Those are all great routes, but they are no way suitable for beginners. The one I suggested is easy, I don't even take an escort with me (well, sometimes I do coz i'm bored and I want someone to talk to). And no jump holes, which means it takes longer to get there but there's no need to start looking for jump holes if you don't know where they are.

Oh and I like the excitment of having 250 cardamine im my hold
And besides, Manhatten is the best place to sell cardamine and artifacts I found so far, more than new tokyo at least.
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