theres a minefield between those two bases afaik.
i tried to go through it with a dromedary, not the best idea.

as long as you manage to survive that would be great, yet its quite hard to not fly directly into a mine with a freighter...


but tell us more about these in-system trade runs!


Edited by - sp00n on 19-04-2003 15:47:54

So... how do you handle the minefields, Fizzle? I notice you're using a Humpie

Well, when you set your ship to Cruise there with the GOTO button, it avoids obstables like mines and such. You just gotta watch your hull. If I see I am low, I'll use a Nanobot. Buying them is not much of a concern if I am already starting to profit big.

Work it Harder, Make it Better,
Do it Faster, Makes us Stronger.

There r a few other good Same System routes but the only decent ones to note now that I think about it is the Omega 5->Omega5 and Tau23->Tau23. The Tau23 one is not as good I believe but I havent tried it.

Cali Base, Tau 23: Buy Cardamine @ 389
Java Station, Tau 23: Sell Cardamine @ 750 Profit Per Unit: 361
Java Station, Tau 23: Buy Niobium @ 223
Cali Base, Tau 23: Sell Niobium @ 320 Profit Per Unit: 97

Estimated Time Round-trip: 5 mins. The bases r REAL CLOSE from my knowledge though I have not traversed it myself personally.
Profit Per Unit Per Round-trip: 458
Estimated Profit Per Unit Per Minute: 91.6
Estimated Profit Per Hour (Humpback): 1,374,000

I just tried the Cali Base/Java Station trade route. No problems...... no mines. Slight radiation but other than that, smooth sailing. Outcast and IMG in the area to let you guys know so make sure your good with both of them

Work it Harder, Make it Better,
Do it Faster, Makes us Stronger.

Nevermind, the program mucked up the calculation. Cardamine doesnt sell good at Java Station. Must check Omega 5 route now.

Work it Harder, Make it Better,
Do it Faster, Makes us Stronger.

OK Close this thread. That Commidity Cargo Calculator program on this Form is crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Work it Harder, Make it Better,
Do it Faster, Makes us Stronger.

I just wrote Darren with fixes for his program... we had been talking earlier, and I sent him over 400 fixes, but he wanted to compute it straight out of the game, instead of using my good data, ehehe ... in defense of him, the first time his data were from the official strat guide... this more recent time, it looks like he got his calculations bad. Anyway, I just wrote him and attached a listing of all the right prices. I hope he chooses to listen to me this time

The LR commodity info is pretty good except for 16 mistakes. I sent fixes to Christian Koerner Tuesday but he has yet to post them. Mainly it is Battleship Essex with 4 bad prices... there's something wonky about Essex such that its info doesn't show up in the game's commodity info listing, even if you've visited it. I have savegames both of a ship at Essex with all commodities on board (the only way to check Essex), as well as a savegame with all but 5 bases visited, and most of the commodities on my ship. If anybody wants to check prices directly. I used these for figuring out price corrections for LR and FCC data, after snarfing the data from both of them and comparing,to see where discrepancies were (which I then checked ingame via these savegames). Also Holger Matz of Datastorm showed me how to get his prices calculated from game data (it's all right there in an Access .mdb after you run Datastorm) and they were all spot on with my corrected data... except for 265 which were low by 1 in his info, apparently due to some rounding error.

By the way... yes the route between Cali and Java is very short... 18,460 meters according to Datastorm data, which at 300 m/s is 61 seconds... but unfortunately there's not a single thing to sell between them

H

okay, i went through all the systems and ive found 4 in-system routes worth mentioning:

DUBLIN
Battleship Essex => Battleship Hood
sell Gold: 425
profit: 154
buy H-Fuel: 389

Battleship Hood => Arranmore Base
sell H-Fuel: 419
profit: 30
buy Consumer Goods: 300

Arranmore Base => Battleship Essex
sell Consumer Goods: 420
profit: 120
buy Gold: 271

overall profit: 304
max time for efficiency ~107: 2,8 minutes

----------------------------

NEW BERLIN
New Berlin => Kreuzberg Depot
sell Cardamine: 1350
profit: 300
buy Engine Components: 225

Kreuzberg Depot => New Berlin
sell Engine Components: 299
profit: 74
buy Cardamine: 1050

overall profit: 374
max time for efficiency ~107: 3,5 minutes

----------------------------

NEW LONDON
New London => Trafalgar Base
sell Artifacts: 1147
profit: 202
buy Construction Machinery: 350

Trafalgar Base => New London
sell Construction Machinery: 440
profit: 90
buy Artifacts: 945

overall profit: 292
max time for efficiency ~107: 2,7 minutes

----------------------------

NEW YORK
Manhatten => Buffalo Base
sell Cardamine: 1500
profit: 270
buy H-Fuel: 360

Buffalo Base => Manhatten
sell H-Fuel: 444
profit: 84
buy Cardamine: 1230

overall profit: 354
max time for efficiency ~107: 3,3 minutes
----------------------------

of which only the one in new london could be done within the time limit imho...

Edited by - sp00n on 20-04-2003 16:42:28