Probably the easiest trade route

Thu Jun 19, 2003 8:13 am by leroygreen

If your neutral or better with the Xenos and Liberty Navy (& other Liberty Forces) then this trade route between Colorado and Kepler is quite easy.

Use the two Xenos bases OURAY (COLORADO) and NOME BASE (KEPLER).

Buy LIGHT ARMS at OURAY and sell at NOME BASE for 392 profit per item.
Buy ENGINE COMPONENTS at NOME BASE and sell at OURAY for 195 profit per.

I found this by accident when I killed a bunch of easy Rogues to try to get into Liberty's good graces. By doing that, I inadvertently made all factions in these two systems neutral or friendly except for the HACKERS. However, the hackers almost never show up in the trade route between these two bases. Be sure to use the hidden JumpHole to get from Colorado to Kepler and back. It is located just south of NOME BASE (about 3.5k) and left of BATTLESHIP RIO GRAND and behind the planet (about 25k?). This trade route without using the trade lanes is 10 minutes or less one way.. and you will probably not get fired upon or bothered if your neutralities are ok. I used the cargo freighter that has 175 cargo spaces and I make about $100,000 per round trip. The best part is while the auto pilot is on from OURAY to the COLORADO-->KEPLER jumphole I got 5-6 minutes that I can ignore the game.

Thu Jun 19, 2003 2:43 pm by CW

Why not do the Ainu Depot -> Reponngi Station -> Planet New Tokyo run with cardamine and luxury consumer goods? Makes a lot more money and at the start, NOBODY shoots at you in Kusari. If you are afraid of being caught with cardamine, the police always give you plenty of time to run even if they bother to scan you.

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Thu Jun 19, 2003 2:59 pm by Pinkie Epsilon 5

Short and sweet:

Engine components from Freiburg in0 Stuttgart to Friestatdt in Omega-7. $500 a pop, and the only peeps you have to be cool with are the Hessians, which is easily remedied by killing off some Mollys. It works,and in a Humpback, you'll make a killing every time, especially if you head toward the gas clouds and mine some copper for $100 a pop.

Thu Jun 19, 2003 5:31 pm by The Defender ( A ship )

try running food and cardamine to mactan base and u can mine in that cloud to
Theres no police in megalan and u just gotta be cool with the outcasts and ur making 600 or more with a dromedary

You go first Mr. Trent

Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:22 pm by snrumph

I know there are lots of threads like this but I just just finshed the SP and made an easy $200,000 in the anubis by taking luxury goods from manhattan to ainu (hokkaido) and bringing back cardamine to manhattan. Nice cash boost after the SP.

Thu Jun 19, 2003 11:20 pm by Circumcisor

The best, and often mentioned, is cardimine from Yanagi depot in sig-13 to new berlin through the jump hole used in the plot mission - 849 profit, then return from berlin to yanagi with engine components - 299 profit. 1,148 profit per unit per trip, and you can do a return trip in less than 4 minutes. Up to 5 million an hour with a dromedary. It's so close between trade lane gates and jump hole that you can outrun any attack and police scan.

Fri Jun 20, 2003 1:26 am by spacedrive

The Yanagi Depot -> New Berlin is the most profitable in a small amount of time. I believe it ranks at about 4.3 million an hour in a Dromedary. I found a pretty good one from New London to Cadiz Base in Omega 5. You buy H-Fuel at New London for 347 and sell at Cadiz for 600. Then you get artifacts at Cadiz for 135 and sell at New London for 1147. You can do a round trip in 11 minutes, that calculates to 1.898 million/hr. If you look at the trade calculations, it appears that a Ronnenburgh -> New London would work nicely since it's in the same system as Cadiz, however, Ronnenburgh is surrounded by mines, so it's a terrible route. Cadiz is right next to the jump hole to Cambridge and you can fly right to it by sight after coming out of the jump hole.

Fri Jun 20, 2003 2:08 am by oni_666

If like me the only enemy you have is the hogashi (spelling?) then you could mine diamonds in dresden, there are some good places, then take the lot to new tokyo planet, in the dromedary thats 400,000 per trip of pure profit.
Does take forever, though.
Personally I made my money by selling every class 10 classified weapon I can't use, 34,000 each, and every salamanca mk1 for 16,000 that I looted off of the dead corsair ships that I found near the unknown jumpoles.
Another good route is the silverton (silver mining) colorado route to california planet in the dromedary, 175,000 of pure profit.

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Fri Jun 20, 2003 1:10 pm by cyberdude_za

Sorry noob here but how do you mine?

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Fri Jun 20, 2003 5:44 pm by The Defender ( A ship )

U shoot the tiny moving rocks

Sat Jun 21, 2003 1:38 am by FreekLancer

Well,
My two.5 sence ;-)

My favorite cargo run ... Ohm beta ( ruiz ? ) Alien Orgs @ 100 to Cambridge Research @ 2000. 5 jumps. 1900 a pop.

Ya just have to be friends with corsairs and outcasts. By then, who needs money ;-)

Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:53 pm by Jummeh

I like to mine mollys or hessains, mollys drop gold and hessains drop weapons and niobium.

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