Hmmmm, tried that one already. Only problem is that it takes a while to mine a full load, plus the journey is fairly long. So in the end you make less money given the same time period. However, with the Niobium being free in the first place that makes up for it somewhat.

Any others?


*edit* There seems to have been some discrepency with the clocks going back an hour tonight. This reply should have come after -Entropy-'s post.




Edited by - OMEGA on 26-10-2003 02:57:40

Mine Niobium in Tau 37 (100% mining loot from debris), sell it at Leipzig Station in Dresden, then buy Diamonds at Bautzen Station in Dresden and sell it at New Tokyo planet. Thats 1 million per complete run in a Dromedary. This *is* the most profitable trade run in the game. It's also a long one.

Made a few new characters last night, so making the cash in a short time is required.

So stage one:

Sell bats/bots and buy a Patriot. Then hit the police depots to help get your outcast/lane hacker rep neutral - requirement for later. Hit some of the wrecks in NY, no-one had hit Flint so I got the cardamine.

Stage two:

Buy a Rhino and out fit it with the turrets from Flint, there just for show, as your Lane hacker rep should be neutral so they wont bother you. Buy lux Goods at Manhattan, sell at Anui in Hokkiado. There buy cardamine and return to New York. Now on your way you should have enough to buy a Drone, do so and then raid the wrecks in Shioko for there cardamine and weapons - dont sell them.

Stage Three:

Once your back to New York, sell your cardamine and buy Engine components from Norfok Shipyard and go sell on Mactan base in Magellan for the Dromedary, outfit with the looted wreck weapons. Next buy as much Cardamine as possible and return to New York. Then do as many NY - Anui runs as necessary for the cash you need.

Total time to make 1.3 mil little over 2 hours

Edited by - Pinger on 26-10-2003 12:11:21

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Mine Niobium in Tau 37 (100% mining loot from debris), sell it at Leipzig Station in Dresden, then buy Diamonds at Bautzen Station in Dresden and sell it at New Tokyo planet.

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I used to do something similar, I'd just buy the Niobium in New Tokyo, sell it at The Ring by New Berlin then buy the diamonds and head back for New Tokyo, you can also buy diamonds at Planet New Berlin next to the ring if you want to save 10 mins. Took a while (about 40 mins for the run there and back going New tokyo to Honshu to Sigma-13 to New Belin etc.) but get's you a big heap of cash - not sure of the exact figures - and if you take out anyone who attacks, you have quite a stock of weapons etc. to sell at the end.

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A safer and simplier one:
1. Buy Gold from Cambidge
2. Sell them at New Berlin and Buy Diamonds
3. Sell them at New Tokyo and Buy Engine Components
4. Sell them at Cambridge and repeate this again until you have enough money.

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A safer and simplier one:
1. Buy Gold from Cambidge
2. Sell them at New Berlin and Buy Diamonds
3. Sell them at New Tokyo and Buy Engine Components
4. Sell them at Cambridge and repeate this again until you have enough money.

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safe? Corsairs/Hessians/Unioners all to pass by, my run is safe, the only problem you get is dodging police cargo scans and other humans.

A decent route that I discovered almost by accident, also involving Freiburg:

Freiburg Station - buy Engine Components, sell on Planet Cambridge for $900 profit
Buy Beryllium from Battleship Norfolk in Cambridge, sell on Freiburg for $756 profit
You can also take Water from Cambridge to the battleship for an extra $6 profit.

Total round trip is 6 jumps plus 18 tradelanes, can be done in about 12 minutes for $38000 profit per minute in a Dromedary.

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Freiburg!
You want to kill us all in our Dromedary's and Humpbacks!

Yet another short-but-sweet route:

Optronics from Honshu to Ruiz. Two systems distance, $910 profit
Alien Organisms from Ruiz to Shinjuku. Three systems, $1000 profit (perishable)
Luxury Consumer Goods from Roppongi to Honshu. One system, $180 profit

Total round trip is about 15 minutes. About $40,000 profit per minute in a Drom, minus the perishable alien organisms.

Here's one of my faves - probably not the most profitable but not bad:

Buy boron on Pittsburgh for $120
Sell it on LD-14 for $960 - $840 profit per box.
For the return, buy ship hull panels at Stokes Mining and sell them at Baltimore Shipyard, just a hop away from Pittsburgh.

Now if you do it the "boring" way you'll do 40 waypoints each way taking you from NY through California, Cortez, Manchester, New London and into Leeds. There's a short cut - take the NY-Magellan jump gate then run across to the Leeds jump hole, and you come out just a short way from Planet Leeds and just a couple of minutes from LD-14. Quicker, and with the rogues and outcasts it keeps your blood pumping too.

Most of the "shortcut" jumps, including New York-Magellan, Magellan-Leeds, and New Berlin-Sigma-13, are only available in single player, and that after the campaign has ended. Of course the shortcut jumps let you do the higher-profit trade routes in less time. For sheer profit per minute, nothing comes close to the New Berlin-Yanagi Depot engine components/cardamine run. The bases are supposed to be two systems plus an offlane flight apart, and give profits commensurate with that, but that jumphole really short-circuits the balance. Cardamine from Mactan to Manhattan would also be abusive of the shortcut if there were anything worth taking on the return trip, and the various New York-Leeds trade routes heavily rely on that as well.

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My safe, short and easy trade route :

Houston buy Engine components 600/unit -> Los Angeles 974/unit = 374/unit

L.A buy Polymers 330/unit -> Denver 491/unit = 161/unit

Denver buy Optronics 467/unit -> Houston 770/unit = 303/unit


Net income for a full charge round trip in a :
- Rhino : 67040
- Drone : 146650
- Dromedary : 230450
- Humpback : 209500

works good

"If the milk turns out to get sour, I am not the kind of pussy to drink it !"

Buy Alien Organisms at Ruiz, then sell 'em at Cambridge research station.

Then go to cambridge, buy gold, and sell it at Tripoli shipyard.

Takes, like 30 minutes, but profit is around 800,000 in a Dromedary I think.

Crunched the numbers and you get 793,650.

Mod, prisoners at viennde 1000 each, crete 10000. in a humpback around 3mil