Alright, I'll admit that the Manhattan-Mactan trade route is probably the best overall.... but how does one go about getting faction with Lane Hackers?

--Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

Destroy the storage bins near Manhattan...when it gets red and your done destroying quickly go to detriot mutaions and when you come back it will be green or neurtal again...or if u kill 6 police when you have a new character you will be neutral to rouges, outcasts, and hackers.

The best route is: from Planet Houson in the Texas system buy diamonds about 875$ and sell them in Hamburg, then in Hamburg buy Hand Weapons for 275$ and sell them back in Houston for 1200$ and it's also very fast so ... you do the math...

Mines better =p

There's always the Planet Manhatten to New London (consumer luxury goods). Buy Luxury meats on New London and return the Manhatten...



Merc for hire...but only if you can afford it.

A fairly good trade route for before you get jump access is: H-Fuel from Battleship Missouri, sell at West Point, buy water, sell at Norfolk Shipyard, buy Toxic Waste, sell at Battleship Missouri. It brings in about 1000 creds in a Starflier if you can afford a full load. I know it's not the best trade route ever but for making some fairly fast cash in New York it's acceptable.

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I want Freelancer 2!

Something I found out completely by accident that I've checked for on here: it's a very very short route and can be done legitimately.

Start on planet leeds. There's a ship dealer on Planet Harris in the adjacent Tau-31 system that will sell you a Humpback, so get it. If not that, a Dromedary if you can. Buy all the pharmaceuticals you can, then launch, take the Tau-31 jumpgate and sell them at the Holman Outpost. Buy a cargohold-full of Niobium and head back to leeds, and sell it at Stokes Mining station. Each run takes me 9 minutes 10 seconds in a humpback and about 9 minutes in a clylesdale.

Assuming you have a humpback:
Pharmaceuticals - 239x250= 59,750
- 400x250= 100,00
Profit - 40,250
Niobium - 320x250= 80,000
- 640x250= 160,000
Profit - 80,000
Total Spent: 139,750
Total Income: 260,000
Total Profit: 120,250

Considering you can make half this in a clylesdale mid-storyline, it's not too shabby. With a dromedary it's a very decent way of making money as an ended-story freelancer. Enjoy!

Oh and I never used the new tokyo-new berlin route because my game errors - I can never take off from tokyo because the game crashes windows. I just have to avoid it and/or delete my savegame.

The best route in the game. Full stop.

1: Planet New Berlin (buy Engine Components) > Sigma-13 Jump Hole
2: New Berlin Jump Hole > Yanagi (sell Engine Components, buy Cardamine)
3: Yanagi > New Berlin Jump Hole
4: Sigma-13 Jump Hole > Planet New Berlin (sell Cardmine, return to step 1)

This route is very quick because the jump holes are so close to the base in their system.

edit- fixed stupid :p at 1: Planet New...

Edited by - Sybot on 12/29/2005 3:13:35 PM

1, Buy niobium on Falkland Base (Tau-37)
2, Sell it on Leipzig Station (Dresden)
3, Fly to Planet New Berlin then buy there diamonds
4, Sell it on Planet New Tokyo