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Best SHORT Trade Routes?

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Post Wed Mar 05, 2003 10:53 pm

Best SHORT Trade Routes?

I'm sick of those half hour trips & getting attacked at every j-hole.

What are the best short routes you've found??

Post Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:40 pm

LA-Freeport 4, 2 lanes, 1 jumpgate, most time in liberty space, 100k each run.8 minutes per run (including way back)

Freeport 9 > Cambridge is aswell nice, 3 systems, 1600 per unit

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 12:18 am

Which products are you selling at each end?
Daddyo

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 1:10 am

la-freeport 4 is engine components
freeport 9 > cambridge are alien organismen

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 3:35 am

Caradmine from Yanagi Depot (Sigma13) through the nearby jumphole to New Berlin

Just one jump, but about 1000$ profit for each caradmine unit.

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 5:07 am

Best early game route:

diamonds from cambridge to new london
lux goods from new london to cambridge. only a jump and two lanes apart.

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 7:21 am

The best trade route I've found is this one:

Diamonds New Berlin ( 396 ) to New Tokyo ( 1650 ); Optical Chips New Tokyo ( 88 ) to New Berlin ( 400 ). Using a 250-cargo Humpback and the Sigma 13 jump hole ( Sigma 13 5C <-> New Berlin 5E ), you can pull in a 393,000 credit profit in under 20 minutes. I've timed the round trip repeatedly, and every time I finish it in 18-20 minutes, including the occasional lane hack or jumpgate queue.

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:24 am

The best traderoute i've found is a bit of a tricky one because you have to find the Rogue base Dawson in the Hudson system, its in the middle of a asteroid field in SP they probably are hostile to you, but i use this one in MP where i am neutral with them....

I timed the traderoute with my stopwatch, and it included a tradelane interuption, and total time was 5 min 14 sec, so its pretty short.

Go to hamburg, buy Light Arms for 391, and then take the two tradelanes and hte jumpgate to the hudson system, then head into the asteroid field to your right, after 25K of flying you will arrive at the Dawson base, dock there and sell your light arms for 770. I did it with a humpback, made 93K every run, and I saved up to buy a titan now =)

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 11:30 am

I'll just post my tip then:

Diamonds at $396 from New Berlin --> New Tokyo at 1650 (profit $313.5k)

Niobrium at $512 from New Tokyo --> The Ring (New Berlin space station) at 1400 (profit ~$220k).

Running this route a few times will give you a million quite fast. I suggest using the Humpback.

Running for total safety and comfort, you can run Gate / Lane parts from Roppongi Base to Chugoku Gate construction thingie. It'll take a while, but gives a profit of about $130k per run without any baddies whatsoever (as long as you're on neutral terms with the Blood Dragons, which should be by default).

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 12:11 pm

Is there a map online where i can see where all the jumpholes are, i cant find the Sigma 13 hole nor do i know where to look for it

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:04 pm


Diamonds New Berlin ( 396 ) to New Tokyo ( 1650 ); Optical Chips New Tokyo ( 88 ) to New Berlin ( 400 ). Using a 250-cargo Humpback and the Sigma 13 jump hole ( Sigma 13 5C <-> New Berlin 5E ), you can pull in a 393,000 credit profit in under 20 minutes. I've timed the round trip repeatedly, and every time I finish it in 18-20 minutes, including the occasional lane hack or jumpgate queue.



Evil Timmy, perhaps it would be better to find a cargo that you could make a profit from New Tokyo to the Junker base by the jump hole in Sigma 13. That way you can make an artifact run from the Junkers to New Berlin at a profit of 800 per cargo unit. Since the junker base is only 6k distance from the jumphole, you'll only be spending another 30 seconds or a minute longer.

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 3:28 pm

Not as of yet. I recommend picking up the guide for the game though. Pretty good as it contains maps of the systems and their prospective jump nodes. It also has a nice commidity section detailing the cheapest locations up to the best places to sell stuff

Post Thu Mar 06, 2003 8:07 pm

For all of you running diamonds out of the New Berlin system, you might try Dresden as an origin point. Baunten Station (spelling? It is one lane down from the gate) has them at 330. and If you have access to Vogtland Base, they got them for 285. Or, you can hang out in Dresden and mine them for free but we were talking speed here, right

Post Fri Mar 07, 2003 9:04 am

do the diamonds from new berlin to new tokyo, but on your way back stop at yangi base (I think it's called that, the junker base in Sigma-13) and buy artifacts at 350 apiece- smuggle them back to New Berlin- the jump hole from sigma-13 leaves you really close to a trade lane, less than one jump from new berlin, so you can usually avoid the cops scanning you...

Jet

Post Fri Mar 07, 2003 12:42 pm

Since the sigma13 jump to berlin doesn't work in MP this is what I did.

Get neutral with Corsairs, then go to Cadiz in Omega 5. Bribe in the bar to get green with Corsairs (so they don't try to hijack you).

In Cadiz Omega 5, buy pharmaceuticals for 335.
Go to Leon Omega 41, sell for 719.
Go back, repeat.

Takes me just over 5minutes (~50k cruise flight, thats it), 105k profit in dromedar, ~1k in repairs due to radiation so about 1.2 million in an hour profit.

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