personally i find that the New tokyo to bretonia runs too lengthy for quick credits during the SP missions.

leeds to cambridge return run with two items yield about 90k with just two jumps and minimum danger of lane hacking from criminals. Less profit, but faster runs when you need 100k to 300k in less than 20mins.

I like the Roppongi Station (New Tokyo) --> Gate Construction Site (Tau-23) run, carrying gate construction parts. You make about $900 per unit. At the Gate Construction Site, you can buy Beryllium for around $300/unit, and score a profit of about $500/unit at Narita Outpost (New Tokyo), or around $600/unit if you're willing to make a few more jumps to Planet Honshu. Then it's back to Roppongi for more gate parts. Except in the Tau-23 system, as long as you haven't pissed off the Dragons or GCs, the route is pretty safe.

Edit: Should also mention that it's much faster if you find the hidden Tau-23 jumphole in the Kyushu system.

Cali Base in Tau-23 is also a very cheap place to get Cardamine.



Halcyon : I’ve got one more bit of intelligence to pass along to everyone. We believe Bhurak Starkiller may be in the system.
Angel : Bhurak Starkiller, sir?
Halcyon : He’s Kilrah’s hottest pilot in the Salthi light fighter.

Hehe, titbits.

Edited by - Bhurak Starkiller on 10-03-2003 08:56:23

I don't know where the gate construction site is =)
But that looks like a better route. The leeds to cambridge I don't know, if you make 100-300k in less than 20 mins, I'd rather spend an extra 5 mins and earn half a mill.

u cant beat my route!!1 one jump hole but a bit of attacks
new berlin - diamonds - go to yagani base (sigma 13) buy cardmine (spelling,that drug) and back to berlin to sell it

diamonds give you 300$ profit (buy 300 sell 600)
carmdine gives you 800$ (buy 500 sell 1300)

and it takes less the 5 min

and becuse the tradelane to berlin is so close and short even if the police catch you they wont do anything until you dock and then it too late for them

try it its the best!!! and in sigma 13 the abandoned fighters give you 10LVL weapons!!!!!

heres a really quick trade route, go to the station in kepler (forget the name) and buy engine parts, then take them to planet denver in the previous system... this make you about $300 profit and you are only travelling 1 system

my route is better

kessel run in under 6 parsecs... beat that!

-haze

kessel run in 4 parsecs, I'm Han's bigger brother, darth vader, meet my wife chewbaca, and my son Obiwanna Wackoff.... soo tired

Ship: Humbpack
Resistance: Very minimal, VERY VERY minimal, a beginner can make this run any day
Time: 30-45 minutes if you have all your jump holes open, if not takes about 1hour the long way.

Goods/Routes:

Boron/Planet Manhatten ($192 * 250 = 48000) -> LD-14 ($900 * 250 = 225000) = $177k profits
Mox/LD-14 (~$155??) -> New London (~$350-400??) = Usually yields $100-150k in profits.. can't remember the exacts
since this is just a run I do on my way to New London which is the bigger run.
Luxury Foods/New London($172 * 250 = 43k) -> Planet Manhatten ($1200 * 250 = $300k) = 257k profits.

Quick Route if you have your jump holes open..

Manhatten to Magellan Jump hole (in the badlands)
Magellan -> New London jump hole there and from new london to LD-14. (or does that jump hole go directly to leeds?)
I've played this game so much and have so many trade routes I don't remember exacts I just mark way points now
and go...

But this by far is the easiest/highest yielding route for beginners and is still almost worthwhile in ratio to time.

I got an easy route with some resistence but well worth the profits. I did this one in a few ships: the rhino, startracker and drake. Only died a few times. The key to this route is outrunning the lane hackers if you use the ships ive listed above. It should take only 30-60 minutes to complete the whole run.

New Berlin, buy diamonds for $300 or so per unit, go to manhatten, sell diamonds for $1200 per unit.
From there, travel to detroit munitions and load up on light arms for $140 or so per unit. head to the shi.***u system (sorry for the period, but it will get edited if i dont use it.) and head to deshima station. sell light arms there for $500 or so per unit. Next head out to planey kyushu and buy nobium for $300 per unit, then head to new berlin and sell the nobium for $1300 per unit.

Now I know that this is a newb run, and that the profits arent that high, but the ROI for me is fairly lower because im using light fighters. Also when u hit the f6 key to set a coure, if you just go to the galaxy view ad find new berlin and set a waypoint for it, you nav ai will take you on an extremly handy short cut, it takes like 20-30 minutes off of the return trip. Instead of going through liberty space, it only takes you through two more kusari systems, then through only two systems and u will b in rheinland space in no time.



"That which does not kill me only makes me stronger."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

well i found a nice short route worth pleanty ok $ if you fancy a trip in to the murky world of Artifact smuggleing, A short 20k hop from berlin loaded up with engine parts to the YAnagi base in sigma 13 will run you some sweet profits and the return journey with artifacts is even sweeter. I clocked over $700,000 with this nice short hop

My favourite route at the moment.
New Berlin: Diamonds for 396$ to New Tokyo 1650$.
On the way back: Niobium from New Tokyo to the Ring.

Emperus

Manhattan (HFeul) => Detroit Munitions
Detroit Munitions (Light Arms) => Montezuma Base
Montezuma Base (Cardamine) => Manhattan

The round trip is 20 minutes. You can do it in your starflier. None of the other trade routes even come close. See my spoiler thread "Class 10 ship in 2 hours and 49 minutes" if you have any doubts. Any other route is just a waste of time =)

While that very well might be the best and efficent way, I personally feel that something a bit more complex, say (A to B to C to D to E to A again) feels more satisfying with different scenery as well.