All depends on your factions.

Well, I've done a good job of pissing off a lot of the crime factions. I think the Xenos are the only ones not out to get me. Had to do some missions to get some credits. Also pissed off a few of the shipping factions from piracy. Although, they're not to the point where I can't land at their bases and they don't attack me. (some of the merchants are too tempting just sitting there all fat and heavy with H-fuel. )

I know that prolly the most risky (not dangerous) trade route is to buy Alien Artifacts in omicron Gamma and then try to get them to manhattan... make loads of cash doing that, but you will be jumped by almost everybody.

Without taking contraband into account, the trade route I usually run is diamonds from New Berlin to New Tokyo, and niobium from New Tokyo to The Ring (in orbit of New Berlin).

This route goes through Sigma 13, so you can get jumped by Corsairs, Hessians, etc in short order and it can get real ugly. However, with a Humpback (250 holds) I can make over $500,000 round trip. That covers the cost of shield batteries nicely.

if your a good person then going anywhere near the border worlds can get intresting

also dromedary > humpback

I've been playing on the Freelancer Central server. However, it appears they've decided to set it to a password protected server. Pisses me off, because I was up pretty high (using the clydesdale) and I know that I could've made some of those routes... So, hopefully it was a one time thing lastnight and it'll be open to all tonight.