Try the route from Fort Bush to Baltimore Shipyard and back. A full round trip takes less than two minutes and you can earn $32,000,000 per run - about $1,000,000,000 per hour - if you do this in a Large Transport or a Heavy Lifter.

what do you sell form fort bush and bring to baltiomore to make that money i dont see it

Mentioning the goods would be a spoiler and thus inappropriate for this forum; however, Fort Bush and Baltimore Shipyard do not sell many commodities, and once you have been to both bases it should be easy to see what the best trade is.

Of course, you will earn a little less per run than the numbers I mentioned if you do not have the necessary funds or if your ship does not have enough cargo space to hold 1,000,000 units.

For a very profitable *UNMODDED* route that is good at the start, try taking your starflier down to Pittsburg. Sell your weapons (you wont need them) and your nanos (batts are better) and load up on Boron. Next stop will be LD14 or Stokes in Leeds system. The run takes about 20 minutes and is extremely dangerous but with your load of 20 boron you can make about 60K profit.

By close I assume you mean close to Manhattan..

200k for 5-6 minutes, medium risk

try this: Get a freighter, no weapons needed.
fly to new berlin, buy engine-parts and fly to the brandenburg-tradelane.
fly next to it (dont use it) all the way down untill you find a jumphole. it leads to sigma 13, get in there. if you already got it on your map you can use the lane of course.
arrived there, turn right and wait for a chain to light up the scenery. look for a base called yanagi-depot. dock (if friendly, its owned by junkers).
sell the engine-parts and buy cardamine and counter dropper. (better some shield batterys too, at your way back you might be attacked).
fly back to the hole (press at the menu where you see the enemys, "all" and look for the "new berlin jump hole" its hard to find) get back.
back in new berlin system look for the new-berlin jump gate. fly there, and if the hessians atack you, start your cruise engine, drop a counter every 5 seconds and hope there missiles dont hit you.
if you made it to berlin, dock as fast as possible. drugs are illegal, but normally they dont check you, and if they do, youll have enough time to land.

do this 5 times and youll have 1 million credits with the humpback.

you re a joker !!!

best profit for

fort bush => baltimore shipyard : pharmaceutical = $41 profit per units (max 275 units)

baltimore shipyard => fort bush : scrap metal = $2 profits per units (max 275 units)


so you cannot make lots of money with that route !!!

New Berlin[Engine components > Leeds [Diamonds/Mining machinery, can't remember which > Cambridge [see leeds > Leeds > New berlin worked for me.

Hmmm. looking at that it's a bit low on detail, and i may even have Cambridge and Leeds the wrong way round...such is life!

Speaking of trading, where is the cheapest Cardamine base?

1. From New Tokyo fill up with H-fuel (120) or Pharmaceuticals (216) - Take the trade lane to Kyushu then to the Tau23 jumphole - dock at Java station, sell the lot - H-fuel (419) Pharmaceuticals (480) Than take the jumphole to Tau 37 - go to Falkland base and mine Niobium (Hit rate 80-90%) back to New Tokyo - sell Niobium (512) - repeat. Risky cause every bandit tries to rob you - don’t hang about - hit shift-w as soon as you clear the jumphole and set course while moving. Got to be friendly with the outcasts - or at least neutral or they will be all over you like a rash
2. Optical chips from New Tokyo to Essen Station - less risk but longer. I have never had anyone try to rob me on this trip, seems optical chips are not a cargo anyone wants.

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A really good route I've found is between New Tokyo and Freeport6. You stay in the Northern areas of the universe map and the potential cargo thieves can be dispached easily with a loaded Humpback. You get consumer goods for $107 per unit at New Tokyo and sell them at Freeport6 for $390, then you get Niobium at FR6 for $287 and sell at New Tokyo for $512. In a Humpback you can net $127,000 in a round trip. For a brave person, try going to Vogtland base and getting diamonds for $285 and selling at New Tokyo for $1650. A run like that will net you $341,250 in a Humpback. You may not want to try it in a Dromedary, it's a tough route and you need some good weapons to get past some areas. If you aren't on neutral terms with the Red Hessians, don't bother trying since that base is controlled by them and they will likely lay some heavy smackdown on you before you even find the base.

tokyo --> new berlin is a good one..

freeport n at tau n hauling alien org to cambridg reasearch station is very profitable (but do it really fast as the org is perishable)

Two of the 4 most profitable routes that I've found to be pure profit.Selling luxury consumer goods from Roppongi in New tokyo TO Ainu depot,Hokkaido which should give a quick 175,000 profit & Returning with Cardimine to Roppongi gives another 100,000 in profit using a Dromedary.

Another route is selling Gate lane parts from Roppongi to the Tau 23 gate construction site which should give an estimated 250,000 in profit.


The most profitable of all however is no doubt mining for diamonds in the Dresden system & selling it on new tokyo which is by far the most profitable trade run with over 450,000 credits in pure profit using a dromedary & coming back with Niobium from New tokyo to Leipzig which would give another 300,000 in credits however you'd have to be neutral at least with the Brunshuch & Red hessians in the Dresden system in order to mine peace fully not to mention the Corsairs going through the Sigma systems since you'll definitely encouter many a Centurion on your way back & forth

Well, actually, the most profitable legal trade route (no cardamine or alien stuff) is niobium runs. You buy at Falkland Base and sell at Leipzig Station. Costs $160, sells for $1600. Long trip though.

, try taking your starflier down to Pittsburg. Sell your weapons (you wont need them) and your nanos (batts are better) and load up on Boron. Next stop will be LD14 or Stokes in Leeds system. The run takes about 20 minutes and is extremely dangerous but with your load of 20 boron you can make about 60K profit.

before you go to pittsburg load up on water to double your prifits first of

Edited by - Aenur on 28-05-2003 14:16:54

One of the best trade routes is an in-system one from Ronneburg to Cadiz in Omega-5 i think. I forgot which goods, but you make around 400 profit round trip. (see the Cargo computer) However, There is a mine field in the middle of the two bases so you gotta be careful. Also Hessians and corsairs are each others worst enemies, but you can get neutral with both of them