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Spent the last two or three days faffing around in an Eagle, trading, scanning and running cargo missions. Finally got my Adder and now spending time in my old Frontier haunts of Vequess and Cemiess. Decided to take a break as my landings were becoming ever more iffy... :D

Trading is a painful slog.
 
I did a couple of rare runs last night in my Adder. Never done them before. about 80 jumps for each run, need better range! I got interdicted three times but managed to jump away before too much damage was taken though only had 11% left when I limped into one of my stations.

Holy ****, I made enough to buy a Cobra and kit it out to an ok standard. I think I might do it again tonight but now with lots more cargo space :)

Having my laptop next to me playing tv shows makes things a lot less boring on these long runs.
 
tbh said:
Link isn't working, grats though!

Now get back to civilisation and get that baby registered before someone beats you to it!
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grrrr


Here we go,

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Only just set off, 2 days into a month long trip. The risk I take :)
 
I found a system on my first night playing with twin orbiting Earth-likes. Didn't realise they were rare or I'd have screenshotted it! I think there was a 3rd one in that system as well.
 
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does anyone have a guide handy for how the in-game chat system works under 1.2 ?

its very confusing, all I can seem to muster is talking to 'local', the old system seems to have been blown away.
 
so i just had enough to buy the space cow and fit out with an A class FSD.

I had a minor squeaky bum moment realizing that my full loaded with 500t, I was 130 k under the rebuy cost.... happy to say i made it safely with a 870k profit for that leg of the trip..
 
wow were are you getting that amount of profit for one run? best I can find is 715k for one leg, the return leg is normally much less at 500k

Just tell me and no one else or we will have all the hoi polloi ruining the run :D
 
I have been flying around the resource extraction site getting credits together for the move up from my viper.

Now that I have sorted out the hyperspace jump black screen issue, what is the best upgrade for cargo/defence
 
I've got a T6 with 104 cargo space, and I'm getting around 110k profit from one station to the next, literally 4ly away, and on the return getting around 60k profit, is this a good route?

I'm reading the guys directly above making 700-800+k profits, but I'm wondering how long these legs are and how long it takes overall.
 
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I have been flying around the resource extraction site getting credits together for the move up from my viper.

Now that I have sorted out the hyperspace jump black screen issue, what is the best upgrade for cargo/defence
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If you want cargo and defence, get an ASP. You can rock 56T of cargo, jump 21ly, have 6 weapon hardpoints and 4 utility, and more internal slots than you can shake a stick at all at the same time. Over 100T cargo if you want to go on a serious trading binge, or you could have 4 shield cell banks, 2 point defense, 1 chaff, and a shield booster and go to war.

Quite a versatile beast. The alternative is a Vulture, which is like a big boy's viper but slower and then just get a type 6 for cargo runs on the side.
 
ravl585 said:
I've got a T6 with 104 cargo space, and I'm getting around 110k profit from one station to the next, literally 4ly away, and on the return getting around 60k profit, is this a good route?

I'm reading the guys directly above making 700-800+k profits, but I'm wondering how long these legs are and how long it takes overall.
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it's all scale, it's because i have 5 times the cargo space that you


so for me I the minimum I look for is 2.5 k per ton profit, that are close to the max jump range for the craft. T9 i would look for 2 but within 20 LY of each other. round trip time is under 10 - 15 mins.. i never use the trade tools, and frankly anything you find on there will be annihilated.

when i was in a t6, i was still running rares, but back filling with cargo. i post a rares route spreadsheet in this thread some where..
 
Save up for a python the ship that does it all :)

272t Cargo if you want (with shields)

Or a more sedate 216t trading/killing machine.

I tried 5 max slots pulse lasers last night all on the same firegroup, mucho fun :)
 
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