On Trading (Gaming)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, August 05, 2016, 17:26 (3032 days ago) @ Kahzgul

Also, another Pro-tip. Join the Merchant's Guild ASAP (10,000 cR for membership, but worth the investment). They have Resource-based jobs that pay really well early on (There was an Intellectual Property mission asking for 7 IPs. I bought them for cheap at that very same station (around 9,ooo total), and delivered them to another station for 29,000 cR. A tidy profit).

Also, buy Alien Artifacts if they're way below Average price. I've seen them go as low as half value, and merchants that you run into can pay more than Average for them. Most profitable resource that I've seen so far.

I'm the premiere Living Tissues smuggler in the system. There are two sets of two worlds less than 30 second apart from each other. One system sells living tissues in each pair (not many, like 1-3 of them). But you can buy them for as low as 4k and unload them for as much as 18k each. I got into a spot where a war broke out on one system and a celebration on another, so i was able to make about 200k in ten minutes of back and forth trading. Not enough for a barracuda (that ship does look sick though), but I think I may buy a frigate that holds more goods in the meantime. I've been making so much money trading that I have stopped even bothering with missions at all.

You should probably look into getting the Turath (Merchant Guild-exclusive ship). It costs just under 79k, and while it doesn't pack a huge punch in combat, it has a base Hold size of 24(!).
I've been wary of contrabands. The only time that I picked up slaves (accidentally salvaged them from an enemy vessel), I dropped them off the first chance that I could. My paths tend to cross far too many military convoys.

Oh yeah, and it's not so simple as "fly here, buy that, fly there, sell that." Every few jumps I get either attacked by pirates (more than one capital ship = RUN!) or a passing militia fleet detects my contraband cargo and hails me. "What's that, I'm sorry, I'm getting static. You've detected what now? Psst... Pilot... Engage warp speed. Engage warp speed NOW!"

I really enjoy how exciting the simple trading game can be.

Yeah. I read a review where the guy was talking about how he didn't really enjoy spending time mining or trading, and was grateful that they weren't mandatory... But those are my favorite aspects of the game (although mining isn't so lucrative for me right now).