Trade routes

    I´m an opportunist who prefers to blow NPCs up and sell their cargo. Yeah I know trading is far more lucrative blah blah but this is the way I like to play it <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> A couple of VHFs have large enough cargo holds to make the pirating+trading combo viable, e.g. the Hydra Corvette. The new systems have an obscenely profitable prisoner run, though. &quot; In Defeat, Malice; In Victory, Revenge! &quot;

    I, too, am more of a fight-´em´and-sell(or mount and use <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>)the-loot kind of pilot. Fighting a couple wings of Bounty Hunter Firesprays and Hammerheads yields some pretty juicy loot (Reaver II´s, Buckshots, those lvl10 shields, nice Missiles, &amp; typically plenty of commodities). And needless to say, fighting some Corsair and Outcast VHF can give you some Verrry nice equipment - Tizona del Cid, Salamanca II and III´s, Wyrms, and awesome Shield Generators. Red Hessians will cough up some of the best missiles and mines in the game - Cannonballs ($12k apiece), and Screamer and Cutter mines) - and their Millennium Falcons sport some very expensive Shields. I would say doing this with a Hydra or Hawkeye MkII is the most lucrative way of a-prowlin´ - what, with enormous cargo space, you can tractor in ALL of the loot, then sell it at whichever base pays the top dollar. Just buying up a cargohold-full of commodities and trudging to another base -- please, spare me the anguish and deadly boredom <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> nah, it´ll work, but where´s the fun in it?

    the easiest HIGH profit run i´ve found i niobium from falkland to atreaus foundry medium to high risk but huge profit When did I realise I was god, well I was praying and I realised I was Talking to Myself

    When did I realise I was god, well I was praying and I realised I was Talking to Myself

    atreaus foundry is in orbit around des moines in the iowa system When did I realise I was god, well I was praying and I realised I was Talking to Myself

    When did I realise I was god, well I was praying and I realised I was Talking to Myself

    It depends on what kind of guns you like. I like fast ones (projectile speed at least 700kps), not fast refiring ones (reload rate). I also don´t have any &quot;preferred&quot; setup, I change guns a lot. My current loadout is a quark cannon, 2 pulsar cannons, 2 LAAG tachyon guns, and a warhammer. It is possible to mount the Naginata forward guns on the Hawkeye´s lvl 10 turrets (cough), but firing those kinda takes huge chunks out of your energy. I have two installed (you can fit three), one is tied to my regular attack guns while the other I save for emergencies. You´ll need a PowerPlant Upgrade 5 to be comfortable. You can fit (just barely) a Balistner capship powerplant (100k output, 10k recharge) in your Hawkeye and that´ll probably allow you to mount and fire three Naginata guns, but you´ll have like zero extra storage. I did the SP campaign with this setup lol. I even destroyed the battleships that ambush you in Alaska, but nooo, Walker has to insist on sacrificing his cruiser. Man they oughtta have made the SP campaign branching, like in the Wing Commander games. P.S. This is also why I want this ship downgraded, lol. I mean, the specs are just insane. &quot; In Defeat, Malice; In Victory, Revenge! &quot;

    Yeah they are, should be classed as a very small battleship, also, where do i get a ballistner power plant? or the ship itself? My life just flashed before my eyes, and it was rather boring. Edited by - freighter fighter on 4/27/2004 2:25:31 AM

    The ship is in the Earth Alliance system. I don´t exactly remember but it´s not on the nameless station orbiting Jupiter. It should be either on Moon Base, Earth, Mars, or Mercury. You can´t buy just the powerplant, it´s a package deal <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> The other ships on that base were not to my taste either (another capship and a so-so VHF I think), but it only took me a very short flight (one trade lane away) to buy a decent (read: flyable) VHF, most likely a Hydra Corvette. Then fly that to Iowa station to transfer the loot to the Hawkeye MkII. Don´t forget to stop by that station orbiting Jupiter either, to buy the 3x lvl 10 shields for the Hawkeye MkII (a dollar short of $10 million each I think). The Naginata guns are on Earth I think, and the PowerPlant Upgrade V just in case you have second thoughts about the Balistner. Oh yeah... bring along a whole bunch of money -- you´ll burn through the stuff like it´s going out of style. When you´re done you´ll be a heck of a lot poorer. Hee hee. Edit: I forgot, this doesn´t include the guns. Ha! Have fun scrimping up the dough. I just realized I make more money in this game than I´ll ever see in real life T__T &quot; In Defeat, Malice; In Victory, Revenge! &quot; Edited by - Trucidation on 4/27/2004 6:12:31 AM

    Heh, i always am shocked at how easy it would be to make money in a game like this, imagine if it where real <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> anyway, where can i get level 10 kusari hyper photon blasters?

    The Sun research base thing (I forget its name) by Manhatten is a great early credit gathering dog fight place! Go in there with a large cargo hold and a semi decent ship and clean up large... Some Outcasts have hold fill og Cardimine too, so a quick drop off at Manhatten and your in the Money, any Priates caputed off to the prison station...

    I tend to use the ´kill and loot´ philosophy. However, at one point in time, I wanted to try out the Leviathan, and then the Damocles. Looting 87,000,000 was gonna take too long. Lucky me, I am also explorative in nature. Buy Niobium on earth and sell at a station in the southern region of Dresden. This will cost you 160 per unit and you will sell for 2k per unit. So, every thousand slots in your cargo bay is 2 million credits in your pocket at each run. I would suggest the container ship. It is as slow as sin, but it has as much cargo space as most cap ships and is cheap as hell. The good news is that the AI seems to think you are some kind of cap ship, because I have had entire wings of pirates break and run as I dropped out of the trade lane. As soon as you can afford a cap ship, go with that, because then you will be a merchant to be reconed with. Great! I´m a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana! -Alex Rogan, The Last Starfighter

    Great! I`m a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana! -Alex Rogan, The Last Starfighter