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Crimson Harvest posted:lol check out the traffic report in Sothis: I feel sorry for those Vultures.
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Drake_263 posted:I told myself I'd stop when I can afford a T9, but I'm tempted to go for one last caper, help me! Shine posted:I feel sorry for those Vultures.
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Oct 17, 2015 09:15
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You're paying me 2 million credits to haul biowaste 400 light years? I'll take it.
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Oct 17, 2015 10:33
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We can buy imp ships without rank when the CG completes. Roughly 20mil for both the courier and clipper in stock configs.
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Oct 17, 2015 11:16
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SynthOrange posted:You're paying me 2 million credits to haul biowaste 400 light years? Biowaste will kill internal modules over time. Fly safe CMDR.
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Oct 17, 2015 11:18
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no_recall posted:Biowaste will kill internal modules over time. Fly safe CMDR. That's just toxic waste, isn't it? Biowaste in ED is described as being
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Oct 17, 2015 11:23
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SynthOrange posted:No... NO! Oh that's like less than 5 minutes. Go to Alpha Centauri, Hutton Orbital: 7,000,000 Ls away. That's reason to cry.
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Oct 17, 2015 12:47
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Major Isoor posted:(Unless I'm remembering wrong? Quite possible, as I don't normally like to haul those kinds of...goods in my cargo hold) If you aren't roleplaying a slave trader with moral misgivings about hauling poop, I don't know what you guys are doing in this game
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Oct 17, 2015 12:57
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Natsuumi posted:Oh that's like less than 5 minutes. 
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Oct 17, 2015 13:16
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Game needs those big rear end ship carrying cruise-liners from Dune on pre-set routes, the public transport option for tiny starships.
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Oct 17, 2015 13:16
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Make them jump in a route with you aboard for rapid transit and natural creation of high player-pop areas 
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Oct 17, 2015 13:27
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Anyone know of an imperial system like Sothis? Would be a great way to get imperial ranks while getting paid.
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Oct 17, 2015 13:30
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xiansi posted:Guy goes out exploring, runs out of fuel, calls the Fuel Rats, makes song about it: 
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Oct 17, 2015 13:41
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Okay, so I'm in a Hauler worth about 1,5M. What are my options for getting in on this Sothis poo poo? Good fit for the Hauler, switch to another ship, what?
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Oct 17, 2015 14:12
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You're not going to be making as much. Your cargo and range will be limited so you'll be making more fuel stops too.
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Oct 17, 2015 14:16
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If I get a bounty mission that says 4 targets, are they automatically in a wing or do I find them one at a time?
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Oct 17, 2015 14:20
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SynthOrange posted:You're not going to be making as much. Your cargo and range will be limited so you'll be making more fuel stops too. I figured, but is it doable and how long would it take to upgrade to that Cobra fit someone posted earlier at 2,3M?
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Oct 17, 2015 14:25
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I made the trip in a lovely cobra and made 13 million out of it. Just stuff a fuel scoop and cargo bays on it and zoom on out. Keep your engine power maxed and run away from all fights.
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Oct 17, 2015 14:27
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I got 8m credits for a single space weed smuggling mission from Sothis. poo poo is bananas. I've done two runs now and that's just shy of 40m credits.
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Oct 17, 2015 14:38
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This Sothis thing kind of sucks when every other jump takes literal minutes to load.
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Oct 17, 2015 14:41
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Wee Tinkle Wand posted:Anyone know of an imperial system like Sothis? Would be a great way to get imperial ranks while getting paid. Fehu.
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Jesus how did anyone even find that? Sothis at least has a trail of breadcrumbs.
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imatree posted:If I get a bounty mission that says 4 targets, are they automatically in a wing or do I find them one at a time? You can find targets either way. timn posted:This Sothis thing kind of sucks when every other jump takes literal minutes to load. I found playing in private had better load times for jumps.
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Oct 17, 2015 15:23
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When NPCs ask you to drop our of supercruize with them is it always a trap or do they buy your stuff?
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Oct 17, 2015 15:32
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It's usually to offer you an alternate delivery destination for a different faction and 99% less reward.
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Sekenr posted:When NPCs ask you to drop our of supercruize with them is it always a trap or do they buy your stuff? I don't think it's ever a trap, the hostile ones will attempt to interdict you, the ones that ask you to drop out to talk to them are offering an alternate drop off point, it's never worth it.
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SynthOrange posted:Jesus how did anyone even find that? Sothis at least has a trail of breadcrumbs. Since the deal with Sothis (and Fehu, I assume) is the distance to civilized space, you can easily find more systems like them on your own: Just play around with your map filters to find the few systems far away from the rest of the bubble.
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As of now, these are all the current Han Solo Routes (Smuggling Systems that pay well) I could find so far. So far, Fehu, Sothis and Canopus are great for gaining space ranks in space faction. Imperial Jurisdiction: Fehu Federal Jurisdiction: Sothis, Canopus Alliance Jurisdiction: I've been hearing there is one somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. It's entirely possible that it doesn't exist or isn't far enough to have a great pay day. Independent Jurisdiction: HIP 74290, Expihay There might be more, in the coming future because of the Pleiades Nebula CG. and might connect directly to Sothis to make a real run.
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I talked up Sothis to my friend and he headed out there in a DBX without actually asking me what to do Said the best smuggling mission he saw was intra-system He did not know to refresh the BB He bought a bunch of rare gold or something and then left sigh
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Adult Sword Owner posted:I talked up Sothis to my friend and he headed out there in a DBX without actually asking me what to do idk man. tbf, after 5 refreshes or so, the most i could get was two missions for 8-9 mil total, about half each. it took me about 2.5 hours round-trip in my Cobra with an A FSD including the endless witchspace glitch and stopping to fuel scoop the few OBAFGKM stars on my route to and from. i made a cool 1 mil on the rare gold for sale at sothis. not to look a gift exploit in the mouth but people on this forum are talking about bringing in 9-figure sums and my experience doesn't match that rate of dollarydoos-per-minute. knockout fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Oct 17, 2015 |
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deadlyrhetoric posted:idk man. tbf, after 5 refreshes or so, the most i could get was two missions for 8-9 mil total, about half each. It is a bit random but in an Asp you should be doing about 20-30m a run. Sometimes more. You can get on a bad streak of missions while refreshing though. If you have a low trader rank it might be more like 10-20m a run til you get that up but smuggling is the fastest way to raise it. As you get more trader ranks you get more higher paying missions with fewer refreshes. Try to save at least 10 tons of space for gold to sell at Skvortsov though, it helps DF a lot if several of us are doing that. Space Skeleton fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Oct 17, 2015 |
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If you want to make real money you need to be able to afford an Asp Explorer or something similar. You may need to refresh quite a few times if you want to cherry pick the better missions, I probably reset 30-50 times to make my $80 million run in my Python, though I was only a Merchant when I started. I found that when the board seemed to quit refreshing, shutting down the game and relaunching seemed to fix it. The endless hyperspace bug is pretty painful.
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Wee Tinkle Wand posted:It is a bit random but in an Asp you should be doing about 20-30m a run. Sometimes more. You can get on a bad streak of missions while refreshing though. If you have a low trader rank it might be more like 10-20m a run til you get that up but smuggling is the fastest way to raise it. thanks. do i need to sell the gold at mother goat to increase our influence? or anywhere under our control? i definitely want to upgrade to an asp but cargo space wasn't even an issue. with all of the mission cargo + rare gold, i was only at about 20T? i had about 6-10 missions open to me but the only high payout ones that i found were 2 for about 4 million spacebucks each. my trade rank is merchant, so i dont expect that to be a limiting factor. GaylordButts posted:I found that when the board seemed to quit refreshing, shutting down the game and relaunching seemed to fix it. The endless hyperspace bug is pretty painful. Thanks. Looks like I just need to be more patient when choosing. I'm pretty sure there's a saying about that...
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Wee Tinkle Wand posted:It is a bit random but in an Asp you should be doing about 20-30m a run.  Got interdicted five times, wound up boosting straight into the landing pad to beat the clock.quote:As you get more trader ranks you get more higher paying missions with fewer refreshes. 
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deadlyrhetoric posted:thanks. do i need to sell the gold at mother goat to increase our influence? or anywhere under our control? Sell it at stations DF controls, so Skvortsov.
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There's also 4 stations that can all give you missions: two in Sothis, one in Ceos and one in Robigo. If you can't get one in either stations in Sothis, pick one up at the other two systems and then travel back to Sothis to check the updated Bulletin Boards there.
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Newb again. So here's what I've gathered that I should be doing: 1) buy crystal gold from Sothis and sell it to Skvortsov to help DF 2) take smuggling missions from Sothis 3) sell exploration data to Skvortsov Anything else? And this mite b a dum quesh but refreshing the BB is as simple as back out, re-click?
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With 11-12 million you can make Shine's asp that can make the trip without having to refuel
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SciFiDownBeat posted:Newb again. So here's what I've gathered that I should be doing: You need a fairly well kitted ASP and a few good rebuys in the event you die to any random variable. Yeah, refreshing the board is essentially going into solo and the open to check the board over and over again. Edit: always go for missions that pay over 1.5m and the ones that have small cargo requests are usually your friend. keep in mind your trade rank will also determine how much you will make per smuggling run.
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