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#4056845 - 12/28/14 04:18 PM Useful trading tips  
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Feel free to post your useful trading tips in here.

Someone out there in netland made a very nice overview of where to buy and sell the different commodities, but it was a bit unwieldy to try to print out so I sat down and created this list which gives you a rough overview of where to buy and sell things:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32562482/Elite%20Dangerous%20Commods.pdf

Other useful tips people have?

#4056867 - 12/28/14 05:13 PM Re: Useful trading tips [Re: EAF331 MadDog]  
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Nice list, thank you (for both your effort and sharing it). thumbsup


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#4056980 - 12/29/14 12:04 AM Re: Useful trading tips [Re: EAF331 MadDog]  
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Google Elitetradingtool.


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#4057336 - 12/29/14 07:32 PM Re: Useful trading tips [Re: EAF331 MadDog]  
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thanks!

Those minerals like Gallite,Coltan an so on, that you are suppose to buy on extraction stations, are easy to get by mining?. Because i often find some good mission if i can supply them, but i find very dificult to find them.
Usually i have to end up doing four to six jumps to get them, if i´m lucky.


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#4057629 - 12/30/14 02:07 PM Re: Useful trading tips [Re: EAF331 MadDog]  
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Figure out where you can get those minerals before taking the mission and how close they are to your bread and butter runs. I have a tobacco run that nets 75k, then berylium, that nets 150k then back to the starting point with marine equipment that nets 80k. This takes about 40 minutes since I upgraded FSD and can now jump19.5ly with 100t unarmed but finally shielded Lakon 6. Got tired being rear ended in the spacestation. I've found a good supply of minerals on Kohl Station in the Liaedin system. It's one jump out of my way when doing my triangle. I've now got a 2mill lakon 6 and 3 mil in the bank and looking to arm my Lakon 6 to the point where I can go back online and defend myself from pirates. Solo get's boring. Any tips on best weapons mix for the Lakon 6.

Another lesson learned, free this time. I finally bought a shield generator for my Lakon 6. 100t gold in the cargo hold. I get transported to the flightdeck for a launch. My engine does not start. Ok, must be a bug(nope). So, I save the game, and restart. Next thing I know is I'm outside of the station, floating in space, engines off and losing cabin presure fast. I'm pissed, 800 thousand in gold plus the insurance premium on the hull are about to be vaporized. Think, what might be the problem, 2 minutes before I am out of air. What's different? The shield generator! Turned the shield generator off on the right module screen...30 seconds left before ejection. It worked! The shield generator was too much for the engines. Upgraded the engines and alls well.

Last edited by BigC208; 12/30/14 05:23 PM.

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#4057839 - 12/30/14 10:11 PM Re: Useful trading tips [Re: EAF331 MadDog]  
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I'm currently hanging out around Alcor and the Alliance capital, planning on working some missions there - but I'm tempted to head back to one of the SimHQ systems and run the trade route I discovered there - which netted like 250k per round trip with a 104 ton Lakon 6.


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