Best Cargo Trading for Beginners!

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parkel
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Best Cargo Trading for Beginners!

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**information taken from VSTrade, you can get it here: http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forum ... php?t=6286**

As most beginners would, they start off at a system named cephid 17 with 13500 cash with them. What to do? DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR SHIP!!!!! Trade cargo instead. Once you get the big buck, you can get better ships (either cargo vessel or fighter) and make more money or explore more of the universe!

For a cargo vessel, you might wanna choose a bigger one: plowshare.
Then if you feel like doing both bounty runs and cargo runs together, get a clydesdale!
Make more runs and make more money... :D

For the items listed below: the left side is the name of the item while the right side is the profit you make.
Items listed in blue are items which are not always available - patience is the key :P

Here are the items which are needed by the MiningBase (more profit to less profit) -
  • Automated Factories 5400002
    Factory Constructors 20000
    Construction Vehicles 18000
    Recycling Tanks 5000
    Landscaping Equipment 3324
    PreFab Buildings 880
    Erotica (OMG! - i don't believe this!) 130
    Pleasure Borgs 106
    Reinforced Rubber 56
    Sorir Lightstones 56
    Industrial Gemstones 56
    Jewels 56
    Diamonds 56

    Wines 20
    Recycled Electronics 19
    Halogen Gases 16
    Brandy 14
    Noble Gases 13
    Space Grog 12
    Holovids 11
    Spirits 11
    Games 10
    Musik (no idea why it isn't music instead) 10
    Books 10

    Musical Instruments 10
    Malt Beverages 9
    Astral Gases 8
    Atmospheric Gases 6
    Wood Boards 6
    Recycled Oil 6
    Recycled Metals 5
    Recycled Plastics 3
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Here are the items needed by Oceanic Planets -
  • Trilithium Crystals 480
    Anti Corrosives 424
    Corundum Crystals 420
    Dilithium Crystals 402
    Gold 376
    Rare Earths 367
    Quartz Crystals 300
    Alkali Metals 252
    Uranium 189
    Radium 140
    Base Metals 124
    Regen Tank 111
    Natural Sculptures 105
    Thorium 105
    Cryogenic Pods 76
    Hyposyringes 72
    Robotic Surgeons 72
    First Aid Kits 72

    Facing Stone 30
    Medical Kit 13
    DNA Resequencer 13
    Cellular Accelerant 13
    Pseudotherms 13

    Construction Stone 6
Thanks for your time to read the above... Hope it is not wasted. Pls leave any comments (and complaints alike) so that i can improve this thread..

TODO LIST
Add Colours [done]
Add Category for Each Item Listed
Last edited by parkel on Sun Jul 05, 2009 6:38 am, edited 2 times in total.
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parkel wrote:Erotica (OMG! - i don't believe this!) 130
Pleasure Borgs 106
Miners need some fun every once in a while, don't you think? xD
parkel wrote:Musik (no idea why it isn't music instead) 10
Cuz Musik's da thing in the future, 'yknow wut I mean homeboy?
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Re: Best Cargo Trading for Beginners!

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**Colours added.**

@MC707
I get wad u mean here. :D
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It works! :-) I have been making money faster than ever before! Although the profit amounts are not accurate. But thanks for the info! :-D
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Once you've got half a million credits under your belt I strongly suggest the following trade :

You'll need a system with both Arid and Oceanic.
Get "Rlaan Food" (Nutripack & Sustipacks) at Oceanic planets and sell them at Arid planets.

The price is not too high (140-150) but you'll fill up the Lamaa, make a decent (~70%) profit and the quantity (10000) is there to make up for the price. After a few runs I bought a plowshare that paid for itself in a single of these cargo runs.
Crash landing a 1000 ton ship is quite a ride, but it's an effective way to get attention.
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Re: Best Cargo Trading for Beginners!

Post by athomic1 »

Hey, don't for get these, under Industrial/Mining:

Atmospheric Scrubbers
Material Processors
Waste Recyclers

I don't have exact figures for you, but moving them from the fighter base and/or relay to the mining base will net you anywhere from 10 to 20K! It's worth a little side trip, now and again. :wink:

Actually, I thought at least some of these might be available at Atlantis, but I might be wrong...
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Rllan Gas Miners are some REALLY horney lonely drunken pervs...
Erotica 1600
Pleasure Borgs 1800
All of the specialty goods/entertainment items are around 3 times higher than on an asteroid mine, and Liquor is way higher as well, although the Rllan Gas Miners don't really go in for the exotic Uln or Confederate stuff. Ironically enough, as big a alchoholics as the Rllan are, I've never found any Rllan liquor for sale...
I can't remember how much the other Liquors went for, but wine sells there for 210.
They also pay 150 for livestock :shock: I don't EVEN want to know what they want THOSE for!!
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