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DemaeRamen
Joined: 06 Mar 2004
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The least I could do. To be sure. Quite.
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bendyspex
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun, 6. Nov 05, 21:44 Post subject: |
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Another suggestion thanks to my ever expanding empire.
A solar power plant in Home of Light
This sector already has 3 crystal fabs, and no solar power plant. Although there are SPP in Ore Belt, if you set your prices low all the ships will flock to your station. Currently I have 1 Mercury buying crystals, and the factory does very well with other people buying E-cells for 14 credits.
Although pirates occasionally stray into the sector, the titan deals with them quickly (but not quietly  ). Although SPP cost almost 5 million credits, they do make a lot more e-cells, and a lot quicker.
Hope that helps 
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AsterXiphos
Joined: 26 Jul 2004
Posts: 140 on topic
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| Posted: Sun, 6. Nov 05, 21:52 Post subject: |
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There are plenty of smugglers in the pirate sectors (I chose Split Fire, plenty of traffic) . . . just get a frieght scanner and patrol one of the gates, checking every frieghter that comes by, and you'll get enough pirates to keep you busy. Be sure to have your own frieghter nearby to pick up dropped cargo - there will be a lot!
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Silpion
Joined: 19 Sep 2003
Posts: 91 on topic
Location: Germany
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| Posted: Mon, 7. Nov 05, 12:58 Post subject: |
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During a certain time in the plot, capping ships of a specific race is possible without further penalty. Split Fire is an excellent sector for doing this.
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kahnindustries
Joined: 10 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Mon, 7. Nov 05, 13:24 Post subject: |
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Heres a tip for Complex bases.
Before you set one up ensure that the sector has both ore and silicon mines As these are the only true resource in the game.
You get NOTHING out of a base that consists of
Silicon Mine
Crystal Fab
Solar Station
You get wheat out of
Silicon Mine
Crystal Fab
Solar Station
Wheat farm
Cattle Ranch
Cahoona Bakery
But this is where this set up pays off
Add to it an ore mine and rhimes fact
you can sell
Wheet, Ore and Rhimes
Do that for a bit with 3 transports.....OR
Add pretty much any high level stations you want, and as many as you want...
Mine is currently churning out Mosquito's, Firefly's, Warheads and Space fuel.
No money goes out of the complex and ALOT goes in
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simulcra
Joined: 30 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Mon, 7. Nov 05, 15:50 Post subject: |
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I'm trying to follow the guide to selling Nav Relay Satellites, but I can't find the factory in Argon Prime! There is an 'Advanced Satellite' factory - is that the one that's being suggested?
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xalien
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
Posts: 1792 on topic
Location: LV-426
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| Posted: Mon, 7. Nov 05, 16:28 Post subject: |
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| Tsar_of_Cows wrote: |
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| I just filled up the local trading station in Heron's Nebula with space fuel, anyother good places to sell it? Are trading stations a good place period to sell space fuel? |
I haven't found any other trading stations that stock it, so try the Pirate bases.
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Trading Station in Montalaar is buying spacefuel.
Also a general tip for traders: first thing to do is to check as many high-tech factories that have full stocks and dump their products into EqD's and trading stations. Aside from obvious profit (as you already mentioned) this will again start their production cycles and after a while there'll be a serious demand of food/energy/ore/silicon for you to satisfy.
Hept factory in CBSE holds 8+8 A/BHEPT's with 15-19k profit margin, that's about 300k from a single factory.
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Silpion
Joined: 19 Sep 2003
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Mon, 7. Nov 05, 18:01 Post subject: |
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| simulcra wrote: |
| I'm trying to follow the guide to selling Nav Relay Satellites, but I can't find the factory in Argon Prime! There is an 'Advanced Satellite' factory - is that the one that's being suggested? |
In my universe, Argon Prime has both - a normal and an advanced navsat factory. But since I'm missing the factory in Cloudbase SW I guess the universe is a bit random.
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mowat
Joined: 15 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue, 8. Nov 05, 01:14 Post subject: |
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The pirate base in company pride always pays around 1250cr for space fuel.
Jump in, offload and fill up with e-cells(12-13) then jump back and sell the e-cells back to the distillery.
You can do this every 20-30 minuets and make 80-100,000 credits.
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Tsar_of_Cows
Joined: 31 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Tue, 8. Nov 05, 16:10 Post subject: |
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I've updated the guide with some of the most recent suggestions.
*kicks corpse of the thread*
Keep the suggestions coming!
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xalien
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Tue, 8. Nov 05, 16:52 Post subject: |
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I made a separate thread about it, but since it got quickly burried deep I'll post it here:
You can buy lots and lots of Rastar oil in sectors around Family Njy for about 250Cr and sell it all at those numerous hi-tech factories around Family Pride for about 700Cr, you need to have a semi-decent race rank with the Split or they won't let you dock with their high level factories. The entire milk run can be worth about 6 mil and since there's no competition from NPC's you should use big, even if slower ship for this. Many factories can take 1000 units of Rastar which equals 6000 cargo units which you'd want to unload in one go for max profit.
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Krusade
Joined: 25 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Tue, 8. Nov 05, 17:38 Post subject: Re: X3 Profit Guild Guide to Opportunities for Profitssss |
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| Tsar_of_Cows wrote: |
Delaxian Wheat - Queen's Space
A wheat farm in Queen's Space could be potentially lucrative, with the pleasently large stocks of ecells on hand, and the heavy demand for wheat in the surrounding sectors. In the long term, I intend to have a large wheat complex in the area, but the prohibitive transport costs and time it would take are putting me off untill I can afford my own TL.
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I can confirm that a wheat farm in that area is a very good investment, the local factories use the wheat faster than I can produce it at the moment using one M wheat farm.
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mbv
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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Location: UK
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| Posted: Tue, 8. Nov 05, 19:36 Post subject: Silicon Wafers! |
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Silicon Wafers!
Early on in the home sectors I raised my first million with steady profits from silicon wafers and a bit of ore trading to fill in between silicon sales.
Silicon wafers can be bought at around 230-234 when a mine is fully stocked at Herrons Nebula, Power Circle and the Ore Belt. They should then be sold for 750-776 for max profitssss at tech installations in Argon Prime, Red Light, Cloudbase SW and Rolks Drift. Mercury tankers are excellent for this run as they can pretty much clear out a silica mines stock. Silicon mines are generally slow to rejuvenate their stock so trading ore while waiting for stocks to build up again keeps the profit flowing into your coffers.
Superb trading thread this! Keep it up! MBV
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OSi
Joined: 18 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed, 9. Nov 05, 13:53 Post subject: |
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Very good read, thanks to everyone who contributed.
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taronas
Joined: 26 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Wed, 9. Nov 05, 14:27 Post subject: |
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| xalien wrote: |
I made a separate thread about it, but since it got quickly burried deep I'll post it here:
You can buy lots and lots of Rastar oil in sectors around Family Njy for about 250Cr and sell it all at those numerous hi-tech factories around Family Pride for about 700Cr ... |
Yea, figured that out while I was looking for a 25MJ shield to get my universe trader going.
I found no 25MJ shield in all equipment docks in the whole galaxy. So I went to look for factories that build them. Found only one in Split space. (was in one of the last undiscovered sectors. lol). But no shields there either? Sure, the factory had no resources, esp. Rastar oil at zero.
Ok, then I'll help that poor little factory to get up to speed. Took my Sectortrader, went to search for the Oil. Found some refineries some jumps away which were fully stocked. Bought the cheap stuff, back to the shield factory and sold it - wow, what a profit!
So while waiting for the factory to finally produce some shields I went around that area and supplied all the hi-tech fabs with cheap rastar oil. This made up at least for the cost of my soon-to-be Universe trader (ship, MK3, jumpdrive, shields etc.)
Finally - after hunting some pirates to enhance my reputation with the split while remotely controlling the freighter - I could get those shields and start the Universe trader. Unfortunately at this low level he will only go to the next sectors and miss this great rastar oil business. But time will come
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