Arbitrage

[thedavid]

Buy low and sell high, it is part of the game. But the market eventually evens out everywhere so the best way to get ahead is to be productive.

Or you can be totally unproductive and use arbitrage to amass millions in seconds.

I found myself in a situation of having a lot of assets but little liquid cash I needed for the fabrication module blueprints I wanted. I kept waiting for Hatikvah to get to 30 rep so I could offload all my drops on them but it was slow going.

Then I remembered, I unlocked a bar in Sol. The dealer is part of the Terrans. He is already at 30 rep.

Also, while the prices at the Freeport go up and down, the prices at the bar are fixed.

And I have teleportation unlocked.

So teleport to the Freeport and buy all illegal inventory items and as many interface units as I can.

Teleport to the Terran bar.

Make the most illegal items.

Sell for millions in profit in a single trip. I get about 2 million per trip if I only go to one Freeport before going to the bar. If I jump between freeports multiple times I can go higher and higher.

And so now I got my wharf up and running with an extra fifty million in my pocket with out actually helping the economy.

[Nanook]

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And so now I got my wharf up and running with an extra fifty million in my pocket with out actually helping the economy.

Welcome to 'Wall Street', baby!

[vvvvvvvv]

So teleport to the Freeport and buy all illegal inventory items and as many interface units as I can.

Teleport to the Terran bar.

Make the most illegal items.

Sell for millions in profit in a single trip. I get about 2 million per trip if I only go to one Freeport before going to the bar. If I jump between freeports multiple times I can go higher and higher.

And so now I got my wharf up and running with an extra fifty million in my pocket with out actually helping the economy.

And that's not even the most broken way of making money in the game.

[thedavid]

So teleport to the Freeport and buy all illegal inventory items and as many interface units as I can.

Teleport to the Terran bar.

Make the most illegal items.

Sell for millions in profit in a single trip. I get about 2 million per trip if I only go to one Freeport before going to the bar. If I jump between freeports multiple times I can go higher and higher.

And so now I got my wharf up and running with an extra fifty million in my pocket with out actually helping the economy.

And that's not even the most broken way of making money in the game.

Oh do tell. I'm looking for ways to get stupid rich without using SETA. Terran blueprints are so expensive.

[vvvvvvvv]

Oh do tell. I'm looking for ways to get stupid rich without using SETA. Terran blueprints are so expensive.

See, the thing is if I do tell,

(that's without mods, and no "modified" tag)

there's a chance it'll get patched, like it happened with crystals. I would strongly prefer if devs focused on other things first.

It also seriously breaks the game because you'll be left with nothing to do. That picture above it is a "game over" screen.

However, here's a hint. If you have an S/M fab, make a terran tech terran ship with meson stream mk2 in all slots. Sell it. Stop and carefully think about what just happened.

Also, here's a few well known exploits which I wouldn't mind if they were fixed:

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* Satellite trading. Buy at 40k, sell at 70k. Equipment prices are always known, and do not need satellite coverage.
* You can MAKE satellites and friend/foe mines and sell them. And not just on equipment docks.
* You can also create resources out of nothing through power of alchemy. Construct equipment as closed loop, deconstruct as terran. Free resources.