If I had the power to magically change things in Privateer, I'd give you the special option of 'bulk buy/bulk sell' for people moving, say, 100 or 150 units of the same commodity, in which, instead of going through the automated commodity exchange, you talk directly to producers (for buying) or retailers/users (selling), probably in the bar. If you do that you can get a lot more :^).Īny other good routes? Like most people, I think that the life of the non-mission merchant was kinda screwed over in Privateer. That is, assuming you don't game it by saving once you've loaded up in Oakham and loading again so that you can have cargo hold jam-packed with contraband by the time you actually launch. It's a simple back-and-forth route, involving no triangles or chains of bases or anything, but with a Galaxy with a 225 cargo hold, with Righteous Fire prices, it'll reliably pull in $10,000 each way (i.e., $10,000 for the trip from New Detroit to Oakham, $10,000 for the trip from Oakham to ND). Just load up on holographics, home apps, advanced fuels, plastics, and the like in ND, sell them in Oakham, buy contraband, and sell the contraband in ND. The most profitable route I've discovered so far is the simple Oakham, Pentonville-New Detroit, New Detroit line. What do you think are the best profitable profiteer trade routes? I'm not talking about the stuff from the merchants guild about 'take 10 units of iron to New Detroit for $10,000.' I'm talking about just buying the iron in Achilles and selling it in New Detroit.

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