12- Simple Trading Strategies

Early game

Free Shuttle

Originally posted by Telerion: Talk to one guy at Yunqi after completing the Bounty Hunter mission and he tells you about that ship around Earth. After that you can fly to Earth and get your free ship.

The Yunqi-Ongman Trade Route

EXTREMELY PROFITABLE

Once you have unlocked the Ruins of Cylus

2nd only to the Yunqi-Ongmon Trade Route explained above

some sort of thousand year old, dusty and foul smelling garnments

New Terra's Dynium Run

Originally posted by Telerion: After unlocking the "New Terra" region, you can obtain Raw Dynium from Kibou, which sells very well at Trade CO. At that point in the game, your ship/fleet will take about 20-25 seconds to bridge the two systems, if that. While it isn't an A-B return trip like Yunqi-Omgmon described above, you can sell Dynium at a 85$/unit profit. Try to bring back as much as you can Coreward when you visit the Rim!

A Trader's best friend

murdering aliens in the most satisfying ways possible

Middle to late game Space combat loot

Originally posted by The Cat What Stalks Cheese: Once you've got a combat fleet that can clear enemy vessels in good time, you can get quite a bit of cash from selling all the spare mk2 and mk3 parts and weapons. This is tedious until you're using more than peashooters and enemy vessels have more than just starting components (hence why you want to keep this until later), but it's more interactive than trading.

This section contains a few simple tricks to getting rich! More will be added later as I uncover them (or someone else tells me).Quite frankly, any money is good money when you start the game. Do make an effort to sell your scraps to Trade CO. and make sure to pick up a couple of rifles from Zephyr when you have the money for it (but make sure one of your crew equips a Riot Shield, as soon as you can find one anyway). Remember, however, that your first priority is to grab at least 1 cheap crewman (400$) from Trade CO., along with an Engineering console and a Medical bay to set up in your ship. Don't spend a fortune purchasing the Astronaut set at Trade CO.; the enemies you'll be exposed to in Human space are weak, and the only crewman at risk is that robot you picked up for free during the tutorial (which can't wear armor anyway, and should just be assigned Harvesting duties while your dudes clear the maps). On top of that, better armor drops on Sakari (Human Combat gear, chestpiece is pretty rare) and Xiwang (Leather Armor, decent drop rates and convincing protection for a while).After some time, if you visit Earth, you'll find a derelict Space Shuttle in orbit.While it's very nice looking considering all the energy and gun slots so early in the game (and even later on), its speed rating makes it a dubious choice for starting entrepreneurs, compounded by the fact you likely have no money for nicer consoles or weapon systems. That said, it's up to you to either use it, or sell for a nice profit in neighboring Yunqi to front various upgrades. Alternatively, you can keep it parked in orbit and only acquire it later, when having tons of guns is more important than raw speed.This is a fairly simple A-B return trip exchange, buying DNA in Yunqi to sell to Ongman, and then ferry Ongman Gas back to Yunqi. A fast ship can do this in no time at all (and you should probably wait until you can afford a Human Corvette Mk II, after the Xiwang mission).this is(a return trip will reward you with a whopping ~150%, or 2.5 times, of your initial investment in about 3 minutes). While being a tad monotonous, this trade route will make you into a huge and very lucrative operation (but it will remain monotomous nonetheless, despite the thrill of profits). If you want to be a millionaire in less than an hour, this is for you.To be honest, the money game really (and I mean REALLY) opens up once you've progressed enough missions to reach the Ancient Ruins on Cylus. This is compounded by the fact you will likely have a ship that can actually move forward at this point. Now, on Cylus, you will be able to stock up on Artifacts and DNA, as well as some Ancient Alien Armor (which rarely drops from mobs, but is totally worth it). The boss in there is a pushover with competent tactics (aka have one guy with the heaviest armor, augmented with the personal shield you find in Cylus' Hills, use a Riot Shield, and everyone else stand behind him with Rifles/Pistols). Raid the temple a few times in a row (remember to heal your crew in between raids) and then proceed to Anoa (just "south" of Human space, in the overlapping circles) to sell all those precious Artifacts. I guess you could unload the DNA in Ongmon if you felt like it (if you do, grab some Gas and drop it off in Yunqi!).At that point in the game, this is an ENORMOUS money maker (), and unless you grow tired of it, you can easily rack up enough money for the more expansive Human (or other species) ships and subcomponents while decking out your crewmen infashionable ancient otherwordly atires. There are better armors out there, but none you can farm while making this much money with such ease in such a time frame.While this won't get you any sort of concrete money or loot, it is possible to have a pet in this game. And who wouldn't want a space pet? While you're out theresaving the Galaxy whilst making a reasonable profit, why don't you stay on the lookout for Dog Treats (particularly on Tsaaraa and Eshou)? I'm sure a visit to, say, Stadam should be quite enjoyable afterward! Just keep the Treat in your Away Mission Cargo and, for ♥♥♥♥ sake, don't let him become territorial!