Trade 101 - How much can you really earn per hour?

Shipping Titanium from Arial to Hurston. How much can you earn per SCU of your ship?

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[StarCitizenUniversal]

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[No-Target-BC]

Quick hint. Once you're qt to the destination that you've set the route to, open the map again and click on set route and you'll get a marker to the location.

[Breadman-kd]

The cargo hauling career path annoys me a little bit. Compared to the real world it makes very little sense.

A consumer, be that an individual or a state, doesn't just wait around, hoping a truck will come by with the exact resource or commodity they need. Instead they go to a store or place an order with a company that produces this resource or commodity.

Likewise, a supplier of a resource cannot just sit around on their inventory hoping someone will stop by and buy some. Either they need to go the retail way and set up shops, or they go the wholesale way and take orders from other businesses. In any case, this usually involves the transportation of some physicals goods, on which the supplier either relies on their own employees or, much more commonly, relies on a logistics partner. This is where an SC player could realistically enter the frame; as a contractor for a logistics company.

The trading we see in SC, more closely resembles our financial markets, but this is an entirely different economic sector that relates to capital not raw materials or consumable goods.

Also, one more thing. In the real world we don't really have mega corporations on the scale of what we see in SC anymore. The theory of comparative advantage, has made supply chains very long. Even huge companies like Apple rely on suppliers - they don't go out and acquire mining facilities to produce their own metals.

In the context of SC however, it can make a lot of sense for the corporations to make use of the raw materials they have available on their property. Due to distances and scale, it make sense for, say ArcCorp, to mine their own metals for manufacturing close by, rather than have them imported. But what doesn't make any sense, is for ArcCorp to sell their mined minerals to some random guy in a ship, just to buy them back from him a couple hours later, at a different location for a higher price. ArcCorp would only purchase metals if they needed them, and if they needed them, they wouldn't sell them off in the first place. In other words, they would only sell off material at a moon if they had excess, which would make their demand for the material at ArcCorp (the planet) =0.

[WallySketch]

Microtech runs are better.
Buy Astatine from Mining Outpost 10 or 22 and sell it in New Babbage : 10 min for 120k profit.
The trick is to land next to the Commons and use the planetary surface entrance. You gain a lot of time because you don't have to go to an airport and take the public transport.

[Barrywfa]

Nice job Mate, been looking at mining and as a pure Nobby in this field your input has helped....thanx Bro.

[dailato]

love your choice of music for the intro!

[billkranz]

I spent an hour and made $7, 400.00. Agricium and Tungsten from 2 moons around MT starting at MicL1. But that is a lower number using a Freelancer.

[AncientOutlaw]

Depending on the time of day and global location, I've been making 600K per hour doing cargo runs. I string run 4 C2's an M2 and a Carrack.

[magnolerriccardo]

I think this game is in some way inspirated by 2600's Solaris of 1986.

[noalear]

That's a pretty bad rate unless you've got a huge hauler.

[Andrew_M_Ward]

I purchased Star Citizen many (many) years ago...
The problem with the development of this game is, its not a game, its a job. I already have a job, and when I'm done working I want to play a game not go back to work....
Please developed a damn GAME

[ross-nicolson]

Hi from the Highlands! Just started playing SC and found this tutorial quite eye opening, thanks! Keep getting my arse kicked the moment I try anything related to combat, so think I'll go down the trading/mining route. Only got the basic Aurora, right enough....would that be worth upgrading or is it possible to just start off small and work up? Cheers!!

[steve-wws]

So what I learned from this is NOT how much you CAN earn trading in SC but how NOT to do trading in SC... was hoping to learn some useful tips but this was like your first attempt at trading?