![]() Not sure I'd like to tackle this in a Tarsus. Seems simple enough if your ship is worth its salt. New Detroit - 30% chance of hostiles at the jump point with the base itself clean. New Constantinople - Clean if you haven't hacked off the bounty hunters. Junction - Safe jump coming from Nexus, 25% chance at the jump to New Constantinople. Nexus - 50% chance of hostiles coming out of the jump point from KM-252, 75% at the Junction point. 100% chance of hostiles at both nav points. On the other hand, it does make the game pretty damn boring awful fast. I don't know if that would help you out much since it'd get you on neutral terms with the Feds, but there's still something nice about not getting shot at by pirates all the damn time. If you're in RF already you might consider forking 200K over to Lynch at Basque to get you a clean slate with the pirates. But, I've already completed the basic Masterson and Lynn Murphy missions and just started Captain Goodin's. I should have stayed in Privateer and saved up 1.1 million. I've since beaten the plot, saved up 790k and moved my pilot to Righteous Fire. I sold my fully loaded Galaxy and purchased the heavy fighter and before upgrade my account went from 550k to 630k! After fully upgrading it, I still had several hundred thousand credits in my account and headed to the bar for my meeting with Sandoval.The plot is pretty fun when you can completely ignore the money situation because you've always got money for the light repairs and ImRecs you need. When I upgraded to my plot missions Centurion, I actually made money. The authorities were still happy with me. I wasn't keeping track, but it wasn't too many before I had a good sum) I'd made more than 550k credits. In perhaps 10-12 runs (I'm not even sure about that. It's pretty amazing how much money you can make smuggling that much Brilliance and other contraband. Fully upgrading the ship, I was ready to move huge amounts of Brilliance along my smuggling route. With several hundred thousand credits in my account, I went to the ship dealer and purchased a Galaxy. You run into more patrols in those systems, but if you are very friendly with the authorities you'll often get away without a contraband scan.Īfter a number of runs, I'd made a considerable amount of money and was ready to upgrade to large scale smuggler. I'd also take the KM-252 - Nexus - Tingerhoff - Perry - New Detroit path if missions presented themselves in that path. ![]() Pirates aren't too bad starting in KM-252 especially if you get missions in system. Patrols aren't too bad and you can easily afterburn away from them in most instances. The path I used the most was: KM-252 - Nexus - Junction - New Constantinople - New Detroit. If I could also find a mission in a system on the way, I'd take that too. If I could get a defend base and attack mission while leaving the system I might stack an extra 9-10k credits. Starting in KM-252 in a Tarsus with cargo expansion, I'd load up on Brilliance (taking off and landing again if necessary to get a full pure load) and consult the mission computer. You can easily outrun pirates and the authorities and get to New Detroit ready to make money. There are no asteroids in the system or in the systems on the way to it. The pirate base I used was located in KM-252. New Detroit is the ultimate destination in the route. It could be either used one way or part of a circular route I used a few times. ![]() So when I looked at the map and consulted the systems I saw a run that looked damn good. I've never done smuggling outside of the plot missions. I've played Privateer countless times since I got my first copy in 1995. I wanted to be a real drug runner and flee at every opportunity. As much as I wanted to smuggle Brilliance, I also didn't want to befriend pirates or angry the authorities. I wasn't looking forward to running from pirates in asteroids. I knew the hazards of the Pentonville - New Detroit route. Once the Tarsus had respectable armament and upgrades, I consulted the map of the Gemini Sector. Using the mission computer and commodity exchange, I took on patrols, defend base, and attacks missions along with having a full cargo hold of products for the opposite base in Troy. Before I could do that, I needed to get my Tarsus into the best shape the Tarsus can get into. I wanted to smuggle Brilliance, and lots of it. I wanted to try a path I'd never taken before in Privateer. ![]() The Star Citizen excitement called for me to do something to get a fix. Two weeks ago, I fired up my GOG copy of Privateer for another playthrough. ![]()
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