TEST Merchant Navy: A well oiled disciplined money-printing machine!

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TEST Merchant Navy
"A well oiled disciplined money-printing machine!" ~seriousseriouspunch

When: Saturday May 2nd, 2020 at 1800 UTC (2:00PM Eastern)
Event Coordinators: seriusseriuspunch, TBD others
Where: Stanton System → Crusader→ Port Olisar (Start)
What: Strike the iron while it's hot! Join your TEST wingmen on an opportunity of a lifetime. Fly trade routes with dedicated security personnel and secure your way in the latest Star Citizen patch 3.9. Read the event details for more information.

THE ESSENTIALS

Before the Event
We start the cargo runs and group up in Port Olisar. Grab some food and drink (Casaba & Weapons shop).

Coming & Leaving
Open your party invites in MobiGlass as you arrive. We will form new groups as the event progress. Once you get into a server find a party of three to four people and pledge to follow a captain. Captain should be a person with some existing wealth and have ships to spare so he can provide to his team as much money and cargo space as possible.

At the Event
Aspiring trade fleet Captains please step up if you have money left over from the previous patch. Offer their Carrack and Caterpillar into service and handle buying and selling from multiple ships they own at their own risk. If you want to qualify as a captain you need to put some trust into your friends and bear all the risk from the trade fleet you are running.

Example: A captain can fly a Sabre as the escort and assign the duty of flying the cargo to another party member. A captain makes all the buys into the cargo ships and sells everything once the team gets the cargo into the destination. Work as a team, utilize party jumps, and log the buys and profit for each run to a spreadsheet. When a party member wants to leave he will receive the payment from his captain in the form of an escort beacon which works as an immediate money transfer.

If your captain is unfair and does not pay equal shares contact event management and we will find you a new sugar daddy.

Escort Carrier & Caterpillar destinations
  • Carrack owners are recommended to carry an Arrow for rapid response and security
  • Set your preferred ICU to the Carrack
1) Set course to Ita
Pick up Astatine at...
HDMS-Ryder
HDMS-Woodruff
Deliver a shipment of Astatine to Port Olisar

2) Set course to Wala
Pick up Diamond and Laranite
Mining Area 045
Mining Area 056
Deliver a shipment of Diamonds and Laranite to Area 18 - TDD (trade division)

3) Set course to Arial
Pick up Titanium and Laranite
HDMS-Lathan
HDMS-Bezdek
Deliver a shipment of Titanium and Laranite to Lorville-CBD (Central Business District)


We look forward to seeing you all in the verse.


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I don't know whether I'll be able to join, but will try to.

placid said:
I'm in, but don't have a giant stockpile of cash right now, so I'll serve under someone else. I do have a giant pile of ships to hand out if needed though.
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How much do you have/need? If you see me online I can front you 100k aUEC if that'll help you get started.
 
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vahadar said:
That's a good op idea :) i'd like to join too. I have a few hundreds left from previous patch (~300k) and carrack/cat if need.
I stopped doing trade runs in carrack recently because of the ship thieves and top door exploit, with escort it will be safer :)
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Bind to your medbay, when you respawn reset it so they don't respawn there, then boogaloo them all.
 
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Deroth said:
Bind to your medbay, when you respawn reset it so they don't respawn there, then boogaloo them all.
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That's if they dont shoot me first and then head directly to the medbay to kill me as i respawn on bed ;) hate those mosquitoes lol since i suck at fps
 
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Deroth said:
That is why you bind as soon as you get into the ship while still in a safe zone.
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When it happened to me thats why i did. I have a rule to always bind to medbay when i retrieve the carrack right after i enter it. And to check for ship thieves using local ship comms and external view to check the top doors. I knew he was here and i was going for him but he shot me first (i suck at shooting i just pray and spray heh).

The problem is that he was faster getting to the medbay after killing me than i was to respawn to the medbay (we were fighting on same bridge, he was on the elevator close to the medbay). So he was just killing me again and again right on the bed with me lying there helpless :) I could not reset anything. Had to log off could not do anything else.

From my experience thieves just take a ride with your ship, not all of them are here to kill you or griefers. But 1 out of 5 times i take the carrack in PO, i have a ship thief. It is enough to make you a bit paranoïd when you have around 350k worth in the cargohold heh.
 
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So I was just on...and the trade tables are completely messed up.

Lost over 400k running medical supplies from PO to Area 18 because I wasn't paying attention to the prices or whether I was actually getting paid. Also, many outposts aren't displaying ANYTHING at their trade terminals.
Example:
3) Set course to Arial​
Pick up Titanium and Laranite​
HDMS-Lathan​
HDMS-Bezdek​
*I should've gotten a screenshot, but was so frustrated at that point I didn't think about it.

These are server side issues so it is possible they'll be corrected before this event, but if it continues to get worse then it may needs to be rescheduled.
 
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Deroth said:
@O-Lefty
So I was just on...and the trade tables are completely messed up.

Lost over 400k running medical supplies from PO to Area 18 because I wasn't paying attention to the prices or whether I was actually getting paid. Also, many outposts aren't displaying ANYTHING at their trade terminals.
Example:
3) Set course to Arial​
Pick up Titanium and Laranite​
HDMS-Lathan​
HDMS-Bezdek​
*I should've gotten a screenshot, but was so frustrated at that point I didn't think about it.

These are server side issues so it is possible they'll be corrected before this event, but if it continues to get worse then it may needs to be rescheduled.
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Its a hit or miss with the server. Just have to find the server where the trade backend is working. Today was mostly fine.
 
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Deroth said:
@O-Lefty
So I was just on...and the trade tables are completely messed up.

Lost over 400k running medical supplies from PO to Area 18 because I wasn't paying attention to the prices or whether I was actually getting paid. Also, many outposts aren't displaying ANYTHING at their trade terminals.
Example:
3) Set course to Arial​
Pick up Titanium and Laranite​
HDMS-Lathan​
HDMS-Bezdek​
*I should've gotten a screenshot, but was so frustrated at that point I didn't think about it.

These are server side issues so it is possible they'll be corrected before this event, but if it continues to get worse then it may needs to be rescheduled.
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Hmm I had some issue with the ship terminal too this afternoon, then saw a guy posting in global chat that CIG is just running some backend server mantenance, may be that is the case.. or at least I hope it is, other wise this release sucks a lot...
 
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