Star Citizen 3.21 - Bounty hunting cargo salvage
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- We go through everything you need to know to get you going with salvaging bounty hunting wrecks for super profitable loot. We talk about the gear you need and what ships will perform best, as well as strategies for what to grab and where to sell.
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0:00 Intro
0:32 Core gameplay loop
1:11 Character prep
2:38 Ships & loadouts
7:31 Mission logistics & loot
11:23 Selling locations
14:21 Socials
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Fantastic video and great recommendations, but I would like to give everyone a heads up regarding the sale locations. There is currently a common bug that causes the refresh timer on the terminals to not tick over. Currently, most if not all terminals at the locations in the video are reading as fully stocked, with no demand for any of the profitable illicit cargo. I sincerely hope that anyone trying this method does not run into this bug, but I am currently sitting on an over 10 million credit cargo of Weevil Eggs and Maze after visiting all terms across multiple servers. Best of luck, and don't forget to report it to the issue council on RSI if it happens to you too. (EDIT: Personally confirmed sale of said cargo is now consistently available as of 12/12/23!) o7
Yep unfortunately there was a bug over the weekend that prevented demand from being refreshed at the drug terminals. Fortunately it's fixed now, so any newer servers that are coming online are working properly and plenty of people have been able to sell again!
@@WingZeroType Excellent!
Was about to say you can‘t be serious, this bug has been around for so many years, completely nuking any sense of economy they‘re pretending to be testing
Yela asteroid ring has a bug where a swarm of CruSec NPCs spawn and attack your bounty, which is really funny when a dozen Mantis and Avengers attack a Hammerhead. Best to wait till one side wins, because flying into that furball has a high chance of getting a CS from shooting or crashing into security
Oh man if i see a swarm of mantis's i'd be scared of them interdicting me lol.
And those bastards tried to scan me after I loaded in drugs from the bounty target.
Thanks for the in depth guide! I always seem to get Hurston Security Sabres inspecting me whenever im in the mood to haul SLAM from bounties.
Thanks for checking it out! Remember that you can quantum away while they're asking you to stop for a scan without getting a CS!
From the start till the end, a Guinness guide! Thank you for this!
Thanks a bunch for checking it out and giving me your feedback :)
The hero we need. Thanks, as always.
Thanks a bunch!
Your Corsair video and the current gameplay loops got me playing this game daily, Nice to see your guide on it 😁
Thanks a bunch! Yeah the corsair with ballistics is really good for this game loop right now lol
I'd like to add a recommendation to use Deadbolt ballistic cannons on the C2. You definitely have to stagger-fire them because of the high alpha, but the damage output is insane. You need to rearm after every ERT, but they are insanely fun to use
AD5B works good as well
@@Andrey_AnV I know. He already had those in the recommended loadout list. The Deadbolt were not in there
Yeah the deadbolts are an option too. I just recommended the AD5Bs because they can output a lot more total damage before needing a restock, meaning if you get lucky you can often do two ERTs before restocking. But yeah, deadbolts are definitely viable as well and I am all for people using what's most fun!
Excellent detailed and well presented vid for those determined to go this route at making lots of aUEC and earning their certs. Ships, C2/Corsair/Taurus are excellent, C2 in my opinion being the best all rounder. Alas, i don't grind, i just lend my mates all the ships, they drop me a few mil aUEC for the privilege. 10/10 for anyone needing a good guide. Kudos
Thank you so much! And yeah I feel you at the corsair, I don't love it either but I can't deny that it feels the best to me for solo. Just the sheer amount of guns lets it not only kill targets faster, but be able to do more missions before reloading. I really wanted the Taurus to come out further ahead though b/c I love connies lol. I wished they let the Taurus stack boxes 4 tall so we could fit more 32 SCU containers on grid
All they have to do for that to happen is remove those missile launchers over the cargo bay. Then it could hold 4 32s and 4 16s. I would personally like it as I hardly ever use the missiles anyway. @@WingZeroType
@@nathanforrester5140Yeah but They like to have things physicalized (which I like too) and also they want to keep ships with certain amounts of cargo for balance reasons, which I'm ok with. In the real world, certain things are just better than certain others. I like having balance tradeoffs in the game.
@WingZeroType The reason for removing the launchers and adding more cargo would bring more balance.
A cargo version of a ship should be designed for efficient cargo. This means more cargo less boxes, so load and upload times are short. Right now, the Taurus is not cargo efficient. Two 32 scu, two 16 scu and twenty-four 2 scu boxes. Total box count is 28. This is horrible for a cargo variant. Take off the launches and add 48 more scu of space, and you get four 32 and 16 scu boxes. Total box count is 8.
This makes the Taurus a true cargo variant. It also gives more reason for someone to get an Andromeda. ATM the Taurus is just too good and kinda makes Andromeda less relevant.
@@nathanforrester5140 Actually, I really agree with you on this. That's a great point. +1 to everything you said. It'd also be nice if they could do something to the elevator to make it easier to load... maybe get the elevators/landing gear to come down further to make loading easier.
Nice video! For some reason, i have no luck coming across high value drugs like maze and eggs. But i do find a lot of recycled materials composite, turns out they actually pay not that bad at 13k per scu. And they can be sold on major city without worried being griefed. Moreover, the ship i am using is connie andromeda rented from vantage rentals, cuz i am broke😂. I think this is a good ship to allow new players to explore this gameplay loop without breaking the bank.
Yeah absolutely! For high value illegal items like maze and eggs you really want to be checking the ships with large cargo bays like the caterpillars, hercules, and so on. And even then, you can definitely hit an unlucky streak. Once I was doing solo ERTs for about 2 hours with nothing to show for it, and then I got a haul worth 12M aUEC in the next 15 mins. It's inconsistent, but when it hits, it hits.
I totally agree that the connie rental is a fantastic ship for letting players try out a variety of things in-game. You can rent a Roc as well and do some moon mining, or you can move cargo around, or you can do combat, or you can salvage ships for their cargo. Plus, I love connies even beyond just an intro ship... so I might be a bit biased lol
FYI you can open the cargo door on a soft-deathed 890 by going to the control seat in either the bridge or CIC and opening all doors. It will take a while for the elevator to come down because its super slow but you dont lose the additional cargo from hard deathing the ship
And have a keybind for “open all doors”
Yep that's a good point that I should've mentioned, I just really hate trying to zero-g through the 890J lol. I keep bumping into walls all over the place. But yeah its worth it if there's a good haul in there.
@@WingZeroType what I hate about the 890J is that the cargo elevator doesn’t work in soft death, but the passenger lift does, so it’s easier, and way faster, to get into the bridge than to work your way down to the cargo deck and find the internal elevator controls are dysfunctional. It’s even easier in space, enter by the docking ports.
Great info and video thanks
Cheers, thanks for checking it out!
Lets goooo, been waiting for this video
wooo lets goooo
When i grind rep to get to vhrt: Inferno - its insane if you have decent aim, how many bounties you can do in a row before restocking ammo and how fast you can do em. Time to kill on the minigun is just insanely fast.
When doing vhrt alone: I use my taurus - as many other have said in the comments, its just so good for solo bounty gameplay.
When i do duo's, we both run inferno, and one of us goes back to get a cargo ship, when we find a cargo we wanna sell.
They could rebalance it a little tho, im at the point where idk what ship to buy in game.
Haha yeah the AD-series gatlings are very strong in this patch ever since they buffed their aim and lowered their spray. I think any ship that can stick the size 5s on is a decent option now and it sort of depends what people like to fly. I myself love connies, so no arguments from me about the Taurus lol
C2 + Corsair is an amazing combo for duo pilots.
Corsair kills, C2 loots. Extremely efficient.
Make sure you trust the C2 pilot to split 50/50 afterwards.
Yeah it's a great combo, honestly any high dps + cargo combo is solid lol
Corsair -taurus no better combo
You can somewhat fix the ship scanner by exiting your seat and get back.
Thanks for that tip! Someone else mentioned going into the copilot seat worked for them, which seems like the same type of action. There might be something to it!
Great job ,thank you very nice.
Thanks for checking it out!
I have been running this game loop for a few months. I love it. The Connie Taurus is the best fighting / cargo balance for solo play. For ERTs I run ballistics but if I just want to chain missions I can run laser cannons for VHRTs and I have gotten some of my best scores on VHRTs. I found a M2 with 160 SCU of Eggs and 20 SCU of maze. That was on a VHRT. Yes the cargo we are finding is probably going to get nerfed.
I look forward to server meshing coming into the game. That will allow AI to be much harder. They will be able to adding in some light and medium fighter support for the 3 or 4 larger ships. This could make VHRTs and ERTs into missions that you can only do with multiple people. That would allow them to put these high value cargos back in.
Yeah I'd love that! I'd love for things to be difficult enough to warrant grouping up, and the payments being adjusted to make it worthwhile! Right now its fun that its possible to do solo but I agree, the solo loot should probably be toned down a bit until they can get the missions to be more challenging.
Thanks for the ballpark values of the drugs. As someone who works with groups on these I’m often confused and debating whether some loot is worth the time and space or not
You're very welcome! once you sort of realize which you wanna keep and which you don't it becomes pretty easy
tip you can fit four large SCu crate in the corsair if you slide them in horizontally
Oh nice, that's the 32 SCU ones right? yeah they aren't gridded but you can still sell from there :)
@@WingZeroType ye
Yeah, I got jumped by a loot gang at Brios and lost an M2 with 10scu of eggs, lucky I parked my C2 with 178scu maze at CRU-L5. You can also equip your C2/M2 with S5 laser canons or S5 repeaters for their range - you can snipe a Hammerhead outside its range
Switched to a C2, as I’ve encountered ERT with 2x C2 and 1x M2.
hahaha yeah when you find more loot than you can fit in a Taurus or Corsair you'll be sad to not have more cargo, but then if you run out of ammo in a ballistic C2 then you'll feel bad about not having a corsair lol. They all have their pros and cons
@@WingZeroType I saw you contributed to Issue Council.. reckon it’s an issue with the global economy server - everything cannot be sold - FPS gear, commodities, RMC, refined minerals…
one VHRT bounty target gave me around 100 scu in weevil eggs when I did a solo C2 run. That got me over 12 million aUEC in one sale. If you do it solo, try to avoid Brio and go for Devlin at Euterpe. Brio is much busier, so you will have 'no demand' more often and a higher risk of getting attacked by pirates
Yep I agree! I like Samson and Sons as well, but Devlin is another decent option.
Ive noticed im able to scan sucessfully from the copilot seat. The info will show up once you enter the pilot seat again. Only tested on a2
oh interesting, that's worth to try next time things won't scan
For scanning - does changing the angle of the scanner (from 360 degrees to less than that) help? I never bothered to check.
oh weird i thought i responded to this but maybe not. I haven't seen any correlation between scanning angle and scanning success yet, I've been trying to pay attention to it though.
yooooo best thing they added to the game makes bounties fun again....gonna have to try me some ballistic connie
Ballistic connie is so fun!
Exactly the video I was looking for, thanks! Now I just need to decide whether I want to use gimballed weapons on the corsair in case I get attacked by players.
I come bearing bad news.
As of 3.22.0a, this method has been really nerfed hard. You can no longer get enormous amounts of illegal cargo, and ships in bounties will carry much more varied (and much less valuable) cargo, with maybe a few SCU of illegal materials.
@@Para0234 I've been doing it over the past week or so, on and off. It's been pretty good, maybe made around 15mil or so.
I only really bother boarding ships now if they have weavil eggs or very large amounts of quantanium, slam, widow or e'tam. The 890 jumps almost always have a good amount of weavil eggs for me, and they're easy to board out of atmosphere.
Still, I know there are better ways to make money, but this gameplay loop is a ton of fun to me.
@@Golden_Darkness Oh yeah, without a doubt, it's still really fun and profitable, but it is only a fraction of what it was not long ago.
oh yeah this was me as well. Even if it's not the most optimal, I really enjoyed the experience of getting my enemies down and then checking them out for loot lol
Seems a video on the best way to even GET VHRT / ERTs in the first place would be helpful. I'm not sure I completely understand the reputation system and the fastest most efficient way of gaining Bounty Hunter rep to get these missions. How many 4000auec missions do I need to do? Which missions do I avoid? ect ect.. .Great video for when I get there though! .
Ask and you shall receive! czcams.com/video/KKfU58y0WY0/video.html
And thank you for the kind words! If any of your questions aren't answered by that above video I'm happy to clarify anything i missed!
Do only the missions that state the bounty will be in a ship. I think I had like 5 vlrt to LRTs and 5 LRTs to MRTs so I think it’s like 5 of every level. Just check for the assessment bounty after you complete each one it’ll be available when you are ready for the next stage.
Also do the bounty’s next to the planet you want the rep for. So if you want microtech be in MT system of planets and you will get mostly all MT bounty missions
They could really exploit this gameplay with a couple of new missions types. Intercept and recover stolen cargo for lawful players, intercept and rob conveys for the pirates. Both would encourage (and necessitate at higher levels) co-op play with both combat and cargo vessels required to complete them.
Yes definitely! I love that as more systems are coming online and being tested, more gameplay options are being opened up. We're finally starting to see the pieces of this project start to come together!
not holding my breath.
Loving my Taurus for ERTs and whatever I can salvage. Still do bit ERT looting with larger groups but this just has a different feel not loading everything into a C2
Taurus is for sure the best Solo ERT ship imo.
I love my Taurus, problem with doing this In a c2 is great you get loads, but then you spend ages trying to offload it all, with a Taurus you can make millions, sell in one go and make faster trips
Yep same, I love the Taurus for this game loop but I couldn't deny the efficiency of the corsair with its extra s5 hardpoints giving you a ton more dps and ammo. But I really love having the connie cargo hold filled and being able to walk around on the catwalks above it. just feels soooo cool
@@WingZeroType you can also run over it all if it only goes to the top of the ladder, something nice about dancing on top of a load of maze 😅 I don't really mind it taking a bit longer, I look at it like it would normally take weeks of solid grinding to get that much so I'm not really too worried about efficiency, it can be quite chill :)
@@vordoch i need to dance on top of maze now
Great video!
Just a quick question.. I'm having issues with keeping targets in soft death, I use trigger discipline towards the end, but more often than not they fully explode and drop the cargo. I'm running size 4 and 5 lazer cannons on my Connie, would it help by switching to ballistics?
Also, are EMP weapons any good to help combat this? Say, if my friend was to come along with a Vanguard Sentinal for example.
Thank you! And are you having issues with not blowing the enemy up with your guns, or them blowing up when hitting the ground? One thing you can do is keep the size 4 and size 5 laser cannons on different weapon groups and once the enemy hull is red you can only use the s4's. Another thing you can do is enable staggered fire mode which will shoot each weapon one-after-the-other instead of all at the same time. Between these two things and some trigger discipline i think that should help. I use AD5Bs on my connie and i don't really have issues with overkilling targets since its a high fire rate and low alpha weapon, so that could work too. I wouldn't really bother with EMPs, if you wanted to use distortion i'd just use distortion weapons. That could work, I haven't personally tried it though.
Thanks for the reply!
I most often fully blow them up before they hit the ground 😅
I think the splitting the size 4's and 5's might help, actually. My Arrow is like that by default, I didn't realise you could change it.
I'd like to give stagger fire a go too, is it a specific hot key to switch fire mode?
@@ArthurReloadSorry for the delayed response! I don't know if the staggered fire keybind is set by default or not, you may need to set it manually in the advanced keybinds screen.
@@WingZeroType No worries, I've found it now and doing better with the soft deaths, thank you
Really thanks for your video, but the bitter true is right now... it's really hard to sell some illegal items. Especially among eggs.There are a lot of players selling and with the servers overlapping each other, it's very difficult to find a niche to sell. A situation that is further complicated by the opportunistic PVP. Hopefully it will be fixed with the next patch or with an operational trading module, which will cause prices to plummet if the supply is high.
It's a bug, not due to supply / demand
Yeah its unfortunate that the bug with server demand surfaced just a day before I finished my video - I hope they fix it soon!
Been a pain to sell VHRT/ERT cargo lately - every single sell location is constantly at full stock.
yeah i believe it's gotten bugged the last day or so, hopefully they fix it early next week!
How do I get the missions I've been wanting to do this but I only get ground targets, gteat video by the way thank you
Why did you buy so many tractor beams? I get the job done with the multi tool. And how do you find all the wrecks after you kill them? I normally am only able to find the last one I killed.
I like having a lot of stuff ready for testing purposes when I'm trying silly things so that I can quickly get back out there. Unfortunately I'm in the same boat as you, in the current patch I can't find ships unless I chase them down after killing them. I used to be able to ping the scan and then look for signatures but unless I'm really close to where the ships were blown up i really struggle to find them now, I think they might despawn outside of a certain distance.
@@WingZeroType best way i found is to kill them in the astriod fields and of course try to kill them quick so they are close together. I got 750k from just quantainium one time.
i was doing this yesterday, but its seems to be broken right now. No demand everywhere and they wont reset either.
Yeah demand has been broken for about a day unfortunately. Just my luck lol. Hopefully it's something they can fix relatively quickly next week.
Hey mate, I recently returned after years without trying the game but now I have a question: Is the game actually on soft relese or will all assets be reset on release date? I want to decide if I'll start farming stuff and buying ships with game currency but can't bring myself to do that if it's not permanent yet...
Hey mate welcome back (interest wise, at least). Sorry for the super late response, life has been crazy for me so I fell behind on YT comments. But the game is still definitely going to have wipes before it goes fully released. We're in alpha right now, and we have random wipes even among alpha builds (not frequently, but they do happen - last one was about a year or so ago). When the game goes beta, there will definitely be a reset, and again when the game fully releases. So if you can't bear losing all your stuff, i'd say definitely give it more time. There's plenty of times you lose items and time in this game right now due to both intended and unintended things lol
I'm having a difficult time finding the ships after they die and fall or even in the asteroids. Seems like after I'm done killing them, I am lucky if I can find even one of them around me. I tried a suggestion of pinning the ships, 1,2 and 3 but once they die, even a soft death... seem the pin is gone. This video makes it look super easy, and maybe it's a skill issue, but I am finding it a little frustrating. Have missions, have cargo ships, kill cargo ships... lose ship's locations, most of the time.
same
sorry for the late response - what's the weapon loadout you use? if you use cannons of any type they have higher alpha which makes it a lot harder to not accidentally overkill them. The AD-series gatlings are pretty good for this, also you really need to slow down your dps once their hull goes red. And yeah, on places with gravity its a bit of a crapshoot.
Responding to you as well with the same message @blizag1 sorry for the late response - what's the weapon loadout you use? if you use cannons of any type they have higher alpha which makes it a lot harder to not accidentally overkill them. The AD-series gatlings are pretty good for this, also you really need to slow down your dps once their hull goes red. And yeah, on places with gravity its a bit of a crapshoot.
@@WingZeroType I am using the Rhino laser repeaters. I tried ballistics but chewed through ammo pretty fast. I will give cannons a try! Would be nice if the PINS worked, but they seem to go away as soon as target goes down, or there's a PIN radius and you need to be pretty close to the PINNED ship. I dunno. Will keep trying! Thanks! :)
@@xotx4291Yeah I totally agree, I haven't sorted out how to effectively use pins either. If I ever do, you can be sure I'll make a video about it lol
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Nice video!
I'm a relatively new player with 600k money and a Gatac Syulen. What would be a good next ship to buy for bounty hunting?
Thank you, and welcome to the game! If you want a solid ship for bounty hunting, I'd try to save up for a hornet - they're really strong and can carry you all the way to the harder bounties. After that, I'd recommend an Ares Ion/Inferno, a Vanguard, or a Constellation depending on what types of gameplay you wanted to branch out to or focus on. The Hornet will require some saving though, since it costs around 1.4M. If you hop on the discord and mention that you're the new guy with the Syulen I'll hook you up with some cash to try it out the next time i get on :) The link's in the description
@@WingZeroType thanks a lot for your answer! I have watched some of your other videos (they are great, keep up the good work!) and will probably get the Hornet for now and the Constellation Taurus later. I'll get the cash myself, it's part of the experience :)
Ok I'm sitting at a little over thirty mil doing this. The jig is sort of up on this method. It has gotten to the point where you can't sell the loot at the scrap yards
yeah that's due to a bug that just appeared a couple days ago that prevents the demand from updating at the sell terminals on server ticks - hopefully they fix it soon!
Isn’t drugs broken right now? I can’t seem to sell anywhere even after waiting for the reset
Yep unfortunately there was a bug over the weekend that prevented demand from being refreshed at the drug terminals. Fortunately it's fixed now, so any newer servers that are coming online are working properly and plenty of people have been able to sell again!
Anyone got some recommended c1 loadouts to smoke bounties easier?
So If you're MRTs and lower you can go with laser repeaters (they all do the same dps) but if you're HRTs and higher I'd recommend laser cannons if you can land the shots. The C1 is a large ship with only one s2 shield though so defensively it does struggle a bit, and you'll probably need to disengage sometimes. It struggles a bit when it comes to VHRTs because of this, but its still doable.
Hmmn with the updates to pricing for items in game we might need the high loot.
well that pricing went out by accident, it's going to get reverted in the next EPTU build. But yeah higher prices might be coming down the pipe if the game gets more stable
Since the big containers can't get stuck on the grid of the corsair's cargo, you can't sell them, right ? What's the point of taking them ?
you can sell the cargo containers that aren't on the grid! So you can stuff in whatever fits
@@WingZeroType really ?! I didn't know that ! And the ones that aren't on the grid show up normally when you try to sell them ?
@@cringeseeker4031 they sure do!
@@zakdavis5638 thanks for the info
@@cringeseeker4031Yep i haven't had any issues so far!
❤where to geu ab5d and 4 weapon?
you can use www.erkul.games/live/calculator to see where to buy ship weapons and components. The AD5B is at Centermass in A18 and the crusader showroom in Orison. The AD4B is at those two spots and also at the ship weapons shop at HUR-L5
Is it just me or is anyone else having extreme trouble actually re-finding the soft-deathed ships? Especially in zero-g like I hold V and nothing shows up. They're lost to space.
same
I feel like they despawn very quickly sometimes, I agree. I've definitely lost soft-deathed ships sometimes. I try to keep ships somewhat close to each other and keep tabs on my radar for that exact reason.
the part with "no comms coverage on the salvage yard locations" isnt true. on euterpe there is 100% coverage and i was able to give a guy crimestat for killing me there
oh really on the ground there's comm coverage? my mistake then! I must have missed that
@@WingZeroType ye it is :D at least at the one on euterpe. dont know about the other ones
600i would be the goat if it had more dedicated internal cargo.
yeah i can't wait to see what the rework does for it...... if/when that ever happens lol
If salvage remains current, you're gonna be looking at a single M2 mission making nearly 2mil in a reclaimer. No seed capital required 😅
yeah it'll be exciting! The gameplay is a bit slower paced and a bit boring for me after a while but I do enjoy feeling like a space scrapper. I just wish the reclaimer was less janky, with taller openings for moving cargo around and cargo grids in the salvage hold and the cargo hold and not just in the salvage processing area
I am pretty sure CIG turned off the turnover for certain drugs because the demand for Maze, Slam, Widow, and eggs is just gone. Its not even worth doing this as of 3 days ago.
Yep unfortunately there was a bug over the weekend that prevented demand from being refreshed at the drug terminals. Fortunately it's fixed now, so any newer servers that are coming online are working properly and plenty of people have been able to sell again!
Awesome. I got a haul stored I need to move and people to pay.
havnt been able to sell since friday
Yeah unfortunately a bug surfaced then that prevented the demand from refreshing at the sell points, I hope they fix it soon!
The demand at the terminals that buy these is currently bugged
yeah it was really unfortunate timing for my video lol. Hopefully it's fixed really soon!
Was this already nerfed useless or is it still working?
it was nerfed, but not totally useless. It's no longer crazy free money like it used to be, and now it feels much closer to a balanced experience. So I'd say if you enjoy the gameplay, its totally lucrative and worth doing, but no longer worth it if you'd rather just skip the cargo shenanigans and just wanna blow more stuff up.
2:24 how did you recover from being downed?
I believe if you get downed from "environmental damage", you will eventually standup within 5 minutes or so. Getting shot, exploded, bleeding out I know you stay down until someone rescues or finishes you.
I was "knocked out" and not "killed" so you can often recover after a few seconds. I don't know what exactly triggers the knock out vs death, but I've noticed this a few times from non-combat damage.
Is this still doable today?
well pointless until they fix the demand bug. but great vid
Thanks for the kind words! Unfortunately there was a bug over the weekend that prevented demand from being refreshed at the drug terminals. Fortunately it's fixed now, so any newer servers that are coming online are working properly and plenty of people have been able to sell again!
if you solo you risking to lose all when you try to sell them because there may be players and will just wait for you to com so is to risky to do solo
yep there's definitely risk to doing it solo, which I think is needed b/c it's so lucrative
All I can say is... ka-CHING!
wooo moneyeyyyyy. its bugged right now though since the terminals aren't creating any demand, but hopefully thats sorted early next week.
Taurus has 4 size 5 hardpoints
yep that's true, but this video was from 3.21 and back then it didn't
Most important takeaway from this video for me is that I from now on will not be saying hard death, but stiff death
I'm glad you were one of the few paying attention to the real purpose of this video
eggs and maze bugging so bad rn people trying to auction it off in chat because they cant sell it.
yeah that's due to a bug that just appeared a couple days ago that prevents the demand from updating at the sell terminals on server ticks - hopefully they fix it soon!
Lately the demand has been zero at all places.. don't know if it's just a bug or intentionally done.
Yep unfortunately there was a bug over the weekend that prevented demand from being refreshed at the drug terminals. Fortunately it's fixed now, so any newer servers that are coming online are working properly and plenty of people have been able to sell again!
Right now the message of "commodities have been updated" is not appearing for many hours.
Yes, it’s been reported on the Issue Council as well. All four scrapyards and nqa terminals are stuck in “no demand”. So effectively this game loop currently is dead.
Yeah its a bug right now, should hopefully be sorted relatively soon.
Too bad you haven't covered the current issue that none of the sketchy locations to sell these drugs will take them. I have been trying for 3 days now and have had to dump 2 full loads from a taurus and a full load from a c1 since i could not sell the cargo anywhere. Specifically a full load of weevil eggs that none of the 4 scrap yards would take... so basically 10 mil in drugs just dumped.
Yep unfortunately there was a bug over the weekend that prevented demand from being refreshed at the drug terminals. Fortunately it's fixed now, so any newer servers that are coming online are working properly and plenty of people have been able to sell again!
Good vid, but currently this game loop is dead. It’s been reported on the Issue Council as well. All four scrapyards and nqa terminals are stuck in “no demand”.
ty for the kind words! And yeah I know the game loop died a day ago but I figure it'll be sorted out shortly. Even if the drugs don't sell, if you go with a large cargo ship you can get large amounts of legal stuff to sell as well like the T2 mining materials.
Ah, good to know. I was pretty convinced they were bugged as I could not get any of the terminals at any spot to refresh after hours of trying.
I literally loaded up a haul of 89 maze, 4 weevil eggs and a load of slam, and as soon as I finished loading up people started talking about how you can't sell any of it at the minute 😂 just my luck!
@@vordochhaha bummer, fortunately its fixed now though, hopefully luck is still on your side
have they nerfed this in 3.22?
nope, it still works! I just sold 3M of drugs from 2 ERTs yesterday :)
Awesome thanks!@@WingZeroType
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your one of them guys lol
you're* one of them guys lol
Don't hate, congratulate!
Anyone having trouble selling Weevil eggs atm? App some bug in the market, others suggesting cig stopping ppl making dosh quick on them
It seems to be a bug with the servers not refreshing demand. hopefully it'll be sorted soon, but yeah right now most places aren't getting their demand refreshed.
@@WingZeroType hopefully they can sort it without a major update (3.22), that may remove the cargo. Had a player rock up to a salvage yard while I was there, couldn't sell and so offered me around the 100 scu he had!
@@BrayOfTheDonkeyit was sorted earlier this week, but now the update has dropped anyway. So time to get hunting again :D
@@WingZeroType Luckily was able to sell that 100scu before the update :)
The problem is, everyone is doing this so there is no demand on any terminal, so you will spend hours trying to sell that cargo just to sell 2-4scu of that cargo… not worthy right now
yeah a couple days ago a bug surfaced that prevented servers from refilling demand so its screwed right now. hopefully its fixed early next week
good luck selling, contraband demand is low
yeah that's due to a bug that just appeared a couple days ago that prevents the demand from updating at the sell terminals on server ticks - hopefully they fix it soon!
Why would bounty targets have any cargo at all? Imho, cargo in NPC ships should be limited to salvage missions.
wait why wouldn't bounty targets have cargo? It's totally feasible to think of a bounty target just doing their random day-to-day stuff when you come upon them and blow their stuff up. If you're looking at it from a realistic perspective, it's not like the bounty targets are just sitting around in one spot in combat ready mode waiting for you (even if that's how the game is coded right now)
The combinations of ships should make a bit more sense though. If expect a big drug haul to have medium or heavy fighter escorts, not two Reclaimers
@@eavdmeeror the double starfarer escorting a 600i lol
This Info has been out for a very long time, a bit late to post when everyone knows and even has a bunch of videos of it, hell I found this out when they first put the new cargo into game in ptu.
yeah that's fair. I don't often rush to be the person who gets information out the quickest, I try to get more experience with the gameloop in hopes of being able to offer some additional insight or tips that other videos might not have. Sorry if you watched the video and didn't get anything out of it, I still appreciate you checking it out and giving me your feedback though
Too bad the sell terminals are bugged rn. Making this strategy useless
yeah that's due to a bug that just appeared a couple days ago that prevents the demand from updating at the sell terminals on server ticks - hopefully they fix it soon!
bit late with the video. they pulled the plug on this already saying the terminals are bugged lol, you know they dont want you being able to make millions that quick. it was good while it lasted
Yep unfortunately there was a bug over the weekend that prevented demand from being refreshed at the drug terminals. Fortunately it's fixed now, so any newer servers that are coming online are working properly and plenty of people have been able to sell again!
You picked the wrong time to upload this.
Alas, maybe one day I'll get faster at editing video, but unfortunately this week was not the time lol
Think they have nerfed this by making all illegal goods impossible to sell at any location.
its a bug but yea seems like i think it was everyone taking time to unlock erts then flooding the market
@@petterderter6354 don't think it is a bug do you have any grounds for that belief, might be over sales by everyone, but it consistently blocks sales. Seems more of a way to control the amounts being made as they don't want it us all having fleets of ships without spending money, more likely
I think it's not intentional - the servers aren't updating their demand at the salvage yards:
issue-council.robertsspaceindustries.com/projects/STAR-CITIZEN/issues/STARC-72825
issue-council.robertsspaceindustries.com/projects/STAR-CITIZEN/issues/STARC-96005
issue-council.robertsspaceindustries.com/projects/STAR-CITIZEN/issues/STARC-95815
They gonna patch this and then we all finna be bored
they'll probably nerf it, yeah... but i'll still play. I liked the game well before drug running was a thing and I'll like it when it's brought back down to reasonable profits
dude we cant sell drugs anymore its buged
Yeah unfortunately that bug surfaced only like a day before I finished this video :( Unfortunate timing - hopefully they can fix it quickly
I have been raided by the space police twice at Brio on Daymar, with all my eggs and maze confiscated and everywhere is constantly at "no demand" lately
They seem to have turned up the space police a lot yesterday, i'm not sure if its intentional or a bug. The server demand not updating for drugs is aknown bug though, and hopefully it's fixed soon! Remember that if you're getting scanned by security you can quantum away without getting a CS. Even if you just fly away and don't stop, you only get a CS1 which you can pay off for 20k and you don't even lose your drugs.
Except you can't sell a damn thing
Sorry for the late response bossman, there was a bug for about 3 days that prevented selling, but that was fixed by the time you made this comment. Are you still having issues?
@WingZeroType it felt like much longer it was smth about the stock being full, idk if it's a thing because I switch to salvaging
THIS DOESNT WORK: Drug sales are locked right now. Can't believe you would post this video while RSI has literally disabled this game mechanic. Don't waste your time on this people, at least log in and ask the server if drugs are still locked. Until then downvote this video for false advertsiement. You'll have a ship full of illegal cargo that you can't get rid of.
Dude, the bug happened the day before he posted it. Relax and just enjoy the video. WingZeroType has no control over what happens in the 'Verse.
Yep unfortunately there was a bug over the weekend that prevented demand from being refreshed at the drug terminals. Fortunately it's fixed now, so any newer servers that are coming online are working properly and plenty of people have been able to sell again!
I couldn't sell shxt, so I was wondering if this is before the data bug
He released this the day after the bug hit. No way of knowing that would happen
The bug is fixed as of 7 hours ago! Newer servers that are coming online will be working normally!
thanks man
It was great running into your twitch stream today. Looking forward to future projects. stem_gamers 👈
Thanks man! great to meet you as well! Keep up the good work!