I've heard about Megarob, understand the basics like robbing and stealing, but I was wondering if someone could explain to me the best ways to make money as an evil. Thanks.

In general, the most common red cashing method is SDT. Things like port density, planet negotiation percentage, rob, and steal factors can make a difference, though.

Drop me an email at tradewarrior55@yahoo.com.
I will send you a list of things i use to help someone learn red play. It is just the basics but I feel it will get you started in the right direction. I am not an expert at red play but I have been taught by some of whom I beleive are top red and Blue players. Anyway good luck to you.

Give TW55 an email, he taught me. Knows what he is talking about.

If planet negotiation is 60% or higher, you want to SDT. If it is very low, then SST makes more money.

I wrote some functions to help a red player out, but I never had the time to finish them. They are in Access VBA format and I made an attempt to convert them to C functions. Due to family and college issues, I had to make it a low priority.

Things like how much exp you need to rob X credits with a steal factor of Y% in a Non-MBBS game, etc. Or how much to megarob in a MBBS game based on how much the port says it has. Also how many figs you need to lose against a blue player's personal figs to go down X in alignment.

Should I get the chance, I may just convert them to ASP or PHP calculators for people to use for free. I am looking more towards PHP as I am trying to migrate everything on my server to Linux and Apache. That is, if anyone is interested in learning how to calc things with a web calculator.

A lot depends on how many credits you can get/haggle ssting. EP gets 45k credits or more per port. In that case, sdt isn't more profitable unless the planet trade is 80% or more. If you can only get around 38k credits/port (most haggle routines), you wouldn't want to sdt unless it was 65%-70% planet trade or highter. While at 60% you can make the same credits/turn sst as sdt, the cost of upgrading ports makes sdt net less money.

Tradewarrior, why not post this list here instead of e-mailing it?

K3 you forget, EP is not human. heh

Slim

Thanks Slim... I think.

You are right on Harley. My average ship trade for 250 holds at good ports is about 44,350 credits. I think people would laugh at me if I told them what the theoretical maximum for 250 holds is. I think I'll pose the question on the weblog to see if anyone is close.

+EP+

lol, yes EP it is very much a compliment. i've never played a game with you, but i've read your posts and you are a genius and the man

Slim

quote:Originally posted by ElderProphet

Thanks Slim... I think.

You are right on Harley. My average ship trade for 250 holds at good ports is about 44,350 credits. I think people would laugh at me if I told them what the theoretical maximum for 250 holds is. I think I'll pose the question on the weblog to see if anyone is close.

+EP+


Theoretical maximums are rarely even close to the possible maximum.
I would guess that 46700 to 47500 is going to be where the max possible is.

Thanks for the input. I've copied your post to the weblog here: http://jroller.com/page/ElderProphet
I'll post the answer in a few days.

In this case, the max possible is within a credit or so from the theoretical maximum, and can be achieved quite frequently.