Lin Kuei Ominae
Rear Admiral
A while ago i found a bug in the ingame cargo system, that can be used to get money for free (no savegame hack necessary).
And this is how it goes:
Take a freighter and buy one ton of e.g. Brikcrete (just to occupy the first cargo pod)
Then buy several hundred tons of a cheap commodity like Grain.
Now sell the 1 ton from the first cargo pod and empty it this way.
Now go to the Bulletin Board and hire a different Freighter.
Go back to the commodities and you see that now the first cargo pod is filled.
If you now buy 1 ton of something expensive, the second pod (which was previously filled with many tons of cheap Grain) is now fill with several hundred tons of the expensive commodity.
When hiring a new freighter, the game reorganizes the cargo pods by moving full pods up into empty pods. However it doesn't sets the amount of cargo stored in the pod back to 0 and only sets "Null" for the stored commodity type. So basically you still have hundred tons of nothing stored.
When you now buy something, the cargo type is changed from "nothing" to the new commodity and the amount of tons is added by 1.
I've attached some pictures showing the 5 steps.
btw, does anyone know how i can convert my german Privateer 2 the Darkening into an english one (the english text would be already enough, as i doubt anyone wants to upload the 1.5GB of movies)
And this is how it goes:
Take a freighter and buy one ton of e.g. Brikcrete (just to occupy the first cargo pod)
Then buy several hundred tons of a cheap commodity like Grain.
Now sell the 1 ton from the first cargo pod and empty it this way.
Now go to the Bulletin Board and hire a different Freighter.
Go back to the commodities and you see that now the first cargo pod is filled.
If you now buy 1 ton of something expensive, the second pod (which was previously filled with many tons of cheap Grain) is now fill with several hundred tons of the expensive commodity.
When hiring a new freighter, the game reorganizes the cargo pods by moving full pods up into empty pods. However it doesn't sets the amount of cargo stored in the pod back to 0 and only sets "Null" for the stored commodity type. So basically you still have hundred tons of nothing stored.
When you now buy something, the cargo type is changed from "nothing" to the new commodity and the amount of tons is added by 1.
I've attached some pictures showing the 5 steps.
btw, does anyone know how i can convert my german Privateer 2 the Darkening into an english one (the english text would be already enough, as i doubt anyone wants to upload the 1.5GB of movies)
