EDCT VS AD-EDWarthogEnhancedScript

I agree with /u/SkynetGDN but if you are in a hurry the bare minimum is 5.3B for the carrier, refuel, repair, and armory, one week of maintenance and 100M working cash. As soon as you get the carrier you'll need to find a port with large pads selling at least 25Kt Agronomic Treatment for under 3K/t. Jump your carrier there and fill it to capacity. Now find another dock buying at least 30Kt for at least 13K/t, and unload your carrier. You have now made 250M, which is enough to keep the carrier lights on for a few months (your maintenance with RRR is about 10M/week). Also consider getting elite dangerous carrier trader which will help find other potentially profitable routes. WARNING - EDCT is currently broken. don't use it until the 3.0 update comes out.

Unhappily it seems there is only EDCT but this is currently not working and all other trade route planners etc are for normal ships. I understand why it needs a lot compute power so there are no websites. Then I started clicking random commodities in inara/eddb and comparinng all the numbers. I had in mind that some more recent guides suggested Agronomic Treatment but things like Gold, Platinum or Bauxite seemed way more profitable.

Your bare minimum is 5.3B for the carrier, refuel, repair, and armory, one week of maintenance and 100M working cash. Then you'll need to find a port with large pads selling at least 25Kt Agronomic Treatment for under 3K/t. Jump your carrier there and fill it to capacity. Now find another dock buying at least 30Kt for at least 13K/t, and unload your carrier. You have now made 250M, which is enough to keep the carrier lights on for a few months (your maintenance with RRR is about 10M/week). Also consider getting elite dangerous carrier trader which will help find other potentially profitable routes.

For commodity and location, there is a specific tool for it, Elite: Dangerous Carrier Trader, which is also linked in the sidebar.

The information for this trade was gathered by EDCT. You can download the tool here: https://github.com/Fi0x/EDCT/releases/latest.

Right - the tritium cost depends on how far you jump and how full your carrier is. You can use the Fleet Carrier Router to get a close estimate. Normally the first jump is cheaper since you will be empty or nearly empty of cargo. Here's my post on bulk trading. You may also want to get a copy of u/Fi_0x's Carrier Trader Utility

I personally use the Target software for ED with the https://github.com/Aussiedroid/AD-EDWarthogEnhancedScript. Have a look at this. I can highly recommend this. If you use this maybe your problems are gone as mine. I never had issues since I am using this preconfig. It also works perfect with Voice attack to play in VR.

I use alterNERDtive’s profile, which has a working docking request command. My HOTAS also has a docking request button assigned, from aussiedroid’s bindings.