Black Market

[derter10]

How do you ascend rank on the black market¿?


some tips are that you need to many things so that they gain trust
but i have done this and nothing happen

if anyone got tips please reply

THNX

[Drako Slyith]

once you get the ID by selling illegals at a hotel you need to buy a lot from the BM. Eventually, they trust you more and give you missions.

[derter10]

do you now how much ¿?

[Drako Slyith]

I don't. Typically, I don't bother with the BM, simply because to get any benefit out of them you have to spend immense amounts of money, and at that time all my money is spent on upgrades.

[derter10]

ok THNX

[Prophet]

You get Black Market xp for buying items from the BM. Spending a total of 1 Million creds on Illegal items will get you up to Sindikat Lord

Once you have the ID AND the smuggler's cargo hold (2200 creds at a BM station) and about 50K-70K creds, go to a bm station, buy ALL of the illegal drugs, go to a CW Station; the big one like Eridani, or St Kats. Go to the victorian pub and sell all the drugs. If you are lucky to have alot of BM stations, go to each one and buy the same drug in bulk (ie. buy all the booster from all the stations) then sell all the boosters to one station.

Rinse, repeat, profit.

This is considered an exploit but makes gaining BM xp easy.

[Aury]

Wait, that's an exploit?

[ThePrivateer]

Possible Spoiler/Exploit Alert!

It is possible to get a Black Market ID by other means, but the best one I know is to take illegal goods to a Resturaunt, and you will be approached by brothers who want to buy your goods. This does not always work - sometimes they are actually police in disguise, but that is the risk you must take to get the ID. Save beforehand so you have a backup in case things go wrong.

The best pattern I have seen for making money and advancing rank goes something like this (I use this often).

Buy drugs at Tempus Lab (or similar) --- sell at Black Market --- buy goods (often the ones you just sold) at Black Market --- sell at Commonwealth Victoria Pub.

That way you make two lots of profit. Now, a warning:
You need the cargo hold to safely dock with the Commonwealth Station.


A Corporate Building (the Greencorp 'Trashcans') will not scan you, but it's better to be safe than sorry. The Trashcans will buy drugs off you at the Maintenence Level, but they pay very low rates.

Do NOT buy from the Black Market and sell at the Trashcans. You will lose money - lots of it.

I think that just about covers it all. You will make money, and gain rank in the BM at the same time. This is an easy way to get cash.

[Aury]

you can buy are tempus labs and sell at trashcans

[Prophet]

The exploit is the fact that you can sell nearly infinite amounts of one drug type to the pub without the game checking that it can in fact pay for the drugs. Its the same 'SELL IN BULK' exploit that we all use.

MY favorite strategy when there are lots of BM stations/tempus labs, is to scout a few systems,
1) Go to each station/lab and buy the same drug from all of them, and only that one drug.
2) Take it back to a CW pub, profit.
3) Repeat steps 1 and 2 with a different drug and a different CW pub untill all BM stations are empty.

By this point you should be able to ask the BM for better equipment and they will probably ask you to do a mission for them.

[Ttech]

In earlier versions I was able to sell all illigal items quite often, some of which shouldn't be sold in a bar.

[Aury]

Rather odd you could sell actinides, cadavers, and more in a /bar/

[Ttech]

Rather odd you could sell actinides, cadavers, and more in a /bar/

My point exactly exactly. Though you know it is space - so some bars might have a bit more flexable then others.

[ThePrivateer]

Rather odd you could sell actinides, cadavers, and more in a /bar/

My point exactly exactly. Though you know it is space - so some bars might have a bit more flexable then others.

"I want my dead body murdered, not dead of old age."

(reference to Bond line, "I like my martini shaken, not stirred")

[Song]

Rather odd you could sell actinides, cadavers, and more in a /bar/

My point exactly exactly. Though you know it is space - so some bars might have a bit more flexable then others.

"I want my dead body murdered, not dead of old age."

(reference to Bond line, "I like my martini shaken, not stirred")

"I like my women like I like my coffee: Tied up in a sack in the boot of my car"

Quote-"From somewhere"