MarrV wrote:Am sure others who have been using this route can give better, or at least more experienced figures.
Just to follow up on this, I did another Kamuy to Medb run this morning.
Fill start to redock at ockels was 1:09.
233 profit this run from 198 thrill seekers taking 14 minutes to fill.
3.377~ million per minute then, or 202.6~ million per hour in this case.
An NPC (in a FDL) tried to interdict me near Vela (as usual), but it seems that NPCs don't plot an intercept course, they just chase your exhaust like muppets.
As I approached Vela, I slowly veered off to 45 degrees until I was roughly parallel to it, then snapped back hard to go directly towards it again.
Then after over shooting it, I snapped back and docked without trouble. Pretty sure the NPC passed well within interdiction range twice, but perhaps because of the high transversal velocity due the course changes, they couldn't get a lock to pull me out and they just buzzed past me helplessly.
Whether this takes longer than submitting or playing the mini game is debatable, but out flying the NPCs is kinda satisfying.
Various factors come into play though. Your ship's handling in supercruise, theirs and maybe some luck too.
As soon as I landed, there were some juicy passenger missions available so I did another run.
Time to fill was 7 minutes with 199 passengers, (hopefully all in possession of life insurance). Some high payouts per head lead me to take some lower ones just to get off the ground faster.
Fill start to redock at ockels 1:01
225 million in profit.
3.69~ million per minute.
221 profit per hour this run.
I wasn't bothered on the way to Vela, but tried to out fly an interdiction between Vela and Lie silo and failed miserably. Probably not going fast enough. No harm done though. (which is lucky since I have no shields, weapons or defenses apart from some hull reinforcements)
Kamuy has 7 factions, which I assume increases mission rolls vs Parutis. It may also be more optimal for Medb runs if there are fewer habitable systems within range (reducing the pool of destinations which in turn increases the chance of missions to Medb).
As for my choice of ship, I did this just fine with a shieldless conda - stacking 192~ warm bodies. I've just made so much cash that I burned 700M on donations for rank in empire and the federation and then bought some cooler ships. I went for the cutter first, because I kinda dig the ostentatious saudi prince vibe. (It totally wasn't because I forgot to specify cargo and didn't notice that one of the other 5 slots was reserved, so I never once thought that the cutter could hold more than the conda. That never happened).
I swapped to the vette because it holds 8 more and I need to spend my disgusting amounts of cash on something.
Is this nub friendly? Well, you will need to bootstrap your way up to larger ships, but I've been playing since Christmas. Once you are on a roll, it's a money juggernaut.