2 weeks ago, I never thought I would have the cash to even think about buying a reduced Anaconda, at 123m the 16% discount is quite a bargain. But a good trade route, perseverance and also a sizable amount of liquid assets made that discarded thought a reality for me today!
I've been running a 3 hop trade route in the python for the last 2 days, on paper and stopwatch I could do the run in 20 minutes making nearly 3 million an hour, but reality means that that paper estimates never bare any resemblance to the real thing. So it has been a hard grind to get some cash together. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if there wasn't a time element involved.
Nevertheless, I've achieved the secondary goal of reaching the trading rank of Entrepreneur:-
I gave up on trading at that point. Hat's off to @Fireytoad, he did that route for 2 weeks straight, 2 solid days was enough for me! Now for a break!
Fortunately, I did have some assets to liquidate. I sold my Viper and Cobra, both of which I've not flown in months so I won't really miss them, and I've taken the Clipper (god I love that zippy ship so much after flying the ponderous Python for 2 weeks) to Shinrarta Dehzra and downgraded the A-rated modules that are sitting there underutilized. The way I see it, it shouldn't take long once the Anaconda is up and running to full trade capacity to replace them again. Make your money work for you instead of sitting in the shipyard. I feel a bit sad to strip the Clipper, but the Anaconda hull discount means I've already saved over 20 million. So definitely worth it in the long run!
And the Anaconda! What a big ship she is.....
A pure investment for the time being. I need quite a bit of cash now to start kitting it out and to replace the Clipper modules as my first priority, but at least I can raise that cash at my leisure with no time pressure.
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