~Privateer (Tip)

Tips obtained via the Internet.

~I've recently started playing Privateer (which IMHO is a great game)
~and I don't have enough credits het to buy a Centurion class ship.
~Unfortunately the manual (or the game) doesn't list the price of the
~ships but I had enough to purchase an Orion and a Galaxy. I have
~about 120,000 credits (plus a Tarsus for trade-in).  How close am I?


It has been a while but the number 200,000 comes to mind.  The 
easiest way is to try and buy it. When the salesmen stops giving 
you shit for not having enough $ he'll tell you how much you still 
need.  When I played this game I went from the Taurus to the 
centurian.  You'll need at least 75,00 to 100,000 more credits than 
the price tag to outfit it properly.  The best way to earn money is
to pick acouple of patrol missions, (run the navs and kill a few 
squids) and trade back and forth between an agriculture base and a 
mining base.  Buy food on the ag. base and sell it to the mining.  
Buy ore on the mining base and sell it to the ag. base.  You can 
earn 15,000 - 20,000 credits a mission this way. 

