don ' t exagerate dude , plenty of people finished the game , if the game isn ' t even starting up for you it ' s on your end . <| sep |> This is pretty much your one stop shop for info use Inara . cz for trades , because it uses the EDDB database with a more helpful frontend also gives you locations of ship modules , ships , discounts on them , etc . For rares , you can ' t go wrong with running the Rajukru Diamond . That ' s how I made bundles early on . Once you can afford it , for pure trading , the best way to go is Palladium andor Imperial Slaves . Generally the higher the item price , the more difference there will be between buying and selling over good routes . Like on the order of several thousand per ton . I don ' t recall what I was getting in a Cobra , but by the time you can get up to a Python , you can easily make million dollar runs . That said , it looks like passengers have been balanced again , so there ' s some easy money there , and a lot of the passenger runs are basically like cargo pick up from x and deliver to y . Long range missions can pay even better , before the 2 . 2 nerf and rebalance a little while back I was taking passengers on 2000 ly journeys for ~ 10 million . This is easily done in an Asp , and you can get exploration data to boot .