first of all smash, its not allowed to F1 to change your ship even if its docked at same base, and you have a "RP story" tied to it... its been discussed for ages, and to make it clearer this was worked out and its NOT allowed.
second: the run between harris and mcduff takes you 48 secs including dock and undock, this means it CAN be done about 75 times in an hour... with a max profit of 1.35 mil each time you come back at the battleship... which in theory means you can make 101 mil in an hour, if you have constant speed, and no problem whatsoever with speeddock, other traders, pirates, npc's and god knows what else... Believe me ive tried, my longest spand around that route is 4 hours, and in 4 hours i made a max profit of 320 mil. This is without me chatting and in a constant try to be a fast as humanly possible. and do some simple math, 320/4=80 thus a profit of 80 mil an hour should be a good target... but be advised, more would be allmost impossible...
EDIT: As Puck stated below he was way ahead of me and my post... thus it has been told to you more then enough, do it and Puck will fall out of his chair laughing cus you lost 900 mill ((:O sorry guess i missed the link ^^ wont happen again ^^))
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