This guide is written for people that work all day and want to come home and play a cool space game without having to feel like it’s a second job. I don’t know about you, but I work too hard and worry too much about money already and the last thing I want is having to feel broke on a video game…

Easiest and quickest way that I found to side step the grind and make money in X3 Albion Prelude is using the stock exchange, and by manipulating it.

I am getting well over 100 million++ credits in less than 2min (per run) without cheats. I did this in a 100% vanilla game as an argon peace keeper.

Please note that I wrote this guide a year or two ago but was too lazy to publish it, as far as I know nothing has changed in game. If you are a new player and you need more detailed information, I recommend looking at other guides/maps on basic game play, where software/locations are located and the basics on the stock exchange and mining.

This is the way i did it with argon peace keeper with an initial investment of 30k and took me about two full days to achieve this:

>Start as Argon peacekeeper and do the opening tutorial missions etc.

> After completing the opening missions, buy the software needed to remotely access the stock exchange in order to use seta.

>Go to the stock exchange in Grand Exchange and pay the 10k fee to use the stock exchange.

> In the corporate/company stock exchange Start buying as much shares as you can of a stock when the index of it is at 99/100.

> wait/use the seta at 5-10x until the index that you bought shares for drops a couple or a few points below 99 and then sell all shares, even if it’s just a little profit. Make sure you have the software to remotely access the stock exchange in order to use seta.

>Rinse and repeat buying at 99 and selling below it.

> Eventually the Money WILL add up to the point where you can buy all the shares and then all the shares from multiple companies. Rinse and repeat until you have over 100 mill in the bank.

I did this for a few hours and was eventually making millions. By the end of the night I had around 100mill. See my screen shots below.

> Use the 100 mill to buy a mammoth and a couple super freighters and buy all the software/upgrades you can for them. Make sure you have the ore collector, jump drive and fuel for the junp drive installed on the mammoth and on whatever else you want o mine nividium with.

I used the mammoth for all of the mining. At a minimum, you should have a mammoth equipped with a mining laser, remote operating software, jump drive, ore collector and energy for the jump drive.

>Buy a mining laser, equip it on the mammoth or whatever you want to use for mining.

>make sure you have energy credits and a jump drive for the mammoth.

> go to Perpetual Sin and mine a Nividium, I got 2,692 units worth of it. The more units you have the more money you will make.

>Once you get your desired amount of units ( i recommend over 2k) Jump the mammoth full of nividium to PTNI headquarters. Make sure you have access to the stock exchange there (PTNI Teladi stock exchange).

> Open the local stock exchanges at PTNI. Under the Minerals tab, buy all the stock you can in Nividium.

>Jump the mammoth full of nividium to nyana’s hideout.

>Open the local stock exchange (PTNI Teladi stock exchange) and sell the shares. You should have made a lot of credits. My 2,692 units got me a profit of 83,359,827 per run. Also, the amount of stock you can buy will be limited based on how much credits you have when you first start trading nividium shares. In a couple of runs you will be able to buy all the shares.

> Buy a factory and place it somewhere in argon territory so you have access to the argon stock exchange.

>Get access to the Argon stock exchange. There is one at Argon Prime.

> When your mammoth is at nyana’s hideout buy all the shares in nividium (on the argon stock exchange), then jump the mammoth Back to PTNI and sell the shares from nyana’s hideout(argon stock exchange) to make another 83mill.

> So now, when your mammoth is at PTNI headquarters you should be selling the stock you bought from nyana’s hideout (on the Argon Stock exchange) and then buying all the shares at PTNI headquarters( teladi stock exchange), then jumping the mammoth to nyanas hideout selling your shares you bought at PTNI and then buying the nividium shares on the argon stock exchange.

>Rinse and repeat. Buying and selling from the Teladi and Argon stock exchanges untill you get your desired amount of money.

> if you want more money per run, mine moar nividium.


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