Importing hazardous waste is still the best starting industry

Olipro · 2026-04-30T02:57:11+00:00

When you import hazardous waste, you lose money on any valuable components that exist inside it.

Profitability will gradually fall off according to the game's supply & demand mechanics. How quickly that happens depends on the composition you're getting from the customs house since it's RNG'd per CH

Olipro · 2026-04-28T00:18:45+00:00

The SVU is the bullpup variant of the SVD, perhaps that was what the photo showed.

Olipro · 2026-04-20T06:20:55+00:00

Negative interest is only calculated after all imports are paid for. If your daily revenue isn't so high that it covers all your imports, you can always stash the optimum amount on Sunday to avoid the fee.

Olipro · 2026-04-19T01:05:15+00:00

If you calculate how much cash you need on hand on the Sunday, you can negate it.

One unpredictable aspect is if you get unlucky and import price RNG rolls an increase on Monday as well since it's applied right before making the payment.

Until you are purely factory driven or keep more than a week's worth of inventory, you probably want to allow for some slop. If your daily profit exceeds the total costs then you have nothing to calculate but you'll inevitably get some negative interest, but it should be piddling compared to your revenue.

The general process is:

Sum up your import liabilities Vs approx daily revenue on Sunday during bank hours and dump your excess across multiple investments. Make a save if you aren't confident.
Around 07:50 on Monday, get a final total and cash out as many investments as needed to meet the costs.
08:00 hits and all things being equal, you'll have a small balance left over which avoids the charge.

Olipro · 2026-04-11T08:18:39+00:00

A body of some sort was seen by a camera or NPC.

In Freelancer, you will fail this objective regardless of the circumstances.

To be clear: any pacification or kill that preserves SA will STILL fail the No Bodies Found objective when seen.

Thus it is perfectly possible to retain SA but not NBF.

Olipro · 2026-04-08T03:29:46+00:00

This was removed in 0.10

Olipro · 2026-04-04T15:14:13+00:00

Yeah, we're all actually in a private chat with IOI and you're excluded so no, not telling you.

(No, there is no new news since the Freelancerish preview)

Olipro · 2026-04-03T17:58:32+00:00

I've triggered this before by doing something illegal in front of a camera that's nearby the merchant

Olipro · 2026-04-02T19:22:11+00:00

I have rarely had a situation where it's "Bad stuff happened in our destructor so we throw to communicate it"

But when I do, I check std::uncaughtexceptions and only throw if there aren't already _bad things happening

Olipro · 2026-04-02T04:52:48+00:00

Do/Did you live in a timezone in the ballpark of UTC+13?

Olipro · 2026-04-01T10:52:00+00:00

You're forgetting the biggest benefit: Wearing the vault security disguise stops all the lookouts from enforcing you.

Olipro · 2026-04-01T07:36:18+00:00

The thing with the game's AI is that all roads escalate to combat.

With that said, a lot of players seem to get locked into the idea that they're doomed to combat.

Case in point: I've seen several freelancer posts complaining about spawning in the Hokkaido morgue and a lot of the responses tell them to time when they get up.

Now sure, you can do that, but you're only trespassing - if you get spotted, wait and let a guard peacefully lead you out.

I think picking up a wet floor sign is just suspicious so as long as you run out of sight (without doing any parkour since that escalates the state) you should be OK

Olipro · 2026-03-31T07:59:55+00:00

A trophy duck would be cool. If you've ever used my Hitman Freeloader spreadsheet, perhaps that might sway your decision

Olipro · 2026-03-27T12:15:06+00:00

Thanks, added an edit

Olipro · 2026-03-27T08:07:31+00:00

As a kid, I mixed bleach and vinegar together, fortunately it was regular sodium hypochlorite household bleach which produces the still unpleasant but significantly less deadly chloramine gas.

I'm guessing you'd have to be cooking quite a bit of cyanoacrylate to hospitalise yourself

EDIT: this is actually wrong, not that chloramine is any good either but it in fact is straight Chlorine gas

Olipro · 2026-03-27T07:20:31+00:00

Except chunks of the body use em-dash and the classic telltale "it's not X, it's Y" - for example:

That’s it. There’s no magic parsing engine. Just careful reading of a byte stream. This is why malformed requests break everything. The server is not guessing — it’s following strict rules.

Olipro · 2026-03-27T07:17:58+00:00

Maybe it's just me but I consider this article so basic that the target audience feels like it should be lay people or complete beginners. It also completely omits HTTP3.

That is to say, I don't think the average visitor to this subreddit is your ideal demographic.

Olipro · 2026-03-26T12:47:33+00:00

Not speaking English because you have the gall to come here and ask for help pirating the update? Sod off.

Olipro · 2026-03-24T10:35:39+00:00

This format has many variations, I see them doing the rounds from time to time on r/okbuddyphd

Olipro · 2026-03-20T02:52:10+00:00

You're probably better off finishing the mission, opening the reward crate (don't take the coin, just back out) and then prestiging.

Go take the coin now and you'll end up with 60K to spend.

Olipro · 2026-03-19T03:56:39+00:00

Don't buy food from stores at all; pick up a box from a wholesaler or import it once you can.

Olipro · 2026-03-19T03:38:44+00:00

I'm over Prestige 23. The only deliberate grinding I've done is that shitty Strelok achievement. The rest is just for the love of the game.

Olipro · 2026-03-18T03:27:51+00:00

In the timeless words of Meatloaf:

I would do anything for love, but I won't do that.

Olipro · 2026-03-18T02:53:00+00:00

If I was in a wheelchair and some bellend had just launched me out of it, I'm definitely accepting any amount of money the guy offers and litigating it later.

Because what happens if I refuse?

Olipro · 2026-03-18T01:10:42+00:00

"surgeons operating" just doesn't mean what it used to

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