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PTN Booze Cruise Guide

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Booze Guide Overview

1. What is the Booze Cruise?
2. What can I do?
3. Can I adver­tise wine from my carrier?
4. What are the chan­nels for?
5. Facts
6. Trav­el­ling up 🛫
7. Trav­el­ling down  🛬
8. FAQs 
This guide is orig­i­nal­ly from our Dis­cord serv­er, from where it has been repro­duced with slight adap­ta­tions. You will need to be in our dis­cord serv­er to par­tic­i­pate in the booze cruise.
All names with a # in front of them are ref­er­ences to chan­nels on the serv­er, like­wise all names with an @ in front of them are refer­ances to roles. You can find this guide in #🍹booze-cruise-guide. Click here to join our Dis­cord server.

What is the Booze Cruise?

The booze cruise hap­pens when the peo­ple at the sta­tion Rack­ham’s Peak in the HIP 58832 sys­tem have a pub­lic hol­i­day. Dur­ing that time they ask for alco­hol and pay way way above galac­tic aver­age for it. This allows for great trade oppor­tu­ni­ties dur­ing the 48 h dura­tion of the par­ty. On a nor­mal day they already offer (an untyp­i­cal) 33k cr/t for 🍷 but on a pub­lic hol­i­day they pay more than 270k cr/t for 🍷! So 20,000 units of wine on a car­ri­er equates to more than 5.5 bil­lion cred­its total!
 
HIP 58832 is locat­ed 5k ly above the galac­tic plane. The view, look­ing down, is aston­ish­ing and unique. HIP 58832 can only be reached with a fleet car­ri­er as most jumps of the jour­ney are beyond the range of even a boost­ed FSD. The sys­tem’s sta­tion Rack­ham’s Peak has no L‑Pads, only M and S‑Pads. This makes the Type‑8 or Python the most viable car­go ship to trade with that station.
 
Run­ning a 280t car­go Python leaves the pilot with +72 mil­lion per trade. About 14 Pythons full of Wine, and you go from Pen­ni­less to Elite Trad­er. With a T8 that becomes +102 mil­lion per trade and 10 trips to get to elite.
 
Booze Cruise is a bet. There is always the pos­si­bil­i­ty of it not hap­pen­ing, We do our best to pre­dict it as pre­cise as pos­si­ble. Either way, you won’t get stuck at the peak: 7️⃣ Trav­el­ling down on your own from HIP 58832 is always an option.

PYTHON //

Python

Booze Python shielded

  • 67m Cr
  • No engi­neer­ing
  • 280 t
  • 341 m/s boost
  • 16.52 ly (laden)
Overview: A low cost shield­ed car­go Python. The shields are there to give you time to get back into super­cruise if you’re inter­dict­ed as you won’t be able to out­run NPC pirates with­out engi­neer­ing. Also works for all reg­u­lar M‑pad-to-car­ri­er trades.
EDSY
Cori­o­lis

PYTHON //

Python

Booze Python tuned

  • 215m Cr
  • Engi­neered thrusters
  • 288 t
  • 507 m/s boost
  • 16.37 ly (laden)
Overview: Thanks to its engi­neered thrusters and high­er cost armour, this Python can run an extra car­go rack instead of shields, rely­ing on its speed and armour to sur­vive NPC pirate encoun­ters. Also the best M‑Pad-to-car­ri­er trad­er in general.
EDSY
Cori­o­lis

Type‑8 //

Python

Booze Type‑8 Shielded

  • 41.7m Cr
  • Engi­neered thrusters
  • 384 t
  • 350 m/s boost
  • 14.15 ly (laden)
⚠️The Type‑8 is only avaible for arx or in Odyssey.

Overview: A low cost shield­ed car­go Type‑8. The shields are there to give you time to get back into super­cruise if you’re inter­dict­ed as you won’t be able to out­run NPC pirates with­out engi­neer­ing. Being SCO opti­mised also makes long super­cruise trips much faster.

EDSY
Cori­o­lis

Type‑8
Type‑8 //

Python

Booze Type‑8 tuned

  • 84.8m Cr
  • Engi­neered thrusters
  • 400 t
  • 526 m/s boost
  • 14.24 ly (laden)
⚠️The Type‑8 is only avaible for arx or in Odyssey.

Overview: A shield­less Type‑8 that relies on speed and armour to sur­vive NPC pirate encoun­ters. Being SCO opti­mised also makes long super­cruise trips much faster.

 

EDSY
Cori­o­lis

the Booze Cruise is a bet: there’s always a chance it won’t happen.

(We do our best to predict it as precisely as possible, though!)

How do I participate?

The Ship, Type‑8 or Python 
First buy a type‑8 or python with one of the load­outs from above.
 
Help loading wine 🍷 => ( / ) => =
Once you have your Ship docked on the snooze, switch to your best large pad haul­ing ship to help to load the car­ri­ers. Mak­ing sure that we have wine to sell lat­er on is a great way to spend the time while wait­ing for the cruise to start.
Head to #⁠🚰wine-celler-load­ing to find car­ri­ers to fill. The load­ing dis­cus­sion hap­pens in #⁠🥂wine-cel­lar-deliv­er­ies.
 
Traveling up 🛫
Next take your type‑8 or python and hitch a ride on a car­ri­er to the peak, these will get post­ed to #⁠🚠booze-cruise-depar­tures. If you do not want to be sit­ting up in HIP 58832 with­out any­thing to do, you can take the ⁠#🚕🅿booze-snooze-and-garage. It trav­els up soon after the hol­i­day is con­firmed. Mak­ing you only miss the 6 to 8 hours it needs to trav­el up but keeps you avail­able in the bub­ble until then.
 
Not in HIP 58832 yet
Car­ri­ers are like­ly to park in N-2 (HD 104495) 2 sys­tems before the peak, if the peak is already full. As soon as things move, any car­ri­ers head­ing up towards N0 from N2 will post a notice in #⁠🚠booze-cruise-depar­tures and ping the @Hitchhiker role. You can opt in to that role in ⁠#🍾booze-cruise-signup while you are in need of a trans­fer. To opt out, just click the but­ton again.
 
The waiting game ⏲️
Once you are there, you might need to wait for the hol­i­day to start. Have fun an chill out with oth­er CMDRs or play your sec­ond favorite game.
 
The hol­i­day will then start, last­ing for 48 hours. We will ping @PTN Booze Cruise when it starts. Hop in your Type‑8 or Python, buy wine from the car­ri­ers in ⁠#🧃wine-cel­lar-unload­ing and sell it to the sta­tion. This is best done in solo mode, as there is only one M pad at the sta­tion. Expect to wait for dock­ing NPCs.
It is also nice to keep every­one updat­ed by post­ing the car­ri­er wine totals in #🍸booze-cruise-chat as you are haul­ing to let every­one know how much wine is left on the carriers.
 
But how do i get back?
Once every­thing is over can choose your path back to the bub­ble via car­ri­er or hand­cuffs. See Trav­el­ling down 🛬

Can I advertise wine from my carrier?

Yes! It would be great to have you as a wine carrier.

Wine car­ri­ers don’t earn a prof­it, but instead break even. It’s a great way to pay it for­ward to new­er mem­bers in the com­mu­ni­ty. If you’re aim­ing to earn lots of cred­its, going as a hauler is the bet­ter choice. Being a wine car­ri­er means fill­ing your car­ri­er full with wine and shar­ing all of it with the com­mu­ni­ty at the peak, help­ing ensure there’s plen­ty of prof­it avail­able for the haulers. You can find more info about what this involves in ⁠#🍇wine-car­ri­er-guide.

To sign up, fill in the form linked in the pins of ⁠#🍸booze-cruise-chat.
If it’s your first time as a wine car­ri­er, you’ll get a DM, and then be grant­ed the @Wine Car­ri­er role.
This role is per event, so you’ll need to sign up again each time. If you’re doing a sec­ond trip or using mul­ti­ple car­ri­ers, fill out the form for each one — Pirate Steve wants accu­rate numbers!
 

Some things you should be aware of though, before you sign up:
1. Fill­ing a car­ri­er with 22000 t of wine and the **3784 t** of Tri­tium need­ed for the trip will cost in the region of **484 mil­lion** cred­its. Your total cost may dif­fer depend­ing on how much wine you load, which is usu­al­ly depen­dent on any ser­vices you have installed if you fill your car­ri­er full.

2. How­ev­er, all of the cred­its you spend load­ing your car­ri­er will be recouped when your car­ri­er is unloaded mean­ing you don’t make any loss or prof­it over­all for being a wine car­ri­er. (For a car­ri­er tak­ing 3784 trit and 22k wine)

3. Jump­ing a car­ri­er from the bub­ble to the peak will take you approx­i­mate­ly 6 hours, and anoth­er 6 hours to return from the peak back to the bubble.

What are the channels for?

 
⁠#🚏booze-cruise-sta­tus – Broad overview of the cur­rent cruise sta­tus. For exam­ple Run­ning or on hiatus
#🍾booze-cruise-signup – To opt in for noti­fi­ca­tions of key booze cruise events
#🧉booze-cruise-announce­ments – For announce­ments rel­e­vant to the booze cruise from the man­age­ment and sommeliers
#🚠booze-cruise-depar­tures – List­ing of known car­ri­er rides to/from the peak
#🚰wine-cel­lar-load­ing – Car­ri­er adverts for load­ing car­ri­ers with wine in the bubble
#🥂wine-cel­lar-deliv­er­ies – Coor­di­na­tion of the load­ing oper­a­tion in the bubble
#🧃wine-cel­lar-unload­ing – Car­ri­er adverts for unload­ing wine at the Peak (right click > Noti­fi­ca­tions > “All Mes­sages” for unload notifications)
#🍸booze-cruise-chat – Gen­er­al open booze cruise chat (Also used to post car­ri­er wine total when unloading)
#🚕🅿booze-snooze-and-garage – The Garage a safe place to leave your ships and log off at the peak and the Snooze car­ri­er that waits in the bub­ble and only trav­els up if and when the cruise hap­pens. (More info avail­able in the channel)

Facts

… about the Booze Cruise!

1. Car­ri­er own­ers run at breakeven prices, This means that the car­ri­er own­ers do not make a prof­it or a loss. How­ev­er there is an ini­tial upfront cost of 486 mil­lion to load a car­ri­er. (10k *22k = 220 mil for wine + 70k * 3784 = 266 mil for trit)
 
2. Jump­ing a car­ri­er up and down takes at least 12 hours of jump­ing (jumps at least 21 min apart)
 
3. Car­ri­er own­ers par­tic­i­pate most­ly out of gen­eros­i­ty, there is noth­ing in for them besides maybe haul­ing some wine themselves.
 
4. A car­go python sell­ing to Rack­ham’s Peak dur­ing PH gives a prof­it of 72 mil­lion. (280 t * 256k cr/t)
 
5. A car­go type‑8 sell­ing to Rack­ham’s Peak dur­ing PH gives a prof­it of 102 mil­lion. (400 t * 256k cr/t)
 
6. Load­ers in the bub­ble do this so peo­ple at the top can have fun mak­ing prof­its. The prof­its in the bub­ble are sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er than they are at the peak.
 
7. Car­ri­ers are avail­able to unload when the own­er is avail­able and finds time, not when Pirate Steve is thirsty!
 
8. ❗Booze Cruise is a bet. There is always the pos­si­bil­i­ty of it not happening❗

Traveling up 🛫

When trav­el­ing up the ⁠#🚕🅿booze-snooze-and-garage is the rec­om­mend­ed method, This car­ri­er leaves as soon as the pub­lic hol­i­day in rack­hams is announced and gets there ~6 hours into the event, leav­ing you 42 hours to haul wine. If you want to head up before that though and make use of the first 6 hours you can pick any car­ri­er in ⁠#🚠booze-cruise-depar­tures that is adver­tised as head­ing up to N0.
 
If you find your­self at any point stuck in N1, N2 or N3. Get the @Hitchhiker role from ⁠#🍾booze-cruise-signup. Then pay atten­tion to ⁠#🚠booze-cruise-depar­tures, any car­ri­ers head­ing towards the peak will ping that role giv­ing you the best chance to get to N0.
Please note, this role is removed after each cruise, and will need to be re-applied for each cruise you are tak­ing part in.

Traveling down 🛬

.…. you have more options: We rec­om­mend 1 or 2:
 
1. The :fleetcarrier:-way: Take a car­ri­er down. See #🚠booze-cruise-depar­tures (or if unlocked, the #🚕booze-snooze)
 
2. The hand­cuffs-loi­ter-way: Hov­er over the land­ing pad of the sta­tion until get­ting shot down > pay the rebuy + small fine > after the rebuy, spawn with your ship on a prison ship in COL 285 SECTOR YG-Y B16-1 (157Ly from Gali in the bubble)
 
3. The handcuffs-🔫-way: Shoot a “clean” ship at nav bea­con once > fly to Rack­ham’s > dock > con­tacts > author­i­ty > turn your­self in > with­out a rebuy, spawn with your ship on a prison ship (Hard­points are sold at Rack­ham’s Peak.)
 
4. The I‑don’t-want-my-ship-way: You per­ma­nent­ly lose your ship with this one (ide­al if you are in a spare stock sidewinder): destroy your ship > don’t pay the rebuy > spawn in bub­ble in a stock Sidewinder

FAQs 🛬

How to get the NPC off the Medium pad at HIP 58832 🧹
  • Get real close to Pad 5 (the sin­gle medi­um pad), yaw your ship to the right so you can see the NPC ship + your con­tacts pan­el to the left
  • Spam the Dock­ing Request but­ton 3–4 times; the NPC will try to quick­ly undock (<10 sec on the pad)
  • Wait for the orange guid­ance light to turn off (takes about ~10 sec­onds from the time the NPC launches)
  • Quick­ly press the Dock­ing Request but­ton again

Or watch this mini tuto­r­i­al video made by Dbandy: https://youtu.be/G5qx87K7PHE

What can I do when waiting in HIP 58832 for the cruise to start? 💤

Play your sec­ond favorite game or try somet­ing of the below. It might be worth ask­ing who else would be inter­est­ed in doing some­thing and group up for it. That is usu­al­ly the most fun, what­ev­er you do.

  • SRV ral­ly,
  • Boun­ty Hunt­ing,
  • Fight­er loops of Rack­hams Peak,
  • Ship rac­ing – wing from car­ri­er to the M pad, first to dock wins,
  • Try and get an SRV into orbit,
  • Odyssey mat grind­ing on P2,
  • Farm raw mats at plan­ets 1 and 2,
  • Find Raxxla,
  • Farm encod­ed emis­sions for man­u­fac­tured mats.,
  • Farm encod­ed data by scan­ning satel­lite at Rack­ham’s Peak.,
  • Map all plan­ets in sys­tem.,
  • Couri­er Joust­ing,
  • Snipe Spe­cious Cob­ble with a plas­ma sniper rifle and play foot­ball,
  • Slide down the side of a steep moun­tain on foot,
  • SRV bar­rel rolls over ships,
  • let a pirate destroy you cock­pit canopy and make it back to the FC and repair it before you run out of air. (atten­tion, you have no HUD when the canopy is gone),
  • CQC,
  • Meet up in the Odyssey sta­tion con­course,
  • Meet up on foot on any plan­et that is landable
The SuperCruiseAssist Trick

How to drop faster on the station/carrier

It makes the approach faster and skips the last part of the decel­er­a­tion phase. If done cor­rect­ly you’ll be drop­ping in on the sta­tion at high speeds. Some­times you’ll drop out on the oth­er side of the sta­tion (no risk of dam­age dur­ing the drop). Do not do this with bod­ies, only sta­tions, car­ri­ers and nav-bea­cons. Anoth­er name for it is doing a “Hot Drop”.

SCA Trick With Manual Throttle

Set key­binds to throt­tle 100% and 75% – the quick­er you can shuf­fle between the 2 the bet­ter. Set SCA in ship-options to man­u­al throt­tle.

Acti­vate SCA, point to the des­ti­na­tion, use 75% throt­tle to real­ly acti­vate it and fine-tune the direc­tion. When you are about 5 ls away from the tar­get, set the throt­tle to 100%. Con­tin­ue accel­er­at­ing until your ETA is 5 sec­onds. Now go back to 75% (= reac­ti­vate SC).

SCA Trick With Auto Throttle

Go 100% speed, at 10s to tar­get or ear­li­er let SCA take over. When 5ls away, accel­er­ate to the 100% from before, by aim­ing away from the tar­get, which deac­ti­vates SCA. Then at 5 sec­onds to des­ti­na­tion, back on tar­get for SCA to take over and drop you on the target.

What does N2 mean? What route are we taking? 
It is just ‘N’ with it’s val­ue as the counter for fleet car­ri­er jumps towards the peak. No need to remem­ber all the names of N15 to N3. All 4 PTN Squadrons book­marks have these sys­tems saved as well.

Lad­der Sys­tem List:

N‑0: HIP 58832 (Rack­ham’s Peak)
N‑1: HD 105341 (Car­ri­er Bot­tle­neck Sys­tem)
N‑2: HD 104495 (Car­ri­er Park­ing Sys­tem)
N‑3: HIP 57784
N‑4: HIP 57478
N‑5: HIP 56843
N‑6: HD 104392
N‑7: HD 102779
N‑8: HD 102000
N‑9: HD 104785
N10: HD 105548
N11: HD 107865
N12: Plaa Trua WQ‑C d13‑0
N13: Plaa Trua QL‑B c27‑0
N14: Wre­goe OP‑D b58‑0
N15: Wre­goe ZE‑B c28‑2
N16: Gali (Chad­wick Dock)

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