in which economies can i buy chromatic metal?

[ZeizhE]

i wanted to puy myself a lot of chromaticmetal to have a supply, since you need chromatic metal for almost everything but i don't know what economies to look in

[MrBarskih]

Don't think that an chromaticmetal depends on system's economy

[Migromul]

Better tip: get a freighter, fly to a blue system, land on a planet with activated indium. This converts 1:4 to chromatic metal. (You get a freighter for free, the first time you warp to another system. I would be picky, though, since freighters are expensive to exchange. If you don't take your first one, you must warp several times to get another chance. A freighter with at least 25 slots should do.)

[oreyos]

You can make a lot of it with some patience and a medium/large refiner

2 copper -> 1 chromatic metal
1 chromatic metal + 1 copper -> 4 copper

So this means you gained 1 copper for each 3 you start with.

This also works for cadmium/emeril/indium

You can also get chromatic metal from one of the frigate types if you land on it.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

Recrute some trade frigates. Dock your starship on them. Tadaa ! 100 chromatic metal per frigate. So with a balanced fleet, that makes 500 chromatic metal available every 30 minutes.

[Captain Brendig]

Get to a green system and mine two stacks of emeril. With a medium/large refiner you can get unlimited of both.

One stack Em refines to 475 Chromatic Metal. Refine one stack of CM + the other stack of EM for another four stacks of EM plus 175 CM leftover. Rinse & repeat.

[dashiichi]

Get good at fighting pirates and bounty ships. Pretty soon you'll have so much chromatic metal you'll need to sell stacks of it to make room.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

Originally posted by dashiichi:

Get good at fighting pirates and bounty ships. Pretty soon you'll have so much chromatic metal you'll need to sell stacks of it to make room.

Or just equip your starship with a fully upgraded positron ejector (fragments supercharger + 6 S-rank modules)... when you got the "hostile scan detected", stop moving. Check your surrounding to spot the circles marking where the hostile ships will arrive, switch to your positron ejector and aim at those circles. When you ear the "hostile ships approaching" press fire and grab the loot.

No need to be good at fighting with a spaceship sized high-magazine automatic shotgun (aka the positron ejector), all you need is to have all your targets in front of you and at firing range once.

[japp_02]

It's not economy-related, you can craft it with Copper which you find everywhere. At space stations you will randomly find NPC's which sell it in big quantities if it's a wealthy system.