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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:01 pm
by Malcolm
Alrighty, which one makes the most cash over the long term given I'll most likely be doing this solo.
& how would I go about getting started on either of them?
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:00 pm
by TheCatt
Why not consider missions?
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:11 pm
by TPRJones
Mining is good if you've got the ship for it. Like a Mining Barge. Something with multiple turrets and a big fat cargo hold.
For trading all you need is the big fat cargo hold, and an interest in flying long boring distances to make cash. I've got a spreadsheet I update with key trade goods everytime I change regions, in order to keep on top of the best buy and sell prices available. If you don't enjoy that sort of monetary minutia, it'd get boring fast.
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:22 pm
by Malcolm
Why not consider missions?
My connection makes them more volatile than I'd like. However, considering the inherent boredom involved in mining & trading, I may stick w\ the missions & just run them in something inexpensive like a Merlin.
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:43 am
by TheCatt
Well, when I've been dropped in the middle of missions, my ship has always been warped out to a safe place.
Once, though, my game "Froze" in that it thought it was connected, but I could do NOTHING. I could change my view, look around but no weapons would launch, nothing happened, and I came back as a pod.
As for missions:
Doing level 3 missions with a 35 Quality agent I am making roughly 1.5mil/hour in bounties/mission payouts.
This does not include LP payouts (~750/hour) which translate into 25-40mil per 15k (thus 300-500k/hour)
This does not include loot, which varies, but I would estimate at 500k-1mil per hour (mainly driven by a few 1-5mil items I've gotten).
So I'd estimate missions make me about 2mil/hour right now. Which, according to eBay, is worth about 50 cents.
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:40 pm
by Malcolm
Well, that philosophy was short-lived. Got another Caracal & I'll hopefully soon be running concurrent lvl. IIs from Poinen.
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:19 pm
by TheCatt
Well, that philosophy was short-lived. Got another Caracal & I'll hopefully soon be running concurrent lvl. IIs from Poinen.
I thought Sankk 2 had the better concurrent lvl 2s?
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:13 pm
by Malcolm
Well, that philosophy was short-lived. Got another Caracal & I'll hopefully soon be running concurrent lvl. IIs from Poinen.
I thought Sankk 2 had the better concurrent lvl 2s?
Yeah, but not the kind that wanna talk to me yet.