Brought my alternate exploring account back to the bubble to make some credits before the big FC drop. Was sitting on 3.2 bil, and my main was at 4.6 bil, that was a month ago. Didn't have a Vette on the alt account cause didn't wanna pay for one right now, until I picked up a Kill Pirate mission that I couldn't complete in my Conda, it was the type that gives you a Mission Signal, you drop in, and about 7 or 8 highly ranked ships gank you. So instead of abandoning the mission, I sunk the 800 mil into the Vette and took a few hours engineering everything, then grabbed a wingmate and my trusty crew member and completed the mission.
Then I began to find ways to link my 2 accounts together so that they could both build up their bank accounts at the same time. Of course, the first thing was Triple LTD mining with 2 mining cutters. Takes a bit longer filling up with 450 or so LTDS, moving both ships and all, but making over 400 mil on the load, plus another 20 or so mil in trade dividends makes the time worthwhile enough. Also do a lot of multi-crewing to let my alt account build up her combat rating. That extra pip is quite useful even if all my main account does is just sit there. Plus can share Winged Missions with the Multi-Crew. Also did some Winged go fetch missions and cargo missions. Now my alt account has 8.7 bil in cash reserves and my main account has 8.2 bil in the bank. My main has over 14 bil in assets while the alt doesn't have much in the way of ships, (and what ships I do have are not completely outfitted, I just switch the modules around a lot as I need them), so it has somewhere around 6 bil in assets.
But I do recall, in the beginning, it seemed to take forever to get my first billion, but then, in the beginning, you didn't make much at anything you did. Explorers had to explore for the exploration, not the money cause it didn't really pay. And the missions were substandard in pay most times, unless you hit an exploit that happened occasionally, like the Robigo Slave runs, which were entertaining.
I guess I would be a 1% if you count the assets, never thought I'd be up there since I never really focused on making credits until now, and in the span of a month, focusing mainly on that, I have more than doubled the bank account on both accounts simultaneously.
