Current credit metas?

[jacozilla]

Don’t need much detail or in depth responses, just helpful bullet point list and can research / try out.

Long time vet but came back from break. Last played before all the rebalances patches, when laser / SSD mining was king (even without the egg respawn).

I know from brief searches that bounties and combat are up quite a bit, but if had to list, what would be the top 2-3 meta methods? Or like mining was for 2+ years, is there only one?

already tried cargo delivery and looks like it sucks after recent nerf patch, while source and return cargo looks decent? Is multi faction massacre pretty much it or are there couple other options at top of cr/hr options?

 

[Dragsham]

1) Laser mining painite or ltds pays well.
2) stacking pirate massacres.

3) passenger runs the usual suspects.
4) high end AX combat pays very well

 

[jacozilla]

Ahhh, awesome - all my mining ships are still setup for laser mining. Had tried core mining briefly when read they fixed the PWS but never really enjoyed it as much as regular laser mining. I like combat too so guess will swap between laser mining and massacres to avoid grinding one same thing

 

[Red Anders]

Ahhh, awesome - all my mining ships are still setup for laser mining. Had tried core mining briefly when read they fixed the PWS but never really enjoyed it as much as regular laser mining. I like combat too so guess will swap between laser mining and massacres to avoid grinding one same thing

You can make close to 300k per untit on painite or platinum laser mining, even in a singe hotspot which are hardy hard to find that's paying decent amounts for laser mining and is fast. It's also easy to find selling stations with decent demand for platinum, so the bulk tax etc isn't as much of an issue. Yeah it's not 200m+ an hour but then again there's still nothiung in the game that requires earnings at that level so iit's hardly a problem.

 

[Mrc_NorthEast]

Pirate massacre mission stacking; Loop trade runs aba style; Passenger missions from robigo might be the most $$$; and any combat got a decent buff;

 

[Trollymctrollerson]

The better question to ask is what is the best way to max out G5 material storage? Even mediocre activities pay out 100 million credits in a few hours of play. Engineering is the bottleneck when amassing power and assets.

 

[jacozilla]

The better question to ask is what is the best way to max out G5 material storage? Even mediocre activities pay out 100 million credits in a few hours of play. Engineering is the bottleneck when amassing power and assets.

agreed. Fortunately on main account I did it slowly but surely over time, starting with eng 1.0 release and just slowly building up bit by bit.

on 2nd Acct I just can’t bring myself to do all over again so just stuck with mostly g3 and only g5 for fsd. Having done eng over years as it evolved was kinda organic and felt natural, but as a ’new‘ account it does seems like a gigantic mountain.

 

[Northpin]

1) Laser mining painite or ltds pays well.
2) stacking pirate massacres.

3) passenger runs the usual suspects.
4) high end AX combat pays very well

Nah, scratch 1) from the list
Eventually replace it with mapped platinum mining in a Hotspot/hazres combo.
There was an YT video posted on the forums about filling 512t of platinum in 30 minutes

Painite and LDT are not big payers anymore.