Someone said it would be around 30 mil an hour here. Yes I have a kws. I spent an hour blowing up ships and only have like 3 mil in vouchers.
Haz Rez bounties, am I doin something wrong?
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To max out your income rate I expect you need to pick up a pirate massacre mission or two?
On those pirate missions, would I need to scan every ship with the kws before i blow it up?
I’d say yes if you’re talking about absolutely maximising your earning; you’d get the mission payout on completion, plus bounties and kill-warrant bonus. I’m not the man to talk to about maxing out your earnings though so someone will probably be here shortly to correct me!
I dont have any missions in the haz rez. Someone said that bounties alone there paid out that much for an hour
30mil an hour sounds like a combat elite pilot in a fully kitted and engineered combat ship with KWS
For regulars it will probably be around 10mil
Location plays a factor too as I have seen some zones I bounty hunt in giving 1mil an hour to10mil an hour.
and of course make sure you fully scan, using the KWS, each and every pirate you encounter. But I am assuming your doing that already.
What ship are you using if I may ask?
For regulars it will probably be around 10mil
Location plays a factor too as I have seen some zones I bounty hunt in giving 1mil an hour to10mil an hour.
and of course make sure you fully scan, using the KWS, each and every pirate you encounter. But I am assuming your doing that already.
What ship are you using if I may ask?
I can’t confirm or deny exact numbers but I guess it depends on how fast/efficient you are at kablammo’ing criminals; I’ve been testing out an Adder combat build at nav beacons and high RES patrols and my playstyle, which is hardly efficient because I’m not nearly the best pilot, tends to hover around 2-3m bounties per hour, so I don’t doubt that it could be higher.
Im using a Chieftain with 3 g4 gimballed oc multis and 3 g4 gimballed long range pulse lasers.
Your ship and skills aside, you can have "bad" npc instance. Few days ago I dropped in HazRes. Biggest ship I had was Python, mostly dbx, couriers, cobras, vipers. Dropped in and out few times, tried logging out and back in. That HazRes was just not "HazRes", cca 80% small ships. And they don't give you 100k bounty or more. So I think I made around 7-8m in some 45-60 min(g5'd ship)
Personally, I don't think the kws is worth it. It's at best between 12-17% bonus and I'd rather not bother with it. It's worth the bonus if you engineer it fully for fast scan, set it on a fire group you'll definitely be firing with initially and can spare the power for it. But it's not necessery to get 30m raw bounties per hour and is the last reason you're not getting 30m.
You can get 30m over a couple hours or so from raw bounties but you need to be killing fast for it. 30m in a single hour? That's still more than a kill a minute on average. And it entirely depends on your targets and rng spawns. Doing power play ALD to rank 2 helps but I'd not recommend that just yet if you're only getting 3m per hour now.
It depends on you as well. If you're still learning (3m/h suggests you are) I'd not even bother measuring your credits. Just concentrate on practice and fun.
Edited to qualify my comments on the kws.
You can get 30m over a couple hours or so from raw bounties but you need to be killing fast for it. 30m in a single hour? That's still more than a kill a minute on average. And it entirely depends on your targets and rng spawns. Doing power play ALD to rank 2 helps but I'd not recommend that just yet if you're only getting 3m per hour now.
It depends on you as well. If you're still learning (3m/h suggests you are) I'd not even bother measuring your credits. Just concentrate on practice and fun.
Edited to qualify my comments on the kws.
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Doesn't it depend also on your combat rank? I was under the impression that FD 'matched' the combatant in the Rez to match your level. After all I can't see it would be fun for a Mostly Harmless Commander to drop into a HiRes and find themselves up against wave after wave of Dangerous, Deadly and Elite NPCs all the time.
And if the OP is only up against low ranking NPC's then it would stand to reason that his overall payout would be significantly less than what you or me would get.
Yeh, it will do absolutely you're right and it's worth mentioning. That's what I meant at the end without explicitly going into it. The OP is new I'm sure of it. So I'd recommend they not worry about 30m an hour and just play. Soon enough, they'll be earning plenty.
The posts above are right of course. Missions are where bounty hunting pays big time but these days (since the buff a month ago or so) raw rewards are good.
This is one of the reasons I'm not bothered when I see people say bounty hunting is the new meta money maker. It is, but it's not instantly accessible like mining used to be. New players can't just watch a YouTube video, rock up to the game and start making billions. Elite players tend to forget the initial curve with combat is slow going. And I love it for that.
The absolute upper limit that I've reached with combat (specifically missions and raw rewards combined) is 600m/h but to get to that you need to do a whole lot (as a solo player, owning 4 accounts and being able to simultaneously run 2 in a fight and 4 at once otherwise, for starters). Even without wing rewards, you can get about 100m an hour easy solo. But I doubt any new player will get near to that in their first few weeks playing.
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Step 1 is to find a system which has multiple factions that all give pirate massacre missions against a single pirate faction. Edtools' bounty hunting page will help you find a candidate system.
Then get yourself to allied with those factions, the higher your standing with the factions the bigger and better paying missions they'll give you.
Take missions from multiple factions at once against the same target and they all stack (multiple missions from the same faction won't, so it depends how long you want to be out there killing). Now go into a RES site or Compromised Nav Beacon in the system all your targets are in, and start blowin' stuff up. Once all your missions are exhausted, go and hand them in. The bounties you'll have earned are icing on the cake. (If you're using a KWS you'll have stacks of extra bounties from all over the place, so you'll need a nearby Interstellar Factors for them).
Choose your RES according to how confident you feel.
If you want to be extra cheeky carry a gold bar in your hold to make sure you find plenty of friends to play with.
Then get yourself to allied with those factions, the higher your standing with the factions the bigger and better paying missions they'll give you.
Take missions from multiple factions at once against the same target and they all stack (multiple missions from the same faction won't, so it depends how long you want to be out there killing). Now go into a RES site or Compromised Nav Beacon in the system all your targets are in, and start blowin' stuff up. Once all your missions are exhausted, go and hand them in. The bounties you'll have earned are icing on the cake. (If you're using a KWS you'll have stacks of extra bounties from all over the place, so you'll need a nearby Interstellar Factors for them).
Choose your RES according to how confident you feel.
If you want to be extra cheeky carry a gold bar in your hold to make sure you find plenty of friends to play with.
Are you wasting 10s every target scanning it with the KWS?
Engineer the KWS for fast scan, as much as possible, and put it on your laser fire group.
As soon as a target shows as wanted start firing and KWS scan will complete at same time as you drop their shields.
3m is very low but that's probably more to do with lack of combat experience and a partly engineered ship.
Same as most things you'll get better and faster with practice.
Engineer the KWS for fast scan, as much as possible, and put it on your laser fire group.
As soon as a target shows as wanted start firing and KWS scan will complete at same time as you drop their shields.
3m is very low but that's probably more to do with lack of combat experience and a partly engineered ship.
Same as most things you'll get better and faster with practice.
Edge case scenario with parameters you will likely never or very rarely only be able to recreate.
Not at all. With the 4-10 times bounty voucher buff this is easily achievable.
If you can't, at old rates, clear 7-8m an hour in a haz rez then either your build is inadequate or your skills are sub-par.
I've taken new squadmates out just this week for training and they can reliably get those numbers hunting solo after a few pointers.
Know what? I think you're pulling just numbers from your rear.
I usually make roughly 15 million in raw bounties in an hour , roughly 40 kills. Thats in a High rez as where i'm doing missions there is no haz. If i'm lucky and there are lots of mediums and big ships i can see upwards of 20 million in just bounties alone.
I always thought system pop had a bearing on how busy the res sites are?
Also if you are doing missions , always kill the easy pirates first, no point going after that elite anaconda if you have wings of easy eagles to kill as well as they will die quickly and the elite ana will still be there after you have mopped up the small ships
I always thought system pop had a bearing on how busy the res sites are?
Also if you are doing missions , always kill the easy pirates first, no point going after that elite anaconda if you have wings of easy eagles to kill as well as they will die quickly and the elite ana will still be there after you have mopped up the small ships
A lot of rubbish above. Rank has no bearing on how mauch bounty money you get. A KWS is very worthwhile. I got 400 million from one in a week for a cost of 122k.
To get 30 mil per hour, you need a KWS and level 2 powerplay with ALD or ZH. You get level 2 by delivering 100T of fortification supplies in a T6 or whatever.
With level 5 PP and a KWS, I was making a consistent 60 mil per hour using a battleship (no missions). A Vulture would make about half of that, but I'd use the Vulture in a high RES rather than a haz RES.
Each time you come to the RES to farm bounties, you get a different spawn of ships in terms of quantity and type, so if it's too slow, jump out or logout, then jump or log back in to reset the spawn until you get what you want.
All details explained in this vid:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BGZiN6YKFY
To get 30 mil per hour, you need a KWS and level 2 powerplay with ALD or ZH. You get level 2 by delivering 100T of fortification supplies in a T6 or whatever.
With level 5 PP and a KWS, I was making a consistent 60 mil per hour using a battleship (no missions). A Vulture would make about half of that, but I'd use the Vulture in a high RES rather than a haz RES.
Each time you come to the RES to farm bounties, you get a different spawn of ships in terms of quantity and type, so if it's too slow, jump out or logout, then jump or log back in to reset the spawn until you get what you want.
All details explained in this vid:
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