How to make money?

[Fragnatix]

Ive joined the premium beta, and I have a hard time making money. Trading is hard because we dont have any information on the market, or maybe its me! Assuming where the goods should be profitable is more time consuming than something else. With my basic ship, it hard to fight bounty because everyone is shooting at him and my only pulse laser can't take him that fast!

So question: How did you begin to make money in ED premium beta?

 

[Irregular programming]

Trading is hard because the market is oversaturated, basically there is no demand since everyone has everything. It will be better when there are more systems in place.

 

[HoshiQaVam]

The current starter ship, nor the Eagle, are geared toward trading - so it's pretty difficult to make money when you only have 4 cargo slots.

However, Premium Beta 2 finally introduces the first-level trader, which has 16 cargo slots.

So if you don't want to make credits from combat then hold out for a 4 more days and wait for PB2.

However, I can say from personal experience that it is pretty easy to make credits from combat, you just need to fly around the combat areas and find somewhere with fewer players. 4-6 kills will earn you enough to get a second gun, then it's pretty easy to get the 50k for an Eagle.

 

[HoshiQaVam]

Trading is hard because the market is oversaturated, basically there is no demand since everyone has everything. It will be better when there are more systems in place.

If you're in at least a cobra, it's still pretty easy to make money. Even trading silly things I can make 3-5k in one run. Not a massive amount, but still quicker than grinding a combat zone.

 

[Fragnatix]

Combat areas are supposed to be marked in my system map i guess? Like low level "something" or high level?

 

[HoshiQaVam]

Yep, Low Intensity and High Intensity, plus the "Resource Gathering" locations are smothered in ships with bounties, though that tends to be harder to grind imo.

As far as trading is concerned, so long as you have a big enough cargo hold, the trick is to trade lots of small profit items as that is less flooded and will generally earn you a higher profit. Though as I said previously, in the current build trading isn't really viable in the Sidewinder or Eagle.