KWS earnings

[sollisb]

I've noticed an increase in earning with the new KWS. Which was promised and intended. How-ever the expectation that I'd lose 25% to the Interstellar Forge handing bounties in didn't seem like a great idea to me, so I decided I'd write what FDev should have, and wrote my own code to total bounties I have for each faction/system. This way, I see I have 1.4m to collect in system X, I fly to X, check if it has a HRez and go there if it does. When finished, I then dock at nearest station and collect all bounties, and then go to the next system and repeat. This way I never lose out on the 25%.

The reason for going to the HRez is to simply increase profits

When I land in a system now, I look at my laptop and can see;

Any outstanding bounties available
Any POIs in the system
Any places in the system that I've previously collected materials

All of this is read from my EDServer running on my game rig.

 

[SentineI]

Where is the risk in farming RES npcs? Did you ever die in a RES to npcs? I didn't and can't remember how many thousands of npcs I killed.

Tell that to someone flying in a Sidewinder...

 

[Bortas]

Tell that to someone flying in a Sidewinder...

I was out of my sidewinder after an hour or two back in 1.0 when earning cash was actually hard... well before realizing RES even existed.... Players today are probably flying Vipers after 15 minutes. I'm seeing no reason to visit a RES in a Sidewinder besides self-imposed extra-challenge.

 

[Sapyx]

...This way, I see I have 1.4m to collect in system X, I fly to X, check if it has a HRez and go there if it does. When finished, I then dock at nearest station and collect all bounties, and then go to the next system and repeat. This way I never lose out on the 25%.

I don't know about "never". Some of those extraterritorial bounties can be quite far away now.

I picked up a bounty voucher a couple days ago from a faction from some system I'd never heard of. Looked it up on the Galmap, and the faction's home system was literally 250 LYs away, on the opposite side of the Bubble. Checking Inara, they hadn't expanded anywhere else closer, either. Your typical short-range bounty-hunting ship will take quite some time to jump that far, all for a measly 9000 cr.