Making money with combat in 3.0?

Harley001

Harley001
I got some friends that are burned out from trade and want to do some combat. I don't mind but I want to earn some $ while doing it. We did some wing assassin missions, they're fun but I have a goal I want to reach so I was just wondering what the community suggest for money making while killing stuff (NO SKIMMERS ALLOWED!)

EDIT: Just some notes. I have played this game a LOT and I aleadly have a fully rigged combat conda. But I took a break and all these patches messed with my old methods like massacre missions (now they are asking me to kill hundreds of ships for 4 mil each...even in a wing thats a lot.) So you don't need to explain the basics to me.
 
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Mohrgan

Mohrgan
A common and steady source of Combat Income is found in the family of Resource Extraction Sites (RES), and Navigation Beacons. They come in a number of flavors that determine the risk you take while hunting there. Be sure to go to these instances without any cargo, so you can control your exposure. Be sure to fully scan every ship before you fire, even if you 'know for sure' they are pirates.

In time you will have a Friendly Fire incident. You will get a small bounty, and have the entire instance after you, or your wing mates. Be ready to stow your weapons, and high tail it to an IF Contact to pay off your fine.
 
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Vorxian

Vorxian
Harley001 said:
I got some friends that are burned out from trade and want to do some combat. I don't mind but I want to earn some $ while doing it. We did some wing assassin missions, they're fun but I have a goal I want to reach so I was just wondering what the community suggest for money making while killing stuff (NO SKIMMERS ALLOWED!)
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Back in the day you could put a basic pulse laser turret on a sidey, find a combat zone with a capital ship... park your sidey ON the belly of the capital ship (after pledging alliance to it), set your one turret to 'fire at will'... and it'll just sit there shooting things in range. As long as you got a tag on it, you'd get the full credit for the kill. The cap ship would be nuking everything to dust, whilst the credits rolled in faster than a casino owner. You could get in, set up, go afk, enjoy an evening with the family, watch a movie, and enjoy pop corn, get a bit of nookie in, and before bed super cruise out, dock up and claim 2b in kill warrants. Auto turrets made great investments. They may have 'fixed' this though since....

......oh croppers.... this isn't what you meant...

Uhh, ok... I'll leave the combat experts to answer :D :D :D :D
 

TheMightySardine

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Vorxian said:
Back in the day you could put a basic pulse laser turret on a sidey, find a combat zone with a capital ship... park your sidey ON the belly of the capital ship (after pledging alliance to it), set your one turret to 'fire at will'... and it'll just sit there shooting things in range. As long as you got a tag on it, you'd get the full credit for the kill. The cap ship would be nuking everything to dust, whilst the credits rolled in faster than a casino owner. You could get in, set up, go afk, enjoy an evening with the family, watch a movie, and enjoy pop corn, get a bit of nookie in, and before bed super cruise out, dock up and claim 2b in kill warrants. Auto turrets made great investments. They may have 'fixed' this though since....

......oh croppers.... this isn't what you meant...

Uhh, ok... I'll leave the combat experts to answer :D :D :D :D
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Nope,to get money you need to score last hit. Its same when you are in Res site and security is shooting someone who is wanted,if you dont shoot him as last from 1% to 0% you don´t get any money.
 

Demascus

Demascus
Conflict Zone massacre missions got the nerf bat baaad for money making. Seeing mission rewards for wings in the 180+ ship kill for a measly 2 million and change. Solo massacre mission in the in the 70-80 kill area for a million credits and change. Shame really, it was one of my past favorite activities, now no longer worth it.

Best to stick to assassination missions, the payout with the bounty is decent and ratting in Haz Rez is still somewhat doable, even with the new C&P bounty nerf.
 

CMDR KRITIKOSK8

CMDR KRITIKOSK8
Yeah I had so much waiting on wing missions and now they are crap. Back to res sites.( A question.. if I have a crew on my ship does him take mission reward too??)
 

Straha Yeagar

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TheMightySardine said:
Nope,to get money you need to score last hit. Its same when you are in Res site and security is shooting someone who is wanted,if you dont shoot him as last from 1% to 0% you don´t get any money.
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This only applies to human players who are not in a wing. In a wing, you only need to get one shot in period to get the money, and if solo with security assisting, you just need a shot within the final ten seconds before the kill shot.
 

PhanttoM

PhanttoM
What I've been doing is combining RES bounty hunting, with bounty hunting missions. (Wing missions or non-wing)

PLAY SMARTER NOT HARDER
Don't take the missions that require 100+ kills as they take too long to complete for too little reward.
I personally ignore anything that requires more than 50 kills.

STACK MISSION FROM DIFFERENT FACTIONS
1x mission for 36 kills + 1x mission for 50 kills + 1x mission for 40 kills = All missions are completed when you have made 50 kills.


As I mentioned in a couple other threads, doing the above netted me 17 million in 1 hour 10 minutes, when including the raw bounties from kills.
 
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