Making money

[Flin]

Ok read the thread fully before posting (I think).

Get a type 6, fill it with business class passenger cabins, do passenger missions, profit.

Once you have enough money, buy a trade build type 7, use Eddb.io for finding trade loops, do these loops, profit.

Same as above but with a type 9, profit.

With the tpye 9, you can use it to achieve any ship in the game rather quickly, and, most importantly reliably. Not the fastest but fast enough for being a guaranteed money maker.

Tweaks to this simple plan:

Get some cargo space and do side transports of good and data missions to gain extra credits and rep. With better rep comes better missions.

See the nearby systems the missions direct you too. Learn about their quirks and states. Build rep and soon cr will flow.

 

[Flin]

Stay in one place. Payouts grow with rep. Thats about it honestly.

Rhea is still a good place for a mix of passengers, data, and transport missions.

Or pick a Li Yong-Rui system as it gives 15% discount to ships and modules.

 

[OneEyeTheHard]

Ok, so I recently started in ED. I dont know if im possibly doing it wrong or what the deal is, but making money in this game is terribly painful!!! I am making what, 50k per mission? Ive been here a week now and barely broke 6 mill. Ive been all over the forums, and everything people suggest isnt working....

So, Am i doing it wrong, or that just the state of the game right now?

As you can see by the replies you've received, everyone has their own idea of the the proper and best way to play this game. I personally want to get a maxed out ship and PvP but have been highly turned off by the amount of grind required to get there (yes I understand you old timers had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to get where you're at now. Your experience leveling up doesn't concern me.)

I personally have found myself trying a couple different things. I've found some threads and guides online telling me how to make 10 mil ec or whatever an hour but it never turns out that way for me. I take the time to travel wherever it says to go only to find the credits to be a fraction of what was being talked about. I chalk it up to the guide being old and move on. I recently found a guide only a month old saying to go to Quince and spend 2-3 hours grinding scan missions and make 50 mil. I take the very long haul out there to find even that guide to be outdated. I did make some decent money (compared to what I was doing) and it was easy to grind out Empire rank so I would recommend heading out there if you wanted.

The thing that gets to me is how repetitive things can get. In order for me to get to a point I want to be at, I have to go to point A and complete X mission for HOURS on end over and over. It gets old and boring for me. It also becomes a problem when I have to spend an entire hour just traveling to get to a different spot I want to try out. I want to get a ship I can PvP in but to do that it looks like I have to do months worth of grinding that I don't really want to do, or at least as much as I apparently have to do it. Idk I guess my point is that that is the type of game this is OP. It is a MASSIVE grind that takes patience to accomplish until you can find your own "golden ticket" that no one else knows about. I only play the game for an hour or so every couple of days now because of it. At this rate I doubt I'll be pvping before the next generation of consoles come out. Maybe you'll have a better time of it than I have OP. Wish you he best of luck.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Ok, so I recently started in ED. I dont know if im possibly doing it wrong or what the deal is, but making money in this game is terribly painful!!! I am making what, 50k per mission? Ive been here a week now and barely broke 6 mill. Ive been all over the forums, and everything people suggest isnt working....

So, Am i doing it wrong, or that just the state of the game right now?

Nope, you're doing it. There is no right or wrong.

If you thought you'd be a billionaire by now, that's what you did wrong.

In order to see any really meaningful credits from missions you'll need to do the low-paying ones for a while, for the same factions, in the same systems, to raise your standings with them. That Rep+ and Inf+ is meaningful. The more Reputation you build with a faction the more they will pay you for running their errands.

My typical mission payout in systems where I am Allied to one or more factions varies between 100k and 1.2 million credits or more. It's kind of like a real job - you don't start out making CEO pay on your first day as an intern. You have to work and prove yourself. You'll hear people talk about the 3 P's, though they usually are referring to the Mining profession and talking about Palladium, Platinum, and Painite. But there is a vastly more important 3 P's that apply to all of Elite:

Practice - You develop skills at any task over time by simply doing them.
Patience - This is a huge one - the day-to-day can be anything less than thrilling, and some things do just take time - like reaching Hutton Orbital.
Persistence - Keep at it, don't let the first two P's wear you down, and you'll be banking more credits than you know what to do with and a fleet large enough to wage a war before you know.

That's really all there is to it.

 

[thirstyfish]

One week and you have 6 mil? Lucky you. No sarcasm here. After my first week, I was barely in a cobra III, and had nothing A-rated.

 

[Han Brannigan]

Did I specifically mention your post in mine mate?

no but you made it sound like everyone was ing him and all where unhelpfull