Isn't that precisely what they do?
Owning a fleet carrier. My first impressions.
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Large portion of my FC money was from a really long trip to nowhere in a AspX. Avoid highways, hop, scan, land, scan, hop, scan and when I got back, Vista bonuses took me almost half way there.
Then I did another trip (few days) by getting a ride on a FC and again, scanning plant life. It gets really really boring after a while. Like everything else in ED. Grind - do same thing over and over and over again.
Some I got from trading (when I finally had a large ship) and also fighting bad guys but most was still from Vista.
Then I did another trip (few days) by getting a ride on a FC and again, scanning plant life. It gets really really boring after a while. Like everything else in ED. Grind - do same thing over and over and over again.
Some I got from trading (when I finally had a large ship) and also fighting bad guys but most was still from Vista.
Not sure if it's deliberate. I can think of 3...Isn't that precisely what they do?
Void opal mining
Passenger missions from Robigo mines
And the latest...sol evacuation (I learnt 9b from those just before christmas)
It's too easy to earn credits now compared to 10 years ago. Far, far too easy. Owning a big ship ten years ago was an achievement as it took months to earn credits, now you can do it in hours.
Imo it should be dialed back a bit, just like the hge poi's where it's instant win.
Indeed; carrier maintenance sounds expensive but for anyone who visits the bubble now and then it's really not remotely hard to make money.
A go-to method for me: when docked at my "local" I regularly get offered missions like "Mine 416 Units of Silver" for 50 M credits. These take around 10 minutes to satisfy, given that you don't have to mine the silver
You also get a week to execute them, and you can take several at the same time if they get offered. I tend to take them whenever they pop up and then take care of them whenever suits me. Sadly (or not, for some) they almost never spawn attacks despite being depicted as "threat level 8".
Your journals would let you tot this up if you felt like it, no?
Probably, but that would require me either transferring them to cloud storage and try to do that at work on a tiny phone, going through them manually at home when I’d rather be playing, or creating a completely new tool to extract that data. On the other hand, I have this perfectly good BGS work spreadsheet I’ve been slowly iterating on over the last ten years, which I was easily able to add new PowerPlay 2.0 functionality to.
After twelve weeks, I have enough data to have a rough estimate of how many merits were earned via donations, and how many were earned via other methods. I also know how many merits I earn via commodity donation, vs how many via cash donation. The only variable is the ratio of commodity to cash donations.
Thus, the minimum of half a billion. It’s probably higher, but not much higher. On average, I was making more than I spent, which has always been my goal.
Spreadsheets... right. How is this nonsense related to owning a FC? (<-- a rhetorical question!)
Please find another thread to spam.
Thanks.
Few jumps in FC. Jump, come back when you have time, jump, repeat...
Ended up in a system with 50+ bodies. Went to look around and completely by accident, discovered 2 alien signals on a planet in previously uncharted star system.
Got exited for a moment but more experience players would have known - it's just a disappointing pile of junk (materials).
Ended up in a system with 50+ bodies. Went to look around and completely by accident, discovered 2 alien signals on a planet in previously uncharted star system.
Got exited for a moment but more experience players would have known - it's just a disappointing pile of junk (materials).
The irony
Sorry, I never learned how to speak rhetorical.
But since you asked, as you probably know by now, one of the many reasons why I have zero interest in owning a Fleet Carrier is that I have much better use for the credits. Namely, roleplaying my little one-woman war against the Evil Galactic Federation, and lately roleplaying a member of the Neo-Abolitionist Movement (AKA supporting Aisling Duval). I've never cared about earning credits. They're just a tool for accomplishing my goals in the game. And that means I've never kept track of how many credits I've "lost" over the years.
Then I realized that PowerPlay 2.0 gives me the perfect opportunity to do a Fermi Approximation of how many credits I've donated over the years, because I have some pretty solid data on my philanthropy over the last twelve weeks. Projecting that back over time, and I get approximately 20 billion credits "lost" over the years. And that's just raw credits. For bonus points, how much a commodity cost when I bought it for donation is a drop in the bucket compared to what I can get if I simply concentrated on earning credits.