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Thread: how do you make money?
It's slow going at first but soon you will be making plenty of money. I recommend harvesting/mining resources and selling them on the bazaar to get yourself started. If you start from scratch and have no money then you will need to run some fed-ex or survey missions first. After you do these for a few hours you should have enough cash to buy yourself some personal harvesters. I would start with a personal mineral harvester and a wind or solar energy generator. These require cash to run (and power for themineral harvester)so you will need to build up a small stash first by doing missions. Don't over extend yourself at the beginning - start slow and work your way up. You will need to do research on the web to determine what would be the best resource(s) to harvest on your planet at that time. You want something that people need and are very willing to buy. Learn what stats are important for each resource and what is most needed by the various crafting professions.
Once you are harvesting resources you should sell them on the bazaar in large stacks. I suggest pricing them reasonably in order to sell them fast. Cash flow is important. The sooner you start making cash the sooner you can expand your business. Sell the resources in stacks of 500-1500 for 3000 credits per stack (2 to 6 credits per unit depending on the quality, etc.). Since they will cost you less than 1 credit per unit to harvest you will start making a profit. As you accumulate cash you can start upgrading your harvesters to medium, etc., which are more efficient.
Accumulating harvesters and resources at the beginning will also help you with your own crafting, by providing materials and funds.
After your surveying skills improve you can also make money by contracting yourself out to others. There are plenty of doctors, for example, who don't have Artisan skills so they need someone to provide waypoints to resources for them.
Hope this helps some. Good luck and have fun!
Leela Landcastle - MD/TKA - Tempest
I personally run on a very low budget. Since I'm a hardcore RPr, and despite playing since January, I'm a Master Artisan who only makes small amounts of money from the occasional vendor sale. It doesn't give me the most amazing existence, but it's how my character would do it.
Over to you...
Combat = 1m credits + a day if done right
Crafting = 1m credits a week if you are a master level.
Worked for me. I fund my other two alts and a couple of real life friends and their characters by armor crafting and sales. Been at it for over a year though. It's all about the resources.