Cash flow problems

[ja.weston]

Its me again guys needing advice, how to earn money?

[[ScrN]PooSH]

Liberate mines and intercept diamond shipments. Increase the reputation of the settlements nearby mines.

[Notoko]

Go explore empty sectors of the map to find resources, these can help reduce your costs for (Weapons, ammo, med kits, armour, etc) and find items you can sell. Hack anything that can be hacked, this will give you money and/or intel.

Don't forget to hunt down diamond shipments moving around the map.

[Dorok]

How some players achieve get in debt? It's out of my understanding, never saw how it was possible.

[Twelvefield]

Too many mercs on staff, accepting too many raises, and accepting short contracts. That plus turtling ought to hurt your cash flow. Maybe add setting up too many Recruits.

Also, if you take too much damage, you'll spend too much time and money healing, and maybe you are also cycling out injured mercs and not getting your damage deposit back. All those things eat up your budget.

[Butterside down]

I have a gunpowder flow problem.
But yeah for cash looting chipped sapphires and large diamonds for cash. And going out to intercept diamond shipments should keep you swimming in money.

[bokke_commando]

Originally posted by ja.weston:

Its me again guys needing advice, how to earn money?

Make an I.M.P merc that can shoot, has ok strength, good leadership and wisdom. Dex and agility should be max too. Put zero into mechanic and explosives {you won't be able to use nades though} put whats left into medical.
Hire that cheap doctor and that cheap mechanic with rifle, they are both recruits so won't cost much.
After you kill the guys in the starting map do recon, it will show you secret stash etc. Go to the village. Once you have killed the baddies, train militia until you have maximum amount of Militia. You will probably get attacked. Once you have full militia, hire barry, go to the Minefield, it's called emerald coast. you will find a couple smgs and kill some dudes.
You should have a couple AK's now too. You will probably need to heal, while doing that hire Grizzly or another recruit, I recommend grizz. Now go to the east, the boat will be able to drop right at a mine. Don't worry about clearing the tutorial island fully, you can come back to it.
Once you have taken the first mine. train militia. you should have found some artifacts too. I sold mine because I'm a mercenary not some archaeologist. Now go to the docks too the south. Make sure you scout before you move, it will help you get some gear on the way. FYI you need to explore the sectors as you go... just incase you didn''t know. Once you clear out the dock go to the mine to the south east... you are now well on your way to making a decent income.

[sandman25dcsss]

Build your IMP with 85 leadership, it greatly affects travel speed.
Don't spend time on operations unless absolutely necessary.
Capture 3 mines, complete different quests to increase loyalty. Go for other mines and complete quests there. Currently I own 5 mines (got a warning about one of them depleting soon), they generate 19k per day while 2 my teams cost me 4k per day. Game becomes boring at this point.

[FatalException]

There are several ways to make cash, but the most important thing is to invest 7k into an IMP. As they cost no upkeep and don't leave if morale is low, you could continue playing the game with nothing in your account and claw your way back.

Moneymakers ordered by valueproposition:
Mines, the only source of daily income and buffed by nearby settlements with high loyalty. Even Diamond Red and the Mine near Cacao Town by themselves can make you filthy rich of you defend the nearby communities well.

Diamond Shipments, spawn about once per week ferrying 12.5k worth of diamonds around the map. They are nice loot piñatas to be harvested if in a convenient path. Hunting those out of your way usually isn't worth it even with a low cost team.
But with a lone IMP you could do that in a pinch. Taking a patrol with a single merc isn't the easiest thing in the world, but it isn't impossible either. Especially if you snipe, withdraw and repeat the process as needed.

Random precious stone drops
Any enemy has a chance to drop Chipped Sapphires, tiny or large diamonds you can sell from Inventory or at Fleatown church for a better price.

Parts. This is scraping the barrel, but you can sell 30 or so parts for 500 about every two days on fleamarket.

[sandman25dcsss]

Also pick Livewire. She hacks devices and brings you much money in almost every sector.

[bokke_commando]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

Also pick Livewire. She hacks devices and brings you much money in almost every sector.

She can't shoot. Better off getting the not quite so good female mechanic at the start. She has a rifle and high Marksman. Get live wire after first or second mine. Fyi they can all hack and get cash.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

Also pick Livewire. She hacks devices and brings you much money in almost every sector.

Not more than other mech.

[bokke_commando]

Originally posted by Dorok:

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

Also pick Livewire. She hacks devices and brings you much money in almost every sector.

Not more than other mech.

Can't spend cash if you're dying because one of your Mercs can't shoot and compromises your team.

[Dorok]

Originally posted by bokke_commando:

Originally posted by Dorok:

Not more than other mech.

Can't spend cash if you're dying because one of your Mercs can't shoot and compromises your team.

What link? Do you suggest not use any mech? Or that use any mech other than Lirewire will weaken a lot my squad ability in combats?

[[ScrN]PooSH]

Livewire is fairly good with sniper rifles. Same as Fox. Hiring Fox + Livewire + Barry covers all utility skills and passes all Wisdom checks. You have enough money to hire all three of them for 14d + get IMP at the start. Since your IMP does not need MEC/EXP/MED skills, set them to 0, and boost MRK/AGI/DEX/LDR to 85. IMP should carry on the shooting until you get two sniper rifles for Livewire and Fox. Fox is also good at stealth melee killing, by the way.

[The Great Cornholio]

Can't spend cash if you're dying because one of your Mercs can't shoot and compromises your team.

You can get Livewire's marksmanship up to 85 in 4 training sessions, and correct her other weaknesses just as quickly. With her wallhack ability and no weaknesses she's godlike.

As soon as you have positive cash flow everyone should be trained up to 85+ marksmanship.

If you didn't start your IMP with 85 wisdom, leadership and teaching you should have.