Farming villages

[Dwarf80]

so i went to Planet Uvis-Jamia Village to farm for TY a week ago. Decided to go back and try this again but i was not welcome there this time. So i take it you can only farm these places once. Hope theres enough out there to keep farming when i need it.

[Winland]

Just keep leveling as the sell price of the items scales with the level, also try to always capture all pods you see as they also give more money higher level they are.

[Dwarf80]

i had decided to do a manual save and went back to an earlier save before the faction and not do the storyline after the faction. Just focus on guild contracts, mining etc. Storyline was getting to be too much of a grind since still didnt have enough to keep the ship armor level updated. Was getting to be too many enemy ships.

[Moghedien]

Another thing you can do for money is bounty missions with a ship that has Stabilizer and space for 4 prisoners (The Xeghan Warrior or Quuen are good for this, and both can roll with Holographic Mirror, too). Since bounties don't give mission experience like Freelancer missions do -- and they produce a lot of ships, which means more pods -- you can make quite a lot of money before you level up, allowing you to stockpile money without feeling like you constantly need to upgrade your ship.

Plus, the Bounty Hunter guild is probably the most important guild to max, so it's time well spent. Granted, the higher your level, the more you'll make this way, but you can still bring in around 90k - 200k per captured pilot (plus whatever loot you get) with level 14ish missions, and it's not uncommon to get 3 or 4 pilots for each stage of a Bounty mission. It's not quite as much as you'd probably get from a clay hut village, but it's not too much less (assuming your Pilot and Soldier levels are similar), and the bounty list repopulates infinitely.

[Saul]

The village defense isn't strong. You can usually start or land without getting killed.
So go to a high lvl village, land, kill, loot. Make sure you keep some villagers alive before you go back to orbit to avoid the village beeing cleared. Rinse and repeat.

[Dwarf80]

havent tried the bounties yet, ship and soldier is less than lvl 10 so ship is still weak in shield(20k) and hull(25K). I kept trying to go back to the first orig village since i had done so good with it the first time. Second time didnt take them long to take out shields on ship, wasnt able to land or they would blow it up. Had to land below the village then jetpack up to it and eventually took out the village, but yeah couldnt tell when to stop killing them, they eventually flew off.

[SDShannonS]

You can mine asteroids for good money too, and then you can easily afford to upgrade your ship level, tier, weapons, components, etc. Look for asteroids that show up as "Assorted" which I'm guessing the codebase autocorrected from "Asortak". Mine it with the hand mine for greater efficiency. Each one is worth about 8 to 9 million credits even if you don't do AFK mining. I'm up to about 500 million credits, mostly from mining Asortak, so I don't need to worry about being able to afford whatever upgrades I feel like getting.

[Dwarf80]

yes i need to get into the miners guild and get started....i rem the times in eve online, lots of mining in there.

[Moghedien]

Asortak is great early game, though it might be a bit buggy? I can find and mine it fine on one character, another character finds the asteroids but there's no asortak in them. Worms don't find it, hand mining into the center of the asteroid didn't find it, even coring the entire asteroid didn't turn up any. i tried multiple asteroids in multiple systems and none of them had any ore in them, so I'm not sure what's going on with that. I haven't tried platinum or wolfram yet, so I'm not sure if it's affecting those as well. With gold and iron, I can see those on the exteriors, so they seem to be working.

Just something to be aware of if you're finding the rocks but not the ore.

[Gogo]

sorta related, but have you found the villages with the more 'space' looking huts? they're labelled like L4 and such, have little porches on the front. I have not found any loot boxes in any of them. I presume its coming as things develop.

[South Buffalo Buzz]

I find sniper rifles handy for clearing villages. And I do clear them - let them fly away, who cares. Plenty of other villages out there. Only ones I don't do are the walled ones. No loot in them so no point. The ones that look like earthen domes are pretty good. Cleared one that yielded 8 million worth of level 42 and 43 loot. You just have to shoot one civilian with the sniper rifle and they come out one or two at a time. You can easily pick them off with the sniper scope. Keep shooting from long range till they're all gone. Then just loot away. Fill up the ship and sell at the nearest station. I generally fly one contract mission, maybe a bounty mission, and then loot another village wherever I happen to be.

[Dwarf80]

Rinse and repeat at this time is getting to be the norm. Then can go out and upgrade the ship tier weapons and armor for a really good time. Instead of taking so long just to take out pirate can move on and keep it coming, if im going to be sweating i want to see some results.

[krammer68]

If you want to keep farming the same village so it stays available, there is a red bar that pops up when you kick in the first door. Just keep some red in the bar to make it not complete. Also, try to lure a shooter outside the walls and then rush back out of their range so they don't follow you and you should be able to loot in peace without getting peppered by the one you leave alive.