how to make money?

[jeseq]

is the besyt way to make credits iss quests> and selling loot?

[EzRyder]

thats the best way i found, i just grab the big loot - guns armor and money the info shows the value, going thru the small stuff takes too long to make it viable imo
and the missions tend to pay decent as well so its adds up pretty fast

[jonnin]

Quests are fair, selling gear is great, selling contraband (but you have to know how to find it) is the best early game. Wolf star near sol buys contraband no questions asked.
By gear, I mean {guns, space suit, helmet}.

[Mono]

Sell ammo, no joke especially 3kv it's everywhere, I have made a ♥♥♥♥ load just selling ammo, it weighs 0 and you can collect as much as you want.

[ImHelping]

As is the case with a lot of games. The higher the level you are, the faster money comes in (one. awkward. vendor credit limit at a time) because loot from trash filler enemies becomes worth more than one hundred quests. Even with this games's wild tendensy to swing between "Why are there level 2 enemies here?" and "Why is there someone 20 levels higher than me and this planet?"

Job boards are too RNJesus and favoring murder to even try to be a taxi and delivery specialist to try and chain quick 1-3k missions without slogging through a base of pirates worth far more. Which is even before the shameless fact a job that needs 1,000+ cargo space can be worth barely 1k credits at the same time as a job worth 3k credits for only a 300 cargo space on the board at the same time.

They probably make passenger missions more rare even when you drive a 6+ capacity space bus (real easy with nova, their workshop and lab count for passenger space) to try and hide how often they can glitch out.

Money is MISERABLE. But subscription MMO brained people think any amount of income (or experience) is too easy in a single player game. You will feel poor until you tip over into the point of finally being able to afford everything you need. No middle ground. First you are constantly under budget for what you need, and then you finally buy what you wanted and lie to yourself the growing pile of unused cash means money is 'too good'

[IDKFA]

Try to max out your Social skill for whatever selling/buying perk (you can get like 25% more from selling items).

TBH that's what I've found to be the best however with the NPC 'cash limit' it's rather annoying sleeping or <loading screen>-ing just to sell my stuff. It's designed like an MMO where I need to spend more time IN-GAME just to manage my gear/inventory/cash.

/smh

[Nubadak]

Originally posted by EzRyder:

thats the best way i found, i just grab the big loot - guns armor and money the info shows the value, going thru the small stuff takes too long to make it viable imo
and the missions tend to pay decent as well so its adds up pretty fast

Coffee bags and styrofoam cups actually have a huge return and take next t no space. I always grab them and once a week I turn them in for profit. Easy RRSP money!
..Hey wait that's a thought. Maybe they can add in game player investments to game?

[The Bird]

get a job

[titanopteryx]

If you fully survey Jennesen, the planet New Atlantis is on, Vladimir buys the data for 10,000. Or more with the commerce skill. Going to gas giants, ice giants, and asteroid moons, and scanning them, gets you data quickly that you can sell to Vlad. You can unlock Noel's ability to buy organic mats and sell them to her. She pays a lot for them. So much so that especially with the commerce skill you can buy them at normal merchants and sell them to her for a profit. She only has 3,500 each 2 days but there's a bed in the Lodge in your room.

[Nubadak]

Originally posted by titanopteryx:

If you fully survey Jennesen, the planet New Atlantis is on, Vladimir buys the data for 10,000. Or more with the commerce skill. Going to gas giants, ice giants, and asteroid moons gets you data quickly that you can sell to Vlad. You can unlock Noel's ability to buy organic mats and sell them to her. She pays a lot for them. So much so that especially with the commerce skill you can buy them at normal merchants and sell them to her for a profit. She only has 3,500 each 2 days but there's a bed in the Lodge in your room.

Oh this is good info had no idea. Oh and pens also have a great return.

[Doombringer]

The start of the UC vanguard quest gave me 24800 or something silly.
If you believe in the power of save scumming, all named NPCs have 750-1000ish on them you can pickpocket (requires 1 point in the Theft skill).

If you invest in security skill you can loot contraband chests which can have ~$130k loot in them (need shielded cargo hold or sell them in the Wolf system (The Den spacestation))
Contraband chests are outside Cryo Lab and in Helium Extraction Site points of interest, and Vulture's Roost has a some.

Mining exotic resources in an outpost can give $5 per cargo or so, if you want to set up a passive income generator and have a ship with decent cargo capacity.
(Early game I stole an econo-haul that had 2k cargo capacity and used it for a while...)

Late game guns = $. Some can have a value of >100k if you mod them up.
(value is listed value in inventory, you sell for 12.5% of it without magazines/commerce skill.)

[ULTRA]

Other than perversions like building a kafkaesque outpost nightmare or looting merchants' out of bounds chests, you can mostly just fly out to Kryx or Serpentis, shoot out the engines of the highest-level ship that comes after you, board, kill everyone, take over the ship, sell the contraband at the Den, sell register and sell the ship, and then sell all the guns and cargo at Trade Authorities everywhere

[Nite69]

surveying planets is the best way to make money in my opinion but some of them are time consuming, I don't recommend looting cause you can't fast travel when over encumbered and this game doesn't have the perk to allow that like skyrim and fallout 4 did

[Topper]

To get money fast, I would suggest: Level up to lvl 80 using outposts asap. Then basically every gun you loot from killed pirates is worth over 2000 cr. And you get dozens of them just looting random "abandoned" outposts. So you do two outposts, looting 200,000 cr. worth of "trash" and sell that to 16 different vendors (every one only has 5000 cr. - 11,000 cr. at hand). Rinse and repeat.

[jeseq]

Thanks for all the options

[Lucifer69]

Outposts is the best way to make credits and level up. It does take a pretty big buy in though. Once you get a couple extractors going you can just sell the production and use that to build more. All you need is aluminum and iron for adaptive frame crafting.

Production is based on universal time, not local time. Some planets/ moons have different local times. The ratio can be quite extreme. My main storage is on Venus because of the 1 to 100 ratio. This means every hour waited on Venus is 100 UT hours x 30 aluminum per minute x 60 minutes to convert to hours. This is... a lot of aluminum if I actually needed that much. I can usually wait just 1 or 2 hours and max out my storage when I need to craft.

Crafting grants xp per item crafted, and you can easily spam out thousands of items. You can automate it to a degree with an auto typer so you can go grab lunch or something. 30 minutes of adaptive frame spam is 50+ levels for me. Even now that I'm at level 157 I can still easily gain another 50 if I needed skill points.