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I earned enough money for a Primed Chamber within a month but I played Warframe last 2 years ago back when it was the most expensive item. Not sure how the market looks now.
Also flipping mods is a relatively decent 50 plat profit per trade income if you understand margins.
Also also there are sometimes rarely traded items which go out of stock and then could be sold for 3x the price. I remember buying one item for 200P and selling for 500P quite consistently.
well he still sells well and quick tho at launch of inaros i managed to profit 1000platinum in around 6 hours. So prime warframe launches are a good thing to farm. IF you farm on the day they launch as parts can go up to 100 plat per piece if theyre uncommon or rare. heck even the common parts can go for 30 plat at launch tho they usually sell quickly or undercutted a lot.
corrupted mods are also good but slower income, as theyre 10p nowadays for most of them but theyre guaranteed to sell, tho will just take luck to get the corrupted mods that sell (narrow minded, overextend and such mods)
you could try farm some rarer mods which arent that hard to farm tho require luck. example vigilante supplies or augur secrets if you wish to farm the bounties over and over again you could earn good money from those mods. Tho they will sell slow like most normal mods do. Vigilante supplies if you wanna farm it out if you sell it maxed you could get around 40 platinum for one.
Investing into relics is also kinda okay tho thats almost like high risk high reward. so i dont reccomend it AT all unless your investing to just try to get the part and even then i just reccomend straight up buying it.
"breaking the market" you could try looking for super cheap deals on things that sell well and resell them at a higher price. Friend broke the market by buying legendary cores and reselling them for higher prices around almost double the value (that was like 2 years ago or so at launch of the sacrifice quest)
syndicate archwing weapon parts or augment mods are also okay, tho they will sell slow, really slow especially if theyre not a wanted or "meta build" one
invasion weapon parts are a okay side earning to, just do 3 missions get the reward a day later or so and you should be able to sell it for 10-15 plat depends which weapon it is mostly.
riven mods yes and no unvielded ones are just a no no nowadays, back in the day they were worth 20-40p a piece, but now just open them then see watcha get, if its a okay weapon it could be worth something in a bad state or more if you got a good or basically "god roll". Tho you have to really know rivens and weapons in order to get a price. hell dont know how much most of my rivens cost and i got some high wanted ones due to the weapon they are, stat wise i think theyre crappo.
arcanes are also okayish tho i dont know how well they sell and it mostly depends which arcane it is, something like arcance ice or whatever it is usually wont sell at all or barely (not really into arcanes that much)
arbitration mods like adaptation , growing power i think are decent sell , dont know howcommon they are sold but they are worth a bit of plat and its not hard to unlock or do arbies at all with some effort.
just take a tanky af warframe inaros for example, with something that will just deal high damage preferrably the buff of 300% is also on the weapon. tho most commonly it wont be.
Not an expert but its not that hard to earn plat if you just invest time. even if its just 10p its still a lot.
Every trade will still not give 500p or even close.
If you look at that metric then rivens and arcanes are terrible, sure you get that spike every now and then but it's so rare.
As is in the game Vault Runs have best gains in terms of time invested in the game mode to platinum obtained. There is about 1/3 chance you will get a mod that's 15+ platinum and an instant sell. One Vault Run is 2 minutes with a good team so 6 minutes for 15+ platinum leads to 150 platinum per hour on average.
Doing 6x3 is as much as you can do with farming arcanes in an hour and what do you get? 18 arcanes, most are worthless and you will never be able to sell them, some you may sell once you spend 100 hours to get R5.
That is beyond terrible return even tho it looks good cause you get one big chunk of platinum in one trade.
So if you want good return focus on things that are popular and have reliable drop chance meaning you do not have to spend a month farming it before you can capitalize.
What I found to work is just play everything and then when I am out of plat I just open trade chat and chances are I have what people need.
Statistically it is not possible to make any platinum with this. Chances of getting a riven for a good weapon are low enough, chances of rolling that to a profitable riven are even lower and not to mention that selling even god tier rivens takes forever unless you give it to quick buyers who will pay 20-50% of it's actual price as compared to riven market and actual stats we see on semlar.
And even if you do get one great riven and you take 1000 in a trade - does that cover all the platinum you spent in veuled rivens? Does that cover the time you spent to farm kuva? Time you spent on market trying to sell it? No, you CAN get lucky but odds are you are not gonna get lucky, there's hundreds of weapons and 40 000 possible rolls for a riven.
It is just not a viable way to farm platinum, rivens are a huge gamble.
Statistically...?
Not sure if it's satire or not but the logic chopping is impressive!
There's about 100 primary weapons in terms of riven diversity, there is more weapons in practice but some share same riven.
So 1/100 is to get weapon you want, 15/100 is to get something that's relatively popular and easy sell, 84/100 to get something you will never sell.
So you buy 100 veiled rivens, that's 3500-4000 platinum. If on average majority goes to waste which it does as majority you cannot sell then that's about 3k platinum gone. So out of those 15 rivens you get something decent - it needs to return 4000 platinum and make some profit.
Kuva Bramma is 1/100 and the most expensive rifle riven by far now, but to get 1/100 is not as easy as buying 100 rivens, it can go up and beyond 500 of them before you get bramma. So it's not reliable. Meaning 4k you put in are a gamble.
But let's say you get one bramma but it won't roll to anything decent, then it basically falls into a waste. Because there is 40 000 possible rolls and only 10 of them are gonna give you that price you need to return the investment. How many rolls on average do you need to get that? A lot, how much time that is in farming kuva? A lot. Return? Not probable, but can happen.
But that one riven won't make you anything, at best you are half way up returning your investment, you need at least 5 amazing rolls on some popular rivens such as Vectis, Rubico, Corinth and such to make some profit.
So you need 6 god rivens to make profit out of 100 veiled rivens you buy. Probability to get 6 god rolls which are already 10 out of 40 000 is already 4000 to the power of 6. Which is equivalent to near infinite amount of time farming kuva. I am saying 10 out of 40 000 because those do make sick profits, you can get good rolls without that but you will not make profit.
So your return on investment is let's say 2k platinum on 4k invested - time spent? Uveiling 100 rivens is 3-5 minutes each including you setting up a loadout to do the challenge, that's 400 minutes or almost 7 hours, farming required kuva can go anywhere between 5 hours and 5 weeks cause odds are so terrible, then time you spend on market arguing about the price is like hours and hours worth of frustration in it sell and if you survive all that you can enjoy the profit.
Sure, you can increase the chance with transmutation but then count Tridolons in the time required to make that profit cause if you want to make profits with rivens you need way too many transmuters.
All that math based on you getting lucky, which is equivalent to me saying you should sell your house and go to casino to tripple your value.
2k platinum with vault runs alone is about 13 hours of gameplay on average and selling it on market is instant so there is no waste of time. It's reliable. Gamble is not, you WILL spike sometimes and make sick profits, most of the time rivens will leave your ♥♥♥♥ dry.
Coming from somebody who is into rivens and has a lot of them and been unveiling thousands of them by now. It's no buno as a profit, only a money sink as once you inevitably lose you will end up paying from your pocket to start again. And chances are you will lose, 10/40 000 and you need that 6/100 times. Meaning in 39990 rolls you will not get that. And 6/100 is 17% and that can very much fail you to begin with.
Relics give you better return than that, way better. Even requiem relics
But as you are gonna farm Ploymer Bundle anyway you will get some return for sure.
The thing about rivens, or, god forbid, arcanes, is that nobody is actually buying them. I've been trying to sell arcane energize long time ago, before Scarlet spear, with some healthy undercut. It's been up for 3 weeks, until I just said "screw it". There's no "market" for god rivens or high tier arkanes, not at the prices established. There's bunch of erratic individuals that sometimes buy them, and most of the times don't. Or you may run into price fixer trying to snatch a deal. That's about it.
Another way to make profit with rivens it to buy or save up rivens for weapons that have not yet received special variants. I've been doing this a lot, and it's extremely profitable. For example, I made 4-5k plat when Baza got primed. DE has changed how the disposition works for new weapons now, but doing this should still give a fair amount of plat. You can check wikia for which weapons will likely get primed next.
It can sometimes be profitable to trade archgun, kitgun, or sentinel rivens too. I made nearly 10k platinum in two days when railjack was released. One archgun riven cost <80p and gave back 100-800p. It was maybe 300p profit per riven.
I do agree on saving up some rivens you get for Orokin weapons that are not yet primes, Guandao is probably a very good example of that. And that saving goes for other things, sell primed stuff at release or after it's vaulted, pile it up in the middle. And that's a long game but that will maximize your profits in terms of time invested in obtaining the item to amount of platinum obtained from it.
Reselling stuff does work too but again - time spent fishing to buy stuff and time spent talking to people arguing about the price still falls under "farming time",
I do ultimately agree with you that huge spikes of platinum can be obtained if you hop on trends and have a good timing, that is not gonna happen always but it will give you good profits. Longer you play, more chances you will be able to follow up on some trend and capitalize.
It does not come instantly and again - reselling can be viable BUT you are no longer playing Warframe, you are just trading stuff in some virtual market. Game is irrelevant to resellers, maybe only Kuva Survival fissure with some heavy camping and that is it. You can resell stuff even without that, just buy and sell maxed mods, return is pretty good on taht one and very very consistent - much more consistent than riven stuff.
And you need huge pile of platinum in store in order to profit well from reselling and be able to suck up when you do fail. And to be able to sit on huge pile of stuff that's gonna be worth at some point, or just MAY be worth something.
I am more focused on making platinum directly without spending too much time on the market cause I enjoy the game more than the market, market is just a necessity I'll go trough to get to some stuff I want. So my approach is playing everything, then spend 15 minutes on trade chat once in few months to sell piles of stuff cause I do own everything and I am done with the market.
I'll even sell stuff to resellers in bulks cause time I spend haggling on the market is time I could otherwise spend enjoying the game.
But if your focus is market and not the game you can make way more, it either takes long to build or a pile of platinum to begin with.