Best way to make money?

[Operator]

Hi I'm new I'm having hard time making money anyone know good way to make money for early game?

[BlackWater]

I too, am struggling to get the trade system, but one thing that helped me ALOT was first, either finding or buying S class scanner upgrades for the multitool, these will increase the money given for scans of minerals, plants and lifeforms. Also you will start stumbling upon things like mango Gold and other such items, these can be sold, but once you unlock the proper prints, you can use these to craft 2 items, Fusion Injectors and Stasis devices, each one sold is 15 mill or so, but these are resource intense to construct.

[Lindy Bomber]

Early game, gathering storm crystals, ancient bones, salvage scrap, find crashed ships and scrap them.

Mid game, automated mining bases, frigate expeditions, upgrade scanners and scann flora and fauna.

Late game, craft high level items.

There are many other ways.

[kissakias]

1. missions from space stations like ancient bones
2. buy emergency datas with your navigation data and gather all larvas from abandoned buildings and grab the ship and sell them for scrap from destress signals from same datas.
3. if you find a planet full of gravitino balls and have sentinels, by a sentinels boundary
map with navigation data, find the sourse and disable them easy with the terminal there, then whole planet is sentinel free to gather gravitinos as many as u can carry

[Felis_Exploria]

Originally posted by Genetal FlooF De'r X"kiSt W00F:

Hi I'm new I'm having hard time making money anyone know good way to make money for early game?

It is RNG if you get bones or scrap on a planet early in game. Best methods are to buy artefact maps at space station (a plaque or ruin guides you to it when asking for history) or get X and S scanners and scan everything. Once you get a base, grow frost crystals and solar vines and craft them. I can't remember what they make, but it is most efficient of all plant based products. Multiple tiered crafting usually is not worth the extra effort as largest price gains by percentage is the first crafting. You may need a blueprint from a factory or the anomaly.

[Felis_Exploria]

Originally posted by Genetal FlooF De'r X"kiSt W00F:

Hi I'm new I'm having hard time making money anyone know good way to make money for early game?

I just remembered based on another post above: sell your buried tech. At $50k / tech and tech everywhere, you can take in millions early in game.

[STATIK]

In difficulty settings, set purchases to 'discounted'. Now when you buy a ship in the space station, you can scrap it and make 100% profit. You only need about 800k units to start with. Buy the cheapest ship that flies in and BAM, double your money. rinse and repeat until your guilt becomes overwhelming.

[Dwarf80]

yup after i started getting trading for maps for crashed ships made all the diff in turning in for scrap.

[knighttemplar1960]

Very early game shoot asteroids. Sell the platinum, gold, and silver keep the tritium to fuel your pulse drive. look at the planets in your start system. If one of them has ancient bones it is a desert planet. It will slowly drain heat protection in the day and cold protection at night. Find ancient bones, dig them up and sell them. Rare ancient bones can sell for up to a million units.

Once you can warp get an economy scanner and look for 3 star economies with the money you earned getting set up you can move trade goods from one 3 star economy to a 3 star economy that wants those trade goods. You can earn a couple million per warp this way and once you have those star systems in your list you can use the teleporter in the space station to move from station to station. It takes about 3 real time days for the economies to recover so that you can do it all over again. You can earn 40-50 million units in 20 minutes once you get a nice list of planets to hop to and from all without risking taking any damage or fussing with life support and hazard protection.

Once you have a nice nest egg you can scarp ships and turn some of your cash into nanites.

Once you have some decent modules you can do the riskier stuff like hunt storm crystals or larval cores. My favorite thing to move on to next is to get a radiation protection module and find an irradiated planet that has salt deposits. I mine salt for cash and uranium to replace launch fuel.

[taniwhat]

Once you get above ~200M stop worrying about money. You have enough at that point, See a ship you want, buy it ?, S-class freighter, buy it.
if you have a fleet doing frigate missions it'll roll in faster than you can spend it.

I'd also agree bones/storm crystals. In both those cases installing the trade rocket makes it faster. Storm crystals, the Minotaur exosuit makes it a lot easier as well.

It's opportunistic, even a oxygen mine and chlorine cycling can make you wealthy. What I do varies every time I play.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Genetal FlooF De'r X"kiSt W00F:

Hi I'm new I'm having hard time making money anyone know good way to make money for early game?

Regardless of difficulty setting and without much investment... learning how to use your jetpack to get away from sentinels and farming gravitrino balls on an aggressive sentinel planet is one of the easiest farm you can do for money.

You will trigger the Sentinels once you pick up a ball, keep paying attention to where they are, and just keep away from them. When you gained enough distance, grab more balls. Lead them in a large circle. When you are done, time resetting their aggro (running their searching clock) out, and then lift off in your space ship. Summon the Anomaly, land, use their teleporter to the nearest space station... wait for an NPC ship to dock and dump all your stock, to prevent the market from crashing.

You summon the Anomaly so cargo scans don't find your gravitrion balls. If you know you won't be scanned by Sentinels you can just fly to the space station and skip the whole Anomaly step.


Alternatively to this, get an exocraft with an antenna that allows you to scan for Abandoned Buildings. Find an Abandoned building, collect larvea. Lead the Abominations around by jumping on the facility or hiding in the facility... grab all larvea, when you are done jump back into your ship and take off. Sell the Eggs at the space station.


That is how you can quickly do your first few millions. Also scanner upgrades, scanning flora and fauna with S class Scanner upgrades can give 50k per Scan... always dig for Tech, as they sell for nice sum.

Next step from here is a Farming Empire. Either via Nutrient Processor, if you have a good selection of animals near your main base.

And if not you start building up to Circuit Boards and Liquid Explosives (both are almost a million each). Start investing your Profits into getting a Freighter and expanding your Flottilla... Eventually you will be able to passively earn 2-3 million from your Ships returning. Finding and Building settlements gives you Trade resources you can every so often pick up and dump. Building an Outpost near a Tradestation that buys the Trade resources your Settlement generates will allow you to quickly hop over to the outpost and drop the resources off. Which can be a lot of money.

If you play "normal" and can have large volumes refined, then you have more options. But to stick to a suggestion that isn't dependent on difficulty...

Once you have a good income with your Farming, and expanded into Liquid Explosives and Ciruit boards... you start to expand your outposts with refining options to bring in gasses. Oxygen to be refined into carbon. With Condensed Carbon, you'll then make Organic Catalysts and Nitrogen Salt. This will then allow you create Fusion Accelerant, which can be combined with Liquid Explosives into Portable Reactors. Portable Reactors sell for 4 million a pop. And the Circuit Board can be turned into a Quantum Processor, which is also 4 million per item.

And all of this is just you teleporting to some of your bases and picking up passive items.... and that isn't even the end of the line. If you invest more into this, you can easily go up to Fusion Ignitor or Stasis Device, both which sell for 15 million per item. Since you keep earning "passively" while you build up to this, its not really that big a deal to invest... you just do a little bit at a time.

At some point you'll be having enough money in the bank that you can hang out in a Tier 3 Trade System and just buy traveling NPC inventory instead of needing to do a lot of the tedious crafting you had to do yourself prior.

Your Fleets will bring you items for the Crafting steps as well... But yeah, when you start out, then scanning flora and fauna, digging tech modules and maybe supplement that with opportune things like Gravino balls and the like, is probably the quickest amount of cash you can get....

Oh and there are big bucks in farming with Livestock as well. Not as big bucks, as i think Horrifying, Gooey Delight is the most expensive you can sell with 200k per item... but Livestock is also a way to generate Nanites. So going for livestock as start while you work on the rest will not be wasted time either.

[Defektiv]

Get to Minotaur as soon as you can, with the ability to deploy anywhere using freighter. I use my ship to fly around larger distances but with the Mino you can simply ignore a lot of planetary threats. The upgrade lets you ignore the environment and sentinels ignore you for the most part while you're in it. Plus you can pick things up, mine, bore and attack with it. It can be your bodyguard. You can run around a planet with salvage scrap, collecting all the high value trade items and never even spawning sentinels or leaving the Mino. And if you get bored with that you can use it to scan specifically for distress signals, resource outposts or whatever and then use your ship to fly to them.

Upgrading your multitool with 3x S class scanner upgrades is the easiest and quickest way to start making money. Fully upgraded most fauna you scan will get you around 300-700k per discovery.

End game frigate expeditions can bring in a good amount of passive income as well.

[STATIK]

There's threats on planets?

Must be using survival or permadeath mode. Most people play normal mode which has very few naughty sentinels or crazy animals.

[Ograus]

tradeable crafts are what one aims for to fund things like maxing ships, maxing freighter/capital ship,....
that stuff can eat milliards of units
basically endgame

in other words: in the long run stasis devices and fusion igniters
but this requires building of (gas)mines,
and "large scale agriculture"
(some "travellers" prefer a freighter farm here, other "travellers", like me, massive biodome-based planetary bases)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2940372558
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2826515895
.....

but as i said, this is more or less endgame

[Commander Hitman2b]

go into pirate sectores the one with skulls and just attack the cargo ( not the outside pod you'll loose reputation) you'll get alot of illegal goods , go to your cargo ship and quit , reload the game and do it again

[DiFtz]

If don't have gold farm, you can pick up the buried modules, the price is high, you can be a pirate... the smuggling is very profitable. BUT, if you want a lot units, the best is gold farm, and sell to the NPC pilots on the space stations. Never sell on terminal because, when you sell a lot, the price is decreased and break the econnomy of system