How does people make 1m+ merit in less than a day ?

[Erei]

As per title. Yesterday already I saw people in the leaderboard with 1m+ merits. Felicia Winters, if that matters. I sincerely doubt they did it by hacking holoscreen for 12h straight.
Took me a few hours to finish the crappy weekly mission for a few thousand, and I feel like I'm doing it the wrong way.

[spam]

Probably mapped platinum mining in Reinforcing systems with Boom economies. Even I'm able to get about 40K or so in a couple of hours doing casual core mining in the right system. It seems to be the one good merit source that has not (yet) been nerfed into oblivion.

[XOLiD]

Yeah there's a guy in the Jerome Archer leader board that's been top spot every week always making way more merits than the second spot. Highly likely exploits.

[Mike]

Yeah CMDR ZOMBI3 is always around 1.4-1.5m merits each week, well ahead of anyone else. (This is Jerome Archer)

[Lix]

I made 700k merits in five days with Aisling Duval last cycle. I'm already level 106 in Powerplay, and I was doing it only for the modules. I don't intend to do it again. All I did was mine Platinum in Paesia and sell it at Macomb Lab, located in the same system, where it was buying at 217,000 credits a ton at the time.

(Forgot to mention, I wasn't grinding all day. Just two fully mined T-9 runs per day.)

[Agony_Aunt]

Mama mia! 1 million merits a day?

I'm just playing normally, maybe getting a few thousand.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Mama mia! 1 million merits a day?

I'm just playing normally, maybe getting a few thousand.

Same, and this week I only have 2 'merit missions'.

The best and most fun earner for me are power restoration missions.

[McGargoyle]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Mama mia! 1 million merits a day?

I'm just playing normally, maybe getting a few thousand.

Why would you do that?
That way you can't complain about grind and that there is nothing to do after a week.
You can't just enjoy the game, that's preposterous!

[Sighman]

Originally posted by McGargoyle:

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Mama mia! 1 million merits a day?

I'm just playing normally, maybe getting a few thousand.

Why would you do that?
That way you can't complain about grind and that there is nothing to do after a week.
You can't just enjoy the game, that's preposterous!

Hehe.

Now let's guess which players will still be flying around in Elite in 2 months time.

[XOLiD]

Originally posted by Mike:

Yeah CMDR ZOMBI3 is always around 1.4-1.5m merits each week, well ahead of anyone else. (This is Jerome Archer)

Turns out it's just from wing mining platinum... Doesn't matter what faction you are apparently, mining in a wing causes more to spawn and you can exploit it like crazy.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by XOLiD:

Originally posted by Mike:

Yeah CMDR ZOMBI3 is always around 1.4-1.5m merits each week, well ahead of anyone else. (This is Jerome Archer)

Turns out it's just from wing mining platinum... Doesn't matter what faction you are apparently, mining in a wing causes more to spawn and you can exploit it like crazy.

Each rock has the same number of chunks ... per commander in the team.

If you were really dedicated you could multi-box four accounts, and just have 3 sitting there doing nothing except stripping each asteroid for the main account to hoover up.

[XOLiD]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Originally posted by XOLiD:

Turns out it's just from wing mining platinum... Doesn't matter what faction you are apparently, mining in a wing causes more to spawn and you can exploit it like crazy.

Each rock has the same number of chunks ... per commander in the team.

If you were really dedicated you could multi-box four accounts, and just have 3 sitting there doing nothing except stripping each asteroid for the main account to hoover up.

I'm just going by what he told me lol, not sure if he's a multi-boxer but it only works in very specific boom systems that we already control I believe. He makes roughly 80,000 merits per hour doing this.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by XOLiD:

Originally posted by Sighman:

Each rock has the same number of chunks ... per commander in the team.

If you were really dedicated you could multi-box four accounts, and just have 3 sitting there doing nothing except stripping each asteroid for the main account to hoover up.

I'm just going by what he told me lol, not sure if he's a multi-boxer but it only works in very specific boom systems that we already control I believe. He makes roughly 80,000 merits per hour doing this.

Yep, not saying that particular commander is flying 4 ships at once, just that it's possible.

After all, if you have 4 in a team and they get 4 x the chunks from an asteroid, and each scoops their portion ... it's no different to mining solo. Unless 3 players aren't picking up ores, it's not faster.

[Erei]

Even though 1m+ is the outsider (only 3 people in my PP faction), the rest of the of the top has been in the multiple hundred thousands in the first day. The visible leaderboard haven't changed since (or not in a noticeable way), I guess those people did whatever they did to reach that amount and stopped playing for now/did something else.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3379837493
I'm still quite curious, because 100k+ in roughly a day is quite massive.

[Erei]

Originally posted by XOLiD:

Originally posted by Mike:

Yeah CMDR ZOMBI3 is always around 1.4-1.5m merits each week, well ahead of anyone else. (This is Jerome Archer)

Turns out it's just from wing mining platinum... Doesn't matter what faction you are apparently, mining in a wing causes more to spawn and you can exploit it like crazy.

Isn't it related to the wing mining MISSION ? They are a known way to make money already (those mission asking for thousands of platinum or whatever). Perhaps they also make loads of merit ? Store the ore on the carrier, do the mission (multi box or real player) ?

Another idea would be they stack the "sell mined good" merit earner and the "sell at high profit" bonus. Selling highly sought after commodities one by one made me 32merits per ton (selling in bulk makes less) when I tried. A 720tons cargo is worth 23k on its own. Selling 1 by 1 was tremendoulsy annoying so I didn't, just tested. I imagine you can macro it to avoid the annoyance.

EDIT : I will try the 1 per 1 commodities at high price, to see if it's still works and all that. Found a trade route on inara.

[Un1k0rn]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Originally posted by XOLiD:

Turns out it's just from wing mining platinum... Doesn't matter what faction you are apparently, mining in a wing causes more to spawn and you can exploit it like crazy.

Each rock has the same number of chunks ... per commander in the team.

If you were really dedicated you could multi-box four accounts, and just have 3 sitting there doing nothing except stripping each asteroid for the main account to hoover up.

Things like that are why multi-boxing should never have been permitted. Plenty of games make it an actionable and ban-worthy EULA breach for this very type of reason. Glaring example of how this is Frontier's first (and only) online game with this sort of community interaction: They are guilty of a lot of naivety thanks to lack of prior experience in this field.

Alas, it's now, clearly, a fairly decent money-maker for Frontier. It's also why we will never have multiple CMDR saves: Community has proven it is willing to pay for the privilege instead, even if they aren't using it to multi-box. We very much only have ourselves to blame here, except of course those of us who have only a single account.