How to get money fast in 4.0?

[GONDAL]

I'm looking to upgrade my starter ship into something more usable and I need to know a way to earn a good amount of money beforehand. Any strategies?

[Daddy Shark]

Which game start did you do?

I usually run some random missions at the start like patrols and blowing up laser towers. Once you've got a little scratch most people start setting up a mining operation. Get an autominer or two up and going, then build a simple mining station that's just a dock and some solid storage. Once you've got that whole thing operating you should be bringing in enough cash to get a nice ride.

[Unserious]

Missions, medium miner silicon ships, simple mining/energy cell station then add some refinery to station and start selling refined ore.
You can also hunt for abandoned ships. There are several in the game that can be easily obtained, including the capital ship worth 10+ milions.

[BGratz]

Follow the highway and make missions.

Maybe lure the Xenon into hatikvah´s choice 1 and collect their drops, but thats risky in the startership, but until now the fastest way to make your first 2 Millions i know

[FlashXAron ☕ (Alex)]

Fly to Argon Prime ,
place a lot of sat , where that miners work ...
give control to your captain
right click on your ship/info and give the order to "repeat"
now right click on your ship again and move the cursor to that regions, where the miners have dropped all that things they don't want (spaceflies, gems etc.) and choose the order
to collect all containers in that area ... repeat that for all regions , where miners are ...

go to a coffee, take a bath , eat something, watch TV :-)
after some time go to your pilot and demand what he his collected ...

you should have a lot of items in your personal inventory ...

later when you are able to teleport you could setup small fast fighters all around the galaxy which do that and ypu just collect the items ...

I once let one fighter do that , where lot of miners worked ... after some real hours he collected over 14 Mio , had a lot of that spaceflies , which could be sold as caviar , when you have 25 for up to 1,3 mio !!!

The easy way to be rich :-)

At the start I called my company "Caviar Trading AG"

think have made over 100 Mio alone with Caviar until now, but TER computronics selling is better !

[GONDAL]

Originally posted by Unserious:

Missions, medium miner silicon ships, simple mining/energy cell station then add some refinery to station and start selling refined ore.
You can also hunt for abandoned ships. There are several in the game that can be easily obtained, including the capital ship worth 10+ milions.

Do these have any risk attached to them, and how is the money liquidated from these wrecks?

Originally posted by Star Trucker:

Which game start did you do?

I usually run some random missions at the start like patrols and blowing up laser towers. Once you've got a little scratch most people start setting up a mining operation. Get an autominer or two up and going, then build a simple mining station that's just a dock and some solid storage. Once you've got that whole thing operating you should be bringing in enough cash to get a nice ride.

What miners can I get and crew for under 1 million?

[Daddy Shark]

You can get any M miner with a good loadout for that. And probably get a small mining station up and running as well.

[BGratz]

Make some missions
Best for first faction ranks are these ones you shall catch illegal transports at stations
Best for first money are patrols (you dont need to do anything), destroying laser towers, and
destroying mines.
Then maybe additional gather some loot from destroyed ships or mining fields

Then as soon as you have a decent ship (4+ guns, i suggest the Antigone) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2524911295
You can start to do some serious tasks like protecting miner ships

And then with arround 5-10 Mio you can start your first miner base
Arround 800k-1mio for one (in the startgame)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2524919055

[Kreon91 [GER]]

collecting inventory items via repeat order is overpowered beyond belief. You can basically finish the game in a couple hours. Because you'll stop playing once your buildup is complete and the only thing left is dealing with braindead fleets.

It's better to take the long way. Stay as small as possible for as long as possible. Make honest small progress like a roleplayer. X4 endgame is not worth it.

[BGratz]

Well its a nice side income, but made not even 0.01% of the money i made.

[Kreon91 [GER]]

Maybe. Even if i think that you didn't utilize it to the fullest then. But it can definitely kickstart you like nothing else. A couple cheap Elites quickly earn your first hundred millions out of nothing. Whatever else you're doing requires some initial investment. The looting method doesn't

[BGratz]

Well you are right, i use a other ...imbalance. Allows me to make arround 12 Million all ? how long does it need to fly arround 14 Sectors far

[Kreon91 [GER]]

satellite trading? Powerplay is broken. We know that.

[Stevie Lee]

Originally posted by Lonely care bear:

Starter ships are cheap. What you want to do is go to Hatikvahs Choice or Ianamus Zura where xenon are coming through the gate and pick up Programmable Field Arrays their ships drop after being killed. Sell those at any station where you can find trader desk.

EXACTLY! Just did a new start, and crystal mining is nerfed, missions are mediocre, mining is mediocre, but shooting Xenon at Hatikvah I got PFAs, spacefly eggs (for caviar) and the damaged singularity drives and made WAY more than I was making other ways, even the plot missions. If you can pull a "patrol sector" where you are shooting Xenon that's nice, but the really money is in the Xenon drops.

[BGratz]

Finally it doesnt matter, with 3 Factorys you can make 120+ Million per hour
Sure its a bit work until then, but still.

[GONDAL]

Originally posted by Stevie Lee:

Originally posted by Lonely care bear:

Starter ships are cheap. What you want to do is go to Hatikvahs Choice or Ianamus Zura where xenon are coming through the gate and pick up Programmable Field Arrays their ships drop after being killed. Sell those at any station where you can find trader desk.

EXACTLY! Just did a new start, and crystal mining is nerfed, missions are mediocre, mining is mediocre, but shooting Xenon at Hatikvah I got PFAs, spacefly eggs (for caviar) and the damaged singularity drives and made WAY more than I was making other ways, even the plot missions. If you can pull a "patrol sector" where you are shooting Xenon that's nice, but the really money is in the Xenon drops.

I did this accidentally and am making big profits helping security kill destroyers whilst camping the gate