Crystal Farming in Terran?

[Sesikee]

Do you guys use Asteroid Belt Sector to crystal farm to try to make some credits quickly?

[Sesikee]

Anyone able to do this?

[bloodymonarch]

Originally posted by Sesikee:

Anyone able to do this?

A large portion of the US and some other countries were absolutely faded last night. Give us some time to recover/worship the porcelain god and you're sure to get an answer.

[Takichi]

Nope, never used Crystal Farming...... its boring also as Terran Cadet at least you got Bombarded with Money for easy Missions, which are, with a little bit of Planning and Luck are way more Profitable and faster anyway.

[[OTnL]Grieves Amorl]

Originally posted by Sesikee:

Anyone able to do this?

Yeah i did it, it took forever though.

[Flatline]

I have found only one so far. My understanding is that they reduced the number of crystals that spawn to nerf the early large cash intake. I think they posted that in one of the beta update logs.

[Daddy Shark]

I don't know why you would do this. You can get in a couple of defense missions and get some free ships when the pirates bail out. It's profitable and not boring.

[Pathogenic]

I tried crystal farming in Asteroid Belt last night, it seemed to give very very poor crystal yields after looking a long time. My guess is that it is just a poor region to go crystal hunting.

[bloodymonarch]

A different way to get cash early on is to take ships that pilots have bailed out of during conflicts you weren't even involved in. In the few hours I've had to play the game since the update, I already found one such ship.

[Aeekto]

why even farm crystals? they aren't worth their time spend on farming and you only need them for either bombs or quests.
mission running is a lot more effective at gaining cash early.

[Cowardly Camper]

Did they really nerf crystal farming again?

[CTHOMP]

So far I only found one crystal in Asteroid Belt (3 cheap crystals only). However, i've found at least 6 lockboxes so far in less than 2 hours. I did apply for war missions, but none of the offered missions are easy for to accomplish this early on. Hopefully they cycle through and I get one that I can actually do. Starting ship is too slow to even get to yaki or other ships that enter terran systems before the defense forces get to them. So far the only money I've been able to get has mostly come from taxi missions, in a slow craft. haha.

[Sesikee]

Originally posted by CTHOMP:

So far I only found one crystal in Asteroid Belt (3 cheap crystals only). However, i've found at least 6 lockboxes so far in less than 2 hours. I did apply for war missions, but none of the offered missions are easy for to accomplish this early on. Hopefully they cycle through and I get one that I can actually do. Starting ship is too slow to even get to yaki or other ships that enter terran systems before the defense forces get to them. So far the only money I've been able to get has mostly come from taxi missions, in a slow craft. haha.

Pretty much my story

[Sesikee]

They pretty much nerfed the ♥♥♥♥ out of everything.

Crystal mining is no go. Nvidium mining is crap and it just rolls in slowly.

I'm trying to mine silicon and get it to stations that are paying top dollars but the mining has been nerfed like hell as well.

The payouts for combat missions is crappy and not worth the risk, even with the emergency ejection.

How the heck do people make credits? It rolls in very very very slowly. I think the devs have nerfed way too much and slowed down the economy drastically.

[Lionheart]

I've herd that the Oort cloud is good for crystal farming (to the extent that the current update allows), but as of yet I still have to venture that far out of the Sol system, so can't confirm.

[[OTnL]Grieves Amorl]

Originally posted by Sesikee:

They pretty much nerfed the ♥♥♥♥ out of everything.

Crystal mining is no go. Nvidium mining is crap and it just rolls in slowly.

I'm trying to mine silicon and get it to stations that are paying top dollars but the mining has been nerfed like hell as well.

The payouts for combat missions is crappy and not worth the risk, even with the emergency ejection.

How the heck do people make credits? It rolls in very very very slowly. I think the devs have nerfed way too much and slowed down the economy drastically.

Yeah hopefully they see reason and undo it, its too drastic and pointless.