Whats your favourite way of making money?

[Goddess Ilias]

Mine are
1) running long exterminate a high profile target at achmedius research facility, just find the room with the boss in it - rewards usually 200k some tokens and some fame

2) Ship incursions / blasting raider or scavvers , ships can be boarded and sold too , needs at some laser or gauss weapons for disabling ship systems or blow them up for modules boarding ships nets usually 100 - 400k somethingish depending how damaged the systems are

3) go mining with your ship
Best ship to start with is the basilisk cg, comes with 2x heavy and 1 light turret and mining lasers are usually cheap. i wouldnt bother going mining with the raven or arden as they have only small turret hardpoints- well the raven at least
if you have 2m laying around , buy 20 x mining drones and find some systems with node quality 8 -10 and send them out there. when youre not in the system they would gather ore and sell it
cons are : mining takes lots of time and you usually get more when you do other stuff instead

[zuehli_2003]

The most efficient ways are ship incursions and crafting ship equipment (crafting ship equipment is by far the most effective, but least fun way ^^) But my favourite way would be boarding ships... some ship combat, some ground combat :)

[Stan]

ground combat is my cup of tea

[orinfiretouch]

Ship incursions for me, good for money, combat skills, hacking, salvaging and repair skills.

[Stan]

Ground money making is tactics, ship money making is tactics for real and that's probably the way to make serious money. considering you have the ship combat prowess to obtain a ship by force in not too bad of shape to sell it. you can retire fast indeed with a career path in that field.

[Zmeck]

Definitely like boarding ships for salvage. I ground through crafting to get better ship equipment, but really don't like making money that way.

[Stan]

Yeah I have never made money that way. Way to dangerous them other ships.
But give me a mark on the ground and It's good like scaling money I noticed that I made more money on average the more ground marks I did.
Equipping my ground crew seemed to not be that expensive. I upgrade for them via loot and occasional good vendor find. Loot I sell most of that. I made a lot of fun dealing with marks on the ground and made good money for it.
I can't say for certain that its the more profit for making money.
I only do ground mark missions but ship combat might be quicker and get that money faster.

[Zmeck]

I repaired one ship fully and got about 300k for it. I don't recall the size of it.

[Goddess Ilias]

Originally posted by Zmeck:

I repaired one ship fully and got about 300k for it. I don't recall the size of it.

size doesnt matter , only the repair state for the consoles. usually its around 100k for an completely salvaged ship and 400k for a fully repaired one

[Swisspike]

Six hours into a new game, and I have my first mining drone. I won't stop until I get to twenty.

After than, I will go from system to system, and print money. Easy peasy.

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by Swisspike:

Six hours into a new game, and I have my first mining drone. I won't stop until I get to twenty.

After that, I will go from system to system, and print money. Easy peasy.

[Zmeck]

Mining drones are good early on. Later they seem kind of pointless. Very easy money though.

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by Zmeck:

Mining drones are good early on. Later they seem kind of pointless. Very easy money though.

Curious as to say why they are pointless. Free money is just that. I have about 160 hours in the game, and never seem to have enough money.

[Zmeck]

It just seems like a waste of time unless you need to go to the planet for something else. Easier to take a ship over or craft and sell stuff. Just faster those ways. Although if I need to go to a system for something else, I do deploy drones.

[Swisspike]

Originally posted by Zmeck:

It just seems like a waste of time unless you need to go to the planet for something else. Easier to take a ship over or craft and sell stuff. Just faster those ways. Although if I need to go to a system for something else, I do deploy drones.

I tend to lawnmower entire systems. Clean one out, and move onto the next.

[Zmeck]

That's what's nice about this game. You're not tied into one way of playing. If someone enjoys mining more, it's there. Enjoy space combat more, you got it. Enjoy exploration, sure why not.