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Quote:Combat Challenge :
1. Start a new character.
2. Earn 1 Million credits in your treasury as fast as possible by engaging in the following activities ONLY : Completing missions, selling pilots, selling loot from wrecks, selling loot from destroyed ships. Credits spent on weapons, equipment, and ships does not count towards the total. The 1 million credits have to be in your treasury.
3. At no time do you ever receive a transfer of any kind from any other player or character : no credits, no equipment, no weapons, no commodities. The only exception is selling looted items to another player for the same price that you would get at a base, but not any more (for the sake of convenience perhaps).
4. Trading (meaning purchasing commodities and selling them elsewhere for profit) is never allowed. Do not ever purchase any commodities.
Summary : Fight your way to 1 million credits
Quote:Trading Challenge :
1. Start a new character.
2. Earn 1 Million credits in your treasury as fast as possible by engaging in the following activities ONLY : Trading, smuggling, selling loot from wrecks. Credits spent on weapons, equipment, and ships does not count towards the total. The 1 million credits have to be in your treasury.
3. At no time do you ever receive a transfer of any kind from any other player or character : no credits, no equipment, no weapons, no commodities. The only exception is selling looted items to another player for the same price that you would get at a base, but not any more (for the sake of convenience perhaps).
4. Selling pilots for credits is never allowed. You can kill NPCs for your rep, but you can't sell the pilots.
Summary : Peacefully trade your way to 1 million credits
Quote:Combined Challenge : 1. Start a new character.
2. Earn 1 Million credits in your treasury as fast as possible by doing anything and everything that can earn credits. Credits spent on weapons, equipment, and ships does not count towards the total. The 1 million credits have to be in your treasury.
3. At no time do you ever receive a transfer of any kind from any other player or character : no credits, no equipment, no weapons, no commodities. The only exception is selling looted items to another player for the same price that you would get at a base, but not any more (for the sake of convenience perhaps).
Summary : Do whatever it takes to earn 1 million credits
My recent time on the "Combat Challenge" : 12 hours to the first million, with credits deducted for expenses on a mid level HF and equipment along the way. I managed 2 million more in the next 8 hours. I think those times are easily beatable, considering that I wasn't actually rushing myself, just having a good time, but there's a benchmark. Offhand, I'd guess the straight combat route is doable in half that time, maybe.
I am proposing this as a challenge to us because we have all seen the players in starfliers saying things like "It's too hard to make credits" "can someone loan me some money?" "someone give me credits!" etc.
This "competition" will give the participants some actual experience that can be used to instruct these new people, and those who are participating can invite these beggars to come join them. So, newbies get taught, and the rest of us have an interesting competition amongst us.
Give it a shot, and post reports of your best time to 1 million credits.
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Its been a long time since i made completely new char with out additional funding...but my best ever time to first million was i think about an hour...that was back when i started on disco...i happen to stumble upon Connecticut JH, that lead me to Alaska where i found first wreck, from alaska i went to O Delta..there was one patrol line that lead very far..so i pursue it in spirit of discovery...there i found another wreck....bot wrecks has armor upgrades...so before i knew it by pure luck i was rich...LVL 39 in 48 minutes if i remember...i never pulled that again...( and i tried:))
Good idea Nathan. I dont have the time to participate but I am supporting this whole heartedly. We could arrange these kind of activities for new people to get acquainted and involve in challanges. Such activities will play an important role in encouraging fair play.
' Wrote:Its been a long time since i made completely new char with out additional funding...but my best ever time to first million was i think about an hour...that was back when i started on disco...i happen to stumble upon Connecticut JH, that lead me to Alaska where i found first wreck, from alaska i went to O Delta..there was one patrol line that lead very far..so i pursue it in spirit of discovery...there i found another wreck....bot wrecks has armor upgrades...so before i knew it by pure luck i was rich...LVL 39 in 48 minutes if i remember...i never pulled that again...( and i tried:))
I've done something similar too. Farming wrecks in Sigma 13, Tau 31, or, the motherload, Omicron Delta. Best yet is a swathe through the them all, I know a route that is hellishly good for startup...
Say, is this for on the RP server, or SP, private LAN server, or what?