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Most profitable activity?

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Poll: What do you think is the most profitable- not including player interaction factors
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Trading
15.79%
9 15.79%
Mining
59.65%
34 59.65%
Smuggling
3.51%
2 3.51%
Pirating
3.51%
2 3.51%
Trading player goods (codnames)
1.75%
1 1.75%
Bounty Hunting
0%
0 0%
Missions
10.53%
6 10.53%
Player Bases
5.26%
3 5.26%
Total 57 vote(s) 100%
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Most profitable activity?
Offline sean24
12-16-2012, 10:39 AM, (This post was last modified: 12-16-2012, 11:03 AM by sean24.)
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Hi I was wondering- as a gauge of the general mod balance what does the community feel the most profitable activity is?

This is in terms of cold hard cash income. Not counting factors such as being pirated, arrested, etc.

Either: Trading, mining, smuggling, pirating, player bases...
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Offline JayDee Kasane
12-16-2012, 10:51 AM,
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Codename trade or mining. codename trade do you more cash per one time but you may wait many time before fing customer. mining constantly gives you cash, but this requires many active online time.
missions leff profitable. trading/smuggling even less profitable. bounty hunting and pirating requires luck to find good target. player bases is just not profitable already cuz of large ammont of those.

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Offline Jack_Henderson
12-16-2012, 10:53 AM,
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Mining, but only if you do it in a group.
If you do it alone, there might be other activities that earn you more money.

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bloogaL
12-16-2012, 10:58 AM,
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In what way are you suggesting player bases are used to make money? I can think of several different methods. You haven't given enough information.

Anyway, the most profitable cash grinding method by far is jump trading. The setup costs are high and you need a decent sized group people to make it worth it but a decent route will have you rolling in it soon enough. JZ was proof enough of that.

You shpuld include it in your poll options.
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Offline sean24
12-16-2012, 11:05 AM, (This post was last modified: 12-16-2012, 11:07 AM by sean24.)
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Quote:n what way are you suggesting player bases are used to make money? I can think of several different methods. You haven't given enough information.

Anyway, the most profitable cash grinding method by far is jump trading. The setup costs are high and you need a decent sized group people to make it worth it but a decent route will have you rolling in it soon enough. JZ was proof enough of that.

You shpuld include it in your poll options.

I mean by selling the goods player bases produce.
Sorry I can't edit the poll :/

(12-16-2012, 10:53 AM)Jack_Henderson Wrote: Mining, but only if you do it in a group.
If you do it alone, there might be other activities that earn you more money.

How does mining in a group make more money than solo?

Also I remember trading and smuggling to be the most profitable thing in older versions. Times have changed?
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bloogaL
12-16-2012, 11:12 AM,
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(12-16-2012, 11:05 AM)sean24 Wrote: How does mining in a group make more money than solo?

Couple of people stay in the field with one or more Hegemons and drop ore packets in space. Then one or two other players haul on transports to a buying location.

With just one Hegemon, the nerfed cargo hold makes solo mining not so profitable as it was.
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Offline Narcotic
12-16-2012, 11:13 AM,
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In my opinion, the most easiest and relaxed way is doing missions.
You can do it whenever you like, and nobody is going to disturb you.

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Offline Jack_Henderson
12-16-2012, 11:20 AM,
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(12-16-2012, 11:05 AM)sean24 Wrote: How does mining in a group make more money than solo?

Your last sentence suggests that you might have been away a bit. So I'll quickly point out some changes.
Mining has been slowed down compared to what it used to be. That means that filling with 1 ship takes quite a long time, is boring, risky, etc.

If you have e.g. 4 players, you put 3 miners in the field, run 1 transports there that never stop cruising, tractors, returns to base. 1 miner logs off, logs transport. 1st transport logs miner. Meanwhile, 2 miners in the field keep dropping ore packages. Once the trader is there, it only takes 1-3 minutes to be full again.

If each transport logs a miner later to fill the other traders, there are always enough miners, hardly any waiting time in the fields, hardly danger and no one is bored by waiting. This way you do not pay for the ore as everybody filled everybody.

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Offline sean24
12-16-2012, 11:24 AM,
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I see well perhaps I should join a mining group so that I can mine with some people.
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Offline Hone
12-16-2012, 11:42 AM, (This post was last modified: 12-16-2012, 11:43 AM by Hone.)
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How can you have an accurate Poll, discounting player interaction, when many of them, Especially Pirating, bounty hunting, and codename trading, REQUIRE player interaction?

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