Farm SB24 and Gorn Minefield over and over, use a build and get piloting skills with which you can reliably get top 1 or 2 (this is very easily possible. I got second place on my very first SB24 in a freshly 50 dinged Engineer with all blue mk x gear). Sell trash and put good stuff on the exchange. Purple mk xi turrets, beams, torpedo launchers or dhcs bring around 1 million each, purple mk xi energy weapon type +% damage consoles between 3 and 8 million a piece, some eng consoles are valuable aswell, everything else is trash. It's even better if you can do it on 2 or more characters because you won't have to wait for queue cooldowns. I currently alternate farming those on two chars and I make about 20 million a day if I farm it for like 4-5 hours. Of course theres some variance because of dropluck, but still. Also, sell vendor trash to 50% vendors (most only give 40%).
The easiest way to make energy credits is to play a energy credit farming mission in foundry. They aren't hard to find, simply type in Energy credits into the search bar. However, there is a daily cap on the amount of loot you can get per day. You can make 600k to 1.5M from this on a daily basis. And if you get any decent items you can sell them for more energy credits.
The easiest way to make energy credits is to play a energy credit farming mission in foundry. They aren't hard to find, simply type in Energy credits into the search bar. However, there is a daily cap on the amount of loot you can get per day. You can make 600k to 1.5M from this on a daily basis. And if you get any decent items you can sell them for more energy credits.
For those too lazy to find it, I think it's called Admiral Bobo goes to war or some nonsense like that.
Some vendors will give you 50% of face value for an item, don't waste your time with the exchange. I also think simply discarding an item will get you 50% value as well. You'de be surprised how much I made scrapping all my never used purple mk12 gear instead of hoping for a rich buyer to find them on the exchange.
Replay the missions that give you nice loot that you can sell on the exchange
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Can I sell ships I don't want? I hate the look of the D'deridex warbird. Its ugly as hell. Also, is it feasible to use a lower tier ship for higher level missions? I was going to keep riding in my mogai if possible.
Can I sell ships I don't want? I hate the look of the D'deridex warbird. Its ugly as hell. Also, is it feasible to use a lower tier ship for higher level missions? I was going to keep riding in my mogai if possible.
Unfortunately you cannot sell unwanted ships (unless we are talking lockbox/mirror ships that you haven't unpacked).
And yes, it is feasible to run lower tier ships. I also skipped the D'D for similar reasons, ran the Mogai until 40 and switched to the Ha'Feh (sp?).
Some stuff will be tough, but there are plenty of people who have levelled 1-50 in tier 1 ships. It can be touch and go at times, but very feasible.
My guess is "hope" keeps people not playing but posting on the forums. For others, its a path of sad realization and closure. Grieving takes time. The worst "haters" here love the game, or did at some point.
Some vendors will give you 50% of face value for an item, don't waste your time with the exchange. I also think simply discarding an item will get you 50% value as well. You'de be surprised how much I made scrapping all my never used purple mk12 gear instead of hoping for a rich buyer to find them on the exchange.
Discarding gives substantially less than selling to a vendor.
I've sold single Purple Mk12 consoles on the Exchange for tens of millions of EC before; they'd have vendored for 15k. It's about knowing your market; it's not worth travelling to the Exchange for things that won't sell well, and it's not worth travelling to the vendor for things that are going to vendor for under 1k, but you definitely are leaving massive amounts of money on the table if you just discard or vendor EVERYTHING.
Learn what sells, and hold on to things that vendor highly until you can make a trip to vendor them. Discard the greens that vendor for pocket change.
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Learn what sells, and hold on to things that vendor highly until you can make a trip to vendor them. Discard the greens that vendor for pocket change.
That is kind of what this thread is about. So far I've learned to look for things that award contraband and alien artifacts (by extension jevonite and shape shifting lockets). Selling Purple equipment and blue equipment on the exchange and vending the rest.
Things like the contraband and alien artifacts is the kind of thing you wouldn't pick up just by playing the game. That is the stuff that's really useful. I had a ton of contraband laying around that I didn't know what to do with it.
If you have anymore tips like those or like Admiral Bobo goes to war. Those are the prize winners so to speak.
That is kind of what this thread is about. So far I've learned to look for things that award contraband and alien artifacts (by extension jevonite and shape shifting lockets). Selling Purple equipment and blue equipment on the exchange and vending the rest.
Things like the contraband and alien artifacts is the kind of thing you wouldn't pick up just by playing the game. That is the stuff that's really useful. I had a ton of contraband laying around that I didn't know what to do with it.
If you have anymore tips like those or like Admiral Bobo goes to war. Those are the prize winners so to speak.
first off, most of the blue gear and lots of the purple isn't worth auctioning either. Try to sell a purple mark 11 shield. Regardless of type or mods I guarantee that the lowest price on the auctionhouse is within 5% of the vendor price. Just vendor it. Same with 99.9% of science and engineering consoles. Even most of the purples are vendor trash.
RCS consoles, neutronium, and a few others, yes they sell at blue and purple quality.
Beam arrays, turrets and dual heavy cannons are the only weapons that are worth auctioning, vendor the rest even if they're purple. Or put them up for auction, knowing they might sit there for days without a buyer because the number of people who want cannons instead of dual heavy cannons is miniscule.
Duty officers are a steady supply of money. Whites are needed in vast quantities for fleet projects. White doffs only the cheapest sell. Mods, race, uniqueness all totally irrelevant with very few exceptions (Matter-Anti-matter specialists though they are finally coming back down in value, and refugees especially on the klingon side) because no one USES them we all just feed them to the fleet projects. So only quantity matters.
Science and civilian (except for refugees) are nearly worthless. You'll be luck to get even 10k for them reliably. All the rest the pricing varies from 25k each up to 90k each. Check the category then post yours a smidge below the lowest current, if it didn't sell within 5 minutes it's because someone else already underbid you.
Greens move for around 40-50k each. Again pretty much sell under the lowest price.
Blues move for 100-300k each. At this level people care about qualities of the specific officer. If you don't know, then don't sweat it just underbid the lowest.
Purples move for 400k+ some multiple millions. Again, if you don't know what are good mods for that specific doff, don't sweat it just undersell the lowest.
Most duty officer minipacks are being sold in bulk for 75k to 100k from people using keys on lockboxes. They have 3 whites and 1 green. doing the math if you can buy them for less than 85k you have a very solid chance to earn a profit opening them up and selling the contents. But I have gotten a stack of 5 that were 100% science and civilian and I lost quite a bit of EC on that transaction. Then others have blues and purples for huge profit. This is why the key users don't bother.
Blues move for 100-300k each. At this level people care about qualities of the specific officer. If you don't know, then don't sweat it just underbid the lowest.
Purples move for 400k+ some multiple millions. Again, if you don't know what are good mods for that specific doff, don't sweat it just undersell the lowest.
Always undersell the lowest during normal US hours. Don't try to play the market unless you're posting late at night in US west coast time expecting some European player to pick the doffs up.
If you are fed do the foundry mission called "Happy Farmer" by AudioDee. Easist farm mission i have found to date with not small fighters, debuffs, torp spread insta kill your shields, or antlines of boarding parties. Just beams and a torp now and again. It starts at the console across the hall from the transporters on the admiral side in ESD.
Start doing it as soon as you can, check everything on the exchange except batteries and commodities or white junk items until lvl 40 then just check blues and purples. At lower levels even green items can sell relativly good on the exchange.
A good pattern if you are silver is do the first 25 ships in the first map then hit the exit button on the top left corner of the minimap. run to exchange and do pricing then on the way back to the mission stop at the vendor and feed the shop the junk thats not worth selling. Repeat this pattern until you get no more drops. usualy by the end of the second 25 unless you were not hitting them hard enough and fast enough kills giving you fewer drops. When the drops stop just get out of combat and exit the map because its not worth completing as you get no dilithium reward.
Tip for any and all farming mission is to do it in the easiest mode, dont do elite expecting a better payout unless you want to do it all day as the drop rate lowers the longer it takes to kill them and difficulty is increased. A few whites, many many greens, some blue should net you 500 to 600 ec from shopfood items at lvl 30 on up. Increase that amount for the exchange worthy items.
For exchange to price items, drag and drop your loot into the search bar, backspace the extra info like dmg or turn. you want to see what the lowest is for that general item and not the specifics. If the average price is the amount the item is marked as when you look at its details then it is worth trying on the exchange. if it is like 1k more than a vendor will give you save the exchange slot. Once you determine if its worth selling then do the search for the exact same one and list it at a lower price but not lower the lowest from the first search.
I do this everyday on any of my 5 lvl 50 and make on average from 800k to 1 million, 200k every single day and in less than an hour with most of that hour on the exchange. Lvl 20 to 40 could easily outdo that because green to purple can sell if its the right items.
My first romulan, bought her purple and blue gear at level 10 with a level 50. After that she bought her own gear and had 20 million EC from doing those mission when she hit lvl 50. Not just farming but selling drops from regular missions, grabbing ultra low priced items and flipping them if i saw one such as a blue beam array for less than 10k and the second lowest was 250k and 350 was the bottom of the page. Put mine and the 10k up and made 590k.
Contraband works to sell but I do not suggest it, the dilithium reward for the doff missions that require it is a better value.
If you see the crafting event to collect more materials, forget what its called. do that! head to delta voltanis and colect them. Aftre the hour is up sell the rare quality on the exchange, head to memory alpha and make the first 3 items for crafting experiance. Whats left after either save it or donate to fleet bank, or discard/give it away sell it all in a bulk pack in zone chat at memory alpha. The rare items are what you were after and some could sell for over 100k easy.
Do all that and other peoples tips and EC wont really be a big problem and eventualy you wont do those things daily but weekly.
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I've tried this approach, but it's pretty slow going. Making ECs is easier once you get past level 45. Loot like deflectors, shields, and engines you can sell back and get 50% of the listed price for them at about 50K each. If you've completed the colonial chains, you can try getting crits on the colonial support, grind the bound purple doffs and sell the blues you get. You can build MK XII consoles off powered alien artifacts, and if you crit and get a good tac console, you can sell it for 30mil. Right now the warp core and singularity building doff assignments are good EC earners, wont last long though. Yes, you can troll the market all day to find people under pricing stuff, but waiting there all day makes the game boring.
Then you might doing it the wrong way. With that exception and this, all the 'tips' are really just to get you 'seed money', because sooner or later you'll reach a plateau where you will get a certain amount of EC per time spent.
Trading is the way to earn a LOT of EC. To the point where you understand that the bank limit on EC is a pain (NOT the 1 or 10 mil EC limit, the billion EC limit).
Plus it's kinda fun. Just never invest in housing on Qo'nos. Infested with wild targs.
Discarding gives substantially less than selling to a vendor.
I've sold single Purple Mk12 consoles on the Exchange for tens of millions of EC before; they'd have vendored for 15k. It's about knowing your market; it's not worth travelling to the Exchange for things that won't sell well, and it's not worth travelling to the vendor for things that are going to vendor for under 1k, but you definitely are leaving massive amounts of money on the table if you just discard or vendor EVERYTHING.
Learn what sells, and hold on to things that vendor highly until you can make a trip to vendor them. Discard the greens that vendor for pocket change.
So true.
Timing. How many of us did those warp/singularity core DOff assignments and slotted in the first thing that came out? Far more than the few who made millions selling them. I made do with Mk 10s until recently. All the rest got me romulan sci borgs (there's a pun in there... and complete sets of the new doffs.
Market. Just because a mk 11 doesn't sell well... doesn't mean the mk 2/4/6/8 won't. There's a reason for certain 'tiers' after all, it's worth getting to know them.
Opportunity. How often I've come across things like an 'efficient' boff priced at the 'market minimum'? Or Superior Seduce female Orions going for a song. Tareths were selling for 2mil... now it's over 20 times that.
Soon you will corrupted and serve us financially in the corporation. Amorality is rewarding.
So this explains why I have to pay such an absurd premium for refugees to use in Klingon Asylum assignments. Damn you all.
You're welcome. You DO know, you can either do the support colonization missions... plus a certain 'special'? I USED to go for the max critical % for those... now I just aim for refugees... which sell for higher than most of the 'rare' doffs I get from grinding the 'very rares'. Funny ain't it? Although some KDF 'blues' sell for a lot.
When there's a demand for something, you can either be the buyer or the seller.
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For those too lazy to find it, I think it's called Admiral Bobo goes to war or some nonsense like that.
Admiral Bobo goes to war?
Some vendors will give you 50% of face value for an item, don't waste your time with the exchange. I also think simply discarding an item will get you 50% value as well. You'de be surprised how much I made scrapping all my never used purple mk12 gear instead of hoping for a rich buyer to find them on the exchange.
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Unfortunately you cannot sell unwanted ships (unless we are talking lockbox/mirror ships that you haven't unpacked).
And yes, it is feasible to run lower tier ships. I also skipped the D'D for similar reasons, ran the Mogai until 40 and switched to the Ha'Feh (sp?).
Some stuff will be tough, but there are plenty of people who have levelled 1-50 in tier 1 ships. It can be touch and go at times, but very feasible.
Cheers!
Discarding gives substantially less than selling to a vendor.
I've sold single Purple Mk12 consoles on the Exchange for tens of millions of EC before; they'd have vendored for 15k. It's about knowing your market; it's not worth travelling to the Exchange for things that won't sell well, and it's not worth travelling to the vendor for things that are going to vendor for under 1k, but you definitely are leaving massive amounts of money on the table if you just discard or vendor EVERYTHING.
Learn what sells, and hold on to things that vendor highly until you can make a trip to vendor them. Discard the greens that vendor for pocket change.
That is kind of what this thread is about. So far I've learned to look for things that award contraband and alien artifacts (by extension jevonite and shape shifting lockets). Selling Purple equipment and blue equipment on the exchange and vending the rest.
Things like the contraband and alien artifacts is the kind of thing you wouldn't pick up just by playing the game. That is the stuff that's really useful. I had a ton of contraband laying around that I didn't know what to do with it.
If you have anymore tips like those or like Admiral Bobo goes to war. Those are the prize winners so to speak.
first off, most of the blue gear and lots of the purple isn't worth auctioning either. Try to sell a purple mark 11 shield. Regardless of type or mods I guarantee that the lowest price on the auctionhouse is within 5% of the vendor price. Just vendor it. Same with 99.9% of science and engineering consoles. Even most of the purples are vendor trash.
RCS consoles, neutronium, and a few others, yes they sell at blue and purple quality.
Beam arrays, turrets and dual heavy cannons are the only weapons that are worth auctioning, vendor the rest even if they're purple. Or put them up for auction, knowing they might sit there for days without a buyer because the number of people who want cannons instead of dual heavy cannons is miniscule.
Duty officers are a steady supply of money. Whites are needed in vast quantities for fleet projects. White doffs only the cheapest sell. Mods, race, uniqueness all totally irrelevant with very few exceptions (Matter-Anti-matter specialists though they are finally coming back down in value, and refugees especially on the klingon side) because no one USES them we all just feed them to the fleet projects. So only quantity matters.
Science and civilian (except for refugees) are nearly worthless. You'll be luck to get even 10k for them reliably. All the rest the pricing varies from 25k each up to 90k each. Check the category then post yours a smidge below the lowest current, if it didn't sell within 5 minutes it's because someone else already underbid you.
Greens move for around 40-50k each. Again pretty much sell under the lowest price.
Blues move for 100-300k each. At this level people care about qualities of the specific officer. If you don't know, then don't sweat it just underbid the lowest.
Purples move for 400k+ some multiple millions. Again, if you don't know what are good mods for that specific doff, don't sweat it just undersell the lowest.
Most duty officer minipacks are being sold in bulk for 75k to 100k from people using keys on lockboxes. They have 3 whites and 1 green. doing the math if you can buy them for less than 85k you have a very solid chance to earn a profit opening them up and selling the contents. But I have gotten a stack of 5 that were 100% science and civilian and I lost quite a bit of EC on that transaction. Then others have blues and purples for huge profit. This is why the key users don't bother.
So this explains why I have to pay such an absurd premium for refugees to use in Klingon Asylum assignments. Damn you all.
Always undersell the lowest during normal US hours. Don't try to play the market unless you're posting late at night in US west coast time expecting some European player to pick the doffs up.
Start doing it as soon as you can, check everything on the exchange except batteries and commodities or white junk items until lvl 40 then just check blues and purples. At lower levels even green items can sell relativly good on the exchange.
A good pattern if you are silver is do the first 25 ships in the first map then hit the exit button on the top left corner of the minimap. run to exchange and do pricing then on the way back to the mission stop at the vendor and feed the shop the junk thats not worth selling. Repeat this pattern until you get no more drops. usualy by the end of the second 25 unless you were not hitting them hard enough and fast enough kills giving you fewer drops. When the drops stop just get out of combat and exit the map because its not worth completing as you get no dilithium reward.
Tip for any and all farming mission is to do it in the easiest mode, dont do elite expecting a better payout unless you want to do it all day as the drop rate lowers the longer it takes to kill them and difficulty is increased. A few whites, many many greens, some blue should net you 500 to 600 ec from shopfood items at lvl 30 on up. Increase that amount for the exchange worthy items.
For exchange to price items, drag and drop your loot into the search bar, backspace the extra info like dmg or turn. you want to see what the lowest is for that general item and not the specifics. If the average price is the amount the item is marked as when you look at its details then it is worth trying on the exchange. if it is like 1k more than a vendor will give you save the exchange slot. Once you determine if its worth selling then do the search for the exact same one and list it at a lower price but not lower the lowest from the first search.
I do this everyday on any of my 5 lvl 50 and make on average from 800k to 1 million, 200k every single day and in less than an hour with most of that hour on the exchange. Lvl 20 to 40 could easily outdo that because green to purple can sell if its the right items.
My first romulan, bought her purple and blue gear at level 10 with a level 50. After that she bought her own gear and had 20 million EC from doing those mission when she hit lvl 50. Not just farming but selling drops from regular missions, grabbing ultra low priced items and flipping them if i saw one such as a blue beam array for less than 10k and the second lowest was 250k and 350 was the bottom of the page. Put mine and the 10k up and made 590k.
Contraband works to sell but I do not suggest it, the dilithium reward for the doff missions that require it is a better value.
If you see the crafting event to collect more materials, forget what its called. do that! head to delta voltanis and colect them. Aftre the hour is up sell the rare quality on the exchange, head to memory alpha and make the first 3 items for crafting experiance. Whats left after either save it or donate to fleet bank, or discard/give it away sell it all in a bulk pack in zone chat at memory alpha. The rare items are what you were after and some could sell for over 100k easy.
Do all that and other peoples tips and EC wont really be a big problem and eventualy you wont do those things daily but weekly.
"I'm drunk, whats your excuse for being an idiot?" - Unknown drunk man. :eek:
Then you might doing it the wrong way. With that exception and this, all the 'tips' are really just to get you 'seed money', because sooner or later you'll reach a plateau where you will get a certain amount of EC per time spent.
Trading is the way to earn a LOT of EC. To the point where you understand that the bank limit on EC is a pain (NOT the 1 or 10 mil EC limit, the billion EC limit).
Plus it's kinda fun. Just never invest in housing on Qo'nos. Infested with wild targs.
So true.
Timing. How many of us did those warp/singularity core DOff assignments and slotted in the first thing that came out? Far more than the few who made millions selling them. I made do with Mk 10s until recently. All the rest got me romulan sci borgs (there's a pun in there... and complete sets of the new doffs.
Market. Just because a mk 11 doesn't sell well... doesn't mean the mk 2/4/6/8 won't. There's a reason for certain 'tiers' after all, it's worth getting to know them.
Opportunity. How often I've come across things like an 'efficient' boff priced at the 'market minimum'? Or Superior Seduce female Orions going for a song. Tareths were selling for 2mil... now it's over 20 times that.
Soon you will corrupted and serve us financially in the corporation. Amorality is rewarding.
You're welcome. You DO know, you can either do the support colonization missions... plus a certain 'special'? I USED to go for the max critical % for those... now I just aim for refugees... which sell for higher than most of the 'rare' doffs I get from grinding the 'very rares'. Funny ain't it? Although some KDF 'blues' sell for a lot.
When there's a demand for something, you can either be the buyer or the seller.