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hornet6
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Well, I used to do a foundry farm mission daily and sell trash to vendors but since that is nowhere near as profitable or time efficient after the last update, are there better ways to earn EC now? I mean, what's that old saying, "When one door closes, another opens?" Anyone know where the open door is? Other than selling stuff on the exchange, that is.
ANOTHER NERF !?!
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*Double facepalm*
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Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Anyhow, the best way is to:
A) Farm at Ker'rat (get proper purple drops) which you can sell on the exchange.
C) Get doffs (refugees, prisoners, etc) and either split or sell them on the exchange.
D) Buy low, sell high.
One way or the other, your best bet is on the exchange...
I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
No offense, but that's said to be why they nerfed EC in the first place. People abusing the foundry and farming EC.
Thanks to that, I'm losing my life savings having to spend it on Commodities for Fleet Projects. :mad:
The R&D material route has been very good for me, equal in value as the ingame stfs drops have been.
1.) R&D materials, components and gear
2.) Classic drops
3.) Doffing - omg this can be so profitable
4.) Dil > key > ec route. 1 key = 2.5 million.
Selling keys is still the easiest way to make a fast buck and the market for them won't dry up any time soon.
Time will only tell!
But the days when you were looking at enough EC for a key every few runs are long gone.
I'll run one of those missions if a toon is very low on cash, simply because its quick.
But, quite frankly, its how poor players stay marginally less poor in game, not how the rich players get rich.
Pretty much this.
They just nerfed the possibility to bring in hillarious and obscene amounts of fresh money with nothing that would back up the worth of it (see -> inflation).
Doffing (contraband or R&D) and Elite Queues are 2(/3) Examples how you can make "good" money in a short amount of time, for the DOFF examples you don't have to be online most of the time.
Yeah, go KDF to farm contraband, then sell 'em on the Exchange, they sold for as high as 60k ECs each over the bonus dil weekend, but have dropped back down to 40k - 42k ECs after the event ended.
However, I recommend that you actually play KDF rather than just farm with KDF. Yeah, Cryptic has all but abandoned the KDF, but you know what? I have more fun playing my KDF toon than playing my Fed or Romulan toons and I do not do PvP.
Admittedly I've only ran one after the update, but I didn't really notice any difference?
system Lord Baal is dead
or could it be no one really flooding the market with keys now because maybe lots have left or maybe because ppl have wised up and have stop wasting money on them........... nah that cant be it
system Lord Baal is dead
There are already huge energy credit sinks in the game, they're called the fleet projects. For some upgrades, it costs ten to fifteen million energy credits tu buy the commodities these projects need. And with expensive upgrades like those for the fleet holdings, the sheer number of provisions (bought with fleet credits and donated for NO return) cancels out most of the fleet-credit-rewarding donation options in the project.
This is only making it more difficult, especially for smaller fleets, to work through their projects, requiring them to farm more and spend less time enjoying the game.
For players who weren't after high-priced special items on the exchange, the inflation of which you speak was inconsequential, it didn't hurt them. In a sense, it was a good thing for the game, because players who spent money on zen points were able to get more dilithium / energy credits for the stuff they sold on the exchange, only shafting those players who want to get premium items for free. Far as I can see it, it's sound business strategy, as long as it doesn't drive players away.
So what do you suggest?
That 98% of all players should stay poor by choice, while 2% are free to be filthy rich?
People will never wise up when it comes to gambling. Otherwise casinos would have gone the way of the exploration clusters long ago. Although this game's lockboxes are more pseudo gambling since you always win something.
well like all casinos if you are not winning the money it will soon dry up and in this game the odds are stacked more against you than in a casinos
so all comes back to no one really flooding the market with keys
system Lord Baal is dead
later i will just sell what i can craft. simple as that. gues that after this weekend ill be lvl 14 if my calculations are right. [no use of dilithium as i still need that for my gear]
but back to the topic. the last last mission on elite. and the exchange buy low sell high.
I Smell Proffit in the Wind
Actually the market probably will be flooded. People who relied on vendoring loot, possibly from a foundry mission, as their primary source of income will start to run out of money. Some people buy and sell keys for ec. The more of those people who run out of ec, the more keys they'll buy to try to sell. Of course I'm not exactly an economics major.
system Lord Baal is dead
Dude what the hell does that even mean? The very last mission? Are you talking about an episode, foundry mission, space stf, ground stf, PvE queue or what?
Maybe you should wait until your meds kick in before you post insane ramblings in future
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The EC drought is officially over!