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fovrel
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My Delta recruit hit last night level 50 and has 4,500,000 EC. A couple of weeks before the event I rolled a new character. This one is level 54 and has about 600,000 EC. One of my older characters, level 60, has 2,400,000 EC. So my Delta recruit is by far my richest character.
How do I make money? Selling loot. How do I spend EC? Buying consumables (ground), transwarping, buying merchant stuff for my starbase, Rare, buying something on the exchange.
Getting EC is very easy in this games. It comes on its own. Contrary to a game like WoW, where I had to work for my gold.
Don't know what to do with a lot of EC though. I see no point in collecting a lot of it. Don't have the EC cap lifted either. A must have, as I notice reading these forums.
How do I make money? Selling loot. How do I spend EC? Buying consumables (ground), transwarping, buying merchant stuff for my starbase, Rare, buying something on the exchange.
Getting EC is very easy in this games. It comes on its own. Contrary to a game like WoW, where I had to work for my gold.
Don't know what to do with a lot of EC though. I see no point in collecting a lot of it. Don't have the EC cap lifted either. A must have, as I notice reading these forums.
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Indeed, my experience is that on normal difficulty, you can play the game with the things it gives you. Solanae set, free, just do the missions. Reputation sets and weapons? Just run the projects. For Nukura, Dyson and Undine, you only need marks, XP points and dilithium. Those items are certainly not second graded stuff. I just see no point in making millions of EC.
Thrue, I don't need that very rare Doff to complete my min/max build. BTW, I got three Marions. Cannot sell them, because I cannot have the EC.
It's been the same in WoW for a few years now, got even "better" when the last expansion was released. 2-3k just by logging in for 5 minutes each day is easily doable now.
A big and steady moneymaker in STO for me is still doffing. Contraband, Officer exchanges, refugee turn-ins, recruitment, 3/4 of the dilithium cap income, dominion prisoner exchange, crafting mats and even the "experimental upgrade" (that'll reward you random mk XIII/XIV gear) and boff assignments have become worthwhile again since the upgrade system and boff revamp.
If you're lucky, you can get high spikes (certain purple doffs, finsihed crafting parts), other than that you'll have a steady income. Currently, I'm at ~5-6 million per day on average, spending a total of 30-45 minutes on refreshing assginments, not counting any extraordinary spikes or the dilithium income.
It is actually pretty easy to make EC currently in STO... at least when it comes to Delta Recruits. The process is quite simple. Sell loot as you have stated. Replay missions that rewards gear that can fetch a pretty good price on the Exchange. Since there are many other Delta Recruits there are a lot of opportunities to simply sell low / mid level gear to players who do not want to replay missions for either more of the same gear or higher marks.
My KDF tactical toon is level 32 and has only gotten as far as the Fek'lhri story arc. Excluding the 500,000 EC reward for completing completing each story arc (a total of 2 million EC for me) I have made a little over 10 million EC without much effort by simply selling gear to those players who simply do not want to bother replaying missions. I am sure there are players who have made much more than I have especially since I not spent much time in attempting to amass EC.
Rule of Acquisition #18. +10!
I have 33m in the bank, and could jump that to over 100m in mats alone, and probably more. Not to mention my fleet stores (tons of upgrade stuff, in excess of 100 items each). It comes a bit easier than Latinum (and I have almost 1mill in that alone ... just nothing worthy to spend it on)
Rule of Acquisition #1: Once you have their money, you never give it back.
I buy lockbox ships, and a few weapons, on the exchange for the EC. I got my cell ship at 65mill, and it's been a worthy investment. There are probably a few more things that would be a good investment as well, but I'm content for now. But I balance out at 50million or so, and try to maintain that as much as possible.
But that's the Ferengi in me.
Hear, hear!
G'Kar & Londo http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1182185/gkar-londo-re-united-pics-babylon-5/p1
Babylon 5 Races: http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1151376/babylon-5-crew-characters-pics-compare/p1
Vorta: http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1141164/this-is-how-you-make-a-vorta
I figure a few people have already broken 100B.
There's plenty of huge profit margins in this game. Generating the capital to invest is the challenge. Totally neglecting your characters for months on end so that you can continue to re-invest is even more challenging.
strictly speaking, 100B would be in "the billions".