Economy in 5.2+

[Enko]

My personal comment on economy is that I find powertrading to be the most soulless boredom in the game, and PvE is not all that far behind. With the added bonus of being an almost always solo player due to timezones, I actually have few enjoyable ways to earn money, especially compared to people who enjoy SpaceTruck Simulator, or who have friends to grind codenames out of PvE zones to sell.

If I could somehow make powertrader type money off of instigating 1v1s at the lowest hours of the server, I'd probably be up there with the 700mill club. I think I got up to maybe 20 mill across all accounts recently due to hauling Counterfeit to Mu, Kewmers to Dublin, and Gold back to Ontario, and it reached a point where hauling the next run was an exercise of willpower.

I don't think there's a non-abusable way to make economy viable for me and people like me, honestly, but if you want a challenge, you can take a crack at it.

To be honest, if you literally only want to PvP to make money the only thing that will ever really work is bounty hunting contracts, but for credits coming from the server I just don't see it happening. Joining active factions that make money is probably the only way to get good consistent enjoyment out of being with people doing those activities.

Improving PvE is there certainly, and trying to find new engaging ways with other economy sides but I think fundamentally those that only ever want to PvP in Discovery will be limited to bounty handouts and faction shared/charity.

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