I see what you mean, but dont.. get me wrong but i'll say something now:
I have erased all my characters except kishiro and Mentira.
I had a bounty hunter orca, poof. Dragon bomber, hogosha ptrans
Corsair smuggler, Kruger miner. These ships are all gone now.
I don't find time to play them and keep my income to be fruitful enough.
Here's the deal. I know having alot of characters seems great, and I know that playing each of them is fun, othervise you wouldn't really make them.
But when I erased mine I started comparing them to the loans you take.
If you buy too many things on a loan, more than you can cover with your paycheck, you are bound to end up in trouble. Ofcourse trading seems like an chore when you have 5 million credits and you simply HAVE TO trade, but the more cash I have.. easier I find myself heading on trading or even a mining op with a faction mate or two.
Zoners can still run profitable routes. More profitable than Corsairs for example, and that's noting to be ashamed of, Corsairs can pirate for income after all. The nerf of certain zoner aspects didn't harm some of those routes but I get what you mean.
Think about it tho, there has to be a learning curve. It really does not take one much to get from starflea mining copper in colorado to a CSV mining gold in dublin, to a more decent ship and eventually a 5k train.
Or most of this is skipped when joining a trading or a zoner corp. Corps tend to give you things so you start faster.
with 50 million a hour, I would probably make 100 million a day, or every two days. Combined with the ore I sell every 3 days, I would probably make 400-500mill a week.
Someone more dedicated who has more than 4 hours a day to kick ass in this game would make up to 1.2bil a week. Why do we need that?
Do we really need everyone in CAU8, or do we need people to say "Hell, I sweat blood for this ship to make it the strongest one, I deserve it!"
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