' Wrote: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!"
Most of my cruisers sit there gathering dust, to be honest. I am not going to sell them, but I do not play them too much, if at all. So, the cost of running such a large capital collection does not exceed ten million per month, if that.
I do not have many expenses, but I do not have much income. Either that, or my income is too close to my expenses. Oh, and I never take loans. Or never take ones which I do not pay back in an hour or so to be more accurate. If I want something, for instance, adding a new cruiser to my collection, I make money on my own steam to purchase it.
Never tried a Corsair route, and I can say that my smuggler with less cargo makes more profits than a Zoner 5k. That is not because smuggling has a higher payout either.
When people have to power-trade to the levels that they do, myself included, for such high armour, or such big, and significantly useless ships, suggestions of restrictions, getting blown up, getting called OoRP, and all those things get very personal. If money was made easier that would not be the case.
Also, if someone has 1.2 billion, what are they going to do with it? Buy armour, buy BS', buy everything? I think it is impossible. Some things are restricted by RP. There comes a point in time, when you make enough credits, that you have to RP to get any further. (I would not mind if everyone got one Capital Armour VIII to be honest. They are overrated.)
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