perkint wrote:I don't tend to keep that close an eye on them. But I have made about 40M more since posting this, in less than a game day. So I don't need to ramp up the rate much more. Let the rest of my UTs get up to 25 (range from one at 10 to half a dozen already at 25), add a few more (25/30 seems to be max that really works) and I think I'll do the SPP. Not sure if I'll do it as a complex or not yet, but even if I have to micro manage it, it should be a money spinner.
Yeah.. I don't know that I'll care to maintain the level of vigilance I have been, especially with the mention that I
may have a bit longer than I thought I did. Was thinking I only had til day 15, which.. having been near broke on day 8 after getting my 20 UTs setup nicely.. didn't leave me with the impression that I could afford to tolerate much slacking.
perkint wrote:Yeah, I've been looking at the calculators. My question was really about where & what would make the money in the game, rather than in theory. Just because you build a PPC forge doesn't mean anyone will buy. I know you can sell some things to equipment docks, but I was just wondering if there was a simple cash cow station that didn't need much supervision.
I thought that might have been your intent. Sorry to say, I don't have nearly enough experience with placement to be much of a help there.
And weapons aren't exactly a problem to get rid of, but I understand your point. I meant that the profit values seem to consider selling at average prices, so a well placed station in an unsaturated market might pull in a bit more.. and probably won't do too much worse.
Was mostly helpful to me for running numbers like.. if I spent 80m on this one complex, how many days.. roughly.. would it take to pay for itself?
While the difference between selling for average and max can surely bias that by a lot, when I am (or thought I was) dealing with less than 6 days, anything around that mark was too long of a payoff on my investment.
perkint wrote:I'm still a little wary about investing in any bigger ships rather than stations. I'm not confident of turning that into much more of a return than I get with the M3+
How many K's are there that I'm gonna be able to pick a fight with, without there being so much support I get my ass handed to me?
As Nanook mentioned, especially since it doesn't seem you'll be too horribly pressed for time, you may want to look into the Bala Gi missions. They have several nice rewards.
While I would expect that a good many here would tell you that a good M2 will easily pay for itself, the fact is that the Bala Gi reward is quite capable and doesn't require much investment at all.
I've only recently discovered the awesome that the Xenon sectors are, so I can't say a whole lot on the topic of finding unguarded Ks. I've only seen one that was completely unguarded.
Once you learn how to lure one far enough away from the rest, you'll only have to deal with its escort.. which, from what I've seen, is generally made up of around 4 Ms, 3 Ls, and 1 LX.
So far I don't believe I've seen more than 4 Ks in a sector, and I recently discovered one with 6 Js (no drops from them yet).. but, at least given my current capabilities.. I can't consistently kill them, counting all the flight time / ware retrieval, faster than they respawn.
Unless you can outrange them (with an M2 or similar), you'll probably have to take some hits. My current best is taking a K while only sustaining ~200MJ of shield damage. I don't believe you can get that in anything less than an M6, and I can't say I'd recommend that until you've had some practice =P
Just save before you head in, then reload as necessary to get a good feel for the experience.
Also: I would suggest either sneaking a freighter into the sector beforehand, leaving it someplace safe, and then leading the Ks toward it... or fighting them relatively close to a gate.
My first kill dropped more weapons than I've seen from any of them since... and every single one of those crates timed out / self destructed while my freighter was taking its sweet time flying from the gate to them.
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And, of course, lots of cap's!
