[Credit] Farming

Summary:

How I do it, how you do it, what it requires, and how this affects the economy. Indirectly: maximizing energy.

[Credit] Farming

Nyther 09 Apr 2012 01:59

There hasn't been a lot for me to do recently, so for the last month or so I've been farming creds. This is my setup:

I take over the Waterfront in Gang Warfare, enabling the "Choosing Crates" noncombat. I spam for Omnitech convenience store crates, which have a lot of junk (good for gang stash) and cred chips.

To minimize the amount of time I spend beating people up in PvP to unlock this adventure, I just do this every 4 days. In the days in between, I craft consumables and pick up smuggler/other 1/day stuff.

For food, I'm using Ika sashimi. You can get this from crafting endangered squid with a sashimi knife, and it works out well because you can get endangered squid from smuggler's crates at the Waterfront. This means that while you're farming, you can be picking up raw food ingredients. With 40 hunger, I get ~160 energy, without Ocean Sight. I hazard it'd work out even better with it.

For drugs, I'm using cut Nova. This is also, conveniently, available from Smuggler's crates (Nova + Caffeine powder). I get about 100 energy per 36 body (because of cyberware).

Over the course of the ~285 energy I get every four days, I can rack up about 60 Omnitech crates, for about 12k of credits and about 300 each of Omniwatches, Moist Cookies, and Protein Bars. In addition, I run Shakedown in the Waterfront, which I think nets me about 4k. Keep in mind I'm maximizing the chance of choice encounters, because they take 1/5th the energy of combat. This is about 16k creds per 4 days=4k per day.

Now of course there are requirements for this kind of farming: I have the stats and equipment to easily take control of the Waterfront with minimal energy investment, and the materials to have a ton of base drugs and food. But if you can consistently take control of the Waterfront I think you can execute this as well.

Now for the economic implications: unearthly coins, as far as I can tell, run for 40-45k in the mall. This means that you can get an unearthly coin every 2 weeks or so, which should be enough to pick up the new item every season. Of course, this doesn't leave much energy for spading :(

As a bonus, I've realized that the mounds of old coins and Omnitech rubbish scores for large amounts of cred not due to value but simply by mass. I think I've made about 30k on old coins I never used in the last week.

How do all of you farm? Do you have any suggestions to optimize my strategy? Will posting this thread raise the prices of Unearthly Coins?

Re: [Credit] Farming

bigalphillips 09 Apr 2012 02:48

I wrote up my strategies for credit farming a while back here: Credit Farming. The Omnitech crates are probably second only to the ghost ship for cred farming (though I haven't really compared the two). Of course, that requires not completing the Ship of the Damned quest, so a reset might be necessary (and leveling up enough that you can kill sailors reliably).

Spending ~10-15 days to get a coin seems reasonable. In reality is seems that the actual effort vs. value doesn't matter much; I could spend a week farming, but that's really boring. The more important balance is what people's time is worth, and considering that we're aren't allowed multi accounts, a single turn could be worth more than the maximum cred you could make in that turn, because that's the limited resource.

Re: [Credit] Farming

Erenoth 09 Apr 2012 02:50

I find the Omnimall is a much better source of income. I just try to store up or rare items that I think will sell well or be useful in the future, way more interesting then just getting crates and allows me to explore other things while working on whatever Im gathering. Also if someone is ordering something in the Omnimall that isn't to annoying it gives a good short term goal. Also helps out other people while maintaining credit value rather then inflating the supply. If other people aren't spending credits they won't need to sell you that coin to get more.
Yay free market, blessed is the Omnimall.

Re: [Credit] Farming

Vholes 09 Apr 2012 02:51

Here's a link to some ghost ship farming calculations I did last halloween: http://wiki.metroplexity.com/forum/t-400330

It's much more lucrative than the watefront, but more logistically awkward. You have to keep the ghost ship open, keep etheric running, not leave the ship, and stabilize against the stronger attacks (though that last one isn't that hard, and omnitech bandages are cheap anyway). And of course you don't get to collect your food along the way, but still.

I realize that's not that helpful since you've already closed off the ghost ship, but food for thought. Websites are another possibility but no one's calculated that out; it might be viable if you happen to have a bunch of sites already and don't need to waste energy searching for them.

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