My fav way to make credits is rescue passengers from thargoid under attack large stations. 4-6 jumps range, get the rep to ally and enjoy 120-180m per trip. the catch is if your too fast you saturate it, but you can come back 3-5 times a day spaced apart and make that value always.
@@tomasbancak8752 I use a Type 7 for burning station rescue missions. It has a surprisingly good amount of passenger capacity, is easier to land than the other larger passenger ships, and you won't completely clear the board so you don't have to wait for resets. Trying to make the ship cold doesn't change much from what I've tried (you're still popping one heat sink going in and one on your way out). Build is just A rated power plant, economy cabins and heat sink launchers.
@@ZogarX I like my zoomy Orca. with decent flying you can outrun most hyperdictions, just have to be brave and boost toward the smashy alien sometimes :)
@@tomasbancak8752 you can use something else for the computer, also thee passenger cabins i switch around depending what station im running. some stations when at max rep give more business options. the heat sync is the pre engineered one. all you need are the three ECM one setup for each button and the third as a back up in case both are on CD. it takes a little to understand how far missles and limpets are from you but basically pay attention to your radar and when you see white get ready to use ECM and boost in a slightly different angle so the missile doesn't dumb fire hit you. exiting the stations if they are full of thargoids i boost around to behind the station to make them take longer to reach me while i boost away to jump. EDSY says 39 jump but its more like 41. 4-6 jumps away is paying me 150m average per trip, and it takes about 15-20 minutes each trip.
There are always a few markets in the bubble that buy Monazite at around 750k credits. Also, the ring density plays a role in core mining; find a dense ring with multiple Monazite hotspots, preferably of density over 8 or 9 ton/km^2. In my experience, you can collect 192 tons of Monazite in one or two hours, which is not a bad deal.
I do afk, let me explain why. The grind in this game is ......fucked, but I did it. The fleet carrier was my end game goal. I milked low temprature diamonds when they were the go for about the same time that you would spend to complete any other solid game just to get it. It makes me happy. It's my space home base. But now there is a negative loop to keep it based on upkeep. I refuse to loose it. Makes me happy. It's a show of my success and accomplishment in the game (if even only for me). Afk farming I can do while I'm at work (luxury of working from home to be fair), it means I can play once per 6 months to keep it. The Down side of upkeep is when I feel the urge to dive in and try something, all I care about is space cheddar (to quote another cdmr) rather and experimenting with other game play. It's a negative game play loop the really grates me. Get ride of upkeep. If they don't log on for 3 months warp it out into storage or something. They can work it out. Draining our grinded funds It's the biggest fuck you to the player base if ever there was one. It's the pinnacle of your game play Don't make it a negative.
The carriers were your choice. It was YOUR end game. I totally get what you mean tho. It's my end game but really just for the convenience. I always see that upkeep price and think twice tho. On that note, what happens if you don't pay and you in the black?
How in the hell does Fuckdev call ED "Live Service" when they left a decent portion (Maybe even the biggest part) of the player base behind because they couldn't get their shit together!?
It was a great live service game when it launched. Live service games have since evolved like doom to Halo. Elite has just not made that jump. Its really hard to do with space mmo genra especially (look at SC).
Im so glad i made so much money back in the day so that now when i feelclike playing it, or when Star Citizen has a particularly unstable patch i can jump back in and not have to worry about money.
@@jakel2837 you missed big then, there were some tricks that made people incredibly rich; a friend of mine abused it so much that he still has so much more money than he will be ever able to spend.
You can still do the massacre stacking solo. Pirate kills are tracked for missions on a PER FACTION basis. So if you get a 5m "Kill 10 pirates" mission from The Union of United Uniters and another 5m "Kill 10 pirates" from The Liberal Party of Free Freedom, you get paid 10m after 10 kills. In the right places, you can stack these from 6-10 different factions. I regularly get a stack of 20 missions which require between 70-100 kills (per faction, not combined), kill them off in about 2 hrs, and walk home with around 300-400m credits, plus my paltry 20-30m bounties. And that's solo, no wing stacking. I don't have friends. :(
I loved the idea of this game more than the actual game, having a whole galaxy to play in and explore and that idea kept me playing for way longer than it should have.
The NEW Type 8 is pretty awesome. With over 400 tons of cargo capacity AND access to outposts! Due to how its a medium class ship. And with engineering being A LOT less grindy after the update, its much more fun to engineer ships, or even start a whole new game.
Problem with "rushing through The Grind so you can get to the stuff you enjoy" is that 90% of "the stuff you enjoy" will be the same stuff you've just rushed through.... because there isn't anything else. There are exceptions but, for example, if you're rushing through the grind so you can buy a fully-loaded combat Corvette to space Anacondas, it'll be exactly the same gameplay if you were flying a Cobra and using it to space Adders and DBXs. Maybe you want to buy an Anaconda so you can go space-trucking but, again, it'll be exactly the same gameplay if you were flying an AspX. Sure, you can do stuff on a "higher level" with a top-tier ship but the actual gameplay IS identical.
in my opinion, mining missions are still the best thing to do, get a large ship, do some fedex missions to get friendly with the locals, then source bertrandite or indite. for 50mill/pop (buying it, not mining it)
I already know like 80% of the information in this video, I've got 5B in the game. But I stayed for the damn comedy lol yamiks was the reason I stayed in elite. Thank man.
Oh, there is another "classic" trade route in the Taygeta system, from Titan's Daughter station. This is an easy back and forth money maker. You take missions to fill up your cargo with, make 1 jump to another station to complete the missions, then you can buy another commodity to take back to Titan's Daughter for s smaller profit return trip. Do this enough, you get better missions with better rank with the local factions. Round trip, takes about 15 to 20mins, give or take, and there is not much risk. Apart from the usual NPC pirate interdiction now and then.
Can confirm the wing mission massacre stacking works quite well. Everyone on the wing stacks up as many missions as possible. Everyone runs a KWS. We would typically have a wing of 4 people, with each of us having 10-15 missions, and needing to kill around 90-120 pirates. Once they were all finished, then you return back to base, and then TAKE TURNS sharing your mission, let everyone turn it in, then you turn it in. Rinse and repeat for each person till all the missions are turned in. Then we all go to our squadron carrier to turn in our bounties, which will let you turn in all bounties you picked up (even if you would have had to travel around to jurisdictions normally). Yes, 25% of the bounties go to the carrier--but since we control the carrier... I once made 850M in just over 2 hours, counting the hand-ins. The problem is still that for this to be effective--you need to have a decked out ship that's probably fully engineered--meaning you probably don't need the money anymore, except for stuff like carrier upkeep. The last time we did this was right before we quit the game--loading up the carrier with enough credits to keep the upkeep paid for 5 years with all the services shut off. That was about 3 years ago lol.
Look for mining missions that ask for a material which can be purchased for less than the mission reward amount. For example, I've been seeing ones that ask for me to mine bertrindite or tritium , with a reward of 50 million credits. Then I just go and purchase it somewhere, within one or two jumps!
I'm glad lots of original players are returning to this game. As for Yamiks THANK YOU for revamping the grind videos so I didn't have to suck any of those Ds that ED wants me to.... I mostly did the Sothis passenger missions then some beacon combat bounties.
10 years and I still don't think I can buy engineering materials outright with credits. 10 years of background simulation being able to accommodate the idea that NPCs and players have gathered enough of these materials to create a secondary market with them, and failing to implement it. Billions of credits, and the only thing worth spending them on isn't in the game. I'm currently doing system discovery and first footfall exobiology. If I'm going to grind, I'm going to get my name in the history books while I do it. No NPC or player to harass me, and the pleasing RNG of discovery - you never know what you're going to warp into.
Just don't crash. I went out for about 2000LY (my very first foray outside the bubble) and on my way back I nearly crashed my ship...millions of credits nearly went down the fiery drain
I was one of those freaks that loved star opal farming. I explore grinded my way up to the perfect python star opal farmer then they nerfed the ever living crap out of mining itself. It is unbelievably relaxing farming star opals with a valve index strapped to your skull. I get so little use out of my valve index these days. It's still in it's original box when I packed it up before I moved to a new house 3 years ago.
Hell yeah, small amount of grind and i did 300mil/hour After grinding and building anaconda with 6 modshards i can do 500 mil/hour in wing is much easier
@@tomasbancak8752 It gets so crazy when you get lucky with the missions the port gives you. Additional 72 million for the 2 hydras per combat cycle per wingmate is just silly.
I correct you gladly. This is the only way a possibly ex-eve ( the carebear thing did reveal it ) and now ED pilot's guide should be done. Laughin' my cockpit to shreds here.
Gotta mention, the sco fsd module makes 10k ls and further distances worth while. You should always be flying with an automatic module fixing thing anyway, but being able to cross 10k ls in a few seconds with very little to no damage to your ship turns road to riches into slightly less grindy.
FYI you can do the space conflict zones legit, as the missions don't care about the CZ difficulty in which you kill the ships. So you can just go do a low CZ and get the same mission reward. And if you get a wing up and share the wing missions, all kills count towards everyone's shared missions, so you can crank out the missions. With high faction for the mission-giver, you can get 30-40 mill per wing mission, letting you crank out over a hundred mil an hour per person in your wing.
Why would you ever buy this game without Odyssey? I only bought this game because of Odyssey. A space sim where you can't get out of your ship is outdated.
When doing the Robigo runs, I usually run out of the profitable mission. They simply stop spawning. The increase of the reputation cased that im getting the 20k ly tourist missions that i don't want.
Some people got banned because they sell/buy credits with real money using fleet carrier transfer, if you are just giving your friends credits, that's absolutely fine.
Trading isn't as bad as it sounds, I was introduced to Cemiess due to a damaged station and stayed there for years. During my stay I levelled up relationships in Cemiess and the surrounding star systems. Long story short I can make 50 million in 2 to 6 jumps trading Bertrandite, Silver or other commodities, there's usually an investment involved costing nearly half of the credits earned.
when i started my buddy and I found a great merchant run between two planets in the same system that had a pretty large price difference because they were on opposite sides of a war. only medium landing pads though so ship size is limiting. if I remember it was about 7-10m in 4 minutes but my buddy and I were enough action to saturate the price difference in 4-5 hours of game play every few days. though I did get exploded by a player carrying like 20m+ worth of cargo once and had to work back up to full loads.
Actually the exobiology can be much more profitable in deep space where you usually get the first discovery bonuses. It can be around 250m per session.
Used to transfer my credits to my other accounts with Fleet Carriers. I got distracted with something else and left the sale price at minimum for several days. Safe to say, someone must have been very happy. And I didn't care, because I'm already so stacked with everything. They certainly didn't get banned for benefiting from it, because I didn't get banned for providing it. Also, transferring credits this way is also time consuming. And in that time nobody is generating anything.
I play ED from first dates back in 87-88, it is not a game with some goal you will acchieve in 30 hours, it is a game for life, you are never done, you just need to find a new gameplay you like. collecting money in game is not a goal in game at all. but you can do it pretty easely...how much ingame money you need at all. Fly, fight, mine, explore, enjoy, sometimes I just fly without any missions or else just fly to se where I will end up.
Got my credits with Low-Temperature Diamonds back when that was extremely profitable with the infamous triple-hotspot. The problem I encountered was that, once I had all my ships built and fully engineered and my wallet bursting at the seams... I came to the realization that there was nothing to actually do with all that. No more money needed, no more ships needed - and those are the only "real rewards" in the game. So that's when I quit playing... oops.
I will toss in my own method but it requires Odyssey: you can leverage the fact that most of the discovered systems have not been mapped/landed on and combine it with knowledge of what types of planets spawn Stratum Tectonica (exobiology specimen worth 19 million each, 95 milion if first discovered).
I just got my hotas so I can have more immersion in elite dangerous so this is great timing. I'll be trying this shit out next week once I got the time. Currently setting at a comfy 500mil from doing a bit of billionaires path with odyssey but space capitalism requires I keep going.
I like to do things I find fun and I find combat fun so I do combat missions, I also have a bit of sleuthing trying to find good systems that allow to stack combat missions but like Yamiks says it is not very predictable. One of the things long time players do is figure out how the BGS works, that is fun for me, there is a wee community that tries to figure this stuff out and find money makers. But it's for fun. I also do piracy. And wear a fursuit.
Personally, I will still swear by deep core mining. I don't know if it's luck or intuition, but my gut feeling about those glowing rocks is always on point. Usually only a few minutes between finding viable asteroids.
Thanks! I’m gonna get back into elite this summer after taking awhile off, because they’re finally adding some much-needed things to the game. This will be very useful! Do you recommend trying to do engineering too? Or is that just a horrible experience still
The fleet cariers are essential for the expeditions. And don't tell me, grandpa, that in your times you did expeditions without them, times have changed 😂
Yes.. its not a bad idea! since people like me have been playing for 9+ years and havent had to contribute to the server costs, i hope they make money from it so i can keep playing for another 9+ years :)
I tried AFK farming when I first heard about it just to see if it worked. Outside of the novelty though I agree with Yamik's take on it. I'd rather use a Type 10 turret build for Thargoid scouts and actually play the game.
AS a Mostly solo player :p I find the fleet carrier very worthwhile.. Currently 12k Ly from 'civilisation' and i can land, repair, refuel and cash in my loot from scanning flowers and goop as well as discoveries.. I make back more in 2 hours of very below average scanning to pay for a month of my investment :) I also have access to most of my ships and modules almost all of the time. BUT! I mostly agree that if you are staying in the bubble you really dont need one.. With the possible exception of trade. It was nice to be able to put 15000 tritium in my cargo from a distance of under 10Ls, most of the time it was 25 - 30 Mn. Other commodities you can.. Fill it up.. move and sell it all faster than i could if i just used my cutter. What can i do with 5 bil? not much anymore really.. ive bought almost everything i will ever need in this game and have enough to buy at least 1 more FC. (No.. i cant own more than 1) ANYWAYS.. For people just starting out! Listen to him! Dont buy a Fleet Carrier until you have nothing left to spend your money on!
You my friend are correct! heck, even a Python for doing Robigo mines - Sothis passenger mission can make very decent credits (boring though) OH! while im talking about the python and robigo runs.. you need a 5a FSD than can make the trip in 2 jumps.. think its 30.5? to make it easier. Tip:- you can buy a pre-engineered 5a FSD from Babbage Gateway in Ceos from the human tech trader in the contacts list. for some engineering materials instead of credits. (Mostly for those that havent unlocked engineering)
Just pointing out but whenever i go core mining in my python, i get average of 12- 14 or so commoditys from an asteroid, so and the ones i go for sell for 600k-high 700k per oiece so in a one hour or so outing, i get 80-90 million credits easy
I think the only case in which I'd do the afk farm is setting it up to go while I can't be at the computer. Otherwise I enjoy the exobiology and exploration methods
I have a vanilla python mk II with A modules shield booster and shield bank (and limpets ;) ) and I can easily farm high rez sites. Only cost me around 130mil to outfit completely vanilla.
🤣 Yamiks still on his Fleet Carrier rant... if money is so easy to make, which it is. Why not have one? I mean the biggest argument you had against them was the maintenance fees. I bought a fleet Carrier with a weekends of gameplay.... another weekend and I had many years (more than needed,l ets be honest here) in maintenance fees. So what exactly is the drawback to having one Yamiks? My homebase is mobile now, all my ships come with me...
Fleet carrier utilizes manipulative game design tactics to induce sunk cost as well as others. The carrier really is a bad investment that needlessly take up your time and attention
@@TheYamiks You don't even need to do any farming to afford FC upkeep costs. It's cheap as fuck. There is no "sunk cost" in it at all. In fact, you can use a fleet carrier to farm much more efficiently than without one, if credits are a problem for you somehow at that point. With a fleet carrier, you don't need to worry about maximizing jump range or cargo space on any ship build ever again. You can mine with very little cargo space, transfer the commodities to your in-system fleet carrier, fill it up, then jump to a sell system and unload it all with your T9 (for example). Same principle applies to other "farming" operations. I seriously don't get the anti-FC position. It's weird. Like some kind of religious dogma or something.
@@SolusVir its more like no matter wat u do ur fc will always be a parasite to ur cmdr draining ur wallet no matter wat would u complain if fdev make the fee 7 billion a year?
@@SolusVir yes but would u h8 it constantly getting cash to feed a endless starving FC and best u can do is make it ur semi truck that hold all ur ships and it cost 5 billion base price after the devs want u to keep grinding its just a way to get back in the game as if it was ur second job
I'm not sure this is a comprehensive guide. Massacre Missions don't supplement my squad's BH pay. When done in a wing we can each stack 3 or 4 wing missions each at 20m to 39m CR per mission, spend about a half hour in a ring, and everyone gets to cash in on all the missions. Assuming an average payout of 20m CR per mission and minimally two missions per CMDR, you're talking around 160m per hour if it takes you one hour to complete your missions...which...if you know how to stack Massacre Missions...one mission will take just as long as 7. You can find systems where each faction supplies Massacre Missions for some pirate faction next door, and if you make sure to only take one mission from each faction, and the target faction is the same, one kill counts as one ship in every mission you have. A lot of my CMDRs end up spending more time waiting for the mission board to flip before heading into the ring than they actually spend in the ring. I know this video is about primarily solo grind, and a lot of what you said about entry level for bounty hunting is true. That being said, once you have the ship, the Reputation with the factions you take missions from, and you've done a dozen or so Massacre Missions, you can expect to start seeing close to 50m CR in solo mission rewards, and can stack up to 7 faction's missions (remember: one per faction) and your target quantity maxes out around d 81 at first and goes as low as 32. We spend a lot of time bounty hunting in my squad. You're kind of only scratching the surface in terms of optimization in this particular discipline. Just saying. You can come fly with us for a day and you'll see what I'm talking about.
you miss the point of the fleet carrier you can mine and fill it up with bromelite voids etc gallite even visit the missions and take the decent transport jobs on you already got what they need in your warehouse
I wish one could add a picture of an old coffee grinder here because that's Elite Dangerous in a nutshell. How Braben managed to complete fsck up his legacy this way is sad.
Even though it's a stupid way to make credits, I bought Odyssey when it came out and I need a way to justify it while funding my way to my first fully outfitted ship so exobiology it is.
What about mining missions like gold, 50,000,000 for 600 gold. Find a station that sells it and just turn it in. Rinse and repeat. I’m in a good system, I take on gold, silver and two other I can’t remember the name. Teshub is where I start and one jump away is the station I buy the goods.
I played Elite in the 80's and loved it, I played ED for 30 minutes hated it and will never play again, but I will still watch Yamalamadingdong rant for an hour and a half about it.
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Best money making method Elite not so dangerous = kill orthrus interceptors.
How about Pay for pre-engineered ships in ED soon!!!?
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I just started playing Elite again a few days ago and now Yamiks uploads a guide on how to make money. Perfect timing thanks.
Yep. Me2
My fav way to make credits is rescue passengers from thargoid under attack large stations.
4-6 jumps range, get the rep to ally and enjoy 120-180m per trip.
the catch is if your too fast you saturate it, but you can come back 3-5 times a day spaced apart and make that value always.
Nice! Do you have edsy or coriolis link to your build?
@@tomasbancak8752 just run a big, cold ship. Python and anaconda work great. You don't even need weapons
@@tomasbancak8752 I use a Type 7 for burning station rescue missions. It has a surprisingly good amount of passenger capacity, is easier to land than the other larger passenger ships, and you won't completely clear the board so you don't have to wait for resets. Trying to make the ship cold doesn't change much from what I've tried (you're still popping one heat sink going in and one on your way out). Build is just A rated power plant, economy cabins and heat sink launchers.
@@ZogarX I like my zoomy Orca. with decent flying you can outrun most hyperdictions, just have to be brave and boost toward the smashy alien sometimes :)
@@tomasbancak8752
you can use something else for the computer, also thee passenger cabins i switch around depending what station im running. some stations when at max rep give more business options. the heat sync is the pre engineered one.
all you need are the three ECM one setup for each button and the third as a back up in case both are on CD.
it takes a little to understand how far missles and limpets are from you but basically pay attention to your radar and when you see white get ready to use ECM and boost in a slightly different angle so the missile doesn't dumb fire hit you.
exiting the stations if they are full of thargoids i boost around to behind the station to make them take longer to reach me while i boost away to jump.
EDSY says 39 jump but its more like 41.
4-6 jumps away is paying me 150m average per trip, and it takes about 15-20 minutes each trip.
"the grind is annoying and sadly 'not optional' "
*me whos played warthunder*: "hold my beer"
Very true.
WoT is better
i swear some games are abusive relationships.
i escaped from tarkov only because my cardiologist told me to cut out all sources of stress...
@@iceman7011_war of thunder is indeed better.
@@iceman7011_ 🤓👆
There are always a few markets in the bubble that buy Monazite at around 750k credits. Also, the ring density plays a role in core mining; find a dense ring with multiple Monazite hotspots, preferably of density over 8 or 9 ton/km^2. In my experience, you can collect 192 tons of Monazite in one or two hours, which is not a bad deal.
where can i see the density?
I do afk, let me explain why.
The grind in this game is ......fucked, but I did it. The fleet carrier was my end game goal.
I milked low temprature diamonds when they were the go for about the same time that you would spend to complete any other solid game just to get it.
It makes me happy. It's my space home base.
But now there is a negative loop to keep it based on upkeep.
I refuse to loose it. Makes me happy. It's a show of my success and accomplishment in the game (if even only for me).
Afk farming I can do while I'm at work (luxury of working from home to be fair), it means I can play once per 6 months to keep it.
The Down side of upkeep is when I feel the urge to dive in and try something, all I care about is space cheddar (to quote another cdmr) rather and experimenting with other game play.
It's a negative game play loop the really grates me.
Get ride of upkeep. If they don't log on for 3 months warp it out into storage or something. They can work it out.
Draining our grinded funds It's the biggest fuck you to the player base if ever there was one.
It's the pinnacle of your game play
Don't make it a negative.
i agree
The carriers were your choice. It was YOUR end game. I totally get what you mean tho. It's my end game but really just for the convenience. I always see that upkeep price and think twice tho. On that note, what happens if you don't pay and you in the black?
After playing helldivers 2, I laugh every time I remember fdev considers ED a "live service game"
In their defense, Helldivers 2 basically redefined "live service"
How in the hell does Fuckdev call ED "Live Service" when they left a decent portion (Maybe even the biggest part) of the player base behind because they couldn't get their shit together!?
…. I mean, it’s alive…..
It was a great live service game when it launched. Live service games have since evolved like doom to Halo. Elite has just not made that jump. Its really hard to do with space mmo genra especially (look at SC).
@@nightfury7321console was never the largest player base, you are delusional.
what my eyes see?
Yamiks still playing ED in 2024!
right hahah
Im so glad i made so much money back in the day so that now when i feelclike playing it, or when Star Citizen has a particularly unstable patch i can jump back in and not have to worry about money.
How? When I statyed playing shortly after launch, money was a worse grind than now
@@jakel2837 you missed big then, there were some tricks that made people incredibly rich; a friend of mine abused it so much that he still has so much more money than he will be ever able to spend.
@@jakel2837 passenger mission between sothis and ceos.
@@jakel2837 maybe LTDs before the nerf?
@@erasablefallen7223that's how I made my 2 billions. That, and Painite mining
You can still do the massacre stacking solo. Pirate kills are tracked for missions on a PER FACTION basis. So if you get a 5m "Kill 10 pirates" mission from The Union of United Uniters and another 5m "Kill 10 pirates" from The Liberal Party of Free Freedom, you get paid 10m after 10 kills. In the right places, you can stack these from 6-10 different factions.
I regularly get a stack of 20 missions which require between 70-100 kills (per faction, not combined), kill them off in about 2 hrs, and walk home with around 300-400m credits, plus my paltry 20-30m bounties. And that's solo, no wing stacking. I don't have friends. :(
whats the systeme ?
Lmao those faction names😂
I loved the idea of this game more than the actual game, having a whole galaxy to play in and explore and that idea kept me playing for way longer than it should have.
6030 hours space trucking in Elite Dangerous , and listening to TheYamiks videos.
Love the video mate. Lots of work and effort. Script was pretty funny too.. the bounty hunting intro was too good. Even snuck in a todd murder lol
The NEW Type 8 is pretty awesome. With over 400 tons of cargo capacity AND access to outposts! Due to how its a medium class ship. And with engineering being A LOT less grindy after the update, its much more fun to engineer ships, or even start a whole new game.
As usuall, top quality knowledge that is still entertaining to watch. Glad to see still making ED content. ❤ ❤
I have endless nostalgia for Elite. I’ll never rule out playing it while the servers are still up
Problem with "rushing through The Grind so you can get to the stuff you enjoy" is that 90% of "the stuff you enjoy" will be the same stuff you've just rushed through.... because there isn't anything else.
There are exceptions but, for example, if you're rushing through the grind so you can buy a fully-loaded combat Corvette to space Anacondas, it'll be exactly the same gameplay if you were flying a Cobra and using it to space Adders and DBXs.
Maybe you want to buy an Anaconda so you can go space-trucking but, again, it'll be exactly the same gameplay if you were flying an AspX.
Sure, you can do stuff on a "higher level" with a top-tier ship but the actual gameplay IS identical.
in my opinion, mining missions are still the best thing to do, get a large ship, do some fedex missions to get friendly with the locals, then source bertrandite or indite. for 50mill/pop
(buying it, not mining it)
I already know like 80% of the information in this video, I've got 5B in the game.
But I stayed for the damn comedy lol yamiks was the reason I stayed in elite. Thank man.
This guys sense of humour and narrative skills are unmatched!
Oh, there is another "classic" trade route in the Taygeta system, from Titan's Daughter station. This is an easy back and forth money maker. You take missions to fill up your cargo with, make 1 jump to another station to complete the missions, then you can buy another commodity to take back to Titan's Daughter for s smaller profit return trip. Do this enough, you get better missions with better rank with the local factions. Round trip, takes about 15 to 20mins, give or take, and there is not much risk. Apart from the usual NPC pirate interdiction now and then.
Can confirm the wing mission massacre stacking works quite well. Everyone on the wing stacks up as many missions as possible. Everyone runs a KWS. We would typically have a wing of 4 people, with each of us having 10-15 missions, and needing to kill around 90-120 pirates. Once they were all finished, then you return back to base, and then TAKE TURNS sharing your mission, let everyone turn it in, then you turn it in. Rinse and repeat for each person till all the missions are turned in. Then we all go to our squadron carrier to turn in our bounties, which will let you turn in all bounties you picked up (even if you would have had to travel around to jurisdictions normally). Yes, 25% of the bounties go to the carrier--but since we control the carrier... I once made 850M in just over 2 hours, counting the hand-ins.
The problem is still that for this to be effective--you need to have a decked out ship that's probably fully engineered--meaning you probably don't need the money anymore, except for stuff like carrier upkeep. The last time we did this was right before we quit the game--loading up the carrier with enough credits to keep the upkeep paid for 5 years with all the services shut off. That was about 3 years ago lol.
Look for mining missions that ask for a material which can be purchased for less than the mission reward amount. For example, I've been seeing ones that ask for me to mine bertrindite or tritium , with a reward of 50 million credits. Then I just go and purchase it somewhere, within one or two jumps!
Can't wait for the Buy engineered ship with real cash video!!!
It almost sounded like you called Elite Dangerous a turd party at 7:31, which in the grind aspect, kind of is. Well done.
I'm glad lots of original players are returning to this game. As for Yamiks THANK YOU for revamping the grind videos so I didn't have to suck any of those Ds that ED wants me to.... I mostly did the Sothis passenger missions then some beacon combat bounties.
10 years and I still don't think I can buy engineering materials outright with credits. 10 years of background simulation being able to accommodate the idea that NPCs and players have gathered enough of these materials to create a secondary market with them, and failing to implement it. Billions of credits, and the only thing worth spending them on isn't in the game.
I'm currently doing system discovery and first footfall exobiology. If I'm going to grind, I'm going to get my name in the history books while I do it. No NPC or player to harass me, and the pleasing RNG of discovery - you never know what you're going to warp into.
Just don't crash. I went out for about 2000LY (my very first foray outside the bubble) and on my way back I nearly crashed my ship...millions of credits nearly went down the fiery drain
I was one of those freaks that loved star opal farming. I explore grinded my way up to the perfect python star opal farmer then they nerfed the ever living crap out of mining itself. It is unbelievably relaxing farming star opals with a valve index strapped to your skull. I get so little use out of my valve index these days. It's still in it's original box when I packed it up before I moved to a new house 3 years ago.
Started bounty hunting with mpc police, bought a dolphin and went out to Robigo mines and I’ve been rich ever since 😆
Just do AX port defense with respective missions. Mountains of credits as well as T5 materials.
Hell yeah, small amount of grind and i did 300mil/hour
After grinding and building anaconda with 6 modshards i can do 500 mil/hour in wing is much easier
@@tomasbancak8752 It gets so crazy when you get lucky with the missions the port gives you. Additional 72 million for the 2 hydras per combat cycle per wingmate is just silly.
I correct you gladly. This is the only way a possibly ex-eve ( the carebear thing did reveal it ) and now ED pilot's guide should be done. Laughin' my cockpit to shreds here.
I laughed at the anime planet honk. I need to rethink my existence.
AFKL Disco brick is my type of credit making
Gotta mention, the sco fsd module makes 10k ls and further distances worth while. You should always be flying with an automatic module fixing thing anyway, but being able to cross 10k ls in a few seconds with very little to no damage to your ship turns road to riches into slightly less grindy.
I really enjoyed this. It was an informative and enjoyable watch.
Much love.
FYI you can do the space conflict zones legit, as the missions don't care about the CZ difficulty in which you kill the ships. So you can just go do a low CZ and get the same mission reward. And if you get a wing up and share the wing missions, all kills count towards everyone's shared missions, so you can crank out the missions. With high faction for the mission-giver, you can get 30-40 mill per wing mission, letting you crank out over a hundred mil an hour per person in your wing.
Why would you ever buy this game without Odyssey? I only bought this game because of Odyssey. A space sim where you can't get out of your ship is outdated.
I'm surprised Robigo is still active! I used to run that money about 4 years ago :D
When doing the Robigo runs, I usually run out of the profitable mission. They simply stop spawning. The increase of the reputation cased that im getting the 20k ly tourist missions that i don't want.
re-logging helps!
Welcome back theyapmiks we sorta missed you
Amazing vid rlly wonder how many WEEKS you've spend writing & editing all of that
Let's hope that it reaches new players !
Spent about 1 week solid on the script
Then 1.5weeks editing and filming extras.
We need player built bases with npc trade interactions
Some people got banned because they sell/buy credits with real money using fleet carrier transfer, if you are just giving your friends credits, that's absolutely fine.
SCO FSD changes Road to riches with probing (regarding planet distance)
before i started to watch i smashed the like button!
Yamiks hooks the guide without any Odyssey needed. That's wassup! Thanks!
Deserved sub. Very informative and funny 🤣. Excellent work💯
thank you so much. i didnt even know about the shit scanner, ive just been accepting a mission and jumping 30 minutes away to get 30,000 cr
Trading isn't as bad as it sounds, I was introduced to Cemiess due to a damaged station and stayed there for years. During my stay I levelled up relationships in Cemiess and the surrounding star systems. Long story short I can make 50 million in 2 to 6 jumps trading Bertrandite, Silver or other commodities, there's usually an investment involved costing nearly half of the credits earned.
when i started my buddy and I found a great merchant run between two planets in the same system that had a pretty large price difference because they were on opposite sides of a war. only medium landing pads though so ship size is limiting. if I remember it was about 7-10m in 4 minutes but my buddy and I were enough action to saturate the price difference in 4-5 hours of game play every few days. though I did get exploded by a player carrying like 20m+ worth of cargo once and had to work back up to full loads.
Thanks
Actually the exobiology can be much more profitable in deep space where you usually get the first discovery bonuses. It can be around 250m per session.
Used to transfer my credits to my other accounts with Fleet Carriers. I got distracted with something else and left the sale price at minimum for several days. Safe to say, someone must have been very happy. And I didn't care, because I'm already so stacked with everything. They certainly didn't get banned for benefiting from it, because I didn't get banned for providing it. Also, transferring credits this way is also time consuming. And in that time nobody is generating anything.
I play ED from first dates back in 87-88, it is not a game with some goal you will acchieve in 30 hours, it is a game for life, you are never done, you just need to find a new gameplay you like. collecting money in game is not a goal in game at all. but you can do it pretty easely...how much ingame money you need at all. Fly, fight, mine, explore, enjoy, sometimes I just fly without any missions or else just fly to se where I will end up.
Got my credits with Low-Temperature Diamonds back when that was extremely profitable with the infamous triple-hotspot.
The problem I encountered was that, once I had all my ships built and fully engineered and my wallet bursting at the seams... I came to the realization that there was nothing to actually do with all that. No more money needed, no more ships needed - and those are the only "real rewards" in the game. So that's when I quit playing... oops.
I prefer the pre-engineered Probulator-9001. It makes surface scanning so much easier/faster.
Personal evacuation missions can be really profitable too
Yamiks I'm genuinely curious how long you've had the dreads going??? they are sick.
about 8years
Any pictures before the dreads?
@@T_D_K45 heh...yes but they are mine! =}
Every time i see a video from you about elite i cry a bit inside as a console player..
Ngl I love the changeling transition 🤣🤣.
I will toss in my own method but it requires Odyssey: you can leverage the fact that most of the discovered systems have not been mapped/landed on and combine it with knowledge of what types of planets spawn Stratum Tectonica (exobiology specimen worth 19 million each, 95 milion if first discovered).
I wonder. What if players could build stations or planetary bases if that would change things. Player economy died long ago and missions were DOA.
I just got my hotas so I can have more immersion in elite dangerous so this is great timing. I'll be trying this shit out next week once I got the time. Currently setting at a comfy 500mil from doing a bit of billionaires path with odyssey but space capitalism requires I keep going.
The poorly docked ships at the beginning was the best
Great video. Thank you yamik.
I like to do things I find fun and I find combat fun so I do combat missions, I also have a bit of sleuthing trying to find good systems that allow to stack combat missions but like Yamiks says it is not very predictable. One of the things long time players do is figure out how the BGS works, that is fun for me, there is a wee community that tries to figure this stuff out and find money makers. But it's for fun. I also do piracy. And wear a fursuit.
Personally, I will still swear by deep core mining. I don't know if it's luck or intuition, but my gut feeling about those glowing rocks is always on point. Usually only a few minutes between finding viable asteroids.
I don’t give half a shit about Elite anymore. But I did enjoy your research streams for the vid and appreciate the effort you put into it.
I only just completed the engineers grind and now im ready to kms😊
The engineer grind makes an hero out of everyone 😂
This guy is one of the best sci fi reviewers of all time.
Thanks! I’m gonna get back into elite this summer after taking awhile off, because they’re finally adding some much-needed things to the game. This will be very useful! Do you recommend trying to do engineering too? Or is that just a horrible experience still
Apparently, engineers gona be change this summer with the new powerplay 2.0. Probably with python mk2 release in August...
The fleet cariers are essential for the expeditions. And don't tell me, grandpa, that in your times you did expeditions without them, times have changed 😂
Hey Yamiks you can just buy ships with money soon.
Yes.. its not a bad idea! since people like me have been playing for 9+ years and havent had to contribute to the server costs, i hope they make money from it so i can keep playing for another 9+ years :)
I tried AFK farming when I first heard about it just to see if it worked. Outside of the novelty though I agree with Yamik's take on it. I'd rather use a Type 10 turret build for Thargoid scouts and actually play the game.
AS a Mostly solo player :p I find the fleet carrier very worthwhile.. Currently 12k Ly from 'civilisation' and i can land, repair, refuel and cash in my loot from scanning flowers and goop as well as discoveries.. I make back more in 2 hours of very below average scanning to pay for a month of my investment :) I also have access to most of my ships and modules almost all of the time.
BUT! I mostly agree that if you are staying in the bubble you really dont need one.. With the possible exception of trade. It was nice to be able to put 15000 tritium in my cargo from a distance of under 10Ls, most of the time it was 25 - 30 Mn. Other commodities you can.. Fill it up.. move and sell it all faster than i could if i just used my cutter. What can i do with 5 bil? not much anymore really.. ive bought almost everything i will ever need in this game and have enough to buy at least 1 more FC. (No.. i cant own more than 1)
ANYWAYS.. For people just starting out! Listen to him! Dont buy a Fleet Carrier until you have nothing left to spend your money on!
I got this game in 2015 because I wanted to fly spaceships, but the grind made me quit
I’ve reset the game 10 times the grind is not that bad. Warframe grind takes exponentially longer
The grind is the best part.
1:18 damn. You got me there 😂
Credits are extremely easy to make. Once you get your hands on a Type-9, you basically have an infinite money printing press.
You my friend are correct! heck, even a Python for doing Robigo mines - Sothis passenger mission can make very decent credits (boring though) OH! while im talking about the python and robigo runs.. you need a 5a FSD than can make the trip in 2 jumps.. think its 30.5? to make it easier.
Tip:- you can buy a pre-engineered 5a FSD from Babbage Gateway in Ceos from the human tech trader in the contacts list. for some engineering materials instead of credits. (Mostly for those that havent unlocked engineering)
Helldivers 2 just did what Halo did for console shooters, but for live service games. Hopefully they get better from now on
I wonder how the SCO FSD will change the probulator profit per hour.
very little
Massacre pirate missions suck for me. I get from 1 to 3 kills per hour. Thats simply due to the spawn rate.
Just pointing out but whenever i go core mining in my python, i get average of 12- 14 or so commoditys from an asteroid, so and the ones i go for sell for 600k-high 700k per oiece so in a one hour or so outing, i get 80-90 million credits easy
Wish it was worth playing these days. Would love to see more SC content especially now that its in a pretty good state.
is it thou?!
@@TheYamiks its better then ed and many moved from ed to sc like me
Going to have to dissapoint you Yamiks..my afk T-10 is what funded my carrier! lol
I think the only case in which I'd do the afk farm is setting it up to go while I can't be at the computer. Otherwise I enjoy the exobiology and exploration methods
best elite youtuber rn
I have a vanilla python mk II with A modules shield booster and shield bank (and limpets ;) ) and I can easily farm high rez sites. Only cost me around 130mil to outfit completely vanilla.
🤣 Yamiks still on his Fleet Carrier rant... if money is so easy to make, which it is. Why not have one? I mean the biggest argument you had against them was the maintenance fees. I bought a fleet Carrier with a weekends of gameplay.... another weekend and I had many years (more than needed,l ets be honest here) in maintenance fees. So what exactly is the drawback to having one Yamiks? My homebase is mobile now, all my ships come with me...
Fleet carrier utilizes manipulative game design tactics to induce sunk cost as well as others.
The carrier really is a bad investment that needlessly take up your time and attention
@@TheYamiks You don't even need to do any farming to afford FC upkeep costs. It's cheap as fuck. There is no "sunk cost" in it at all. In fact, you can use a fleet carrier to farm much more efficiently than without one, if credits are a problem for you somehow at that point. With a fleet carrier, you don't need to worry about maximizing jump range or cargo space on any ship build ever again. You can mine with very little cargo space, transfer the commodities to your in-system fleet carrier, fill it up, then jump to a sell system and unload it all with your T9 (for example). Same principle applies to other "farming" operations. I seriously don't get the anti-FC position. It's weird. Like some kind of religious dogma or something.
@@SolusVir its more like no matter wat u do ur fc will always be a parasite to ur cmdr draining ur wallet no matter wat would u complain if fdev make the fee 7 billion a year?
What else is there to do with all the credits from playing for years.
@@SolusVir yes but would u h8 it constantly getting cash to feed a endless starving FC and best u can do is make it ur semi truck that hold all ur ships and it cost 5 billion base price after the devs want u to keep grinding its just a way to get back in the game as if it was ur second job
I'm not sure this is a comprehensive guide.
Massacre Missions don't supplement my squad's BH pay. When done in a wing we can each stack 3 or 4 wing missions each at 20m to 39m CR per mission, spend about a half hour in a ring, and everyone gets to cash in on all the missions. Assuming an average payout of 20m CR per mission and minimally two missions per CMDR, you're talking around 160m per hour if it takes you one hour to complete your missions...which...if you know how to stack Massacre Missions...one mission will take just as long as 7. You can find systems where each faction supplies Massacre Missions for some pirate faction next door, and if you make sure to only take one mission from each faction, and the target faction is the same, one kill counts as one ship in every mission you have. A lot of my CMDRs end up spending more time waiting for the mission board to flip before heading into the ring than they actually spend in the ring.
I know this video is about primarily solo grind, and a lot of what you said about entry level for bounty hunting is true. That being said, once you have the ship, the Reputation with the factions you take missions from, and you've done a dozen or so Massacre Missions, you can expect to start seeing close to 50m CR in solo mission rewards, and can stack up to 7 faction's missions (remember: one per faction) and your target quantity maxes out around d 81 at first and goes as low as 32.
We spend a lot of time bounty hunting in my squad. You're kind of only scratching the surface in terms of optimization in this particular discipline. Just saying. You can come fly with us for a day and you'll see what I'm talking about.
you miss the point of the fleet carrier
you can mine and fill it up with bromelite voids etc gallite even
visit the missions and take the decent transport jobs on you already got what they need in your warehouse
TLDR: DON'T
(i didnt watch the vid, im actually watching the Mint Mobile ad right now)
We heavily used the reset glitch for core mining. No Ban
I wish one could add a picture of an old coffee grinder here because that's Elite Dangerous in a nutshell. How Braben managed to complete fsck up his legacy this way is sad.
great video!
Lol I remember when I started my first ship was a Hauler, did some exploring, then I bought an Anaconda as my second ship 😂😂
Booze cruise is good when you can use someone else's carrier.
Even though it's a stupid way to make credits, I bought Odyssey when it came out and I need a way to justify it while funding my way to my first fully outfitted ship so exobiology it is.
What about mining missions like gold, 50,000,000 for 600 gold. Find a station that sells it and just turn it in. Rinse and repeat. I’m in a good system, I take on gold, silver and two other I can’t remember the name. Teshub is where I start and one jump away is the station I buy the goods.
unreliable.
1:17 -_- fuckin knew it wasn't mine
I played Elite in the 80's and loved it, I played ED for 30 minutes hated it and will never play again, but I will still watch Yamalamadingdong rant for an hour and a half about it.