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Article : The Route Of All Evil
By Al
What is the single most important thing in Evochron?
Is it Fuel, a fast, well-armoured ship or, is it the latest in turbo-powered death dealing cannon?
Well I’ll tell you.
Its none of the above, its Money hunny!
If you don’t have a buck, a pound or a yen you cannot buy any of them.
So, Making Some Cash In Evochron....(the early systems)
Ways to start:
- Plundering the dead. And why not, they cannot use the cargo any more and we should all recycle nowadays, but it’s slow...
- Mining. A lot of greatly respected pilots do this, even as a way of life! Hell that’s true grit, but (its not for me and) it’s slow...
- Trading. Yup, that’s going to make some cash, but at these profit levels it’s going to be slow...
All of the above will get your bank balance moving into the black in the chartered systems.
But guess where the real money gets made, that’s right, up high, and we want to get there fast, so start twitching that trigger finger because...
It’s Murder out there...
To get through those early systems and up through the mists beyond you are going to need the best Drive money can buy, you are going to need...
"THE ALL NEW FD5"
"Capable of jumping 5 systems in the press of a single f2 button, buy one from your local store today"
And to get it fast you need to kill and kill lots.
So, get your self disliked, and by that I mean get a bad rep in a system or two (but not all of them!!!!!), to do this simply fire on Friendly (green or yellow) ships, then go to the orbiting station and dock, ahh, now you have a bad rep you might have to pay a fee but don’t worry pay the fine, you did the crime.
Now you can get contracts, lots of lovely contracts yum, and they pay well!
Do loads of contracts, plunder, mine and trade too, just get enough cash to get that FD5.
It Does Not Matter...
Now is the time to explore, time to fly high, up into the uncharted systems.
There are plenty of hints either in the forums or in the game literature itself about where to find a profitable trading stock (there are spoilers too if you are of that mind set), all I will say is that at this stage of the game you can pull in about 1 million profit a trip in (and I am hinting here) about 10 minutes a trip if you have a Javelin with lots of cargo points (It used to take me 30-20 minutes).
You need more cash to fuel your hunger...
OK, by now you will probably have about 100 million, and even better you can kill, and kill well, and that’s great because if you want to break Vice’s money counter like I do you can make a LOT more.
Somebody stop me!!!!
When is it time to retire? I don’t know, I currently have a couple of bill.
I guess that’s why Siege asked me to write this little ditty.
So, you want to know...
Well I’m not going to tell you, not even going to sell you the secret! No don’t even try to offer me... well that’s a lot of cash in your hand but..... ;_)
However, and there are always "however's" in my opinion, I will give you some clues (as I am a big tease).
Don’t force the market, use market forces!
There is a "punish the rich" ethos @ docks, use that against them!
Think laterally, what is there to sell? (really are you sure?!)
And the biggest hint I can give you to earn 30/40 mill in a single trip is always adapt, the further up in the systems you fly you must change the way you earn your cash.