cameronlanderson Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I've been trying to earn heaps of creds, but people always seem to have like 80 million. How do people do that?
Ahwassa Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I have 840 Millions but I started playing 3 years ago Now I earn credits by running master Flashpoints and selling isotopes and the materials I get from the commands crates and conquest. If you do conquest on many characters it´s pretty easy to earn credits. And its even easier if you are member of a big guild.
DarkSaberMaster Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 Sell cartel crates. It's how I made my 900+ million creds.
MK-ULTRA Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I have 840 Millions but I started playing 3 years ago Now I earn credits by running master Flashpoints and selling isotopes and the materials I get from the commands crates and conquest. If you do conquest on many characters it´s pretty easy to earn credits. And its even easier if you are member of a big guild. For a second there I read started playing 3 days ago
MK-ULTRA Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 Sell cartel crates. It's how I made my 900+ million creds. The items in the crates are worth more. I've only opened a few crates so far and have items worth 200+mil. I also just bought 10 cubes for 10 mil and just one of the items is worth 10 mil. If I had 240 mil to buy hypercrate I would and would most likely make 500 mil easy.
ShieldProtection Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 There is no way I buy a hypercrate with 2k+ cartel coins only to get credits in game, thats insane and defeats the purpose in my opinion. Single crate? there is already TONS OF people selling single cartel crate on GTN and no one buys them as far as I noticed and I'm not going to buy 5500 cc. Amazon already ran out stocks anyways, it seems like people buying them like crazy because everytime I visit the Amazon US website there is always the text below the swtor product, "x amount left in stocks, order soon" or "we do not know when this product to be re-available" In my opinion people will always brag and moan about how much credits they have but never ever talk about how to get them. Heroics are boring as **** solo and people no longer ask in gen chat to form a group, soloing heroics is the disgusting thing I ever done in my life and I'm not going to do ever again. It takes so much time and effort, with all those STUPID NPC STUNS at start of the combat. EVERY SINGLE npc will stun you in heroics. GOD I'm so mad about this matter, perhaps I should eat some snickers to break my tooth again.
Xina_LA Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 (edited) I've made most of my credits three ways -- * I've been playing for years. They add up over time. * Back when there were more packs, I used to make good money, because I only wanted the pets and decorations, while the armor always sold for great money. * I look for underpriced items on the GTN in a couple of categories I'm very familiar with, hold on to them, then resell them later at a profit. I have a bad habit of creating new toons to replay the class stories in different ways and those missions were never adjusted for inflation, so that's pathetic money. At the end of the whole class story, I end up with about 1 million credits, which will hardly buy you one good stronghold decoration. Edited September 27, 2019 by Xina_LA
ZionHalcyon Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I'll make it simple. DO HEROICS. You can make a million credits a day easy doing that and selling the loot you accumulate along the way doing it. If your capped at level 70, turn in your alliance crates and then sell whatever is in them as well. Trust me if you want to make money Heroics are the easiest way to do so.
xordevoreaux Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 (edited) Embezzling guild funds. It's a running joke with my guildies. They see me pull out 5m and they're what? It's all going to decos put in my legacy and then spent back via credits into the guild, but the ledger doesn't look good lol. Edited September 27, 2019 by xordevoreaux
DarkTergon Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 There are plenty of ways to make money, and everyone will tell you differently. I made mine by buying and selling on the gtn. Used my free cartel coins to get high yield stuff, then used thoses credits to seed my 'store'. Another way is the dailies, quite a lot can be made from doing black hole, all the way up to ossus. Usually about 400k + on each set of dailies (people have said more but i have noticed) Crafting can make a lot, if you find which mats sell well, and concentrate on gathering thems. Also crafting augments can be profitable, but to make the most out of them, you'll need toons that can run ops, and FP's to get the dearer mats needed so it doesn't cut in to our profit.
Balameb Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I've been trying to earn heaps of creds, but people always seem to have like 80 million. How do people do that? I mostly craft for credits. The items in the crates are worth more. I've only opened a few crates so far and have items worth 200+mil. I also just bought 10 cubes for 10 mil and just one of the items is worth 10 mil. If I had 240 mil to buy hypercrate I would and would most likely make 500 mil easy. 10 cubes for 10Mill, sounds like a good price. Hope source wasn't from the duplicate exploits. But carefull, you can get a pet that sells for less than 20k. But in any case i think you were just TOO lucky. The average hypercrate do not give in a few crates items worth over 200+mil. Sure, one of my very first packs on my first hypercrate had a platinum item. But luck runs out eventually. A very large portion of the items are pets/mounts that sell for really low prices. Can anyone get lucky and get fantastic loot that sells for a few 100s of million? sure. Will you get that on most hypercrates? Nope; there are just too many possible itemas but only a very small portion sells high. Lots of Gold/Platinum that people just don't pay much for them. You can get platinum rarity that sells for over 100Mill (like if you happen to get the lastest armor) or you can get platinum that sells for less than 10Mill. Today, i would even say that average hypercrate do not even cover the 200+Mill artificial price people sells them these days. A few months ago, when they were at 100 or 120 Mill that was good price. And in any case recovering usually requires a lot of time and patience selling each item. So you need to like a little the gamble part too to compensate that.
SiegePro Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I never have a huge amount of credits at any one time because I’m always spending them, but the fastest way to earn them pre-70 is play a stealth class and run heroics. A lot of them can be completed in a minute or less if you don’t have to fight trash mobs (having the rocket boost legacy item also speeds up reaching your goals). Once you hit 70, particularly with the new expansion coming out, the weekly missions for the daily areas (Black Hole, Section-X, etc.) award insane amounts of CXP. With a CXP booster running I can clear Yavin 4, Black Hole, Section-X, Oricon, CZ-198 and Ziost in under two hours... netting from a dozen to nearly forty command crates depending on my current command rank. Just vender trash everything you get instead of breaking it down for more CXP and you’ll start building a chunk of credits quick. Another VERY important aspect of building credit reserves like the OP is talking about is your legacy bank. A couple hours for those weeklies on a fresh 70 with a single digit command rank will earn you far more command crates than the command rank 300 character will, but once the gear is sold the credits can be spent by any of your characters. Likewise, if you periodically drop any credits you earn on a character above about 100k (more than enough to cover any repairs even if you wipe a few times) into your legacy bank you’ll be less tempted to spend them on the fly and start to see just how much you’re really making across all your characters. I just take 30 seconds at the end of my play session to drop whatever I get just from running whatever I’m currently running and its often a million or more. Give it four months without spending on GTN stuff and I’d be at 100 million easy. But the lure of new outfits and black/black dye packs is strong... which is why I don’t actually have more than about 15-20 million in my legacy bank at any one time.
Goreshaga Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I usually run heroics with a stealth character to get my credits. But i never have much, because i'm always keeping the credits untill i can buy whatever outfit i want on the GTN and then spend everything
Zerileth Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 1 billion each on both American servers from buying dyes when the market is flooded. Storing them until there's a shortage and selling them for higher amounts. Been playing about 8 years now. I'd have more had I not bought so many decos over the years.
Lhancelot Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I mostly craft for credits. Crafting, and buying low off GTN and selling high. Just play the GTN and you can make decent credits.
JediQuaker Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I have basically earned credits in two ways. 1. Playing the game. As has been said, you can make a lot of credits doing FPs. I do them for grins. 2. Selling stuff on the GTN. I used to buy a lot of Cartel crates hoping to get things I like. I've slowed down on that - lately I mostly just spend my monthly CCs on crates (and unlocks, etc). In neither of those cases was it my intent to make credits. The credits just happen as a result. I had over 400 million a while ago, but I'm down to about 250 million now, because I spend them. I don't see any reason to save them - they're not real and not really worth anything. You can't take them with you - not even to another game.
MorseGod Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 (edited) Alright, here's what you do.... Constantly spam general chat that you are paying huge amounts of creds for people to click your referral link.Use the Cartel Coins to buy high value items.Sell the items on GTN for huge profit. Remember never to pay the creds you promise. This doesn't violate any rules, and customer service will not do anything for the suckers who click your link because it's their own fault for being greedy and stupid. Do this on an alt so that you can throw it away when that particular toon's reputation gets bad enough. On a more serious note, running heroics is a decent source of easy credits. Edited September 27, 2019 by MorseGod
Adric_the_Red Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 Alright, here's what you do.... Constantly spam general chat that you are paying huge amounts of creds for people to click your referral link.Use the Cartel Coins to buy high value items.Sell the items on GTN for huge profit. Remember never to pay the creds you promise. This doesn't violate any rules, and customer service will not do anything for the suckers who click your link because it's their own fault for being greedy and stupid. Do this on an alt so that you can throw it away when that particular toon's reputation gets bad enough. The Sarcasm is strong with this one.
olagatonjedi Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 I usually undercut the competition on the GTN, so my item sells (sometimes by the person im undercutting. Use the laws of supply and demand in your favor.
Drew_Braxton Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 (edited) These I usually undercut the competition on the GTN, so my item sells (sometimes by the person im undercutting. Use the laws of supply and demand in your favor. Crafting, and buying low off GTN and selling high. Just play the GTN and you can make decent credits. Sell cartel crates. It's how I made my 900+ million creds. If you play a lot and can stomach very repetitive heroics then you can make an income (let's call it minimum wage). It's not the best time versus reward investment. On a good night playing the GTN or selling some crafted stuff will net you way more than heroics ever will. Obviously, the easiest way to get credits is spend real world money on the crates. I consider that method more of a currency conversion than actually earning credits. The main point is to try several of the suggestions and see which one fits your time schedule and play style. Things have changed in the last few years. The movers and shakers are into the billions now so this talk of millions is so 2014. The best advise I can give is - *If you think like a worker bee you will get paid like a worker bee* Edited September 27, 2019 by Drew_Braxton
CaptRogue Posted September 27, 2019 Posted September 27, 2019 The items in the crates are worth more. I've only opened a few crates so far and have items worth 200+mil. I also just bought 10 cubes for 10 mil and just one of the items is worth 10 mil. If I had 240 mil to buy hypercrate I would and would most likely make 500 mil easy. That is a load of bunk there! Hypercrates/crates are a complete gamble. Back when Hypercrates were like 97-104mil, I'd get them from the GTN, open & resell...Way too often I wouldn't break even. I recently purchased a Hypercrate from the CM with my CC's that I just allow to accumulate. I would have made more money or just as much, simply selling the whole crate instead of opening it. But since it wasn't a credit loss on my part it wasn't as bad. Crates were going for like 147-150mil & I only made hmm...120mil or so. Rough guesstimate on my part. (One item sold for way more than it had been going for after sitting on it a few days. lol) I still have like 2 items from it to sell. I didn't keep but like 5 items that were non-bound. TL;DR: OPENING Hypercrates/Single Packs/Grand Chance Cubes are a GAMBLE & not a guaranteed way to make credits & not something I would tell someone who doesn't have a lot of credits in game to do to start off. SELLING the unopened box will most likely net you more credits. Especially if you sell it via Trade Chat instead of GTN (No 8% GTN tax.). Other than that OP, heroics, numerous toons doing conquest, and crafting will net you credits. But you have to be patient & a tight wad so to speak to let them build up. Don't do like some & as soon as you get a good amount you go blow it.
DarkTergon Posted September 28, 2019 Posted September 28, 2019 That is a load of bunk there! Hypercrates/crates are a complete gamble. Back when Hypercrates were like 97-104mil, I'd get them from the GTN, open & resell...Way too often I wouldn't break even. . This is true, but with hypercrate nowadays they are so much harder to sell, unless you are wiling to knock off about 40 mill. Most go for about 200, and can be up there for a while. But if you put it up for about 150/160 mill, it will usually sell before first time around.
Sir-steve Posted September 28, 2019 Posted September 28, 2019 Been playing since beta and my main toons have hundreds of millions between them. I take a combined short/long term approach: Short Term: crafting/selling armor that (I think) you can't get the schems for anymore so, it's not necessarily a repeatable approach. What's made it successful, in my opinion, is that I always price these items under the FTP credit cap. Long Term: occasionally buying a hypercrate (only if the series has an awesome item in it - I find the earlier ones were good, newer ones not so much) or desirable armor set and putting it in the bank for several months. Trying to time the market is a gamble, but if you wait long enough you have better odds of it appreciating. I've recently started a new toon on another server just to see how hard it is to work your way up from scratch these days....my observation is that at low levels, the income stream just isn't there from missions etc. I'm at 40 now with only 150k to my name. This puts a lot of the Legacy perks etc out of reach and boy, do you really notice how slow things are when you can't afford rocket boost. I think bottom line, it really takes money (or an in demand skill) to invest/make money - unless you're willing to spend CC to jump start earnings by getting into the CM/GTN game, you need to hit end game before the credit pace picks up.
Zurules Posted September 28, 2019 Posted September 28, 2019 CRAFTING is by far the easiest and least time consuming way of making credits. I literally buy all the materials required for anything i craft and make on average 80-100m per item sold ( ** very important to note that you only really make money when you crit and get double the component ** ). You do need alot of credits in the first place to cover the high costs, but the profits are well worth it once you get there. For newer players, i would recommend starting with augments.
JediQuaker Posted September 28, 2019 Posted September 28, 2019 You do need alot of credits in the first place to cover the high costs, but the profits are well worth it once you get there. Well, unless there's a high-priced item you are saving up for, I'd have to say the profits are not worth the effort. As I keep saying, the credits are just imaginary in-game currency. Unless you want to risk "credit-selling", making huge amounts of credits is not meaningful or profitable, in real-world terms. Of course, if that's what you enjoy doing, then by all means continue. For quite a while when I played Guild Wars I was heavily into selling in-game items because I enjoyed it. The "credits" or whatever GW currency is called (I don't recall) are probably still sitting in my GW bank, unused (unless the account's been hacked... again ) So, I don't recommend to any new players that they get into buying and selling things on the GTN unless they really like buying and selling, and taking risks. Of course, since it's imaginary "money" there's no real risk.
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