Making money as a beginning character

How will I be able to get enough money for a good start in SWG?

Obviously there are different possibilities to earn money in SWG. You can take on some missions, go hunting with a group or try to find cheap items in vendors which you can sell for more money. All of these options are very time consuming and therefore I recommend to become a resource dealer as soon as you start playing SWG. Here are the steps I took when I started the game one year ago:

1. To enter the Resource Business, you have to buy some harvesters as soon as possible. Depending on which server you are playing (this example is based on Europe-Farstar), you have to pay around 500-1000cr per minor harvester. As you start the game owning 10 lots and each of the harvesters will reduce your remaining lots by one, I started with the following setup:


 * 5 Personal Mineral Extractor (1lot 720cr/day 600power/day)
 * 1 Personal Chemical Processor (1lot 720cr/day 600power/day)
 * 1 Personal Natural Gas Extractor (1lot 720cr/day 600power/day)
 * 3 Wind Power Generator (1lot 1440cr/day)

10 Harvester (1000cr each) = 10000cr

2. Now we have to try to earn 10000cr (+4320cr. for the wind power generators running for the first day) for the harvs and obviously find a vendor in which we can purchase them. I suggest that you start with the scout prof no matter what you want to become later on in the game. The scout hast the advantage, that you will be able to harvest resources from animals you kill during your hunt. These resources can be sold as well. If you harvest good quality hide, you can expect some nice credits for everything you collect. Tailors are always keen on getting good quality hide. If you dont want to fight at all in the beginning, you should take on some delivery or artisan missions. However, as soon as you own the 10 harvs you dont have to worry about money anymore.

3. After you bought the harvesters, you should learn the artisan prof. This one you will need to find good spots for your harvesters, as the artisan is able to survey for resources. One good indicator for nice resource spots is the penetration by other harvs. If you run into a big farm of personal, medium or heavy harvs...most likely you will find nice resource spots there. If you dont run into them, you should survey as long as it needs to find good spots (never plant your harv on a spot below 40%).

4. The first resource you want to survey for is wind. You need the energy for planting your miners. As soon as your three wind power generators are planted on a 40+ spot, leave them running for a day and try to earn enough money for starting your miners.

5. You will need 9360cr for day two and therefore you should do enough missions to get the money.

6. Day two: Now your situation should be like that:


 * 3 wind power generators running
 * Enough wind energy to start the miners
 * Enough money to start the miners

7. Now you need good resources and if you follow the same instructions (survey and miner farm scouting) you should be able to find a very nice spot for your harvesters. Plant them, pump 'em up with money and energy for a day and enjoy the outcome on day three. Again you have to get 9360cr. for day three, but after this day it should be no problem to get the money for running your little harvester farm.

8. Day three: Done...you are in the resource business. Fly back to your harvesters and retrieve all resources, put in the money and energy for another day and move your butt to the next Bazar-vendor (big cities are best (Coronet, Bestine...etc.). You should devide the resources according to the cpu (credits per unit) the users normally pay on your server. As the maximum you can get out of the Bazar-vendor is 6000cr, you should either place 2000 units (3 cpu) oder 3000 units (2 cpu) per item into the Bazar. 2 cpu is pretty much a dumping price and you should be careful with such a low budget. First, it will make it harder for you to run your business. Second, you will piss off a lot of resource dealers...

At the end of the day you have now a very good source for getting money on a regular basis without too much hassle. To harvest will take you no longer than 15min. a day. The next step would be to take a close look at the quality of your resources. If you want to continue working as a resource dealer, you have to care about your reputation. Good quality for a reasonable price will get you a lot of customers. You should obviously safe some money everyday to replace your personal harvs with medium and later on with heavy ones to get more resources...

If you have more questions write a mail...

'till then: May the force be with you...

Greez

Rek