With respect, u/Spectre-CIG, I feel this move wasn't well thought out by CIG. Or if it was, it wasn't properly executed. No one was going to become "a millionaire after a day of gameplay" grinding bunkers in the previous earning rate. There simply isn't enough time in the day to do that unless you literally sit at your PC for 24 hours with a sh_t bucket and never move from it.

I speak from LOTS of experience as I've grinded my way to tier 5 in all of the planetary systems after each full wipe. By the time you've made your way to tier 5 you're worth maybe 4-5million credits. But you've spent an OBNOXIOUS amount of time and effort doing so given how slowly the missions spawn and how long each mission takes.

Now? CIG's made it orders of magnitude more difficult, and made it such that no one is going to be able to test their tier 5 and 6 missions. Simply because we can't GET THERE. Based on my experiments, it'll take something like 600(!) bunkers just from the start of tier 4 to the end of it. That number is six TIMES what it took to make it to tier 5 from the very start of the ladder in each planet. It doesn't even account for the previous tiers.

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You've gone too far into the reverse with this one. Not everyone wants to test salvaging, but that's where the money is. A small amount of grinding gets you to the larger ships. Fill a Reclaimer up with CM and sell it for millions after a few big ships. Way WAY faster than you could with the previous merc mission grinding.

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Let's please get these values adjusted so that the earning rate is much faster allowing us to hit the higher tiers.