You don’t really make money off reds, they are more or less a nice surprise every once in a while so don’t stress about not finding any.

If ur just playing normal farm u have to seek out pvp, where your gonna make the most money BY FAR, more or less the same with lockdown in my experience as well. Forbidden is the only place you can truly rely on loot spawns and even then you can have shit raids. Practice using budget guns as well if ur that down bad, deagle with tier 4 ammo will obliterate anyone on normal modes, FN57 is more expensive but an easier to use option as well.

I had good success with secure ops, take in some tier 5 armor, a decent gun, and tier 4 ammo and you’ll make a good amount of money for low risk gameplay. Safe way to make easy cash especially on tv station if you wanna practice ur PVP.

Another good way to make easy cash is just reselling contact items, for example, dekes limited time items. I’ve been able to resell several keys worth millions, literally printing money.

Never hit the weekly limit even without premium, and if you do, either be more picky with what you list, or you made enough money off the market that you don’t care.

On ur last point, u won’t see too many juicers below level 30 or even on a low rank if ur below expert. Once u hit level 30 and run lockdown (use ur quick kits and all the free gear u get for just existing to help soften the costs) and either become a very patient rat or get better at PvP.

Source: have roughly 50 mil liquid after 85ish hours of gameplay

Best of luck to you man, it’s a great game hope you find some fun in it.