So far, I only have three basic ideas on how to make a profit in Eshira.

1. Faction Bank. What's the faction bank? It's a bank your faction stores all it's cash in. Every ten minutes, you can take a certain amount of money out of the bank, maybe $40 or so. The bank will only have about 200$ when the server restarts so you'll have to acquire more money. To do that, you go and capture mining sites.

2. Supply Drops. Every once in a while a dropship from your faction will arrive and drop off supplies.

3. Selling stuff. Acquire a trader licence and begin selling.

If anyone has any more ideas please feel free to contribute them.

How does "selling stuff" work? Does the faction gain a % of your profit?

Is the supply drop just a money drop or an item drop? Because if it's an item drop, it would probably just be more convenient for the factions to buy traders licenses and be able to pull things out of the air.

Selling stuff. Just buy a trader flag on a non-military faction.

Needs moar salvage.

How about a perk, that lets you salvage items thru out the map. That are spawned are random intervals, and you can save said salvaged items or just sell them immediately, but if you save them you can eventually combine them and make something bigger that would sell for more. Just something I thought about for a few minutes.

To do that, you go and capture mining sites.

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Perhaps add a reward for capturing a site, and have them give off a steady payout.

So for example, if you capture a site it gives more money which becomes less the longer you own it to encourage competitive play?

You could always let people work at a faction's mining site. Both that person and the faction get a set amount of money.

Mercenary work. For money, do a variety of combat-based missions/tasks from being a bodyguard to attacking a faction's base. Freelance mercenaries might even do occasional jobs with other factions, should said factions need help.

Mercenary work, assassin work, anything else of that nature.

You could also do SF RP's of illegal smuggling. You just need an admin and the smuggler, the admin can bring in anyone else they want for a defensive force and the smuggler tries to survive their way onto the planet, giving their faction an immediate boost in money (amount doesn't have to vary) or giving a company an immediate boost in illegal items to sell.

totally necessary