You might be wondering how I escaped the s’pht and tycho. It’s pretty simple, I turned myself into a pickle! Funniest shit I ever seen! I’m pickle durandal!
Howdy folks. I have been no-lifing this game this season, currently at 254.9 hours, and at VIP with all of the factions besides SekiGuchi. Now, while I wait for the standard contract timer to refresh to scrape a few more rep points out of them while refusing to do any of their priority contracts, I wanted to give people a quick guide on how to turn unused salvage in their vaults into cold hard cash.
The hustle:
As we know, certain gun types are oddly overpriced, relative to their power. E.g., the WSTR at 2.4k, or Snipers coming in around 2.4k base. I had a credit wallet value of about 500k consistently, with a full vault at a value of 400k. However, here's where things get fun. For some reason, salvage in this game is valued absurdly low in terms of credits - but - if you have barters unlocked with the factions, many of the trades are actually credit positive for you in value.
E.g., Look at a stack of Demosite Rods:
63 of them, for a sell value of 3,150 credits? Seems like a good deal right?
Well, no.
Let's look at the Traxus barters:
We can trade 18 altered wire for a Longshot! Okay, well maybe that's not a bad deal?
18 altered wire sell for 50 credits each, or 900 credits.
Okay, so let's make the trade.
The Longshot sells for 3067 credits instead! Great deal for us!
So, for 900 credits of Salvage, we can instead trade, make a net profit of 2100 credits! This is great!
I did this for roughly 20 minutes, and happily got the profiteer codex entry without making a single run. My net vault value went down by approximately 45k, while my credit wallet balance went up by about 150k. Time to lose it all in Cryo!