Best Money Making Methods Intermediate
Every cat you earn buys gear, recruits and walls. The wasteland respects a full purse.
From copper mining to bounties, trade routes, base production and Leviathan hunting — match the method to your game stage.
Early Game
Start with copper mining and bounty hunting near safe towns. Both are low-risk and need no capital — enough to recruit and equip a first squad.
Mid Game
Move to trade routes, hashish or weapon and armour crafting. Mid-game income should come from systems and circuits, not pickaxe work.
Late Game
A mature base economy, robotics salvage and high-value hunts — Leviathan Pearls especially — generate the cats for endgame expansion.
The Principle
Always be moving up the income ladder. The method that funded last week should be replaced by something that scales better this week.
“Heavy armour is stronger than it looks. Put it on your front-line tank.”