as a fellow starter let me give you this personal opinion as advice:
take on a lot of missions with workers as reward and invest some cash into new workers too from time to time;inevidably your cash income will rapidly start to rise at your asteroid base.Nothing so nice as to come home,turn on yer systems and find a small 200 mil where there was 5 cent last evening.
At the moment i got 2.207.241.183 workers stacking up 766.403 credits every 10 minutes.When numbers start to rise up there,new opportunities for custom ships really start to open up...
thats a prime example of the blind leading the blind
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