Best way to make money in Misery = Looting Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Many threads ask "what is best way to make money". That may depend on whether it is hardcore misery or non hardcore. The best way, in my opinion, of making money, is to hang out around the Military checkpoint as your base of operations. Best patrol area is from Container warehouse all the way to Jupiter factory.

*****This of course depends on how far you have progressed in the questline and what side quests have been completed.

Initially when you just get to Yanov (based on real place Yanniv), all you generally find around the Jupiter factory will be zombies, dogs cats, pigs, and infrequently; snorks.

As you progress through quests, NPC patrols carry better gear. Farther along, only the monolith will generally spawn walking around the main factory buildings (stingray crash site [note- no npcs will spawn, except for one scripting encounter at the crash site itself, so generally stick to outdoors, or main level of main entrance with turnstyles]). Mercs may also spawn around the fences of factory grounds, but generally just patrol around the checkpoint, concrete baths and floodway bandit camp where the kamaz supply trucks with crates around campfire are located. Monolith will also follow the same paths as the mercs around the jupiter factory/concrete bath anomaly.

Patrol those routes or ambush along them. Then loot the best and leave the worst, or you could even drop a bunch of bad gear and leave land mines around them.

The KEY POINT of this strategy where the money comes from, will be selling the anomaly scanners, but more importantly, GUNS. Yes, repair the best condition guns with looted repair kits, then transport the 94-100% COND guns to locker at Train station on your supply runs (assuming you need them). Then once you have ammassed enough perfect or near perfect guns, you travel with as many as possible to Zaton where you sell to OWL. That will get you more than artifacts in MISERY, in my experience.

Also, at the Military checkpoint, its a good idea to plant mines along and just inside the main fenced perimeter.

By hardcore, you mean the mode where the sun burns you? So it means you can only travel at night? Is that even fun?

In regular misery black road, the best way to make money is simply not to buy a suit until you buy a ecosuit. You basically loot a few stashes to get a little money, then do all the zaton quests with no suit and no bought guns => buy eco suit => go check the helico to the west (in the chemical anomaly) and the one in the iron forest. Then, when you get to jupiter, you rush the scientist quests (with the eco suit), which should get you enough money to buy a fighting suit for your class + 1 or 2 guns.

From there, just loot mutants wherever you kill them, loot every NPC you kill, taking everything that isn't a gun and sell it.

I used to deal in full condition guns. "Go there, make everyone surrender, get their weapons and sell them." That was how I worked. By the time I wanted to buy a SEVA suit for Psy resistance ( scientists missions ) I had 1M RU.

as above make them the bad folks surrender in a gunfight ! sometimes you get some nice weapons to sell on for good money.

you might get a few worn out ones too but its lucky dip & do it right you can get the good ones over & over off them.