Flax Farming

This strategy works best for small ships with 5 slots for flax drones (3 or less IRIS). You can make 7 million credits by flying around in a phoenix for a couple hours shooting streuners and lordakia. I prefer using a phoenix with one shield generator on the ship and one on a drone, using the rest of the drones to hold LF-3 lasers, a cargo bay expander, and an armory expander. Flying around in a phoenix is cheap because buying a new one after being popped is free. Any of the first four ships will work. The initial investment is 3,100,000 credits. After a few hours of game play, you can profit over 7,000,000 credits! You can increase your earnings by boxing and selling cargo simultaneously.

Step 1
Buy 5 flax drones from the shop. They double in price each time, beginning at 100,000 credits. The price is determined by how many drones you have, not how many you have ever bought. For example, a flax drone will always be 1,600,000 credits if you are flying with 4 flax drones.


Step 2
Equip your drones for battling NPCs. A cargo bay expander makes selling cargo easier, with less returns to base. Drones provide extra slots for lasers, generatos, CPUs, repair bots, etc...

Step 3
Streuner carnage!!! Kill enough NPCs to level your drones to level 6. From the chart below, you can determine that a phoenix can kill 775 streuners, 517 lordakia, or a combination of about 600 NPCs to achieve level 6 for all flax drones. Lordakia award 800 credits and 2 uridium, while streuners award half the rewards of lordakia. Killing 775 streuners results in 775 uridium, 310,000 credits, 7,750 prometium, and 7,750 endurium. Collect boxes during carnage to earn more credits, ammo, galaxy gate generators, and uridium. Stay in X-1 and X-2 maps to avoid being interrupted by bullies who think it is funny to pop small ships.

Step 4
Sell all 5 level 6 drones for 2,000,000 credits each!