I killed few thousands ped on NI
piled up 265 ped of paints in 2 days
painting will tax me 10% on TT applied plus bleaching decay to reset the trousers i use to skill
recycling to nanocubes will lead me to 101% return
i know what to do, i am a “skill junkie”, MA tricked me to loose 100 ped per week skilling coloring… and i will fall into the trap
nice move, i admit.
crystal are a stupid filler, paints are a real temptation 
Or use bp books (limited 1/5ped books are colorable - color tt and repeat) and not lose any decay for bleaching… just a suggestion
There are coloring skill missions (and texturing) on NI either through hunting or crafting. You’ll likely lose less doing those missions if you aren’t doing them already. I’ve been targeted texturing more than coloring, though the Chimera mission isn’t the most forgiving TT-wise either. If you really want to go for coloring though, Papoos have some good repeatable missions: https://www.nihelper.com/repeatable-missions
Do you not lose the 10% on these books?
I was responding to help keep the cost down a bit by not having to use the bleach attachment decay to skill coloring.
There’s a reason it’s one of the few skills with value. And why the Brown Papoo daily mission is literally the best in the game and very easy to unlock.
Besides Lazidol mission, but that has a much bigger barrier.
brown Pappoo ANYONE can do as long as you have like a 20 dps weapon to do half the damage to a drake in a team ONCE.
Other then that. tt pistol + sinkadus and it’s quite profitable and sustainable.
Onto crystals. I have recommended time and time again for every common crystal to get a texture or paint bp so they actually have a use at least for skilling construction skills.
Well, aside from this miner that hasn’t been able to find the last few stones I need to finish the VIP mission to unlock it. Every other planet I get plenty of stones in the mix, but for whatever reason, I’ve just been getting fruit and dung the last few months on NI.
That’s the wrong mission. That’s the Stel VIP mission(which care bot daily is very good, some of best mu in game especially combined with Analysis bonus you get) , but I got it done rather cheap using only lv 3 amps and mining on carnival island, then taking the desert route next to desert stalkers and sand boars
The loyalist VIP is the mission you want to do. https://www.nihelper.com/loyalist-vip
Oh, I meant that I just hadn’t been finding stone on the ground while mining for the Loyalist VIP mission (daily resources I think). Stel at least got a little easier recently for outright mining compared to earlier this year at least (still need to do sharks for that one though).
I forgot Haruspex VIP also unlocks another coloring reward missions, and apparently there are more daily papoo hunts for coloring on Carnival Island too under Daily Color Mania.
Oh like LITERAL stones XD my apologies, yeah NI/ag has always seemed bad for stone/fruit picking compared to other planets. I think cause maybe more people do it, but who knows.
Oh yeah there is one on Carnival Island as well, not sure if it requires a Ticket or not. I should probably google it. Nope it doesn’t but a different kind of papoo. hmm 3.33x the hp, but 4x less kills but less than half the amount of coloring, but you can get color matching and color methodology. Nice!
Seems like you’ve fallen into MindArk’s perfectly painted trap