How much money did everyone have at their peak? I had like 30mill something, and I don't even know how. I just farmed the acklay caves whenever I was bored and ended up with some lucky bones, haha. Mokk missions and buffing accumulated over time too.

I was BAD at making money lol. I didn't even have a mil. I was our guild leader and gave too much away to make any money. We did, however, have a guild co-op and no one wanted for anything so in a way we were all rich.

My ideals are more in line with a dictatorship.

Lol i feel guilty now seeing that Cealla , but i had about 68 mil on Paige' and about 30mil on Bahamut when i finished , in honesty with Paige' i made about 300-400 odd mil through bounty hunting , i paid out about 50-70mil on weps , armour , and tapes/aa's for her once i got established so she was one of the deadliest on farstar at the end of the CU , money well spent as i use to make about 3-4mil a day bounty hunting on a good day (when my targets didn't cower in houses lol) .
Such a brilliant feeling walking out of a starport and every jedi just vanishing out of sight , lol in the end ppl just use to run from me cos they knew there was no taking me on , i think i was banned from every rebel player city on the server and even most of the imperial player citys banned me aswell lol , really when i think about it i was very relentless in my Bounty Hunting , mind you i was fair aswell , i let padawans go cos i didn't think it was a fair match and plus i wanted the good payouts .
Before i had Paige' and before Bahamut was a jedi i made about 40mil with him being a AS , saying that i use to give the guild free armour , so i could of made triple of the above (damn they went through some sets lol )

What was your secret then paige? Cos a normal player was always on catch up to a jedi...

Super stacking and PvP skills?

Legedary weapon?

DoT stack death?

Well in terms of credits I was always poor, but if you include items I didn't do too bad. Just from space I had a black sun ace helmet and I had a few very nice looted ships parts for some RE projects that never got finished before I quit (wish I could of finished my a-wings engine ).

I am in nictapiway's boat. I never had much money, but I had a lot of assets. Just years of playing got me that much. Houses full of armor, full suits of some of the best that could be made. Expensive stuff, to be sure. I traded for most of what I had, though. Would grind the Acklay caves, grab the loot and trade it for what I needed, etc. All my weapons used loot I had gathered myself, making them considerably cheaper.

I garnered more money during the CU than I did during pre-CU, though. That's when I took up being a bounty hunter. I payed out huge for energy-crafted assault and battle armors (I was a BH/Carb/CM :/). Some of the suits I had were comparable to high-end recon armor. I had a whole house stocked for nothing but the best BH supplies I could buy, borrow or trade for. I'd have stolen some of it, if I could have done it using the game mechanics :P I loved BH, and put a lot of my time into it. Because I strove for the perfect hunter, I never had much money. I never really cared, either. Making money wasn't my game. Killing Jedi was.

i was CH/commando so .....missions useally at the time i was not mastered in either yet...to muhc dicking around lol...but ui made about 10k a mission my weapons where about that a peacie i remeber flamethrowers where about 9k at the time and if memory severs im sure each pieceie of compostie was about 10k at the time ....so in a day i was usely fited kinda snugg. but makeing 10k a mission and useally killing/burn wounding things u take out the mob in a few secs i rember plus ur creautre helping was mad fast .....id make 1-4 mil a day easy ....but useally spent about 1-2 mil a day also .....but still can't wait to get the CDs for SWG and jump into the game with u guys/girls

Nah Paige' was a BH in the CU mate , once the CU hit the tables turned on jedi and it wasn't a simple case of the jedi standing there blocking everything , shots use to get through unless you were a flavour of the month Master Defender . I first started with Rifleman/BH , i got agood few kills like that but the Master Defender jedi were always trouble with the above temp , plus all the reb jedi on farstar copied each others temps and 90% of them were M Defenders lol , so i had to think of a new way to battle them , which saw me become a CM/BH with some pistol skills down the rd .
I spent afew weeks practising with my bro (jedi) learning the in's and outs of my temp , what i could do and what i couldn't . I never had a problem with any M defender again once i became the above temp , my pistols all tho not overly dmging i was bloody fast and speed capped , i just kept chipping away and with fire /poison ticking over it soon took its toll , lol it was funny cos M defenders would straight away have there avoid incap macro's running , it didn't do them anygood cos i kept them snared and kept my distance , in the end the fire /poison and there macro finished them of for me .
If i came against a M Ehancer or anyone who lacked defender skills , i could take them out in under 20secs even using pistols , i had worked hard on BH but in the end i had a superior arsenal of gear and cunning tactics/pvp skills that made BH the perfect prof for me , lol in the end i lost the element of suprise cos every jedi knew that when i turned up somewhere , i was there to kill someone
I really miss those days , to think of all the stuff i collected aswell , all my armour parts had anti decay kits on , so did my weps , damn there was a vast amount of worth there just on there own .
Not sure i would try out BH again once Emu goes live , i dunno , i suppose for the first 6 months or so any BH will be sitting around twiddling there thumbs waiting for some action lol .
I think i might gather my cash and build up a super arsenal of weps , armour and whatever else first ready to revitalize my BH career once the server repopulates with jedi , which it will do

Good post on the CM. Though i never did it my brother had decent results with it.... he never quit figured it out completely, but he was always close to getting that DB. Oh ya he was a MRifle too before the CU and for a bit CU and had more success with the CM temp. I actually had moderate success though with a MDoc temp post CU. I had forgotten how nasty CM could be. OH and to stay on topic i never went over a mil.... though i always had everything i needed.

I had about 700 million when I quit, but that was late in the CU. By then, 700 million wasn't worth nearly what it was at the end of pre CU.

The best way to make that kind of cash is crafting. I was an artisan crafter (artisan foods were a hot seller during the CU), had a field of over 120 heavy mineral harvesters, and sold swoops by the crate. I PvE'd somewhat regularly, too. If you craft pretty hard for over a year, you can make a ton of credits. The key is to just be steady and consistent.

**Edit**
As an addendum, I never like the guild collective. The way that's worked in my experience is that some players just mooch off others, and things get unpleasant. In the words of Polonious:

I never made it above 4 mil. I was always blowing it on Weapons and possible items for RP and furniture :P

But I had a House!

a thousand credits were alot to me back then.

I was quite a sucessful beggar too!