Playing EU on a low budget - possible or not - a math exercise

I was tracking my returns from start of the month. This is small sample to be considered as a rule, but I want to share my expirience. I hunt mostly low mobs and I live with 120-150 PED for a month or two now. I am not in position to depozit now, so I must use my existing peds in most eco way, did some sweating and TAXI flights as bonus however. I follow Lizzy golden advice to farm same mob and I am able to stack same loot and sell it when ped card goes empty.

Date	Ammo	Decay	Expenses	Loot TT	Loot MU	Return TT (%)	Return MU (%)	Mob
01.06.2015.	30.00	0.87	30.87	26.41	27.01	85.55	87.50	Oratan Prospector
02.06.2015.	30.00	0.94	30.94	19.22	19.86	62.12	64.19	Oratan Prospector
03.06.2015.	30.00	0.99	30.99	23.66	24.71	76.35	79.74	Oratan Prospector
04.06.2015.	30.00	1.05	31.05	35.61	37.21	114.69	119.84	Oratan Prospector
05.06.2015.	30.00	0.91	30.91	15.86	16.37	51.31	52.96	Oratan Prospector
06.06.2015.	30.00	0.08	30.08	32.78	33.27	108.98	110.61	Halix
06.06.2015.	30.00	1.36	31.36	23.81	24.70	75.92	78.76	Oratan Prospector
07.06.2015.	30.00	0.92	30.92	23.11	23.98	74.74	77.55	Oratan Prospector
08.06.2015.	30.00	0.95	30.95	23.78	24.75	76.83	79.97	Oratan Prospector
09.06.2015.	8.85	0.10	08.95	08.46	09.16	94.53	102.35	Dire Weed
10.06.2015.	10.00	0.07	10.07	40.57	41.64	402.88	413.51	Dire Weed
11.06.2015.	20.00	0.19	20.19	12.69	13.89	62.85	68.80	Dire Weed
12.06.2015.	20.00	0.19	20.19	14.83	16.12	73.45	79.84	Dire Weed
13.06.2015.	27.86	0.96	28.82	26.61	27.67	92.33	96.01	Oratan Prospector
14.06.2015.	30.00	1.22	31.22	39.30	41.24	125.88	132.09	Oratan Prospector
15.06.2015.	30.00	1.25	31.25	31.50	32.87	100.80	105.18	Oratan Prospector

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During this time I didn't had a single global, but silent one on Cyrene was good enough to bail me out together with weapons and amplifiers drop from Prospectors.

Average TT return: 92.87%
Average TT return (Reward ammo included): 99.02%

Average MU return: 96.66%
Average MU return (Reward ammo included): 102.82%

MU in table is weekly markup at day of the hunt, if there is noweekly MU, TT value is used. Of course, it is hard to sell stuff at weekly MU, I sold my loot little lower so when I consider that my real returns should be little above break even.

Primary weapon: Starkhov LPR-3 CDF Edition (L) and sometimes Ozpyn LR S1X1
Finisher: S.I. HK110
Armor: Musca Adjusted

 

Just to second what Neil said in his post. I mine for GMC and I track my own returns. So i can say that over 186 mining runs my average tt return has been 99.746%.

 

Just a thought on the 90% TT return theory. Could this have been started due to the 10% loss when chipping skills in? (Thus giving you 90% value return).