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Played for about a week with ToS and trying to figure out how not to go bankrupt.
Here is my analysis:

CASH OUTPUT:
Cost an Ace jockey witouth any business: 35 000$ / month
Cost an Ace jockey with good business: 20 000$ / month

Maintenance cost for a light mech: 5 000$/month
Maintenance cost for an assault mech: 18 000$/month

so, assuming a small team of 4 ace jockeys w/assault mechs in best case schenario: about 152 000$

CASH INPUT:
on top of that, you need that a certain REPAIR $$

by memory: base salary is 125 000$ +- 25 000$/rank level.
Bounty is (12 000$ + 2500$ level)/ kill

Salvage depends on size balance, and on how efficiently you disable opponents (by Thorgrim)

RESUMÉ:

I assume you have a great manager (80+ business), great mechanic (80+dmg repair) and all 4 teams members have about 50-60 in business. Your cash output is 150-170k$/month witouth any repair.

Then, (arena play) you have the option of enemy skill and team balance.
Moving the enemy skill with lower greatly your base income. Increasing it with probably increase alot your repair bill...

Moving down the balance will lower your chances of salvage. Moving it up will again increase your repair bill...

Thus, the only possible way of making money seems by having a very low repair bill (annihilating the enemy team)

So, best option seems to lower enemy skill and increase their balance. That means fighting a bunch of rookies in hope of scoring a lot of almost brand new titans to sell...

Any tips?

btw, how the hell to you use the neutron blaster? I made my leader a custom titan (light) with 3 neutron blasters and they seems to do jack shit (even humans). help?

To raise some cash, I usually play a random battle with the following setup:

2 teams per side (me plus AI versus 2 AI teams)
AI team ranks about 3-4 ranks above my team´s rank
Balance set as far in my favor as possible.

Then, as far as possible, during the battle hold back and let your AI allies do most of the actual fighting.

I actually don't do money fights. A money fight is a fight against greatly skilled jocks but balance set all in your favor. You get alot of Payment for this.

Most of my fights are equal fights. I find that I just need to choose a good setup of titans and find a nice place to use them. Currently I have an Energy Support (Ghost) paired with a GMH Support (Magic; See my other post for the specs) combined with two Close Combat titans. (Apparition and Banzai) My supports set up somewhere high while my CC titans work to find a good place where they can avoid being seen until they're almost on top of the enemy. My Supports soften them up and then the CCs hit them hard and tie them up while the Supports continue to rain down on them. USUALLY I win with no destroyed titans, rarely having to eject.