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CSC is kind of pricey when paying with sP, but you can probably easily earn around 2m a day from questing, so it's not actually super hard to earn. The CSC credits can also be sold, if you would like to buy 500 CSC with real money, and keep the remainder for later/or sell on for sP. Sometimes there are events where CSC is handed out as a reward, and you can also get Gold Account as a reward for prolonged membership, but right now I can't think of any way to earn CSC without spending sP or real money.

I would say questing is probably the most straight-forward way to make easy sP. All shops are pretty profitable depending on what you're after, there's HEAPS of items where you can make easi 30-50k profit per item, so it kind of stacks up - if you quest, it's quite easy to learn which ones are used by quests more often (but be warned prices do fluctuate, so I wouldn't invest too heavily in one item at a time)

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