Is there an easier/more efficient way of getting crowns/CE, whether it be from playing the market or farming (not using exploits)?
Easy and efficent way to gain more CE/Crowns?
do good gates/stratum2 (FSC, stratum 2 arena's) so the ones that give you enough coin for your CE (let's say CE is 7K now, try to top that) use your ME to do the runs every day (and on days you can't buy trinketslots or something and sell those)
also a good way imo, do T3 runs and farm good recipes (sell them with a bit of profit offcourse) and sell the materials (i think the best ones would be from fiends like shadow steel or shock theme mats like spark of life because those are the ones most people don't realy want to farm hehe)
also like stated selling boss rewards.
and enjoy yourself doing this (think of it like a virtual fun job hehe)
also if you play TF2 (or own it is enough) collect items and craft/trade for metal and in term sell those for CE
as you can see all of these will not require you to play the market in any way that will affect it in a bad way (maybe a bit more crown in the pool but that's a glass of water in the ocean)
or if you want to pay the pass, tab people (friends) for a fee (using your ME) or sell lifts to basil in T3 (or T2 if you want doesn't realy matter) you can ask 40CE or something for it (party of 4 means 10CE/person)
good luck on your way to wealth (maybe we'll meet up somewhere between the rich knights some day haha)
The best way would be to get an elevator pass and run insane amounts of fsc/jelly palace.
Also, instead of trying to unbind and sell items everybody already has (sealed swords and FoVs), sell jelly armor and ancient plate armor to an NPC item seller, you get 3,500 crowns per 15 jelly gems and 30,000 crowns per 30 almirian seals
Nobody in their right mind would share any methods that exploit niches in the market (as flooding would ruin the profits)
Enjoy!