I was told by several players that during level 1-3 I was supposed to receive 30,000 credits to be able to purchase at least one other merc.
My experience was as follows:
10,000 credits at level 2.
10,000 credits at level 4.
I am now working my way to level 7, but I never received the other 10,000 credits.
Is this a bug or were people just trolling me about getting ¢30,000?
So was I being trolled and it is only 20,000 or is it a more common glitch…
Maybe 30k was assuming you’d do well in game coupled with the daily missions. But yeah, after 20h or so you’ll be able to afford a merc. I’ve played like 60h and I managed to afford 3 30k mercs with a few loadout upgrades here and there. And that was with the old system. Now you get credits for the first game of the day etc. plus 3 missions every 3 hours rather than every day!
I thought it was 12k credits for those rank ups, but I feel like when someone told you it’d be 30k they were just rounding up what you’d more or less have after those two bonuses. Doesn’t sound like a bug.
Sent in a support ticket asking about it. You only get 24,000, and it is at level 2 and 4. 
It was always implied that you should be able to earn the other 6k between missions, base fees and bonuses.