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Yes its 5% rebuy cost, but Sideys are free.. Just start scanning wanted NPCs and killing them with your Sidey, I was making 50k-100k in 30mins or so and then id go back to the nearest station to cash in before I got killed 
(because then you lose it!). When you can afford it, upgrade your weapons/shields, you can always sell them later when you change ship (Its always best to sell or downgrade everything on your ship and then just sell the basic hull).
Beam lasers for depleting shields, and multi cannon for destroying the unshielded hull is a good starting setup, but watch you dont go over your power limit deployed. (or you need to upgrade your Power unit)
(because then you lose it!). When you can afford it, upgrade your weapons/shields, you can always sell them later when you change ship (Its always best to sell or downgrade everything on your ship and then just sell the basic hull).Beam lasers for depleting shields, and multi cannon for destroying the unshielded hull is a good starting setup, but watch you dont go over your power limit deployed. (or you need to upgrade your Power unit)
I've been spending about 1 hour per night in the community conflict zone at BD+03 for the last few nights, managing about 100 kills per hour and I've generated about 6Mcr in 5-6 hours, and I'm still enjoying it even if it is an NPC harvesting exercise.
Current reward is quite lucrative though, 400kcr but a 15% discount on outfitting - which would save me about 20Mcr on my current loadout.
Current reward is quite lucrative though, 400kcr but a 15% discount on outfitting - which would save me about 20Mcr on my current loadout.
I think I might well have a play at that cheers Screech. I have been exploring mainly for the last 2 days and I am sick of it
I need some action, so solo play and 500Ly to get there will do nicely
It's actually way better in solo, for the sole reason that there's stuff to actually kill - I tried it in open, and there were 20 bored cmdrs sat around waiting for an NPC eagle to spawn.
Basically, go to Khasiri (Matteuicci terminal) - sign up for it on the bulletin board, then go to BD+03 2338 (1 hop away) SC to the 3rd planet, select your faction as Khasiri liberals, and tear **** up.
Lots of targets, and quite a bit of money to be made that is good fun
Noooo
The one in BD+03 2338, is a community goal - so you get much bigger rewards than a standard conflict zone where you just hand the bonds in at a station.
In the community goal zone, the more kills everybody gets, the higher the end reward, right now I stand to make about 400Kcr and get a 15% outfitting discount for a week, (in the top 15% of contributors) and it'll only get better as the tiers go higher,
15% outfitting discount with my current loadout is worth about 25Mcr
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Oh, and shield cells are good for conflict zones...
First foray in the Python, taking out anaconda's / other ships for 15 mins or so...
(Pre 1.1!)
Shield seemed to stay forever - But it eventually failed as I got overconfident.
That was expensive!
Now the shields are 33% lower, definitely bringing shield cells / running away more
First foray in the Python, taking out anaconda's / other ships for 15 mins or so...
(Pre 1.1!)
Shield seemed to stay forever - But it eventually failed as I got overconfident.
That was expensive!
Now the shields are 33% lower, definitely bringing shield cells / running away more
Outfitting discount means everything you buy is discounted by whatever rate you're awarded for a set period of time (in my case, if the whole thing stops now - 15%) which would mean instead of paying 51Mcr for my shield gen, i'd only pay 43Mcr, and so on.
Although, i'm pretty sure they fixed the bug where you could sell discounted parts at full price in the next system - go back and keep doing it over and over
haha seriously? I need to get my head of trading for a while and see what else is going on. Some people got rich quick over there I imagine
I haven't done any trading for 3 weeks now, just been pure combat - not that far off Deadly rated now (currently dangerous) with about 3200 kills total, and a whole load of PVP in Yembo.
The last trading I did was the luxiries right before it got
Last time I heard, trading is really hard now - trading tools are now completely useless because the routes run dry the moment they're posted, but maybe others are having lots of luck.
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Give it a bash in the Python by all means! and remember to go to Khasiri to sign up at the bulletin board, before going to BD+03
I was messing around last night with 6x plasma accelerators fitted by my Anaconda, was quite good fun but hard work lol.
4x C3 fixed beams, and 4x fixed cannons seems to be the best loadout for me atm, I think they buffed cannons slightly in the latest update, the projectile seems much faster and more usable.
Screeech, any class 7 modules for sale down there? Ill need a new power unit
There are two terminals, the one in Khasiri is pretty decent but I can't remember what it has in terms of power, or whether it's a high-tech economy, but it does have a decent amount of stuff compared to most stations.
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