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So starting out, I have 17k UEC and a freelancer MISC,

What's the best way to make decent cash starting out, I assume trading?
 
Delivery, it'll get you use to traveling around, landing and you can loot the various locations and drop them at the space port location of your choice.

My first tip is to use a medical centre to transfer your regeneration location to either Seraphim station (orbits crusader) or Tressler (orbits Microtech), then when you have a bit of loot, transfer it to the station inventory.

Regenerating at these locations are far faster than planet locations just now as you don't have to travel far from your spawn hub to ship.

After you've got a comfortable with travel, landing etc start looking for other types of mission, mercenary missions can be good - if they work, I've tried a few today and every one of them was bugged. I'd always suggest watching someone else do them on youtube first so you have an idea what you are getting yourself into though!

There is a new patch coming which hopefully will be out by the time I get back from work in a week or so.. it should improve stability, salvaging, mission bugs etc - but it will likely introduce several others.
 
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I would've gone for the Cutlass as a starter at that price, but hey ho.
You don't really have the cash to start trading yet and you probably don't know the ropes to keep safe + the stock slow quantum drive will **** you off.

Not sure about delivery tbh. It's not a good earner and I'm constantly seeing new players moan about it being bugged in chat. Good for getting the basics of navigation and seeing a few places though.
Starting some low end ship based bounty stuff after getting your certificates wouldn't be too taxing and you'd get a bit of cheddar and some experience. Not the most agile ship, but it packs a decent enough punch and has gimballed cannons.

Aside from people here, it's worth asking in chat if anyone wants a crew member to do some missions. You could have a good time, see some cool ships and make some cash on top.
 
Screeeech said:
So starting out, I have 17k UEC and a freelancer MISC,

What's the best way to make decent cash starting out, I assume trading?
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Take part in the siege of orison. That's a fps dynamic mission where you can earn 440k or more but it does take a long long time to complete if u and the rest of the players in the server can!

Another way to make money is to get into mercenary and bounties.

The top levels can yield 40-80k auec

Work your way up to try and earn 4/5m and then get a vulture or a prospector to get into the mining or salvage profession
 
Tried SoO 3 times the past few days, not a single completion. First time a group were camping the second platform killing anyone who got there. I'm not against PvP in this event, particularly now there is meant to be markings for it, but that wasn't working. So it was a bunch of players with no markings whatsoever, who were standing within the shields of a ship - gunning down anyone who got off the transports. So basically impossible to counter with the position advantage they had.

Second 2 times the first "boss" would spawn underground, so you couldn't kill them. Sigh. CIG really need to add some mechanic for checking objective markers are actually reachable, and if perhaps no-one is getting to them perhaps teleport the target somewhere that can be accessed so the game is playable.

Those issues aside. Framerate and server performance were much better than last time I tried SoO.
 
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Another way to make money is to get into mercenary and bounties.
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I like the sound of this the most, I've done a lot of sim combat so I like the sound of it, SoO sounds good - but stuff like what's described above sounds like a total nightmare, I imagine a lot of time and frustration - with no real payout.
 
Delivery - learn the basics, know the system.
Mercenary / bounties - afterwards when you have some fall back cash, gear etc and a bit more confidence.

You can make decent money on mercenary etc but risk is higher obviously and realistically it will be more frustrating as bugs typically mean you die and lose everything you have on you (unless you manage to recover it). However with bunker missions etc you can loot the corpses and sell their guns, helmets etc to increase pay out as well as taking the "call to arms" mission which runs concurrently and gives you 500UEC with each kill.
 
God this is frustrating, I have a VKB gunfighter MK3 which works fine, but my warthog throttle just won't seem to work well with this at all.

It has literally no deadzone at all, so forward and reverse is taking me a very long time to get right, and it's backwards - and inverting it seems... problematic.

To make matters worse, whilst I was busy screwing with the settings, security tried to stop me but I didn't know, so I got blown up and landed with a 20k fine in prison.

Argh.
 
Screeeech said:
God this is frustrating, I have a VKB gunfighter MK3 which works fine, but my warthog throttle just won't seem to work well with this at all.

It has literally no deadzone at all, so forward and reverse is taking me a very long time to get right, and it's backwards - and inverting it seems... problematic.

To make matters worse, whilst I was busy screwing with the settings, security tried to stop me but I didn't know, so I got blown up and landed with a 20k fine in prison.

Argh.
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The space police are the absolute worst for turning up at the wrong time wanting to scan your ship, and by that i don't mean when you have illegal goods on your ship, i have never had that... other than that one time when Zenduri dragged several dead people in to the back of my Valkyrie and left them there.... i have evidence.
 
It's actually not that bad, apparently I had a 20k fine, but because I did prison time - once I got released the fine seems to have disappeared and my crime stat is '0' which I think is good lol.

Managed to get my throttle working properly, it's still not perfect but at least forwards now goes forwards and I can toggle reverse, although I still have this problem where it seems to go up in increments, rather than smoothly - i'll play with it some more tomorrow once I get my trackIR working.

I want to do some dogfighting in the smaller fighters, I also have an Anvil Arrow which I quite like, but I have a thing for really small fast fighters and some of them look neat,
 
We all amused there was going to be a wipe in the last patch because they made it so easy to make far too much money, my ship inventory is so stacked with ships it takes time to scroll through them (its actually annoying) and i still have enough to buy 5 more good ships....

If they want to make it difficult to buy ships with in game money instead of real money they are really really bad at it.... even with this patch they created different ways to make big money fast.
 
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