its as slow paced as you make it. but it will always be slow making money from trading if you dont have the starting capital. But there are quick ways to make money at the beginning.
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its as slow paced as you make it. but it will always be slow making money from trading if you dont have the starting capital. But there are quick ways to make money at the beginning.
Automatic trading....
What you want is trade command software mark 3 (avaliable from all good talardi equipment docks).
Load it onto a ts ship and start the sector trader, pick a sector with lots of stations and at least 1 power plant. Leave it and it will trade away.
Once the ts reaches lvl 10 start the universe trader, and it will fly around the universe making proffitsssss.
Universe trader requires a ship with at least 1 of its biggest shields(normaly 25mw) and a jump drive.
you could also load the best selling / buying price locators to help manual trading.
im in the same situation in PTNI headquarters, dam its going to take a long time to kill all those ships but just think of the profffitttttsssssssss
It will go to any sector that you have docking rights in, core sectors that you dont have the rep to enter wont give you docking rights.
Thats debatable, if you start the ST in core sector then you wont need to protect it.
Escorts will require constant topping up with EC's or they wont be able to follow a UT when it jumps, a ut should only jump to sectors you have property in.
you better off creating patrols for the more dangerous sectors. Its worth noting that if a UT/ST comes under attack it will run and hide in the nearest station.
UT = Universe Trader
ST = Sector Trader
EC = Energy cells.
not setup any patrols in this version yet so dont know.
well your in a transport ship all you can do with a TS is well transport stuff, buy low sell high. EC's are the best thing to start trading with, then move onto silicone or other high value goods when you have enough spare cash.
Completed my hardest mission ever last night, must have been about 40 P's and a load of support fighters...... made over 15million on that mission now i have enough for a m7 
There are some massive threads on the egosoft forum about slow down / stuttering.
Its best if you read them and try the solutions.
There are some massive threads on the egosoft forum about slow down / stuttering.
Its best if you read them and try the solutions.
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Humh, what dictates what sort of enemy ships you fight and how easy is the missions? Because I have been given missions which were marked easy and I had to fight one or more M6, while all I had(and still have) was the terran starting m4 with starting weapons and no missiles
Its all to do with your combat rank, and easy mission with a high combat rank could be the same as very hard missions with a lower rank.
oh and that m4 is more than capable of taking out a couple of m6's
It all depends on the weapons the m6 is using, slow moving weapons that most m6's use are easily avoided.
One of the best weapon avoidance strategy's is to do barrel rolls and use the strafe drive at the same time.
Another method is to get close and fly rings around the m6, your much fast and more maneuverable than it.
The only real threat from M6's is if they use fast firing weapons, most of which are sort ranged to weep your distance from them, ie the P has a fast firing weapon in the rear turret just stay away it.
Remember i use a joystick and not the mouse the can make a huge difference.
personally i would recommend using a joystick, it is a flight sim using a mouse just feels wrong.
Any stick will do as long as it has both rudder and throttle control.
Yes it is possible, and people have been know to wage war and do exactly that. To do it without cheating you would need about 100 billion credits.
So you can wipe out entire sectors, would structures come back? As in you need to constantly destroy them? And in this case can you make your own shipyard and manufacture ships? As if you make everyone an enemy you wont be able to buy more ships. Would love to take over a whole sector with an infrastructure to support it. Does ore run out from asteroids? Guess lots of questions for my new goal of taking over the universe
On the side note, tried fighting with an M6 again in my M4, epic fail... Per flyby I can do about 5-10% damage to shields, by the time I come back for another they regenerated while I slowly take more and more damage.
So decided to back down and avoid such missions, on other news did manage to finally get enough rep to buy an M6 myself, but then realised I was 9mil short... Bugger so bought a Kea M3 instead, not that fast but 5 shields, two turrets and 6 or 8 front weapons. So I am pleased, just need to buy the kit for it now. Hopefully I won't need to sell my M4 for it but at least should have a decent chance against M6's now that I got actual fire power.
1) There is a god engine that respawns stations and ships. The location of the new stuff is random, so you would need a constant presence to deal with that.
2)Mines dont runout of ore
3)Yes you can manufacture your own ships, weapons, shields.....
4)you will get pwnd in xenon patrol missions in the kea, its just to slow. You really want a ship thats > 200m/s imo speed is more important than shields
Best way to make money as a merc is Look for combat missions. when you have high enough rep with a race get their police license gives you money for every pirate \ xenon you kill in that races sector.
Best bit of advice i can give is pick your weapons and ship carefully there are good ones and bad ones. speed > shields as a fast ship wont get hit and is able to run away, where as a slow one will just get toasted.
You need a mix of weapons, fast firing low hull damage weapon is good for taking out m5 and m4, slow firing high power weapons are good for taking out larger targets.
Fast firing low hull damage weapons are also good for capturing ships, gives the target longer to think about their mortality. Take out the shields quickly then switch to 1 low hull damage weapon and just keep picking away at the hull.
4) Oh snap, other then the Kea I can afford another M3 which is much cheaper, slightly faster but no turrets, Argon still hate me (can't find a mission I can do as I am based on the left with only one border argon sector near me which either spawns few M6's on a defence mission or stupid impossible missions that send me through argon core sectors anyway) Think its called Omycron Lyire or something like that, which has nothing to really trade with (as in cannot auto trade and I suck at manual trading). Well il try the new M3 and see how it fares anyway.
You should be ok as long as the enemy dont use PBE's, but you will be spending a lot of time trying to avoid incomming fire.
Have a look at the FREE ships list and check them out most are better than the kea http://www.pitmancoventry.co.uk/temp/abandoned_ships.txt
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Think its called Omycron Lyire or something like that, which has nothing to really trade with (as in cannot auto trade and I suck at manual trading). Well il try the new M3 and see how it fares anyway
ah didnt notice this first time, thats not the left of the universe thats about the center. Buy a TS or TP and put traiding software MK3 in it set up a sector trader in Circle of labour. It wont be instatainius but the ST will slowly increase your argon rep.
Oh and just thought idd rub my success in last night i reached the rank of "Hero of the Federation" the highest reputation rank that argon possess. I can buy anything from them thay like me that much
Trading software MK3 is avaliable from telardi equipment docks, there are a few other places to get it as well but not around where you are.
why dont the argon like you? ive had no problems even at the start of the game going through argon space from terran to telardi.
Ah epic fail indeed, i did a similar thing earliy on in the game, i said to my self cant i keep the ship and sell it on. only to discover a massive hit in rep if i did so. I just loaded a earlier save and didnt keep the ship.
It will take along time to get there but here is my best tips in recovering the rep, go the long way round to "Aladna Hill" it a argon boarder sector right next to a pirate sector. wait there and kill all pirates that enter shouldnt take long to get your rep up.
Another system to try would be "Elena's fortune" but thats even further away.
It will take along time to get there but here is my best tips in recovering the rep, go the long way round to "Aladna Hill" it a argon boarder sector right next to a pirate sector. wait there and kill all pirates that enter shouldnt take long to get your rep up.
Another system to try would be "Elena's fortune" but thats even further away.
Pretty sure there was some other reason why I couldn't load back probably because I just captured an M8 or something like that, and didn't save. Oh yeah that's right, was doing that mission when I was waiting for the slow ass ship to get somewhere took on a quick defence mission and captured an M8 on it, so didn't really feel like loading
Anyway I can always just get a lot of Taledi rep, build up my fleet and kill off Argon. Any reason why I should be friendly with them?
Terran > Split > Argon > Parinid > Boron > Telardi
Oh and keep you eyes out for somewhere that sells jump drives then you can get back to terran space without going thru argon sectors.