Let's give something back to the noobwinders.
- Thread starter Hellakitty
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Will make some new CMDR very happy I’m sure 
get them into a decent ride and they’ll have some overhead for a bit to learn their preferred field without worrying about rebuy for a little while anyway. If this happened to me, I’d have to name my new ride ‘Small Loan of $1Mil’
get them into a decent ride and they’ll have some overhead for a bit to learn their preferred field without worrying about rebuy for a little while anyway. If this happened to me, I’d have to name my new ride ‘Small Loan of $1Mil’ 
Well. I can say my reply to such would get an infraction here. I think it's one of the worst things to try and do. The games about learning skills not credits. You don't need a big ship or Credit balance to do that.
Set em up with a basic T-6 and a load of Onionhead.
I feel that, while Trade Dividends are helpful (and normally enough to get the a 2C FSD), advise is FAR more valuable. I ALWAYS cover the REBUY early in the advise, and try to cover the basics.
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It sorts the wheat from the chaff. The smart newbies will save their new millions, and buy an E-D rated Cobra, with lots of rebuys to spare. (And how is this cheap when some backers actually have the option to start at Jameson... In a Cobra)
The less-smart newbies will blow all their cash on the biggest and baddest ship they can get, have no rebuy, die on landing, and get sent back to the Sidewinder.
The less-smart newbies will blow all their cash on the biggest and baddest ship they can get, have no rebuy, die on landing, and get sent back to the Sidewinder.
Probably not, and then I would have regretted it later.
Ah, back when it took me months before I was in a T6. It was my next ship after the Cobra.
An Adder is a fine vessel and underappreciated. Competent for it's size in any role and ugly enough to motivate you to get something better. This is as much of the game as I'd dare take away from someone by boosting them into a free Adder. A T6 is way too far.
Onionhead? I'm Ca$hback, not Robin Hood.
I tried helping newbies once.
Took a bunch to a Res, and tried to teach them combat.
...I can still hear the screams.
Took a bunch to a Res, and tried to teach them combat.
...I can still hear the screams.
And the answer to everything is Cobra.
Secret of the Universe - Cobra
Unified Theory - Cobra
Roswell - it was a Cobra
Give these newbies a few more million so I don't have to hear about the Cobra again. Buy an Asp.
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In the case of Elite Dangerous, Cobra is the answer to all questions.
And this is the thing I do as well. Help them earn their own money and offer guidance.
(Though we usually do it without screaming)
Ah, back when it took me months before I was in a T6. It was my next ship after the Cobra.
An Adder is a fine vessel and underappreciated. Competent for it's size in any role and ugly enough to motivate you to get something better. This is as much of the game as I'd dare take away from someone by boosting them into a free Adder. A T6 is way too far.
Onionhead? I'm Ca$hback, not Robin Hood.
Lol. Yeah I went the same route. My second ship was a Cobra MkIII, and I scraped and saved to get my T-6. Got that specifically for the CG out in the Califonia Nebula, Darwin Research center. That was back before long route plots and the Nav didn’t tell you about scoopable stars and when you’d run dry of fuel. That was my first >1000k ly trip. I can still remember the star system off the top of my head I had to repeat it to myself so much when plotting the several routes it took to get there. California Sector BV-Y C7
I miss the ole steel pancake. I’ll have to buy another one just to redo that trip. Good times I noticed. Still gotta admire your dedication.
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I was thinking the same. They’ll prolly blow the whole wad on a stock Conda and roll into a Haz Rez like Boris in Golden Eye (i am invincible!!) BOOM. And they’re poor again
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Everyone is just jealous of my devotion to Cobra. Cobra is love, Cobra is life.
You should avoid my fan-fiction.
Is it by chance a hopeless romance story of a girl and the Cobra she loved?
Marra had one of those. Well there was a Cobra in it anyway.