1. Get out of the noob zone as soon as possible
2. Don't be scared of combat or bounty farming. The tutorials make it look much harder than it is.
3. Watch loads of youtube vids, which will show you things you would never have found out from the tutorials.
4. Get rid of the supercruise assist and advanced docking computer. The standard docking computer is OK.
5. Always prioritise speed for your ship before anything else unless you're exploring. It will keep you safer than any fancy shields or weapons. Don't forget that speed comes from the thrusters and power distributor and it's affected by mass.
6. Never carry anything on your ship that you don't need for the task in hand - no weapons when hauling or mining.
7.Never buy a new ship unless you have the money to optimise its loadout for the task in hand. Credits are so easy to get now that there's no excuse. Find a way to make credits so that you can always get the money to buy the best ship for the task in hand.
8. Don't try and make a multi-task ship. Inevitably, all tasks will be compromised in some respect.
9. Never go AFK when using the docking computer
10. Never let the docking computer engage just outside the station.
11. Switch on the mouse widget in the key-bindings, which is useful for fuel scooping and mining - and other tasks that involve alignment.
12. There's a lot of interesting game-play to unlock all the engineers. Wait until you've got a couple of hundred million cr, then work through unlocking them all, then do the Guardian unlocks for the shields, FSD booster and anti-thargoid weapons. Don't be intimidated by any of the things you need to do. watch Youtube vids if you're not sure.
13. Don't grind for combat rank. It only has disadvantages. Instead do explorer to unlock Shinrarta Dezhra, which you can get quickly by doing road to riches or sight-seeing missions.
14. Follow Down to Earth Astronomy and Obsidian Ant on Youtube to keep up with what's going on in the game.
15. Don't waste your time looking for ship discounts. By the time you've gone to get it, you could have made double the saving and bought the ship locally. A lot of advicen like this was valid in 2015, but the game has changed now.
16. Use your logfiles when something happens that you don't understand, like you think you got blown up for nothing. Everything is recorded there with timestamps: C:\Users\USER\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous, where USER is your windows logon name- USER by defaul
17. Don't be controlled by paradigms, like always have weapons and/or shields. Use your imagination and think about the task in hand. If youre planet scanning, shields and weapons only bring disadvantages, and it can be fun to do hauling and passengers without shields because of the slight increase in risk while you make bigger profits.
18. When making long journeys, switch off all the modules not needed for travelling. You can switch off shields , power distributor, all optional modules, all weapons and all utilities. this makes your ship run much cooler for fuel scooping, so you can scoop for longer.
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