Newcomer / Intro Crashed into base but led to a new path

drspikes

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I feel a little embarrassed as I thought I was really getting the hang of docking so going through the mail slot at faster and faster speeds. To my horror instead of bouncing off the entrance, I just exploded loosing 75% of my wealth gathered over about 6-7 hours play! :eek:

I decided to give the Nav point a go in my stock sidewinder and to my surprise I took down a CR45000 Adder and never looked back. Maybe I was doing trading all wrong but I made more in killing at the Nav point in 10 minutes than I ever made in trading. I've now got an Eagle with lots of upgrades and 100K in the bank. I'm on my way!
 

the100thmonkey

the100thmonkey
Bounty-hunting is the fastest way to make credits early game, in my opinion.

Seek out a resource extraction site, and you'll find it even more profitable.

Just don't get cocky! Wait for the sysauth to put dents in the really big ships before you engage. Don't go for the Anacondas, Clippers and Dropships alone - you'll get pasted.

And watch out for rocks. They sneak up on you.
 

Pyrion

Pyrion
Since combat revenues got buffed up i think in order for trade to be competitive income wise you need to be able to do some rare trading in one of the medium ships (think cobra, t6, asp). Only in the very biggest traders can you outcompete all combat income. With a vulture you can already make more than a million per hour. Some folks here claim that they make up to 3 million, but that is cherry picking and lucky instances whereas with trading you can really make steady income.

Looking forward to 1.3 mining, that might be good income as well then, and exciting at the same time.
 

Trinity Star

Trinity Star
I just lost two Condas in succession, one in a RES along with 6m in bounties then smacked the replacement into the station, total loss around 40m....
 

CrispyLeper

CrispyLeper
I just spent an hour and a half making a net loss of 1 mill credits thanks to those pesky invisible rocks acting like magnets to my Asp. Rage quit!!!
(I'll sort it out tomorrow when I'm a little more sober) lol ;)
 

Dark Skies

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Pyrion said:
Since combat revenues got buffed up i think in order for trade to be competitive income wise you need to be able to do some rare trading in one of the medium ships (think cobra, t6, asp). Only in the very biggest traders can you outcompete all combat income. With a vulture you can already make more than a million per hour. Some folks here claim that they make up to 3 million, but that is cherry picking and lucky instances whereas with trading you can really make steady income.

Looking forward to 1.3 mining, that might be good income as well then, and exciting at the same time.
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Yeah I've made Three mill in an hour once in a RES but your right I would be cherry picking the time and ignoring the hour it took to reload repair cash in bounties luck upon the anaconda instance.
I wanted to start trading for a change but wow your gonna need a big ship. I tried rares it was a nice change but it took me there times longer to run than I was lead to believe. I like farming the RES feel like I'm getting good at it and it's fairly fun but a bit easy. I am hoping this will change in powerplay. But I only started doing RESing after I earned my stripes at Nav beacons.
 

Mordu

Mordu
VictoriaG said:
I just lost two Condas in succession, one in a RES along with 6m in bounties then smacked the replacement into the station, total loss around 40m....
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Man, that's horrible. Some days are just garbage. I hope your luck changes for the better. o7
 
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