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Newcomer / Intro Hard Points
- Thread starter Namvet
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Laser: Yes
Refinery: You will need to remove either shield (not recommended) or discovery scanner to fit the refinery.
at this stage I suggest you bounty hunt at nav point instead of mining, especially if your equipmenta are all still loaned, they are free to replace if you die. Start buying items though and you start needing to pay attention to your cash vs insurance or you will find yourself back in square 1 for not being able to pay insurance (losing week/months of progress)
Refinery: You will need to remove either shield (not recommended) or discovery scanner to fit the refinery.
at this stage I suggest you bounty hunt at nav point instead of mining, especially if your equipmenta are all still loaned, they are free to replace if you die. Start buying items though and you start needing to pay attention to your cash vs insurance or you will find yourself back in square 1 for not being able to pay insurance (losing week/months of progress)
Hi,
On the Sidewinder, you can only have zero to two hard point devices fitted.
Similarly, you only have a few compartments, and there's a lot of options...
For starters, I would suggest that you look at the bulletin board for some delivery missions. These aren't usually in dangerous areas, and will pay much better than trading a couple of tons of cargo.
Do check the jump range though, I had to remove the weapons in order to increase the jump range sufficiently.
In fact, I also changed the discovery scanner and shield generator for cargo racks. Obviously, that means avoiding interceptions if possible, if not, 4 pips to the engines, boost and weave/dodge until the step frame comes back online.
Fly safe.
On the Sidewinder, you can only have zero to two hard point devices fitted.
Similarly, you only have a few compartments, and there's a lot of options...
For starters, I would suggest that you look at the bulletin board for some delivery missions. These aren't usually in dangerous areas, and will pay much better than trading a couple of tons of cargo.
Do check the jump range though, I had to remove the weapons in order to increase the jump range sufficiently.
In fact, I also changed the discovery scanner and shield generator for cargo racks. Obviously, that means avoiding interceptions if possible, if not, 4 pips to the engines, boost and weave/dodge until the step frame comes back online.
Fly safe.
You don't have to start bounty hunting like the other guy said, just start of by doing trade missions to get money quicker, but you can still start with mining, it's a painstaking process but if you find some rare metals then you'll get rich very quickly.
Oh and yes you lose your laser if you buy a mining laser. And you have to remove the shield generator or the discovery scanner to fit the refinery, I recommend you to swap the discovery scanner. The discovery scanner is very nice and usefull so as soon as you have the money for a new ship fit the scanner on it too.
This way you'll be able to discover new systems and some of those have undiscovered astroid belts where you can mine.
Oh and yes you lose your laser if you buy a mining laser. And you have to remove the shield generator or the discovery scanner to fit the refinery, I recommend you to swap the discovery scanner. The discovery scanner is very nice and usefull so as soon as you have the money for a new ship fit the scanner on it too.
This way you'll be able to discover new systems and some of those have undiscovered astroid belts where you can mine.