Newcomer / Intro Hello everyone, I just started 5 days ago

Yingnei Gasua

Yingnei Gasua
Hiya All, I always loved space trader/combat (I hate mining, finding alien artifacts/grinding) OPEN-WORLD games and just started 5 days ago.

Quick recap:

Day 1: Fly in starter system, getting used to controls. Read some of the guides there. Try to earn credits by doing courier missions for a nicer ship. Sidewinder looks ugly IMHO. Tried a bounty mission, flew around the target system for 1 hour looking for the target, he found me instead by interdiction in the end.

Day 2: OK, got the hang of spamming some courier missions to get credits. Saved up a million from missions. Bought a Cobra MkIII. Left the starter system. Figured that in my crappy unmodded loan Sidewinder, since I could take out targets easily, my shiny new Cobra MkIII with the biggest guns I could mount should be able to do a simple massacre mission. Lets try this, on a Low conflict zone....... I SEE! They are called Massacre missions because newbie noobs in their lame 1m credit ships get MASSACRED. OK, back to grinding boom time courier missions while exploring the galaxy. OK, I am enjoying the trading commodities and mission part of this game.

Day 3: How to make 10 mil for my next ship? Hmm., Whats this, youtube video says there is good money in mining Painite? Ok, sell all the guns and combat crap from my Cobra, buy mining equipment after reading guides. Traveled many jumps to some system where they have Painite. 6 hours of screwing up, flying into asteroids and random waypoints later, got my 1st load of Painite. Not bad! over 5 million. 1 more run and I can get a bigger cargo hold. 2nd run took 2 hours. Another 6-7 million. Upgraded to Asp Explorer.

Day 4: Getting the hang of it, Asp Explorer is getting me 50 million to 70 million per mining expedition. But this is boring crap! I came here to play space trader/combat! Once I hit 200m, I got myself a nice Python outfitted for Combat/Exploration/Trading. Nice! Damn, the galaxy is big. I need more jump range! Internet says FSD booster is a MUST...... Back to my stored Asp Explorer and outfitted it for the long 1000 LY journey to this HP 6xxxxx system. I dont mind the long journey, I bought this game because it promised a BIG galaxy. Its fun stopping by some systems for a closer look at the stuff and planets and scooping fuel.

Day 5: GAWDAMMIT! I BOUGHT THIS GAME FOR SPACE TRADER/COMBAT!!! what AM I DOING DRIVING AN SRV IN THE DARK BUMPING INTO THINGS, GETTING STUCK AND TRYING TO FIND THOSE THRICE DAMNED PYLONS?!??! DAMN SRV IS SO BUMPY I GET MOTION SICKNESS!!!!

Is this kinda similar to how some of you started?
 

SCiARA

SCiARA
hello and welcome
sounds like you are having a good time ?!
in honesty the game is so huge everyone will have a different path dependant on what they like doing
tbf if you are looking at guardian sites for an fsd booster 5 days into the game you may be rushing along a bit and following to many guides
the guardian fsd booster is a luxury not a necessity, especially if you like combat/trading
maybe stick to the python and deck it out as a trader that can hold its own, trade and you will get into scraps with others
 

Yingnei Gasua

Yingnei Gasua
I think I got paranoia from the massive butt-kicking I received in the low intensity CZ. Am thinking the Python wont hack it for combat without Guardian/Engineering. I like to play open world and have paranoia of dying from the first bump.
 

Hawk of Battle

Hawk of Battle
Yingnei Gasua said:
Is this kinda similar to how some of you started?
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Nope! For me it was a few courier missions, straight to a Cobra, trade back and forth, get bored then, fly over to a nearby nebula, take forever to get back, get back cash in explo data, upgrade to Asp X, head back out into the black for 10kLy adventure, 1000 jumps later become Elite. Fun times.
 

Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
Leave the CZs alone for now, gain a bit more experience first. Or wing up with other people maybe.
CZs is like jumping in the deep end. :D (y)
 

Yingnei Gasua

Yingnei Gasua
Hawk of Battle said:
Nope! For me it was a few courier missions, straight to a Cobra, trade back and forth, get bored then, fly over to a nearby nebula, take forever to get back, get back cash in explo data, upgrade to Asp X, head back out into the black for 10kLy adventure, 1000 jumps later become Elite. Fun times.
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How does Elite ranking for exploration work? The wiki says by turning in map data but is it just purely calculated by map data value in credits? Or how far out in space the map data was from?

Another question, after selling the map data, if I pass by the same system and scan it again, do I get the data again? I cant figure out what systems I have been too/mapped, is there a way to mark it on map?
 

Yingnei Gasua

Yingnei Gasua
BTW, I do want to be the first to map at least one system. But since I am starting so many years after the game began, which way should i try? Any tips? Everywhere I have gone so far has been discovered previously (no surprise).
 

Yingnei Gasua

Yingnei Gasua
Thanks! And if I have scanned them and sold the maps, I am assuming I still retain all the scanned info in my nav computer but just that I wont be able to sell it again by re-scanning?
 

Hawk of Battle

Hawk of Battle
Yingnei Gasua said:
How does Elite ranking for exploration work? The wiki says by turning in map data but is it just purely calculated by map data value in credits? Or how far out in space the map data was from?

Another question, after selling the map data, if I pass by the same system and scan it again, do I get the data again? I cant figure out what systems I have been too/mapped, is there a way to mark it on map?
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Explo ranking works purely on the cash gained from the bodies you find. Everything has a rough estimated value. You need to be at least 20LYs away from wherever you found something to be able to sell it, but other than that the distance doesn't matter. Elite requires you to earn something like 350mil.

Oh and don't worry about not finding anything. We have explored something like 0.014% of the 400 billion star systems in the game. There's plenty left to find. You do have to go a few thousand lightyears out of the bubble to find unexplored stuff though.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Welcome and enjoy yourself.

I love the Python but they are notorious for newly-bought ones getting blown up and leaving the player broke. Watch you have money for the rebuy and be careful how you fight in a Python - they are not the best ship to do combat in, especially without engineering, pick your fights and jump out when in trouble.
 

Yingnei Gasua

Yingnei Gasua
Para Handy said:
Welcome and enjoy yourself.

I love the Python but they are notorious for newly-bought ones getting blown up and leaving the player broke. Watch you have money for the rebuy and be careful how you fight in a Python - they are not the best ship to do combat in, especially without engineering, pick your fights and jump out when in trouble.
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Thanks, I am not worried about rebuy or credits due to easy Painite but I am also not interested in pure combat build. I actually bought a Python and A rated almost everything but I stored it and fly the Asp X 99% of the time for the 25 LY jump since I am in exploration mode now.
 

Dragsham

Dragsham
Imagine your looking down on the galaxy...the centre is largely unexplored due to the density of stars located there. Youll bag 1000s of tags there. Also on your way to sag A the large black hole in the centre, be wary...gankers await anyone in the open, and you don't wanna lose data or lose 100s of millions plus all that scanned stuff. So explore beyond the bubble in solo. Top tip.
Combat, just focus on res sites. Progress to haz res (unpoliced) and farm materials for engineering. You dont need cargo space for engineering mats.
Trade..well the worlds your oyster. Aiming for a carrier? Well 10 bill later youll get and change left over to kit it out and have a nice carrier credit balance.
Painite is the new meta since the huge eggnerf.
Also look to joining a wing (guild) ingame.
Finally inara. Sign up and link accounts if you havent already. Great app. As is eddb.io and of course utube. Not forgetting the forums too.
Good luck.

o7
 

Maymo

Maymo
Yingnei Gasua said:
Is this kinda similar to how some of you started?
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No...

Not at all.

The game was better balanced when I started, skipping all the content and hopping into a Python after a few days just wasn’t an option, credits came slower and one would often experiment with multiple activities in multiple ships to gradually build up wealth.

I actually feel sorry for you and other newcomers to the game.
 

Marcus Machiavelli

Marcus Machiavelli
Maymo said:
No...

Not at all.

The game was better balanced when I started, skipping all the content and hopping into a Python after a few days just wasn’t an option, credits came slower and one would often experiment with multiple activities in multiple ships to gradually build up wealth.

I actually feel sorry for you and other newcomers to the game.
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I agree, 5 years ago when we started we had to go slow and we learnt the game as we went.
 
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