Humble user guide from veterans to newbies...

[19th hole]

This post is inspired because of the following thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=164015

Don’t want to use clichés 2 much, but it is true that many roads lead up to … well… anywhere you like. So, if you have a different interpretation of the road to take, let us know. Some like it the rough way, so like it soft. These are relative terms anyway.

How I would start as a newby:

1. Sell your cargo bay and pew pew lasers and buy yourself a fuel scoop.
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2. Head out to near star systems and gradually expand, discover the objects in those systems with your basic scanner.
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3. Head back to your homebase, sell your findings. Don’t wait too long with each iteration, you don’t have enough
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experience yet to stay out for too long and risk of losing your stacked discoveries because of ship destruction
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(for whatever reason). Dont save your game nearby stars or planets, keep a good distance, couple of LS.
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4. Repeat this for a time until you can buy a cobra with large cargo bays, by then you have mastered the basic
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landing and takeoffs at stations and your motoring skills are adapted to the joystick/mouse control.
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5. Start trading. Use this link as a help: http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/
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6. Good trade routes are plenty, first you might find only one way, multiple jumps, be patient. Your profit might not also be as​

the rest here in this forum advocates to have found. Don’t worry, you will find your’s sooner or later.​

7. Make some good money, to buy bigger ships, with the reasoning of bigger trading cargo bays = more profit.​

8. Avoid combat as much as you can while traiding & exploring at the start of your career, trading will soon get boring,​

but by that time, you have much more cash I recon.​

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9. Buy yourself a nice combat kitted viper, not too fancy. Use this link as a help: http://www.edshipyard.com
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10. Make some cash with bounty hunting & combat bonds.​

11. Work on all these three main professions from now on to advance your ranking status and get better ships
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which can do more in less time.
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12. Side things you can consider once you have mastered the above three professions: missions, Community Goals (CG),
play in wings in Open, piracy, power play & mining & smuggling & advanced exploration. Who knows, maybe planetary
landings will be available by then…
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Things to consider already at the start:

a. If you ever get out of fuel again: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=150703
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b. Make sure you can rebuy your ship with insurance if you get blown out of space!
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=150022
c. Get yourself a good HOTAS stick, it will help a lot!
d. Don’t buy occulus rift YET, too bulky in current state and might place another difficulty to your starter skills, wait for
their official mass-product, unless you like to collect gadgets...
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Whether you do this all on Solo or Open mode of gameplay, your choice, more safe is Solo.
Good luck and hopefully, have fun.
Over 'n out.

 

[Kancro Vantas]

Repped.. Very nice thread. Concise and easy.

Only thing, shouldn't this be more helpful in the Newcomers Forum?

That's where I think would do the most help.

 

[19th hole]

Repped.. Very nice thread. Concise and easy.

Only thing, shouldn't this be more helpful in the Newcomers Forum?

That's where I think would do the most help.

Thank you for your kind words and keen observation. Maybe you are right on the Necomers Forum, didnt know there is such a category, maybe a moderator can help us out on this one and make the correction?