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Requiem Mortis

Requiem Mortis
Find a system you like and build reputation with the local factions by running missions (probably data delivery ones seeing as how you want non-combat). The more reputation you have the better paying they'll be.

Earn a few credits to buy and equip a mining ship, you'll want a refinery and mining lasers minimum, collector limpets speed things up enourmoulsy (requires a slot for the controller) and prospector limpets (yet another controller module) increases the yield from your asteroid.

You could also try smuggling missions....learn about 'Silent Running' - beware causes heat buildup.
 
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gooddoc

gooddoc
Requiem Mortis said:
Find a system you like and build reputation with the local factions by running missions (probably data delivery ones seeing as how you want non-combat). The more reputation you have the better paying they'll be.

Earn a few credits to buy and equip a mining ship, you'll want a refinery and mining lasers minimum, collector limpets speed things up enourmoulsy (requires a slot for the controller) and prospector limpets (yet another controller module) increases the yield from your asteroid.

You could also try smuggling missions....learn about 'Silent Running' - beware causes heat buildup.
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Agreed, get some data delivery missions to get you more used to flying between systems, while earning credits, then (in my opinion) buy an Intermediate Scanner or Advanced Scanner (when you can afford one) & scan all the bodies that you can in the systems that you visit. You can then sell this data, once you are more than 20 LYs from the system that you scan
 

Luniticisi

Luniticisi
Have to agree with Data Delivery missions, they are simple, take no cargo space and will get you used to navigating around space and docking at all different types of ports (Station/outpost/Ground) you'll also build up a nice bit of rep.
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
Find a nice cosy anarchy run by dirt bags and smuggle all their goods around the nearby uptight squares systems.

That's how I bought my Cobra, back in the day.

The Irrational Exuberance space station however, is now apparently run by communists... instead of the lovely pirate lords that used to run the place. Gone down hill if you ask me.
 

gooddoc

gooddoc
I would also like to add, look in the newcomers forum, I was in there every day when I first stated (nearly 3 years ago). I was like you, I spent my first 5 minutes bouncing round inside the space station before it blew me up. I found the forum then, extremely useful & used it for months until I'd got to grips with the game & moved onto the more 'acidic' dangerous forum
 

joshismycaptain

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Excellent advice! Progress made!

I did in fact find a nice little short haul circuit around my favorite system (Opala), and made numerous data and cargo runs, all successfully! Man that first pay of was sweet! I worked my way up to about 70kcr, then bought a Hauler! Since then I've optimized stops and currently have about 250kcr. When I realized it was 4am and I had zero sense of time (the clock is far from my US CDT timezone), I crashed (in my bed). So exciting! I am loving this. I don't even think of it as a game. As far as I'm concerned, it's my second existence... 🙄

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!
Good, direct, useful, positive advice!
 

CMDR ANCALAGON

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Siobhan said:
Just to add, a heatsink just before your Fsd charges will mitigate the heat damage (if you have one of course)
Best method is to zero the throttle when you do your interstellar jump so when you arrive facing the star, you're not moving (you are... Minimum SC speed is 30 km/s but it's slow enough), then face away from the star to do the honk.
If this fails for any reason, then as the quoted comment said, put the star behind you and boost away.

Note. If the star is red, then you're in scooping range and could drop out. If should turn orange once you're safe to turn towards your planet.
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Just to add, if you are having to boost away from the star to get out of or away from the exclusion zone, keep in mind that this could take awhile since you are not going very fast (relative to SC anyway). Even as a seasoned explorer, I ran into this situation with a white dwarf once around SagA. My Anaconda is slow, and it took me about 20 minutes of boosting to get far enough out that I could charge my FSD without overheating.

Not sure about your ship, but my FDL and Anaconda can handle at least 115% heat without exploding, so you may have to hang in there and watch it climb near 100% before the charge is complete, but don't give up, and definitely make sure that you are pointed at the escape vector from the start. I would recommend high waking out to another system, as if you are close enough to the star, you will still continue to over heat until you are far enough away from it, and if you are already near 100% when the FSD charges, it may be too much. If you are at 100% when you High Wake, as long as you pull up when you drop into the next system, you will not gain any additional heat.
 

Teh Smoo

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joshismycaptain said:
Excellent advice! Progress made!

I did in fact find a nice little short haul circuit around my favorite system (Opala), and made numerous data and cargo runs, all successfully! Man that first pay of was sweet! I worked my way up to about 70kcr, then bought a Hauler! Since then I've optimized stops and currently have about 250kcr. When I realized it was 4am and I had zero sense of time (the clock is far from my US CDT timezone), I crashed (in my bed). So exciting! I am loving this. I don't even think of it as a game. As far as I'm concerned, it's my second existence... 🙄

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!
Good, direct, useful, positive advice!
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http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Bounty

Keep in mind, if you don't pay off the fine in a week, you're going to get a nasty surprise if you go back there.

You can get fines and bounties for various things, mostly damage-related. You ALSO get a fine if you take a cargo delivery missions, and drop it (you keep the cargo...). Note that abandoned missions cost you some reputation.

You can grind along like you're doing, or hit up the various lucrative things, people share some of them. Certain areas have weirder and WAY more profitable missions spawns.

Also, once you can afford a Cobra3 (or something in that range), an A-rated FSD, and a few other things, you can get exploration money. My Advanced Discovery Scanner and DSS have paid for themselves MANY times over... Cobra3 is best "go fast" you can buy for the money, though.
 

Andovar

Andovar
joshismycaptain said:
Excellent advice! Progress made!

I did in fact find a nice little short haul circuit around my favorite system (Opala), and made numerous data and cargo runs, all successfully! Man that first pay of was sweet! I worked my way up to about 70kcr, then bought a Hauler! Since then I've optimized stops and currently have about 250kcr. When I realized it was 4am and I had zero sense of time (the clock is far from my US CDT timezone), I crashed (in my bed). So exciting! I am loving this. I don't even think of it as a game. As far as I'm concerned, it's my second existence... 

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!
Good, direct, useful, positive advice!
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Good to hear. :)
I kinda miss that "new car smell" from my early play days.

PS. You'll soon have enough for a cobra, which is considered by most to be the best all-around 'early' ship.
 

RumRunner

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If you want to earn more cash quicker through trading or passenger missions, for your next ship upgrade try a Type-6. That's the ship that really started making me serious money and it paid for my Python.
 

Quantis Trap

Quantis Trap
joshismycaptain said:
Hello. This is my second post, and I've owned the game for about 1w hours and have played all the training missions, but then I get out in the real world(s) and am struggling, as expected. So I'm trying to get to Dahan 3 Metalworks. I took off, plotted a course for Dahan 3, somehow successfully engaged my hyper drive and found myself staring at the Dahan star. Cool! Now I search the system map, find Dahan 3, set target, attempt to engage hyper drive and I'm heating up, trying to figure out why I cant. I know I know,,, you've all answered this a million times with much opinion and sarcasm. What I'm looking for is someone to actually help me. If you're just replying to make yourself feel special and me feel bad, oleas e don't bother. For those who wish to help me, I appreciate ant tips. Here's what I've done : all extremities are rereacted. I have a target, I have centered it in my display and compass is blue. I click my drive, it starts powering up, then I sit there and have to shut it down before I overheat. Any thoughts? I've even attempted to plot a course out of the system believing that might be the problem. I've tried to fly away from the star thinking it's mass may be the problem. I'm really reading online and trying to understand and just can't figure it out. Please don't send me links to your amazing website or direct me to blah blah blah. Just say : "Have you tried x?" Thanks for any constructive help! Josh
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OP, you were talking to the wrong people if they were not trying to help a new commander. There's a lot to learn in this game and we've all been there.

For future questions, I suggest the new commanders section of the forum and also a "Galactic Academy" on Discord.

In both those locations you can find lots of clubs and commands who will even give you individual help.

This is a great game more for the community around it than anything else!
 
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BDelacroix

BDelacroix
Sounds like you are still too close to the star. Just travel away from it until your heat rating is below 50% (or lower if it already is). Then again, you don't jump to the planet within a star system you are going to if you are already in that system, you just travel to it.
 
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