Oh God, I suck at combat and landing... and trading

M0rtr3k

M0rtr3k
I suck at this game, I knew it wasn't going to be AAA easy but damn, this is incradebly complex. I tried bounty hunting with an Adder(guess how that went) but at least I have a Cobra mk.iii and I decided to put my laser weapons on the medium hardpoints and the multicannons on the small ones so I guess I'm set?
Can't wait to hear more "first time CMRD" stories in the forums.
 

Pyrotiger

Pyrotiger
What willowfan says. Unless there's a corrosive mod on a small multicannon it's not worth having since ship armour was improved and weapons readjusted.

I'm flying a lot with a newbie and it's a good reminder of the steep learning curve us vets had to overcome. Just keep going. You will learn from mistakes. The Cobra is a good ship to have, so good luck with that - hard point placement is an issue so make sure you bring all your weapons into play by lining yourself up properly with the target. Many more dedicated Cobra III pilots than me around will explain it better.
 
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Riverside

Riverside
willowfan said:
Your weapons are the wrong way round. Put kinetic weapons in the medium slots and lasers in the small.
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This is good advice.

To improve your staying power in a RES, and to reduce your workload a little, set the power distributor to 402 (4 in SYS gives max shield strength, zero on ENG means low manouverability & if you boost it won't recharge, 2 in WEP means medium recharge) or 411 (to slowly recharge ENG for occasional boosts).

Ideally you will be constantly managing your pips as you see in PvP vids on youtube, but one of these settings will slow your ship down a bit so it's a little easier to aim, and give you enough WEP capacity to keep your ship cool when firing lasers.

Find a baddie that the Police are already targeting, wait for the scan to complete (to confirm they are wanted) and be very, very careful what you hit. You want to hit the baddie, you don't want to hit the Police (not yet anyway ;)).

This is kill stealing, but it's a safe way to start bounty hunting. As your confidence improves you can move on to more challenging targets.
 

goemon

goemon
M0rtr3k said:
I suck at this game, I knew it wasn't going to be AAA easy but damn, this is incradebly complex. I tried bounty hunting with an Adder(guess how that went) but at least I have a Cobra mk.iii and I decided to put my laser weapons on the medium hardpoints and the multicannons on the small ones so I guess I'm set?
Can't wait to hear more "first time CMRD" stories in the forums.
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if you suck the first 20-50 hours ingame, you are doing it right :)

i started doing combat a few month after playing the game... i didn't know whether i flew forward or backwards, had no idea what to point my nose at, etc.

finally fitted a small beam laser turett on an eagle, which worked as a laser pointer. move there!

do, what you enjoy most - there is a learning curve in almost everything ... how to move between the gravity wells most efficiently ... what states of minor faction have as an effect on commodity prices ...

even me managed elite in combat, even if it was the last of the triple i made.
 

Jwood13LC

Jwood13LC
Also go to a High Security system with "hi rez-zones" and wait for the cops to start shooting. It is not one on one but it will give you practice on how to maneuver your ship, make money so you can upgrade to a better combat ship or upgrade your current ship to be able to handle more of a beating! Once you do that, you can go one on one more. You have to find out what other ships can do so you know how to out flank them, go for their sub systems and so forth. Just this morning, I made 1.2 million in 35 minuets in a rez-site. Much faster way of earning credits early on in this game that is for sure.
 

Mr. Stevens Catering

Mr. Stevens Catering
Jwood13LC said:
Also go to a High Security system with "hi rez-zones" and wait for the cops to start shooting. It is not one on one but it will give you practice on how to maneuver your ship, make money so you can upgrade to a better combat ship or upgrade your current ship to be able to handle more of a beating! Once you do that, you can go one on one more. You have to find out what other ships can do so you know how to out flank them, go for their sub systems and so forth. Just this morning, I made 1.2 million in 35 minuets in a rez-site. Much faster way of earning credits early on in this game that is for sure.
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Amen to this. Got extremely luckly last night after plinking two wanted clippers and a diamondback for ~90k each, a wanted Conda popped up. I stalked him for a good 5-7 minutes before the cops scanned him and lit him up. extra 260k right before I logged for the night. Still short on the advance discovery scanner though... blah.
 

Riverside

Riverside
M0rtr3k said:
Where can I go to train FA off flight?
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Quite a few of us learned using the basic docking tutorial. Rather than dock, take your free sidewinder & go fly around the outer structure of the station. There is no risk to your main save, and it doesn't matter how many times you 'fail' the mission.
 

Qglfang

Qglfang
I didn´t find bounty hunting very lucrative the last two days. have been hanging around in a high Res site....three wanted NPCs spawned. two were taken down by security before i even had a chance to fire. at least i was allowed to participate on the third. After that nothing....10 Mins flying around...just security forces. no new ships....
 

Lngjohnsilver1

Lngjohnsilver1
Yeah - it ain't easy. Its surprising how much of everything is a steep (vertical) learning curve. There's just no real training or preparation provided even for simple things like navigating the galaxy map (Only found out last night how to use the HOTAS to move vertically - even then i'm still having issues i think?).

FA off - yeah i'm playing with that - have fun, it ain't easy. Flying FA OFF is not unlike making love to a beautiful woman - if your all wham bam with you attitude, wham bam will be what you get - if you are smooth and gentle then you'll get a better result!

Died now about 5 times, keep flying into stations, got taken out by a cruiser by accident, flew into a sun, nearly ran out of fuel in the middle of neutron star, forgot about two missions i was supposed to be doing, lost a station, still haven't figured out planetary approaches properly - need i go on? You are not alone. But its already addictive as hell!!!
 

Riverside

Riverside
Qglfang said:
I didn´t find bounty hunting very lucrative the last two days. have been hanging around in a high Res site....three wanted NPCs spawned. two were taken down by security before i even had a chance to fire. at least i was allowed to participate on the third. After that nothing....10 Mins flying around...just security forces. no new ships....
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Better rated sensors will resolve other ships from further away. Look around the skybox for streaks of distant laser fire that indicates a battle beyond radar range, head over there (you may be too late).

A RES (Resource Extraction Site) is intended for lucrative mining gameplay, with occasional pirates to liven up what can otherwise be a peaceful, but dull acrivity (IMO). You are there for the Pirates, but you don't get a constant stream of them in once place (otherwise mining would be really hard), you need to travel around the RES a bit to find them, or be a little more patient if you stay in one location.
 
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