Progress (Missions and How to Complete

[bingildak]

Hi,

Joined the beta yesterday. So far having a great time but having some issues, hope you can help me understand some things:

As far as I can understand, we can make money with trades. Carrying goods from one system to another. But as a new beginner, ship cargo bay is too small to make any decent money. I am not trying to get rich fast, as far as my attempts go, with the speed I am profiting, it will take ages to buy even an eagle. So either I am doing something wrong or the progress takes a long time. Docking, traveling etc. taking serious amount of time currently.

I am not a trader personality anyway. I was hoping to get something out of the bulletin missions yet they are way too vague. Options being extremely limited on one side, being impossible to understand on other. I am getting a kill quest (kill 3 civilians) on wyrd (or whatever it was called) but I have absolutely no idea where to go when I warp into system. From eve I expected to find different signature or beacon calls which were linked to missions but they were mostly empty or filled with huge ships that my sidewinder cannot handle.

So my question is how do I find kill locations (where npc is) in the system? How do I understand their difficulty rate? For example Pirate Lord, can I take him down with a sidewinder even if I knew where to look for him. Been playing for some hours now, don't get me wrong, I am not looking for a fast progress but after dying so many times I came to achieve like 10k CR without spending a penny. Not because I fail at the missions, but because I cannot find them at all, spending hours looking out and trying to figure out where to find or complete them.

Any guide, tips, walktroughs are highly appreciated.

 

[bingildak]

Still looking for answers, help appreciated.

 

[Elessarus]

Trading will get you there definatly. In a sidewinder you would probably make 2k a run. Best thing for creds for you right now is the light transport missions on the bulletin board which give you around 5k. Those civilians you talked about you can find those just cruising around in hyperspace and lookout for unidentifies signal sources. All kinds of scenarios can play out there including civilians just chilling there.

I dont know if the pirate lord is doable in a sidewinder and i also havent found him yet.

In eranin around planet 2 is the federal distress signal scenario. When you get there you can choose a side on your right hand panel. Every kill you make here gives you a bounty voucher and that bounty voucher can be cashed in in a station which has the right jurisdiction. Dont die!! If you made alot of kills and died you lose all bounty vouchers.

Hope this is of any help to you. Good luck!

 

[Tempered]

I have found the hard way that to complete most of the kill pirate missions, you need a warrant scanner. You then go to one of the systems listed in the bulletin board posting and start investigating unidentified signals. You will run into npc's with bounties on them. The trouble is that you do not know what system they have a bounty for, so you kill them for the bounty. After killing them, look at your mission screen on the left console. It will show vouchers for bounties and what system they are for. You need to get vouchers for people wanted in the system that you picked up the mission from. So if you pick up a voucher for federation, but you need vouchers for Eranin, well that voucher won't count towards your mission total.

Needless to say, the kill pirate missions are way under paid and a pain in the ****. It can take quite a bit of time to get enough vouchers of the right type, and the missions never seem to pay much. You will get quite a few vouchers to turn in for cash, however. You will also pick up invaluable combat experience.