Ship Buying

[AudiophoriA]

Hi There! New PC player here, hope everyone's safe out there in the cosmos.
Can anyone help me understand where to buy ships? Are Kits only cosmetics that go on ships you already acquired??
What would be the be OP shipfor a noob, aside from the Sidewinder. Videos I find lead me to the Anaconda.
Any Commanders out there good teachers?

 

[sinisalo]

Welcome to Elite. Lots of new commanders around now and that's great.

I like to recommend the Cobra III as the next ship after the 'Winder, but it's down to what appeals to you and also what activities you want to do.

To find ships I recommend using a third party site like EDDB

Stations - EDDB

Stations in Elite: Dangerous - search, filter, find and sort stations ... and find modules and ships!

eddb.io

Type your current system in as reference (and select the match the site displays), and find the ship you want in the upper left dropdown. Click Find Stations.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

and just too add yes kits are only cosmetic in nature they do nothing to enhance ship performance (personally probably why I dont own any!) (the old soldier in me insists on matt black lol)
PS the best teacher is usually yourself by far...……….. well that and all the training vids on you tube. for every aspect( rep to down to earth astronomy and obsidian ant)

 

[d8veh]

You need different ships for different purposes. If you want loads of money, you go mining in the Sidewinder, then a T6, then a T7. If you like combat , you go Sidewinder to Viper to Vulture to FDL. If you want to do passenger missions, SW - T6 - Python - Anaconda, or you can try the passenger ships. Exploration, SW - Hauler - DBX - Asp - Anaconda.

Once you've sorted out the engineers, you can adapt most ships to do most things well, but there is nearly always one that does the task better than others.

 

[oblivionmanman 2476]

sidewinder-cobra-asp is a good start the rest is learning code,watch the vids, take advice from other cmdrs, dont jump in the deep end, slowly wins the race , good luck we all started in youre position, no worry, 07 cmdr

 

[AudiophoriA]

Thank you, guys!
As with most shiny things I get bright-eyed and bought a few Arx to start, just to choose my own space suit, and shades.
However I DID.. buy that sleek Imperial Cutter kit, before having a grasp of if it included the actual ship or how to, "track them down, make the voyage, and unlock somehow."

 

[Shadow Quest]

I bought my Cutter today and spent a few Arx that have been mounting up

My ship progression was SW--Hauler(fora brief moment)-Cobra 111--Krait 11 (I loved dearly and still do my Cobra and Krait)--Cutter

The Cobra did enough of everything and got me to 140m and the Krait is an exceptional all rounder except perhaps long range exploring with it I hit all the ranks and creds i will ever need and I expect the Cutter will add another dimension they give you arks for playing 400 a week i think I still havnt engineered but do now have pretty pink weapons

 

[Northpin]

sidewinder-cobra-asp is a good start the rest is learning code,watch the vids, take advice from other cmdrs, dont jump in the deep end, slowly wins the race , good luck we all started in youre position, no worry, 07 cmdr

Yeap, this was my progression on my XB account (main). Sidewinder, Cobra Mk 3, Asp Explorer, Krait Mk 2, Python, Imperial Cutter.
On my PC account (alt) i went Sidewinder, Adder, Cobra Mk3, Type-6, Dropship, Python, Anaconda.

 

[sinisalo]

I DID.. buy that sleek Imperial Cutter kit, before having a grasp of if it included the actual ship

haha, a self-fulfilling prophecy

Now you have a long-term goal (that's relative in the current climate), to buy the ship your ship kit fits. Good hunting commander.