What makes you think that a new player will crash on anaconda? Even 5 times. I don't really understand that. It must be some kind of completely unreal stupid person. Especially if he passed the tutorial at least once.
And why do you think that he will rush to buy anaconda? The game has nothing more to spend money on?
The maximum you can buy for real money is anaconda. Other top ships require reputation.
But you are partly right. Actually, the goal of this game is to accumulate money. If the money goes easy, the game will lose its meaning. First of all, we need to solve this problem.
But this does not negate the fact that the transfer of money from one player to another is a very good idea. At least the transfer with some restriction on the number, as written above.
But getting money have not been easier than what it is today. The first year of the game, you where hard pressed to find a mission that paid over a million, many mission where under 100 000 credits, especially those you cold do in the smaller ships. Now, you can earn over a million the first hour you play, assuming you manage to avoid crashing your ship.
And since you SPECIFICALLY are after letting you give money to a friend, so you are not alone, and this is another part of Elite that has got a huge boost in profit over the years.
Wing up and do combat together, newbie friend only needs to land a few shoots and and fly around like a crazy newbie, trying to survive, while getting the hang of it, while you take care of business. And now you both get the full bounty of the kill. Before it was shared, so if you killed a wanted Anaconda that had 400k bounty, you used to share it with your wing, so if you are two, you got 200k each, now you both get 400k each.
Wing missions, once again doing stuff together can pay big, most lucrative is source and return missions.
so making money is pretty easy, and this is without trying to use any of the get rich schemes.
If you are after that, we have road to to riches, fly and scan specific systems and planets, for maximum profit, very easy and does not require much skills. is should be even easier if the player have a friend that can give advice on how this is done.
We have had quite alot of players who used get rich fast schemes to buy anacondas within a week or so, and then coming into the forums complaining about who useless it was, cold not turn, how it fly like a brick etc, etc. I had one such player joining our player group, and once he got his Anaconda, and he realised that he had to unlock engineers, and collect materials he was like F... It and quit playing since it would take to much time... And based on your previous comments, you would be here complaining about that too, so I see the next thread from you be, we there should be sell/trade/give engineering materials/data between players.
And We have had alot of fun watching players buying the biggest ships the can, and then getting stuck in the mail slot, and then coming into the forums complaining about how docking computes should work on exit too. The best such ships was when they added the Beluga, that one is one of the worst ships for players to learn to get through the mail slot. And as past threads, even the NPC AI and docking computer had problems with this "simple" task. and then we have the part to actually put the ship down on the landing pad, without have the rear of the ship pointing up the "air". So if you have only played small ships and then get a large on even the bigger medium ships can be quite tricky for he inexperienced player.
. Admittedly, killing even a cooperative Cutter with such a Sidey would be an extreme excercise in patience, but on the other hand almost nothing is capable of catching up with a souped up Sidey, and those few that can catch up don't carry enough weaponry to kill it before it can escape. No, missiles won't help you, either.
