Hello everyone!
I'm a very VERY new pilot, and I... uhm, could use a bit of help. At least on the theoretical side of things.
Everywhere I go and ask, people tell me to do bulletin board missions at the start. True - those things pay well (compared to what I started the game with). HOWEVER, every station I stop at seems to either offer "advancement opportunities" (which is basically some faction asking me for free stuff - stuff I cannot afford if there's no reward in it), want me to perform illegal activities or offer a HUGE reward for taking down some pirate somewhere (I fear, given the size of the rewards in question, that said pirate would blow me to bits in the blink of an eye). So I keep jumping from station to station and checking nearby systems, but it's basically the same.
What gives?
I've tried my hand at trading, but getting an income of 400 credits per run (total!) is... a bit sad.
I've found I've made a LOT more credits WHILE trying to find said missions while hopping from station to station - I'd stop by unidentified signal sources and blast newbie pirates to space dust! That certainly paid the bills for the fuel and there's plenty left over.
In any case, I've got 3 questions:
- Do said signal sources just pop up randomly, or is there a pattern to actually finding them?
- What's the deal with the missions? Am I in a backwater sector of the Milky Way where the economy has been hit by recession (it could be, given how many pirates I ran into...)?
- I can find a commodity on a station which is in high supply and find out where it's exported too, but... that really doesn't net much income. Any trading tips? Or is it just a matter of scale, and the starting cargo space (a whopping 4 containers) is just not cut for this kind of thing?
I'm a very VERY new pilot, and I... uhm, could use a bit of help. At least on the theoretical side of things.
Everywhere I go and ask, people tell me to do bulletin board missions at the start. True - those things pay well (compared to what I started the game with). HOWEVER, every station I stop at seems to either offer "advancement opportunities" (which is basically some faction asking me for free stuff - stuff I cannot afford if there's no reward in it), want me to perform illegal activities or offer a HUGE reward for taking down some pirate somewhere (I fear, given the size of the rewards in question, that said pirate would blow me to bits in the blink of an eye). So I keep jumping from station to station and checking nearby systems, but it's basically the same.
What gives?
I've tried my hand at trading, but getting an income of 400 credits per run (total!) is... a bit sad.
I've found I've made a LOT more credits WHILE trying to find said missions while hopping from station to station - I'd stop by unidentified signal sources and blast newbie pirates to space dust! That certainly paid the bills for the fuel and there's plenty left over.
In any case, I've got 3 questions:
- Do said signal sources just pop up randomly, or is there a pattern to actually finding them?
- What's the deal with the missions? Am I in a backwater sector of the Milky Way where the economy has been hit by recession (it could be, given how many pirates I ran into...)?
- I can find a commodity on a station which is in high supply and find out where it's exported too, but... that really doesn't net much income. Any trading tips? Or is it just a matter of scale, and the starting cargo space (a whopping 4 containers) is just not cut for this kind of thing?
