What to do with many credits?

[cmdrsammydee]

Hi All

Would like some opinoins on what you would do with over $1m in credits, and a decently upgraded viper (best lasers, power supply, shields etc).

I could just keep on bounty hunting and upgrading my ship, but it seems kinda pointless. There are very little targets that I cannot take out now - unless they are ranked deadly and in a wing of 3 or something.

Anyways, what would you do?

thanks

 

[Kyuubey]

Save for a better ship, possibly a vulture.

 

[xmediawork]

T6 for trading and making way more monies

 

[Broon]

I would step up for sure. You could pretty much kit out a Cobra with what you have now and it would serve you well for a variety of mission types. And if you are patient you can make a Vulture your next step up to a stellar combat vessel.

Here's a good link to do some comparison shopping.....

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Ships

 

[Lord_Itchybum]

Take your Viper on the Buckball Run to Sag A.
Technically you won't use your 1 million credits but it's something to do.

 

[Hollis_Renatus]

Congrats on your first million. I personally invested in a second small ship when i cleared my first million. Eventually sold it though and decided to just continue saving. I really enjoyed my viper until i got comfortable with my DB Scout.

I suggest setting a goal pertaining to overall game play rather than just credits so you dont become discouraged like other cmdr's have become. I have my goals set to purchasing a fully kitted explorers ship once ive accomplished all my bounty hunting and faction ranking; my Elite "retirement plan".

 

[cmdrsammydee]

Congrats on your first million. I personally invested in a second small ship when i cleared my first million. Eventually sold it though and decided to just continue saving. I really enjoyed my viper until i got comfortable with my DB Scout.

I suggest setting a goal pertaining to overall game play rather than just credits so you dont become discouraged like other cmdr's have become. I have my goals set to purchasing a fully kitted explorers ship once ive accomplished all my bounty hunting and faction ranking; my Elite "retirement plan".

Thanks, this was a good response, and thanks to all others as well.

I like this idea of overall gameplay strategy. I was also thinking, moreso when I get my Oculus Rift, that exploring would be much better. Until then I'm bounty hunting which I'm enjoying.

Anyways, i was wandering - how do you keep both of those ships? I've had two before, but It seemed that the other ship was docked at that particular port where I bought it? So what happens if I forget where that port was?

 

[Schmack]

Check out the bulletin board. Do some missions. Gain some rank, get more missions.

If you don't have a kill warrant scanner, get one. Do more bounty hunting. Get to 2 million, then to 4, etc.. then figure out which type of gameplay you want and spend in that direction.

 

[Alex Brentnall]

This may seem obvious but I'll say it anyway:

If you are enjoying the game then nothing, credits are meaningless by comparison. Maybe try other ships but again its not necessary if you are happy
If you are not enjoying the game then use the credits to try new things (mining, trading, exploring, player groups etc).

Basically find something you enjoy and do it.

 

[IronGremlin]

Thanks, this was a good response, and thanks to all others as well.

I like this idea of overall gameplay strategy. I was also thinking, moreso when I get my Oculus Rift, that exploring would be much better. Until then I'm bounty hunting which I'm enjoying.

Anyways, i was wandering - how do you keep both of those ships? I've had two before, but It seemed that the other ship was docked at that particular port where I bought it? So what happens if I forget where that port was?

Any shipyard has a stored ships tab.

That tab will list not only ships you have at that station, but ships you have at any station, along with the system name.

Also there is a marker that shows up on the galmap that is visible from a pretty large distance.

RE: How to spend your cash - definitely cobra. Buy a cobra, and just do whatever floats your boat. Honestly flying that ship around the galaxy doing whatever strikes my fancy at the time is the best time I've had so far in this game - sold my vulture recently because I thought it wasn't as fun.

 

[Cadarnfel]

I'll go along with the recommendations to get a Cobra - I've fiddled with an Asp for a while, but I like handling of the Cobra better. I went all the way up to a Type 7, before doing a clear save and starting again.

At the moment, I'm specialising in delivery and salvage missions in a cluster of around a dozen systems, with the occasional foray into different areas to get some exploration data under my belt.

I'm configured with 36 Tons cargo space, along with and ADS and DSS for the exploration. A pair of turreted beam lasers on the underside work well for killing shields, and the two gimballed multicannons do a good job of kinetic damage.

I'm pledged to a power, but apart from the occasion tussle with enemy ships (most of which I can evade the interdiction), don't really do anything with it. The firepower is enough for most of the pirates I encounter.

So it's generally a good mix of activities, no grinding in sight

 

[Schmack]

Any shipyard has a stored ships tab.

That tab will list not only ships you have at that station, but ships you have at any station, along with the system name.

Also there is a marker that shows up on the galmap that is visible from a pretty large distance.

RE: How to spend your cash - definitely cobra. Buy a cobra, and just do whatever floats your boat. Honestly flying that ship around the galaxy doing whatever strikes my fancy at the time is the best time I've had so far in this game - sold my vulture recently because I thought it wasn't as fun.

Anyone else here use that ship marker to mark stations you want to remember? I buy a sidey (32K) and leave it there. I have them all over the place now.

 

[xaisis]

Buy 1 of every ship.

Then use the ships to store and buy 1 of every module and weapon.

 

[Crimson Kaim]

Go PvP. I doubt you will archieve something in a Viper

Was in the same situation. Best assassination missions were not a problem for my Viper. It is a cool ship and very useful in combat.
Trading was never an option. Boring, pure grind, unplayable since I fall asleep without other entertaining sources.
Exploring was too static and too simple. Scan - Scan again - jump out - repeat.

Combat is the only feature that is really implemented ingame. I mean, you have two modules for trading (cargo rack, maybe armor plates), three for exploring (scanner, jump drive and fuel) but almost 100 modules for combat (shields, SCBs, boosters, thermic and kinetic weapons as well as missiles, armor plates, ship types which differ in agility, speed and defensive capabilties, etc.).

Yup. ED is a combat game but unfortunately, not really a PvP one. (We need one single open server! )

 

[Skylordquasar]

buy a vulture and upgrade that, maybe an asp.

 

[deMangler]

Anyone else here use that ship marker to mark stations you want to remember? I buy a sidey (32K) and leave it there. I have them all over the place now.

I started doing this but disliked the clutter so I ended up not only selling all my bookmark sideys but also all my other ships as well. Just have the Coba I fly around in now.

I am waiting for something along the likes of this:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6875

Hopefully FD will get around to it and other core features soon-ish...

Edit - oh and the freagle of course...

 

[Hollis_Renatus]

Thanks, this was a good response, and thanks to all others as well.

I like this idea of overall gameplay strategy. I was also thinking, moreso when I get my Oculus Rift, that exploring would be much better. Until then I'm bounty hunting which I'm enjoying.

Anyways, i was wandering - how do you keep both of those ships? I've had two before, but It seemed that the other ship was docked at that particular port where I bought it? So what happens if I forget where that port was?

I have been keeping a home base to store my ships. However, recently ive thought of keeping a ship or two stored at different systems across the bubble and using a ship with a bigger jump range to taxi me around to my combat fitted ships stored across the galaxy.

 

[Brujah]

Anyone else here use that ship marker to mark stations you want to remember? I buy a sidey (32K) and leave it there. I have them all over the place now.

Yep. Only recently cottoned on to the value of that. Easy clicky-clicky in the GalMap.