Which Start Point Are You Going to Choose?

madmattnz

madmattnz
Assuming you are buying the ‘Commander Deluxe Edition’ that includes Horizons, I believe you have a choice to start in either:
1. Sidewinder 4T of Cargo in LHS 3447 at Trevithick Dock
or
2. Sidewinder 2T Cargo with an SRV in Asellus Primus at Baker’s Prospect (Planetside)

I can’t decide! Option 1. seems best for learning to fly and dock in space whereas 2. gives an intro to planetary landing etc...

Which option are your going to choose and why?
 

PenguinActual

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madmattnz said:
Assuming you are buying the ‘Commander Deluxe Edition’ that includes Horizons, I believe you have a choice to start in either:
1. Sidewinder 4T of Cargo in LHS 3447 at Trevithick Dock
or
2. Sidewinder 2T Cargo with an SRV in Asellus Primus at Baker’s Prospect (Planetside)

I can’t decide! Option 1. seems best for learning to fly and dock in space whereas 2. gives an intro to planetary landing etc...

Which option are your going to choose and why?
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Go with Option 1... Planetary Landings are slightly harder and FAR more embarrassing if you botch the landing.
 

Lngjohnsilver1

Lngjohnsilver1
Planetary surface - free SRV - why not!!!! to the pleiades with your embarrassment factor - plus - free ship is the best time to break a ship!!
 

JDBooker

JDBooker
Trevithick is an outpost not an orbital, so nothing really to learn.
Go for the free planetary hangar and srv. It saves buying one later at a minimum 18,000 and then 5,270 for the SRV ...better than a 2-ton cargo rack which costs only 1,000
Definately option 2 and be (effectively) 22,270 credits richer!
 
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Mr Fad

Mr Fad
You'll need the extra cargo space for missions as without an srv you can get six tons capacity in a sidewinder.

I'd wait until you get a bigger ship before getting the srv (doesn't take long) as you can still dock at planetary bases without one :)
 

Snowymonk

Snowymonk
As much as the appeal of the SRV is nice, I think starting with an SRV at the expense of cargo space does seem to be a short-termist.
I would imagine the extra cargo space will allow generating extra revenue which will quickly allow for the purchase of an SRV so I'll be starting at Trevithick.
 

Tetzmol

Tetzmol
madmattnz said:
Assuming you are buying the ‘Commander Deluxe Edition’ that includes Horizons, I believe you have a choice to start in either:
1. Sidewinder 4T of Cargo in LHS 3447 at Trevithick Dock
or
2. Sidewinder 2T Cargo with an SRV in Asellus Primus at Baker’s Prospect (Planetside)

I can’t decide! Option 1. seems best for learning to fly and dock in space whereas 2. gives an intro to planetary landing etc...

Which option are your going to choose and why?
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I go for option 2. It never harms to start training all aspects of the game, this of course includes planetary landings. Who cares about embarrasment? The first few days space will be full of newby CMDR's embarrassing themselves. :D
I even don't think I'll pick up any missions, I rather go to a RES to do some bounty hunting, aiding the fed police and making money quite quickly, to get into a Viper MK3 a.s.a.p.
 

Mr Fad

Mr Fad
I had the day off yesterday so I used my wife's xbox login on a new commander profile to see how it goes.

I earn't my first million in the sidewinder stacking delivery missions in the first hour or two lol :) I then upgraded the sidewinder fitted a cheap fuel scoop and flew 100 lys to the nearest discount station and bought and outfitted a cobra to a half decent standard.

I ended the day after five or six hours game time with the two ships and just under three million credits doing passenger runs for half a mil or more per short run :)

If I was gonna carry on I'd be buying the dolphin next ;)
 

MickyG1982

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Stinja said:
This.

Sell them immediately, upgrade your <insert X> to make doing <insert Y> easier right off the bat.
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Nope, they are loaned, you don't get any benefit from selling the hanger & SRV apart from the extra space. My advice, store them (saves buying a new one) do the introductory mission (plus anything else that might pop up in the same system). Put a more cargo bays & a bigger hyperdrive in your ship then work your way up from there. Once you get a bigger ship & you decide you want to use the SRV, fit your stored hanger (free if you return to the system where it is stored) & you have a free SRV.
 

Jintosh

Jintosh
Tough choice, but I think I'll go for option 1. Mostly this is because I play on PC already which means I know how to crash, erm, drive an SRV already ;-)
 

Racetrack

Racetrack
Option n 2 for me. I want to practice driving the damn thing. As well as doing surface missions. As said above I can then store the planetary vehicle hangar and use it on other ships.
 

BanzaiMike

BanzaiMike
Im thinking option 2, as already stated if im going to crash like a noob when landing i might as well do it in the free ship.
 

BanzaiMike

BanzaiMike
acidburn2k20 said:
mike we don't crash like noob's, we glide with style :cool:
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This will be me on my first landing attempt [haha]
 
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