Samantha Moore wrote:I have arrived, and starting running missions to build up my rep.
But my question now. Is it worth doing the missions. That have you travel 20 something jumps, for over a million credits?
Or is better to stick to short trips?
OK, here's the deal. You need to build rep with the minor factions before they will offer you the really good missions. So, to do this take the smaller data delivery missions between Sothis and Ceos (don't do the mining of other missions that require you to go looking for stuff - waste of time). Do this for a while (it took me a good hour or so, maybe two) till you get to at least cordial/friendly with most. Sometimes you'll get lucky and get "smuggle this stuff for to ceos/sothis for 5mill creds" - money for jam (don't get scanned though)!
Then eventually you'll start to see the "take x cargo to y location for z millions of credits". Make sure x is relative to y so that you're making between 300-500k/ton UNLESS you see a 5mill credit haul that might ask you to take 20-30 tons, then i take them cause it's 5 mill! Most people will say wait it out for the ones that say "take 4 tons to y location for 2-3 mill"and they are there but i've got loads cargo space so i take the not so lucrative ones too. Get as many as you can (fill your cargo hold) the travel 'back to the bubble' (inhabited space) and deliver them. Rinse and repeat.
I just made over 80mill creds in two nights.