Kcmacc wrote:Walter wrote:It's possible that the game is feeding you targets that are matched to your abilities. As a beginner, your combat status (right-hand panel) will not be high and you would soon be put off making progress if all you could find were wanted opponents with Elite status.
I've done a few more tests and doesn't seem to matter what combat rank the enemies are all of my payouts are either 395 CR or 790 CR
Took a few screencaps as proof:
https://imgur.com/a/0Jskx. The only conclusion I can come to is that either I'm in the wrong systems or it has to do with my combat rank or credits earned that it is limiting the amount of credits I can earn. Even board missions are only showing up as a maximum payout of 3000 CR for far off and difficult missions.
I had this problem when I first started. I'd read that res sites were the place to go, got some assists and got bugger all for them.
I tried hanging around the Nav beacon and got slightly better results but it was slow.
Eventually, I enrolled in the community goal that was up over Christmas and when I went to a high res in that system, I got the more typical results.
(which were magnified when I installed a Kill Warrant Scanner and used it where possible).
A CG is good way to get off the ground since I made around 15M from bounties + 21M from placing in the top 25% in the CG. (although the payout was delayed until the end of the GC).
After that, I bought a DBX and used the road to riches straight line tool to plot a course from the CG station to Maia (needed some dooflipper from there to unlock Felicity Farseer the engineer), then another from Maia to Deciat (where Farseer is based).
This made me about 60M with maybe 50 or so jumps along the way and skipping targets that were a long way from the star.
Then I engineered my 5A FSD to give me around 46LY jump range (after switching to an Asp X). Now I tend to travel in the Asp and transport my other ships after arriving.
With about 100M in the bank, I started running Kamuy to Medb passenger runs (first run in a type-9 with no shields. In a type-9, you don't orbit the planet, the planet orbits YOU!), then switched to a conda after one or two runs. After a week or so of casually running Kamuy -> Medb, I have just under 5 billion in assets and credits. Now I'm looking to see what the game has to offer in the long term.
So yeah, there's a bootstrapping plan for you. If you want more info let me know or shoot me a private message.
The road to riches straight line tool is here:
http://edtools.ddns.net/expl.php?a=vThe original static road to riches and info on your setup is here:
https://redd.it/6hhcpq