[Hurricane]

After two days of playing I've developed a way to make some cash without constant droid killing. It helps if you buy the Longfin ship from Terra, station Asoka II station.

First I start with mining a full cargo load of ore in Marte. There the roids give a combination of Iron, Titanium, and Iridium. Once full I hop over to Terra where I dock at my central station Asoka II (because I like having all my inventory in one station) and dump all my ore except round 100 units of Titanium. For every 100 units you have you can complete one mission for 8000 credits.

Once I have my 100 units of Titanium in my cargo hold and nothing else I fly to Ceres Node, and dock at Tellus Station. Talking to the agent there he gives a mission for the Titanium. I accept mission, launch dock and complete mission. Then off to Europa I go.

In Europa I dock at Asterion Station, and take a mission to deliver 50 units of chemicals to Venus for 7500 credits. Launch from the station and go back through Ceres to Terra where I dock at my home base and load up the rest of my cargo with Iron and any other junk I may want to dump while in Venus. Launch, one jump over to Venus and dock at Eden, one of the only 3 stations that currently will buy junk, and fist talk to the agent and complete your chemical mission. Usually I'm selling 600 units of Iron after the mission completion for another 2400 credits.

Round trip is 17900 credits not to mention the extra Iridium with 50c each and other left over ore that I can sell. Also this is getting my mining medals taken care of while I build up enough wealth to buy a decent fighting ship and equipment so I can hunt the big driods. From what I can tell, when they make a new version of beta, they reset all the stats, and give cash to returning pilots based on what medals they had in the old version of beta, so earning medals means you would restart with more than a noob.

So far the Titanium and chemicals mission are the best paying missions we have found. I'm sure as we explore deeper into "unreg" we will find better paying missions, but I'm not sure if they will have anything to do with mining or hauling.

[Jump]

Very good plan there. Reminds me of the good old days of -=MACK=- lore.

[Tstrike3]

Hehehe I knew MACK would crack the code soon enough HEHE

[Chicod]

I was hoping we would sooner or later.

*buys a bigger ship*
*starts hauling*

[Tritian]

hmm, cool. i'll give it a try. thanks for the info =)

[GrimGriz]

Originally Posted by Hurricane

So far the Titanium and chemicals mission are the best paying missions we have found. I'm sure as we explore deeper into "unreg" we will find better paying missions, but I'm not sure if they will have anything to do with mining or hauling.

I think it's the second agent on tartarus apex, but some guy had a gladiator-type combat mission for me...of course, I was in my mining ship when he asked me to do it.

[neoshi]

newbie ques: doesn't this require me to have a molecular synthesizer? so long fin + mole syn = $$?? probably will need to complete a few more missions before i can do start longfinning eh?

[neoshi]

well, after starting to play a little more, i'm starting to wonder. missions seem to run out after the marte combat duels, right? oh wait i haven't done the europa one yet.

anyhow, the question is, is there a recommended method to quickly make enough cash (roughly 47k) to actually buy an explorer with enough space and weapon mounts to start doing profitable trade runs or mining runs? i'm worried about this when the server wipes and we're starting from ZERO and hurricane doesn't have any money to lend (not that i feel good about borrowing anyway).

[Jump]

Just do some missions, mine and shoot drones. Remember, everyone else will be starting over and they will be busy doing the same thing so it will be safe for awhile.

[ZeroZ95]

Originally Posted by neoshi

well, after starting to play a little more, i'm starting to wonder. missions seem to run out after the marte combat duels, right? oh wait i haven't done the europa one yet.

You can always open the Missions box (not the Agent box) and look under the Available tab and check the box that limits the view to only agents with open missions.

[neoshi]

ok will do. yeah after the marte duel missions, the only available mission i have is the reoccuring mining one. it seemed impossible to finish in the 30 minute mark but than i remembered that i could just mine beforehand and finish the mission in less time.

[Hurricane]

If you have no other missions available in the missions window, then you need to visit more agents. The more of them you talk to, the more missions you will find.

[neoshi]

ah ok. i thought they automatically appeared. guess i'll have to click on them all and try not to go crazy from the 2-5 second pause each click makes :P