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Easy money
----------- * Take note of the economy of every space station you encounter. Each colony specializes in a particular commodity, and will buy specific cargo at higher prices. Purchase extra cargo at stations where the commodity is cheaper, then travel to stations where that product is in higher demand. * Enter a Low-Intensity Combat Zone and scan it for NPCs that are wanted or from an enemy faction, all while avoiding other players. Destroy lone ships to earn money. * Search for discarded containers, especially those that contain gold that can be sold on the Blackmarket.↑ Top
Bounty Hunter's Guide
---------------------- Written by Juice If you want to be a bounty hunter, but are either completely oblivious of your objective, or simply wanting to know more, this guide is for you. -=Preparation=- Obviously, before you go out and start bounty hunting, you'll need to know what you need for preparation. Luckily, it won't require as much things as other roles, but there is still a sizeable amount of things that you will need in order to be a bounty hunter. -=Ships=- There is a large variety of ships that are suitable for bounty hunting. You can literally use whatever ship you'd like, as long as it is at least remotely related to combat, and preferably over 100,000 credits in price. -=Recommended=- Anaconda Asp Explorer Asp Scout Cobra MKIII Cobra MKIV Diamondback Explorer Diamondback Scout Federal Assault Ship Federal Corvette Federal Dropship Federal Gunship Fer-De-Lance Imperial Clipper Imperial Courier Imperial Cutter Imperial Eagle Python Viper MKIII Viper MKIV Vulture -=Satisfactory=- Adder Beluga Liner Eagle Keelback Orca Type-6 Transporter Type-7 Transporter Type-9 Heavy -=Ill-Advised=- Hauler Sidewinder I highly recommend choosing a ship from the first section. The others are lightly armored and/or have few hardpoints. -=Hardpoints=- For people who are new to the game, or people who suck at aiming(like me :P), I recommend using gimballed weapons. They automatically aim for you, as long as you are at least remotely fixed on your target's location. However, they are more expensive and deal less damage than fixed weapons. Fixed weapons deal slightly more damage than gimballed ones, and are reasonably cheaper. However, they require immense aiming skills to land properly. I, myself, like to use Multi-Cannons and Beam Lasers. Multi-Cannons are basically miniguns. They fire rapidly and deal kinetic damage, little by little. Their trajectory is a bit ahead of the target ship, as it takes a moment for the bullets to reach the enemy ship. A Beam Laser could easily be compared to Zarya(from Overwatch)'s weapon. If you don't know what her weapon does, it's pretty much a continuously firing deathray. However, in Overwatch, she uses ammo, like the Multi-Cannons in Elite do. The Beam Laser in Elite, though, can fire forever until the ship hits a "thermal overload". Firing too long, or being near a heat source, can induce this. But, while the Beam Laser can fire, it can deal loads of damage to enemy hulls and shields alike. So, hook up two of these on a small or medium gimballed mount, and you've got yourself a damned killing machine. -=Modules=- Modules are a big part of every role, and every one has some modules that are required! -=Essential=- Hardpoints Shield Generator -=Recommended=- Kill Warrant Scanner Hull Reinforcement Package Frame Shift Wake Scanner Shield Booster Shield Cell Bank Fighter Hangar -=Optional=- Frame Shift Drive Interdictor Auto-Field Maintenance Unit I also recommend upgrading your core modules, especially your bulkheads. But, there's no specific core modules you need, since you need all of them in order to run your ship, and you can't even replace them. So, upgrading your modules is always a good idea no matter what your career is. I suggest upgrading your bulkheads to Military-Grade Composite. That's pretty much all you need for preparation as a bounty hunter. Now, let's talk about the premice of bounty hunting. -=The Objective=- Your objective as a bounty hunter is to find wanted ships and kill them for their bounties. But, there's more to it than that. -=Finding wanted ships=- You will find the most wanted ships near nav beacons and resource extraction sites. For beginner bounty hunters, I recommend looking in nav beacons, as there are far more security ships. -=The Do's=- * Fully scan ships before opening fire * Stay fairly far away, as wanted ships will become hostile if you open fire, or if they are pirates and want to steal from you * Stay near as many security ships as possible. They will assist you in combat against the criminal. * Look for strong ships, as they provide greater bounties. If you are in, say, an Eagle and start firing at an Anaconda, start running away immediately. Keep running away until it focuses its fire on a security ship. * You can also attack "enemy" ships if you have pledged to one of the powers. -=The Don'ts=- * Don't start firing until you have fully scanned a ship. You may assume it's wanted if you see other ships firing at it, but scan the ship first or you'll gain a fine and guard ships will become hostile. * If you kill-warrant scan a ship and find they have bounties in another system, only fire at them in that system. If you fire at them in another system, you'll gain a fine and guard ships will become hostile. * Especially don't do any of these in multi-crew. If the pilot's ship is destroyed, you'll be kicked out and the owner will be very mad. After you have a good amount of bounties, return to a station and cash in the bounties to actually earn the money. This will also increase your reputation with the station's controlling faction and its affiliated superpower. Then just rinse and repeat from then on to earn your money.↑ Top
How to Get Easy Money (Beyond - Chapter Three)
----------------------------------------------- Written by Majaxx In this guide I'm going to teach you how to make easy money as of Beyond Chapter 3. -=Passenger Missions=- First of all you need patience, a decent passenger transport ship and more time. You'll get about 5-30 million each run. * You need to head over to Kamuy, Okels Terminal it is about 50ly away from Sol. * Go to the passenger lounge and accept transport missions that request you to go to Medb, Vela Dock. (If you don't find missions switch between Open and Solo play. * Head over to Medb which is 10ly away from Kamuy. * Start travelling to Vela Dock, the trip should take about 30-40 minutes because the station is 1.6 million ls away. * Once you're there see if you can accept passenger missions that go to Kamuy. Remember that the more missions you do the better they get cause of your reputation with the stations.↑ Top
Material Farming in 3.3
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Written by gavinb80
How to farm materials efficiently with the new changes to HSS and BGS in 3.3.
-=Introduction=-
With everyone focusing on Void Opals and credit farming, material farming has been
ignored by the community thus far. Hopefully this little mini-guide can help folks
get a full hold of G5 and other manufactured materials for engineers.
-=Material Gathering=-
Firstly, material collection from signal sources in Elite Dangerous 3.3 is seriously
unbalanced and terribly nerfed at the same time. Using one to cancel the other out
can give a consistent and repeatable material farm rate of 50 G5 per hour or more.
Here is how I used the mechanism to get full material storage for all manufactured
materials + my advice and experience.
First, there is a really good video by DTEA(here) which I recommend everyone to
watch. It explains the new method of G5 material gathering from signal sources, but
the crux is that all G5 sources behave in the same way as Dav’s hope, you can log
and they will be there again while the timer is running.
This enables very fast collection of 100 G5 materials of a given type in the signal
source. Very nice. If immersion breaking.
Not all materials have the same ease of acquisition. Some material types are now
nerfed in their collection, mostly due to what I guess are BGS changes to make
their acquisition close to impossible(compared to how it was before). On the other
hand some materials can be farmed consistently at a rate of at least 300/hr.
-=Categories of Material=-
Ludicrously Easy to Acquire
Imperial Shielding
Core Dynamics Composites + Proprietary Composites
Military Grade Alloys
-=Obtainable=-
Proto Heat Radiators
Proto Radiolic Alloys
Military Supercapacitors
-=Impossible=-
Pharmaceutial Isolators
Improvised Components
-=Mission Only=-
Exquisite Focus Crystals(+Combat)
Biotech Conductors
-=Recommendations=-
I spent a lot of time flying around to work this out. Pharmaceutical Isolators spawn
so infrequently(3.3) and there is such a high spawn rate of Core Dynamics Composites
to dilute the spawns that they are basically not obtainable, especially that BGS changes
seem to have seriously limited Outbreak systems. Civil Unrest systems there was only 1
I could find(3.3, early Jan). So Improvised Components are just a no-go right now.
Dont even try and find them, you are just wasting your time.
What IS possible, however is that given the ludicrously easy method of finding the
materials in the ‘Ludicrously Easy to Acquire’ list, 600 of them can be farmed easily
(in 2 hrs) and then swapped for 100 Improvised Components or Pharmaceutical Isolators.
I recommend the ‘Nariansan’ system to do this in, as High Grade spawns very frequently
and there is a material trader in the system. The only material that spawns is Imperial
Shielding, which is much better to farm than Core Dynamics Composites as there is no
dilution with G4 materials, and they are slightly easier to find than Military Grade
Alloys.
Materials on the ‘Obtainable’ list CAN be found if one looks in the right place and has
some patience, but if they just cant be found, it is best to cut losses and just use
the Imperial Shielding farming/material trader route. It will save you a lot of sanity.
An hour flying around searching could have netted 50 of what you are looking for.
It is far easier and faster to use Nav Beacons to scan a system rather than the new
discovery scanner if jumping into a new system to look for HSS.
Best ship to do all this in is an AspX with collection limpits.
-=Whining=-
I really wish some design folks at Frontier sitting down and deciding how many G5
materials an experienced, properly equipped CMDR looking in the right place aught to
get in an hour. Then adjust the RNG and number of materials found to make sure that
is what they get on average. Stop G5 HSS being repeatedly farmable and properly balance
things. And make sure materials across all types do spawn and frequently, maybe by
increasing the system type they spawn in. Right now it is just a total mess, with some
materials being ludicrously easy to acquire and some being impossible.
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Setting Up keyboard, Mouse, and Hotas Bindings, Setup Controls
--------------------------------------------------------------- Written by Ronnie This is a short guide on how to create control binding schemes in Elite Dangerous. You can go here to find mappings and then copy them into your setup. That way you do not have to program each and every setting. There are hundreds of setups you can choose from. Elite Dangerous does not make it obvious how you can get this done. So i explain it step by step so that you do not have to waste your time figuring this out and can focus on picking and tweaking your control scheme. -=Creating Guide=- Creating New Bindings, Control Schemes, Mappings for Keyboard in Elite Dangerous This is a quick guide to creating new control or binding profiles in Elite Dangerous. Ok folks. This took me some serious time to figure out. It is not that hard but there are a few tricks to getting through this and creating as many custom profiles as you like. -=Find the Binds Files=- The first thing is that the directory that contains your binding profiles is hidden. The way i navigate to it is to enter %appdata% in the file explorer bar and then navigate to local\frontier developments\elite dangerous\options\bindings. There you will find the binds files you can muck around with. Mine started with only 2 Binds files Custom.3.0.BINDS and ThrustmasterTflightHOTASX.BINDS. No matter what yours contains. The point is that you need a file type BINDS to start the work. -=Creating a new binds file=- Copy a binds file like the Custom.3.0 one to another file folder. copy do not move. Rename the file. Open it with a text editor like notepad. Change the preset name on the second line to the name that you renamed the file to. Save it. Important that you just save it and not "save as" because if you just save it you will retain the binds file type which is essential for this to work. Now just move the file back to the BINDS folder you took it from above. Go back into elite dangerous and open the Controls option. You should now see your newly named control scheme in the drop down. If you got this far you are on your way but not done yet since you just have a copy of your existing scheme. Getting a new Control scheme into your new binds file Now go to here where there are many different control schemes. Click on view list of published findings. Find one that you like. I was trying to set up a ThrustMasterTFlightHOTASX. There are a ton of those. I enter ctrl-F and type in HOTASX. It highlights all the ones that have that in the name. You can scroll down a long ways. Click on one you want and you will see the layout. At the bottom there is a link to download the binds. They download usually as XML files. For my Thrustmaster TFLIGHT HOTAS X stick i used one from rsvcow. https://edrefcard.info/binds/rsvcow . There is one from ofzzfd which has many more keybinds if you want to use your keyboard more. Your choice. There are tons of mappings. Save the file to a folder that you will remember. It is NOT going to show up as a BINDS file. No matter. Open the file with your editor. You are going to do a copy and paste move here. Copy everything in the file starting with the line below the Root Presetname =.......... Now open that file from step 2 and delete everything below line 2. Paste the stuff you just copied into that file below line 2. Save the file. You now have a new binds file with a new name that will show up in your controls drop down in ED. My advice from here is to choose your new control scheme. Then test it out and tweak it using the training tutorials. I used the Docking one to start. Make sure you back up your binds files to another folder. Just copy them over. ED has a nasty habit sometimes of destroying your binds files.↑ Top
Explanation of Engineering
--------------------------- Spread throughout the bubble (and Colonia) are some people who somewhat turned their back towards the "powers that be" but are willing to help out random commanders by enhancing parts of their ship. If you start playing you'll eventually get an invite from Felecia I mean: Felicity Farseer in Deciat. Visit the engineer and they'll tell you what they want from you before they're willing to help. In this case it's Meta Alloys (hint: the Maia system is a good place to look for those). Once you handed over their payment you can ask 'm to enhance parts of your ship. The only caveat: it's gonna require materials. Also: upgrades can be done for a maximum of 5 levels, where each level will require more materials to make it work. For example… Felicity specializes in FSD's. To enhance your FSD by one level you'll need to have plenty of "Atypical disruptive wake echos". This is a so called encoded material. But for the 4th level of upgrade you'd need: * Manganese (raw) * Chemical distillery (manufactored) * Eccentric hyperspace trajectories (encoded) There are three material types: encoded, raw and manufactured. And each type can have dozens of different mateirals. These materials can be found throughout the whole game. Kill a hostile ship, it's bound to drop some materials to grab. Go mine in an asteroid field… you're bound to find some stuff there. And of course… wake scanners. Those can get you encoded materials as well, but also: signal sources in varies systems are also a nice source of mats. And there are also planetary areas where you can find some. The major issue at hand: you'll only get so many materials from every source. Fortunately there is a bit of a solution: material traders. There are traders for every material type, and you can try and find 'm by using the galaxy map: user data mode, services tab. At a trader you can trade one material for another, but only of the same type. So you can trade, say iron for nickel (both raw), but you can't cross types. Which brings us to grades. There are 5 grades of materials (from the top of my head).. Let's just say: there are multiple grades of materials. And this can also affect the trade: sometimes you may need 36 of "material A" to get 1 item of "material B". Practice makes perfect. And that's basically the whole thing in a nutshell: collect materials, which you can then use to enhance parts of your ship by asking an engineer to help you. Going back to those engineers again… there are several, and each have their own speciality. I already mentioned how Ms. Farseer is very knowledgeable about FSD's, but when it comes to powerplants she can only do so much. One overcharge level at best. Overcharge: 'squeeze' more power out of a powerplant. Marco Qwent otoh… he's an expert on power regulation and can take thus up to 5 levels. These engineers "unlock" in different ways. Sometimes one engineer will refer you to another if you have raised your rep. Some engineers will notice you once you traceled an x amount of lightyears, and so on…. However, there are more caveats… engineers work for "free" (only material costs), but they don't just bow to your wishes. Ergo: you need to have a certain reputation with them before they're willing to apply higher levels of engineering. If you use their services at their own base you'll raise your reputation with them. Sometimes you can do more, like for example selling cartography data at their base (basically the same mechanic that applies to random stations). I like to imagine that you're showing your appreciation by visiting their base, and using it, and they like that. This is important to note because… we call the changes that an engineer can make "blueprints" and you can actually "pin" one of those (one per engineer), which will make them accessible at any port around, as long as it has an outfitting option. So once you raised your reputation with an engineer to unlock their level 5 services… you don't really need to be at their base anymore. Assuming you're satisfied with the "pinned" blueprints. With one major exception: experimental effects. These can only be applied at the engineers base. You see… Some modules can have one extra "experimental" effect applied to them. For example… you can increase the jumprange of an FSD, but then also apply the "stripped down" experimental effect which will reduce module mass, thus making your ship lighter. There are usually several of such effects to choose from, and it'll be up to you to make a choice. Of couse applying this will also cost materials.↑ Top
Starters Tips
-------------- First thing – you can play the game in Open, Private Group or Solo. Sounds like you need to play in Solo, at least to start with (Some griefers hang around known starter sites just to repeatedly shoot beginners). To reset the save, you need to go into Options before you click Continue on the main screen. Reset Commander is the option on the right. Avoid all youtube videos on unlocking ships fast, earning billions fast, road to riches, mapped mining and any other shortcut people try to guide you to. It’s just not worth it, and you’ll miss all the intermediate parts of the game like the gradual progression through a range of ships – not to mention learning how the game works. Plus doing stuff over and over because someone told you to just leads to the ‘this game is nothing but grind’ mentality, rather than an experience to be enjoyed over time. If you want to explore, you can earn enough for a Diamondback Explorer, A-rate it, fit a hangar with an SRV or two, then set off. No need for grinding or engineering. The stock DBX will jump around 50 light years unengineered. If you have Odyssey, by the time you return from your trip you could have hundreds of millions in exo-biology scans (Odyssey also allows you to land on thin atmo planets with some spectacular sky colours. I would say it’s essential for explorers). One thing – make sure you play in Live or Odyssey, not Legacy.↑ Top