(11-23-2013, 06:43 AM)Thargoid Wrote: WHAT? What's wrong with a nice Very Heavy Fighter setup, or a bomber? If your only aim in this game is to fly a battleship, you're best leaving now, they aren't as much fun as you think.
My favorite part of this game was making money to buy a bigger trading vessel, and then making even more money.
Then I started buying fighters, bombers, and using them to pirate people (for fun, and small profit).
I now have two cruisers, but still, I mostly fly my trusty bomber as It's more fun and challenging, at least the poor little trader has a chance!
And yeah, mining NPCs is probably the quickest way, just buy a cheapo 3K ship you don't mind messing the rep up on, fit Charons, and shoot NPC cargo ships, tractor in, sell, repeat, when you get bored (and your rep is totally screwed anyway), pop a Pirate ID on and pirate people too, make em drop 50% of their cargo, and sell it.
by "real ship" I do mean a VHF or a bomber.
And I think I have enough now, I made like 21 million (after various expenses, like buying a 2000 cargo transport to pick up pirated goods faster). I'm going to start a new char, I think I'll be a lane hacker. Any recommendations on what setup I should get?
Well, now that you have the 2K ship, you should be able to make money a lot faster, it's tough starting out in a starflea, but once you got a nice trade ship, it's easy to make money for nice ships.
Depends what you want the ship for...
If it's a fighter to PvP and kill the navy, or pirate small vessels, then the Ravens Talon is an excellent ship.
If you want a bomber to take down large transports/bomb navy capital ships, the Waran is an excellent ship
Personally I'd buy both on two separate chars.
And take a look at some of the borderworlds ships in the wiki, some of those are nice too.
