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Its a slow pace to grind, but sure as heck isn't if you don't want it to be. Head to an anarchy system and fly around a nav beacon looking for warrants.
The other CMDRs don't like competition and tend to interdict and kill each other to keep the hunting grounds to themselves. Doesn't matter if you have cargo or not, and they don't even bother to scan you first just come in blasting!
Luckily, I came in with a kitted out Cobra with dual medium cannons, gimbled lasers, A-shields, military grade reinforcements, and sold a primary cargo rack for massive shield cell bank abuse along with chaff, else you get eaten alive at least at peak hours! Still died when I couldn't avoid a guy ramming me, lol!
But yeah, rare trade routes in safe space can be repetitive as a grind to score credits, but even that can be kicked up a notch by flying like a pro to maximize your credits per hour. I was flying a hauler with no shields, all lightweight D-components, no weapons, and just maxed out to the extreme for cargo hauling and max jump range. Learned how to really get flying down to an art-form to make the runs REALLY fast.
For example, sure you can just jump to a star, then point at the destination station, keep it in the blue and be nice and patient until you arrive. Or you can hold max throttle until you're really close, slam on the brakes buzzing the planet insanely close as a huge brake to your frameshift drive due to the gravitational effect, whip it around full throttle noting the relative location of the station to the planet, wing it right between the two and when radar shows you're almost 90o to it take a sharp blast in which lines you up perfectly with the entrance when you disengage hyperdrive, double-boost to the slot, slam down to 75% impulse, lower landing gear and hit 50% impulse at just the right time, then full stop right into the landing pad, sell your goods, pick up what you need, hit launch and haul ass back out of there to the next destination. Makes it more fun and reduces the grind time immensely.
This guy takes my intentional overshoot near planet collision to probably a better technique with the "helix of death" arc, would have to time it to see how it compares.
http://youtu.be/1nC3KmSF85Q?t=33s
Thats what I think is really stupid though.
Yup its true, but if there were a lot of CMDRs around and you're in a weak-ass trade vessel, you'd be evading interdiction, taking hull damage and wear and tear alone from that, dumping cargo, and imagine the risk of dying if you have 100 tons of gold that YOU PURCHASED OUT OF POCKET!
Thanks for the tips. Can't wait to start playing this in the near future. I very much hope that the co-op DLC Wings will come out soon. I guess my old Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital joystick with a game port! is out of the question these days
If they don't alt+F4 first...Then in your case you should get closer to Lave, Sol, and the like, and gank newbies in haulers grinding out cookie cutter trade routes
Its not multiplayer only, that's what I was complaining about that it should be.
