Just something to get used to...And find the right settings for me.

Galaxy map and system map navigation are the real issues.

Bah, a bottle or two of wine and it'll respond just fine!!!

Brian

Trying to mind my own business, but I'm getting jumped by NPC ships who kick my ass big time. Try to run, no luck. Try to out-turn them, no luck. Any tips?

NPCs come after you because a) you have a bounty because you're a slave-trading-piece-of-shit (actually it's just when you have unpaid bounties in other systems), b) you have cargo in your hold, or c) they've been sent after you as part of a mission that you've taken (it will say something like "hostile ships may be sent against you").

To run: Submit to the interdiction immediately (throttle to 0). Put all your "pips" in ENG and SYS. Boost straight away from them as much as possible. Engage the FSD, preferably to another system (they still might follow), or get your ass to a station asap. Running is easier with higher grade thrusters and power distributors (lets you boost more often).

To kill them: Either get a bigger ship, or let friendly NPCs do it for you. On your right panel, somewhere in the options you can turn on "report crimes against me" (should default to YES). If you're in a system with a defense force, cops will show up in a few minutes and engage the baddie (assuming you're not "wanted"). So keep your distance (>2.5 km +/-) per the instructions above. OR, cruise to a nav beacon. Lots of NPC cops and bounty hunters will be happy to kill him (again, assuming you're not wanted).

I started making money by going into resource extraction sites and claiming bounties. Buy yourself a kill warrant scanner and head to a LOW or normal (just called "resource extraction site") and kill wanted targets. There's tons of cops in all RES's except hazardous, which should be avoided for now.

Hope this helps!

Thanks Harley. I'll give that a try. I didn't even know about the submitting.
Time to start saving for a Federal Corvette lol. That's a beauty

Money isn't the issue, federal rank is.....

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Well... money is a challenge as well. Kris wouldn't stoop so low as to trade humans as a commodity for quick profit. Right Kris?

i made money by long range hauling of biowaste. lol

that and community goals. bounty hunting community goals can be lucrative.

still, my 500mil (or so) in assets wont even get close to getting a corvette combat ready. but ive played in fed systems since beta. and im only a warrant officer.


http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Federation/Ranks

Pffff, here I am mining somewhere, then I see some federal security service attack some wanted ppl so I join in. Get about 300.000 worth of bounty rewards. Then suddenly I get attacked ... BOOM ... killed by the feds. No idea why? Perhaps I hit one in the fray.

Hmmm, lost my bounties and mining shit. Head back to that system to mine. I get scanned by the feds: You're clear, carry on. So I go on mining. Under attack .... feds killed me again...

does it say wanted in the lower left of your hud?

if it does, look to the transactions tab in the right panel to see why


are you sure it was feds attacking you? pirates will kill you for the stuff you mine.