Toshiro GreyHawk
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Posted - 2008.06.12 14:01:00 -
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You can get into Destroyers very easily if you started off from a military background. With the others it takes a little longer.
The thing is, what you want to do as a new player, is to decide what you are going to do to earn money, then get just enough trained in that to do so before starting your learning skills. Then you do want to do your learning skills.
The 10 mission set your Event Agent will offer you is a good way to get started. You'll get some easy missions, a little money and some ships. You can also do all the 10 mission sets for the other schools as well and end up with a full set of implants.
If what you want to do is mining then that is a different thread.
If you want to be a mission runner, start doing these 10 mission sets while you train up for Salvaging and Tractor Beams.
Once you've got a little money, getting yourself into a destroyer with a couple of tractors and salvager's will let you run level I missions fairly well, reaping the full value of the things you killed. For most missions you can fit 3 or 4 weapons on the ship and just salvage as you go. If a mission gets harder you can take off the tractors and salvager's and fit all weapons, book mark a wreck in each zone, turn in the mission then fly back with your salvaging gear.
Just remember - the key to low level missions is kiting the enemy NOT orbiting them. Fit long range weapons, get their agro, have a good afterburner, keep your distance from them as they chase you and kill them as they come. Then fly back down your path of wrecks, pulling them to you, looting & salvaging them as you fly from one to the other.
I set course for the closest one, lock it and tractor it then change course for the next closest one, lock it and tractor it. When the wreck gets within 5000 meters I start the salvager IF it has no loot (empty triangle) if it does have loot I pull it to 1500 meters, open the wreck, start the salvager then drag and drop the loot into my hold. I only steer towards a wreck long enough to get the tractor on it, then change course for the next. Train Targeting and it will let you lock more targets.
Melted Capacitor Consoles, Tritanium Bars and Armor Plates can all be sold for a good bit of money. There's no guarantee you'll get them and they are more prevalent in some areas than others but selling your salvage is a major part of your income from ratting or running missions. Sometimes - if you're lucky - you'll get a lot more from the salvage than you did from bounties and mission rewards.
Train Social/Negotiations to get more money from your agent for the same mission.
Once you've got your destroyer tricked out with some good long range weapons, tractors and Salvagers with maybe a few support skills trained up enough to use them well (you want Salvaging to level III at least) then it's time to go get those Learning Skills out of the way so that everything else you train is trained quicker. Do the rank 1 skills to Level IV, go make some more money, then train the Rank 3 skills to Level IV.
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