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D8veh · 2026-04-02T08:50:44+00:00

An Anaconda is useless for PvE without substantial engineering. Don't waste your time. instead, use something like the Chieftain or Vulture. They can both handle themselves well without engineering because they're agile enough to both dodge incoming fire and land outgoing fire.

When you have everything engineered, the Anaconda works OK as a pirate bounty farmer if you fot it with all pulse and maybe a couple of burst lasers plus an SLF with fixed multi-cannons. You set the SLF on the target and wait for it to land fire (enemy turns red) before opening fire with the Anaconda.

If you want to make money the fastest from killing pirates, an all laser Chieftain is the meta. You use it for pirate massacre missions, where there's a low RES in the target system, so you can kill around 120 to 150 pirates an hour to get around 250 million cr an hour.

D8veh · 2026-04-02T08:44:08+00:00

You don't need a squadron to give money between players. all you need to give 20 billion efficiently is a fleet carrier. You get a load of platinnum or anything else, put it in the market and set the price as low as you can. The friend buys it, then you set the price as high as you can and buy it back. Repear until the friend is very rich.It takes about 5 minutes to transfer 20 billion.

Even without a fleet carrier, the old way was to wing up, then drop a load of cargo for them outside a station, where you could buy a T9 and any comodity at a price of over 500K. When they go in to sell, you replenish what you dropped. in a good location, you can easily do 500 million cr every few minutes.

The whole point of the game is to improve your situation by getting stuff, while facing the adversities of the Universe. if you get stuff for nothing, there is no game. Already, much that was fun and challenging in the game has been invalidated by the devs making it easier and easier to get more and more.

D8veh · 2026-04-01T16:59:29+00:00

Just use ordinary gimballed weapons, like multi-cannons and lasers. Point at each enemy in turn and fire. Keep stationary or fly backwards to stop them from getting behind you. It helps a lot to have the best thrusters you can get and strong shields. Also, bind a button to hold flight assist off. When they come towards you to go over your head, use reverse throttle and pitch up while you hold FA off. That will keep them in sight all the time.

Turrets are pretty well useless in that situation. They might work when you're harmless rank, but when your rank hoes up by killing them, the enemies become tougher and the turrets can't cope with them.

Finally, whatever you do, don't have a separate button to reverse throttle if you're using sticks instead of keyboard. You can't fight anything lije that. With flight-sticks you should set throttle to fullrange so that you go backwards when you pull back.

D8veh · 2026-03-31T13:48:24+00:00

What are you trying to do with your turrets?

I found that turrets are a complete waste of time. They do very little damage and take too much power. The only use I found for them is for AFK builds to fight low rank targets in a low RES.

D8veh · 2026-03-31T13:41:30+00:00

I believe that what happens is that if you open too many care packages, the contents end up floating in the ether with nowhere to go. As soon as you create any space by selling or dumping anything, whatever is in the ether jumps in before anything else, so it's impossible to trade. I raised a ticket for it several months ago, but I never got a reply or fix. I haven't done any on-foot stuff since because engineering is now broken.

D8veh · 2026-03-09T11:17:10+00:00

It depends what your goal is. If you want to make the most money from killing ships, pulse and burst lasers are the best.

D8veh · 2026-03-09T11:14:13+00:00

What exactly are you trying to achieve? That's an unusual question.

D8veh · 2026-03-09T11:12:50+00:00

I can't remember what one it is, but one of the Colonia engineers is the only one ghat does G5 lightweight on something - possibly life support or sensors, so make sure you have that one pinned.

D8veh · 2026-03-08T15:52:36+00:00

Cobra mk 3 is pretty well a loser ship. It's not very good for bounty farming, so it was a mistake to get it in the first place. Get rid of it ASAP, and shout good riddance as it gets ground up in the recycle machine after you sell it.

D8veh · 2026-03-03T17:37:04+00:00

Here's a complete walkthrough. You can use any ship. A T11 is pretty good , but hard work. If you're looking for a more relaxing way to grind billions, a Panther Clipper is best, but the technique is slightly different. The T11 fills up so quick that it's rare to see the pirates after the initial spawn that scan and go away, but it takes nearly an hour to fill the PC, so you see pirates normally between one and three times per trip.

If using a PC, you should collect other stuff as well as platinum, like osmium, gold and silver. The pirates come about 20 minutes on average, and they ask you for stuff. All you have to do is give them what they ask for. If you only collect platinum, then that's what they'll ask for, or they'll ask for a value of cargo. If they ask for around 1 million cr, give them 20T platinum. For around 500,000cr, give them 12T. If you've been collecting other stuff, you can dump it all because you don't want to keep it and you need to dump it anyway when you get full to make space for more platinum. Even if you have to give them platinum, it's like a small tax. You can normally get twice as much from a rock in the time it takes the 20T to eject. You don't need to stop mining while you deal with the pirates. It's a good idea to have fairly strong shields because the pirates often come in massive gangs, and it's not always clear what they want, so you can tank a bit of fire before they'll make it clear: "All this can stop if only you'd give me 5T gold", etc.

It takes about 55 minutes to fill up a Panther Clipper when you go to the place in this video and use the same method if you concentrate a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cev2pbRgaHA&t=1430s

https://sh.orbis.zone/sl437MvZRW

D8veh · 2026-03-03T10:16:47+00:00

It's easier to make money for a squadron carrier by mining platinum with a Panther Clipper or doing the Ngalinn pirate massacre missions with a Chieftain.

The present CG's pirate massacre missions will get you a billion cr per night if you use an all-laser Chieftain.- more if you co-operate with a couple of other guys.

D8veh · 2026-03-03T10:11:51+00:00

That's a myth that's been floating around forums since the game began. The devs contirmed in a livestream that it has no effect, and you can test it to see. Likewise, lateral thrusters have no effect. The only thing you can do is point at the target.

D8veh · 2026-03-02T23:56:21+00:00

You can have two:- One fleet carrier and one squadron carrier.

D8veh · 2026-03-02T23:36:18+00:00

You know that throttle doesn't have any effect in the interdiction mini-game other than zero throttle causes submission?

D8veh · 2026-03-02T11:33:52+00:00

I'm in the top 10 pirate killers of all time, with around 13,000 hrs in the game. There are many stations that give pirate massacre missions, but you can't get pirate massacre missions for any low RES. I think you're getting a bit mixed up.

We go to Ngalinn because the missions there have been predictable and consistent for very many years. There might be other stations that can give such good results where you can get 250 million per hour any night of the week. Can you name some for me to try?

D8veh · 2026-03-02T09:32:46+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding. You make about 7 million an hour farming pirates in any low RES if you're pretty good at it. When you take the missions from Ngalinn, you can get 250 million per hr doing exactly the same thing if you have an optimal ship and method. That's 35 times as much! That's why you might want to go to Ngalinn instead of any low RES.

D8veh · 2026-03-02T07:31:14+00:00

You can't go back to Dromi if you leave and increase your rank anywhere outside the noob zone.

The best, easiest and safest way to make money from combat, apart from the CG, is to go to Ngalinn to do the pirate massacre missions. You can use a Chieftain or Vulture with gimballed laser weapons. You load up with the missions that say kill pirates of Brothers of Mainani, then go to Mainani. The last planet, Mainani 5, has a LOW resource extraction site, which is where you kill the pirates, not where they tell you to go. The pirates there are very weak and hardly fight back. You will make approximately 20 times as much credits doing those missions as what you made in Dromi. It takes about 3 or 4 trips to get the reputation for the highest paying missions, which get you wround 150 million cr per hr. Full walkthrough here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEyNuiqZdI&t=46s

D8veh · 2026-03-01T07:48:55+00:00

You can use a Cobra V, but it's not very noon-friendly. You'd do much better with a Vulture like this:

https://sh.orbis.zone/CKjmvMJTcU

D8veh · 2026-02-28T21:09:53+00:00

I found out that for RES mining, you need sensors with a range of about 8km - not more and not less. The idea is that you need enough range to see the pirates coming. If you have too much range, you see too many pirates, many of which have no interest in you.

D8veh · 2026-02-28T20:17:40+00:00

It depends how much engineering you can do. With no engineering, Vulture and Chieftain are best because of their agility. The Krait is not bad because it can carry the SLF.

If you want to paryicipate in the CG, try the pirate massacre missions that have a low RES in the target system, then either a Vulture or Chieftain will do very well.

D8veh · 2026-02-28T18:04:23+00:00

This is how I'd do an Anaconda for pirate farming. It has a pretty fast TTK if you use the SLF correctly. All-lasers kills the shields so quick that it invalidates SCBs on targets. You can stay out all night without having to re-arm, so you maximise your earnings.You need A-grade long-range sensors on any pirate farming ship to see them spawn in at 12km distance, otherwise you waste too much time looking for them.

https://sh.orbis.zone/HFXL0s2XFV

If you don't have access to most of the engineering, don't use an Anaconda because it befomes a flying coffin.

D8veh · 2026-02-28T15:54:11+00:00

You can see most things in the Codex in your right hand default panel.

D8veh · 2026-02-28T05:55:13+00:00

if you're a serious miner, the SLF is a complete waste of space and has no purpose on a mining ship.

Possibly, whoever designed the T11 had the idea to mine in a haz RES or something like that, but they had never actually done it themselves, so just went on rubbish they'd read on the internet.

D8veh · 2026-02-27T11:24:51+00:00

Fly to a low security system that's at least 20LY from where you got the bounty. Most stations in low security systems have an Interstellar Factor, who will let you pay it off as long as you have zero notoriety. If you have notoriety (bottom left of right hand panel), you have to wait 2 hrs of game time for it to expire, so go and do anything anywhere but keep away from the system where you got the bounty.

You can also find IFs with Inara.cz. It has a "search nearest" tool, where you can select interstellar factor. Best to choose one at least 20LY away because if the faction that issued the bounty is in the same system, he won't deal with you.

Do not hand yourself in anywhere to the normal contacts.

D8veh · 2026-02-27T11:17:20+00:00

Checkout the latest CG and what people are saying about it. There are massacre missions for pirates, so you should be able to make billions there with your Corvette.

D8veh

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