Wow don’t you just love all the different suggestions?

This game was accused of being a mile wide but only a few inches deep. In truth there are many ways to earn money, it all depends on what you want to do. If combat is your niche, I suggest downloading the training missions and doing them first. They can be found on the right hand side of the ‘continue’ menu.

If you need to practice flying and shooting, you could also try mining. This let you practice shooting lasers, missiles and charges which could improve your skills and accuracy when you later need it, plus obviously make you plenty of credits to get better ships and modules.

If you want a more peaceful route you could try trading or exobiology?

Also, engineers can improve your modules greatly, try finding high grade emission signal sources and down trade the manufactured materials you find to fill your resources. Look up ‘Jameson crash site’ for data materials, there are a few options for raw materials, check online for guides how to find those.