[New player guide - Trade/Mine] New in space?

[Jaina Wheeler]

New in Space?

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Introduction

Hi I'm Jaina and in the name of Bristol Constructions I will give you a few helpful hints on how to get started. First off congratulations on your new Sunburst! It has a few really useful tools right off the bat. First, let's get you to space!

Now I'm sure you didn't go through all the effort for nothing. So the easiest way to get a few credits to start with is to mine some Helium. For that just follow the Trail of Nav Buoys. They will lead you straight to the best spots!

After a certain distance you will eventually reach a "Mineable Zone"-Buoy. Those buoys will tell you whenever there is something valuable in the area to mine. Though you might not always have the correct skills to. But that's details for later.

Now it is important that you only mine with the mining arrays mounted on the ship. Not any of those lasers. You don't need those for this.
Just deselect your flashpoint turrets in the weapon list until only the Light Mining Arrays show green.

Once that is done start aiming for the small rocks that fly past! At some point you will hear your system notifying you of "tractor failure". That means your ship cannot pick up anymore. Check your cargo hold by pressing F7 and hitting the commodity symbol.














So now that you have Helium, we want to sell it! The easiest way is to sell it to Planet Erie. That's fairly fast. For now your ship isn't big enough that it is worth leaving Pennsylvania with the Helium. Just keep reading the next section and then repeat this process until you feel ready to go further.

Mining improvements

While the starting ship is really good there are a few really cheap ways to get even more out of it! Once you're back on Planet Erie you will want to head to the equipment dealer. Once there, unmount your Mining arrays and Heavy Flashpoint turrets. Mount two Heavy Flashpoint turrets and sell the other two. Then buy two more Light Mining Arrays and mount all of them. In space it should look like this now:

The reason for that is that you get more ore by each gun that hits at the same time. So there's only a few slots that are useful here.

If you want to know more please go here: Discovery Mining Guide

Going further

From here on you have multiple options. But since we are a lawful company, I'll focus on the supply and mining part.
One option you have is to upgrade your miner to a Hegemon. That's a big unhandy ship but it has a lot more cargo space. You can buy it for a bit more than 18,000,000 credits on Valley Forge Flight School right in front of Planet Erie.
You will want the Mining Arrays that you can buy for it on slots 1-2-3-4.

DU5-7Y "Hegemon" Asteroid Miner
2750 cargo space
18,000,000 credits
Sold at Valley Forge Flight School in Pennsylvania



The other option would be to buy a much bigger transport and start hauling ore. Get other people to mine for you or buy at "Emlenton Storage & Exports". Their prices used to be much higher so it's not worth selling there as much but you can fill up your transports easily. There's a few easy options:

Mammoth
2200 cargo space
10,000,000 credits
Sold at Baltimore Shipyard in New York

Heron
3000 cargo space
20,600,000 credits
Sold at St. Albans Shipping Platform in Virginia

Serenity
3600 cargo space
40,000,000 credits
Sold at Barrier Gate Station A in Coronado






3,600 cargo is the biggest vessel you can have with your Freelancer ID really. To fly anything bigger you really need to fly under one of the big corporations. But you can move a lot of stuff with a Serenity already. We prove that every day at Bristol!

Commands

To continue you will need some commands to make things easier for you. I will list you some of the best here:

General
• /showrestarts - Shows you all possible restarts
• /renameme NAME - Renames you for 2,000,000credits

Money
• /gc NAME MONEY - Sends an amount of money to any other character(even offline ones)
• /set cashcode - Sets a cashcode to make a ship into a bank
• /drawcash NAME CASHCODE MONEY - Draws money from your bank

Connecticut
• /conn - Brings you to a system for pvp training or equipment transfers
• /return - Brings you back to the base you were on before going to conn

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