A very spoilery moneymaker gamestart

[zakaluka]

Just something I've noticed over the last couple new starts I've done, use it if you want.

When you start the game, make your way straight to Zyarth 10, set a satellite on the gate to 11th hour.
There's going to be a major battle between ARG and ZYA right at this spot within the first hour. Keep an eye on it, in the meantime do a couple little odd jobs for stations. When the fight begins, just come in and loot the battlefield.
Profit.

Before crafting, a quick 2.1mil
https://imgur.com/PMs0JMF
After using the crafting bench, 2.8mil

Came away with a 2-star piloting seminar, 1 hour into the game.

Don't think I'll ever need to crystal mine a new game again. Your mileage may vary.

[dtpsprt]

The same applies for Second Contact and Pious Mists... whatever is closest to your chosen gamestart.

Putting an extra "spoiler" to this, in all these battles in V4.00 Beta you can also find abandoned ships from NPC's that bailout, both S and M!!!

[Ezarkal]

I'll add to that:

Loot from these battles will spawn even when you're OOS (not tested in 4.00 beta). There will be less loot if you're OOS, but there will still be some.
So it's pretty handy to have one scout or three at each of these locations and regularly ask them to collect the drops for the areas where you cannot be. (You can get pretty cheap pegasus at ALI's wharf.) You can recover these drops as soon as you proceed with the PHQ quest.

It can be a good idea to keep scouts in these areas for a while, as they are frequently turned into battlegrounds and will often generate good drops.

I remember as some point I even had a scout with the order to follow a HOP fleet through their rampage across second contact, so I would not lose sight of them and keep collecting.

[Imperial Good]

You can also just take some of the free ships and downgrade them for money. For example the Osprey frigate in Company Regard can usually be downgraded to liberate 2M capital for reinvestment. You could also sell the free Odysseus in Faulty Logic for significantly more but you are unlikely to be able to fly it out to downgrade so early in the game.

[dtpsprt]

You can also just take some of the free ships and downgrade them for money. For example the Osprey frigate in Company Regard can usually be downgraded to liberate 2M capital for reinvestment. You could also sell the free Odysseus in Faulty Logic for significantly more but you are unlikely to be able to fly it out to downgrade so early in the game.

Now that you mentioned the Oddy...

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It's no more accessible in V4.00 Beta. Tried both in vanilla and modded with a mod that finds the abandoned ships... nada

[Raevyan]

You can also just take some of the free ships and downgrade them for money. For example the Osprey frigate in Company Regard can usually be downgraded to liberate 2M capital for reinvestment. You could also sell the free Odysseus in Faulty Logic for significantly more but you are unlikely to be able to fly it out to downgrade so early in the game.

Now that you mentioned the Oddy...

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It's no more accessible in V4.00 Beta. Tried both in vanilla and modded with a mod that finds the abandoned ships... nada

The Odysseus is still there and I can reliably find it. You can get the odysseus out of that sector within the first 15mins of the game without any issues.

[dtpsprt]

The Odysseus is still there and I can reliably find it. You can get the odysseus out of that sector within the first 15mins of the game without any issues.

Yep!!! found it out in the past 3 months....

[Raevyan]

The Odysseus is still there and I can reliably find it. You can get the odysseus out of that sector within the first 15mins of the game without any issues.

Yep!!! found it out in the past 3 months....

It’s pretty easy, get into the sector, fly towards the defense stations and then from the xenon defense station straight to the west and you‘ll fly directly to the Odysseus.

[grapedog]

The Odysseus is still there and I can reliably find it. You can get the odysseus out of that sector within the first 15mins of the game without any issues.

Yep!!! found it out in the past 3 months....

It’s pretty easy, get into the sector, fly towards the defense stations and then from the xenon defense station straight to the west and you‘ll fly directly to the Odysseus.

Station positioning can change from game to game.

[Raevyan]

Yep!!! found it out in the past 3 months....

It’s pretty easy, get into the sector, fly towards the defense stations and then from the xenon defense station straight to the west and you‘ll fly directly to the Odysseus.

Station positioning can change from game to game.

I did that like 10 times since 4.0 b7. The defense station in that faulty logic sector was always at the same position.