What is your strategy to obtain credits when you start?

[DreamingOfRoundPlanetsAndNoBlocks]

How do you make enough credits to achieve a decent ship with a dockable base?

 

[Aecetym]

/give_credits Aecetym 2147483647

 

[jorgekorke]

Credits aren't really valuable those days. Unless if the server you play in has a good amount of players that do trade.
Team up with other newbies inside the server you play and go mining and manufacturing with factories. Invest everything on a decent ship then go pirate-hunting... the basics...

 

[Inspired2150]

1) Jump onto a core
2) look for a neutral station
3) ??
4) Refine obtained salvage into Salvage cannons, power blocks and engines
5) Build a brick salvager and fly around eating asteroids

 

[DreamingOfRoundPlanetsAndNoBlocks]

What is a "brick salvager" and "obtained salvager"?

 

[Inspired2150]

You deconstruct the neutral station to obtain salvage.

Brick salvager is a salvage ship that is shaped like a brick. Here is a frontal view:
x - salvage cannon
o - filler/AMC cannon

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Edit: individual salvage beams the length of 5-10 blocks are good enough to start with.

 

[ASilverblade]

I make as deep a waffle-board salvage array as possible with missile controllers to give them a shotgun effect (all with the starting stuff), I find an asteroid or planet and salvage it to hell.

 

[Mr.Steam]

My strategy:

1) Buy a faction module and plant it on an abandoned base or planet first thing.
2) Create faction and claim the system for the 12x mining bonus.
3) Build a small salvager ship with starting stuff, or start mining asteroids with personal salvager.
4) Build and place a factory and capsule refinery on station/planet.
5) Sell ore or convert into building blocks
6) Convert all asteroid minerals (lukrah, varis, etc) into carved minerals (they are more valuable this way).
7) Build a missile/beam fighter or buy an Isanth Mb and upgrade the shielding system and add radar jammer. (The Isanths have no shield rechargers) Pirates all have really crappy aim when you have radar jammer on.
8) Go fire at a pirate base and wait for the pirate reinforcements, then blow apart a few pirates with Lock on missiles.
9) Gather dropped loot and sell or use.

 

[Pnaede]

Buy low, sell high between shops.

 

[ASilverblade]

Buy low, sell high between shops.

This is a very good strategy, I find i get a lot of profit from scanners.

P.S. Nice icon, I love dwarf fortress.