New to game, are Courier Jobs supposed to be that easy money?

[minich]

Bought the game on the recent sale. Been enjoying it so far.

Have noticed though, just doing Courier Jobs are like the easiest money ever. There's virtually no risk and the rewards are on par with other quests offered for just literally making a system jump and docking with a station.

Everyone keeps saying that mining is the way to go, but I tried it and while I'm sure there's some secret to it, I'm not making any good money off it. Maybe it's because I'm still in the starting area, but I don't have several million to buy the ships that the guide videos keep talking about.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Mining will require a couple million investment, but if you don't want any hard action, couriers and boom deliveries to start with are very easy and chill money. Just gotta pay attention to not get interdicted.

[HamakiBCN2]

Yes, they are supposed to be exactly like that.

Courier jobs are meant to be the first jobs that newcomers take. As such, they serve as a lesson on taking missions and a bit of practise on docking and undocking from stations, while being designed to be easily doable with even an e-rated sidewinder.

[Cerealkiller1]

That is how they lure you in kid. You get hooked on those easy paying missions and then BAM, they hit you with a trip to Hutton Orbital and you get stuck in supercruise for an hour. Or maybe they forget to tell you that some slimy terrorist faction wants to prevent you from delivering those election results and a whole wing of Vultures ruins your day (I still have those burn scars from a nice zero-G fire!). Or maybe they forget to tell you that data was stolen and you get pulled over by the Federalies and thrown in the click 200 light years from home. Or maybe you blow a power coupling in the far end of nowhere and get stranded on the dark side of a moon in a backwater system for 4 days because they just assumed pirates got you so they didn't report you as "missing" to the Pilot's Federation --- darnit, I always pay my union dues on time and this is how they treat me???

A lot can go wrong in the black commander.

[jber916]

Read. The. Mission. Details.

Twice. Sometimes you might have to tell the faction you are abandoning the mission when there are waves of incoming enemy and the system is low security. It can get tedious. So that Tycoon-level mission to a 70kls station really stinks if you have to high-wake in the last 100 light seconds.

Hauling Trit is the hot move right now. Find a seller and a buyer within fully-loaded jump range w/stations less than 100 ls and a durable transport ship make 5-10k/ton credits. Turn and burn until the market comes to its senses. The fun won't last long.

[CaptPolarBear]

And then when all those credits start to burn a hole in your pocket, bounties start calling your name. Definitely worth the investment in a good Kill warrant scanner to get more than the local bounty. trade the extras in at interstellar factors. Bounty hunting is where its at if you want the combat and the reward.

[Chillum]

Im new myself, just got the game on the last sale.

Mining, at the beginning, made me want to smash my ship into the nearest planet. Surface mining was not fun, or good.

Luckily though I had a friend who was feeling helpful, he came by and cracked a core for me. Core mining is where all the money is. He cracked that core for me two days ago. I now have a python fully upgraded for mining and just got an anaconda. (I wasnt going to get such a large ship so fast, was looking at an FDL, but I had quite a bit of cash after a couple of runs in the python)

[Lucasif]

Easiest money ever is mining, which even a noob can do to get 30m/h. Right now I get about 100-200m/h doing core mining at a slightly more relaxed pace.