Progression

[Kentmagpie]

For all you ED legends out there, if your account was wiped, what's the best/quickest way to unlock everything?

I'm new to the game and I've been grinding trading and exploring. Got a big bag of credits and 3 ships.

I've done a little engineering, got a guardian fsd and engineered 3 fsd drives. Then I realised the rest of the engineers are locked. Then I realised some ships are locked also.

I'm just trying to work out the most efficient way of unlocking everything.
For example, is it worth grinding all materials and unlocking all engineers first? Is it worth carrying out missions that give certain rewards? Have I completely missed something obvious.

The grind is big 😳😂

[Gropax]

i would take my sidewinder do courier missions till i had 150K for am Artemis suit. then do one system for exo to get the 19 million buy a cobra MK3 rinse and repeat till i had 160+ million buy a krait MK2 or phantom farm HGE to get mats then do brain trees for mats. unlock engineers. then back to the cobra for more money get get a carrier.

[Sighman]

I have 6 accounts with fleet carriers, so you're asking the right person. I start each account without any help from the others.

1) go to a station with a war in the system, sign up for a HIGH ground CZ and go there with the flight suit and pistol. Just try to hit enemies once with your pistol, then run and hide. You should make 8-10 million per CZ (10-12 mins)

2A) Buy and A-rate a DBX, go exploring (if that's your thing) and scan exobio (if that's your thing). Even picking up 100m from scanning a few plants will set you on your way.

2B) Buy and A-rate a Krait Mk II with collector limpets, no engineering needed, stack massacres intelligently out of Ngalinn. Go to the Low RES in the rings of Mainani 5 to kill off the Brothers of Mainani pirates. Scoop all materials they drop, but ignore all goods.

2C) Buy and outfit a T9, use Inara to find Mining Expansion Missions. You'll need more seed money for this one, but you can generally buy the goods for 15m and the missions are worth 35-50. Wait for Lavigny's Legion or Xiancheim Empire League to go into Expansion, then get the missions at Croatigae (Fraknoi Dock) and buy the goods in the same system from Ambartsumiam or Carrington Ports. By not jumping to another system, you avoid the incoming enemies and only have to deal with regular pirates.

2D) Before the war ended, I took three of my accounts to ground port CZ and stacked Hydra kill missions, completing them with my regular AX combat friends.


2B and 2C are in Imperial space so you will rocket through the ranks with those.

[Kentmagpie]

Originally posted by Gropax:

i would take my sidewinder do courier missions till i had 150K for am Artemis suit. then do one system for exo to get the 19 million buy a cobra MK3 rinse and repeat till i had 160+ million buy a krait MK2 or phantom farm HGE to get mats then do brain trees for mats. unlock engineers. then back to the cobra for more money get get a carrier.

What's HGE? thanks for the reply, what's the benefits of having a carrier?

[Kentmagpie]

Originally posted by Sighman:

I have 6 accounts with fleet carriers, so you're asking the right person. I start each account without any help from the others.

1) go to a station with a war in the system, sign up for a HIGH ground CZ and go there with the flight suit and pistol. Just try to hit enemies once with your pistol, then run and hide. You should make 8-10 million per CZ (10-12 mins)

2A) Buy and A-rate a DBX, go exploring (if that's your thing) and scan exobio (if that's your thing). Even picking up 100m from scanning a few plants will set you on your way.

2B) Buy and A-rate a Krait Mk II with collector limpets, no engineering needed, stack massacres intelligently out of Ngalinn. Go to the Low RES in the rings of Mainani 5 to kill off the Brothers of Mainani pirates. Scoop all materials they drop, but ignore all goods.

2C) Buy and outfit a T9, use Inara to find Mining Expansion Missions. You'll need more seed money for this one, but you can generally buy the goods for 15m and the missions are worth 35-50. Wait for Lavigny's Legion or Xiancheim Empire League to go into Expansion, then get the missions at Croatigae (Fraknoi Dock) and buy the goods in the same system from Ambartsumiam or Carrington Ports. By not jumping to another system, you avoid the incoming enemies and only have to deal with regular pirates.

2D) Before the war ended, I took three of my accounts to ground port CZ and stacked Hydra kill missions, completing them with my regular AX combat friends.


2B and 2C are in Imperial space so you will rocket through the ranks with those.

Thanks for the detailed reply. Some of this I don't understand but will look into. What are massacres? I haven't even got into combat yet. I've literally been trading, doing exobiology and farming materials.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by Sighman:

I have 6 accounts with fleet carriers,

Its nice they let you out of the straight-jacket so often to play the game!

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by Sighman:

2C) Buy and outfit a T9, use Inara to find Mining Expansion Missions. You'll need more seed money for this one, but you can generally buy the goods for 15m and the missions are worth 35-50. Wait for Lavigny's Legion or Xiancheim Empire League to go into Expansion, then get the missions at Croatigae (Fraknoi Dock) and buy the goods in the same system from Ambartsumiam or Carrington Ports. By not jumping to another system, you avoid the incoming enemies and only have to deal with regular pirates.

Note for anyone pledged for PP to anyone but Arissa Lavigny-Duval - this is a fortified system so enemy PP NPCs might take a dim view of you in your lumbering Type 9. Either make sure the Type 9 is sufficiently shielded so you can dock even while being harassed or fly something faster, even if with less cargo space. The Cutter is ideal and can't be mass locked either (except by another Cutter).

[Spanospy]

Originally posted by Kentmagpie:

Originally posted by Gropax:

i would take my sidewinder do courier missions till i had 150K for am Artemis suit. then do one system for exo to get the 19 million buy a cobra MK3 rinse and repeat till i had 160+ million buy a krait MK2 or phantom farm HGE to get mats then do brain trees for mats. unlock engineers. then back to the cobra for more money get get a carrier.

What's HGE? thanks for the reply, what's the benefits of having a carrier?

HGE is short for High Grade Emissions - they're signals you can find whilst supercruising within some systems. Often contain rare materials.

Carriers are essentially mobile starports - they allow you to repair/rearm, store ships and modules (plus commodities if you're the owner) and can be moved to different systems. Useful for those who like to travel with a huge luggage, for trading purposes, or just have a mobile base placed close to where you're doing stuff. I don't personally have one but other people in the squadron I'm in do - they've been helpful when it comes to space conflict zones.

[Spanospy]

Originally posted by Kentmagpie:

Thanks for the detailed reply. Some of this I don't understand but will look into. What are massacres? I haven't even got into combat yet. I've literally been trading, doing exobiology and farming materials.

They're a type of mission where you just need to take down a certain amount of npcs that align with a certain faction. Either the faction are pirates or a rival (often means that its illegal so be careful)

[Kentmagpie]

Thanks for all the replies. Really helpful 😊👍

[Kentmagpie]

Whats everyone's best method for material farming?

I use Jameson crash site for encoded.

Davs hope for manufactured.

And there is a crashed ship with dropped cargo racks that I use for raw materials.

I'm understanding you can use the HGE to get manufactures mats and the brain tree method for raw mats.

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by Kentmagpie:

Whats everyone's best method for material farming?

I use Jameson crash site for encoded.

Davs hope for manufactured.

And there is a crashed ship with dropped cargo racks that I use for raw materials.

I'm understanding you can use the HGE to get manufactures mats and the brain tree method for raw mats.

I haven't farmed in months now. With the expanded drops and boosts to mission rewards for materials, whenever i want to engineer i have more than enough spare stuff that i just go and trade at a materials/data trader for what i need.

Now add in PowerPlay care packages, and i'm getting a ton of both horizons and odyssey stuff, so much that i can't actually fully claim most care packages because i'm at my limit.

[veracsthane]

money which is data until you get a python

then rare goods

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Now add in PowerPlay care packages, and i'm getting a ton of both horizons and odyssey stuff, so much that i can't actually fully claim most care packages because i'm at my limit.

After rank 100, you get 10 of each item in care packages instead of 5. (So I've been told)

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Originally posted by Sighman:

I have 6 accounts with fleet carriers,

Its nice they let you out of the straight-jacket so often to play the game!

It's nice I rarely spend money on any new releases because I'm too busy with ED ;-)

[Gropax]

Originally posted by Kentmagpie:

Whats everyone's best method for material farming?

I use Jameson crash site for encoded.

Davs hope for manufactured.

And there is a crashed ship with dropped cargo racks that I use for raw materials.

I'm understanding you can use the HGE to get manufactures mats and the brain tree method for raw mats.

HGEs will get you all the manufactured materials you will ever need if you are not doing power play

https://edgalaxy.net/hge

Minerals is easy Brain trees and a conda with 2 flak launchers and 2 size 5 limpet controllers should do the job

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/197te60/updated_raw_material_farming_odyssey/

now encoded thats the pain i use famine systems and the distribution centers to get most and jamisons cobra for the rest.

with all of these you will need to hit up the materials traders to trade down to get the lower ones.