sidewinder mining

[Juneau]

how bad of an idea is this? I need to save for a cobra though.

[Krpajda]

Do you intend to mine in your sidewinder, or to get a sidewinder specifically for mining?

Either way i would advise you to get an adder. It is a bettter miner and a nice stepping stone to the cobra

[Edelweiss ✿]

Waste of time in a ship that small, you'll have no room for cargo

[Juneau]

Originally posted by Krpajda:

Do you intend to mine in your sidewinder, or to get a sidewinder specifically for mining?

Either way i would advise you to get an adder. It is a bettter miner and a nice stepping stone to the cobra

I need to get money for that first. so I need to mine a bit in a sidewinder. hopefuly that actually works.

[Krpajda]

For mining, you need a cargo hold, a refinery, mining lasers, and to be any efficient, collector limpet contorller with a bit more cargo to hold the limpet drones. You can not stuff all that into a sidewinder to have a shield generator on top of all that.

You are better off doing some trade or just bulletin board missions that do not involve too much killing.

[ThanklessTripp]

Go to a resource site and tag any ship's the federation are attacking, make sure to do a standard scan first to check they have a wanted level. You will have a cobra after about an hour doing this. I made nearly 1 mill in an hour doing just that yesterday ;-)

[Douglas Rattmann]

Ahh, the good ol' days of the sidewinder... Even then I was killing everyone!

If you have combat skills, go after some wanted ships, you can get quite a bit, and if you "Kill steal" from the NPCs you can get it easy, fast, and safely.

Or, if you think thats too easy (Like me) go fight in a war! (Really) Find a system with a war going on, go to one of the fighting zones, choose a faction, kill someone, go to a station, redeem your local combat bonds! You can get lots of money doing that, but its risky, as you are fighting ships with the best armor, the best everything, really!