How to mine at the game start?

[pecx]

Hi there!
As a neb, I completed the tutorials. Now i wanted to start a new game, getting my first money by mining asteroids.
BUT: every start option has starting ships withput a mining-laser. So is it impossible to mine?

Sorry for this newb question, but how do i start mining at the beginning? Would appreciate some tipps :)

[Gibbo]

Huh that is a good question? I've not played all the starts, but yeah pretty sure there isn't a mining option.

Your best bet is hang around Second Contact 2 Flashpoint and there will be a big battle there which you can collect drops from and this should afford you your first miner. It's better to let miners mine on their own, but if you want to do that you can and thanks to Timelines showing me how profitable self mining can be I'll just say good luck to ya and you should do alright especially for silicon.

[db48x]

If you really want to start the game as a miner, then do a custom start. You can choose exactly what sector you start in, what ship(s) or other property you own, and so on.

If you have completed any of the story plots, you can even start with them completed. For example, you have probably done at least the Hatikva missions. You could choose to start with them already completed, so that you don't have to jump through those hoops again in every single game.

[Wraith]

you can get a small mining ship relatively early if you want

you can do some mission and loot stuff off the battlefield or do some piracy

Either way a small courier mineral miner at high loadout is like 1,000,000
medium load out is around 500,000
low load out around 200,000