I spent months playing this game everyday. Man...i even discover certain bugs that such as never deaccelated on an aproach to space terminal (planet or orbital). I simply put the time acc to the max, and the ship would go directly into docking (with auto pilot of course). That was the fastest and cheapest way to travel.
I bought all ships, did every kind of mission, (some missions are buggy) however i didnīt achieve the elite rank... 6000 kills?????
That would take a full year playing every day...damn...
-Hey, to the people that say small ships are weak.
They are WEAK but sure are FAST. The downside is that becouse they only allow small lasers to be equiped, it would take about 10 minutes to beat an Imperial explorer.
Having said all of this, however i like small ships, my favorite ship of all times was one... the amazing Asp Explorer. This ship was good for everything...