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Originally posted by whatshisface@Nov 26 2005, 05:48 PM
I took the advice gregor gave a couple pages back, (to sol, buy stuff, to bernards star, sell stuff, buy stuff)... and now i am very very rich!! my problem is my progres is slowing because of my small cargo space, i need a ship that is cheep and has a big cargo hold. Please help.
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there is plenty of bigger ships available... you should do some search on various planets (i suggest you try and get something in bernards star as they probably are better stocked). basically if you are on space station you can buy teh biggest one you can afford and then strip. all it needs (for trade in those two safe systemes) is cargo space and engines. you dont' need anything else.
oh and crew. always make sure enough people want to fly!!!! pay them good salary at first, you can sack them later. don't worry.
in fact i have now all my crew on minimum wage :evil: and i drive a panther clipper (has problems with rocket bug, but who needs rockets on such big ship...)
As for shields - yeah this part is a bit strange, because the larger cargo space the larger shields you can have. Imperial explorer is the largest fighter, but for example my cargo ship has so much generators (i think 200) plus i equiped it with all extras (such as energy boosters, autorepair etc.) that it can sustain most of attacks. the only one that burns out the shields and hull to quickly are impersial explorers with particle accelerators. but there are very few of them in systems and i can always load and destroy them.
also dangerous are smaller ships equiped with 100MW beam laser, but only if they have some supports. otherwise i am invincible. my turrets take care of pirate scum.