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NEW PIRATE INITIATIVE: PVE QUICKSTART

• Complete the PVE prep phases as quickly as possible.
• Build the recommended PVE builds starting with the DBX Jump Ship.
• Once you get the FDL you can do casual PVP practice throughout the prep phases and do your best till your ship is fully engineered with Prismos.

• Just because you learn how to do something "the fast way" doesn't mean you should mock anyone for doing it a way that is different.
• A way that seems slower might have benefits you don't know and is probably fun as a different gameplay activity for its own sake.
• Rather than doing things only one way and getting bored, you might also enjoy trying multiple methods that may not be the quickest in minutes but possibly fun in a way that adds to the game's variety.
• Elite gives us many ways to do each thing so there's variety and choice and a sense of excitement when you discover a new way to do things that you enjoy more.

• Getting through the many long grinds and preparing for PVP as quickly as possible.
• Console players switching to PC repeating grinds they did before.
• Setting up an alt account.
• Spending quality time with your loved ones and life responsibilities.

• Tell them where they can stick their elitist story about grinding both ways uphill in the snow and their gatekeeping toxicity.
• Just kidding. Instead, tell them that you support all play styles that people enjoy including theirs and encourage them to do the same for others.
• Shaming people for how they enjoy their game is silly.

• getting a credit jumpstart from players who have carriers to commodity trade credits to you
• or who have wing mission stacks they're willing to share the rewards from with you.
• Getting the reputation from the missions so you can do good missions and make money there also.
  

[li]Open the Internal Panel (Right) to the Home tab and select Galactic Powers.
1. Choose Aisling Duval.
2. Click PLEDGE.
3. Mark 4 weeks from now on your calendar reminders.
4. Wait 4 weeks.
5. Transfer 750 tons of preparation cargo from Cubeo to her top Preparation system target in exchange for Rating 3 rewards, which unlocks Prismatic Shields.

1. Go to the powerplay leader's homeworld of Cubeo and go to Contacts.
2. Purchase 75 loads of 10T each by tediously clicking Expedite over and over till you've gotten 750T of prep materials.
3. Transport those to the top system in the powers' PREPARATION systems list. Make sure it has large pads. You'll earn 750 merits.
4. Wait for the Wednesday/Thursday Powerplay Cycle tick / maintenance update to complete.
5. Buy Prismatic Shield Generators from the Shield Generator category.
6. Get 2-4 prismos from each size category. Buy ships that support each size up to size 8 (Type 9 and Cutter only). Prioritize ships you will actually want (See PVP Guide for suggestions.)

• Elite rank pilots with Shinrarta Dezhra's Jameson Memorial will get them all at 10% discount.
• Li Yong Rui has an even better 15% discount with no requirements to get it.

• Li Yong Rui for Packhound Missiles
• Duval for Imperial Hammers
• Zachary Hudson for Pacifiers
• Yuri Grom for Grom FSD Reboot missiles
• Archon Delaine for Cytoscramblers

• Make sure you have enough jump distance to make a trip and enough fuel to get there intact.
• Upgrade your Core Module Frame Shift Drive to grade A.
• You should always bring a fuel scoop (4A is ideal).
• Engineer your FSD for Extended Range or buy the V1 Class 5 from a human tech broker.
• Unlock the Guardian FSD Booster and put a class 5 if you can fit it to add 10 LY to your jumps.

• Filter your routes by fastest route.
• Choose Map Mode and filter your routes by Star Class to fuel-scoopable stars of M and above (KGBFOAM letter type stars only.). Read the Fuel Rats guide for more info.

• Do couriering missions in the same systems over and over so you gain rep with the factions and get higher paying missions.
• The best ones to do this for early on are the Fed and Imperial rank grind spots as they concentrate lots of mission giving factions targeting the same target so you do multiple missions at once.
• You don't need anything to do courier missions to make money at first since they don't use up any cargo.
• Save up money by repeatedly transporting data from point A to point B.
• Buy a Hauler and upgrade its FSD to B or A grade as soon as you can to get enough jump distance to get out of there to more lucrative areas.
• FSD your way to Ngalinn/Mainani or Ceos/Sothis to do high reward Fed or Imperial courier missions.
• You'll rank up your rep to unlock cool ships along the way to unlocking Fed Corvette and Imperial Cutter.
• Make sure to start pledging to Aisling Duval to start unlocking Prismatic Shields since it takes a month (See below).

• Rank grinding for its own sake takes as long time and can be boring so try not to burn out doing it.
• Better to do it when you need to do missions anyways in the couriering phase till you buy your first jump and trade ships and then do missions with your trade and combat ships that grind rank at the same time as money and materials and Elite trade rank.
• You can gain rank in both Imperial and Federal Navy at the same time. They don't know you're double dipping or they look the other way.

• Go to a system controlled by the superpower and get a mission with the words "Federal Navy" or "Imperial Navy" in the title and complete it.
• If you don't like the type of mission with the word "Navy" in it, you can "board flip" those just by closing Mission Computer and reopening it to avoid annoying pirate hunt missions till you get a simple navy courier job.
• You may still have 100% rank after a promotion if you have saved up multiple promotions in a row. It may take a while for another promotion mission to show up, but you're not wasting rank points just because you're at 100%.

• Un-engineered, DBX will get about 40 LY.
• FSD Booster will get DBX to about 50 LY.
• Doing some Felicity FSD engineering could get DBX up around 60 or 70 LY.
• Completing the V1 double engineered tech broker purchased FSD will get DBX up in the high 70s depending on how much light weight engineering you do with it to a maximum of 77ish with minimal shields or 82ish shieldless depending on how light you go.

• ENCODED: Go to Jameson Crash Site in HIP 12099 1 B: -54.3 x -50.3 for data(use SRV, scan comms modules, log to menu, reopen, repeat).
• MANUFACTURED: Collect High Grade Emissions for manufactured (scan navbeacon, find HGE, use collectors, quit to desktop, reopen, wake out 0 throttle, turn around wake into unidentified signal, repeat ),
• RAW: Collect raw mats from Crystal shards HIP 36601, take DBX or best jump ship, use SRV on biological sites on planets)
• GUARDIAN MODULES: Collect guardian materials starting with guardian modules in Synuefe NL-N C23-4 (use SRV with point defense on top, 4 pip shields when shot and guns when shooting, use cover to 1v1 sentinels, repeatedly farm guardian structure's bottom right double tech component pillar and the triple obelisk data spot on site 2 on same planet).
• RARE COMMODITIES: You can buy some needed crafting or engineering unlock ingredients like HN Shock Mounts by searching Inara for stations that export them.

• Koli Discii Crash Site, Koli Discii C 6 A: 28.5 x 7.2
• Orrere Crash Site, Orrere 2 B: 43.8 x -173.9

• Antimony
• Ruthenium
• Tellurium
• Tungsten
• Zirconium

• SYSTEM (STAR LETTER)(PLANET NUMBER) SITE MATERIAL
• Hip 36601 C1A Biological site 5 Polonium
• Hip 36601 C1D Biological site 3 Ruthenium
• Hip 36601 C3B Biological site 5 Tellurium
• Hip 36601 C5A Biological site 4 Technetium
• Outotz LS-K D8-3 B5A Biological Site 15 Yttrium
• Outotz LS-K D8-3 B5C Biological Site 3 Antimony

1. To get encoded data, you go to Jameson Crash Site.
2. Scan the modules, log out and repeat till you fill up.
3. Then you go to an encoded material trader and trade the mats for other types till you have room to go back and get more.

• DAV'S HOPE: Lower grade but easy to do laps collecting in an SRV.
• MISSION STACKING: Top-grade Biotech Conductors, Modified Embedded Firmware, Exquisite Focus Crystals available doing courier, trade or massacres.
• SHIP SALVAGING: Blowing up ships during massacres or at a high respawn Anarchy Nav Beacon or station like Slough Orbital at Vesper-M4 and collector limpeting them up.
• HIGH GRADE EMISSIONS: You go to particular system types and states, scan their navbeacon, go to the nearest HGE, collector limpet 5 mats, quit to desktop, relaunch, low wake out, zero throttle, turn around, navigate lock the emission again, re-enter it, collect, quit to desktop, repeat till the mission runs out (25ish minutes), go to another system and scan another nav beacon for more...

1. Fly your Diamondback Explorer jump ship with a surface scanner and SRV to Hyades Sector DR-V c2-23 A 5 at 44.8180, -31.3893.
2. Use the Navigation panel or the System Map to select planet 5 around the 1st star (A 5).
3. Scan the surface.
4. Land on Dav's Hope.
5. Launch an SRV.
6. Drive around the ring of buildings collecting materials with your cargo scoop.
7. Target ahead to lock onto the material in front of you.
8. Open your cargo scoop.
9. Drive over it to pick it up.
10. Look in Internal Panel > Inventory to see how much you have colleceted.

• Stock your PVE combat ship with Collector Limpet Controllers and cargo racks like for mining but no prospectors or refinery required.
• Anaconda Dakkaconda is easy to refit for salvaging optionals.

1. It spawns a lot of belugas and orcas, which just have to "slaughter".
2. Go there in open, or bring friends: The more people are in an instance, the more tourist ships are spawned.
3. It spawns mostly G4 and some G5 manufactured mats;
4. since there's a manufactured material trader in a neighboring system, you can quickly trade up/down once you've filled up the slots with the stuff you collect.

1. Scan the nav beacon.
2. Go to the nearest HGE.
3. Collector limpet 5 mats, quit to desktop.
4. Relaunch
5. low wake out
6. zero throttle
7. turn around
8. navigate
9. lock the emission again
10. re-enter it
11. collect
12. quit to desktop
13. repeat till the mission runs out (25ish minutes)
14. go to another system
15. scan another nav beacon for more...

• You can load shopping lists from Coriolis or EDSY builds to get a complete list of mats needed for a whole build.
• You can also save and load shopping lists to view one ship list at a time or combine them temporarily to have one master list.

• Since you can import and export to and from EDSY, Coriolis and your Inara Hanger, you can import your builds into EDSY to have them all lined up to compare stats.
• You can pull them back into Coriolis by clicking OPS on the top bar and EXPORT and copying the SLEF text into the Import button under Settings in Coriolis.

1. Go to the Elite Dangerous Community Discord #carrier-departures channel and the Fleet Owners Club Discord #colonia-to-bubble channel.
2. Look for a departure coming soon and get all your ships on the carrier and engineering materials and Osmium ready if you haven't unlocked the engineers yet.

1. All you need to do is plan your builds in advance with Coriolis/EDSY/EDEngineer and pre-gather all the materials you need to do it when you get there.
2. Then follow the guide on how to do the engineers in Colonia efficiently.
3. You can get there with all the ships you want to engineer by parking them on a passenger carrier announced in EDC Discord #carrier-departures and on Fleet Carrier Owners' Club Discord.
4. Hitch a 1.5 day ride, do your engineering there, and hitch a ride back on the next carrier home.

• Bring all your ships to the engineer together on your carrier.
• To engineer multiple ships worth of modules, remove them from the ships and go to the planetary trader with a ship that can mount them all. There may be limits to this as larger ships can't run smaller shields below a certain size.
• When you arrive at the trader, transfer all the modules and wait about 5 minutes for the transfer.
• Engineer the modules as you swap them into the ship you brought one by one till you're done.
• Fly back to your carrier and carefully transfer back all the modules from the trader before putting them back on their ships of origin.

• Trade is the easiest way to grind for some money early with little risk and no engineering.
• Trade also will help you unlock Elite Trade Rank faster than any other kind of Elite rank.

1. Pick a station that has it for sale nearby.
2. Just fly to the station that sells it and fly back and provide the mission that way, no mining required.
3. Do as many trips as necessary to complete the missions.
4. Prioritize Reputation rewards initially until your rep reaches ALLIED with the factions.
5. You will now start to receive missions paying as much as 50 million credits each.

1. Take missions from Wally Bei's Malerba & Swanson Dock terraforming stations.
2. Buy the materials from carriers in the system.
3. Fly back and provide the mission goods.
4. Don't mark the missions as complete yet till you have a wing of friends to share it with.
5. Invite them to your Wing (Horizons) or Team (Odyssey) and share each mission and let them accept before completing it so all get the rewards.
6. Increase reputation with the station factions till you get 50M credit missions.

1. Once you earn 50M: Build Type 7 cargo ship (D rate everything but FSD A rate), do trade missions to save up some money for Type 9
2. Once you earn 250M: Build Type 9, do trade missions to save up some money for Anaconda and Type 10 bounty hunting ships

1. Build Anaconda for active PVE massacre farming. (It can work low or high res initially without much engineering)
2. Build Type 10 for passive PVE massacre farming. (It requires a certain amount of engineering to survive AFK)
3. Acquire enough engineering materials to engineer Anaconda Dakkaconda PVE build and Type 10 AFK build to consistently produce money actively and overnight.

• Trade missions will eventually unlock your Elite Trade Rank and Shinra (see above) to make building your combat ships efficient so it does benefit combat after all.
• Once you have at least 1 Elite rank, you unlock Shinrarta Dezhra system and Jameson Memorial station with a 10% discount on EVERY SHIP AND MODULE IN THE GAME. This will massively simplify and discount your ship building process so you won't have to hunt around for each module in a build.

• Make sure to confirm that they are WANTED or MISSION TARGET before shooting at them or the authorities will shoot you.
• You can use the authorities' help to get bounty credit as long as you get at least 1 good hit on the target.

1. Go to the target system first and bookmark it. This is where you'll be killing pirates for bounties in the resource zones.
2. You get wing kill/put down/massacre missions targeting the targeted type of pirates from the surrounding source systems' stations.i
3. You go there and take kill/put down/massacre missions to kill the targeted pirate group only
4. Then when you have 17-20 of those missions (wing missions) you go to the target system and enter low resource, high resource or hazardous resource ("hazrez") points and kill pirates as fast as possible to complete all the missions.
5. You will complete 4-5 missions at a time for each kill being counted on each of those if you chose missions from enough different factions and stations.
6. Bring some cargo to make enemy ships scan you faster but only if you can survive the attention.
7. Use a ship-launched fighter if you can and set it to engage at will and tell it to attack specific targets to speed things up.
8. Stay as close as possible to the center of the zone and go after any laser fire you see in the distance.

1. Don't complete the missions at the station till you have a full wing of friends to share the rewards with.
2. Ask your wing mates to pay close attention and focus while you complete the missions.
3. Share each mission from your list that matches the station you are at.
4. Announce the mission and wait for confirmation from all 3 wing mates verbally in Odyssey or checking the mission status in Horizons.
5. When all have accepted, complete the mission prioritizing Rep till you get allied with that faction giver, then G5 materials (biotech, exquisite crystals and modified firmware), then credits if full or no mats are available.
6. You get money and Federal rank and materials.
7. Your wing mates need to go to the stations to collect their rewards within 30 days.

• Wing missions last 7 days so you can do a bit of the mission stack at a time.
• For greatest efficiency, use a large high-DPS bounty hunting build such as a Dakaconda (see Ship Builds).
• To get stacks done while you're busy socializing/eating/watching movies/reading/sleeping, build the Type 10 AFK Build.

• Once you are doing basic combat bounty hunting PVE work, you can try using those builds in casual PVP 1v1s as long as you're ready to lose a lot and learn in the process.
• You can start practicing PVP along the way by training in 1v1s and wing fights with people at a similar level to you or who are willing to fight you in un-engineered or handicapped ships close to your ship power level.

• Thargoid Hunting pays a lot of credits and earns combat rank while defending humanity from Thargoid invaders.
• The meta Anti-Xeno ship build included in this guide is the Shieldless Anti-Xeno Chieftain which relies on cold orbiting with gauss cannons.
• To learn more about Thargoid hunting, visit the Anti-Xeno Initiative