RoguePilot

MBaldelli

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Just to make sure, you do have Horizons Season Pass as well? If not, that's why you're not finding it. Otherwise EDDB is accurate and correct. And they're pointing to Ackerman Market, Eravate system.

Oh wow. I don't think i have it. I'll jump on it now. Thanks!

WeezlBprojust finished my conda.. fully loaded im at 68.5 ly lmfao i sold my "exploration" ships

RoguePilot

RoguePilot

MBaldelli

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Just to make sure, you do have Horizons Season Pass as well? If not, that's why you're not finding it. Otherwise EDDB is accurate and correct. And they're pointing to Ackerman Market, Eravate system.

Oh wow. I don't think i have it. I'll jump on it now. Thanks!

ACK ! ! !

I was just checking out my disc case and it says "Elite Dangerous: Legendary Edition" and sure enough inside it says on a small piece of paper: "Includes Horizons Season Pass with 1,000 Frontier Points".
Which is great!

But what are Frontier points for?

RoguePilot

RoguePilot

MBaldelli

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Just to make sure, you do have Horizons Season Pass as well? If not, that's why you're not finding it. Otherwise EDDB is accurate and correct. And they're pointing to Ackerman Market, Eravate system.

Oh wow. I don't think i have it. I'll jump on it now. Thanks!

ACK ! ! !

I was just checking out my disc case and it says "Elite Dangerous: Legendary Edition" and sure enough inside it says on a small piece of paper: "Includes Horizons Season Pass with 1,000 Frontier Points".
Which is great!

But what are Frontier points for?

Brynhild Hervorsdottir

RoguePilot

RoguePilot

MBaldelli

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Just to make sure, you do have Horizons Season Pass as well? If not, that's why you're not finding it. Otherwise EDDB is accurate and correct. And they're pointing to Ackerman Market, Eravate system.

Oh wow. I don't think i have it. I'll jump on it now. Thanks!

ACK ! ! !

I was just checking out my disc case and it says "Elite Dangerous: Legendary Edition" and sure enough inside it says on a small piece of paper: "Includes Horizons Season Pass with 1,000 Frontier Points".
Which is great!

But what are Frontier points for?

Frontier Points are currency for buying in-game cosmetic items for your ship and pilot. You buy Frontier Points with real money. So your Elite came with some free points to buy cosmetic items. You can do this from the game's main menu.

For anyone else, Elite Dangerous: Legendary Edition is the PS4's physical version on disk.

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

X Harlon Nayl X

RoguePilot

RoguePilot

MBaldelli

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Just to make sure, you do have Horizons Season Pass as well? If not, that's why you're not finding it. Otherwise EDDB is accurate and correct. And they're pointing to Ackerman Market, Eravate system.

Oh wow. I don't think i have it. I'll jump on it now. Thanks!

ACK ! ! !

I was just checking out my disc case and it says "Elite Dangerous: Legendary Edition" and sure enough inside it says on a small piece of paper: "Includes Horizons Season Pass with 1,000 Frontier Points".
Which is great!

But what are Frontier points for?

Stryker Aune

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Welcome to Inara.
The dolphin is a great little smuggl-er, I mean passenger ship. Zippy, fun and all around a joy.
I hope she works well for you and your future endeavors!

RoguePilot

Stryker Aune

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Welcome to Inara.
The dolphin is a great little smuggl-er, I mean passenger ship. Zippy, fun and all around a joy.
I hope she works well for you and your future endeavors!

Thanks so much! Loving this game. The first 4-5 days were a serious nightmare, but I pushed through and learned what I needed to. Now I'm really hooked.
Just bought the Dolphin and still have 4 million credits left over. Any performance or frameshift mods I should be looking at?

RoguePilot

Stryker Aune

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Welcome to Inara.
The dolphin is a great little smuggl-er, I mean passenger ship. Zippy, fun and all around a joy.
I hope she works well for you and your future endeavors!

Thanks so much! Loving this game. The first 4-5 days were a serious nightmare, but I pushed through and learned what I needed to. Now I'm really hooked.
Just bought the Dolphin and still have 4 million credits left over. Any performance or frameshift mods I should be looking at?

Worlock77

RoguePilot

Stryker Aune

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Welcome to Inara.
The dolphin is a great little smuggl-er, I mean passenger ship. Zippy, fun and all around a joy.
I hope she works well for you and your future endeavors!

Thanks so much! Loving this game. The first 4-5 days were a serious nightmare, but I pushed through and learned what I needed to. Now I'm really hooked.
Just bought the Dolphin and still have 4 million credits left over. Any performance or frameshift mods I should be looking at?

Get a fuel scoop. It's an absolute must if you plan on venturing outside the "Bubble" (the core human occupied space), but even if you're going to remain within the Bubble it's still good to have, as it'll save a lot of time and hassle since you won't have to dock somewhere to refuel every few jumps. And if you're doing passenger missions it's good to have. A lot of passengers are fussy about getting scanned, and you'll almost certainly be scanned whenever you dock at a spaceport.

Also I wouldn't recommend going crazy with the upgrades just yet, not until you've got a sizable bank account built up. That 4,000,000 credits isn't going to go as far as you might think, especially if your ship gets destroyed and you start running into the cost of rebuys. I know for my ships a single rebuy will cost me a couple million each time. So no matter what make sure you maintain enough credits for at least one or two rebuys. You don't want to sink all your money into a nice beautiful ship configuration only to lose it and end up back in the basic Sidewinder because you can't afford the rebuy.

Renraiku

Worlock77

RoguePilot

Stryker Aune

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Welcome to Inara.
The dolphin is a great little smuggl-er, I mean passenger ship. Zippy, fun and all around a joy.
I hope she works well for you and your future endeavors!

Thanks so much! Loving this game. The first 4-5 days were a serious nightmare, but I pushed through and learned what I needed to. Now I'm really hooked.
Just bought the Dolphin and still have 4 million credits left over. Any performance or frameshift mods I should be looking at?

Get a fuel scoop. It's an absolute must if you plan on venturing outside the "Bubble" (the core human occupied space), but even if you're going to remain within the Bubble it's still good to have, as it'll save a lot of time and hassle since you won't have to dock somewhere to refuel every few jumps. And if you're doing passenger missions it's good to have. A lot of passengers are fussy about getting scanned, and you'll almost certainly be scanned whenever you dock at a spaceport.

Also I wouldn't recommend going crazy with the upgrades just yet, not until you've got a sizable bank account built up. That 4,000,000 credits isn't going to go as far as you might think, especially if your ship gets destroyed and you start running into the cost of rebuys. I know for my ships a single rebuy will cost me a couple million each time. So no matter what make sure you maintain enough credits for at least one or two rebuys. You don't want to sink all your money into a nice beautiful ship configuration only to lose it and end up back in the basic Sidewinder because you can't afford the rebuy.

I wholeheartedly disagree.

You must upgrade your ship as soon as you can, however make sure you have a rebuy or two in the bank as you upgrade.

Upgrading will make your ship faster, sturdier and overall better. Thrusters, Shields, FSD and Power Plant should be first.

Engineer as soon as you get A rated gear, even with the lowest engineering upgrade you can apply an experimental, go with Dirty Drive tuning and Drag Drives for your thrusters, then it doesn't matter how heavy you are you will still have great speed and maneuverability.

FSD, engineer with Increased Range and Mass Manager for jumping long distances and pure efficiency.

Shields, engineer with Thermal Resistance and Force block. Other options can do just as well if not better but that is what I would do early on.

Power Plant, engineer with Overcharged or Armoured depending on your power needs with experimental Thermal Spread.

Getting scanned at starports is pretty easy to avoid once you get used to aligning your self to the front of the station and moving in quickly, eg. boost towards the station and about 2km out drop gear and coast through, no real need for silent running once you have a good technique down. Planetary bases are a little more tricky. waiting for the patrol to tell you they are coming back to base to refuel is a good time to make your approach.

feel free to chat to us on Discord for assistance.

Worlock77

Renraiku

Worlock77

RoguePilot

Stryker Aune

RoguePilotHi everyone. New player here. (11 days in). I'm in the starting systems (LHS 3447/Eravate) and ready to make my first purchase. Can an someone please point me to a nearby station that has a Dolphin for sale? I've been to about 18 different systems in this area, and have come up with dust bunnies. Thanks!

Welcome to Inara.
The dolphin is a great little smuggl-er, I mean passenger ship. Zippy, fun and all around a joy.
I hope she works well for you and your future endeavors!

Thanks so much! Loving this game. The first 4-5 days were a serious nightmare, but I pushed through and learned what I needed to. Now I'm really hooked.
Just bought the Dolphin and still have 4 million credits left over. Any performance or frameshift mods I should be looking at?

Get a fuel scoop. It's an absolute must if you plan on venturing outside the "Bubble" (the core human occupied space), but even if you're going to remain within the Bubble it's still good to have, as it'll save a lot of time and hassle since you won't have to dock somewhere to refuel every few jumps. And if you're doing passenger missions it's good to have. A lot of passengers are fussy about getting scanned, and you'll almost certainly be scanned whenever you dock at a spaceport.

Also I wouldn't recommend going crazy with the upgrades just yet, not until you've got a sizable bank account built up. That 4,000,000 credits isn't going to go as far as you might think, especially if your ship gets destroyed and you start running into the cost of rebuys. I know for my ships a single rebuy will cost me a couple million each time. So no matter what make sure you maintain enough credits for at least one or two rebuys. You don't want to sink all your money into a nice beautiful ship configuration only to lose it and end up back in the basic Sidewinder because you can't afford the rebuy.

I wholeheartedly disagree.

You must upgrade your ship as soon as you can, however make sure you have a rebuy or two in the bank as you upgrade.

Upgrading will make your ship faster, sturdier and overall better. Thrusters, Shields, FSD and Power Plant should be first.

Engineer as soon as you get A rated gear, even with the lowest engineering upgrade you can apply an experimental, go with Dirty Drive tuning and Drag Drives for your thrusters, then it doesn't matter how heavy you are you will still have great speed and maneuverability.

FSD, engineer with Increased Range and Mass Manager for jumping long distances and pure efficiency.

Shields, engineer with Thermal Resistance and Force block. Other options can do just as well if not better but that is what I would do early on.

Power Plant, engineer with Overcharged or Armoured depending on your power needs with experimental Thermal Spread.

Getting scanned at starports is pretty easy to avoid once you get used to aligning your self to the front of the station and moving in quickly, eg. boost towards the station and about 2km out drop gear and coast through, no real need for silent running once you have a good technique down. Planetary bases are a little more tricky. waiting for the patrol to tell you they are coming back to base to refuel is a good time to make your approach.

feel free to chat to us on Discord for assistance.

Note: I did not advise him against upgrading, I cautioned him against spending all his credits on upgrading. Disagree if you wish, but you basically restated my advice.