Tips & Tricks

These **TIPS & TRICKS** are from players, like you, who have played for a while and gathered some great information. If you have some great ideas, add them here. If you don't see a category that your tip/trick fits into, feel free to add it. An ADMIN will try and keep it organized as best as possible!

## General Tips and Tricks (from Discord)

* Every Friday go to DC and go to Questions (courtesy of @Tattoo\_Lucifer)
* Have a laugh every day and have fun playing the game you think is the right way for you! (courtesy of @Lexieduss)
* Do save often! F6 is our friend (courtesy of @Moe)
* If something doesn't work - try save & reload (courtesy of @Moe)
* If a mission is too hard for you come back after you lvl up (courtesy of @Pejot)
* Grab some freelance soldiers and appoint them to missions from mail it will speed up population gathering (courtesy of @Pejot)

## Raids and Operations

### Raids

Raids should be thought well your first structure to raid in every system should be stargate (unless it's the only structure along with the escape route) since most enemies focus on stations and beacons if you are starting on raids you should start raiding of house seragon as your first step as they are very easy and your soldiers level up incredibly fast so it's an easy pick

### Operations

You can speed run Operations in 1 phase by taking out the Shield Quarters first. In Phase 1, while your fleet deals with the Shield Quarters, you can fly around the central shield and kill off defenders. As soon as the shield comes down, you can land on the battle platform and kill off the baddies to win the Operation. I always set a Phase 2, just in case, for the Dropship to help out.

## Ground Combat

* Make sure you have a long range weapon in your arsenal that has a scope. Often called a sniper rifle. Sometimes there be one with "advanced scope" but it is unclear what that is. In many cases you can clear out the objective from long range
* You can crouch when firing to reduce your profile for getting hit
* You can press E and Q in order to learn left or right
* You will need to buy ammo for most weapons at a station. Only Stations, Capital Stations and Mercenary Guild Stations sell ammo.
* Make sure you have a pistol they do not require ammo, so you can use them in desperate situations
* You can use your G key to fly away, skimming the ground
* Use the spacebar key to getup if you are knocked down.
* Make sure to headshot your enemies, headshots deal greater damage
* Grab some helpful talents while combat fighting
* Pistols deal alot of headshot damage
* Enemies can throw grenades at you, if you hear constant ticking that means there is a bomb nearby
* Shotguns have infinite ammo
* Shotguns deal alot of headshot damage
* Shotguns are effective against Jen

## Space Combat

* Often at the start of a dogfight I slam the ship into reverse and turn left or right while also strafing the same way, gets rid of the clustered wing that tends to spawn right behind you (courtesy of @MisterFibble on Discord)
* You can buy shield boosters at a component kiosk and equip them into ship slots on landing pad services. Then you can hit the button during combat to massively improve your shield resiliency
* If you see the missile target lock. Press X to drive the missiles away from you, this is effective to stop taking so much damage from enemies
* During a fight you can put your engine powers into damage, shield and speed (Up key for damage. Right key for shield. Left key for speed) you can even balance your engine power between them and engine power depends on how big the ship is, so if you have a capital ship you're gonna have alot of engine power, this can also be combined with consumables
* You should upgrade your ship every time you level up

## Saving TY

* Traders - Traders sell really powerful and incredible items and they can easily be found in planets with a little bit of exploration and sometimes the items they sell can be really good and cheap at the same time
* Pistols - As listed in ground combat. Pistols deal insane headshot damage and they have infinite ammo so you can easily save alot of ammo

## Making TY

* Pods - Capturing pods can be a hassle. To make it a bit easier, the closer you are to the pod, the less time and effort is required to *stabilize* it. Also, if you have a mouse capable of adjusting its DPI, a lower DPI makes it easier to *stabilize.*

* Cargo Stealing - Cargo Stealing can be unlocked after completing the Brotherhood intro mission. The player can use Cargo Stealing to make a profit or upgrade their ship. Here are some tips to Cargo Stealing:
	+ Scan Cargo First - This may seem unnecessary, but you don't want to loot junk items.
	+ Avoid higher tier ships - They'll kill you fast if you're not prepared
	+ Check the systems average level - helps you pick target systems easier. From the star map, each system identifies a range of levels in the system

* Raiding villages - loot box drops from player kills are based on player Mercenary level. Loot box levels inside buildings are based on the village/system level. The blink talent is recommended for village raids
* Bounty Hunting - if you are well prepared you can destroy a few ships for millions easily
* Freelancer Missions - later in the game those can be really easy to deal with and they give you TY based on your level
* Mining - Recommended early in the game. Mining gives alot of TY to start mining, go to the Miner's Guild and talk to the registration and join the guild to earn a mining beam

## CTD or Other Bug Workarounds

* Bounty Hunter Missions inside an Asteroid that CTD - First, dismiss your Fighter Wing (F1 -> F5), then fly out of the asteroid to open space. Fly out a bit to pull the targets out of the asteroid. Call your Wingman back and go to work.

* Bank Items Missing after Relog - Store items in your mining ship if you want to keep them for later. This can be done fairly easily at a Ship Call Kiosk.

* Anytime there's a bug or something not working, first thing is F6 then close game and launcher, if still doesn't work then those warp loading screens you are seeing are totally borked. Work around is B then try to fly to location instead. watch altimeter because most times you are underground. -XXXX number (Courtesy of @Windamere)