I'm using Eta Ceti here as an example because this is the furthest I've gotten with any level of skill - I've gotten further, but blew up. Anyway, I'd mined for some cash to spend on a shield once I'd got there- a Taikon-10 - and bought some ion capacitors for my katana. And decided to try farming s...

Bloody hell, what are those Ventari packing? I think Ventari destroyers have killed me more than any other enemy past St. Kats.

The only one was in the system I died in.

I would have, too.

If I'd have been able to find ANYWHERE to upgrade it. >.>

I was going to move to a Fusionfire- but I was waiting for a better reactor. I was sitting on a piddly 180 megawatts.

Ouch, that killed me good.

Admittedly, I was out at Eta Ceti with nothing more than a souped up X-ray laser for my weapons (although I DID have a plasma shield, so...)

I needed some rins, so I decided to blow up some Ferian mines and such. Bam. Dead. Those plasma cannons are NASTY.

It's because shooting the crap out of frigates so you get better missiles is so...lucrative.

I was doing a bunch of Korolov missions to get some money and work my way up to the Class V...

...and I killed the Kronosaurus in my THIRD SYSTEM IN.

So I ended up not getting the class V and got Volkov instead.

Hey there. First time poster, although you might have seen me lurking in the IRC. Simple question here. I can generally, although not always, make enough money to kit myself out well enough so that once I'm in St. Kats I can buy enough stuff to at least hold my own with the enemies past for 2 or 3 s...