Elite Dangerous: Jobs
From wikinotes
Logging Lucrative Jobs
If you stubled on a lucrative job, and want to record it:
- 4: view right display
- status: ? # list recent jumps (identify recent jumps)
- 1 > galaxy map:
- search: 'dock name'
- bookmark: # then edit bookmarks, and add description
Revenue
The simplest way that I have found to earn money in low-level ships is bounty-hunting, and courier missions.
Trade
courier
Courier missions are profitable, but only available in select systems.
When you find a good one, bookmark it.trading
Combat
assasinations
- if you assassinate a pirate in one system, you can collect on both the local bounty and the mission reward
- bounty hunting is still more profitable per/minute
bounty hunting
There is a lot of fancy equipment for bounty hunting, but I have found that the most profitable way of doing it is:
* purchase a sidewinder in your system (very low insurance costs) * supercruise to the nav beacon nearest your star * fly near the nav beacon looking for gunfire * piggypack on the kill