I would like to say Thanks you Al for this thread. Certanly the time it has been active shows out its value without doubt!!
Im practically a complete noob at this game since i got it a bit ago, (just started 3 times, my very first getting in the plot till i got stuck by the need of a bigger ship
, and the second was better but did not get too far from the begining when i got a PC issue (HD death) and had to restart this thirth time after fixing my PC)
Your Guide really boost me up fast in the game, i would like to share this little sand grain to your big mountain...
Fast way of getting money early by CAPing:
- since i did the second misson "stripping out the TP" to get those nearly 400k, ( and toke note of what Saya tells you of carring E Cells with u to boron territory
) end with around 450K, then fixed my disco. (personally belive is the faster way to do it)
- i headed to the pirate sectors, but i finded better results at "Priest´s Pity"
i did almost all my caps here (besides get u good rep with the Paranide
).
- with a little patience u can cap a bayamon following Al´s GUIDE, for me was quite easy ( just reloaded twice till i learned to STAY BEHIND HIM!!
)
- i got it with a hull of 68% so is not difficult to
- If u administrated your roughly 450k from second mission when equiping the disco, then u should have enough to fix it, arm it with 4 GIRE and 2 5MW shields that u can get from, oh surprise! the paranid factory at Priest´s Pity! (this if u killed enough pirates to get the proper rep with them, no difficult, 3 or 4 Mandalays will do it),else u can get them from the teladi at Sizewell sector.
- now u can go and cap more bayamon till u have enough to pay for 4 BPAC, ( not difficult either)
- i have my Bayamon with 4 BPAC and focused in CAPing Orinocos, they worth 300k+ even for a badly dmged hull and the BPAC does a wonderfull job, just pay attention to the target´s hull since once the shield is down, hull is easyly wasted by the PACs
in less than 3 hours from begining managed to cap like 3 Mandalays (this because they bailed when shoted since i proly blow them out, they dont worth the effort),4 Bayamon and like 6 Orinocos and a couple of pirate ship (those TS class)and had to stop due to the fact that i did like 2 millons from them ( minus some fixing, restocking wasp missiles, changing from ire to pac).
TIP: My best tactic with Bayamons, close from behind, fire 2 wasp in a row (give it a second of timeing, more or less or the second wasp will blow the first in your face) (they drain practicaly the whole shield) drain a bit the hull and let it regain a bit of shield, keep buggin it till it bails
TIP 2: If u want to cap a BAY or an ORINOCO that come with escort of Mandalays and/or Bayamons, u can "dispose" of that escort: 2 wasp for a Mandalay and 3 for a Bayamon do the job
Personaly i target the Mandalays from behind at around 1 Km and fire rapidely a serie of 2 wasp at each before the first one get hitted so none escape ( they break formation once the first get hitted) in 4 or 5 second the escorted ship find itself "alone", get behind your targeted ship before it have time to turn on you and begin the "bugging till bails out" procedure
These tactics worked terrificly good for me, (take note that im noob at this wonderfull game). now i have to investigate furter in the game to know what do with the money
Failing is not the end... is just one more step.
(I did not want to run proly into X3 before enjoying X2 and all it have to offer, besides give some time to developers to fixing all those bugs of TC)
Is the capping-rate depending on what difficulty im playing at? And might my low combat rank have anything to do with i cant capture as much as you can? 
