I got one Million by a random player because i mentioned in all chat that today was my birthday. Very generous person. That was my first million ever in Star Citizen

There are some suggestion coming in about different ways to earn and I'll list a few and explain why I chose not to include them in a new player guide: - Renting a ROC and Cutlass Black: Ship rental/ROC rental can be daunting to a new player and require considerable setup time compared to basic missions. Also The earn rate is not consistent and can require a lot of learning to become proficient. Certainly worth persuing if it intersts you but not something I would suggest to a new player. - Illegal Survellance Missions: These used to be easier and more recommendable IMO. But compared to the earn rate and ease of other missions I think these ones can be quite challenging for newer players. There is a more aggresive timer now, it requires smart pinging and fast flying, mainting your cool under fire and avoiding accidentally targeting the police which often show up. I'm not saying new players can't learn all the skills needed to run these effectively but time spent, I think you would be much better off doing bounty missions which are much simpler, and end up paying out more for the time spent within a short period of time. - Running ERT Bounties with Torps: Again this guide is intended for new players with beginner ships. So a size 9 torp ship costs 3mil+ and you need a maxed out bounty tree. Its kind of late/end game earn rate.

asking for help in chat is always worth it in this game the community is really something special i once did a bunker mission and the turrets destroyed my ship the dude doing the mission before me saw that and waited until i finished my mission, just to give me a lift to the next station if thats not a gem in an online game, i dont know what is

I feel like the bunkers are fairly balanced money-wise because they are the riskiest missions in the game right now. a 10,000 UEC bunker mission turned into a 3 hour session of me hacking comm towers and evading NPC ships trying to hack my crime stat I got from a bug.

I once got 4 million payment for a simple taxi from A18 to Everus harbor. Checked with the player and they confirmed they did not make a typo. Definitely keep an eye on chat and beacons, if nothing else, going out of your way to help players makes the verse a better place and breaks up the monotony of the grind.

Clarity on the bunkers and reputation: while the Rep 5 bunkers do net you a fat payout of 115K including Call To Arms, getting yourself ranked up to tier 5 takes a *LONG* time. Honestly, you may already have your first million before you make it to tier 5.

The bunker missions are completely bugged as well. Fun.

Don't forget being able to rent a Cutty black and ROC mining vehicle at any refinery station for about 40k total and you can make around 100k an hour mining had/dolo/aphro. I usually go to Daymar or Aberdeen.

Nice guide. Something I want to add - "Halt Illegal Surveillance" Missions, from the Mercenary tab can net you 20,000 aUEC base payout and can even be done in ships that have guns, but aren't meant for combat, like in the Anvil Pisces. In other words, you should have no problems doing them in an Aurora or Mustang. And as always, if you stick around to fight the NPCs and have Call to Arms, there's a bonus payout of at least 1,000 - 1,500 aUEC

Been playing since 2014 and had no idea Alt+H increased flares or decoys. Shows that these vids are helpful to vets even. :)

Great video. I’ve been playing about eight months, but still learned a couple things. Very enjoyable.

Many of us propably don't think about it that much, but Bounty Hunting and Bunker missions can be pretty challenging for new players. I avoid Bounty Hunting completely if I'm being honest. Although you can earn quite a lot of cash in the higher Bounty ranks, you have to grind your way up there. And don't forget that you have to repair and restock your ship as well. You also have to have a ship that is capable of handling the HRTs and beyond. As I only start out with an Aurora MR, BH is not an option - it's also not fun for me. What works for me every time though are courier missions. Especially in the beginning, there's more or less no risk involved. You can level up your courier level really fast because there aren't as many ranks as with Bounty Hunting or Security Ops. The higher ranks will grant you access to well-paying retrieval missions. Bring a pistol and you're good to go. I usually do this until I'm around 100-150 k aUEC. I also watch out for the missions where you have to board an Aegis Reclaimer to obtain data or destroy the ship. Profit is around 50-60 k per mission. After that, I rent a Prospector and run my Mining routes, stacking up as many work orders at the Refineries as I can until the rental stops. With a rented Prospector, you can easily do at least 50- 120 k per mining run on average if you don't include Quantanium, that'll obviously be more valuable. Rent yourself a Cutty or a Freelancer to haul the refined goodies to the nearest TDD every once in a while. Following this strategy, I rinse and repeat until I reach the asking price of my desired ship + technical upgrades + 200-500 k spare money, all of this within a couple days. Still a bit sad to see that SC doesn't offer new players at least a bit of support on how to start earning money in the Verse while staying profitable with it. I guess the abscense of some type of tutorial or explanation on how things work is the main reason why some new players quit after a short time, they just don't know what to do.

A mission no one ever talks about is "Remove Claimjumpers". Sure the mission payout isn't great, but lots of enemies spawn in flying Prospectors which makes for good "A Call to Arms" payout. Plus it can get you a lot of ship combat experience. Are we here to make a living or play a entertaining game. If you make your games just about the grind they will be no different than real life.

Thanks, LC! Im loving the Star Citizen tutorial content!

I bough a Buccaneer, love the thing. with it I do bounties and bunkers (Only the guarding types as the turrets will be friendly). and I go mixing the two doing bunkers and then bounties until new bunker missions are available

The bunker missions (Tier 1) for me have been unplayably bugged. I lost 3 bars of rep to 6 broken missions out of 7 I ran: two duplicated elevators, three iterations of 2 non-existent enemies left, and a bunker that had someone else's ship there and 10 enemies listed, but no enemies to be found, and the guards were in casual mode (implying the contract system allowed me to pickup a mission someone else was already doing and completed before I got in-range). Which is a shame, because it's my favorite gameplay loop so far, but I can't get out of Tier 1... The 890j missions have been great so far, no issues there as of yet, thankfully!

don't think that cave fps missions have hadenite spawn in enemy npc's armour any more

Great Guide! Sending it to all my new player friends!

Great way to start a Sunday morning, cheers LvlCap!

Since the wipe I've just done bunker missions and now get the 90k (plus call to arms bonus) missions. I lost count how many missions I've completed but it's a lot but at 100k every 15 to 20 minutes its not bad. I don't bother collecting loot unless it's to restock on ammo.

That was a excellent video my guy... LOVED IT!!! 😍

9:04 WAIT WHEN DID I TEAM UP WITH LEVELCAP? When was the footage gathered haha, I am so confused! Never know who you'll meet in the verse. Must have been a nice guy cause I've only ever run bunkers with some super cool folks I happened to meet!

I use my Andromeda in combat missions and space in the Hurston system to work up reputation. Once I can afford to fully upgrade the Andromeda, the space missions pretty much end up being cake. I have yet to take on the hammerhead mission since 3.16, that's the last time I played before the graphics engine upgrade that rendered my laptop unable to launch SC. Now I recently had my desktop upgraded with a Radeon RX 6600 and getting back into SC tomorrow afternoon. I am very excited.

i once ran out of fuel and i was still new to the game so i typed in the global chat, went toilet and when i came back someone sent me 200k, so nice

I don’t think the missions should get a nerf the ai just needs a major buff

Great news for delivery missions. They seem to be working way more reliably in 3.18. I’ve been able to make quite a bit with them. Especially with the 45k ones.

Thanks for the informative and helpful video level, I'll ave to start doing some mercenary missions they look fun. Are there any cool apps or tools that can be used alongside Star Citizen? p.s. A nice little time saver I found out about in Star Citizen game chat recently is that on the planet microTech there's a surface entrance to The Commons (the main shop on microTech) that you can land your ship next to and walk right in, such a huge time saver compared to landing/storing your ship at the spaceport and taking the transit line to The Commons and back 👍

Great video. One thing to note is that shield faces don’t recharge independently. As long as you hit the ship (hull or any shield face) it resets the entire shield recharge timer.

Have Nomad - Rent ROC - Mine Aberdeen - make enough to buy ROC on your first run - buy ROC (optional) and keep mining aberdeen - mil in a day or two

I got 3.7 million for dropping off a guy in a cutlass and talking about how i wanted to go mining with 2 roc cars so incase the other one breaks i can use the other one on the spot and dude gave me money to buy a corsair or a constelation. I am thankful to that person and the community because he or she is not the only person to help me go forward in this game.

Now I need to make a million dollars in real life.

Got my first million buy answering a trivia question

Thanks that was 12mins well spent.

Running bunkers and looting the guns and armour from them to your ship can earn you an extra 10-15k depends if you find good guns, good side hustle and worth the extra minutes if you’re already bunkering. That plus the higher tier bunkers and the call to arms you could be earning 100k per bunker. I got max tier missions pre-wipe and grinder them out at Crusader. 10 bunkers can easily be accomplished within one or two days so basically 1 million per day.

I'll have to do some cave diving bounties, looks fun, I tend to avoid them dark and I got lost easily XD

Well, for the past week the only consistent way to make money has been ship bounties. I'm at 7/10 bunkers bugging with enemies not spawning and destroying drugs and contraband not finishing the objective. Service beacons have been very hard to get and more often than not I simply don't get any to show. And half the time you don't get any targeting on the enemies. Also a few times you can't even see the ship you have to protect. As for mining... Back in 3.17.1 I had a few unscannable rocks. Ever since 3.17.2 the vast majority has been unscannable. And recently I've been having a lot of unscannable rocks when ROC mining also. Oh, and with all those 30ks flying around I really don't feel comfortable doing stuff that takes a lot of time in one sitting. On the bright side, group VHRTs and HRTs are reasonably fast with only an Arrow, which you can get for just under a million. Illegal monitors near MT is also a very easy, steady and reliable way to make some cash with a starter ship, which should do fine to get a first light fighter in a timely manner.

There is a guide right now on a rented ROC and a rented cutlass black mining which consistently makes around 150k an hour and is chill and relaxing.

Another perk for cave missions: Once the mission is complete and the backpack is full, just log out/in back to home station and go straight to the Admin office to sell the ore. A cheap ship like the Nomad is perfect because the 40-second reclaim time makes it FAR more practical to log out/in & reclaim than to navigate the cave back to the ship and fly home.

Damn how does your game run soo smoothly!! Wish mine did that

Great video

I always thought it would be fun to run a uber type business in this game, shuttling around people.. 'course I guess you would need a initial investment to get a decent ship and insurance just in case! :D

I can't get the Group bounties from Northrock, only Eckhart.. I have no idea how to get 'em to pop lol. Great vid though!

I did a cave mission, took all the dolivine, but it was listed as illegal cargo and I'm finding it difficult to find somewhere to sell it.

What's the best ship that can make the most amount of AUEC?

As of today 90% of bunker missions are bugged. Also they added a lot of turrets that may or may not activate and there are no more blind spots, so even if the bunker is not bugged the only reliable way to fly away is to park the ship 1km away. And lastly cave missions only spawn Dolvine as a loot, wich can be still a 50-60k worth, but no more Hadenite in 3.17.2

There are a load of ways for player to make their first million and this sets out a few of em, great job!

My experience is the Valkyrie is much harder than the hurricane in the Mustang. It’s not hard to 1-2 pass a hurricane in the Mustang, meaning you can just zip in, kill, zip out. Valk’s are so tanky they end up taking longer and giving time for the adds to pile onto you. 1 S2 Distortion Repeater + 1 S2 Laser Repeater and 2 S1 Laser Repeaters = super quick hurricane kills.

>Login to the PU >CIG gave everyone a million dollars >>>>CIG gave everyone a million dollars

Step 1: have a pc that can run star citizen.

Got myself a Connie the other day

Delivery rep up Lvl.2 get 45k and loot up sell 8-10k more. Rent / Buy ROC cheap [need Nomad, Cutty to haul] and earn / mine creds for Prospector. MT system new derelicts, outposts big loot, gems, missions. Yes space combat bounty is great grind creds BUT U choose another path.

I’m just wondering how he didn’t get a crime stat when killing the miners in the cave?

Please note that their is a specific gaming rig set up for this OG. So his gameplay with not be the same as people who are playing with a mouse + keyboard.

after watching this and learns that the ship dogfights tutorial are waayyyyy longer, i decided to become a space cowboy XD

So I've been doing bunker missions in Hurston for quite awhile and I've only been getting 9k missions. Do different systems provide different pays?

I don’t know how you do box missions. 8/10 times a bug occurs making the delivery not do’able. Boxes becoming unregistered to private landing pads that don’t show up.

I think they should have it so running a mission with a group nets you more rep but less cash, and running it solo gets you less rep but more cash.

@LevelCapGaming Hey, you used the same background track as we heard in inside star citizen when they showed us the new holo Interfaces. Where is that from? Thanks in advance

I feel like I get about an hour to play at a time and the bunker missions are not available until I'm about out of time

the ai have got a bit tougher from the past. renting a cutty b and a ROC is probably one of the best ways as a noob.

For anyone interested, just accept all of the bunker missions you can get, someone is going to do them for you anyways.

In space you don't insta-die when you get shot a few times.... FPS combat in SC is so damn buggy and laggy that you'll get instakilled more then once from an AI that either spawned behind you or didn't stand where he was animated.. hence you were shooting air.

this dude's great

I use bunker missions to acquire all their gears incase i die or get hit by pirate

It took 5 hours a day and 4 weeks of grinding to get max rep on bunkers. That being said it was worth it for me. Recently I just got max bunker rep in all systems. Mind you that is all I did to get max rep is bunkers. Didn't do any other missions.

I've probably lost about 400k due to crashes, I now have 14aUEC to my name

the only thing keeping me from playing this game is needing a flight rig setup to effectively control my ship

How can you tell who’s a bad guy and who’s a civilian?

How you making dollars when the only currency is aUEC? 😯

Max of 8 cave missions and you are at 1 mil. So easy in SC verse today to get that mil. Do some ship combat bounties, and mix in caves and you should be at a mil in 1 or 2 play sessions. That is why buying ships worth less than a vanguard sentinel in game is a waste of real money. Just get in game and you will have one in a couple days.

No idea about what gimble mode, no wonder I could't hit the broadside of a barn during bounty dog fights

atm i am mostly doing the cave bountys.

what spec do u need to run this game on max with 60 fps or more?

Dude I swear I haven’t seen a video of yours since 2015. Has my subscription box just not been working 😮

how you get the red marker on the ships?

U know when delivery missions are in a rly bad state when LevelCap calls bunker mission reliable lmao

Lmao! Bunkers! Soooo easy right? The A.I is still on drugs and pushing me out of the way so they can walk past me to find me, lol. Easy kills, easy money! Great vid thanks!

I HATE bounty hunting and the bunker missions.. I spent the $150 for the prospector and start mining right away.. love just doing my own thing with nobody bothering me.

Man, literally just make 38k, go rent a Cutlass Black and a ROC and just head to Aberdeen, at LEAST 100k an hour, I never made less than 150k with this and you can just have it always ready to log and mine.

I feel like I can't do anything with a starter ship. Try to just do basic deliveries and I get blown up by pirates or griefers. Shit sucks I can't even manage to get an 11k mission done.

They desperately need to work on enemy death animations, and have them not teleport wherever.

im fire up buy it tuday can whait tu play it

Make a million dollars fast! Astronauts hate him!

Are you using the keyboard to play Star Citizen or a H.O.T.A.S ? Can you recommend a HOTAS ?

unfortunate for me respond player beacon are the most frustrating thing i atempt to do in this game 90% are traps, a real pity cuz i like to help but here is almost a suicide mission, so for now i simply startying to ingnore them.

The first thing I think about when the subject sci fi comes up, wether in video games or sci fi movies is capitalism and how is that character going to make some money. Why does it seem that todays video games revolve around money earning missions? interesting. Kill bandits to earn money. Mine to earn money. Salvage to earn money. etc,etc……

I only get 11k on High risk targets

Since when did SC run with dollars? lol

Bro you upload these SC videos like people actually play this game often...

I make 90k per bunker mission at level 4. Takes 10 minutes to clear out the bunker enemies. Rinse repeat. About 360k an hour depending how much bunker missions u get to pop how fast. 360k conservative and 500k or more is possible. So after a couple days that's a couple million. Enough to buy nice combat ship like ares or a heavy fighter...or freelancer or something.

got my first mill cause some players doing bounties got stranded

if your a new player you can loot small out for about 20k an hour once you get good at it, but wont have to get good at because once you have got up about 35k your going to rent ROC and Cutty which will average you about 100k an hour, the combat of star citizen using an aiming matrix called ESP curves calibration and its awful and makes combat unplayable by my standards if you use a controller, all combat is so glitched its ridiculous

The amount of grinding that u have to do to earn some good cash is just unfair. After spending so much time earning reputation and cash, they delete everything...the worst part is that in a 6 hour session you spend 5 hours dealing with bugs and glitches and like 20 minutes of actually playing.

So the grind is not such an hard thing here am I right ?

You didnt mention the S9 torp ships, it requires you to drop 3-4mil. retaliator and eclipse that can 1 shot hammerheads. Only cost about 3.8k per torp so you make a lot more than you lose and instakill them

do you have any tips to make 2 million lol

Dollars?

community is too nice in star citizen. once i asked for 300 to refuel, they sent me 5 million

enemies dont shoot back? How is this even a game?

Im new to this game and really like it. But the amount you really need to know to play it is enough to make you want to puke.