User blog:Nikolai Albinus/Commander's Log, Star-Date... today...

Having played for a fortnight, I suppose it's time I looked at some of the tools. I had a basic spreadsheet where I stored data for commodities when I started, but I stopped using it about the time I encountered rare commodities (much more predictable and much more profitable when you only have a small ship) and never went back.

Recently, I have been bounty-hunting in my Eagle Mk. II and that's about as profitable as rare trading in my Cobra Mk. III, but a lot more fun. Maybe I will upgrade to a better trader and do some hauling later, but I am still having so much fun killing bigger ships in my tiny fighter. I am travelling, grinding Imperial faction and generally seeing what the bulletin boards around Tangaroa/Sovica have to offer.

These past couple of days, I've been using Cmdr's Log to track my wanderings. It's nice to note down my thoughts and it might be nice to look back on. I track the prices again too, using EliterOCR, just in case I go back to trading, but I think I'll grind more Imperial faction first and get a more elegant trader than the flying bricks that fill the shipyards.