keep shooting, the depots can withstand the lasers u start with quite well. Just keep sooting and they go boom!

From a new char with NO kills at all and don't kill anything during this process.

1. Specifically hit the Police depot and destroy the 4 the pods, that fixes your rouge/outcast rep.

2. buy a junker bribe{88k avg} at rochester that fixes almost everyone else except Unioners/Xenos.

3. buy a Zoner bribe{90k} and that is you completly neutral with every faction in the default game expect Nomads.

For levelling up quickly, if u do the flint wreck at the northwest of the badlands u can gey at least 30k right from the start (it has 20 cardmine), sell it at manhattan. You just select a waypoint for auto pilot (not best path) just to the north west of westpoint then join the tradelane to manhattan.
In california there is another wreck containing cardmine in the middle of the system, i don`t usually bother going back to manhattan for it, another 15k sold nearby. Theres avenger and prudue (i think), in the northwest rad nebula in texas..
Basically get as much as you can wreck wise, if u are playing story then when passing through sig13 u can pop off and get at least 150k from nearby wrecks near yanagi. If u are on openSp, get urself a basic ship and set off to sig13 where u can make a ridiculously high amount of game killing credits very easily. Theres about 6 wrecks of old imperial ships each with equipment worth 75k each..

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Ok the police depot looks kinda like that....where are these pods at....on the vertical tower or the horizontal tower....?

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