Actually there are several ways to make 30k and more fast. One way is to go on high difficulty missions which pay that much money but you have to be a high level to get those missions. Also you can go on trade runs. I have one trade run that gets me 340k in 5 minutes. There are some posts around here that talk about good places to go trading so look around.

"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you cant pick your friend's nose."

This might be a spoiler.......



"sprint to the flint" is what you do when you start a game, multiplayer or singleplayer, and you immediately go into the badlands, where you can find the flint. The flint is a wreck that has a hold of cardamine which sells very good at manhattan. The profit is usually around 30k credits

I've completed mission 2 and now i'm trying to the the run from houston to la or freeport 4? but i don't think i can jump to other locations. Is this true. will i need to do more missions for me to jump to other locations.

Since others have already posted spoilers in this thread, I'll post an extra suggestion or two:

* If you're going to make money carrying cargo, buy a Patriot immediately as soon as you start. If you re-use your shield, the Patriot only costs you 1800 of your 2k stake. Gives you 25 cargo capacity instead of 20.

Raid the hfuel tanks at Baltimore Shipyard, run like hell. You can sell it at Plane t Los Angeles for ~400 a pop.

Want a non-violent start? Go to Xenos space in Colorado and mine silver. Stay near the trade lanes, and every time a Xenos wing approaches, take the trade lane for about 10k. Exit trade lane, repeat. Take the Silver to Planet LA for 700 a pop.

LA is also very conveniently near Willard Research Station, the only place in Liberty where you can buy a class 3 Gravitron shield.

Where is the exact location of this *badland* to find the flint and extract the cadamine minerals and sell at manhattan for money. also since i've just finished mission 2 and gained to lvl 2 should i continue the story line or go out and explore. The main problem now is that when i goto the jumpgates at colorado or other ones, it said i can't jump from the new york system to another system. I've just begun the game so any help is appreciated.

The Badlands is the southern part of New York.

If you want the location of the Flint, you should ask in the Spoiler Forum since this kind of info is not allowed in other forums. Or better yet: Get yourself one of the many maps which can be found on the Internet. Both solutions will of course spoil the fun of discovering the wreck yourself.

the reason you cant use the jump gates is that you need to complete mission 4 (i think).

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