Hello, UrbanSquirrel!
And welcome to the world of tomorrow! (c) Futurama.. Lol
Let's decide from the start: do u like the sci-fi setting or u LOVE it?
If second, then take yo time to read my tips
As i can see, u have 3 major points to be helped with: credits, stims, levelling
Let's start from
stimpacks:
There are several ways to obtain/save them
1. Find yourself a good friend engie to make runs with. If you can't find friend, then join a decent guild. When choosing a guild ask about Tier3 guildhall, coz stims are twice as cheap in the vendors there. If u feel like a jedi - then add me in game (ign flashbackflip) and i will invite u to the Jedi Council guild
2. You found an engie, but he/she is not THAT cool? Then slow down yo pace! Let the engie heal u twice b4 going to next mob
3. Still can not find an engie? Then make an engie alt especially for farming!
4. Another way to get stims is to make an alt, finish first campaign or two (after finishing full maps you get stims as bonus) then stash all of them, delete yo alt and pick the stims with yo main (personally i don't like this way, but you should know about it i guess). Starting campaigns were made easier just recently, so i guess u will have no troubles running them
The next tips are for getting
credits:
First of all, credits ARE harder to get in SL than in PL, but this leads to less inflation and more stable market
Go to lower levels and farm there for greens or even orange items for 6-17 lvls. Sell them at the market. Yes, it IS repetitive and YES, sometimes nobody buyes anything, but if yoy plan your timing wise (notice when the most players are online and plce yo bets accordingly) you can get from 200 to 500 creds for oranges and from 1000 to 5000 for greens. Look at the DefyDuck's post in this thread - he gave you good advise on where to find what
The second option is... Begging! Lol joking .. Noone likes beggars
The last, but not the least is
levelling:
The easiest way is to join a guild which provides power levelling (not all of them do).. I heard a story of a guy from Spartans guild who levelled from 1 to 41 in 12(!!) hours with the help of guildies.. He obviously had lots of coffee mugs, but i think u get the point))
The other way is to run first maps of campaigns over and over as generally you can solo first two or three maps easily
Another way is to find a friend at the same level (chat at BlackStar and you get acquainted with fool guys rather quickly) and do runs together.. Preferrably, this guy should be an engineer
And a couple of words about
Operative class:
Ops are the fast-killaz, but should pay attention to the amount of enemies they can handle.. If there's 4-5-6 dudes attackin you then don't hesistate to retreat and lose some of them when they reach their max radius of operation and return to their initial positions
The main skill to solo maps is 'pulling' - you come close, shoot, get attention and run back shooting and applying skills killing enemies one by one. When u r done with one mob - heal with inner focus and repeat
Personally i love Operative (its my main) and can handle large groups of bad guys alone, but this comes with experience and could be stim-consuming
I hope i helped you a bit.. If you have other questions or want to discuss any particular part of this post in more details - tell me
Also i hope you will stay and become real hardcore player)) we need those!
May the Force b with ya!
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