Make Millions Doing Skimmer Missions

This is a guide explaining how to make a lot of money doing missions that involve blowing up skimmers. They pay well, increase your reputation, and are fairly quick. Therefore, it is an excellent way to become rich while grinding up your Federation, Alliance, or Empire ranks.

*This method does involve stacking missions, so if aren't into that then you kind kindly gtfo cause I don't give no shits.

Getting Started

You only need a few things to get this started.

1.) A ship with dumbfire rockets equipped (you don't necessarily need this, but it makes it go much faster).

2.) The ship must also hold an srv. 

3.) Lastly, a station that offers skimmer missions. I've had luck finding them with Corporation factions in the Boom state.

*note: Keep in my mind,having higher standings with the local factions increases the chances of handing out the missions and the amount the mission rewards.

Stacking the Missions

Now that you've met the requirements it is time to start stacking the missions.

Scroll through the mission board accepting every skimmer mission. While doing this note down which bases they are asking you to attack.

Now Log off to main menu - and choose to start in a different type of game mode(Open, Private, or Solo)

Now accept all the missions again.  repeat this until your accepted missions are full or until you get tired of doing it. If you found a good station you will notice that a lot of the missions are going to the same destination. THESE are the missions you want. You could have 20 different missions asking you to kill the same skimmers. However, each kill counts towards all of those missions. So really by doing one mission you could finish all 20. So if you see a couple bases coming up a lot try only stacking those.

*Just so you know at admired the factions will pay you between like 1-5mil to complete the mission. The highest I've been paid was 4.7 million for one mission. Now think of that times 20!

Executing the mission

Now the fun part! Head to your destination and drop out of glide ~ 10km or so away from the base you are supposed to attack (you won't be attacking it). 

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Now hit PGUP or whatever button you have assigned to "Increase sensor zoom". This will let your surface scanner see a larger span of land. 

Now turbo around keeping your eye out for  POI circles. Once you find one you need to line it up so that you will fly through the center (the video will show this if you don't understand). Now staying at 2km above the surface fly full speed (not turbo) towards the Circle keeping it lined up. Once you enter the circle angle your ship down 26-27 degrees and slow your ship down into the comfort zone. As your coasting towards the surface at 26-27 keep an eye out for visual that pops up that looks different than the rest of the surface. This is your target. Fly towards it. 

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Now that youve found your target fly up close to it, being careful not to crash, and wait for the skimmers to appear. If they do not appear try touching the ground or landing near the target.

Once the skimmers appear blow them up with your dumbfire rockets. Match in the gas tank BOOM BOOM.  Mission complete. And usually no bounty is placed on you.  You may have to do this a few more times to complete your missions because some missions require you to kill more skimmers than others.

Tips

If the mission sent you to a planet that is real dark it can be a pain to do. Note that station down and don't take that mission again.

It's better if the target is the only station on the planet. Sometimes the POI's will spawn other station's skimmers.

Sometimes you'll notice the skimmers aren't counting towards the kill count. I think this is some glitch and the only way I've to get them to count is to land and take them out in my srv. Don't choose those targets again.

Stay Dangerous Commanders,

Cmdr Boda Shandis