welcome to elite dangerous, a game where you'll spend a hard time making money, learning the hard way the cost of defeat etc ... well now you're a tough guy are ya ?
let's get to business then shall we...

a stock sidewinder , can i even ?

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Sidewinder_MkI

yes you can ! 1st : head over the local navigation beacon on your system, then wait for ships to show up, target then and look at them so you'll automatically scan them, and if you see a red tag "wanted" on them after the scan, well here comes cash on leggs if i may say so.

either you engage them or wait for the cops to do the dirty job and just shoot at it when it's nearly dead so you don't take any risk, you'll still get the bounty to earn this way.


i'm a bit rich now , what should i take ?

buy an eagle, and ... do this again !, also if you can afford a better outffit, that's a plus, but get a kill warrant scanner is a must before else. and repeat same as the sidewinder's tactic.

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Eagle_MkII

i'm RICHER what now ?

buy a vipermk3 or a cobramk3 tho the viper is better for BH the only thing about the cobra3 is that it got a better boost. also repeat the sidewinder tactics + KWS ( kill warrant scanner )

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Viper_MkIII
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Cobra_MkIII


i'm MOAR RICHER ?

now you'll hit the 10-12 millions credits, i'd say it's time for the ( in my opinion) best ship for bounty hunting, and also the time you'll start earning a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of money...

1 : buy yourself a taxi hauler ( buy a hauler and outtfit it to go to a system)
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Hauler
2 : go to system GENDE
3 : sell all your goods and buy a Vulture ( edit if you want you can go buy the vulture in a LYR controled system for a 15% discount on ship and module )

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Vulture

4 : with 10 millions here's how you should outtfit it : http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/04D5D2D3D5A4D3C1e1e0n---4b----.AwRj4zyA.Aw4JmBGYBYdYBmBQ

the station of gende system got almost all the outffiting gear for a vulture

5 : you're ready ! head over the planet ring near the station ( less than 1 Ls of distance )

6 : feeling confident ? start serious business in the Hazardous ressource extraction site
still feel like the cops could give a hand ? there's a high extraction site too !

7 : wait for ships to spawn and let the mayhem be while you start collecting money over dead wanted criminals.


I' VE GOT LOADS OF EMONE !

well now, if you really want some big guns, tho the vulture is ( again imo ) the best bounty hunting ship, get yourself a FDL aka Fer-De-Lance

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Fer-de-Lance

outffit that ship like a killing machine and do that again. ( imo best outffit for it is 4 medium multi canons and a class 4 burst/pulse laser as you wish it, laser is to burst down ennemy shield, while you'll want to go for multicanon on the hull, get turret MC tho they are well placed so that when you try a U turn manoever they can still shoot at the target, the 4Class can't . )

congratulation you're a end game bounty hunter feared across the entire galaxy !

some advice tho :

- while bounty hunting your main objective is to outmanoeuver your ennemy so he can't fight back ! which is why ( yeah again imo ! ) the vulture is the best ship for that with a 9/10 manoeuvrability with the lowest mass available for a heavy fighter in the game.

- you'll get trouble at getting your hands on the game at the begin which is why i recommand you stand in the navigation beacon until you feel good enought with your flying skills, don't hesitate to get the hands with your flying skills with a stock sidewindy, they're 100% free of charge for you !

- remember if your ship is destroy, the bounty vouncher you have are gone ! so if you are too low on hull's integrity or feel insecure about your vouncher, head over to the closest station and claim your bounty/repair/reappro your ship

-the more you're doing it the better you are, so adapt your ship and don't hesitate to outffit it the way you wish to outtfit it , bored of pulse lasers ? try beam ! want some kinetic power ? try canon ! enought of the gimballed weapons ? want some challenge ? try the plasma accelerator !

- bounty hunting spots difficulty goes like this : Nav.beacon < RES[low] < RES < RES[high] < RES[HAZARDOUS]

- why the system gende ? it's a bit far i'm good where i am or close to where i am ! ==> ... system GENDE got its station less than 1Ls to the ring with a RES, HIGHRES and a HAZRES and obviously a nav.beacon, also it's under the power play faction of ALD which give out a free 20% bonuses on bounty vouncher ... understand why this system is the best for BH ? ( the best i've found so far tho ) and yeah having the station at less than 1Ls mean you 'll never die of the consequence of a canopy breached ... standard oxygen supply is 5 :00 and the one i'm recommanding is the one at 7:30 min for mass lowered's weight.

- try to outtfit you ship right, that mean :

=> decent weapons ( pulse lasers are good overall because standard damage, infinite ammo, nice power demanding management, no heating issue )

=> the D class modules are mostly the best you'll can have aside from some module because of their mass weight allowing your ship to NOT be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cow while making U turn to outmanoeuvering ( module to always get A as soon as you can => thruster, power plant, power distributor, shield)

=> you'll notice a blu part on your speed display, the blu part on the bar show the speed at which your ship is at its best manoeuvrability, so you'll know at which speed your ship i's gonna be efficient at U turn

=> always , ALWAYS aim at your target's power plant how ? simple, target your prey, then go to the left menu of your ship, select sub system and go down until you see "power plant" simple click it and voila you are targeting your ennemy's power plant. but why ? because a ship without power will simply stop working, allowing you to finish it and blow it via overheating while the ship's hull will mostly still be at 40%+ ( my best anaconda's takedown was a conda with still 67% of it's hull integrity, thoses ships are just Huge hull's pack mounted on thrusters.

=> manage your power distributor while flying, ... must get U turn real quick ? put al l the power on the engine so you'll have a better speed at it but beware your system and weapons power's will be diminished ( less fire capability and less shield power ! ) on the other hand, you're about to face a huge shot and can't dodge it ? quick all power to the system so the shield will hold !
or the best one :) you are right behind your target and ready to blast it off ? full power to the weapons ! and fire at will.

allright i guess i said it all ( almost ? ) meh that's more than enought for you to get going and make yourself a boba fett like in elite .. OH almost forgot, DON'T YOU EVER PLAY IN OPENPLAY while bounty hunting play it in solo, your goal is to get money, not getting frustrated coz some low self esteem sealclubbing palyer decided to ruin your day to feel better, don't be that guy, and bounty hunt solo, or in private group with friend.

that's it for now CMDRs fly safe and hunt wisely.