I've allways liked the challenge of doing it the hard way but also I've allways liked the challenge of finding ways of making a vanilla game ridiculously easy to the extent that it feels like cheating

The following will explain how to make 1 billion credits from what you start with, it may require you to be friends with certain races but ultimately you can make 1 billion from any start in a few days if you understand the x universe...
1. beg, crawl, do your thing to have a few hundred thousand credits, this is usually achievable for most people with one mission in TC.
2. find Argon Prime, buy a mercury, the cheapest, it may go against all you've be taught but the cheapest freighter with minimal shields is all you need to make a fortune.
3. Outfitting.. ore collector, mineral scanner, special command software mk 1, these are essential..
4. command your frieghter to move to kindoms end, either the sector or equiptment dock.
5. get youself to kingdoms end and the position 0,0,1.5, once there you need to find visually nvidium asteroids. there should be at least 4, with 4 mosquito missiles, shoot them and break them up, this is vital to the overall strategy... Drop a satelite so that in future you can easily direct ships to the spot.
6. instruct your freighter to move to sat nav and then once there to collect rocks.
7. once your freighter is full of nvidium then sell it at shipyard and buy as many freighters as you can and start the process again. within a day you should be able to afford 20+ freighters and be on your way to makeing that billion credits.
8. Personally I stop at 20 freighters, issuing commands individually is a pain so limiting the amount of freighters stops you going insane. 3 days at kindoms end has got me 500 mil+, so you can see how 1 bil in 3 days is possible if you have the patience to command individual freighters.
In Reunion the nvidium ran out but in TC it is constant, who needs complex's when you can abuse the roids
