The best way to get started in elite, is by doing currier missions after the tutorial, after that with your starting ship buy mining lasers and start to mine any asteroid and do that for a long long long time until you have enough to buy an exploration ship, than explore around for water worlds, earth-likes, and high metal content worlds they pay out the best do all three scans and rinse and repeat until you have about 300 milion credits. after that buy an anti-xeno ship and start killing thargoids, and work on ranks
