Everyone starts out with 150k credits and a starflier. Some people know their ways to get rich faster than others. Which does NOT mean, they are cheating in any ways or something similar.
Some of the "new" chars, have friends who lend or gift them credits in the beginning! Others don't.
If you don't, you might think about your behaviour, your contacts, your reputation or your gameplay afterall
This is true for me.
1st time I went on server Husker gave me money and one day I will repay him for this act of kindness.
But also as I have found out is that the best way to earn mega bucks........ is to mine.
Husker and Grand have shown me a much faster way to make sometimes 10mil in one full cargo hold..Excellent.
But of course you need a Soulforge to do this which don't come cheap about 60mil.
Or you can buy an APC which holds a respecable cargo of 450.
There are alot of options out there to make large sums of money and oc the great BMG's running is also a good earner.
But once you have SF , Mine dear boy, Mine
Besides, the server will pick up on cheaters and no doubt when 1.9 eventually comes out, the server may be alot more
tougher for cheaters to cheat on.
Cheating on any game is really cheating on yourself, if you can't play a game without having GOD mode or infinate lives and money
turned on, then what is the point of playing it. I too have done this but it soon becomes boring
EXPLORE.......TRADE......MINE.......FIGHT......HAVE FUN....