do you cook the oats first <| sep |> That wouldn ' t have changed the gerrymandering one bit . <| sep |> Look for areas with lots of surface bases specifically look for system who ' s neighbours have lots of surface bases . These will offer missions like skimmer killing , datapoint scanning , generator destruction , etc , which will take you down to explore some planets . Different starports will have different weights on mission types so swing by the platforms and surface bases to see more planetary missions . Now you also have access to the engineers who will want you to have specific achievements rank , distance travelled , and the like and will be asking for something to unlock them you can find their details via the status panel select Engineers . Then you will need to start rustling up the mats to actually get the engineering done . And that ' s a whole other story which is still evolving . FSD Range and Dirty Drives are top of the musthave list . As for earning , the meta right now is stacking skimmer or generator missions . I ' m sure some kind CMDRs will share their favourite locations for these . As usual you will need to grind out a little local rep to get the good stuff .