After you go pay to play its best to get Drone Deployment 5 and buy some Arsons, become an Engineer and go to Protoplasmica to camp the ai there. (You can get up to level 100 in Protoplasmica that way). Dont forget to switch to the Speed Demon class. After that get pioliting 14 equipment 10 engine 10 and the highest Electrical Engineering possible. Once you have all those skills you are ready. Buy a spearhead and aug it 2 good damage 1 good speed ( my lvl 250 SD that levels in Copper uses that setup just fine) get Dog Fighting 10 and Speedy Firing 10. On your spearhead get a Fire Stream (requires piracy 4) a mag cannon IV+, a cloud flow+, and a Momma's furnace (bought in Underworld) and a Amest radar. With that setup you can solo up to Copper 3 ( which means level 300 )

Could this BE more vague and ineffective?
~pr0m

to higher levels yes, to noobs no

Where do I get HR+?
What AI are in proto?
When i get Piloting 14, what ship+augs?
These are questions noobs will ask, you need to explain em, you can't presume
they even know how to read
~pr0m