You cant get the decent guns until lvl 33 anyway so just hang on until the sirius it is!

If i ever get there

I think I will do the same

OK thanks all. I think ill stick to my Tribal till like LVL 34 so i can get my Sirius
straight away and save all my money up all the time.
See you in the Field, Shriven

190k, no you can't. you will be raped up the arse untill you bleed.

if you have the money for the hull + 190k, then you've got a good amount of starting
money. you will have an ok amount of armour to get started.

i bought my dido once i had about 300k to spend in total. about 150k for ship and parts,
150 for armour.

Short answer no.

I have ~ 300k worth of armor in my Sirius (carries more or less the same armor as Dido). I
suppose if you played carefully and put the only cash you had for armor into some bulkhead
you could play for a while to earn up the cash. But that would be some seriously painful
time. Once you are in a CL you are a tasty target for everyone, especially in AW games.
And you would be eaten alive in CL/CA and CL/CA/BB(C) games. People will see a 1.5 bar or
low 2 bar Dido and think food. Ride it out in your Q or Tribal or L for a 2-3 more levels.
You should be able to raise enough creds to properly fit out a Dido by then.

can i make a decent dido with 190k?

I would say Minimum 200k for the whole ship, guns and armour and Maximum about
350k ^^ . I spent around 250k for my dido
Good luck.

Card.

If it just a dido u will need, 133k for body, 18k for engine, about 50k for guns and
torp tubes, so that 210k, for armor, u want an absolute minimum of 120k, 200k
recomended.

i would probably say at least 300k i think my sirius has 200ks worth of armour on it.