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About 700 hours in game, since not long after it came out.
Say what now!
I was single at the time, it allows for gaming as well as cycling!
Is it possible to play ED online without becoming kiddy cannon fodder? I gave up on online gaming after respawn number 1000000000. I
Solo or Private means there's only NPCs or trusted players.
Have they added a tutorial yet, or is it still "watch two hours' worth of videos?" I bought it on the Xbox a while back but don't think I've made it out of the hangar yet.
Yup there's tutorials.
Say what now!
A whole one hour or less per day.
I've only played a couple of hours including the tutorials and haven't been shot at yet, playing online. Maybe just lucky but it seems fine from that pov.
Couple of questions for those who've played more. How do you know where to dock once you've requested permission? I know it's highlighted but if it's out of view on a large station it's not always obvious. Second, tip for a good, reasonably safe trade route early on?
There's a targeting area to the left of the scanner that looks like a crosshairs, bring he blue dot into there if it's solid it's in front of you, if the dot is clear then it's behind.
If you enetering a port you look for the side that's rotating anit-clockwise.
I've not had issues trading been locked on to take out of hyperspace a few times but if take the escape route, only the on time did they get me out of hyperspace but I just jumped again, they persuaded me but they got killed as they entered federation space.
Is it possible to play ED online without becoming kiddy cannon fodder? I gave up on online gaming after respawn number 1000000000.
I play in Open on PC all the time, only once had trouble from other players, pair of Fer de Lance camping the Station Slot and blowing anything up that flew in.
Vast majority are OK. Went back on this weekend and hunted down a couple of Thargoid bases. Quite creepy to land at drive a SRV round.
Didn't have the Unknown Artifacts for getting inside the base and playing with the Thargoid Machinery. YouTube video is impressive.
Easiest way of making money I found is Passenger Missions. I use this Dolphin build:
Depending on reputation and the mission you can make 2 to 4 million a run. Bigger rewards if you're willing to risk passengers with a wanted rating or long distance trips.
Biowaste from some Planetary bases can be lucrative as well.
This book has an excellent chapter on how the original game was written and squeezed into under 32MB.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Backroom-Boys-Secret-Return-British/dp/0571214975
I've had it for a while, it was either a beta or some other pre-release version. I have put in a good few hours, but tbh not enough going on for me. Easy enough to trade at profit, only once attacked by another person and NPC easy to avoid.
There seem to have been loads of releases and generally new content since I last dabbled, so I may give it another go when I've got time and use of both my hands back 🙁
This book has an excellent chapter on how the original game was written and squeezed into under 32MB.
It was all procedurally generated, wasn't it? Very clever.
Finally got it for pc on monday, already clocked up a few hours on it <yawn>
Had a go at the training options but still quite frustrating play on Monday evening, watched a bunch of vids and had a better experience last night. Few kill steals got me enough cash for a cobra, *just* enough, only had credits left over for 1 buy back, went out and got a couple of bounties so I've got cash for 2 buy backs now, still a nervy experience tho.
Got knocked about a bit by an NPC which destroyed my scanner so I couldn't target/contact station to get landing permission. Googling found a reboot option, turn off the whole ships systems, turn it on again, scanner back in 1% condition, enough to do the job. I thought it was pretty cool, quite hidden away in sub menus tho.
tips from my mistkes/experiences
in super cruise keep it at 100% throttle til 6s to go then drop to 75%, often feels like you're going to overshoot but everything should line up for blue.
Find a wanted ship near nav beacon or high RES (if you can find one), wait for system defence/whoever to batter it down to <40% hull (lower for bigger ships) then start firing, big ships get you >100k bounty
Listen to docking confirmation and note the pad number I tried landing on someone else's pad last night 😕
You need to be facing the correct direction to land, usually away from the entrance.
Yeah I got caught a few times by landing on the wrong pad.
I've just picked D3 back up again, there's a new Necromancer expansion out which is very silly.
Yup i remembered about the new exp the other day and thought i'd give it a go. seems very silly indeed and not exactly as i thought when remembering d1/d2 still a bit fun and addictive though, "oh just one more rift"
Lol. It's as if the kilobyte never even existed. Kids today, etc. 🙂This book has an excellent chapter on how the original game was written and squeezed into under 32MB.
I've got it, bought the horizons pack too.
Man is this game complex.
Dull too at times.
If you buy the horizons season pass, does it expire or cover just one of the expansions or all up to 2.5 (as it suggests) after which the would be a new one?
Gerneally Season Passes cover future add ons but as you say it's not that clear.
So, at £14 is horizons worthwhile assuming it'll only go up to 2.4?
I've not bought it yet but it looks promising.
anyone know about community goals? Even the lowest payout is a big one for a n00b, but I did some [i]bring order to rakapila[/i] bounty hunting last night got 3 bounties and I still don't seem to qualify for the "100% tier" yet any ideas what the minimum is to qualify? (I did sign up for it before the kills)
Similarly the trade ones any ideas how many items you have to import to get onto the score table?
This book has an excellent chapter on how the original game was written and squeezed into under 32MB.
That should read [i]Kilo[/i]bytes. I'm currently working with a .csv file which is 10KB larger!
The idea was to procedurally generate each star and planet system, according to a basic template of rules which meant that each time you played, the procedurally generated star, planet, government, pirate activity etc would be exactly the same. The names of planets were generated this way too, with coding rules implemented to ensure that no matter how far across the seven galaxies you flew, you'd never find a planet named "Knob".
Not tried any yet Donk but will be soon, busy with some transport missions as so type I can pimp out my viper.
Ok.
After flying into the wrong zone losing 2 ships I tried to Nav Beacon area waiting for wanted to fly in, after a about 30 mins I got 2 kills. One was for a 200k bounty so I've got my Cr back for lost ships. Seems you have to get the right bounty the wanted by the Rakapila not the federation, hand them in your vouchers. Currently I'm in the 75% with 22 hours to go a potential 4.5m Cr. 😀
Broke my collarbone a couple of weeks so this games gonna be a godsend! Currently cruising about in a Cobra wondering which direction to take it i.e Pirate/explorer etc
Lol. It's as if the kilobyte never even existed. Kids today, etc
Valid point.
32KB.
I used to dream of that much memory - having learnt to program on a machine (PDP-11/70) where you had to bootstrap Basic.
good luck commanders o7
i love elite dangerous (i play on xb1).
to begin with it's bloody difficult to get to grips with,but once you start to get the hang of things the game gets a lot better.
i have to take a break from it now and again as i overplay the game (it can be very addictive).
watch out for thargoids (and nair do well pirates).
EDIT i would definitely recommend the horizons dlc as you won't be able to land on any planets or go to any engineers to upgrade your ship otherwise.
as for the season pass i think it will cover up to 2.4 and then they are getting rid of the season passes (i think but could be wrong).
Messed up twice and lost another 2 ships, still in the 75% percentile though and also just done a transport mission which has secured me another 500k. I'm going to pop on again for a little bit to boost these hopefully to secure a bit more and push me up the percentile.
Dammit! Horizons just went up to full price on steam 🙄
This 'auto-dock' malarkey saves a bit of time!
Yup upgraded 2 ships with that.
Wide awake as I've been nights, all being well tomorrow I should make about 10m Cr.
squeezed into 16kb actually. 16kb was for the system. 😉
see you in the black commanders 😀
Only just reach 2m cr 😳 what's the best ship for passenger missions?
It's easy to be cynical about Star Citizen...but I think development is quicker with each passing month.
These are different videos, despite the same preview image.
Millenium Falcon like space ships you can walk around, great space combat, ship boarding, railguns, beautiful desert world, speeder bikes and a freaking giant worm.
Yeah, Star Was doesn't have shit on this. If it's good, it will be the sci-fi worlds game equivalent to 1977.
How's the ED "landing on planets" work? Does it turn into an FPS?
No ED doesn't, landing feels pretty seamless - but the best you can do is bash around in a rover type thing.
Posted earlier in thread, the link below is to the Coriolis Ship build site.
Dolphin with 6 person First Class cabin. Gives me about 4 million a tourist mission. You can get more passenegers in if you drop the class to business but the rewards don't go up that much.
Dolphin is probably the cheapest way to start on passenger missions, Asp Explorer can work well, especially if you're messing about with wanted or high risk passengers and may need to fight.
Dolphin build is about 8 million including the ship cost. You don't need the 4A fuel scoop and Advanced Discovery Scanner at first so can save a bit there.
Just need another 20 or 30 million and I'll have enough with trade in to exchange my Python for an Anaconda.
If you're bounty hunting at Nav Beacons then fit a Warrant Scanner if there is room. Standard scan gives you bounty for the current system only, the Warranty scan gives bounties in all systems so you can increase the rewards.
Cheers Allan.
I raised about 500k last night bouncing cargo back and forth for the community challenge so bought a passenger cab for my Cobra.
My Viper has a Warranty Scanner fitted, I keep messing up though and picking targets I shouldn't take on. Even the Federation couldn't take down one in time I started attacking before I died. 😆
Yeah Star Citizen will happen, one day, it looks amazing I've watched videos but it's PC only and currently still not planning on building another Gaming PC.
It does annoy me a lot that you can only land on certain planets - Frontier was far better in this respect.
Got to say, I bought it on PS4 and gave up after about 3 hours when I got really bored! But, decided to give it another go and keep at it - I'm hooked now!
Currently running a Cobra MK3 and have been exploring, trading and transporting goods/people mainly, but last night I built up a small and cheap fighter to go and get some bounties - really fun but takes a while to find a suitable mark. From reading above Nav Beacons are the place to go?
Dropping into an un-explored system and being faced with a white dwarf star was very impressive, and my highlight so far.
I'm interested to go to the centre of the galaxy, so long term would like to either up the FS drive on the cobra (can get 20 whatevers distance if I buy a 1.5 million unit drive) , or find a ship that can do much bigger jumps.
From reading above Nav Beacons are the place to go?
There's conflict areas too but I kept getting wiped there.
Oooh yeah I flew back into a system last night to find a white dwarf, was too busy watching it and nearly fried my ship.
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If you want to explore then either a Diamondback Explorer or Asp Explorer is best bet, with the right build you can easily get 25 to 30 LY jump range from an Asp Explorer. Especially if you D Rate most componentsand stick with the basic Lightweight Bulkheads.
For equipment, E is basic, D is light, C is average, B is better but heavy, A is best.
Going all A is not necessarily a good idea. You have to balance the power and weight to get what you want. So for an Exlplorer, D Rating as much as you can get away with usually means more range.
With some of the engineered options and a really slimmed down build I'm told you can get upto 50LY range. I'd not feel safe as that's the lightest hull, all D-Rated and engineered kit, bare minimum Optional Components and no weapons\utility or shields.
Access to Horizons gives you Engineer contacts where you can modify the ship components. First engineer is usually Todd "The Blaster" McQuinn who can modify cannons.
It's a bit of a grind but you can do some good mods that really overpower your ship. If you get into Thargoid exploration then you need some of the engineered bits to get anti-corrosive cargo bays as Thargoid materials eat through a normal ship.
Nav Beacons are the best place when starting out, when you can handle yourself then Resource Extraction Sites are the real place to go. Start off with the Low ones as they will have System Security patrolling to help out. If you can wing up with a friend or two even better. Hazardous ones are usually more fun but anything less than a Python with a decent hull and you might find you're gettign blown up a lot unless you go with friends.
Python was the big jump in survivability for me, 5 hardpoints and good armour\shielding was a huge jump above anything else I'd flown.
The Vulture is supposed to be a good ship for combat but I've never tried it.
The bigger ships also mean bigger cost so an Asp Explorer 5A Frame Shift Drive is just over 5 million, a 6A Frame Shift Drive for an Anaconda is something like 16 million.
Must admit I found it a bit dull at first but there's loads to do if you just go look. It seems empty as the game isn't handed to you on a plate.
It's summer so I've not been on as much but I play as CMDR Apedemek on PC if you get stuck.
o7 Commanders.
Only a couple hours on it last night (actual mountain biking - with friends! - and much needed sleep got in the way), 1t of cargo (all the had in stock) is enough to get in at the base level for CG but it takes a moment to register, presumably 1 bounty is same, think I handed in my bounty and immediately checked and hadn't hit the 100% mark yet, checked again last night and I was in.
How the hell did you get up to 75%? Think you got lucky, I've hit a couple of big ships and about 10 smaller ones but most of them didn't count for the CG, got cash but not going anywhere in CG rankings.
Tried Haz res and Low RES round rakapila 3 last night, more traffic in haz res but no enforcers to back you up so no chance of me taking out the big ships, stuck to low res. [url= https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/241871-Finding-Hazardous-Resource-Extraction-Sites-Haz-RES ]List of RES locations[/url]
Upgraded my cobra a little and got plenty of insurance costs, wait for the payout from CG later to start some trading, maybe head for leesti and the old systems. Pre kids when I had time to spare I'd have probably enjoyed just mooching around the universe and searching for parts, more pressed for time now so I can see me googling station parts lists and heading straight there or grinding for cash. Really should try to resist that tho 🙄
Great tips thanks.
I'm a console boy these days.
How the hell did you get up to 75%? Think you got lucky,
I did. The federation were taking out a wanted guy I helped finish him off and got a 200k bounty.
It was easy getting in the cargo haul one, shifted about 30t and jumped straight into 75%
I've found this site very useful for checking stocks.
Useful Elite Related Sites:
Useful community site for keeping track of wings and player facttions if you get into that side of things.
Good for Trade and working out where stuff is when you need to look for a particular trade item or ship upgrade.
Ship build tester.
I meant lucky it was a CG target rather than normal bounty, seen a few comments saying most of their bounties dont seem to count. kudos on getting such a high bounty either way 🙂I did. The federation were taking out a wanted guy I helped finish him off and got a 200k bounty.
sounds like the trading CGs are less contended if 30T gets you a decent rank, will bear that in mind for future - and check stock before I set off on a shopping trip 🙂
I really want to get into this game, I have it installed and everything, I just can't seem to get over the initial confusion/understanding/learning phase - it's simply too complicated for me these days.
I meant lucky it was a CG target rather than normal bounty, seen a few comments saying most of their bounties dont seem to count. kudos on getting such a high bounty either way
Well that too.
I've 5 kills on bounties 3 count for the challenge.
I really want to get into this game, I have it installed and everything, I just can't seem to get over the initial confusion/understanding/learning phase - it's simply too complicated for me these days.
A lot of time playing Eve helped with me but follow the tutorials and watch YouTube videos and it takes no time at all.