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So how much is this to get to play the beta, is it £50 or is it cheaper some other way? Me and a friend are interested but missed out on the kickstarter.
 
£50 for beta access which includes a download copy of final game.

Since the game will be £35 it works out at £15 to play it early, which is fairly cheap considering some online games monthly fees.
 
dirtybeatfreak said:
Regarding the crashes etc, I have seen a great deal of people say that it is due to the beta release as premium was the same for around a week or so. Any crashes are more likely to be server related so don't let that put you off :)

Disclaimer: This is just what I have read on official forums so may be complete rubbish (I am basing it off posters on the forums who seem to have been around a good while)
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Yep we had same issues with Premium beta but they are fixing servers much quicker this time round.

The hanging leaving supercruise is not so much a bug as overload.

Everytime you Jump or Supercruise you are leaving your Instance (virtual server) and the delay is server creating or putting you into new Instance.
 
God damn it... Well guys makes sure you always keep some Cr spare for insurance purposes....

Bought a hauler, decided that i would boost straight out of the starport entrance, straight into some poor soul and destroyed us both LOL. Always do this and have got away with it till this time. what a nob.

Safe to say i didnt have the 2.5k insurance and im now back to my **** sidewinder with 900Cr in my bank. On wards and upwards again i suppose.
 
Traffic_Warden said:
God damn it... Well guys makes sure you always keep some Cr spare for insurance purposes....

Bought a hauler, decided that i would boost straight out of the starport entrance, straight into some poor soul and destroyed us both LOL. Always do this and have got away with it till this time. what a nob.

Safe to say i didnt have the 2.5k insurance and im now back to my **** sidewinder with 900Cr in my bank. On wards and upwards again i suppose.
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You sound like me ha, Just before I had enough to buy the hauler I did the same thing but smashed into the metal railing just outside the dock. Set me back quite a bit as I had just picked up expensive cargo.

Making good money in the hauler though working out at about 14k per round trip. Always keeping back a few 1000 for insurance and rebuying cargo now though :D
 
Oh wow, the X52 makes all the difference :) I destroyed the "Crimson Triumph" Sidewinder in scenario 3 for the first time, on the first attempt.

Joystick = easy mode :p
 
Am I missing something? I'm working my way through the combat scenarios and I have yet to use the targeting panel at all. I'm flying around, trying to line ships up in the crosshairs, fire off a few shots, they dodge, so I repeat the process until they are dead.
Should I be doing something else, or do the mechanics change once in game?
 
You guys have bought all the X52 Pros already :eek: (not that I have managed to get the beta yet but a guy can dream :D).
 
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How are you guys getting info on trade runs?
Is it literally just flying aroubd conparing all the markets or can you get some info somewhere else?
 
Ladies and gentlemen, as someone who played Elite when it first came out, and loved it, is this worth paying the £50 for the beta right now and if so would I be better off buying a joystick to play, thinking of the Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X, over using the keyboard and mouse?
 
Can I ask will everything be reset after the beta so everyone making all these credits, will they be lost?

Auldred said:
Seems be a few people using this slopeys market tool. Not tried it myself yet still setting up joystick buttons and voice attack, there is a lot of commands!:D

Link here: http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=30341
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This is good, but Im a bit peeved that yet again another game require some kind of 3rd party application (rather than a feature in the game) in order to gain an advantage or enable you to maximise credit generation... sigh.
 
Cavallino said:
Can I ask will everything be reset after the beta so everyone making all these credits, will they be lost?




This is good, but Im a bit peeved that yet again another game require some kind of 3rd party application (rather than a feature in the game) in order to gain an advantage or enable you to maximise credit generation... sigh.
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We are still at the beta stage though, features are still being worked on, so they might do something similar...
 
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