*** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***
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It was a bit annoying, yeah. However, it was a combination of factors, so I'm not too ****ed at FD for it. I kinda jumped in feet-first the instant the update came out and didn't help myself by stubbornly zooming straight back to the fight every time I lost. Just one of those things.
Seems faster and much less boring than trade-hop running, TBH. Did so much of that once that I would occasionally fall asleep at the controls!!
I recall doing the same in Freelancer though, but being the richest player (by FAR) on the server was a good feeling. In Elite I'm not even close to the mega-multi-billionaires like Kornelius Briedis, yet!!
What would be the alternative?
Get everything now, play for a whole month and then abandon it because there's nothing left to do?
You don't *have* to do this - At one stage I had well over 200mil in-game as well as at least one of every ship, fully kitted out, up to Python level, all gotten by straightforward trading, combat zones, missions and RES fights. I haven't even tried mining yet.
The counter to that argument is that Elite was always a game where it's *supposed* to take you ages to reach the top.
Bit of a subjective thing, though. Despite having no money, I was actually enjoying the little missions and before I realised it, I had 12mil already!
Besides, the more you do, the bigger the payouts get. At my current stage, I'd need just 165-odd of those missions and I could buy an Anaconda. That's maybe a couple months of my current average playtime, if that...?
To me, it's not all that much, but then I did also hack Skyrim so I wasn't being utterly encumbered every 10 minutes, and then again when no merchant had enough money to buy even one of the sorts of items I was picking up in the dungeons.
I think he means me lol.
just started in this game now i have my oculus, whats the best way to get some starter cash? and which bird to aim for first, been told the cobra 3 is good. killed a few things, my first ship died quite fast tho!, done some upgrades, power dist etc, my fsd too, but thats it, seems money is very slow
Do you seal club then (random interdict shoot)? I must admit I'm getting to the stage that if FD don't care why should I?
Elite is strictly PVE/ Co-op for me.
There cannot be any balance for PVP in this game, hence why i dont bother with OPEN anymore. I did play open on release but the GAP massive now.
Nice
I've been pushing to unlock engineers. Unlocked Marco Q via Sirius and 25 mod terms. Onwards and upwards now
Sorry dude. Never had that missions. Can you post a screenshot as your description seems off tbh
Post it and see if others can help you
[Death];30299528 said:
I'd say it depends what you are currently enjoying most. If you aim to carry out mostly combat / bounty hunting go viper, if you might want to branch out a bit, the cobra is one of the best multi role capable ships in the game.
Every one should own a cobra at some point, it's just so right
