*** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

[Noxia]

Still waiting on all my equipment to arrive, so been watching some videos to help when I eventually get there. Learning to fly with FA off is the main goal.

 

[MostlyHuman]

Learning to fly with FA off is the main goal.

I wanted to do this but keep reading that to do it well you need to use keyboard and mouse. That just feels so wrong

 

[PlacidCasual]

Just started playing, less than a week in. Enjoying the variety done some basic exploring, courier runs, a few mercenray missions against really low level bad guys and just started learning to mine. For some reason I played open on my first belt mining run. Got all the way back to my "home" system and some numbnut killed me. I'm assuming it's a real player as they have a Inara bio. Elite II combat and Elite I trading with 30 ships. Why on earth they felt the need to kill me? I have a 1,000cr bounty in some back end system I got by accident and I'm friemdly in the current one. I was carrying 800k of ores so I'd get an NPC pirate having a pop but a player?? I was so far below their level it is untrue.

Hey ho. Lesson learnt, mine in solo.

 

[MostlyHuman]

Gankers suck they really suck. An alternative to Solo is a private group like Mobius or AXI

 

[PlacidCasual]

Gankers suck they really suck. An alternative to Solo is a private group like Mobius or AXI

I'm still fairly noobish but that's definitely something to consider.

 

[MostlyHuman]

I'm still fairly noobish but that's definitely something to consider.

tbh unless you home base is at Jameson's or an Engineers base you are pretty unluck to meet a ganker

 

[Dano]

Just started playing, less than a week in. Enjoying the variety done some basic exploring, courier runs, a few mercenray missions against really low level bad guys and just started learning to mine. For some reason I played open on my first belt mining run. Got all the way back to my "home" system and some numbnut killed me. I'm assuming it's a real player as they have a Inara bio. Elite II combat and Elite I trading with 30 ships. Why on earth they felt the need to kill me? I have a 1,000cr bounty in some back end system I got by accident and I'm friemdly in the current one. I was carrying 800k of ores so I'd get an NPC pirate having a pop but a player?? I was so far below their level it is untrue.

Hey ho. Lesson learnt, mine in solo.

Other players will show as hollow icons on the scanner but yes, gankers are simply out to get their jollies off by ruining your playtime, but don't go complaining now, it's only right that you are their content and anything else is simply not on... as below, Mobius and the like have some fairly well populated private groups.