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

I tried to play a bit at the weekend but it was a waste of time, kept getting kicked, sat there with the jump screen wizzing by for minutes at a time..
Tried a bit of D3 as well and their servers were screwed as well....
 
tbh said:
To raise your Empire rep you need to do jobs out of a station controlled by an Empire minor faction (this can include trading); since you're looking at doing more trading anyway, why not head to Imperial space and take advantage of one of the highly lucrative Imperial Slave <-> Palladium/Gold trade routes? Just make sure the stations on both ends are controlled by Imperial minor factions and you will be raking in the rep and credits in no time!

If you're really stuck on where to start then let me know and I'll see if I can't help out; off the top of my head Orang is Imperial controlled and has a large supply of very cheap Imperial Slaves, so you might want to start there.


Probably best to start by deciding which power you want to pledge to, take a look at the benefits offered by each; generally you will have to decide whether you want to earn merits through combat or trading, so make sure the power you chose fits with your playstyle.
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Thanks for the tips, starting to long journey to Orang now. :)
 
lurkio said:
Hmmm , was doubtfull when considering buying it , even if u want single player ... you have to connect to their online servers ... and tonight they appear to be borked :-(
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Yeah - Friday night. LOADS of players online, which can sometimes muck things up.

chili said:
how would you rate this compared to Eve online?
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I kept hearing from all these whiny people about how EVE is so much better, how you can do this, that and the other in EVE, EVE, EVE, EVE, EVE, EVE.....
I signed up for a free trial, played it for about 126 hours and ended up uninstalling the thing. I never even got to meet another player character.

EVE is all about clicking on stuff and checking loads of data tables.
EVE is an RTS in space.
EVE has absolutely NO piloting skill in combat. It's just click to attack and hope for the best, while some server rolls a bunch of D20s in the background.
EVE lets you create and customise up to three awesome-looking characters, with which you can then do NOTHING except walk them around a small bedsit-size space-hotel room in a station. You can't walk around the station, see other players or anything like that.
You also get utterly OWNED by anyone who has been playing longer than you, apparently.

Most EVE players tell me it's not worth playing unless you have played it from the beginning and can afford the subs. More so if you have no interest in über-massive space battles between thousands of ships.

To be utterly honest, EVE wasn't desperately unpleasant to play. There is just a LOT of very boring stuff, it takes ages just to go through all the tutorials and starter-advice videos and it's not the game for you if you want to be a space pilot. It's more the sort of thing I'd play as a relaxing time waster, although the amount of money required to keep playing it is a deal-killer.

In short, I'd rate Elite hundreds of times higher than EVE. Far more my sort of game.
 
Do any of you guys play this with an Xbox (or PS4) controller?

I bought it during the Summer Sale and ended up refunding it because I just couldn't get to grips with it using a controller - A few friends described it as "pretty impossible to play with anything other than a KB + Mouse and/or a HOTAS", just wondering how true it is - or whether I just did it wrong :p

Thanks!
 
Question for you guys. I have enough cash to upgrade from my Sidewinder to a "partially fitted out" Viper. I'm guessing I have around 1million credits if I sell the components on my sidewinder as it's pretty well pimped out now.
However, I'm conscious that a fully kitted out Viper would set me back a good 3 million credits. Is is bad idea to fly an semi-stock one?
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Question for you guys. I have enough cash to upgrade from my Sidewinder to a "partially fitted out" Viper. I'm guessing I have around 1million credits if I sell the components on my sidewinder as it's pretty well pimped out now.
However, I'm conscious that a fully kitted out Viper would set me back a good 3 million credits. Is is bad idea to fly an semi-stock one?
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Yes. It's one of the hard lessons you learn, then you end up struggling for a bit until you can afford the upgrades. That said, the sound of a Viper is glorious... ;)
 
Hugely depends on what you want to do. Some trading (legally) then it will be fine. Even illegal trading will be ok but if you get interdicted you'd better hope it's some wannabe in a Sidewinder.
 
Just picked up Elite today for £18. Installed it. Lost. Completely. If any game needs a manual it's this one and in big letters at the front it should say "Use the mouse and keyboard if you want a hard life!"
 
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