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

I want to try this when we finally get internet in our new place on Friday. Haven't played since messing around in premium beta.

I'll be starting off with the free eagle, is it any good for trading in?

What kind of ship progression should I be looking at if I want to concentrate on trading until I've built up a good bank?

Can you have more than one ship yet?

I like the idea of trade grinding as I do like to make notes and such of good trade opportunities and discovering lucrative routes sounds right up my alley, used to love doing that in X3 which was pretty much all trading!

Probably after I build up a bank I'd be looking to try out some combat/bounty hunting whatever.
 
I've had the game since beta but cannot for the life of me start playing again thanks to being spoiled rotten by head tracking, I need to get a replacement soon as I want to play the game again. Hope that I can get to try it out on the HTC Vive tomorrow at EGX to spark my interest in it again.
 
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So, something really odd has happened. It's been a few months since I last played but I tried to play again last night during some server issues and my account suddenly has 42Mil credits on it...

They are still there today :o
 
Darg said:
I want to try this when we finally get internet in our new place on Friday. Haven't played since messing around in premium beta.

I'll be starting off with the free eagle, is it any good for trading in?

What kind of ship progression should I be looking at if I want to concentrate on trading until I've built up a good bank?

Can you have more than one ship yet?

I like the idea of trade grinding as I do like to make notes and such of good trade opportunities and discovering lucrative routes sounds right up my alley, used to love doing that in X3 which was pretty much all trading!

Probably after I build up a bank I'd be looking to try out some combat/bounty hunting whatever.
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The Eagle is a fighter, so rubbish for trading. If you're short on cash, you might want to look at a Hauler.
Yes, you can have more than one ship, but I believe you have to fly to wherever you've stored the other ship(s) to get it. Your pilot can't teleport to the other ships.
 
Dano said:
Not officially, somebody did link a download of the combat training scenarios earlier in the thread though, if you enjoyed elite back in the amiga days I'll push the boat out and say you'll enjoy it enough now for £17.99 to be worth a punt :) Pretty sure the amiga version was solid vector graphics too, don't recall them being wireframe.
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My very first version of elite was wireframe that was on a bbc micro when i got the amiga version i recall how addictive the game was back then

http://www.emuparadise.me/Amiga_ROMs/Elite/6047
 
Just on my way back from Sag A*. Set off on July 23 and will probably take another month or so to get back but should hit Elite ranking - currently Pioneer/47% with 100m exploration credits.
 
Lowe said:
3 mil in hour is rather conservative for trading. When I had my Clipper I could make 1.4 mil in 10 minutes, and that was only 240t of space available.
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I also couldn't be ***** to spend ages searching for routes, though. I probably would do better if I put the effort in, but I'm not good with numbers and trading is just the means to buy bigger ships and bigger weapons, really! :D
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
The Eagle is a fighter, so rubbish for trading. If you're short on cash, you might want to look at a Hauler.
Yes, you can have more than one ship, but I believe you have to fly to wherever you've stored the other ship(s) to get it. Your pilot can't teleport to the other ships.
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So I should sell the Eagle and use the money to buy a Hauler?
 
I was saving toward buying a Python, but have only attained 50mil so far. I can't stomach logging back in because I'm utterly bored of the game. Hoping planetary landings will be worth the wait.
 
OK guys - this game looks right up my street.

How much time do I have to put in to it to make it's purchase worth while?
Do you recommend it?
What is the best part of it?
What is the worst part of it?
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
My Viper is now fully upgraded. Just done some good research about improving my combat flying, so will be trying that out tonight.

I fancy having a go at exploration, just for a laugh. What's the suggested ship for that?
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I think your two main options are Diamond Back Explorer and the more expensive Asp. But a ghetto option which is still really good is the trusty Hauler. It will get you to Sag A, no problems! :D
 
tres said:
OK guys - this game looks right up my street.

How much time do I have to put in to it to make it's purchase worth while?
Do you recommend it?
What is the best part of it?
What is the worst part of it?
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If you like open ended space ship piloting games it's well worth while, if you need to be led around into story missions and have definite targets to hit then maybe not. I absolutely recommend it :)

The best part? The overall feel of the game, it just ticks all of the right boxes for me :)

The worst? Seeing people dismiss it because they just don't 'get' it or they don't appreciate just how much work is involved in developing all the features that they, and the devs want to add. It's really sad to see people expect Eve levels of depth this early in it's life.
 
tres said:
OK guys - this game looks right up my street.

How much time do I have to put in to it to make it's purchase worth while?
Do you recommend it?
What is the best part of it?
What is the worst part of it?
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I enjoyed the game out the box, so I believe that you can happily enjoy a lot of it.
From one view point, they've made the controls far more complex than is needed. So there's a shed load of controls that you need to learn to use well. For all that, THAT is part of what makes it more immersive and interesting to play. Somehow feels more real (good comment for a fictional space based game eh) that you need to manually conduct things that in theory could have been automated in game. So there appears to be a good learning curve requirement and that's part of the pleasure.

My guess is that some of it will get quite repetitive. For example, to get some of the top ships looks like the work of months, but being fair, you could apply that to many games.
The good news is that it does give you the option to effectively play it as a single player game and to even swap between full "multi-player" and "single-player" mode when you log in each time. So if you've had enough of the stress of playing other games where you're trying to rely on other players who turn out to have zero interest in teamwork, then you can. If however, there's a group of you, you CAN play together, either against the computer, or to include other the full multiplayer audience. The fact that they've given those options is ace.
Additionally, you can play the game from a variety of ways, e.g.
- You can go all gung-ho combat focused. How you do that is your own choice. Do you want to try to gain a place with a navy or local faction, be a pirate yourself, or prey on them for bounties.
- You can say sod em all, and go exploring to other systems with no one else around, just for sightseeing purposes
- You can simply trade between systems, like a stockmarket game, and you get the choice of doing it legally, or not and be a smugler
- You can go mining
The point about the above is that it's NOT fixed. If you change your mind, get bored, either change the components within your ship to better meet your needs, or swap ships. Most of the starting ships are really cheap to buy (the hull) and if you sell it, you only make a 10% loss on the hull. As long as you remember to empty your ship if you decide to change it, you sell the (expensive) components at the same price you paid for them.
So yesterday, I changed from a Viper to a Cobra to try it out, and the cost in game was just a 15k loss. You can easily make that on a single early mission.
 
I failed... I gave in an ordered before tomorrow lol.

Downloading now, and gonna see what it is like with my X45 setup. (I will probably have to strapped it to the desk).

Are there different servers to join, or is it just one big server etc?
 
Do any of you Xbox controller people have a setup you can suggest? I decided to buy it, again, so I wanna try it with an Xbox controller before investing in a HOTAS. :eek:
 
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