Elite Dangerous 1.0.0

Ya saving my cash, gonna pass on this game

 

Well now that I got all the controls finally figured out its not that bad. I am just to much of a chicken shit to take any of the higher risk missions. I am just busing vegetables around, playing the commodities market and doing some cartography for gas money. hah

 

Still watching streams and videos and trying to talk myself into getting this game. Sadly, its just not happening.

Always makes me think of this

and how much fun flying is.

Those of you who got their joysticks, I would advise you to give it another go if you haven't tried Sim Battles already. This shit just doesn't get old and its always fun and full of action.

 

Well anyone looking into getting this. It is a pretty damn fun game. There is a steep learning curve as the game pretty much hands you a ship, 1000cr and throws you into space. The coop is horribly broken at the moment, but there is supposed to be some major over haul coming to it as soon as this month. It might not be a bad idea to wait until that. Sailo and myself have been playing, we can only see each other on open play. Private groups dont seem to work for shit. On top of this when we both try to enter a unknown signal source (random space events) we dont pop into it together. Again this will hopefully addressed soon.

I am 200k away from my Cobra mk 3! Another night or two like last night and I'll have it in no time.

 

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9991-Elite-Dangerous-Review

 

I do not understand how the commodities market works. You got all these lines everywhere so I go to a system with lines moving away from it for a certain commodity. There is no fucking station in said system selling! Okay then, lets try again, someplace else. This time they are not selling what you would think they should be according to this retarded map! How does this shit work? I am getting bored of blowing wanted people up and mining sucks.

 

I found two places that have imports and exports that are med to high for one another. I have 32 cargo tons but the most I can seem to make is about 42k per round trip. This does not seem very good.

 

yup, I have gone from "THIS GAME SUCKS!" to "THIS GAME IS AWESOME!" to "THIS GAME SUCKS!"

Seems there is only one entertaining way to make any sort of cash in this game, and it has gotten extremely boring.

 

Its certainly a game which could get boring if you do the same thing all the time, I have only been playing it in very small amounts are not getting very far but having fun playing. If I were you I'd take a break and come back to it, you have to find your own niche in it and it's likely to change for most people over time.

I will attempt to explain the trading system, the lines on the map with pulses represent commodities going from one system to another, please note that on the map you could click the arrow next to the general commodities to see more specific commodities, I didn't know this for AGES so was unsure what the other station actually wanted to buy. For big profit you want to be finding products in High demand, Med is ok but profits won't be great unless you can carry alot. Keep an eye on the market if you are doing the same run for several days, the markets can change and if you are making big runs then that supply demand chain is likely to dry up.

For me trading is a bit dull because it is literally space trucking, but if you have your music on or a podcast then it can be quite nice and perhaps can just be used as a means to an end, getting you money to upgrade your bounty hunter ship or your exploration vessel. If you've seen todays newsletter then you'll know that exploration is improving because if you discover a system for the first time it will ALWAYS be registered as discovered by you, and we now have the opportunity to bring commodities to space stations that are still being built and see their progress. And the best thing of all, you can bring supplies to a station that is constructing a capital ship and when its finally finished the person with the biggest contributions get to name it, you could be seeing that ship for years to come.

Elite Dangerous for me is never going to be a game I can massively commit too, but it's nice to be able to go out for a jaunt around the stars for a while

 

My main issue with this game right now is the sheer amount of time it takes to make any sort of money unless you go full bore into space trucking. The ship I want to get (Python) will cost me $54mill, JUST for the stock ship. Throw in another 20 mill to outfit it and another 10mill or so for a insurance buffer. I dont have fing time to make that! And I sure as fuck am not gonna sit here and space truck for 30 hours of game play to get it. I tried mining, and while it looks like you can make a good buck off it, having to scoop a zillion fucking rocks gets boring, VERY fast. Exploration does not pay for shit, conflict zone...lol yay 3k per kill. You are better off camping a nav point. So really. My only source of income is bounty hunting. Everything else is not worth it, or boring as all hell. How long do you think its going to take before bounty hunting gets boring?