An angry rant (and yet i still keep coming back lol)

Soo after taking a break for a few years I came back yesterday, fixed up all my outstanding fines, and ran some missions... (passenger ones) big mistake, I approached the station and got killed instantly for zero reason (no bounties, no notoriety, and as far as I noticed nothing scanned me) so that was 10million lost, sold off some ships so I'd have rebuy again, tried another passenger mission and apparently I took too long and the client canceled - so gave up and went for a transporting goods mission next, got ganked by NPC's which apparently can instantly drop your shields because that makes total sense in a type 9 heavy (not) so got blown up again and now I'm in a tiny ship because I'm fed up with losing millions when missions barely pay 500k - 1 million

Not sure how everyone else can make money easy because in my entire history of playing this game since launch its always been a hassle and a long ass grind (it took me a year to get enough for the anaconda) - so these people running around with the top end ships, gear, and fleet carriers must be using exploits or some cheap money making trick - no way is anyone doing this legit

anyways that's my rant, going to go and buy a sidewinder and just mess around while I decide what to fail at next (since its the cheapest to rebuy lol)
 
You may have been destroyed as your status to the faction owning the station was hostile.

Things have changed over the years with money making. Apparently it is now easier than it was. Bounty hunting, mining or Odyssey larceny missions are good money makers, as are exploration and exobiology.

Steve
 
Besides Combat Zones a Sidewinder, a laser and a Haz Rez. Check that a ship is wanted, let the good guy NPCs get the target ship hull down to say 50 percent then fire and hit the target for a few seconds. Let the NPCs finish it off and you get the bounty for the kill making fast credits. You will have the Anaconda or Type-9 back very quickly. Maybe a cargo / passenger / mining Python, outfitted Krait Mk II or a deadly Fer de Lance.

Now, what is the first rule when playing Elite Dangerous?
 
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Now, what is the first rule when playing Elite Dangerous?
Play X4 Foundations instead. 🧑‍🎄

iu
 
Please don't take this as bragging or boasting: I have been playing for years and can say that I have never used any kind of cheats. I say this to assure you that cheating is not needed to amass huge amounts of credits and to own top tier ships. I am primarily explorer, miner and trader with a little PVE combat under my belt. I have around 15,000,000,000 in overall assets with 12,000,000,000 of that being cash credits in the bank. Yes, working hard or grinding is going to be apart of advancing in the game. Every time I start thinking that play time is getting a bit grindy, I think of the long haul trucker out on the freeway pulling a load across 6 or 7 states with a deadline to meet. He has to keep grinding while of course I can just stop playing and go watch a movie.

Like you said, you keep coming back and I think it is because of the open ended aspect of this game and also to some extent the challenge of the grind....at least it is for me.


See you in the black!
 
Didn't really expect this post to get this many replies XD soo in celebration I actually bothered to link my game data to inara and fix up my signature and profile pic on here

here's my link: https://inara.cz/elite/cmdr/197398 for those that wanna be nosey :p (can even see where I am n everything lol)
 
Little exploration trip, and bioscanning will rectify your financial situation fast. Need just ship capable of some decent jumping and preferably srv hangar and srv.
 
Little exploration trip, and bioscanning will rectify your financial situation fast. Need just ship capable of some decent jumping and preferably srv hangar and srv.
Might try that tomorrow, I don't have an amazing jump range because I never bothered with engineering but should be fine, I don't mind jumping for hours and I always use a fuel scoop - today I took a detour to try and get suit materials... that didn't happen, the guards kept killing me and no matter what I tried from youtube still didn't work out, maybe a patch changed a lot of stuff though - like crouching basically does nothing because people still spot as soon as you enter a restricted zone, or maybe it's not meant to be a solo thing

pity no one is selling the materials (at least I couldn't find anyone on inara within 150LY) because I do think stronger weapons and better suit shields would've helped

Oh and I had my first run-in with thargoids today, I got nuked in seconds but was still interesting to see that side of Elite, found a rescue ship too but wasn't what I thought it would be lol

in other news Im quite enjoying the on-foot conflict zone stuff - consistently making 6 million a run and its also quite fun with the respawns, I can definitely see myself giving up on trying to do anything other than on-foot conflict zones XD (and the occasional flight to see stuff that ends up being a disappointment, like earth not being landable lol)
 
today I took a detour to try and get suit materials... that didn't happen, the guards kept killing me and no matter what I tried from youtube still didn't work out
Easy way to get suit materials mostly risk-free is looking for settlement reactivations in system with infrastructure failure or bust state*. Only thing you'll have to shoot is occasional scavenger spawns and you'll always know they are hostile on sight. Anything you find in the buildings or settlement grounds is... let's call it free real estate. No one ever called to see where all those missing items went...

*Post-Thargoid recovery also offers lots but Frontier have still not fixed the issue where active settlements have power up missions so if you go to one, try to pick one in its first week of recovery.
 
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