For what it's worth, I consider the Adder the cutest ship in ED.
It's like a puppy before it grows up to become an (ugly) adult FDL.
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It's like a puppy before it grows up to become an (ugly) adult FDL.
I am flying adder on exobiology now, and just realized that from Zorgon Peterson Mama has the best cockpit for exploration anyway hahahahahaha
I find Adder's cockpit view really restrictive, even tho i understood it's actually quite nice in VR.
But, as a plain 2d user, i kinda hate it's cockpit view.
However, the Hauler is really brilliant for exobiology - it's not as restrictive as the sidewinder, while still being small enough to land almost anywhere.
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The one thing I really love about Odyssey is how much it gave life to the small ships that used to be nothing but cheap stepping stones to the chunky ones.
Since exobiology has been a thing, the Hauler has been one of my favourite ships away from the Bubble.
Stepping stone? more like skipping stones since they made Creds irrelevant.
If you have a fleet of carriers and jump around galaxy a lot, credits aren't so irrelevant.
Still, just one 40 victim pirate massacre mission that you can do in an hour will more than cover one week's worth of upkeep and tritium cost of a fully equipped carrier. And if you can stack 5 of these missions... Currently I have 16 years of my carrier's upkeep in bank along with 12500 tons of tritium reserves, and I haven't followed the gold rushes/get-rich-quick schemes at all.
FWIW, my bet on ship #4 is Panther Clipper for Xmas or what, may it be a passenger ship or not.
O7,
O7,
for a new player with no carrier owner friends, credits dont come easy
Hehe, last trip I spent 3,7 B worth of tritium. Upkeep cost is irrelevant for me
Now I have plan for the next carrier with own mission I need 14B just for start
I'm a poor sod with just one carrier with slightly under 24 billion in the bank, but that will have to change, once there are 42 different ships in the game.
I have a carrier and 542 million in the bank...
I'm hoping for something very different like the Panther Clipper. But, imho something that big has to have a S class ship bay, possibly optional for cargo or ship bay.
With a ship like that, I'd think I was the owner of a small carrier to roam all over. ... I'm a serf with no FC and only a few billion that sustains my small fleet of 15 ships but I think I can afford one of those.
GL HF
With a ship like that, I'd think I was the owner of a small carrier to roam all over. ... I'm a serf with no FC and only a few billion that sustains my small fleet of 15 ships but I think I can afford one of those.
GL HF
In previous version of Elite there was Boa with S-pad landing pad/hangar bay
Everything pays 10s of millions now. The only thing that wouldn't pay is pvp. I don't know these new players are doing if they're not in a position to make billions by the end of their first week.
You are talking from the position of experienced player. Easy to look, hard to see.
Enjoying the game instead of following “grind guides” that are designed to get you to endgame ASAP instead of also going through the journey to it?
Also, early-game missions absolutely do not pay millions, even seeing one for a million is rare. I made that experience with an alt I created toward the end of… last year, I think.
Nah, I'm coming from the position of someone that actually explores a game and see what's possible instead of watching grind guides. This game is p easy.
Only a sucker would be doing missions from the start. Anyone that actually explores the game will quickly find virtually risk free (actually risk free with an Arx
ship!) bounty leeching will get you set up in a ship to do mining in short order, or just whisking around Ag systems to scan water worlds or Earth likes. From there it's easy to setup a mining ship, you don't even need to core mine but you can set up an effective Adder for that if you're smart enough to figure out how to find cores. At that point you're in a position to make billions. Or just take your sidewinder somewhere to scan salads, that'll take a bit longer but odds are you'll be buying a carrier when you get back.
Only a sucker would be doing missions from the start. Anyone that actually explores the game will quickly find virtually risk free (actually risk free with an Arx
Playing the game, rather than watching Youtube guides, is what most players are doing when they start out.
How long that period lasts will vary player to player, but I'm very happy for FDev to balance the game economy around them, and not those of us with billions of credits. We have our material-grind to be getting on with.
I still remember all the plotting and planning I did in my Cobra to scrape together enough money for my first Asp Explorer for 6 million (plus a couple of rebuys.) I wouldn't recommend any player skip that stage of the game, because that's when it's closest to Elite of old.
All evidence to the contrary. There's a thread here from someone asking why the Ody settlement youtube recommended they raid is dark and they can't do it. If they actually played the game they would've realized that's actually better since they can do reactivate missions for it. Clearly they have only watched youtube instead of playing.