So i played in Beta 1.0 -> 1.03
I made many millions and owned, at one point, all the available ships in that beta. (Type-9 and Anaconda were what I really spent most of my time in).
I decided to not play until live to have the best experience when returning.
So the day came, I installed the game and played for a couple of days.
And to be honest, I feel like im already done.
Mining was new to me. I spent some time doing it and it felt largely a pointless endeavour. the only reason to do it was to make money and there are far better, faster ways to do that.
Trading was the same as the betas only harder to find decent trades yourself as the ability to use trading tools has disappeared. No idea why..
Doing missions was new to me too. It offered a way to make a relatively easy income initially but pretty quickly became largely pointless for traders. If that was all bounty hunters had to go on then it looked like a bread line existence.
Exploring was OK but again broadly unrewarding.
I play in a DK2 so I can't comfortably write things down when planning trades etc. It doesn't really suit it much at all. In my opinion the galaxy map trade routes should show the demand level in the speed of the pulses which indicate the direction of the trade. Especially if you paid for trade info. Otherwise you might end up trading something that's a loss leader as you have no way of knowing without visiting both ends of a trade first. You don't know if there is a high demand until you get there, so it's a bit backwards.
So after 3 or 4 days of a couple of hours a day I feel like I'm more or less done with Elite already.
Really disappointed. I was so looking forward to there being so much more than the betas. In reality its just bigger and slower to do the same things I've already done with a couple of unrewarding extra facts bolted on.
I bought the lifetime pass to all expansions when I entered Beta so I'll look in from time to time but I really hope some improvements are made otherwise it's just wasted money. A real pity.
Hope some devs read this and have a think about it.
Maybe it just needs alot more time than I have to put in to it to make the most of it.
I made many millions and owned, at one point, all the available ships in that beta. (Type-9 and Anaconda were what I really spent most of my time in).
I decided to not play until live to have the best experience when returning.
So the day came, I installed the game and played for a couple of days.
And to be honest, I feel like im already done.
Mining was new to me. I spent some time doing it and it felt largely a pointless endeavour. the only reason to do it was to make money and there are far better, faster ways to do that.
Trading was the same as the betas only harder to find decent trades yourself as the ability to use trading tools has disappeared. No idea why..
Doing missions was new to me too. It offered a way to make a relatively easy income initially but pretty quickly became largely pointless for traders. If that was all bounty hunters had to go on then it looked like a bread line existence.
Exploring was OK but again broadly unrewarding.
I play in a DK2 so I can't comfortably write things down when planning trades etc. It doesn't really suit it much at all. In my opinion the galaxy map trade routes should show the demand level in the speed of the pulses which indicate the direction of the trade. Especially if you paid for trade info. Otherwise you might end up trading something that's a loss leader as you have no way of knowing without visiting both ends of a trade first. You don't know if there is a high demand until you get there, so it's a bit backwards.
So after 3 or 4 days of a couple of hours a day I feel like I'm more or less done with Elite already.
Really disappointed. I was so looking forward to there being so much more than the betas. In reality its just bigger and slower to do the same things I've already done with a couple of unrewarding extra facts bolted on.
I bought the lifetime pass to all expansions when I entered Beta so I'll look in from time to time but I really hope some improvements are made otherwise it's just wasted money. A real pity.
Hope some devs read this and have a think about it.
Maybe it just needs alot more time than I have to put in to it to make the most of it.
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