Getting 2.5 kills in a minute is achievable BUT getting it consistently hour after after hour day after day has a particular bovine excrement whiff about it
Someone claims to have reached ELITE status
- Thread starter Devil's Refugee
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Seeing the same remark time after time, I guess nobody reads the tweets. When you chose the side of the Capital Ship, its kills come on your account. Or at least, thats how I read it.
who cares if he did or didn't, Frontier will be the one to decide if it was done within their rules for the comp.. and for everything else *shrugs* big deal, Does he being 'elite' make any difference to you or me? Nope.. and lets face it Even some one who can barely fight can technically grind their way to elite status.. The ranks really are arbitrary like most of the game, it is what YOU make of it.
That's what gets me with so many of the posts of late it's like people have forgotten how to use a little bit of imagination or expect the world to revolve around them.. etc that's never been the case in Elite.. except maybe breifly in first contact if you take the main plot line.. but if you don't it happens even with out you.
Either way if it's been done it's been done. *shrugs*
That's what gets me with so many of the posts of late it's like people have forgotten how to use a little bit of imagination or expect the world to revolve around them.. etc that's never been the case in Elite.. except maybe breifly in first contact if you take the main plot line.. but if you don't it happens even with out you.
Either way if it's been done it's been done. *shrugs*
Huge LOL at Frontier if that's true.
Just gave this tagging method a try - sit near the capital ship, hit passing red targets and allow the NPCs/capital ship to take them out. I made about 300000 in one hour, so 100 kills give or take using the tagging method. Could probably speed this up now I know how to do it. I went after quite a few Condas and pythons rather than the smaller ships. 1000 kills is doable in a day session. With this method it could be done in about 10 days.
I suspect FD will privately be very embarrassed and distressed that someone has used this method to get to Elite so quickly. This was a marketing tool for them, and to have someone manage it in under a month is probably not what they were hoping for. Probably speeds progression by a factor of 5-10.
My personal method before hearing of this was hunting at anarchy nav beacons. I'd scan the ships with a kill warrant scanner slowing things, but I reckon I probably managed 1 ship kill every 1-2 mins. This new method is much faster, though somewhat iffy.
I suspect FD will privately be very embarrassed and distressed that someone has used this method to get to Elite so quickly. This was a marketing tool for them, and to have someone manage it in under a month is probably not what they were hoping for. Probably speeds progression by a factor of 5-10.
My personal method before hearing of this was hunting at anarchy nav beacons. I'd scan the ships with a kill warrant scanner slowing things, but I reckon I probably managed 1 ship kill every 1-2 mins. This new method is much faster, though somewhat iffy.
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You have to tag the target by hitting it within 10 seconds of it dying to the Cap ship to get kill credit.
Might have been said but if his third ship is a viper why does the screen credits spent on ships 0 ?????
I think it's a bug. My stats say the same thing.
And as someone who became explorer ELITE last month, I'm happy to see someone else join my club.
Congratulations (just a Trailblazer here .:-( )
Cap ships aren't killing at a rate of 2.5 ships per minute hour after hour either
you're right.... the rate is much, much higher for the cap ships.
the capital ships melted kappa fornacis farmers so quickly, i couldn't keep up on all its kills in the warzone, despite being in a best-fitted imperial clipper. the capital ship killed more than 95% of the ships in the warzone. sometimes, even more than that. it kills probably 5-6 ships per minute, and as a player, you're supposed to follow it's firing pattern and try to damage the ship its attacking before it dies. this is easier said than done, and if you're lazy, you won't get many kills at all using this method... it is not easy, but is not terribly challenging, either.
using this method i was able to obtain around 1000 kills in 1-2 hours. personally, i stopped at dangerous, as i was not interested in grinding to elite, but rather to see the speed at which you *could* achieve such a task. were someone dedicated enough, it would take no more than 2 weeks of playing this game full time (8 hrs/day, 56hr/week) using this method to obtain elite.
i actually think thats very reasonable. compared to traditional mmorpg "leveling grinds", you can expect about a month or two of casual gameplay to reach the highest level, or a couple weeks of super tryhard, poopsocking turbo-nerd grinding.
if you tried to grind elite combat status from bounty hunting, though, it would take you closer to 4 months of hardcore gameplay, and probably 8-12 months of casual gameplay. i believe this point of contention is what causes players to be up in arms over the grind in ED. bounty hunting, while the most profitable form of combat, still remains fairly undesirable as a main form of income due to the fact its inefficient for grinding both level and credits. some changes from FD in regards to this would be very welcome, as i guarantee you that nobody sane enjoys poopsock-grinding the capital ship events just for a chance to make progress at a reasonable pace.
Just need the micro intra system jumping implemented now and the explorer (and possibly trader) Elite ranks will follow shortly..........got to love unintended consequences
Seems legit to me, anybody without a serious amount of time on hand or a complex to cheese things was never going to win these be realistic.
Both the trading status and the combat one are pretty much measures of time spent, high earning trade routes aren't rare just like combat elite kills aren't rare i'd give the guy his prize, at least being inventive sets you apart from the competition.
Exploration is the one I feel bad for... Elite... In exploration.... Just thinking about it is making me shudder, those poor poor people!
Both the trading status and the combat one are pretty much measures of time spent, high earning trade routes aren't rare just like combat elite kills aren't rare i'd give the guy his prize, at least being inventive sets you apart from the competition.
Exploration is the one I feel bad for... Elite... In exploration.... Just thinking about it is making me shudder, those poor poor people!