Why Elite has pushed me away

Jason S

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To OP: Sounds like you got very unlucky and also the old do not max your cargo if you cannot then afford the insurance buy back.

But carry on and learn from it...

Also if your safely cash is low consider next time selling the type 6 and getting a cobra and doing rare runs instead, safer... And more interesting probably.
 
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PotatoOverdose

PotatoOverdose
Mobius Oblidus said:
So there you go. Two incidents that weren't my fault in the slightest.
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So, every single thing that happened to you was entirely your fault. Now, let me tell you why.

Mobius Oblidus said:
some <SNIP> NPC Fed flies directly in front of my Beam Laser.
Suddenly. I'm WANTED.
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[masked swearing redacted - please avoid this thank you]you SHOT A COP. What did you think was going to happen? Incidentally, 1.1 made NPC feds more tolerant of player aggression, so don't pretend you just grazed him. Learn some fire control, and check your target - if it looks like a friendly has a chance of getting hit, wait. First mistake.
Mobius Oblidus said:
I lose my ship: a Cobra with modules enough to make it worth 4 Million credits. Ouch. Even with the cash that I had spare, I'm now almost at max loan.
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So you didn't have enough money to cover insurance, and had to use a loan. Second mistake.
Mobius Oblidus said:
an NPC Asp decides to try and pass through the slot from behind me. It runs straight into the back of my Lakon, and causes me to smack into the side of the starport at an angle.
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The cardinal rule of docking is this: The larger ship ALWAYS has the right of way. If you are in a smaller ship, docking, check for larger ships, and then check again. Third mistake.
Mobius Oblidus said:
I lose my ship: A simple Lakon Type 6 with basic modules and top grade armour. 2 Million credits. However. My insurance can't cover the cost. I lose the ship and get offered a Sidewinder. Also a complimentary 200K debt. Brilliant.
I lose my cargo: 1,005,088 credits worth of gold. Now this hurts. It was all the money that I had.
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Ok.... I gotta ask - you're scraping the bottom of the barrel - why did you decide to run with 100 Tons of gold? If you ran with 50 Tons or 75 Tons you would have had enough for insurance. Surely, by this point, you should have realized the importance of insurance? Fourth mistake - and honestly your single biggest one. I had some sympathy up to this point. Here, you just got greedy.



You made 4 mistakes - 4 poor decisions. Had any one of them not been made, you would have been fine. Maybe from your point of view the first three were somehow justified. But when you chose to run with a full haul of gold, despite being 200k in debt and having no insurance, after everything that happened. No. Just no. You earned that sidewinder buddy.

Honestly, I felt like I was reading:
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Vincent Starson

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EddyRockSteady said:
@ Commander Mobius:

If you are interested, PM me with your current location and I will come around and set you up with a pimped Cobra, no strings attached.

I am one of the fortunate Gamma players and am in the position to help. Let me know.

Again, no strings. I drop, you scoop, I scoot.
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Repped, very generous to op!

When you're back in a cobra again OP, run some rares! Here's a route that will make you a million per hour and not be as dull as trading in your Type 6. Just run this until you can get into an Asp: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=98921

Good luck! Don't give up now Commander, rise from the ashes!
 

MilkyBarKid

MilkyBarKid
Oh man, that sucks. I feel for you. I had something similar happen and lost my new T7 - at least 20mil. Had a bit better backup situation but still!?!

Took a break for a few days and came back. Just focus on gameplay - you really can have as much fun in the small ships.

I actually now enjoy the game more for the lesson it taught me - hard as it is at he time. Money and bigger ships will come but are not the aim, enjoy the journey.
 

catanonia

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Get out and explore. I recently started this after being the same since Gamma and it has brought a new dimension to ED for me.
 

Lyandritz

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You can do like me :

I never hunt in Nav Beacon or RES because these places are full of authority vessels and bounty hunters.
I don't like disputing a target and doing friendly fire.

That's why prefer to interdict the "wanted" so i am not bothered by other bounty hunters and authority vessels.
Interdiction is much more fun. You can choose your target.
You can also go to the warzones or do assassination missions (if you are good enough)

However it's fun sometime to do some Trading and Exploring.
Earned 21 millions total 7 millions from trade at start.
Using Viper most of time.
 
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Vidicus

Vidicus
This game is plagued with flawed design decisions. I am sorry for your loss and frustration with the game. I suggest playing something else for a few months. I hope FD see they are basically killing their own game and change direction. Maybe in a few months this game will be fun again. Currently I have to force myself to even load the game up, 10 minutes later I have logged out due to boredom.
 

Jynnan Tonnyk

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Bertak said:
I can understand the frustration but don't blame the game for your actions. Crap happens that sometimes is unavoidable but you did so much wrong you only have yourself to blame for this. It took many mistakes on your part to end up in this situation.
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How can he be blamed for an NPC crashing into the back of him whilst entering a starport?
 

Myspace Kaitsu80

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Got to about half point of OP post.

Get to Solo/Mobius -group.

Face it, you are either doing it wrong if you sink into debt and/or cant recover from a loss, or not just that good pilot.

Btw. Trade being grind, but profitable, actually makes sense as long as other careers have more "fun-factor" in them (through patches, expansions and so on).
 
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Surly_Badger

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Jynnan Tonnyk said:
How can he be blamed for an NPC crashing into the back of him whilst entering a starport?
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He can't. It's irrelevant.

I played through the whole Halo series at maximum difficulty and sometimes I'd be doing great until one of the NPCs did the right wrong thing and suddenly everything fell apart. And you ... start over. Or you decide it's not fun anymore and walk away. It doesn't matter which, really. Blaming an NPC is stupid but it's also true that NPCs are gonna jack you up - it's what they are there for.

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PotatoOverdose said:
OP's post is a morality tale about greed.
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OP's post is a morality tale about optimism.


... which happened to be misplaced.

(Edit: I just realized something. As I wrote that bit about playing Halo in monster-mode, I realized that, yeah, I'm proud of getting through some of those fights. Some of them were crazy epic battles that I tried over and over with different strategies and different deaths. And when I finished, I walked away thinking "that was something!" If it had just been a slaughter of NPCs like World of Warcraft or a complete turkey shoot, then I wouldn't have felt much of a sense of accomplishment.

So, you gotta take the bad with the good. If the game punishes you, think what a badass you'll be if you beat it. Or walk away. Nobody's gonna die and have them put on his headstone:
"Here Lies Marcus,
Who Lost His Type-6,
And Rage-Quit Living."

Quit, or don't quit, it matters not. It is a game. Something you do for fun. You do not have to continue. Your mother is not standing over your shoulder yelling "CLEAN YOUR PLATE OR NO DESSERT FOR YOU!" )
 
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Jynnan Tonnyk

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Phier said:
Never had it happen to me, but I watch out for NPC's. He can be blamed for foolishly, after all that, flying without insurance. Thats just a face palm moment.
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Fair comment about the insurance, but the NPC thing happened with me too. I was exiting a station and a viper flew up from below the letterbox and straight into me; at least it taught me to never do without a shield again! :)
 

Cula-Ta

Cula-Ta
You should be able to use other assets to cover costs. That's what would happen in the real world.

I have PM'd you. If you are close by I have a bundle of Rares for you. I mainly play in the Mobius Group but can meet you in open
 

BlackReign

Banned
BlackReign
I want to love this game. But ED in it's current state reminds me of gorgeous woman that's a pain to deal with. She has so much potential, and I keep holdin on like EnVogue, but the fact is, she will never be what she promised, or what I dream of her to be.

I just realized it's been 2 days since I've played. I don't even feel comfortable taking my T9 out for a run. does this sound like a healthy attitude one should have for a GAME? Man, I'm hanging on, hoping that FD gets their act together soon, but the iceberg is clearly ahead.
 
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Vampyre111

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Here's how gaming breaks down for me. It's simple. Am I having fun. Am I learning anything. If the answers are yes, then I keep on playing. What I like about ED is there are enogh things to do and try, i don't get bored. Like in my main post today, I finally found some conflict zones and got to try one for the first time. I really liked it. It was fun.

When it' gets boring and becomes SOSDD, the then I'll be off to the next best thing, if I can find one.
 
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