Frontier, I think I owe you lots of money

Taimaru

Taimaru
Recently I wrote myself a small program which calculates (using the launcher log file) how many hours I've played Elite: Dangerous and it worked out I have been playing for 1039.81 hours (43.33 days) so far. I have played 677 times with only 6 crashes. My friends aren't surprised at the total time played :).

I am still enjoying the game and there is still lots more I want to do in the game. I just wish I had more time to play - work and other commitments get in the way.

Apart from Minecraft I don't think I have played a game for so many hours before. A great game only gets around 50 hours game play on average.

So based on the number of hours I've played and the average amount of time I normally play a great game, I should really buy Elite: Dangerous 20 times :D.

Thanks Frontier for such an immersive and fun game I and look forward to all the new things you have planned which I know takes time to code and implement.
 

Psycho Romeo

Psycho Romeo
90% of what players think is wrong with the game is the result of mob mentality, in my opinion. I've poked around a few discussions and was surprised at how wildly I could swing the entire topic just by mentioning something somewhat tangential or in slight disagreement near the early stages of the thread.
 
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Guidebot

Guidebot
Steam says I'm at... 442 hours. And I'm still loving the game!

The secret? Don't do anything you don't wanna do.

This means, after learning that, I've spent 440 hours in the game just killing.
 

Taimaru

Taimaru
My secret is to swap between the different things that one can do in the game rather than spend ages doing the same thing over and over for days and days on end.

One day I might decide to do some trading, another day I go and do some bounty hunting, another day I might go and scan planets/stars in populated space and then another day I will go and do some mining. When I fancy a change from flying round in populated space I then go on an exploration trip.

What helps is my love of Astronomy and my love of flying so even just traveling in supercruise looking out the cockpit window is interesting to me.
 

Taimaru

Taimaru
Kola2 said:
I would love to have that program!
Care to share it?
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I might share it soonTM. I gave the program to a friend and the last version wouldn't run on his machine for some reason (he is running on Windows 8) so I need to sort that out first. It runs fine on my PC (which is running Windows 7). I suspect the issue is in the bit of code which locates Elite: Dangerous as that is the last feature I added.

It can also extract the systems you have been to (if verbose logging is enabled) so you can see where you've been and it has the option to enable/disable verbose logging in the config file.
 

Robbie Rocketpants

Robbie Rocketpants
Thanks for the pointer Taimaru, my play time doesn't really compare to yours, but it still looks like it's given me my money's worth and then some :

The time between starting for the first time and the last time (ie how long Elite has been in my life!) 484 days, during which time I have played 562 times which includes 13 crashes.

Total play time is 457 hours and 3 minutes (19 days and 1 hour) - My average play time (discounting the occasions it crashed) is 49 minutes, with the minimum being 38 seconds (I have no idea) and the maximum session being 13 hours and 4 mins (again, I have no idea, may have left it running?!).
For the 13 times it has crashed, the average time before crash is 27 mins, the min being 2 minutes and the max 2 hours and 5 mins.

Looks like I should buy elite 10 times myself by your logic!! (although I stumped up at alpha so we may be even) :D

I would be really interested in your program as well mate, as well as verbose logging (wish I'd had that on from the start).
 

Goblin King

Goblin King
Psycho Romeo said:
90% of what players think is wrong with the game is the result of mob mentality, in my opinion. I've poked around a few discussions and was surprised at how wildly I could swing the entire topic just by mentioning something somewhat tangential or in slight disagreement near the early stages of the thread.
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You mean you've been playing with our minds?

Or are you doing it simply by claiming this but never actually having done it...

Damn
 
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Angus

Angus
Taimaru said:
Thanks Frontier for such an immersive and fun game I and look forward to all the new things you have planned which I know takes time to code and implement.
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Well said. Despite our frustrations with some choices that have been made it should be remembered what a great job the guys have done of bringing the game to the present and what value it represents.

That said, I guess most of my frustration is being passionate about where it goes next - but whichever way, I got more than my money's worth.
 

CMDR Darkler

CMDR Darkler
I don't really want to know the number of hours I have played :) Too many is the probable answer, but as mentioned the trick is play as the mood takes you.. Hard day at work, out comes the Vulture or Viper and off to the local CZ or Rez Point, feeling lazy out comes the ASP and a random direction is selected, feel like something meaty, the type 6 and scribbled down notes comes out. I think one of the tricks is to have stock-piles of a couple of ships scattered around (have one in the Fed, building my new one in the Empire) that way you are not too far from changing play-style as you see fit.. of course that is my 2p..
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Value for money wise ED is a winner. I though SkyRim was fantastic with a couple of hundred, but ED is plain silly.
If I walk away, as I feel the urge to but REALLY dont want to, I may complain of many things, but not that.
 

shadragon

shadragon
Dommarraa said:
Value for money wise ED is a winner. I though SkyRim was fantastic with a couple of hundred, but ED is plain silly.
If I walk away, as I feel the urge to but REALLY dont want to, I may complain of many things, but not that.
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I thought Skyrims 220+ hours for me was good entertainment. I must be near 1,000 with E: D.
 

Cornelius lucius

Cornelius lucius
I really don't want to know how many hours I've played ED. I was at around 2000 hrs when they took the stats away in beta(gamma?), and i haven't slowed down much since then...;)
 

Stupid_hippy

Stupid_hippy
I was 12 when the original Elite came out and pretty much played nothing else on my old rubber keyed 48k Spectrum after that point. I would even go round my mates house and play it on his BBC B as well (Booooo,BEEP!). The only thing that managed to tear me away from it was the discovery of the entities known as 'girls' some time later.

I'm 42 now and have played many many hours of Dangerous and I have no idea what is going to save me this time round...
 
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