The problem is not find the money for the Anaconda, but to find the money to upgrade all the modules!, costs twice! lol!
The End Game Shouldn't Be Ships
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The problem is not find the money for the Anaconda, but to find the money to upgrade all the modules!, costs twice! lol!
End game? OP you're playing this game wrong - IMHO
There is no early/mid/end game in Elite because nothing changes as you get bigger ships.
There is the first hint of some new gameplay/option that depend on your ship with ship-launched fighters.
Hopefully they expand on this and give ship roles that extend beyond being bigger than the previous ship.
CMDR CTCParadox
There is the first hint of some new gameplay/option that depend on your ship with ship-launched fighters.
Hopefully they expand on this and give ship roles that extend beyond being bigger than the previous ship.
CMDR CTCParadox
getting the conda is actually what made me take break because of how ultimately disappointing hitting that 'goal' was, it's brick with a jump range of all, however i acknowledge that this disappointment is based in that the 'conda is perceived as being the 'endgame' ship and really, just like every ship it's simply designed to do particular things and for a particular playstyle, that isn't for me, and is not the ED equivalent of 'raid gear'.
Now i understand that i'm thinking of starting fresh.
Now i understand that i'm thinking of starting fresh.
Elite sells itself as a sandbox style game that doesn't have an end, but ultimately it does. It's just paced like an ant pushing a bowling ball across a desert.
Either you have a sandbox game where you find fun things to do with the things you've unlocked/collected (this is not Elite - all there is to do with the things you've collected is use them to collect more things), or you have a backstory-driven MMO where people are meant to team up to take on the baddies.
Elite seems like the latter, just without the ability to team up or even see most players, and no baddies that require any teamwork. And no story to speak of, since the alien thing really isn't a story as much as a couple teasers and cryptic clues. It moves too slowly for the vast majority to care one iota about.
Either you have a sandbox game where you find fun things to do with the things you've unlocked/collected (this is not Elite - all there is to do with the things you've collected is use them to collect more things), or you have a backstory-driven MMO where people are meant to team up to take on the baddies.
Elite seems like the latter, just without the ability to team up or even see most players, and no baddies that require any teamwork. And no story to speak of, since the alien thing really isn't a story as much as a couple teasers and cryptic clues. It moves too slowly for the vast majority to care one iota about.
When you pack up and finish the game I suppose.
Except the ability to more efficiently kill smaller ships... and haul much more cargo per run.
Which is a big deal to many players...
There really isn't anything to finish, unless you set a goal for yourself to achieve something.
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"Hundreds of hours" to get an Anaconda? Well I guess it can take hundreds of hours to learn enough to realize that it takes a couple days at most to earn the money for an Anaconda.
And it only takes a couple minutes in an Anaconda to realize that small ships are way more fun to fly.
And it only takes a couple minutes in an Anaconda to realize that small ships are way more fun to fly.
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I dunno, it takes people various hours to figure out how to play a game, if it's a special game. It took me 9 hours until I finally figured out how to play Dark Souls properly, so, ya know.
True. I have played for over 1500 and I still learn new things. Making money though is quite easy especially if you know how to use search. Learning how to kit and fly an Anaconda effectively takes a bit more time though for most players.
over 1500 hours? you freak. I'm only at....1300-1400 hours. Gawd.
It did in fact take me many hundreds of hours to earn an Anaconda
Of course I was a no account vagabond who didn't really buckle down to any particular activity, and I never visited the forums in those early days...
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There are ways to expedite gaining a large ship. Learning to fly and actually use it though? That's where things get interesting.
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Not sure if serious. Anyway, if you want to get a conda quickly, go to Sothis/Ceos and do long range haulage missions, you could probably get one in a day. It's pretty common for players to want that bigger better ship early on, but after you've flown them for a while...well a lot of people go back to the small ships because they are actually more fun to fly. I spend most of my time in an iCourier or iEagle, the conda is for fast long range travel and exploration, mainly.
there is no end game. the end game hasn't been ships since they buffed gold earning.
the end game is to have fun. ships are only an "end game" if you make ships your focus.
the end game is to have fun. ships are only an "end game" if you make ships your focus.
It did in fact take me many hundreds of hours to earn an Anaconda
Me as well. Then I promptly sold it within 5 minutes because it removed most of the challenge interest and skill from the game.
But now that they are bringing in ship launched fighters, I may just add one to the fleet to see if it's worth while again. I imagine it just make things even simpler and easier though.
Funny as it sounds, I wouldn't know the first thing about fighting in one. I've got mine all dialed in for defensive measures and I'm very confident in flying it into and out of PvP patrolled areas as an armored truck, but I've never had any weapons on it. I guess I should probably learn one of these days.