A typical night for me playing elite dangerous

m0rl0ck

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So here is my typical ED sessoion.
I go to EDDB to get a good trade route in case im not finding missions i like, go to inara to find out what i need as far as engineers materials to upgrade a ship (currently doing the shields, shield boosters and FSD on my t9), start thinking about all the time i have spent trying to find what ever engineers mat without sucess, and then say "Screw it!" and decide to watch a movie or something on a streaming service.

Last Frontier game i will ever buy. They may know something about coding, but they dont know much about fun.

I have gone through so many HGE's looking for improvised components that im sick of it.
OTOH, im really catching up on my movie watching :)
 

space voyager

space voyager
Elite still needs some kind of longer mission system. I know storyline is almost a forbidden word but solving at least a short series of missions tied by a story and perhaps a different kind of reward at the end (a cache of grade 5 mats, granted a single visit of otherwise locked engineer...) would be far more stimulating than 'I'll do another run between these two systems for another million'.
 
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space voyager said:
Elite still needs some kind of longer mission system. I know storyline is almost a forbidden word but solving at least a short series of missions tied by a story and perhaps a different kind of reward at the end (a cache of grade 5 mats, granted a single visit of otherwise locked engineer...) would be far more stimulating than 'I'll do another run between these two systems for another million'.
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I agree. Unfortunately, it appears that the current mission generation system has serious limitations. I'm hoping that FD refactors it as one of the "Beyond" improvements this year. That's something which would benefit most players.
 

Arindor

Arindor
Sometimes I feel like this too OP. I can't understand why we need to engineer our ships in the manner FD has implemented. Can't they change all modules to max G5 upgrades and save us the bother? Seriously FD, this type of "fun" you have in mind is coma-inducing. :)
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
A good and easy source for high grade materials are top rank enemy ships. Just go to a high or haz res, do some bounty hunting, filter every material g3 and below, collect whatever stays on the radar. The surplus of material can then be readily traded for the ones you are lacking.
 

m0rl0ck

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Agony_Aunt said:
So, even if you like the look of JWE you won't buy it because of issues you have with ED?

Hells, if i didn't buy games from producers where i didn't like one of their games then there would be no companies left for me to buy from except small indie devs.
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Well, a mistake is one thing and forgivable, sadism otoh is another.
 

zarrazee

zarrazee
OP. I'm with ya. On a break from Elite atm and really enjoying Dragon Age: Inquisition (never played it b4). It's what I'd hoped ESO was going to be like but I hate it when npcs level with you.... hang on, that's what they do that in Elite....
 

DocPossible

DocPossible
Limoncello Lizard said:
OP has several quit threads. Been moaning and whining for ages.
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He's still right about the HGE mechanic though. I spent a couple of hours yesterday trawling anarchy systems for Conductive Polymers. Didn't find many. I'm thankful for the materials traders, but it's wasn't a great night. It's not the sort of thing that encourages me to stick around either - I've certainly left the game for a few months to play other things and while every MMO type game has grind of some sort, this is a particularly tedious one.
 

CMDR Carbo

CMDR Carbo
My playing session yesterday was very similar to yours OP. Instead of inara and eddb I was trying to catch up on the alien section on the forum and trying different builds for bug hunting on coriolis.

After I realized I just spent 2 hours and haven't logged in yet I thought "Oops, I should better go to bed."

Sometimes it can be a bit frustrating, I agree.
 

Schlack

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Last playing session for me was running missions for one faction, fighting a war for another faction, and heading off to a nice location to take some glamour shots (of stations you filthy fiend) for a story on a third faction.

The game is what you make of it.

m0rl0ck said:
So here is my typical ED sessoion.
I go to EDDB to get a good trade route in case im not finding missions i like, go to inara to find out what i need as far as engineers materials to upgrade a ship (currently doing the shields, shield boosters and FSD on my t9), start thinking about all the time i have spent trying to find what ever engineers mat without sucess, and then say "Screw it!" and decide to watch a movie or something on a streaming service.

Last Frontier game i will ever buy. They may know something about coding, but they dont know much about fun.

I have gone through so many HGE's looking for improvised components that im sick of it.
OTOH, im really catching up on my movie watching :)
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Actually mission running is a great way to get G5 materials which can then be traded for what you need. its much quicker than the awful USS system.
 

verminstar

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verminstar
A typical night...take missions from station, do missions...back to original station and Im locked out, wanted, notoriety at 5, cant change ship, cant change setup dont even know how Im suddenly wanted by the same faction I did the missions for in the first place.

Logged out and...ye...so another day dawns and here we are about to login and try and figure out how to hand in these missions when I cant even dock at the same station that gave me the missions in the first place.

I can only imagine that those with less patience than me would have uninstalled by now...me Ill just chill a bit and see if the timer runs down that way cos Im shafted any other way atm ^
 

Navigare Necesse Est

Navigare Necesse Est
verminstar said:
A typical night...take missions from station, do missions...back to original station and Im locked out, wanted, notoriety at 5, cant change ship, cant change setup dont even know how Im suddenly wanted by the same faction I did the missions for in the first place.

Logged out and...ye...so another day dawns and here we are about to login and try and figure out how to hand in these missions when I cant even dock at the same station that gave me the missions in the first place.

I can only imagine that those with less patience than me would have uninstalled by now...me Ill just chill a bit and see if the timer runs down that way cos Im shafted any other way atm ^
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Not sure why you log out and don't keep it running. Notoriety should decay while you sleep, no?
 
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