I'm bored with this game. What to do?
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If you are really bored with the game, try playing SC, you will be back at ED in no time with a whole new appreciation.
I want to visit every star before I die
Greetings!
I have been with the Elite franchise since it first came out in the mid 1980s. I played the original for so many hours I lost count, and the highest rank that I achieved was "dangerous." It has been lots of fun all the way and I have not been bored at all. Same with the Oolite remake-I have yet to achieve higher than "dangerous."
And now there is Elite Dangerous. I have been with this game since April 2019 and for me, the learning curve was indeed steep and the transtion from the original game to ED was long, but took my time to learn and to not rush things. I like this game so much that I play it virtually every day after real life duties are done. I already made Duchess with the Empire but am just a lieutenant with the Feds; I am allied with all 3 major powers; made Elite explorer and trader; have 8 ships (including 2 Annies and 1 Cutter) and am 26 percent Deadly.
However, I have just scratched the surface of what Elite Dangerous has to offer. I have yet to:
1. engage in power play (I might enter your service soon, Princess Duval-I would like those prismatics)
2. visit Beagle Point, Colonia, and Sagittarius A
3. mine Void Opals
4. fight Thargoids
5. engage in missions other than hauling cargo and data
6. circumnavigate the galaxy
7. get proficient with fixed weapons
8. reach Admiral with the Feds
9. try other ships other than the ones I have (I presently have a DBX, a Cobra Mk3, 2 Annies, 1 Cutter, 1 FDL, 1 iClipper, and of course the good old workhorse known as the Python)
10 unlock all Colonia engineers
11. explore the tough places (in terms of very low star density) like Xibalba, Tenebrae, and Kepler's Crest
12. find biological items while exploring
13. fully G5 enginner my entire fleet
14. visit the sights of the galaxy (like the various nebulae)
15. reach Queen wth the Imperials (ok, king).
and many other things I might have left out
The key to an open ended game like this is to not rush things. Do things as they come. If you focus solely on grinding and grinding and grinding, and rush instead of enjoying the game and taking things as they come, you will burn out.
In my opinion, obtaining the Cutter is totally worth it. With mine, I am presently making about 50 million an hour (I am not kidding) doing a trade loop in my home system. With the setup I have, the Cutter is virtually invincible in PvE. In HAZ-RES it terrorizes NPC Elite Condas, FDLs and Type 10s. The Imperial grinding is very easy: just go to Ngalinn and Mainali and stack data missions like crazy and watch your ranking skyrocket.
If you indeed feel bored and burned out, just take a break and come back later. There are many, many things to do in ED. The beauty of an open ended game like this is that we create our own story in which we decide how it ends (or keep going) and how long it takes. It is not like other games that have a definite story and an ending (i.e. WarpSpeed, Star Raiders, Super Mario Bros, etc).
Enjoy the game. It really is a wonderful one. Just keep it easy, take things as they come, and don't rush.
CMDR Janet
I have been with the Elite franchise since it first came out in the mid 1980s. I played the original for so many hours I lost count, and the highest rank that I achieved was "dangerous." It has been lots of fun all the way and I have not been bored at all. Same with the Oolite remake-I have yet to achieve higher than "dangerous."
And now there is Elite Dangerous. I have been with this game since April 2019 and for me, the learning curve was indeed steep and the transtion from the original game to ED was long, but took my time to learn and to not rush things. I like this game so much that I play it virtually every day after real life duties are done. I already made Duchess with the Empire but am just a lieutenant with the Feds; I am allied with all 3 major powers; made Elite explorer and trader; have 8 ships (including 2 Annies and 1 Cutter) and am 26 percent Deadly.
However, I have just scratched the surface of what Elite Dangerous has to offer. I have yet to:
1. engage in power play (I might enter your service soon, Princess Duval-I would like those prismatics)
2. visit Beagle Point, Colonia, and Sagittarius A
3. mine Void Opals
4. fight Thargoids
5. engage in missions other than hauling cargo and data
6. circumnavigate the galaxy
7. get proficient with fixed weapons
8. reach Admiral with the Feds
9. try other ships other than the ones I have (I presently have a DBX, a Cobra Mk3, 2 Annies, 1 Cutter, 1 FDL, 1 iClipper, and of course the good old workhorse known as the Python)
10 unlock all Colonia engineers
11. explore the tough places (in terms of very low star density) like Xibalba, Tenebrae, and Kepler's Crest
12. find biological items while exploring
13. fully G5 enginner my entire fleet
14. visit the sights of the galaxy (like the various nebulae)
15. reach Queen wth the Imperials (ok, king).
and many other things I might have left out
The key to an open ended game like this is to not rush things. Do things as they come. If you focus solely on grinding and grinding and grinding, and rush instead of enjoying the game and taking things as they come, you will burn out.
In my opinion, obtaining the Cutter is totally worth it. With mine, I am presently making about 50 million an hour (I am not kidding) doing a trade loop in my home system. With the setup I have, the Cutter is virtually invincible in PvE. In HAZ-RES it terrorizes NPC Elite Condas, FDLs and Type 10s. The Imperial grinding is very easy: just go to Ngalinn and Mainali and stack data missions like crazy and watch your ranking skyrocket.
If you indeed feel bored and burned out, just take a break and come back later. There are many, many things to do in ED. The beauty of an open ended game like this is that we create our own story in which we decide how it ends (or keep going) and how long it takes. It is not like other games that have a definite story and an ending (i.e. WarpSpeed, Star Raiders, Super Mario Bros, etc).
Enjoy the game. It really is a wonderful one. Just keep it easy, take things as they come, and don't rush.
CMDR Janet
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Creating your own story only you experience is no different than sitting in your bed and dreaming about playing a game that doesn't exist. That's not usually why people play games.
What elite lacks is a way to communicate your story in the game either directly or as is more common in games, thru actions.
And so it will always leave players feeling unfulfilled after the annual narrative update runs out
What elite lacks is a way to communicate your story in the game either directly or as is more common in games, thru actions.
And so it will always leave players feeling unfulfilled after the annual narrative update runs out
Posting to the forum calling yourself a "noob" at the end of December, then repeatedly for a month about finding void opals, how can I find opals, why am I not finding void opals, how can I make a billion, etc. And now you're bored.
Man, I'm shocked.
Try small ship combat (Vulture/Viper) - big OP'd ships will make combat boring after a while
Go check out all the Generation Ship logs - some great/gruesome stories to be had
Kill Thargoids, rescue refugees, repair damaged stations
Join a Squadron, wing up, manipulate the BGS
Pirate LTDs, pillage megaships/installations, smuggle, transport wanted passengers
SRV base jumping
Go rogue and see how high a bounty you can get
Go check out all the Generation Ship logs - some great/gruesome stories to be had
Kill Thargoids, rescue refugees, repair damaged stations
Join a Squadron, wing up, manipulate the BGS
Pirate LTDs, pillage megaships/installations, smuggle, transport wanted passengers
SRV base jumping
Go rogue and see how high a bounty you can get
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And yet here you are declaring that you're not having fun
just saying.Edit/add on:
I got bored with the game for a while and stopped playing for a few months. This was a little more than a year ago, then I'm joined up with a squadron when I came back. We do a lot of bgs and cz's, sometimes we go on excursions for thargoid surface sites or guardian blueprints and equipment when we have new players in the Squadron who haven't done that stuff yet. I learned a lot from those guys that I didn't already know, and I've come to enjoy helping others learn what they don't already know.
Sometimes sharing your experience with others is as much fun as experiencing it in the first place.
I still get burnt out on it occasionally. I found the best remedy for this is other games in between. I've been playing a lot of Apex Legends, I went back to GTA v online for a little while, I played a whole bunch of red Dead redemption online. I still keep coming back to Elite because no other game I plays offers what Elite does
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Well if that was fun create your own road to riches based on your own first discoveries.
just play something else for a while. Go outside, get religion, take up a musical instrument, learn to cook, start a meditation practice, learn martial arts, whatever the hell you want.
It's time for you to enter the Elite Dangerous end-game content, which involves reading forum posts until new content is released later in the year.
Or just get a good bow and go hunting on the plains of whiterun, always entertaining.
I have over 10wks of play time in this game and I'm due for another break soon.
But let's be fair to the OP.. There's no news.. Wing Trade Missions were nerf'd.. Mining was nerf'd...
I have about as big a fleet I need for anything, I'm just running out of reasons to keep logging in. This game needs an event or something.
But let's be fair to the OP.. There's no news.. Wing Trade Missions were nerf'd.. Mining was nerf'd...
I have about as big a fleet I need for anything, I'm just running out of reasons to keep logging in. This game needs an event or something.
Combat is only meh if you spend your time fighting toasters.
Join a squad and try some pvp, its a whole different level and quite entertaining.
Join a squad and try some pvp, its a whole different level and quite entertaining.
What is this "hooning" I've heard speak of in this thread?
Whatever you do, do NOT attempt to manipulate the BGS.
It will take over your life, and requires far too much thought.
I spent almost my entire stay in Colonia doing just that. Frustrating, focussed, absorbing, and bloody hard work to boot.
I can't think of any activity that makes you feel more connected to the 'reality' of the game than this. It has its problems it's true, but it will probably be my endgame thing once I've 'done everything else', and I highly recommend it if you are in any way a 'thoughtful' kind of player
It will take over your life, and requires far too much thought.
I spent almost my entire stay in Colonia doing just that. Frustrating, focussed, absorbing, and bloody hard work to boot.
I can't think of any activity that makes you feel more connected to the 'reality' of the game than this. It has its problems it's true, but it will probably be my endgame thing once I've 'done everything else', and I highly recommend it if you are in any way a 'thoughtful' kind of player