In 'vette and don't know some of the basics of the game - they should have made you jump through hoops well before that.
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What's your take on this.
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In 'vette and don't know some of the basics of the game - they should have made you jump through hoops well before that.
git smart
Selenium is if I remember correctly one of the surface mining only mats.
I believe you are correct, hence me having bookmarked several bodies with over 4% Selenium
Although a trip out to the Crystal Spire sites is a boon for trading for Selenium too even if the trader isn't actually wearing a mask!
Put three class 2 mining lasers on your Corvette, three 3A collector limpet controllers, plus a refinery and a 3A prospector, then go to any metallic rings and blast the rocks. set everything to ignore except Painite, Platinum and Palladium. go from rock to rock blasting with your lasers while your limpets hoover up enough materials to last you a lifetime. Sell any metals you get. Don't forget to load up with limpets before setting off. Osmium and Painite is needed to unlock a couple of the engineers, and you need to mine 500T of something to unlock Selene.
I jumped through hoops for bootcamp more than 40 years ago, for a game I play it as I want. Some must think this is close to real.
I see I forgot to put the winking smiley to show I was only teasing ('cos I saw you have been around a bit). Sorry about that.
Who said I'm flying an unengineered Corvette? And who said I'm ignorant of engineering in particular? IF you read my OP you'd see I have already engineered 3 ships. Tongue in cheek is either lost on some or they just jump into a thread without any reading of the background text and say the first thing that comes to mind. No I'm not new to this game, yes, I've restricted myself to a certain aspect of it until recently, because I wanted to.
But this thread isn't,or wasn't, about what I have or haven't done for how long, but about a perceived observation on my part. And too many have come in here with assumptions of my newbieness perhaps because I haven't posted much. Well, we're aware of the outcome of assuming, aren't we. Some need better reading skills. And so now my fun thread has become a pain in my stern quarters because some should have read more carefully the OP. You all carry on with your assumptions, I don't have time to correct your all knowing attitudes. Now I remember why I don't bother with forums.
For those who participated in the spirit of this thread, who read and understood what they read, I thank you, it was fun.
But this thread isn't,or wasn't, about what I have or haven't done for how long, but about a perceived observation on my part. And too many have come in here with assumptions of my newbieness perhaps because I haven't posted much. Well, we're aware of the outcome of assuming, aren't we. Some need better reading skills. And so now my fun thread has become a pain in my stern quarters because some should have read more carefully the OP. You all carry on with your assumptions, I don't have time to correct your all knowing attitudes. Now I remember why I don't bother with forums.
For those who participated in the spirit of this thread, who read and understood what they read, I thank you, it was fun.
OP, my take on this is that you don't understand how to play open world games and want Elite Dangerous to have one single solution to every challenge.
You're playing this game like a single path game. It's not a single path game. It's an open world game with multiple solutions to the same challenge. If you pick a less optimal solution to a challenge, this game will punish you for not picking the best solution.
Play THE WHOLE GAME; don't grind the game for one goal at a time; AND LEARN!
Soon you'll know what to do when.
Alternately, if you have a question and are lazy once in a while GOOGLE IT. But I don't recommend going overboard with this because it harms enjoyment of the game.
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Sorry man, I got a little testy, the winking smiley would have disarmed me.
This game is not meant to be played without 3rd party support.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4HClk1cRIo
No OP, RNGsus just hates you, that is all.
Deal with it.
Deal with it.
My take on this is you are trolling for attention and need some real world friends.
Hey, you openly asked for opinions.
You have mis-remembered.Selenium is present in asteroid belts.
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Been a while since I used my ignore button.....bye!
No.Is this game random or does it keep tabs on your progression and put road blocks, or at the very least, make it harder to do certain things as you go along. For example, I've been looking for phosphorus to engineer my Fed. Corvette. I have yet to do any mining on the surface of any planet, to add, I don't know diddly nor squat about the SRV. So I try to go the easy route and purchase the material I need but the oh so common element isn't available at the traders I visited.
So I have theorized that the game is forcing me to learn and try something new, IE, surface mining. Is this a clever marketing ploy? I'm already invested in a Federal Corvette now it seems I WILL invest in more time consuming knowledge chasing and I WILL like it. (Where would we be without Youtube and the dedicated scholars).
Another fact that rouses my suspicions of manipulation (too strong a word?) is that I've had phosphorus before by mining a planetary ring (I've upgraded three other ships with it), now no amount of that tedium is netting any at all. Again, I ask, is this game monitoring me and forcing my hand? Can not a Vice Admiral of the Federation find a trader anywhere willing to sell some of the not so precious material? Well, not so precious to most.
Yes.
Maybe.
No you will have to barter for it, try offering Selenium or Arsenic.
Don't usually bother with belts, usually only do rings but it is handy to know.
Base game is endgame.