I think after one week of getting hooked up on my Oculus Rift, hands glued to my X52 Pro HOTAS, it is time for a quick summary:
1) THIS GAME IS AWESOME!
2) Am I the only one seeing the REAL world pixelated after a few hours of Oculus Rift???
Anyway, it took me a few days to figure out the real way to make money initially is really a hauler and exploiting a good route. Also it took me 3 days to figure out the entrances to the cube-like stations (BTW, the correct entrance face is on the rotating axis, rotating counter clockwise if you don't know)
I tried a few fights, but I couldn't make any serious doe. Going one by one through unidentified sources, hoping to get on a wanted npc takes forever.
Then you have the low intensity and high intensity zones... they are hard to find, when you do, more than half the time, someone steals your kill... waste of time. Maybe when I have a bigger ship with killer guns, I can finish others in a few shots, then take the money. In the meantime, I decided to stick to trucking...
So it took me about 3 days (like 8 hours) to rack up enough to get me a hauler, equip it with 2x8 cargo holds, find a good route and then exploit that...
It is surprising how even the small back and forth between systems in hyperdrive to pick up and deliver goods is addictive.
Anyway, back to the story; Yesterday I had 145k CR and I found this contract for 10 palladium for 225kCR... It was just after I decided to go to bed as I was crashing in my seat... I said to myself, this is too good an opportunity to pass... ONE MORE... ok.
I go for another pass, spend 140k CR to get the 10 palladium (about 14k each) and think to myself, easiest money I'll ever make... Anyway, as I am about to enter the station to deliver the good.
My fingers somehow were on the throttle boost button instead of the hat (you can't see your real hands with the rift), and YIPEEE, the afterburner suddenly turns on... I was half asleep at that time but believe me, it woke me up real quick...
Despite being able to align myself (kinda) with the station entrance, with the engine boost on, I still went crashing hard on the side entrance, and my hauler exploded, ejecting me in the process...
Result: my hard earned 145kCR, soon to become $230k became 5k in an instant... Now I am stuck having to start over with small transport contracts before I can even make a few thousands on one run...
That will teach me to go to bed and not push it to the limit. It just bothers me I will have to wait longer to get the money to get a big ship, but hey, this is a great learning experience... It is UNLIKELY it will happen to me again as I probably will think about this everytime I enter a station
Thank you frontier, I haven't had a sense of loss playing a game forever...EXPERIENCE...THIS IS WHAT THIS GAME IS ALL ABOUT...

1) THIS GAME IS AWESOME!
2) Am I the only one seeing the REAL world pixelated after a few hours of Oculus Rift???
Anyway, it took me a few days to figure out the real way to make money initially is really a hauler and exploiting a good route. Also it took me 3 days to figure out the entrances to the cube-like stations (BTW, the correct entrance face is on the rotating axis, rotating counter clockwise if you don't know)
I tried a few fights, but I couldn't make any serious doe. Going one by one through unidentified sources, hoping to get on a wanted npc takes forever.
Then you have the low intensity and high intensity zones... they are hard to find, when you do, more than half the time, someone steals your kill... waste of time. Maybe when I have a bigger ship with killer guns, I can finish others in a few shots, then take the money. In the meantime, I decided to stick to trucking...
So it took me about 3 days (like 8 hours) to rack up enough to get me a hauler, equip it with 2x8 cargo holds, find a good route and then exploit that...
It is surprising how even the small back and forth between systems in hyperdrive to pick up and deliver goods is addictive.
Anyway, back to the story; Yesterday I had 145k CR and I found this contract for 10 palladium for 225kCR... It was just after I decided to go to bed as I was crashing in my seat... I said to myself, this is too good an opportunity to pass... ONE MORE... ok.
I go for another pass, spend 140k CR to get the 10 palladium (about 14k each) and think to myself, easiest money I'll ever make... Anyway, as I am about to enter the station to deliver the good.
My fingers somehow were on the throttle boost button instead of the hat (you can't see your real hands with the rift), and YIPEEE, the afterburner suddenly turns on... I was half asleep at that time but believe me, it woke me up real quick...
Despite being able to align myself (kinda) with the station entrance, with the engine boost on, I still went crashing hard on the side entrance, and my hauler exploded, ejecting me in the process...
Result: my hard earned 145kCR, soon to become $230k became 5k in an instant... Now I am stuck having to start over with small transport contracts before I can even make a few thousands on one run...
That will teach me to go to bed and not push it to the limit. It just bothers me I will have to wait longer to get the money to get a big ship, but hey, this is a great learning experience... It is UNLIKELY it will happen to me again as I probably will think about this everytime I enter a station
Thank you frontier, I haven't had a sense of loss playing a game forever...EXPERIENCE...THIS IS WHAT THIS GAME IS ALL ABOUT...
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