I'd urge all console players to grind credits like mad, as once you get a pc alt your existing credits will be transferred, and then you can transfer all the console credits once more using a fleet carrier! 
Console Profile Transfers and 2022 Updates
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This is AWESOME! Having played elite since 1985 on my Atari 800.. and now on my "built for Elite Dangerous" PC, I cannot thank you enough for continuing to move "THE STORY" along. The game is so gorgeous.. I would spend my time exploring between the release of new narrative / story content, but it is so much fun to join the story! Looking forward to a great end to 2022, and to a long future of exciting storylines to come for Elite Dangerous...
And to those who kept on thumping the "ELITE IS DEAD" drum... TAKE THAT! LONG LIVE ELITE DANGEROUS!!!
Thank you Frontier!
O7
CMDR Retyu Ranger
Yeh - it’s an option … except I had a carrier but now my credits are split roughly 3 Billion / 2 Billion so neither account can afford to rebuy one!!
They "said" we'd be getting Odyssey for consoles, too.......... Just sayin'.
Likewise. I transferred from PS4 last year to PC. I believe it should be reviewed in regards to all the transfers from Console to PC in the last few years.
Gary
Damnit, I was looking forward to that....!
Was it a good hat? Like Ian's santa hat at a jaunty angle? Which for clarity, is the only way to wear any hat properly.
How many years before the launch of Odyssey are you considering?
Yes it had dangly bits at an angle!
It's on life support. Even yourself have to admit that.
If the August & November updates are meh, or break things, that will delay what ever is going to happen in 2023.
Whatever happens in 2023, will not be what the player base (current and former) really want. It's FDEV whatever can be done to mess up their game, they will find a way.
I don't know how, I don't know why. But they have done things consistently bad over the years, poor game mechanics, poor balancing, poor gameplay loops.
Shout out to the graphics and audio departments though that is Stellar work, as is the simple to grasp complex to master control system, the best out there until you get used to the flight system in the other space game.
I too wanted to play Elite Dangerous with 21st Century game mechanics, but alas they haven't delivered outside a free to play mobile game, but without the purchasable loot boxes. Blimey they even messed that up because they couldn't handle the heat.
Hmm, I wonder what 2023 will bring?
It's more likely they don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't nailed down the general areas to address either.
back in 2017, perhaps 2018 Braben himself said there are things out there that the player base hasn't found yet. He can say that because no matter what the player base does there's areas that will never be seen so the "missed content" can be added at pretty much any point and it's "Always" been there.
Pratchett' Discworld nods to this in The Lost Continent. "How long has that mountain been there?" - "Millions and millions of years!" - "Oh right. Was it there last Tuesday?". Or something along the same gist.
Perhaps that content being referred to was already found? While I'm not saying serve everything on a plate, the clues are out there. Why they have to be decoded out of game, I don't know but that's FDEV for you.
Don't think it works like that, you only get the credits once the carrier is actually decommissioned. Once a Carrier is Decommissioned you can not recommission it. You would need to purchase a new one.
Not all console players - only Xbox. Playstation commanders were never given the opportunity to own a MkIV even those that pre-ordered!
Keep up the updates and the new mission varieties coming with each update (especially some long-awaited exploration missions cough cough!) and start regularly adding new surface settlements in some areas too IMO, such as the inhabited area around Sag A*. It really helps to put people at ease if we see a slow steady trickle.
However, start rolling out smaller, simple QOL tweaks and minor bug/annoyances more frequently (such as some of the ones I list in my sig). We have such a lot of death by a thousand paper cuts, seeing a few minor things dealt with on a monthly (or even fortnightly) basis would be a huge benefit to help with a feeling of positive momentum.
However, start rolling out smaller, simple QOL tweaks and minor bug/annoyances more frequently (such as some of the ones I list in my sig). We have such a lot of death by a thousand paper cuts, seeing a few minor things dealt with on a monthly (or even fortnightly) basis would be a huge benefit to help with a feeling of positive momentum.
Well, we know it will be a while yet before this actually goes live, so there's no rush. But now you know it's happening you can progress your PS commander in the knowledge that it won't be abortive work. Bear in mind as well, if you're going to do this, you don't need a big buffer over 5b, you can make the purchase the moment you can afford it (once the transfer has gone through) because the maintenance buffer will be delivered by your other account long before the first round of pay-checks go out to the carrier crew.
They duplicate everything on the account though, so the console commander still has the credits to rebuy one, once the transfer is made.
That argument would make sense if they'd taken pre-orders for Odyssey. They didn't. Console players bought Horizons and got Horizons, and Horizons is still going to be there along with their accounts for some time to come. Because they planned to offer something else for you to buy from them, and then realized that they can't follow through on that console, doesn't mean that they now somehow owe you that item for free on PC.
Since you can still play Horizons (the thing you actually bought) on consoles, leaving it at that would've been "fair" (if a jerk move). They don't owe you anything on PC. It is the right thing to do, however, and I applaud them for doing so. Your one-time purchase of Horizons doesn't make Frontier beholden to you for eternity. They're giving you something for free that I've purchased, and I'm honestly delighted about this. To say that that's not enough and you want Odyssey for free too is... not a good look.
im glad they got what they wanted(although it took "pressure" and too much time to be announced, without a date yet), as i was mad when they were left in the dark and suddenly dropped into oblivion
but this time my disappointment with the overall state of things was bigger, sorry i guess?
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Actually I do have a pre-order Odyssey.
Bought before they postponed the console release and now applied to my PC account.
Would like to shift it to the main once it gets copied across.
More immediately why is the rum gone?
The fact that SC charges real money for in-game ships is the single biggest reason why I will never play SC. It's pay-to-win, and is the bane of good game design. It lets people throw money at a game that's often directly competitive and beat other players with their wallet, rather than their dedication to the game.
On the contrary, Frontier is the model company for Getting It Right when it comes to in-game purchases. When Arx were first announced, I was deeply concerned. As much as I love Elite, if it had become pay-to-win then I would have left. Instead, they made it clear that Arx can only be used to purchase cosmetics that don't affect performance.
In my case at least, it worked. Over the years, I've purchased both the base game and Horizons, and bought Odyssey twice (since I have an Epic alt account that I got for free). And to my surprise, I've spent more on Arx than I have on all of that combined. (My ships, suits, and fleet carrier look good!) Their revenue model works for players like me, and as long as they keep cranking out pretty new things I'll keep being a revenue stream for them.
As an aside, I first became aware of the existence of SC when a friend shared with me a price list for ships, then revealed that it was for real world money. I laughed for 15 minutes solid at the audacity of them to have such a blatant scam. Then I did a little looking into the game and came away genuinely angry at Roberts Space Industries on behalf of their players. Nothing I've seen or heard since then has changed that opinion.
