10 Signs You Might Be Playing Too Much Elite Dangerous

[john_obrien]

1. Whenever you arrive at a new destination in your car, you have to resist the urge to honk.
2. You find yourself using the number of hops you could accomplish during a time interval as your standard unit of time.
3. Whenever you arrive at Ceos, the controlling faction breaks out some Lavian Brandy and invites you to a barbeque.
4. You get the joke that was made in #3 above.
5. When someone says that they've been playing Elite for 10 weeks, you assume that they mean 10 weeks in game and not 10 weeks in real calendar time.
6. Your power management is so finely tuned that if hardpoints are deployed and you plugged a toaster in to your ship, your kill warrant scanner would turn off.
7. You're working on getting Elite ranking in CQC, because "quadruple elite" just sounds better.
8. You have spreadsheets on your hard drive that calculate DPS and energy usage for the various loadouts you use for your various ships.
9. The engineers you work with have begun organizing a union to get medical benefits for all the work they do for you.
10. You have a $1 billion+ dormant bounty in Robigo.

 

[KG_Jedi]

I'm playing since Feb 2015, and is it normal that I fly A-rated Corvette with 125 million left in bank and don't have any legacy fines/bounties left at all? Am i doing it wrong?

Also, how can anyone get such a big bounty in system? I once went full police genocide mode on, and after days I barely managed to get 1 million bounty on me.

 

[Cpt Spaulding]

I'll get bored long before I'll ever get to play too much.

 

[Whitehair]

I'll get bored long before I'll ever get to play too much.

Thats a self-fulfilling prophecy if ever I saw one!

 

[K-Rose]

Also, how can anyone get such a big bounty in system? I once went full police genocide mode on, and after days I barely managed to get 1 million bounty on me.

It comes from smuggling a ridiculous amount of illegal goods, getting scanned, fined & it turning into a bounty

 

[StiTch]

6. Your power management is so finely tuned that if hardpoints are deployed and you plugged a toaster in to your ship, your kill warrant scanner would turn off.

*chuckles*

 

[Marc JX8P]

1. Whenever you arrive at a new destination in your car, you have to resist the urge to honk.
2. You find yourself using the number of hops you could accomplish during a time interval as your standard unit of time.
3. Whenever you arrive at Ceos, the controlling faction breaks out some Lavian Brandy and invites you to a barbeque.
4. You get the joke that was made in #3 above.
5. When someone says that they've been playing Elite for 10 weeks, you assume that they mean 10 weeks in game and not 10 weeks in real calendar time.
6. Your power management is so finely tuned that if hardpoints are deployed and you plugged a toaster in to your ship, your kill warrant scanner would turn off.
7. You're working on getting Elite ranking in CQC, because "quadruple elite" just sounds better.
8. You have spreadsheets on your hard drive that calculate DPS and energy usage for the various loadouts you use for your various ships.
9. The engineers you work with have begun organizing a union to get medical benefits for all the work they do for you.
10. You have a $1 billion+ dormant bounty in Robigo.

11. Before you enter a house, you slow down and yell to the homeowner demanding to know which chair is allocated to you.

 

[DragonIV]

VoiceAttack/HCS only:

* Get into your car, tell it "departure handover" and wonder why you're still sitting there with the engine off.
* You yell to your car "three quarter impulse please!" as you approach your driveway.

Horizons:
* Can't really tell the difference between passengers in Elite and your teenage kids in the car.

 

[CMDR CPT. Boris]

I drive this garbage (please don't judge me, i only want to get rid of it)
I always have the feeling that i'm driving the equivalent of a T-6

 

[DNA-Decay]

12. You can name the leaders of 12 Player Groups.
13. And their homeworlds.
14. I say "Modular Terminals" - you know my pain.
15. And the system I'm in.
16. I say "hair" and you either think I'm an idiot or say "right on".
17. The hollow square is an FDL and your pulse starts racing.

 

[thundernuns]

11. When you have dream that you crashed your Conda and did 30% hull damage

(This actually happened)

 

[Soon(TM)]

It comes from smuggling a ridiculous amount of illegal goods, getting scanned, fined & it turning into a bounty

Yup, 200 hours in game play time and about 800million in Robigo Bounty's, gotta be careful in that system i do!

 

[Taranis Dekker]

When you get in your car and wonder who's nicked the bobbleheads from the dash
When you see another driver coming towards you down the middle of the road, and think, "my ship is bigger, so I'm not moving" (before you realise you have no pips to distribute to SYS, and use the horn instead)

 

[AgamemnonWhen]

18. Your partner / significant other has started passively-aggressively monitoring the amount of time you spend online by shouting "FRIENDSHIP DRIVE!" from downstairs every time you jump (may just be me...)

 

[Vorxian]

You know you're playing too much when the thought of more jumponium just turns you off even switching the computer on.

 

[DragonIV]

You're stuck behind a Sunday driver in a no passing zone so you start wishing you could deploy hardpoints.

Someone is tailgating you, so you think about deploying chaff.

A foreign object falls from a truck in front of you, and all you can think of is "Why aren't my point defense turrets working?"

When it snows, you go driving FA-Off and do donuts.

 

[Taranis Dekker]

A foreign object falls from a truck in front of you, and all you can think of is "Why aren't my point defense turrets working?"

Or swerve to try and scoop up the object in case it's valuable

 

[Shar]

The only side effect ive experienced is humming the blue danube when i pull into my garage and my kids tell me to shut up.

 

[AgamemnonWhen]

26 (or wherever we are now): You can still hear the scanner noises / FSD spooling / ambient drone of your cockpit as you're drifting off to sleep, and it makes you happy.

 

[Taranis Dekker]

Activating/deactivating the electronic handbrake on my new car and waiting for the machinery noises as the landing gear operates