Hi fellow Cmdrs,
I thought that I would just share my experience of myjourney throughout the game. I have just ranked up to Combat Elite (Yippie!)having been Explorer Elite for about 6 months. I have only a Trade rank ofMerchant so I guess I still have a ways to go before doing the triple.
Amazingly I bought the game (pre Horizons) on the 11[SIZE=2]th[/SIZE]July 2015 (checked in the Frontier store) so I have been playing it on and off for exactly 2 years. My in game time is 4 weeks 1 day and 22 hours (about 30 days). I am sure many of you fellow Elitists have reached CE much quicker but I try not to grind for goals too much. Having said that once I got to about 80% Deadly I did push for it.
For all the Cmdrs that have just turned Deadly and for anyone else that is interested I kept a log of the last 20% of kills. Every 1% took between 25 and 27 kills on average ranging from Expert to Elite. I focused my efforts mainly in Haz res sites and did not find any of the lower ranked NPCs (just as well as I don’t think they count anyway). So for me moving from Deadly to Elite I reckon I must have made between 2,500 and 2,700 kills!
Throughout the game I have only made 16 insurance claims (which I think is pretty amazing in itself) playing in the open and in private groups. It would have been 15 but I forgot to increase my life support in my Anaconda and ran out of O2 right outside the letterbox...kaboom! I should have known better as I learned that mistake in a Vulture with a rice paper canopy.
Ships I have bought in the game: Sidewinder (sold), Adder (sold) Cobra Mk3 (kept as a taxi), Cobra Mk4 (kept for mining), Vulture (sold), Fer De Lance (sold), Asp Explorer (kept for exploring and passenger missions,41LY range), Anaconda (kept for combat).
I had hoped for some fireworks or something when I got the message but the only reward seems to be the Founders World permit (which I had anyway for some reason) and Elite Decals in Holo Me and ship outfitting. I think we should get a nice reward from the store like a credit for ship kits or coloured lasers etc. Or do you think I am asking too much?
Altogether a great game which I will keep playing as I want to rank up to get a Corvette. I played the original Elite back in 1984 but only managed to reach Deadly then (having kids get the blame for that!) so really I could say it has taken me almost 33 years to reach hallowed ground ha ha!
Sorry for waffling on a bit but us 63 year olds tend to do that when we get excited (which is not very often these day!)!
Fly safe Cmdrs o7
Cheers, GD
I thought that I would just share my experience of myjourney throughout the game. I have just ranked up to Combat Elite (Yippie!)having been Explorer Elite for about 6 months. I have only a Trade rank ofMerchant so I guess I still have a ways to go before doing the triple.
Amazingly I bought the game (pre Horizons) on the 11[SIZE=2]th[/SIZE]July 2015 (checked in the Frontier store) so I have been playing it on and off for exactly 2 years. My in game time is 4 weeks 1 day and 22 hours (about 30 days). I am sure many of you fellow Elitists have reached CE much quicker but I try not to grind for goals too much. Having said that once I got to about 80% Deadly I did push for it.
For all the Cmdrs that have just turned Deadly and for anyone else that is interested I kept a log of the last 20% of kills. Every 1% took between 25 and 27 kills on average ranging from Expert to Elite. I focused my efforts mainly in Haz res sites and did not find any of the lower ranked NPCs (just as well as I don’t think they count anyway). So for me moving from Deadly to Elite I reckon I must have made between 2,500 and 2,700 kills!
Throughout the game I have only made 16 insurance claims (which I think is pretty amazing in itself) playing in the open and in private groups. It would have been 15 but I forgot to increase my life support in my Anaconda and ran out of O2 right outside the letterbox...kaboom! I should have known better as I learned that mistake in a Vulture with a rice paper canopy.
Ships I have bought in the game: Sidewinder (sold), Adder (sold) Cobra Mk3 (kept as a taxi), Cobra Mk4 (kept for mining), Vulture (sold), Fer De Lance (sold), Asp Explorer (kept for exploring and passenger missions,41LY range), Anaconda (kept for combat).
I had hoped for some fireworks or something when I got the message but the only reward seems to be the Founders World permit (which I had anyway for some reason) and Elite Decals in Holo Me and ship outfitting. I think we should get a nice reward from the store like a credit for ship kits or coloured lasers etc. Or do you think I am asking too much?
Altogether a great game which I will keep playing as I want to rank up to get a Corvette. I played the original Elite back in 1984 but only managed to reach Deadly then (having kids get the blame for that!) so really I could say it has taken me almost 33 years to reach hallowed ground ha ha!
Sorry for waffling on a bit but us 63 year olds tend to do that when we get excited (which is not very often these day!)!
Fly safe Cmdrs o7
Cheers, GD
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