A sad alpha story

Skulldugg3ry

Skulldugg3ry
I had just bought my first Cobra Mk III, and was very excited. The engine sounds were different and awesome, the interior was larger and impressive, and I could feel the power as I fired it up inside Zelada. I eased it out of the station peeled upward and right at about a 45-45 degree vector and hit the afterburner...and immediately exploded into a hundred pieces as I hit an invisible barrier. As I sat there in disbelief, my jaw dropped into my lap as I stared at the red 'Old Loadout' button.

I was just over 100 credits short of getting my new Cobra back.

The moral of the story - ALWAYS ensure you have enough in the bank to get your shiny new ship back, even if you're only taking it for a joyride.

To add insult to injury, I was killed several times later that night in what seemed an unusually heavy PvP evening. All my deaths were in the free, stock Sidewinder. I just didn't have a lot of fight left in me...

But hey - it's Alpha!

Even after this, all I can think of to say to Frontier is - thank you for building the Elite universe again. There's no place I'd rather have this experience!
 

Leo Sagan

Leo Sagan
Yep, been there, done that. :p

And twice even : I lost my 2 first Cobras without having enough money to pay for the insurance, so I had to grind it back twice.

I find the Cobra much harder to handle than the Sidewinder for now, so I practice, practice, practice.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
The real test for me was having my first cobra blow up for no reason, choose free sidewinder, crash to desktop.

Log back in - and have some of my old sidewinder back again.

Some strange stuff goes on!
 

CMDR Texas Stu

CMDR Texas Stu
At least credits come easily. I have over 1 million (exploit free - except a few end tasks).

You'll make it back pretty quickly I imagine. :)
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
Stu2 said:
At least credits come easily. I have over 1 million (exploit free - except a few end tasks).

You'll make it back pretty quickly I imagine. :)
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Wow. Impressive bank. :) I never had that much, lol.

Awhile back I sprang from the reinforced hull upgrade for my Cobra. The very next time I went out I wound up smacking into an NPC and my hull got down to like 30%. Now *that* was a fortuitous upgrade! :p
 

-o-

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1 million credits :eek:

I hope you reported that as a bug :p, and that such credit accumilation will not be anywhere near that easy in the final game. Considering most other aspects of the game are getting easier (eg docking, combat), sadly, it would not surprise me that such devaluation remains.

Yes, its all relative, but it completely destroys the notion of starting the game with 'only' 100 credits when from that, you can accumilate a million in a few months.
 

Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
Stu2 said:
At least credits come easily. I have over 1 million (exploit free - except a few end tasks).
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sooo ... it's not exploit free then :rolleyes:

Also, suggesting someone use an exploit, even during Alpha, isn't really showing the Elite spirit.

Find them .. report them .. don't abuse them.

ETA: I used to admin some UT servers so I witnessed first hand the devastating power of cheating and what it does to a community, and one thing I know is that once you have had a taste of it it's very hard to turn back and so you seriously risk ruining the game experience. Sure, for you it was just the once or twice .. for now ... and before you realise it you're cheating all the time; have 10 billion in the bank; own all the ships; and are bored beyond belief ... Yes I know it's taking the scenario to the extreme, but there was a reason why Yoda warned about traversing the dark side ;)

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I feel your pain OP .. unlucky.
 
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Soranor

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The first thing I did when I got my new Cobra was jumping back to bond to try it on a few sidewinders. Then some bug occurred so I restarted the game, after which my joystick wouldn't react at all. And while sitting there, figuring out I had to map all buttons and axises again, some other cobra started testing its stealth/gimbaled multicannon setup on me. :D
Of course I had enough credits saved, since I had read about the invisible walls in the forums before. ;)
 

AtomicHorror

AtomicHorror
Liqua said:
sooo ... it's not exploit free then :rolleyes:

Also, suggesting someone use an exploit, even during Alpha, isn't really showing the Elite spirit.

Find them .. report them .. don't abuse them.

ETA: I used to admin some UT servers so I witnessed first hand the devastating power of cheating and what it does to a community, and one thing I know is that once you have had a taste of it it's very hard to turn back and so you seriously risk ruining the game experience. Sure, for you it was just the once or twice .. for now ... and before you realise it you're cheating all the time; have 10 billion in the bank; own all the ships; and are bored beyond belief ... Yes I know it's taking the scenario to the extreme, but there was a reason why Yoda warned about traversing the dark side ;)

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I feel your pain OP .. unlucky.
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I thought the developers asked you guys specifically to abuse (and report) any and all exploits found. The alpha has no consequences. Rigorous and repeated testing of all features and all bugs is the point. Speaking as a beta tester here, I'd really prefer you guys to try any and all ways to break this game so that it is that much more solid by that time it reaches me!

In that spirit, exploits should be tried and tried until the day the gap is plugged!
 

withnail

withnail
I'm not past 5000 credits yet because the game keeps on crashing and loses all progress. Have given up with it until Alpha 4.0.
 

Mephane

Mephane
-o- said:
1 million credits :eek:

I hope you reported that as a bug :p, and that such credit accumilation will not be anywhere near that easy in the final game. Considering most other aspects of the game are getting easier (eg docking, combat), sadly, it would not surprise me that such devaluation remains.

Yes, its all relative, but it completely destroys the notion of starting the game with 'only' 100 credits when from that, you can accumilate a million in a few months.
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Who said it was easy. In Alpha3, at the moment, a single NPC kill in Federal Combat Bond/Impeccable Defense is worth 300 credits only, the values in the other scenarios are roughly the same (iirc 500 for an Anaconda). It must have taken quite a while to acquire that million credits, after all.
 

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Mephane said:
Who said it was easy.
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Stu2 said:
At least credits come easily.
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Maybe he can open up a bank himself in the final game.

Want to buy an Anaconda? See Stu2 for a low interest loan and get that trader you know you deserve!

Then his pirate posse can rough you up when you miss a payment. Ahh yes, the wonderful world of player initiated content.
 

Im_Lost

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Yea multiplayer is REALLY buggy at the moment so trying to play it seriously is pointless :p

They should have the cobra as an option for the single player missions tbh. Would be much easier to test it out there.
 
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