If you've lost your carrier due to insufficient funds, you ought to find all your ships at some station and having received back most of the 5bil that you invested in the carrier.
Any tips how to return to Elite after some... time?
You have a great time ahead of you.
Nobody has mentioned yet... You can play Odyssey and skip the on-foot content (although you will be presented with the training mission on your first run) and just play it as horizons - at least then, when the 4 new ships release, you should be able to buy each for credits in EDO, where, currently, if you stick to Horizons 4.x Live, I'm under the impression they would be Arx purchases.
Plus, you never know, the EDO on-foot activities may be fun for you also!
Not currently panto season, but IMO (and some others)
OH NO YOU DON'T!
Steve
How dare you give an informed opinion?
You have not been playing the game again, have you?
Dreadful show...
One of my alts was trying to see how far they could go without Engineers.
I only decided to start unlocking them when they were going up against Thargoids, and then only for the Enhanced Thrusters on an I Courier.
Even if hat isn't required now the Glaives have been withdrawn.
FWIW, the new PP2.0 will be most visible in concourses, if I understood that right. You can only get there on foot.
OP
In case you never, ever, saw it, the EDO trailer gives good flavour to the expansion...
Unlike some of the "Digital Dreams" marketed, it is actually in-game footage recorded when the game was incredibly janky...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAb3nH5Eilo
In case you never, ever, saw it, the EDO trailer gives good flavour to the expansion...
Unlike some of the "Digital Dreams" marketed, it is actually in-game footage recorded when the game was incredibly janky...
I happened to re-watch that the other day, quite by accident, and couldn't help but think" WOW! They really nailed it, it took them some time to work out the bugs and flesh out the features a little, but they really nailed it".
I nicked your link, in this case it seemed apt!
No worries, members of the GCA (Galactic Council of the Anarchies), such as ourselves, are like family, it is OUR link...
But in all seriousness...I think the trailer was spot on their vision, and they achieved that goal, over time, in my opinion...and I like the outcome...
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Try to level your alts to combat rank dangerous first - then we can talk about it again. Or was I deadly? I don't remember.
I took the pre-built Python MkII out to a High Res - it has no engineering or 'special' stuff... It took out a few elite / Deadly NPCs, just not as quickly as the G5 engineered vanilla I too into a Haz Res later.
Quite fun, really, as I had to consider that, in comparison to my usual combat ship, it was pretty fragile!
I just came back after a couple of years. I never did Guardian (except the FSD booster), nor Thargoid grind, and didn't want legs, so I left and went to X4. I recently re-animated this game because I read about the new Python. I didn't read where the new Python was just a new/upgraded FDL. My FDL was relegated to the dust bit quite some time ago as mostly useless to me, so I may not have come back had I read that somewhere. But here I am. For a while anyway.
I 'discovered' the new SCO variant of the FSD, and wanted a few of those. So I had to reacquaint myself with the material grind gameplay mechanism. Ugh. But before that, I had to relearn how to fly a ship, dock with a station, land on a planet, drive a SRV, etc., etc., ad nauseum. In doing this, I noticed some new things that were plesant to find, and others that I wish I hadn't remembered.
I still have zero interest in 'legs' or whatever it's called now, so I play Horizons (not legacy). I've noticed that more than a few of the game mechanics have never been completed, and likely never will be, but the relearning experience will kill some time for me. I'm still waiting for the next big release of that 'other game' though.
You could wait till the devs change Engineering this year. Because it will be easier after that.
First time?
Ok well i got my not able to launch game issue fixed, so i've tried both Odyssey and Horizons "Live". As it was my first time to run Odyssey it threw me into the on foot tutorial thing, and I could certainly feel (and see via the monitoring software i run) that it might push my humble 4GB 1650 Super a bit too hard, playable but not smooth and that was without combat or other players etc.
So i'll carry on with no space legs for now, in part because of that borderline performance, but also because i got stuck on the second hatch to cut open (it just really did not want to run smooth all around the cutting edge, and seemed to leave a bit that never cut through?). I love Fallout 3 (without using VATS) and other FPS like games, but Elite i'm fine being ship bound. Maybe if i find/buy a stronger GPU in the future i'll give it a full go.
Thanks for the tips guys, nice to see the community still well and happy to help newbs as we stumble in
EDIT: Ok i like the "Concourse" part of Odyssey, even if i can't actually buy a drink from a bartender, just getting out the ship to see the view of the space dock is worth running Odyssey on my limited hardware. The rest of the game, the Horizons space stuff all runs decent enough as in Horizons. I was not expecting this, in a good way. Well done Frontier for making the Concourse look decent.
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I’ve just reinstalled after an almost exactly 3 year gap. Not sure what to do first, I’ve unlocked all the engineers - I stopped playing after coming back from doing the Colonia ones. I’ve got a decent amount of cash and a few decent ships heavily engineered - the only one that isn’t is my long jump range anaconda that I bought and set up for my Colonia/Sag A* trip.
Thinking of diving in to Odyssey combat properly but the limited time I spent with it before my break I found the enemies very bullet spongey. Never got into the thargoid stuff, think I’d need to go back to unlock guardian blueprints, I only got one for the FSD booster before.
Thinking of diving in to Odyssey combat properly but the limited time I spent with it before my break I found the enemies very bullet spongey. Never got into the thargoid stuff, think I’d need to go back to unlock guardian blueprints, I only got one for the FSD booster before.
My advice is to upgrade your client to the latest version.
Team Play
Grouping become semi-easier and joining another CMDR's ship than the halo join will net you equal BH, data, etc. than the %margin for joining another ship via Halo. It's quite disappointing but that is how it is, and from my experience, it's worth joining the other CMDR's ship to get full credit: Excellent way to assist new, and returning, players get around the Bubble or out to those far reached places e.g. guardian structures and pull your ship to the system.
Engineers
This may be a bug but it's a bug that benefits the players. Start with the ones you have unlocked and engineer each one to rank 5, and by doing some will unlock others. There are websites that offer a unlock-in-order-of type guide. The importance to ranking your reputation with each engineer to five is the benefit that it reduces to completes the next prerequisites for the next engineer. You can literally daisy chain them out and begin pinning common use blueprints to upgrade your fleet modules.
BIG TIP HERE: Go to Dav's Hope and do the circle with two SRVs until you have capped out on all available materials with an inventory cap of 150 (forgot which tier they are). This will take two boring sessions, but the time spent will give you enough engineering materials to rank up your reputation with engineers. Do the same with Jamison's Crash site for Encoded and go to Orrere system for the Anaconda crash ship for raw materials. This will jump start you into unlocking engineers - trade up or down material only on what you need to get the reputation rank then move onto the next engineer.
ANOTHER BIG TIP HERE: There are several systems around Ross 775 that have High Grade Encoded signals that you can do the exit game/restart game to reset the instance to farm rank 5 manufactured materials: Very helpful to trade down or lateral to max rank your modules e.g. Armour, Hull Reinforcement, and several weapon blueprints.
Unlocking engineers has a tendency to be a snowball effect. Once you begin to see the ship's stats improve then you tend to pursue and install the next one, and the next, until you have everything tuned out to your liking.
Team Play
Grouping become semi-easier and joining another CMDR's ship than the halo join will net you equal BH, data, etc. than the %margin for joining another ship via Halo. It's quite disappointing but that is how it is, and from my experience, it's worth joining the other CMDR's ship to get full credit: Excellent way to assist new, and returning, players get around the Bubble or out to those far reached places e.g. guardian structures and pull your ship to the system.
Engineers
This may be a bug but it's a bug that benefits the players. Start with the ones you have unlocked and engineer each one to rank 5, and by doing some will unlock others. There are websites that offer a unlock-in-order-of type guide. The importance to ranking your reputation with each engineer to five is the benefit that it reduces to completes the next prerequisites for the next engineer. You can literally daisy chain them out and begin pinning common use blueprints to upgrade your fleet modules.
BIG TIP HERE: Go to Dav's Hope and do the circle with two SRVs until you have capped out on all available materials with an inventory cap of 150 (forgot which tier they are). This will take two boring sessions, but the time spent will give you enough engineering materials to rank up your reputation with engineers. Do the same with Jamison's Crash site for Encoded and go to Orrere system for the Anaconda crash ship for raw materials. This will jump start you into unlocking engineers - trade up or down material only on what you need to get the reputation rank then move onto the next engineer.
ANOTHER BIG TIP HERE: There are several systems around Ross 775 that have High Grade Encoded signals that you can do the exit game/restart game to reset the instance to farm rank 5 manufactured materials: Very helpful to trade down or lateral to max rank your modules e.g. Armour, Hull Reinforcement, and several weapon blueprints.
Unlocking engineers has a tendency to be a snowball effect. Once you begin to see the ship's stats improve then you tend to pursue and install the next one, and the next, until you have everything tuned out to your liking.