Beginners guide that I created

[nnnev]

SEE TLDR BELOW



Too many times I’ve started playing a new (to me) video game, and found the concept interesting (or more than interesting), but just getting a start in the game has been problematic because I’m not able to grasp some of the fundamentals. Sometimes there are resources online that help. Other times I dream of there being a more hand-holding type tutorial for the game.

I felt like that about several aspects of Elite Dangerous. But because I was intrigued by the concept of the game, I persisted, and have achieved… a level in the game that I’m sure would be unimpressive to anyone of even meagre intelligence.

Nevertheless, I decided to write a guide in case there’s someone else out there in the wide world who has struggled to get started in Elite Dangerous. It's not meant to be a comprehensive guide or tutorial. It's aimed at getting someone achieving the most basic goals in the game. Hopefully if they can do this, they won't get frustrated and give up on the game.

If there's some interest in the guide, I intend to expand on it, in a similar style.

Here it is

http://elite.verymad.net



HERE IS THE TLDR

I’ve written a very basic beginners guide for Elite Dangerous. I’m hoping that one day someone with try it out.

Here it is

http://elite.verymad.net

Thank you and good night

 

[the100thmonkey]

It's always a pleasure to see someone take the time to help new players. I'm clearly not your target audience, but I found the guides clear and straightforward.

If I may offer a bit of feedback:

The formatting of the site needs a bit of work.

1. On my tablet, the font is very large, meaning I had to scroll to read more than a few sentences. It was quite distracting.
2. You use the hyphen '-' and numbers for lists, but haven't used the editor to make them display as lists with indentation and margins. This leads to inconsistent formatting. Using the list function in the editor will clean up the appearance of the site.

You refer consistently to your own specific mappings. They obviously work for you, but keyboard only controls are pretty niche. I suspect that something more generic like "use your pitch, roll and yaw controls to point your ship at the destination" will be more effective. Similarly, you talk about "1,E and right arrow" to request docking. I happen to have the same mappings, but I think it might be clearer to use a labelled screenshot or a short clip to demonstrate this.

A few embedded YouTube clips alongside text to demonstrate core concepts might be more efficient - it's known an as dual coding. It will certainly help visitors to your site to understand the flow of your instructions.

 

[nnnev]

Thank you very much for your feedback. I'll certainly work on using proper bullet point lists. I guess it ended up that way because I was learning how to use the website editor as I went along

And I'll make some changes to instructions that include specific keyboard commands. I think I'll describe the commands as you suggest, then put the key bindings in brackets

As for how the website looks on your tablet, am I correct in thinking that's with your tablet in landscape orientation? On my phone it looks pretty good as portrait, but not good as landscape. I'll look into that and see if I can tweak it

Again, many thanks

 

[active851]

Great guide and no doubt will help new players. My only suggestion would be to add some headings in to explain what the goal of each of the steps you’re describing will achieve - eg where you’re describing how to plot a route to a transport mission, you are clear about how to do it but a newbie may not immediately realise at first that’s what you’re explaining. A heading ‘How to plot your route’ May assist.