Billions in Cash - nothing I could possibly do with them. Am I alone?
I just got Elite Dangerous, so I'm interested in some extra cash if you want to share it
Serious though, it's a common problem for games like this that have active players around for years. You build up your wealth, but there may not be anything for those high-end players.
Maybe think about funding expeditions or in-game activities. Get into politics and funnel money towards player groups to influence star systems and/or the news.
With squadrons incoming (if not here already, I'm a bit confused between the videos saying it's here and the website saying it's "coming"), you could create a squadron to accomplish whatever you want.
It doesn't even have to be within the lore, maybe you'd like to reward or encourage players to "break" the game and push the limits. Especially with new features coming out and the complexity that comes with it.
Think long and hard about what interests you from a gameplay, lore, and community level and see where you'd like to dig into a bit.
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Wow, didn't know I was talking in court and to a judge o.0
Anyway, it would be Off-Topic anyway - and the last time I openly talked about my personal experience it earned me an Infraction
Make of it what you wish, it's not important to the original discussion either way.
Core mining is the new gold rush. You'll make the cr's in a few days.
S/He who dies with the most toys, wins! ;-)
You owe me a keyboard.
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But seriously, OP, one answer to game malaise is to find some like-minded players, look around to those things that could be made better for other players, and have your fun helping others have more fun themselves. It's an entrepreneurial mindset -- find a pain point for people and reduce it to get rewarded.
For example, with endless credits, rebuys are macht nichts. So some people use their fortune to run interference for -- or offer protection from griefers to -- honest, less fortunate traders trying to contribute to a CG or do some engineering (both systems tend to be griefer magnets). The time you spend tying up a griefer (or wing of griefers, since they rarely have the sand to hunt alone) is time you're enabling someone else to have more fun. One can find a strange kind of satisfaction in doing good. (Who'da thunk it!)
You owe me a keyboard.
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But seriously, OP, one answer to game malaise is to find some like-minded players, look around to those things that could be made better for other players, and have your fun helping others have more fun themselves. It's an entrepreneurial mindset -- find a pain point for people and reduce it to get rewarded.
For example, with endless credits, rebuys are macht nichts. So some people use their fortune to run interference for -- or offer protection from griefers to -- honest, less fortunate traders trying to contribute to a CG or do some engineering (both systems tend to be griefer magnets). The time you spend tying up a griefer (or wing of griefers, since they rarely have the sand to hunt alone) is time you're enabling someone else to have more fun. One can find a strange kind of satisfaction in doing good. (Who'da thunk it!)
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If you want something to spend them on move to colonia and transfer your ships.
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Wow, didn't know I was talking in court and to a judge o.0
Anyway, it would be Off-Topic anyway - and the last time I openly talked about my personal experience it earned me an Infraction
Those aren't legal standards.
I don't know what gave you that impression.
They are rational, logical standards.
You are claiming something along the lines of Sasquatch, unicorns and Nessie.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
Diddit/dunnit, thus
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Did I?
I can't recall saying something like i.e. "Oh look, I found Raxxla last year already".
Such a statement surely would require extraordinary evidence.
Winning in PvP however? The other Ship just happened to blow up? That everyday occurrence in ELITE supposedly qualifies? Sorry, get outta here lol
I'm humbly requesting you to take your teeth out of that Off-Topic side discussion, as it contributes nothing. I'll do the same.
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The other ship blowing up in PvP? I can't say that I've seen that very often. So, since I don't normally experience that, I'd have to say that it's maybe a bug.
Ive never hit 1 billion. i earn what i need, spend it and hold until i need more again.
sitting on BILLIONS seems pointless to me.
a cash sink needs to be added to ED for sure. But then im sure that will just encourage a new wave of exploiting somehow somewhere.
Elite needs something else other than just ships to spend in game money on.
sitting on BILLIONS seems pointless to me.
a cash sink needs to be added to ED for sure. But then im sure that will just encourage a new wave of exploiting somehow somewhere.
Elite needs something else other than just ships to spend in game money on.
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My normal response to this would be ... How do FD balance a credit sink so that it costs enough to make a quince exploiter blink whilst still being remotely possible for a straight shooter......
However now it seems FD have "solved" this by making 1 stand out feature "legitimately" pay 100s of millions a pop .
It's 1 way to do it I suppose :/
News at 11, beating somebody in a game is an extraordinary claim now.