Carriers

Lankspeed

Lankspeed
This will have cropped up before but just started playing again after One year.
So is there any advantage to having a carrier.
I did have one but sold just before i stopped playing.

I was fed up with all the Thargoid CRAP. So left.

So can anyone encourage me to continue OR should I just remove Elite for good?
 

Northpin

Northpin
Interesting, but dare i say, still more "Thargoid CRAP"

Anyway. lots of mixing signals from your 2 posts in this thread 😂
You hate Thargs, you evem quit due to that, but you're finding interesting the news about them
You had a carrier, sold it, and now you're asking if there is any advantage in having a carrier

Anyway, as an encouragement - thargs are keeping busy only a rather small part of the bubble - you can keep playing unaffected by them, but of course that means you need to stay clear of their territory. Which is not hard at all.
 

Lankspeed

Lankspeed
Northpin said:
Interesting, but dare i say, still more "Thargoid CRAP"

Anyway. lots of mixing signals from your 2 posts in this thread 😂
You hate Thargs, you evem quit due to that, but you're finding interesting the news about them
You had a carrier, sold it, and now you're asking if there is any advantage in having a carrier

Anyway, as an encouragement - thargs are keeping busy only a rather small part of the bubble - you can keep playing unaffected by them, but of course that means you need to stay clear of their territory. Which is not hard at all.
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Yes i realise that, I did think they were going to make it difficult to play without engaging in thargoid attacks but that as you point out is not how it has turned out.

WHAT i have done today I HAVE ENJOYED IT. So will not delete it. I did look at Star Citizen but was not really taken in. SpaceBourne 2 looks ok but IMO not as good as Elite. Starfield I am not convinved, as it looks like Space is secondary to game play.

I think I will go the carrier route again. Credits not an issue as I have 32 Billion so who cares.

I WANTED ENCOURAGMENT AND I GOT IT. Thank you.
 

CMDR Karrde Sun

CMDR Karrde Sun
Its the closest thing to ship interiors if you have odd....

If you squint and pretend all those former space ship things are now just drones or tools and your one ship is the carrier...
 

Schmack

Schmack
Lankspeed said:
This will have cropped up before but just started playing again after One year.
So is there any advantage to having a carrier.
I did have one but sold just before i stopped playing.

I was fed up with all the Thargoid CRAP. So left.

So can anyone encourage me to continue OR should I just remove Elite for good?
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You can mostly avoid the goid. Carriers are worthwhile if you're doing anything with them, which seems pretty obvious. If you're playing Odyssey you can do a lot with carriers. I'd have stopped playing long ago if I didn't have a carrier. As for encouraging you to stay, that's up to you. I cannot count the times I've set up the HOTAS, logged in and never left the station, then logged out. These days though with settlement raids and the newer content, I stay pretty interested in progressing.
 

Brrokk

Brrokk
Lankspeed said:
This will have cropped up before but just started playing again after One year.
So is there any advantage to having a carrier.
I did have one but sold just before i stopped playing.

I was fed up with all the Thargoid CRAP. So left.

So can anyone encourage me to continue OR should I just remove Elite for good?
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It doesn't r really sound like you enjoy Elite.

But if you really want to see what a carrier offers, just buy one and try it out. You obviously have the credits if you previously sold one.

There was a recent mega-thread on "What do you use your carrier for?"
 

gooddoc

gooddoc
Iv been Exploring with my Carrier in-tow for years.
Get's me to places that my 'Conda can't just reach......a few month back I was at Beagle Point & going further away from Sol than I'd been on my three previous trips to BP.
Still slowly making my way back, due to having to keep Trit Mining for the Carrier's 'juice' to get me back home.

Main advantage is I have my fleet of Ships on board so I can do whatever I wish, anywhere in the Galaxy........I Explore a lot, as I hate pewpew & don't need to Trade anymore, got all my upgrades I needed for Odyssey's Suits & weapons, not to mention the 'goid war means nothing to me, it suits my current playstyle & I doubt I'd still be playing without my Carrier......though not playing as much now as I used to, at least I'm still playing ;)
 

Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
Lankspeed said:
This will have cropped up before but just started playing again after One year.
So is there any advantage to having a carrier.
I did have one but sold just before i stopped playing.

I was fed up with all the Thargoid CRAP. So left.

So can anyone encourage me to continue OR should I just remove Elite for good?
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What exactly were you fed up with? You might want to give that Thargoid crap a chance. Visiting a Titan for the first time is one of the most amazing things Elite has to offer (more so in VR). But yes, I admit, the entry barrier is pretty high. If you're inclined to consider it: For one, you have to be comfortable flying around a completely hostile environment and be able to keep a cool head and know when to bolt. On the equipment side, you will have to do a bit of work before you can go there - mostly build a tough cold ship and unlock the caustic sinks and the Pulse Neutralizer (bought with materials, ironically the sinks are bought with materials you have to get in the Maelstrom).The process is a bit demanding, but well worth it. The new Hunter class Thargoids are a challenge, too, but they can be dealt with. The whole Maelstrom area is pretty exciting. You might consider it a project goal to work towards.

On the subject of carriers: If credits are no issue and you're comfortable paying the weekly upkeep, they are well worth it. Personally, my carrier has been my home I can take with me, along with all my posessions. I wouldn't want to play without one any more.
 

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria
Lankspeed said:
Yes i realise that, I did think they were going to make it difficult to play without engaging in thargoid attacks but that as you point out is not how it has turned out.

WHAT i have done today I HAVE ENJOYED IT. So will not delete it. I did look at Star Citizen but was not really taken in. SpaceBourne 2 looks ok but IMO not as good as Elite. Starfield I am not convinved, as it looks like Space is secondary to game play.

I think I will go the carrier route again. Credits not an issue as I have 32 Billion so who cares.

I WANTED ENCOURAGMENT AND I GOT IT. Thank you.
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I've had Starfield for about a month, the main story is pants and without it there's a strong FO76 feel of 'what am I doing this for?'.
It has made me appreciate what we have with EDO so I doubt SF will hold me much longer.
As for carriers, I found they reward having a plan/role, so it's upto you how you use it.
 

varonica

varonica
Felix DiCestria said:
I've had Starfield for about a month, the main story is pants and without it there's a strong FO76 feel of 'what am I doing this for?'.
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What I have seen of the main story through videos and etc (quite a bit), I agree the storyline is pretty....weak and contrived, and indeed purposeless, it's almost as if the game would be just as good to me if the main storyline didn't exist and they massively expanded some of the the side stories and exploration features, as good as they are nearly everything can be improved. If I was to play the game, I would want to completely ignore the main storyline and explore the galaxy (or bit of it they have created at least), but it seems to me to get what you need to actually do that you are required to play the main storyline. Of course in ED I have ignored the Thargoid stuff nearly entirely, except for the early parts where we were searching for the first Guardian bases but that was really exploration oriented and I wish there was more of it. I recently watched a video where the player was doing the progression to NG+7 final combat bit, and no thanks, that just looked entirely silly to me and completely uninteresting in any way.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
varonica said:
I would want to completely ignore the main storyline and explore the galaxy (or bit of it they have created at least), but it seems to me to get what you need to actually do that you are required to play the main storyline
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Nah. My first playthrough I did mostly exo-biology / exploration and base building for the first ... 40? levels. Enjoyable, but it does reach a point where you want to do the missions and realise that stuff is pretty divorced from the normal progression. Which is why a lot of ppl skip that part and just do the RPG part.

IMHO they kinda made the same mistake that fdev did with ED vs EDO - there are two different economies and they aren't joined up very well.. One is based on Credits that the main game (and ship building) uses, and one based on engineering mats which is used for Suit / Weapon Mods / Outposts / Exo-biology. Difference is that in SF you can basically ignore the Engineering side by buying the mats you need from shops with credits.

(I'd be really happy if they switched EDO to use SF exobiology, and even the Outpost building would fit in ED pretty well)
 
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Helmut Grokenberger

Helmut Grokenberger
My impression on my 150 hour playthrough (the last 10 or 20 were a bit of a drag) was that Starfield wasn't anything special, not even by Bethesda standards, much less by the hype that was made around it. For me, it misses that special something I can't pinpoint that makes me want to replay Elite, or other games, but not SF. I found the main story also meh, but also found the world building and the characters much less... memorable than Fallout 4, for example. I lost count how often I played FO4 in various modding stages, but replaying SF doesn't really tickle me.

Elite is very different. I am not too sure why that is, one large factor certainly is that I play in VR, but there's something more that makes the bottom of my feet itch when I take a longer break from it. Elite just makes me want to sit in the cockpit and do... something. And I'm more engaged in the world of Elite, even if it is only background fluff (oh, blasphemy!). SF, by comparison, is forgetable for me. Certainly not the space game savior. I enjoyed it while I played it, but that's over now.
 

zimms

zimms
Felix DiCestria said:
I've had Starfield for about a month, the main story is pants and without it there's a strong FO76 feel of 'what am I doing this for?'.
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I'm curious, what's your answer to this in Elite's case? Is it other people/the multiplayer aspect of Elite? The BGS in general? Or the current Thargoid war narrative?

At least these are the three options that came to mind first.
 
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