CMDR Kneller, 50 hours in and...
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I can't compete with that...
Also: Steam lies - it counts the time the launcher is open even if the game isn't running
.Yeah. You do things to do things, not to achieve some other thing. This is why all those quickstart best start get rich quick guides are dangerous and can seriously spoil the game. To use an old cliché, it's the journey, not the destination.
Yeh I'm not gonna lie, I'd guess about 1/3rd of that is dead launcher time. But I did also own it on the Frontier launcher for the first two years, then later added it to steam.I can't compete with that...
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Also: Steam lies - it counts the time the launcher is open even if the game isn't running
Yeah. You do things to do things, not to achieve some other thing. This is why all those quickstart best start get rich quick guides are dangerous and can seriously spoil the game. To use an old cliché, it's the journey, not the destination.
Although Mobius is supposed to be completely against PvP there are players in this group who ignore the rules and will kill you, all without any action being taken against them. With that said, the majority do stick to the rules and are great to fly with.
I'm pretty careful about dead launcher time as I'm using steam to record hours... But even so I've got 1700h on the clock. Still plenty of things to do "because I can".
It's life, but in space... Blaze your own trail CMDR!
There are squads that will show you tips/tricks and ways to play, but ultimately the game is yours. A good squad will not tell you HOW to play though. It's your game.
Welcome to the timesink! o7
J
It's life, but in space... Blaze your own trail CMDR!
There are squads that will show you tips/tricks and ways to play, but ultimately the game is yours. A good squad will not tell you HOW to play though. It's your game.
Welcome to the timesink! o7
J
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rootsrat
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Excellent post!
I've only flown about 80% of all available ships in game.
I've never been to quite a few most popular places.
I experienced generation ships only last year for the first time.
I have so much to do in this game still!
And that's just on my main account, which role-playing wise despises both Feds and Imps, so I have all that side of things to experience on my alts.
You can rush things to the biggest, bestest ships, you can rush through all the content and experience everything in a few months.
But then... what's left to do?
Tehre is no right or wrong way to play Elite. For me personally the above hits the spot. I have over 7k hours and only just started with Powerpaly.
I've only flown about 80% of all available ships in game.
I've never been to quite a few most popular places.
I experienced generation ships only last year for the first time.
I have so much to do in this game still!
And that's just on my main account, which role-playing wise despises both Feds and Imps, so I have all that side of things to experience on my alts.
You can rush things to the biggest, bestest ships, you can rush through all the content and experience everything in a few months.
But then... what's left to do?
FIY, if you use it, Inara can pull that numbers through the API and coneveniently converts it to hours for you.
I've run a little experiment here with a free Prime alt, so I can tell you from experience that the odds to meet any of good or bad in open Horizons-only are really low if you do normal game-play. And if it happens that a griefer kills you just for the lulz, you can always block him.
Nice, I never noticed the stats screen on inara, though I knew about them in game. Never really noticed this before though...
I guess now we know what I spend most of my time doing
Player groups, Mobius mentioned. I find AXI has been friendly https://antixenoinitiative.com/join-axi/axi-private-group/
Buy Odyssey, community goals and powerplay2 might help with opt-in activities
Keyboard and mouse. I started with a stick for a couple of months, switched to mouse for 5-6 years, and switching between the two for the last few months. I still have not mastered flight assist off with either although I am gradually getting the hang of it. Lots of people seem fine with it regardless of control method and I have come to the conclusion it is 'me' rather than the control method. I'm not a big fan of this persons videos but 5-11 minutes in focuses on mouse settings for FA-Off. A bit later, 13 minutes or so, he suggests key actions. Not all of this worked for me but I did find the mouse rates to be helpful
Source: https://youtu.be/Wp_LNsGJYyQ
Buy Odyssey, community goals and powerplay2 might help with opt-in activities
Keyboard and mouse. I started with a stick for a couple of months, switched to mouse for 5-6 years, and switching between the two for the last few months. I still have not mastered flight assist off with either although I am gradually getting the hang of it. Lots of people seem fine with it regardless of control method and I have come to the conclusion it is 'me' rather than the control method. I'm not a big fan of this persons videos but 5-11 minutes in focuses on mouse settings for FA-Off. A bit later, 13 minutes or so, he suggests key actions. Not all of this worked for me but I did find the mouse rates to be helpful
Hmm, Stats.
Still never done deliberate BGS play, either version of PP, rarely bothered with missions or passengers or piracy or mining.
| Bounties claimed | 24,885 |
| Profit from bounties | 2,517,187,213 Cr |
| Combat bonds | 5,994 |
| Profit from combat bonds | 293,824,318 Cr |
| Surface combat bonds | 0 |
| Profit from surface combat bonds | 0 Cr |
| Number of engineers used | 24 |
| Number of upgrades generated | 5,828 |
| Profit from organic data | 16,986,253,115 Cr |
| Organic data registered | 1,140 |
| Profit from first logged | 13,115,227,000 Cr |
| Approximate time played | 7448 hours 10 minutes |
Still never done deliberate BGS play, either version of PP, rarely bothered with missions or passengers or piracy or mining.
Hmm...
I'm coming very close to the Andromeda Galaxy:
I have 3 sources of income comparable, others are significantly lower:
I'm coming very close to the Andromeda Galaxy:
| Total hyperspace distance | 1,760,024.00 Ly |
I have 3 sources of income comparable, others are significantly lower:
| Profit from mining | 19,048,486,558 Cr |
| Minerals refined | 64,575 |
| Materials collected | 51,509 |
| Trading profit | 25,832,926,174 Cr |
| Commodities traded | 755,778 |
| Profit from organic data | 29,459,752,230 Cr |
| Organic data registered | 2,147 |
| Profit from first logged | 23,238,011,115 Cr |
The Inara stats are a wealth of information to dig through and easier to access as the codex, I love them. According to those statistics, I made my fortune doing trading (17.8 billion profit) and handing in combat bonds (18.4 billion profit). This is deceptive though, because what isn't reflected is that most of my trading profit comes from core mining, which also counts for trading, and the combat bonds are mostly AX bonds.
It also shows what I don't do
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It also shows what I don't do
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I had the same urge. But I was weak. So I purchased an alt. And it felt fine.My wipe was not really due to a functional need and more of an, I dunno, ethical catharsis.
Then another, and another... now I have five