Heres what happened....
I'm writing this on my laptop as the docking computer in my Type 6 lands (yes, that's how boring this game has become for me)...
1. Started with Eagle (from pre-buy). Wouldn't make very much difference if I started with sidewinder.
2. Hit signal sources near by spawn system and killed a few random "wanted" pirates. Quickly made enough (about 14K) for the K-Warrant Scanner.
3. Camped Nav Beacon at the closest anarchy system to my spawn of LHS 3446. It's no secret, its well known now. Use K-Scanner to scan everyone, and anyone, i mean anyone, with a bounty: BLAST EM. Repeat process until have enough for a decently kitted out Viper.
4. Sold Eagle, outfitted Viper with 4 x lasers, returned to same nav beacon and kill kill kill. Along the road, encounter more than several heated battles (usually to the death) with other players. Sometimes a guy kill steals from me too many times, I sneak up on his 6 and blast him to death as he is engaging another NPC and cant defend himself. Sometimes the same thing happens to me. Encounter much rage and much joy during these times. highs and lows! ex WarThunder buddies join the game and we all camp same beacon and use teamspeak for voice comms. Other players have no idea we are working as a small squadron and are quickly blown to pieces by all 3 or 4 of us when they make just one of us mad. Average player has no idea that coordinated team play is going on and the surprise is awesome (to us, anyway).... Repeat until have enough for Type-6 with max cargo and still a million credits left over for trade capital.
(Unknowingly, the fun and rage and joy of the game is about to end for me...)
5. Buy Type-6. Remove all weapons, fit class A FSD and class D everything else, equip with 96 cargo slots. Buy my first ever docking computer. Max out cargo hold flying 2 x jump, each way, round trip trade routes. Use the crowd sourced websites that tell you which stations and routes and cargo to buy and sell. Cheating? i don't think so. Normal income is 220K in 20 minutes. Thats 660K in 1 hour. Repeat repeat repeat.
6. Friend shows me a spreadsheet he made of a rares trading route. I jump on it. Without side trading (i.e., taking "normal" goods along with the rares) it makes approx 780K in exactly 60 minutes. If I take side goods as told by the website, the run makes 850K in 65 minutes (takes an extra 5 minutes to look up on my laptop which goods to make for each leg). Repeat Repeat.
7. Game is ruined.
On my best days at camping Ngaliba Nav Beacon (anarchy) in my multi million dollar combat only viper, I would maybe, maybe make 120 K in an hour of camping. And that 120 K bounty was often spread over all 3 x systems, and any alliance bounty was worth 0 to me since it was way way to far to collect it.
Now, doing the rare run, as stated above, I make 850 K in 1 hour. That is is about 7 TIMES more per hour than I would make bounty hunting. But its 1000 times less fun. No combat. No yelling YES as I blow a human player who kill stole to pieces, hoping he had 300K of uncollected bounties he lost. No more screaming **** after another player did the same to me. No more playing in team speak with my squad buddies as we all covered each others six from players and NPCs. Now we all basically fly around alone, though still talking on teamspeak (but now about how boring the game is instead of yelling for fire support on our tail...)
Now, I tell myself, Im just going to do this until I can get a decent ASP, fit for combat, and go back to my old nav beacon as a squad again. But I think a decently combat capable ASP will cost about 10 million. Then I need at least 2 more million in cash to cover insurance costs when something bad happens (so I'm not like the guy in the other thread who quit the game when he lost his Asp in PvP, with 0 credits in his pocket....) 12 million in assets (assuming I sell the Type-6) needed. Thats 14 hours, yeah FOURTEEN HOURS, of running this rare route. How long can i do it? 3 hours a day? thats nearly 5 days. Doesn't sound like much, but when the fun has already been sapped.... Feels more like actual work, something I normally get paid real money for...
Anyway, this has been my experience since starting on Dec 16th.
/rant over
Any others have this experience?
I'm writing this on my laptop as the docking computer in my Type 6 lands (yes, that's how boring this game has become for me)...
1. Started with Eagle (from pre-buy). Wouldn't make very much difference if I started with sidewinder.
2. Hit signal sources near by spawn system and killed a few random "wanted" pirates. Quickly made enough (about 14K) for the K-Warrant Scanner.
3. Camped Nav Beacon at the closest anarchy system to my spawn of LHS 3446. It's no secret, its well known now. Use K-Scanner to scan everyone, and anyone, i mean anyone, with a bounty: BLAST EM. Repeat process until have enough for a decently kitted out Viper.
4. Sold Eagle, outfitted Viper with 4 x lasers, returned to same nav beacon and kill kill kill. Along the road, encounter more than several heated battles (usually to the death) with other players. Sometimes a guy kill steals from me too many times, I sneak up on his 6 and blast him to death as he is engaging another NPC and cant defend himself. Sometimes the same thing happens to me. Encounter much rage and much joy during these times. highs and lows! ex WarThunder buddies join the game and we all camp same beacon and use teamspeak for voice comms. Other players have no idea we are working as a small squadron and are quickly blown to pieces by all 3 or 4 of us when they make just one of us mad. Average player has no idea that coordinated team play is going on and the surprise is awesome (to us, anyway).... Repeat until have enough for Type-6 with max cargo and still a million credits left over for trade capital.
(Unknowingly, the fun and rage and joy of the game is about to end for me...)
5. Buy Type-6. Remove all weapons, fit class A FSD and class D everything else, equip with 96 cargo slots. Buy my first ever docking computer. Max out cargo hold flying 2 x jump, each way, round trip trade routes. Use the crowd sourced websites that tell you which stations and routes and cargo to buy and sell. Cheating? i don't think so. Normal income is 220K in 20 minutes. Thats 660K in 1 hour. Repeat repeat repeat.
6. Friend shows me a spreadsheet he made of a rares trading route. I jump on it. Without side trading (i.e., taking "normal" goods along with the rares) it makes approx 780K in exactly 60 minutes. If I take side goods as told by the website, the run makes 850K in 65 minutes (takes an extra 5 minutes to look up on my laptop which goods to make for each leg). Repeat Repeat.
7. Game is ruined.
On my best days at camping Ngaliba Nav Beacon (anarchy) in my multi million dollar combat only viper, I would maybe, maybe make 120 K in an hour of camping. And that 120 K bounty was often spread over all 3 x systems, and any alliance bounty was worth 0 to me since it was way way to far to collect it.
Now, doing the rare run, as stated above, I make 850 K in 1 hour. That is is about 7 TIMES more per hour than I would make bounty hunting. But its 1000 times less fun. No combat. No yelling YES as I blow a human player who kill stole to pieces, hoping he had 300K of uncollected bounties he lost. No more screaming **** after another player did the same to me. No more playing in team speak with my squad buddies as we all covered each others six from players and NPCs. Now we all basically fly around alone, though still talking on teamspeak (but now about how boring the game is instead of yelling for fire support on our tail...)
Now, I tell myself, Im just going to do this until I can get a decent ASP, fit for combat, and go back to my old nav beacon as a squad again. But I think a decently combat capable ASP will cost about 10 million. Then I need at least 2 more million in cash to cover insurance costs when something bad happens (so I'm not like the guy in the other thread who quit the game when he lost his Asp in PvP, with 0 credits in his pocket....) 12 million in assets (assuming I sell the Type-6) needed. Thats 14 hours, yeah FOURTEEN HOURS, of running this rare route. How long can i do it? 3 hours a day? thats nearly 5 days. Doesn't sound like much, but when the fun has already been sapped.... Feels more like actual work, something I normally get paid real money for...
Anyway, this has been my experience since starting on Dec 16th.
/rant over
Any others have this experience?
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