Elite boring?

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I've been playing the game for a week, it seems there's nothing to do except farm.
Either by fighting random wanted enemies or by trading:

Trade rout: Trade > earn enough to upgrade > buy a ship with more storage > repeat

Fight rout: kill wanted targets > upgrade modules / ship > kill wanted targets > repeat

There's really no sense of progress except farming money.

There's no real exploration, nothing new to do...

money is of course the central measure but its a copy of our solar system
with a good game (as sir bruce would say) built around it. Give it some
time. You get out what you put in .

A friend of mine is a white van man and he loves being a white van man
in space. He is now frustrated that his real van does not have railguns and
beam lasers.

Most of this is subjective but to your point theres no real exploration go
out and look at the sky tonight when its clear and pick a star. Go
google the night sky above you and find out what its called .... now
plot a course there.

You could visit some vampire stars, red dwarfs, pulsars, black holes,
or indeed our home, Sol (but you need to work a few things to get a permit
unless you were a backer/alpha/beta joiner).

Join a group, yes multiplayer aint perfect at the moment but it some
good fun thugging around in SC looking for trouble or watching someones 6
when they're hauling crap into hostile space.

What do you want out of a game like this ? Its a copy of where we live so its
not about depth being missing its got that in bucketloads. Maybe the prblem is
its too deep/complex for some.

I read a lot of these threads and I know this is not for everyone but what would
be the top 3 things you would do with it to specifically make you like it in
the areas of depth, exploration and progress. I know the devs read these forums
and good ideas always go down well.
 

Majinvash

Banned
I am bored of Elite dangerous.

There is no point to anything and you can only make what you can of the game so much.

I have a A rated Cobra about 11 Million in the bank and I have no real want to upgrade to an ASP to make the kills which are already to easy. Even easier.

I currently spend my evenings sitting in Eravate pulling players only out of frame shift and fighting them. Hoping for some fun.

My bounty is ridiculous.. But so what.. There is nothing else to do but fly to a star.. or grind to get a bigger better ship.

The game needs some story line that actually makes people want to do something and for a reason. Also more importantly, work together.

I am hoping that Wings brings something to the table. If it results in just enabling us to drop on already stupidly easy Elite Anacondas or USS's together... Well that will be the end of it.

Until then I will continue to be a giant space !

I will be in and around the starting planets.. Looking for trouble.

Majinvash
 
I am bored of Elite dangerous.

There is no point to anything and you can only make what you can of the game so much.

I have a A rated Cobra about 11 Million in the bank and I have no real want to upgrade to an ASP to make the kills which are already to easy. Even easier.

I currently spend my evenings sitting in Eravate pulling players only out of frame shift and fighting them. Hoping for some fun.

My bounty is ridiculous.. But so what.. There is nothing else to do but fly to a star.. or grind to get a bigger better ship.

The game needs some story line that actually makes people want to do something and for a reason. Also more importantly, work together.

I am hoping that Wings brings something to the table. If it results in just enabling us to drop on already stupidly easy Elite Anacondas or USS's together... Well that will be the end of it.

Until then I will continue to be a giant space !

I will be in and around the starting planets.. Looking for trouble.

Majinvash

No offence but if you are that bored of the game; why play it every night acting out this "space " career?
 
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Hmm let me see, DK2 - Check.. BKgamer - Check, HOTAS check, Voice attack - Check... I can have fun just flying past a star in a straight line. The game is really about what you make it, and having good hardware helps with the fun factor by a huge amount.

The devs seem to have a lot planned for the game, but for now I'm having a huge amount of fun trading, blasting through an asteroid field in a Viper with a giant star in the background, doing rares, dog fighting, nursing a cripled ship back to base while on life support, meeting other cmdr's online, hunting Black holes or just simply trying to Land a 1600T Type-9 with Flight assist off.

One other thing to note, you say you have been playing for a week? You haven't even scratched the surface of the game.. What ship do you own?

Meaningful progression, that's the thing this game is missing. Kinda pointless to get new ships since you end up doing same things over and over again anyway, be it trading or bounty hunting. Hell even navy ranks gets you nothing else than new ships which you can use to repeat the things you did with the previous ships. Getting a DK2, HOTAS, your girl/boyfriend to play with you etc. won't change that fact. I have high hopes for this game but it's still currently a decent back bone to a space sim. I'm having fun, that's what matters. But it's pointless to say that this game has craploads of content and progression and whatnot since it clearly doesn't have it, yet.
 
6 tips for fighting boredom (as its a state of mind)

One “little thing” that can be a source of unhappiness is being stuck on an activity that’s boring. Sitting in traffic. Doing laundry. Waiting in a doctor’s office. Listening to your five-year-old tell the story of the dream she had last night. (or indeed playing computer games)
The more you focus on your boredom, the more you amplify that feeling. Here are six tips to re-frame the moment; even if you can’t escape a situation, by re-framing your emotions about it, you can transform it.
– Put the word “meditation” after the activity that’s boring you. (This is my invention.) If you’re impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you’re doing “Bus waiting meditation.” If you’re standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you’re doing “Waiting in line meditation.” Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.
-– Dig in. As they say, if you can’t get out of it, get into it. Diane Arbus wrote, “The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it’s true.” If something is boring for two minutes, do it for four minutes. If it’s still boring, do it for eight minutes, then sixteen, and so on. Eventually you discover that it’s not boring at all. If part of my research isn’t interesting to me — like the Dardanelles campaign for Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill — I read a whole book about it, and then it becomes absorbing. The same principle holds when doing boring or irritating tasks, like washing dishes.
– Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what’s around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of buildings look like, what noises do you hear? If you bring your analytical powers to bear, you can make almost anything interesting.
– Find an area of refuge. Have a mental escape route planned. Think about something delightful or uplifting (not your to-do list!). Review photos of your kids on your phone (studies show that looking at photos of loved ones provides a big mood boost). Listen to an audiobook.
– Look for a way to feel grateful. It’s a lot better to be bored while waiting in a doctor’s office than to be in an agony of suspense about your test results. It’s more fun to sit around the breakfast table talking about dreams than to be away from home on a business trip. Maybe the other line at the drugstore is moving even more slowly. Etc.
– Consider: “Am I the boring one?” La Rochefoucauld observed, “We always get bored with those whom we bore.” I remind myself of this when I’m having a boring conversation with someone!
 
No offence but if you are that bored of the game; why play it every night acting out this "space " career?

I'm guessing it's like when you hear a song for the first time, and it opens really well and sounds amazing, but then it drops into a really boring mid section.... you want to keep listening because the opening was so strong, but at the same time you know you're not really enjoying it right now. Nothing wrong with hoping the tune will get better is there?
 
I've been playing the game for a week, it seems there's nothing to do except farm.
Either by fighting random wanted enemies or by trading:

Trade rout: Trade > earn enough to upgrade > buy a ship with more storage > repeat

Fight rout: kill wanted targets > upgrade modules / ship > kill wanted targets > repeat

There's really no sense of progress except farming money.

There's no real exploration, nothing new to do...

A game is only what you make it, there are many things to explore and many other things to do, but you need to seek them, as they certainly wont go looking for you...

And lets be honest, who wants to be chased by a planet, well unless its REALLY hot?
 

Viajero

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Meaningful progression, that's the thing this game is missing. Kinda pointless to get new ships since you end up doing same things over and over again anyway, be it trading or bounty hunting. Hell even navy ranks gets you nothing else than new ships which you can use to repeat the things you did with the previous ships. Getting a DK2, HOTAS, your girl/boyfriend to play with you etc. won't change that fact. I have high hopes for this game but it's still currently a decent back bone to a space sim. I'm having fun, that's what matters. But it's pointless to say that this game has craploads of content and progression and whatnot since it clearly doesn't have it, yet.

The great thing about the design of Elite is that progression is not necessary to have fun. Just watch the videos of players like Isinona, always at the helm of their incombustible sidewinder or viper at most, nothing else.

Progression hunger is, by and large, in our heads. We have also been indoctrinated by each and every game to date to progress. Elite ranks themselves are one such example. I understand many "need" that progression to go on or feel the game is "meaningful" and Elite have some basic elements for that.

But Elite is also a game that seems to be designed to NOT need that at every moment in case you decide to give it a try.
 
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I'm roleplaying as a Traveller-style (those of us who remember the old PnP RPG will know what I'm talking about) Free-Trader/Scout and having a blast! I'm my own boss--I go where I want, when I want and am enjoying the scenery. I'm sure that FD will add more to the game in time. As I said on another thread--this game is only one month old, it's barely out of the crib!
 
Hmm let me see, DK2 - Check.. BKgamer - Check, HOTAS check, Voice attack - Check... I can have fun just flying past a star in a straight line. The game is really about what you make it, and having good hardware helps with the fun factor by a huge amount.

The devs seem to have a lot planned for the game, but for now I'm having a huge amount of fun trading, blasting through an asteroid field in a Viper with a giant star in the background, doing rares, dog fighting, nursing a cripled ship back to base while on life support, meeting other cmdr's online, hunting Black holes or just simply trying to Land a 1600T Type-9 with Flight assist off.

One other thing to note, you say you have been playing for a week? You haven't even scratched the surface of the game.. What ship do you own?

+1 rep, completely agree :)
 
As they say - He who is bored is boring.....
.
it it is a sandbox game - you set you own goals. You can aim
- to get ranks with factions
- get a different ship
- swap between being pirate / explorer / trader / bounty hunter
.

Be what you have yet to be. Do what you have yet to do. See what you have yet to see.
.

To metaphorically quote Noel Coward- When you are tired of London you are tired of life!
 
When I was playing FIRSTENC I didn't spend all the time in it - I was taking breaks from time to time i.e. to play xcomapoc. Guess what? Now I'm thaking a break for xenonauts!
But now its even better because we're getting new patches and/or new content each time we get back to ED. :D
 
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