that was rather short-lived! I seem to be in an endless loop with the Epic Games Launcher. Sends me an email verification code then says I need to redeem or buy Elite.
I shall contact support tomorrow as this is driving me bloody spare!
Thanks!WOW! This thread looks really good. Not just the issues/items covered, but the delivery of the same. It's delivered at a reasonable speed: not too fast! Gives you time to absorb it ...... well-done whoever you are.![]()
Oh my word, a fellow old campaigner!! Also come from a 6502 coding background on the Beeb (ah, the days of debugging straight assembler language...) and lost hours to Elite when it came out on such a 'primitive' platform - and also wondered HOW DID THEY DO THAT?!?! Then got into this when it first came out, dropped out a few years ago and have now just restarted with a VR headset... oh my Lordy Lord, now this IS a blast! Can't believe how much the game has developed from its beginnings though... lot of learning to do! Thank God I'm starting with a decent bank balance...Another fellow BBC Micro coder here - welcome to a whole new galaxy of adventure!
Probably, but I can't guarantee it will be in a timely fashion! And by that, I mean it almost certainly won't be in a timely fashion!Guessing you will add a new section for when oyddessy comes out?
You're welcome!Just found this and am so thankful for your work. Amazing job!
Now if I could get over my irrational fear of how to spend (and not waste) my 15M credits. I play Open because I have no interest in being part of a wing and REALLY no interest in getting ganked. It sounds like the most time-consuming / grindy (but likely the most peaceful?) role is explorer. Then cargo/passenger service. Then fighty/pirate-y/bounty hunter. But I just can't decide! Right now I have a moderately decent Asp Explorer, but I'm not married to it....so to speak....
Did you mine at Resource Extraction Zones or at an arbitrary spot in the asteroid ring? I wouldn't mine at the extraction zones as you'll frequently have to deal with pesky NPCs.Your video did make mining look attractive. So I gave it a go. Spent about 5M re-outfitting the Asp and made one successful test run for about 400K - made it past two interdiction attempts. But since then, everywhere I've tried to go (at least five places) I get attacked and I've lost my ship twice (with a total mineral value about 700K), both times to somebody who just dropped out and within a few seconds mass locked me so I couldn't escape, then easily took me out with much higher fire-power than I had (just two pulse lasers). Overall now down about 1.1M.
Just bad luck, or....? I did find it enjoyable when I wasn't trying to run for my life!
Unless you are a long way from inhabited systems when you drop into a ring someone, usually a pirate, will drop in to check you out shortly after you get there.Ok, that's three times. I give up. This time I was in a random planet ring. Couldn't get away because mass locked. I did go to an extraction zone once, and had to run away. All the other times was an asteroid belt or a planet ring. That's three deaths in eleven mining attempts, with only one successful run. Not the experience I'm looking for. Thanks again for your help.
As a fellow noob I was given this advice. It works flawlessly. Since following this advice I've done a couple runs in my python unbothered, filled 192 tons of platinum, and made +/- 250million.Unless you are a long way from inhabited systems when you drop into a ring someone, usually a pirate, will drop in to check you out shortly after you get there.
If your hold contains anything other than limpets the pirate attacks, otherwise they just stooge around for a while and then jump away. Once they jump away it is safe to start mining in earnest.
After you have cargo on board then if for any reason, including logouts, you leave and reenter the ring the pirates will show up again and will attack. The thing to do is run from the ring as fast as possible starting as soon as you can then jump to a station and sell what you have.
So as long as you arrive in a ring with nothing but limpets you are safe to mine for as long as you stay there and remain logged in from as soon as the pirates jump out.
Heh, well, maybe I'll give that a try after I make another 50M.As a fellow noob I was given this advice. It works flawlessly. Since following this advice I've done a couple runs in my python unbothered, filled 192 tons of platinum, and made +/- 250million.