Elite is all about trading

iujona · Dec 27, 2014

Thats how you make real Cr but its a grind.

mollymawk · Dec 27, 2014

Surely your credits are just as fictional as my hard earned bounties, though you may have more..

Tuzmaal · Dec 27, 2014

yep, nothing to add.

Endziel · Dec 27, 2014

Just like in real life. You go to work, so you can get money for cool new stuff. Then again this is a video game, and it shouldn't be like that.

palefire · Dec 27, 2014

Maybe it's about trading for you. It's about smuggling contraband and salvage for me. And an occasional bounty on the side. It's not about the credits for me. It's the experience.

Tigga · Dec 27, 2014

At the moment trading makes you most money. That does not mean Elite is all about trading, it means that trading makes you the most money. Those things are not the same.

Major Plonker · Dec 27, 2014

palefire said:
Maybe it's about trading for you. It's about smuggling contraband and salvage for me. And an occasional bounty on the side. It's not about the credits for me. It's the experience.

Very much this.

Phosphora · Dec 27, 2014

I see trading as a means to making a decent amount of cash. The money will let me buy a decent exploring ship, a decent mining ship, and maybe even some sort of fighting ship (more probably a punchbag if you've seen me play).

Cheers, Phos.

Jarek Storm · Dec 27, 2014

Well, Elite is a space trading game. That's literally it's genre, so... Yeah.

Elite is a seminal space trading video game, written and developed by David Braben and Ian Bell...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

grae3107 · Dec 27, 2014

I have to disagree. Elite is not about trading. I do not trade and have over 5 million in assets.

There is plenty of money to be made doing other stuff.

Cmdr Snuffler · Dec 27, 2014

I've not traded at all since release.
Bounty Hunting all the way. Lovely £££.

Renso · Dec 27, 2014

I used to trade, but now it's about exploration for me. Finding those particular systems, and populations.

Cosmos · Dec 27, 2014

palefire said:
Maybe it's about trading for you. It's about smuggling contraband and salvage for me. And an occasional bounty on the side. It's not about the credits for me. It's the experience.

Well thats fine but DB did say that no one area of the game should be any better than the rest. I don't mind trading but other areas of the game should be equally competitive.

Tuzmaal · Dec 27, 2014

Jarek Storm said:
Well, Elite is a space trading game. That's literally it's genre, so... Yeah.

I would agree with it when "our/your" trading had some influence on the grand scale but it has not according to the last Q & A

Cidcaldensfey · Dec 27, 2014

Depending on what you do, money isn't everything. You don't need a lot of money to do a lot of things in the game.

Lanatir · Dec 27, 2014

Elite is all about trading....and i love it.

Vandal71 · Dec 27, 2014

I've received 30,000 credit bounties before, so I would beg to differ. I also just got a load of gold that one of my wanted Hauler victims tried to dump out to entice me not to kill him. I got the bounty and smuggled the gold. It was a good day in the verse.

malicious1 · Dec 27, 2014

Phosphora said:
I see trading as a means to making a decent amount of cash. The money will let me buy a decent exploring ship, a decent mining ship, and maybe even some sort of fighting ship (more probably a punchbag if you've seen me play).

Cheers, Phos.

unfortunately i also fall into that punching bag lot....hangs head

and yeah trading is getting me where i need to be so i can do other things

fergal · Dec 27, 2014

iujona said:
Thats how you make real Cr but its a grind.

what are you going to do with all your trading money? Buy a bigger trading ship?

Gibbonici · Dec 27, 2014

Rlee said:
I've received 30,000 credit bounties before, so I would beg to differ. I also just got a load of gold that one of my wanted Hauler victims tried to dump out to entice me not to kill him. I got the bounty and smuggled the gold. It was a good day in the verse.

Did you kill him anyway?