Finally Beat Elite!

[Deleted member 110222]

Nope. Nowhere near Elite on the forums, and you have to get more rep' than Ziggy.

 

[Layne Vakarian]

Hell yeah

 

[Allitnil]

Did I miss anything?

Get to the furthest north, south, east, west, up and down reachable systems.

 

[millstonebarn]

Meh. I don't see a full collection of visitor beacons. Please come back to us once this is complete.

 

[Komemiute]

Well it took 9W 5D 20H 41MIN in main game and then another 3W 1D 9H 22MIN in CQC but I finally made quad Elite, Admiral, King! Also unlocked all engineers to G5 and got all permits! Did I miss anything?

Playing the game?

 

[Ozric]

Right on commander!

 

[Spacecat]

Impressive.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Shame there are no rewards for actual challenging things, but rather just rank for doing the same thing over and over until you are reach a Elite or get bored.
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It's possible become 4xElite and Admiral and King without doing any of the above, so basically just grinding missions and milking res sites of Elite NPC Adder pilots!

I agree with most of your points, but CQC Elite is an exception. You can in theory get there just by repetitively doing easy tasks (be a target) persistently but in practice you won't get there this decade that way (and possibly not even in the expected lifetime of Elite Dangerous), because the threshold is high and doing it efficiently requires competing against other players also trying to be efficient.

I'm not sure many of the things on your list are necessarily all that challenging, either.

- Solo Kill a Thargoid, sure, that's a bit of a challenge and requires having a good ship and knowing how to fly it.
- First Discover a limited thing, again, certainly not something you can do easily. (The people who first found the Formidine sites had a massive task ... though on that, the people who ruled out other parts of those planets arguably contributed just as much as the first person to actually fly over the right spot)

...but the rest of your examples are I think again mostly a matter of doing the same thing over and over (jump to next system on route) and then occasionally flying to planetary coordinates and doing something else which you can read full simple instructions for. (I'm not saying that doing them shouldn't be recognised - more tracking of that sort of activity in-game would be good and I'm hopeful the Codex will do something like that - but I don't see them as being qualitatively different to e.g. getting Elite Exploration by following a Road-to-Riches path)

 

[Gunnet]

Impressive, congrats

 

[Leo Sagan]

 

[bendover]

Getting Skilled is much the Same Way repetitively Doing something,It's called Practice,Skill is part of Elite Dangerous But it's not the Whole thing well not for me anyway,I don't Play Elite to Pat myself about my achievements,I play because it's the closest I will ever Get to actually have my own starship,So thing in Elite have to make some internal sense,I know that to some extent I have to suspend my Disbelief,But Skill is not God in the real World nor Should it be in Elite Dangerous

 

[Rampant]

Very Congratulations.

Did you miss anything?

I dunno - did you have *fun* getting there? I hope you did. If not, you missed out on that ('o' )7


Yours Aye

Mark H

 

[Jokergod2000]

Thanks for all the comments, rep, and kind words! I’m most proud of the CQC rank. Inara has the list of CQC elites in the 40’s but there are only 13 known elites (soon to be 14). CQC was The most challenging and most fun part of everything I have done in Elite. More people should give it a shot. It’s a simple game with a steep learning curve but most people just fill In elite on Inara and move on (right Monstro99)? lol