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Switch up targets to Feds and you got yourself a mate
Add me. I'll rob feds'. I'll rob anyone who ain't Alliance really.
How do YOU regain your ED mojo?
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Add me. I'll rob feds'. I'll rob anyone who ain't Alliance really.
I prefer to pick on Feds being an Imperial.
(nevermind the whole LYR thing, I need packhounds. Wife request, so what was I to do?)
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I'm a filthy robber. My main reason for not stealing from the Alliance is simply to give me an area of refuge.
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You have been diagnosed with: want-the-new-2.3-update-'ittis.
It's ok, we probably all have it after seeing all of the youtube videos this week. It's ok to take a break, it might even be good for you in the long run. I've personally been trying to take a break from this game all week long, but I haven't been very successful.
But to answer your question, what I did to regain my mojo was go directly back to my roots. I had been in my Federal Corvette doing the two community goals in Rahun, lots of big ship combat action. It's cool and all wrecking everything in site, I destroyed 5 Corvettes in a conflict zone plus a host of other flying things in less than 30 minutes and made well over a million doing so.
Then the strangest thing happened.....I got bored. So I decide to jump back into the first ship I bought with my own credits, the Viper MK III. It's was already mostly A-rated but never engineered. I fitted it with a 2A fuel scoop, repainted it Vibrant yellow, changed some of the decals and the weapon color to Green and went on an engineer tour. The only thing I have left now is to visit Palin for the Dirty Drive grade 5 tuning (it currently has a level 2 DD tuning and it boosts up to 453 km/s).
I was interdicted several times along the way, each time I got into a glorious small ship dogfighting and won, very intense PVE action and completely different than big ship combat. I went back to my roots as a small ship bounty hunter and rediscovered why I fell in love with this game in the first place. Maybe going back to your roots will help you?
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I sensed something had changed. I wasn't seeing you listed in my Friend Comms, or seeing posts here started by you. Didn't see your bright green icon on the GalMap, or your favoriting of my picture stream. Wondered where you'd gone off to.
I know the feeling well. I just returned from a short hiatus myself, and that wasn't the first time I took a brain break. Advice? Don't know if I can give you solid advice on regaining the love, but when YOU think you're ready, fire up the XB, grab onto the controller, and get thee to the red light district.
Welcome back, iconoclypse. You've been missed.
My current fad in ED is playing around with the background sim with my mate Apex.
It has been really interesting taking our adopted minor faction from very minor status to expansion.
There is quite a lot of depth to it but it is great fun.
It has been really interesting taking our adopted minor faction from very minor status to expansion.
There is quite a lot of depth to it but it is great fun.
Am in a very similar boat tc, lost my mojo on this engineer unlocking grind personally. It's just totally unpalatable for me. I yearn for the freedom to go do whatevs in this game, and that's all gated away while I make offerings to appease: the sirius gods at the moment. And now marco won't give me an invite lol.
So been playing very little for a while. Lots & lots of other games to play. And zelda finally dropped today, could turn out to be game of the decade if half the hype is on the mark (which it might be, for once). Day 1 patch currently downloading [woah]
But I'm not really falling out with the game. Still love it to bits. Just not this chapter. Once I've finally got at least palin unlocked it's going to be *magical* getting back to making a minor mischief of myself around the galaxy.
So been playing very little for a while. Lots & lots of other games to play. And zelda finally dropped today, could turn out to be game of the decade if half the hype is on the mark (which it might be, for once). Day 1 patch currently downloading [woah]
But I'm not really falling out with the game. Still love it to bits. Just not this chapter. Once I've finally got at least palin unlocked it's going to be *magical* getting back to making a minor mischief of myself around the galaxy.
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I want to play the new Zelda so bad, I just don't want to buy a new system to play it....so tempting though. That game is just so beautiful.
Before I start - a PC player here, but this seems like a pretty general discussion, so ...
One thing I do is to keep watching videos that advocate the less grindy, less profit focused, approach to the game. I'm thinking here of things like Isinona's ancient but still inspirational Flight Assist off Youtube series and Cmdr Codger's excellent Elite Adventure series. These inspire me to quit worrying about the grind and enjoy the game for pure pleasure of it.
As a previous poster mentioned I also have a big TODO list. Every time I hear about some cool place to visit or cool thing to go and try I make a note of it. When I'm stuck for things to do I just pick something off the list and go and do it.
Finally I'm an avid Buckyballer and Fuel Rat. More than anything I think having these two as the central focuses for my ED "character" gives me a reason to play, a character to inhabit if you like.
Participating in (and sometimes organsing) the races of the former teaches me so much fine detail about the game (ship/SRV handling, supercruise behaviour in and around the gravity wells of planetary bodies, advanced fuel scooping when running on fumes, heat management, optimal route navigation, etc), I learn something new in every race. It also teaches me to stop being too precious about my ships. Once you've stripped your best ship back down to nothing for a race and faced a dozen rebuy screens as you push too hard to shave off those precious seconds you quickly learn that losing your ship is not the end of the world. It's actually a very liberating experience that leaves you feeling far happier about experimenting with ships and loadout (that's how it worked for me anyway). It can also be expensive! But that's fine, it gives me a reason to go and earn credits, I need to fund my racer lifestyle somehow. I don't play to earn, I earn to play.
And being a Fuel Rat reminds me that there's a lot of really nice people in this galaxy. The Rats themselves are a terrific bunch of guys and gals to hang out with in the IRC chat channel and as for the players we rescue ... they're frequently very new to the game (the rescue is often their first encounter with another player and their sense of awe and wonder is infectious), their gratitude is always heartwarming and their thirst for knowledge and your ability as an experienced player to be able to give it ... well for me that just feels brilliant! It's also a real antidote to some of the negative and cynical views you see here on the forum which, in their own way, can also be infectious (but not in a good way).
Here's to regaining your mojo commander!
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One thing I do is to keep watching videos that advocate the less grindy, less profit focused, approach to the game. I'm thinking here of things like Isinona's ancient but still inspirational Flight Assist off Youtube series and Cmdr Codger's excellent Elite Adventure series. These inspire me to quit worrying about the grind and enjoy the game for pure pleasure of it.
As a previous poster mentioned I also have a big TODO list. Every time I hear about some cool place to visit or cool thing to go and try I make a note of it. When I'm stuck for things to do I just pick something off the list and go and do it.
Finally I'm an avid Buckyballer and Fuel Rat. More than anything I think having these two as the central focuses for my ED "character" gives me a reason to play, a character to inhabit if you like.
Participating in (and sometimes organsing) the races of the former teaches me so much fine detail about the game (ship/SRV handling, supercruise behaviour in and around the gravity wells of planetary bodies, advanced fuel scooping when running on fumes, heat management, optimal route navigation, etc), I learn something new in every race. It also teaches me to stop being too precious about my ships. Once you've stripped your best ship back down to nothing for a race and faced a dozen rebuy screens as you push too hard to shave off those precious seconds you quickly learn that losing your ship is not the end of the world. It's actually a very liberating experience that leaves you feeling far happier about experimenting with ships and loadout (that's how it worked for me anyway). It can also be expensive! But that's fine, it gives me a reason to go and earn credits, I need to fund my racer lifestyle somehow. I don't play to earn, I earn to play.
And being a Fuel Rat reminds me that there's a lot of really nice people in this galaxy. The Rats themselves are a terrific bunch of guys and gals to hang out with in the IRC chat channel and as for the players we rescue ... they're frequently very new to the game (the rescue is often their first encounter with another player and their sense of awe and wonder is infectious), their gratitude is always heartwarming and their thirst for knowledge and your ability as an experienced player to be able to give it ... well for me that just feels brilliant! It's also a real antidote to some of the negative and cynical views you see here on the forum which, in their own way, can also be infectious (but not in a good way).
Here's to regaining your mojo commander!
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Having just come off a hiatus myself, I would say just go off and do anything. I've decided to go to the end of the Perseus Arm, but I'm not holding myself to that. If I change my mind I will, nothing is set in stone. For me the burn out was I'd done the survey out near Colonia and then came back to the bubble, followed by trying to unlock the ruins (which turned out to be a misfire as at the time only one had been discovered and was bugged). I then set out on another trek, when I should have really had a break from being out in the black. I'm still out in the black, but enjoying it all the more for the break, for me it's the beauty of the game that keeps fetching me back.
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Take breaks...everyone does and most will come back when they ready...could be a day or two, could be 6 months but nobodys counting. Im still semi back after a gears of war 4 detour...and still lost on space somewhere. Ok well actually Im on approach to colonia to cash in 4 months of scan data, then back to ganktown.
Personally, I decided to make a fundamental change in how I play this game...up till now, thats been 90% exploration pure lone wolf. Now, Im slowly coming in from the cold and first things first, back to ganktown to get a new ship. The trip back gives me plenty of time to plan ahead and if I have the patience to make the journey in a single weekend, then Ill know Im back. And yes, I have done it in a single weekend before, although its a long weekend.
How I got this ed vibe back? Apart from my break in gears 4, its a mixture of other reasons, not least of which are lack of alternatives. I have a soft spot fer the niche space based games and because Im a multi platform gamer, I dont limit meself to one platform. The lack of alternatives isnt exactly inspiring, but its enough fer now. Im also starting to wonder about playing open and even pvp...though not perhaps the kind of pvp one immediately thinks off. Pvp comes in many different forms after all ^
Personally, I decided to make a fundamental change in how I play this game...up till now, thats been 90% exploration pure lone wolf. Now, Im slowly coming in from the cold and first things first, back to ganktown to get a new ship. The trip back gives me plenty of time to plan ahead and if I have the patience to make the journey in a single weekend, then Ill know Im back. And yes, I have done it in a single weekend before, although its a long weekend.
How I got this ed vibe back? Apart from my break in gears 4, its a mixture of other reasons, not least of which are lack of alternatives. I have a soft spot fer the niche space based games and because Im a multi platform gamer, I dont limit meself to one platform. The lack of alternatives isnt exactly inspiring, but its enough fer now. Im also starting to wonder about playing open and even pvp...though not perhaps the kind of pvp one immediately thinks off. Pvp comes in many different forms after all ^
So, first, wow, Thanks for the support. And so great suggestions and just general camaraderie.
I started playing ED literally just a week or two over a year ago. Three months later DRX stumbled, blinking, mewling, but with attitude, into the light.
So of my issues were RL, but then, even looking at my RL probs I might have recognised that ED is (like) a long-term relationship. There are highs and lows. There are times you have to work at it.
I love ED. AND I REALLY love this community.
You have all helped and I appreciate it. And, by now, many of you know me well enough to know I will pay it forward in spaces.
o7 CMDRs
(Oh, but I'm not there yet, and ANY advice that might help others over THAT bump in the road - bring it on!)
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Erudite, as ever, mung0, my friend.
(oh and Zelda is already tracking to be the best-reviewed game ever. You know, like OoT... Me? I'ma hang on for a Switch.)
I started playing ED literally just a week or two over a year ago. Three months later DRX stumbled, blinking, mewling, but with attitude, into the light.
So of my issues were RL, but then, even looking at my RL probs I might have recognised that ED is (like) a long-term relationship. There are highs and lows. There are times you have to work at it.
I love ED. AND I REALLY love this community.
You have all helped and I appreciate it. And, by now, many of you know me well enough to know I will pay it forward in spaces.
o7 CMDRs
(Oh, but I'm not there yet, and ANY advice that might help others over THAT bump in the road - bring it on!)
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Erudite, as ever, mung0, my friend.
(oh and Zelda is already tracking to be the best-reviewed game ever. You know, like OoT... Me? I'ma hang on for a Switch.)
I'm just getting back from a break too...got my mojo from a new ship and doing taxi missions (havent had a passenger mission in ages)
Thanks for the kind words, Esral.
I'm gratified to hear you found your way back.
The responses I've seen are enough to convince me that just participating in the ED community and doing my bit to improve others' experience might be enough to fire me up again.
I'm kind of in an Elite eb and flow right now too. Right now I'm ebbin pretty hard. Reinstalled ESO to try and get a little bit of faction PvP in my life. Once I start getting decimated by people spamming uppercut I'm sure I'll be right back into Elite, even though I joined the uppercut bandwagon and I must admit it's quite fun. But, It happens from time to time. At one point I would log into elite, launch, then just quit to menu because everything felt like a hassle to even get going in the game. I just dabble in other games for a while until I get my groove back.
Thanks Alec.
Don't worry - no one holds being a PC player against you.
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I've had ebbs before. And I've heard the siren call of 'other games' (Black Friday didn't help!).
This has been deeper and harder though (oo-er, missus!)
Oh, and I'm still loving TESO.
To everyone, you've all been so amazingly-yet-typically helpful and friendly that it'd take me a mental time to shout-out the +1's...
Hey buddy I just say break up the game with other stuff, at the mo I'm still slowly trying to complete alien isolation so when the game hacks me off I'll do that, carp my pants and then do some ED. Also helps that I'm in a player faction that's focused and has me doing BGS work that focus has me anchored and not kinda lost that I think is the main complaint about ED. After a while you want a goal or to be guided as all that open game play can get a bit to much.
When I'm taking a break from Elite, it means free evenings.
Free evenings mean lots of alcohol and watching my SO playing Elite.
Being drunk and watching my SO playing Elite makes me want to play Elite.
Playing Elite drunk costs lots of money.
Losing lots of money means I have lots to do in the game once again.
A year and change ago I took a two month long break when I was about half-way to Sag A*. I just played different things for a while, and it was nice. Then I started thinking about Elite more and more, so I got back into it and made it the rest of the way to Sag A* and back. After that I started jumping back and forth between different jobs, going back and forth between trading and combat. That's what I've been doing ever since, tbh. I've taken a few short-ish breaks in that time too, of about a week or so.