I'm Bored of this now...
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This is normal for a sandbox game with no tools.
This game is not a themepark game so there is no curated content, but at the same time there is no tools to make sandbox content.
You can farm money, but once you have your favorite ship money becomes like blank paper, essentially useless. Don't bother with emergent gameplay or PvP because it's super unbalanced.
This game is not a themepark game so there is no curated content, but at the same time there is no tools to make sandbox content.
You can farm money, but once you have your favorite ship money becomes like blank paper, essentially useless. Don't bother with emergent gameplay or PvP because it's super unbalanced.
I just realised I've barely played Ein several months. I played a bit this weekend, enjoyed it, realised I had to go and change the laundry and logged out meaning to go back. Then forgot about it.
Last night I went to play it, but ended up firing up NMS instead. I wanted to play E
So - does anyone have any suggestions as to ways I can reinvigorate my interest in E
I think part of the problem is I fly an ASP Explorer. Which I've never got along with, so i'll probably exchange it for a Cobra MkIII (in kick- equipment levels!) which I enjoyed flying a lot more. Although I couldn't really tell you why this is the case, although the skiddy nature of the Asp's handling (even with dirty-tuning and lightweight equipment) doesn't help. Also quite tempted with a FAS, but can't quite afford a decent one yet. Mind you, the most fun I've had so far I had in my DBX - I just found the lack of storage a pain when you need to upgrade stuff or travel large distances.
Maybe I should try community goals?
CGs can be good depending on your taste in activities.
How about heading to Li wxyz Rui (sorry terrible memory for names) space where stuff is 15% discounted and having a days trial in all the ships you can afford and see which ones are the most fun now.
Hell, yeah. The spaceflight is only impressive when entering a planet. Trying to fight in space is just stupid. Basically consists on clicking on things really quickly, and then recharging your shields with elements.... Over and over again. You can't really dogfight, so it ends up as a kind of space jousting. I was almost expecting something to pop up saying "Enemy ship struck with laser for -5 hit points", it's so stilted.
Mucking around on planets, though, jumping in and out of ships and photographing/murdering the local wildlife seems fantastic compared to the SRV. Well, it does at first. Gets boring eventually, the thousandth time you've entered an identical place with identical creatures who pose the most basic maths puzzle (why can't a race who are basically ROBOTS who've invented spaceflight work out a basic number sequence!?!?!).
Both NMS and Elite are good games, and I wouldn't talk anyone out of buying either. I'm happy to own, and pay for, both.
Alternetivly.... if you want another space game with explosions and cute green aliens not giving a damn about how bad a space craft designer you are, try Kerbal space program
But beware, the learning curve for that makes flying your first sidewinder blindfolded while drunk and standing on one leg look easy.
Bill
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee 10 000m passed and BOOM... damn what went wrong THIS time...
But beware, the learning curve for that makes flying your first sidewinder blindfolded while drunk and standing on one leg look easy.
Bill
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee 10 000m passed and BOOM... damn what went wrong THIS time...
I just realised I've barely played E
Last night I went to play it, but ended up firing up NMS instead. I wanted to play E
So - does anyone have any suggestions as to ways I can reinvigorate my interest in E
I think part of the problem is I fly an ASP Explorer. Which I've never got along with, so i'll probably exchange it for a Cobra MkIII (in kick- equipment levels!) which I enjoyed flying a lot more. Although I couldn't really tell you why this is the case, although the skiddy nature of the Asp's handling (even with dirty-tuning and lightweight equipment) doesn't help. Also quite tempted with a FAS, but can't quite afford a decent one yet. Mind you, the most fun I've had so far I had in my DBX - I just found the lack of storage a pain when you need to upgrade stuff or travel large distances.
Maybe I should try community goals?
I had a similar problem and this is my experience reinvigorating my Elite Dangerous.
I played the BGS for an Anarchy because I like to be a pirate, very small system, 1 outpost and very few population with easy access and easy to expand.
I had fun for 2 weeks:
-The missions sent me to systems with 240.000 ls so it was painfully boring because supercruise is painfully boring lol. around 14 minutes of straight travel.
-The pirate missions are a joke, they are bugged, they have no sense and are difficult to do for 1 man.
-I am allied with the anarchy faction but they still want to interdict me.
-I managed to make them expand and during the expansion period the sent me to attack multiple times (sometimes at the same time, the exact same mission) to the same land bases over and over. It was fun the first times but then it become really boring.
-I had to do a lot of smuggling missions which consist in entering the station at high speed bacause there is no mechanics for smuggling, only enter before they scan you, fun the first 5 times and then you realise how simplistic it is.
So, I had fun for a few days playing with the BGS moving some numbers. Then I realised the game is the same and didnt change a thing since beta.
Now Im waiting to have 2 more weeks of fun with 2.2 and then wait months to the next expansion.
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Maybe it's just not the right game for you????
Conflict zones have in fact an effect on the outcome of wars. The amount depends mostly on the size of the population.
Fight for at least three days for the same faction in a system with less than 1.5 M population and little traffic and observe it for yourself!
The victor of a conflict gets to control a new station.
The BGS is one way of having fun in Elite and creating gameplay and content for oneself. This is best done in a group together with other players.
When working the BGS you can set yourself short-term to long-term goals and do other stuff in between due to how slow it progresses.
Control the station?
+1.....
I'm not sure what you need to do, but, for me. I put down the hotas for a while, multiple times since the game came out actually. Right now, I'm back in it doing the rank grind for the Cutter. That is my final rank grind for now, and I'm at the last rank.
I found that when I was in my cutter the first time (reset the game), I was not enjoying the big ship after a while!!! I went back to the Cobra MKIII and found my place again. The interior is excellent, and I heard it can be modified all out. I might have to go do that now!!!
Go go get a cobra and do some long range smuggling missions. It's a blast!!
I found that when I was in my cutter the first time (reset the game), I was not enjoying the big ship after a while!!! I went back to the Cobra MKIII and found my place again. The interior is excellent, and I heard it can be modified all out. I might have to go do that now!!!
Go go get a cobra and do some long range smuggling missions. It's a blast!!