Im done.
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Some players delete their accounts, because they find flying a Conda too boring. I think the real thrill then comes trying to become 3-Elite in a Sidey... I'm not at that point yet, but after years of ED I must confess two things: I would be highly irritated losing everything I have - but I guess this cannot happen due to my playstyle. But, honestly, very often I miss the feeling of a brand new start, being poor and just covered by a thin layer of Sidewinder. It was the most exciting part of the game. Some day I will delete my CMDR just to do that.
Now, to your claim you made "one mistake". No. You made many. The obvious mistake was to fly a ship you couldn't re-buy. Having to start over again actually means that you did not have another ship somewhere. This means you invested all you had in that one single ship. So, no-backup on top of the no-rebuy. With a decent backup ship you've had choices: Sell the backup to increase your hard cash. Or fly the backup to finance the big ship. That would have given you at least one rebuy. But I guess you rather wanted to go the quick way, investing every credit into your progession just to have that next big ship as quick as possible.
At that point, where you were slightly above your re-buy, you should have been aware that everything you do must be mostly risk-free until you doubled your hardcash. My guess is, and apologize if I insinuate something wrong, you ignored this for quick money. And then, when being below re-buy, there's basically only one risk free option: Sell your ship and go one tier lower. But you ignored that option as well.
So, it seems to me you were very reckless in a whole chain of decisions. After 200 hours you should have been experienced enough for all of this.
Now, to your claim you made "one mistake". No. You made many. The obvious mistake was to fly a ship you couldn't re-buy. Having to start over again actually means that you did not have another ship somewhere. This means you invested all you had in that one single ship. So, no-backup on top of the no-rebuy. With a decent backup ship you've had choices: Sell the backup to increase your hard cash. Or fly the backup to finance the big ship. That would have given you at least one rebuy. But I guess you rather wanted to go the quick way, investing every credit into your progession just to have that next big ship as quick as possible.
At that point, where you were slightly above your re-buy, you should have been aware that everything you do must be mostly risk-free until you doubled your hardcash. My guess is, and apologize if I insinuate something wrong, you ignored this for quick money. And then, when being below re-buy, there's basically only one risk free option: Sell your ship and go one tier lower. But you ignored that option as well.
So, it seems to me you were very reckless in a whole chain of decisions. After 200 hours you should have been experienced enough for all of this.
No, he just needs to be barely competent to play ED because it's way too easy and unchallenging. Falling asleep is really the only danger to be had - there is nothing hard about the game.
People often mistake "difficult" for "time consuming".
Pretty sure it tells you all about it in the manual. In fact most things can be learnt by just reading the manual.
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Ah. Somebody did read one of my postings in which i refered to old times, when our group at the university built and operated a MUD, looked up the term and only vaguely understood it?
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I give you a small hint: MUDs usually operate on the telnet protocol, which is purely text oriented. You input your commands in text form, the game parses it and also delivers feedback in text (ASCII, so text and some graphical symbols, actually) form. So sorry, comparing this game to a MUD is quite a far stretch.
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But thanks for at least trying to get what a MUD is, i didn't expect anybody to even remember that term, after i mentioned it here the last days.
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FD Support wil probably put you back where you were, but even if they didn't, you could be in an Anaconda by the weekend:
Jump in a Sidewinder and go straight to a high RES. Help the feds kill wanted guys for two hours. Use the money to equip the sidewinder for exploring (2.2 million), then do the road to riches for 10 mil an hour, so something like 15 hours to get an Anaconda and unlock a couple of important engineers.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...o-in-under-5-days?highlight=from+zero+to+hero
And maybe that's why grinding the big 3 out without learning the basics of the game is not the best idea?
Not to mention that OP did that, failed to learn in the process, lost everything in the most stupid of ways and now he is blaming the "game" for it.
No sympathy at all here.
Tell that to people visiting Sag* and Beagle Point with it. I also bet I can make more money per hour in a Sidewinder by doing combat in Hi RES than OP can with Anaconda in Haz Res.
Problem resides between the keyboard and the chair.
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Just so you know (as funnily enough the forum doesn't teach you this, no matter how many posts you make) - your post is very, very difficult to read:
Here's an image of how your post appears this end.
Looks like you might be changing the font colour to something that isn't particularly readable... (unless there is some issue with the default settings you are using).
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"You are a lone pilot making your way in a Dangerous galaxy.." says it all really (expect highs and lows on your journey)
PS - Mr Ant is it true that you are still talking to Dec (as I keep reading about it in the newspapers)?
PS - Mr Ant is it true that you are still talking to Dec (as I keep reading about it in the newspapers)?
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Yep i know its my fault, I didn't think they would actually make it so if I died without enough insurance money I would have to start over again, THAT. It already took me 200 hours to get there lol. Have fun though everyone else
Yes I know you dont care.
I share your criticism...
The only thing that saved me from your fate, was reading posts from other people loosing their one ship due to lack of insurance money.
When my Anaconda was my only ship (ignoring an old Cobra and such stuff laying about), I made absolutely certain not ever to let my balance drop below 2x rebuy.
I never did drop below that, but if that had happened, I'd have used the old Cobra and other scraps to buy a T6 and make up the re-buy money.
Trading, even in the Anaconda became too tedious and after the 1.4 update which included various unwanted annoyances, I simply quit.
The ONLY reason I returned this January, was because I saw a YouTube video about making 100 million credits an hour with passenger missions.
I reconfigured my Anaconda for Passenger transport and made enough to be able to just play without being worried about rebuy money. That made the game pleasant enough that I got into engineering (which was also a new feature for me, since I had quit a mere 8 months after the game's release, 6 months of which I had to wait for FD to make my account playable again after getting stuck in a "bugged system" and unable to log in...
Anyway, If you liked the game outside of the loss of time - you could just wait for the next gold rush and short-cut the stupid, overblown credit grind in this game...
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Indeed as far as PvE is concerned we got Elite : Safe room
It's one of the reasons why I fly under powered ships, so when I do have combat it is a challange.
Even in PVP u can high wake out at anytime.
High Wake is the safe word in elite dangerous
Alright you two, your egos are polished enough so you can go get a room.
Not saying you're wrong, but the fact you're right doesn't mean you're helpful.
Yep i know its my fault, I didn't think they would actually make it so if I died without enough insurance money I would have to start over again, THAT. It already took me 200 hours to get there lol. Have fun though everyone else
I've been there and totally understand your frustration.
But the rebuy mechanism is there to provide some cost for death, and almost every video game has some consequence for in-game death.
That said, in Elite it's easy to avoid by just having the cash in bank for the rebuy, and if you could grind for say a 20mill credit ship, what's another 2 million for the rebuy?
But it sounds like you're not having fun so I highly encourage you to go play a game you enjoy!
Most of us have limited game time, so we need to be sure we are having fun when we play!
Best of luck,
Grey
Yep i know its my fault, I didn't think they would actually make it so if I died without enough insurance money I would have to start over again, THAT. It already took me 200 hours to get there lol. Have fun though everyone else
Yes I know you dont care.
I'll never understand why people grind for hundreds of hours, never bother to learn even the basics of the game, only to complain they spend hundreds of hours grinding while not understanding the basics of the game. Has free will gone out of vogue or something? :S