Newcomer / Intro jumping back into elite -- where to start?

jmg

J
I played elite for a while -- managed to amass a decent amount of credits, an anaconda, and double elite.
This was all pre-odyssey, pre-engineers, pre-horizons. I'm a little burnt on star citizen these days, and thinking of getting back into elite, but don't want to crash and burn my first time out-- any suggestions on how to re-learn game play? is solo still a thing? Maybe take out one of my smaller ships and bop around to refamiliarize myself
 

Krieger

Krieger
Yes solo still exists. Restarting with a small ship sounds like a good plan. Be cautious when you pick a fight with NPC ships. NPCs are a lot tougher in combat now. They have lightly to moderately engineered ships depending on your combat rank and the amount of engineering on your ship. However, in an A-rated unengineered combat ship you can still beat most of them. If not: run!!!
 

jmg

J
Thanks.. I have to figure out this engineering stuff to upgrade all my components... and figure out odyssey. feels like I'm starting from scratch again
 

avow555

avow555
Plenty youtube guides out there, what is your preferred activitIes?
Engineering can be a bit grindy and potential for burnout.
 

jmg

J
avow555 said:
Plenty youtube guides out there, what is your preferred activitIes?
Engineering can be a bit grindy and potential for burnout.
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I used to enjoy exploring and fighting the most. ran around in an anaconda most of the time...enjoyed working towards the next latest/greatest ship, though not sure if there are any new ones since I last played.
by the way, I know odyssey let's you walk around stations and planets, can you also walk around your ship?
 

aRJay

aRJay
There are a lot of ships that have been introduced since Horizons.

Dolphin
Orca
Beluga
Type 10 Defender
Alliance Chieftain
Alliance Challenger
Alliance Crusader
Krait mkII
Krait Phantom

Several ships have been altered to carry Ship Launched Fighters.
The Type 9 has been upgraded to much larger cargo capacity and better performance.

Solo is still there and is as great as ever.

There are a whole raft of tutorials available from your much changed cockpit menu using them to familiarise yourself with the controls while you went through the extensive and again much changed control bindings might help.
 

jmg

J
any significant changes to the Anaconda? that's always been my primary ship. I forget the other ships I had, mostly explorer-centric
 

jmg

J
wow, was there some kind of in-game credits given in the last year or two? I have a LOT more credits that I thought I had.
 

alexzk

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jmg said:
I used to enjoy exploring and fighting the most
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There are thargoids too now. I finally made comfortable build for me, when I'm not going below 50% hull and this is fun.
jmg said:
any significant changes to the Anaconda? that's always been my primary ship. I forget the other ships I had, mostly explorer-centric
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It can jump now 80ly with fighter on-board ...though you had to do CG for that reward, engineered will do 73-75, and 82 shield less paper build.
Personally I use it for exploration only. For other things I like other ships. Not a big deal with carrier - your fleet is always where you need it.
 

alexzk

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jmg said:
by the way, I know odyssey let's you walk around stations and planets, can you also walk around your ship?
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No, and this is good ...because it is modular. In SC you have fixed internals, so you can walk.
Fleet Carriers will be walk-able next update soon(c).
 

ethelred

ethelred
USS are pretty fun now, and if you fit a couple of limpets and a controller they can help you collect engineering materials
 

jmg

J
alexzk said:
There are thargoids too now. I finally made comfortable build for me, when I'm not going below 50% hull and this is fun.

It can jump now 80ly with fighter on-board ...though you had to do CG for that reward, engineered will do 73-75, and 82 shield less paper build.
Personally I use it for exploration only. For other things I like other ships. Not a big deal with carrier - your fleet is always where you need it.
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what is "CG"?

Also, for carrier, I looked that that, that's not something a casual player can afford, right? you'd have to be part of an org to get a carrier?
 

alexzk

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jmg said:
what is "CG"?

Also, for carrier, I looked that that, that's not something a casual player can afford, right? you'd have to be part of an org to get a carrier?
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Community Goal
Carrier is personal station with 25000t of space to put cargo, trade with others etc, 5 billions to buy + about 10 mils/week to keep.
 

jmg

J
alexzk said:
ersonal station with 25000t of space to put cargo, trade with others etc, 5 billions to buy + about 10 mils/week to keep.
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so I have a decent amount of credits, but not enough to buy a carrier, what's the best way to get hooked up with one, join an org?
 

alexzk

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jmg said:
so I have a decent amount of credits, but not enough to buy a carrier, what's the best way to get hooked up with one, join an org?
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For credits? There are many ways now. 100-200 mil / hr is good income.
You can try mine platinum, core mining (2 different things), trade, do missions, hunt pirates ...combine all together.
 

ethelred

ethelred
jmg said:
what is uss?
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Unidentified Signal Sources.

I haven't seen the "Rob as much gold as you can before some OP NPCs show up" but there's ones where you can choose to defend or attack a convoy, rescue/rob ships etc.

I've been playing since beta and I had completely stopped going into them, but they were actually quite fun.

I did mine using a keelback and a fighter for extra fun.
 
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