Learn what grind means!/New structures

Wylie28

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Very few people on this forum seem to know what grinding is.

What grinding means:
- "Grinding refers to the playing time spent doing repetitive tasks within a game to unlock a particular game item"
- "Grinding is a term used in video gaming to describe the process of engaging in repetitive tasks."

What grinding does NOT mean.
- "Spending time unlocking a particular game item"
- "Engaging in tasks over a long period of time"

In ED terms:

Grind:
Spending 30 hours doing robigo runs to buy a corvette

Not Grind:
Spending 300 hours trading, mining, and bounty hunting, exploring, doing whatever you felt like doing that day, to buy a corvette

If it isn't doing a repetitive task, it isn't a grind. (<--- see that period?)

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Now that that is settled. Does anyone know where some of the new structures like capital ship docks and military bases are? I'm wanting to visit them.
 
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CmdrKull

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thanks for the link to the new assets thread, some cool stuff to check out.

Op,I think that you're spot-on about grinding, I think in many/most cases Frontier gave us an alternative to it. Imp ranking straddles that line still, because the missions other than data courier take too much time to be "worth it" but it's such a huge improvement over the cut the power mission stacks. Yes it was efficient, but a guy could go crazy just stacking the missions. The 20 mission limit was actually a true godsend. I got to Barron by doing cut the power. I got to Duke (which is much more rep) by doing courier/random mission mix and changing up my location a couple times. Duke felt so much less tedious. I quit Elite for months after reaching Barron because I couldn't conceive of continuing that. I hit Duke and kept playing (not ranking though, a man has his limits)
 

Wylie28

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CmdrKull said:
thanks for the link to the new assets thread, some cool stuff to check out.

Op,I think that you're spot-on about grinding, I think in many/most cases Frontier gave us an alternative to it. Imp ranking straddles that line still, because the missions other than data courier take too much time to be "worth it" but it's such a huge improvement over the cut the power mission stacks. Yes it was efficient, but a guy could go crazy just stacking the missions. The 20 mission limit was actually a true godsend. I got to Barron by doing cut the power. I got to Duke (which is much more rep) by doing courier/random mission mix and changing up my location a couple times. Duke felt so much less tedious. I quit Elite for months after reaching Barron because I couldn't conceive of continuing that. I hit Duke and kept playing (not ranking though, a man has his limits)
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Ive always just done whatever I felt like doing that day and Ive made just over a million per hour. At 300 hours I have 350mil in assets. Ive done no grinding, have had fun for the entirety of playing and I have the following: (my home station has discounts)

Exploration Conda
Luxury/First Class passenger Orca
Mining Keelback (with ship launhed fighters so I don't have to worry about fighting)
Smuggling/Trading Asp
Fuel Rat Asp
Combat Vulture
Racing Eagle

Most of these ships are engineered as well. Since I regularly do all the activities in the game I get pretty much every engineer mat I need without even trying. ive also discovered a new music genre I now love and always have playing during elite. Post Rock.
 
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