I think it's good that people who left the game dissatisfied still give their feedback.
Others can decide whether their reasons are valid or not, but at least their voice is heard.
Never Again
- Thread starter Hoodlum
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I think it's good that people who left the game dissatisfied still give their feedback.
Others can decide whether their reasons are valid or not, but at least their voice is heard.
Ok, thanks to the advice in here and some other info I read, I'm progressing now, done 3 ranks. The donate missions indeed appear to be the easiest/quickest way to gain rep.
A bit of a shortcut - pre-load your ship with the kinds of things the donation missions ask for - grain, food canisters, animal meat, agri-meds, non-lethal weapons etc - and then just keep relogging in alternate open/solo mode when at the station to refresh the missions until the BB shows the correct one, and you've already got the stuff in your cargo. Rinse, repeat. Bit of a hack I know, but then it's a mindless grind in the first place
No real difference from re-logging at RES until you get the "big ships only" spawns.
Am I correct in assuming I only want to be doing the missions for the "overall" minor faction that is listed in the system map? Since there are also several local system factions too offering missions, but I've been ignoring these.
A bit of a shortcut - pre-load your ship with the kinds of things the donation missions ask for - grain, food canisters, animal meat, agri-meds, non-lethal weapons etc - and then just keep relogging in alternate open/solo mode when at the station to refresh the missions until the BB shows the correct one, and you've already got the stuff in your cargo. Rinse, repeat. Bit of a hack I know, but then it's a mindless grind in the first place
No real difference from re-logging at RES until you get the "big ships only" spawns.Am I correct in assuming I only want to be doing the missions for the "overall" minor faction that is listed in the system map? Since there are also several local system factions too offering missions, but I've been ignoring these.
Just to help set your expectations - it seems to take more missions from each rank to get to the next - thus, the first few are quick, and the later ones may take a number of hours.
Of course, if 1.3 drops on - say - Tuesday, then all bets are off...
Ok understood, cheers.
I'm wondering also if it's worth getting one minor faction up to "Allied" before moving on to the next, or just getting a bunch of different ones only on to "Friendly" in a shorter space of time?
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Not entirely relevant to my original post, but also just thought I'd share some tips I've read/discovered about the fastest way to get from station to station.
- SC at max speed towards destination, until ETA hits 0:10. At this point, drop your throttle to the middle of the blue band, and leave it there. ETA should drop to 0:06 and stay there pretty much all the way to target. You can blip it a little faster as you get within the last 30Mm, but not too much or you'll overshoot
- the docking ports of stations appear to be always orientated towards the planet they are orbiting. If we approach the station in SC on a parabolic curve, we can therefore be positioned to pick our spot to drop out of SC directly in between the station and the planet. I am always within a 90 degree arc of the front of the station when exiting SC in this way, and don't have to waste time boosting around from the back.
- SC at max speed towards destination, until ETA hits 0:10. At this point, drop your throttle to the middle of the blue band, and leave it there. ETA should drop to 0:06 and stay there pretty much all the way to target. You can blip it a little faster as you get within the last 30Mm, but not too much or you'll overshoot
- the docking ports of stations appear to be always orientated towards the planet they are orbiting. If we approach the station in SC on a parabolic curve, we can therefore be positioned to pick our spot to drop out of SC directly in between the station and the planet. I am always within a 90 degree arc of the front of the station when exiting SC in this way, and don't have to waste time boosting around from the back.
Here's the gotcha with that plan - when I started ranking up with the Empire, not long into it all I ended up "Allied" with the major faction, and then all minor factions automatically look "Allied"! Makes it all a bit tricky.
Pretty much it seems to not matter just so long as you keep doing missions and occasionally moving to a new system. I got as far as Viscount before getting too horribly bored with the process.
^kind of poor, isn't it?
Either the game designers didn't spot the flaw in this or they just didn't care... who knows
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Yeah noticed this too. USS always seem to spawn within your line of sight, and it doesn't matter when you're going at 30Mm/s or 30C, or doing backflips - the rate of spawn is the same, the only difference is how far away from your current location it spawns them based on your speed. So as Eddy pointed out, going around at 0 throttle just makes it easiest to immediately drop out of SC right in front of them.
Create a specific forum for the people who have left the game (with access to everyone in this forum, of course) ?
Ok, thanks to the advice in here and some other info I read, I'm progressing now, done 3 ranks. The donate missions indeed appear to be the easiest/quickest way to gain rep.
A bit of a shortcut - pre-load your ship with the kinds of things the donation missions ask for - grain, food canisters, animal meat, agri-meds, non-lethal weapons etc - and then just keep relogging in alternate open/solo mode when at the station to refresh the missions until the BB shows the correct one, and you've already got the stuff in your cargo. Rinse, repeat. Bit of a hack I know, but then it's a mindless grind in the first place
Am I correct in assuming I only want to be doing the missions for the "overall" minor faction that is listed in the system map? Since there are also several local system factions too offering missions, but I've been ignoring these.
Most of the donation missions and trade missions work quite well with normal trading partners, so just its relatively easy to find appropriate nearby systems and trade (illegal items can be more of a challenge). One quite effective way is to find complimentary systems from the same major faction, and work missions between the two. I had a High Tech always often wanting food missions, and a Agricultural often wanting tech missions. Fairly efficient, ranking up both with a single round trip, making trade CRs too, without breaking immersion.
As long as the local faction is Empire-allied, then do missions for them. But not the independents because that won't count towards your Empire ranking up and could count against it.
Once I grabbed the ranking up properly it was just a couple of nights work to blow through to Count with a mixture of becoming allied and Naval ascension missions.
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I quit game too, but peope like you don't even understand the word hope. We hope ED will get better and keep looking at forums to see how it goes.