The most poetic description of ED i've ever read, have some rep.
And it should be noted the context of CMDR Maymo's post is important so read the whole thing (on Page 2 of the thread). Obviously this is not how ED is for everyone.
Newcomer is Done - quitting for a while - maybe for good
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The most poetic description of ED i've ever read, have some rep.
And it should be noted the context of CMDR Maymo's post is important so read the whole thing (on Page 2 of the thread). Obviously this is not how ED is for everyone.
1. this is clearly a troll post.
2. FD should sell credits in the store for people that want to bypass the game and get the end stuff. That way these types will start, chuck a few quid at development then vanish rapidly when they're bored. As a bonus, multiplayer people will have fun destroying them as they'll be rubbish at combat.
2. FD should sell credits in the store for people that want to bypass the game and get the end stuff. That way these types will start, chuck a few quid at development then vanish rapidly when they're bored. As a bonus, multiplayer people will have fun destroying them as they'll be rubbish at combat.
Up to and including barely visiting the forums, never asking for help or advice before the rage quit post... After 750 hours... [rolleyes]
I gotta say, without exception the least enjoyable things in ED are the things you feel "compelled" to do for one reason or another.
My advice to any "newcomer" would always be to just do the stuff that you enjoy and ignore the stuff you don't enjoy.
Course, nobody is EVER going to take that advice. [sad]
And then there's the people (probably all of us, to some extent or another) who believe that they'll get more enjoyment out of the enjoyable stuff once they've got a Cutter/Corvette/Anaconda to do it in.
Sad thing is, the one thing ED does pretty well is scale to the ability/equipment a player has so you WILL get almost the same experience regardless of whether you're flying a Cobra 3 or a Corvette.
Unless, of course, the experience you're after is the ability to crush all NPCs like insects.
That creates a double-whammy of frustration because of the effort it takes to obtain such a ship and then the lack of challenge that the game provides afterwards.
Which brings me back to the advice to simply concentrate on the stuff that you find enjoyable.
Which everybody always ignores.
My advice to any "newcomer" would always be to just do the stuff that you enjoy and ignore the stuff you don't enjoy.
Course, nobody is EVER going to take that advice. [sad]
And then there's the people (probably all of us, to some extent or another) who believe that they'll get more enjoyment out of the enjoyable stuff once they've got a Cutter/Corvette/Anaconda to do it in.
Sad thing is, the one thing ED does pretty well is scale to the ability/equipment a player has so you WILL get almost the same experience regardless of whether you're flying a Cobra 3 or a Corvette.
Unless, of course, the experience you're after is the ability to crush all NPCs like insects.
That creates a double-whammy of frustration because of the effort it takes to obtain such a ship and then the lack of challenge that the game provides afterwards.
Which brings me back to the advice to simply concentrate on the stuff that you find enjoyable.
Which everybody always ignores.
This.
Again, they could even create a more diverse range of engineering options to improve this.
Set it up so that, perhaps, better sensors make it easier to carry out a "hack" and you can engineer the sensors to improve it even more.
So, you have the choice of building sensors that give you range during combat or sensors with reduced range but improved hacking ability.
The lore for this would simply be that your SRV uses your ship's sensors to carry out the "hack" so the better they are, the easier it is.
Im always up for seeing more of the big 3 that i can blow up
No you can't. Frontier doesn't allow direct trading between players.
One of the main flaws of the game.
A single skimmer mission can net more than 4M if your are allied with the faction issuing them, you can stack 5 of them and complete them in < 20 minutes.
No, I think he just got fed up with the game and that was the last straw. Of course, the new mining and exploration have been announced which means the game might finally have some decent game play in it.
^ best comment in this thread.
You could look at it two way:
1. You have 3000 hours in the game because you play the game a lot
2. You take really long breakfast breaks with your ship parked on a planet somewhere
Steam seems to credit you hours just for being logged in.
I consider myself a newbie because the experienced gamers have several billion credits. I have 150 million right now, but my frustration is the slow grind to advance and the posibility of regression in this game. I've tried most of what the people above posted, but still that's very little payout over time. My favorite activity is deliveries. Just don't stack a bunch or you risk an NPC annoyance. But I don't think anyone addressed my central issue....the negative progression. You can literally lose two days of work in this game if you get careless one day like I did. And that is not fun.
I just got tired of the crap but I tend to put up with a lot of crap from games before quitting. I'm not real happy about the new things in the game so far. The crime system solves a problem I never had and introduces so may irregularities and logic fallacies it's annoying. For example they had to make weapons dirty so you don't sell your hot ship and buy a new one. But now you can't even sell them until you pay to clean them. The legal thing is just stupid in my opinion, and made the game less fun to play.
Funny you show a mission that you can't take with a high payout. See my post on golden carrots. You go and get reputation or the right ship for that mission and it will never be offered again. It's a golden carrot my friend. Funny how everyone thinks I twiddled my fingers for 750 hours. No I've seen and done most of it.