Possible Idea?

[Arnold Layne]

Hi All

Newbie poster, I searched for this on the forum but can't find anything.

Being new to the game I'm struggling to get past first base, I see that experienced players are saying money in game is worthless and too easy to get but I'm not finding it so (Keep losing my sidewinder to various reasons.. but having fun)

I see that there is a news feed that even has audio (good sounds in the game too!) but I'm thinking the game developers should put a weekly galactic lottery announced on the galactic news each week... just for us new players (if veterans don't want the cash!).
We could buy our tickets when we refuel our ship as you do! There could be various levels of prizes but the top prize could help a new player buy a bigger ship (quicker).

Just an idea

Regards

 

[EWanderer]

This game is about flying ships, not playing the lottery although It might be a nice side-activity, since a lottery in canon according to Galnet. If you need help with getting started gathering money, I would suggest asking around here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/75-Newcomers-amp-Introductions-Forum

For reference once you know what you are doing, growing to a large ship can be a matter of hours.

 

[metatheurgist]

There already is a lottery, it's called Core mining. Odds are pretty good too.

 

[varonica]

Being new to the game I'm struggling to get past first base, I see that experienced players are saying money in game is worthless and too easy to get but I'm not finding it so (Keep losing my sidewinder to various reasons.. but having fun)

What you are doing is exactly the correct thing, you are figuring out the right and wrong things to do in the freewinder. I remember my first few times I died in the freewinder, one of them was, sadly, dying from lack of life support after running out of fuel trying to fly to a distant planet. You can be sure I learnt a lesson from that one, each mistake you make in the freewinder is a mistake you are less likely to make in a Cobra or type 6 when you finally get one.

It would be sad if you died from a rooky mistake in that Conda you purchased from your lottery winnings right? And no buyback because that's another rooky mistake I made with my Cobra, but at least it wasn't my Python, which got blown up because I didn't put the right shields on it

Pretty soon you will suddenly find you have enough money to upgrade to a hauler or even a Cobra, if you can do it go straight for the Cobra, that's a sweet ship, then suddenly you will have the enough for next upgrade, but by now you've fallen so much in love with the Cobra that you actually keep it a while longer so you don't have to sell it to finance your new ship.

Elite is a game that grows on you and gets better if you grow with it, keep on hauling friend.

o7

 

[Arnold Layne]

Hi All

Many thanks for the kind advice, I am not really sure just what core mining is but it sounds interesting. A bit like in one of the Lensman novels?

I take the advice to make my mistakes on the free first ship and learn from them for later. Just seems a bit daunting at first but people and You Tube are very helpful.

With ewnaderers comment I feel you are right and my idea (a bit silly) has no place in a space ship piloting game, I really must think it through before posting in future

Thanks again.