The Griud has finally got me!
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I don't have four accounts, I just kept buying FC's in the hope that I would find a use for them, the only use I can see is parking it in a ring and mining stuff in my 720T Cutter and once I fill up the FC's cargo bay with stuff, move the FC to a good buying station, ad infinitum! no other use as far as I can see, so I keep selling FC's and then buying again each time I need to go mining. Rather than park it up for weeks at a time, although it wouldn't matter as I get 5 million credits every week with Lian You (or whatever he's called) which would pay half of my weekly FC running costs, be we aged ones are fairly frugal.Don't listen to the young'uns. If you want to take a break, you do so. This community will still be here to welcome you back like a long time friend that owes you money.
Two things I do want to say though .... FOUR ACCOUNTS? I am not surprised you feel burnt out with all the grind.
And, it is possible to progress through the game without actively trying to grind for it. This is what people mean when they say "don't grind". You can amble around in the game and still progress, it just depends how fast you want to progress.
I've been playing since day 1 of the Alpha back in 2014. I haven't rushed to do anything. Only last night did I buy a Corvette for the first time ever (still not flown it out of the station yet). Yes, it's taking me a lot longer to do stuff than some (or many) others, but I am playing at my own pace and setting my own goals. The one thing I don't think I'll ever do, is get burnt out.
I hope you enjoy FS2020 .... I'm not jealous at all, nope not at all ... you lucky sausage
Have your tried turning your keyboard the right way around?
AS long as they are Jacobs?
It surprises me that we seem to have a lot of retired commanders playing ED, I've encountered quite a lot over the last 4.5 years on this forum. We have the time!!!
Nice to hear I'm not alone in my decision to take a break, Elite Dangerous makes you want to Grind just by it's very nature, everyone wants the bigger ships with the best equipment, I don't know many commanders still flying around in a Sidewinder after 4.5 years.
Speed build sideys are great fun.
I played Elite back in the BBC Model B days and I have played every version of Microsoft Flight Simulator from the first (wire frame graphics only) to the new one.
So basically this forum is almost like a geriatrics forum. I wonder how many people born before 1984 play this game.
That's exactly what I'm going to do, Elite Dangerous is a GREAT game as is FS2002 but they all have the possibility of burn out, even Assasins Creed!I think I have found the problem, we were all much younger when we started playing... sometime around 1984 I believe. You young-un have a lot of catching up to do
Regardless of your age, if you feeling burnt out... take a break. You can come back later with fresh (if somewhat older) eyes.
Do you have a problem with that? my generation created computers...
I tried that but it's a Japanese keyboard.
Sorry if that came out wrong, it was trying to be tongue-in-cheek, I am also old, mate.
6 month break? That's how I normally end up playing, quite a bit for the a few weeks then not touch it for months. And sometimes I'll put a bit of time into farming for mats, until I get bored of that and go off on another activity.
Never set yourself goals and dealines, just do whatever you feel like doing at the time and have something to look forward to getting in the future.
Never set yourself goals and dealines, just do whatever you feel like doing at the time and have something to look forward to getting in the future.
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I was thinking about this yesterday, my boys, 19 and 19 both call Elite 'The old man's game', not because I. their old man, plays it.
They Both enjoy gaming but they have different attitudes to it, I suspect this is a thing of youth, that we all had.
They will play a Battle Royale type game, they know they're staring with the worst equipment but the first part is immediate. There is you, there is a gun. Go kill. They will kill, kill, kill, gaining better guns and equipment. Looks like a grind to me. Same thing over and over to get better stuff to do things over and over. but the mechanism is immediate.
Elite is different to that imo, so much to learn. It doesn't take people 45mins in Fortnite to learn how to run and jump. Take off and landing anyone? Certainly took me a good few hours to be confident at it.
The other thing is we are mainly people of a generation. 2001 Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Star Trek most of us would have seen a lot of that as new and it stuck with us as being cool. This game offers that experience. I just don't think kids are that fascinated by it.
Sweeping generalisations up above nut mainly true, I think.
My mistake.
No I didn't take it wrong, but on this forum we do get a lot of young'uns who, of course know everything about everything, and it is a fact that my generation invented computers just so that these young'uns know, if they are reading these posts.