To Solo Play Players: If You Could Disable PVP, Would You Play in Open Play Mode Instead?
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But you would need more than just an exploration ship won't you? You gotta get those engineer levels AND apply the upgrades to the ships that really need them. You don't need me to tell you how much it takes to transfer a cutter to Colonia and back do you?
It used to be pretty awful, but today? A couple of carrier jumps.
But it's better to pledge to Aisling asap, then unlock all the basic engineers, do the relogski to fill up your G5 manufactured and encoded material storage, pay a visit to the bio sites to fill up the G4 raw mats as well, then hop on a carrier that's heading to Colonia.
Spend a week or two in the nebula, enjoy the view, unlock the 4 engineers there and congrats, you have a couple of full G5 ships.
Don't forget to engineer a G5 expanded arc interdictor because it does not exist in the Bubble but you cannot pin that blueprint since the G4 rapid banks are more important, maybe pin G5 lightweight life support as well if you are a minmaxer as it's also Colonia-exclusive. Furthemore, it makes sense to pin the G5 heavy duty HRP blueprint for obvious reasons. Choose something out of what the 4th engineer has to offer and hitch a lift with a carrier back to the Bubble.
By the time you get home you'll have your prismatic shields and Palin will be an easy unlock once you've managed to dump a heap of those cursed modular terminals on that bearded maniac in Sirius.
You'll still have a lot to do in the Bubble, but at least you won't be a G3 plebeian anymore.
I couldn't find that on the map nor on EDDB? Also I've tried triple Platinum and it's not quite profitable enough without a carrier.
Even without carrier 5k ly's is easy peasy...It used to be pretty awful, but today? A couple of carrier jumps.
But it's better to pledge to Aisling asap, then unlock all the basic engineers, do the relogski to fill up your G5 manufactured and encoded material storage, pay a visit to the bio sites to fill up the G4 raw mats as well, then hop on a carrier that's heading to Colonia.
Spend a week or two in the nebula, enjoy the view, unlock the 4 engineers there and congrats, you have a couple of full G5 ships.
Don't forget to engineer a G5 expanded arc interdictor because it does not exist in the Bubble but you cannot pin that blueprint since the G4 rapid banks are more important, maybe pin G5 lightweight life support as well if you are a minmaxer as it's also Colonia-exclusive. Furthemore, it makes sense to pin the G5 heavy duty HRP blueprint for obvious reasons. Choose something out of what the 4th engineer has to offer and hitch a lift with a carrier back to the Bubble.
By the time you get home you'll have your prismatic shields and Palin will be an easy unlock once you've managed to dump a heap of those cursed modular terminals on that bearded maniac in Sirius.
You'll still have a lot to do in the Bubble, but at least you won't be a G3 plebeian anymore.
Okay dude, thanks for the advice!
Blessed are the ones with carriers. Unlocking Palin took me about 2 weeks with a AspX, but I mapped almost every system on the way.It used to be pretty awful, but today? A couple of carrier jumps.
But it's better to pledge to Aisling asap, then unlock all the basic engineers, do the relogski to fill up your G5 manufactured and encoded material storage, pay a visit to the bio sites to fill up the G4 raw mats as well, then hop on a carrier that's heading to Colonia.
Spend a week or two in the nebula, enjoy the view, unlock the 4 engineers there and congrats, you have a couple of full G5 ships.
Don't forget to engineer a G5 expanded arc interdictor because it does not exist in the Bubble but you cannot pin that blueprint since the G4 rapid banks are more important, maybe pin G5 lightweight life support as well if you are a minmaxer as it's also Colonia-exclusive. Furthemore, it makes sense to pin the G5 heavy duty HRP blueprint for obvious reasons. Choose something out of what the 4th engineer has to offer and hitch a lift with a carrier back to the Bubble.
By the time you get home you'll have your prismatic shields and Palin will be an easy unlock once you've managed to dump a heap of those cursed modular terminals on that bearded maniac in Sirius.
You'll still have a lot to do in the Bubble, but at least you won't be a G3 plebeian anymore.
True explorer spirit...
The only reason why I did not self destruct my Cobra home right after the 5001 Ly mark when I was doing that trip in 2016 was the desperate need of the exploration data. Credits used not to be quite as trivial as today and I was poverty-stricken.
But today that 5000 Ly trip is just a waste of time if your primary goal is to get your ships engineered asap, because obviously Colonia is the place where you'll want to go, and since it's far away, that will be more than enough for the Palin unlock.
Heh there lies our difference, I do like exploration gameplay. One of the reasons getting this game for me was 1:1 Milkyway. Normal trip I do when I want to do little exploration is some 15-20 k to ONE direction
If I want the head-on-a-swivel experience all the time, I'll just fire up Star Citizen.
It doesn't include a Solo mode, at least not in the PU.
You're not wrong - pretty much anyone, anything, and anywhere will kill you there - and then its back to wherever your darned clone was and start over.To be fair your more likely to die getting out of bed in SC than to enemy fire
O7
I've no wish to replicate that here in Elite.
I suspect that PvP is one of the end games.. Think of solo as a training simulator..
Still being a newbie and getting clubbed by a meta FDL is probably sure to send most newbies into solo, and quite frankly understandably so..!
Yes, ED the perfect beer/wine/grog/spliff game!drinks
PvP is not an end game, i have plenty of fully engineered ships that can easily hold their own when im in Open, i just cant be arsed with the muppets there.I suspect that PvP is one of the end games.. Think of solo as a training simulator..
Still being a newbie and getting clubbed by a meta FDL is probably sure to send most newbies into solo, and quite frankly understandably so..!
There is no end game in Elite.
O7
The first time you do 5kly it seems a slog.
I did it in an unengineered Dolphin with a passenger. (He was paying top rate, trader above all). My recommendation would be one of the Dynasty Project sites.
You don't need to take an entire ship to the engineer, you can get them to level 5 with a single module and they often sell them on site.
Pin the blueprint and do most of your engineering at a mat trader.
I did it in an unengineered Dolphin with a passenger. (He was paying top rate, trader above all). My recommendation would be one of the Dynasty Project sites.
You don't need to take an entire ship to the engineer, you can get them to level 5 with a single module and they often sell them on site.
Pin the blueprint and do most of your engineering at a mat trader.
Maybe not, still it seems to be one a few activities left once you have done the PvE and gotten god mode against PvE NPCs.