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Rubix

Rubix
Greetings all new Cmdrs,

I was like you a mere 2 months or so ago, incredibly new and daunted by Elite Dangerous. my first foray into the training missions and it was quickly established that I had been away from space flight sim games for wayyyy too long.

I started out using just the mouse and keyboard and i sucked. I plugged in the 360 controller and things became a LOT easier but I still struggled with dogfighting a bit. (however docking and taking off etc was much easier)

I then bought a cheap Logitech Extreme 3D pro joystick and suddenly, it was my eureka moment. a joystick in my opinion is a complete game changer and everything becomes so much easier and clearer.

A friendly commander on here had a logitech extreme profile set up which i based my own setup from.

If you are new and have a HOTAS set up or a decent joystick i would highly recommend spending a couple of hours in the training missions just setting up your controls before jumping in and becoming frustrated. Fear not though, the sidewinder is free no matter how many times you crash it, this game has a steepish learning curve at the start but honestly, a couple of hours of planning and setting up will be a couple of hours well spent.

Rubix
 

Shimozu Shinta

Shimozu Shinta
Thank you, and I look forward to climbing that learning curve as I have with other important internet spaceship games.

To help some of us new kids out, do you have any recommendations on how to start building up income, practicing flying through systems, or just generally getting us up to speed on the many aspects of this game that the combat tutorials couldn't prepare us for?
 

Gimley

Gimley
Great advice, i also recommend searching on ebay or other sites for a saitek st90, they are CHEAP and are amazing value for money and can pick them up second hand and have change from tenner! I have one which is ancient and works as well now as when i first bought it.

A cheap joystick opens the game for you, give it a try ;)

And enjoy elite, it is an amazing game.
 

Rubix

Rubix
Shimozu Shinta said:
Thank you, and I look forward to climbing that learning curve as I have with other important internet spaceship games.

To help some of us new kids out, do you have any recommendations on how to start building up income, practicing flying through systems, or just generally getting us up to speed on the many aspects of this game that the combat tutorials couldn't prepare us for?
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The first few days, I ran the missions from the bulletin boards (the fetch and carry missions) I did this in the basic sidewinder initially and saved the credits rather than spend on upgrades. I used to fly to USS and nav beacons and fight against whatever wanteds were there, purely to hone my dogfighting skills against better AI than the tutorials. If i lost, it didn't matter as I hadn't spent any credits on the basic sidewinder.

I then picked up the rare commodities found in some stations ( they appear as yellow in the commodity list) I only had 4t storage but i still made over 60k credits for just one trip. I bought a hauler, then traded nothing but rare commodities. rare commodity trading has been nerfed heavily now but its still very lucrative for smaller tonnage ships. I fly a Cobra with 32t storage and i make roughly half a million per hour. 40 odd minutes of that is flying between a couple of stations to fill up with the rares and then around 15 minutes flying to the next rare commodity station that's more than enough credits for me as I am not a hardcore trader and in a few days I have upgraded my starter Cobra to a pretty powerful ship worth around 6 million.

There are faster ways to earn credits purely by trading but not many as fun as rare commodity trading, as I explore on the way, fight off bandits etc and bounty hunt my way around... its amazing fun and relatively profitable.
 
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