Good, can you leave Gnosis and fly around to explore, collect chartograph data, etc. If so, does it advise when you have to re-dock to catch your return jump?
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Good, can you leave Gnosis and fly around to explore, collect chartograph data, etc. If so, does it advise when you have to re-dock to catch your return jump?
Yes. I just did. Jumped about 800 Ly and explored the vicinity. Then I came back and sold my cartography. There is no advise yet. There is no return date either, yet. Might change tomorrow. I am docked for the night. I'll keep an eye on it.
Umm, I take it you're the guy who started that thread "FFE is a better game than ED" a few months back? I can certainly understand some of the points you made. Like many others I'd played FFE and got to the personal thargoid scout with death ray at the end. I'd also wondered about supercruise the first time I played ED and was worried that it wouldn't be as fun as the newtonian model of FFE.
But, besides the 3d tech improvement and all the GB's of detail ED is a far more connected world game where all its players can persist and affect the bgs. Everyone having their own use of the FFE time speedup modes couldn't be synchronized in ED among all the players. Even in combat, I don't know how realistic it was for the npc enemy eagles to swoop in and out like planes where you couldn't really match their manuevers and ended up using your ship like a swivel turret much of the time, and seeing who has the faster gunslinger line up of targets before losing your shield and hull. Yes, FFE was a great game but ED really is an evolution of the game with the current tech. If they really wanted to make a single player ED they could have, but they chose to go with an MMO world which isn't shabby where anyone of the player base can explore the galaxy effectively anywhere and at the same time.
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Currently unlocking some engineers to mod my Python: Hera Tani (have to transport those 50 units of cigars), Lei Chung (still 8 different ports to trade in) and Broo Tarquin... All in Open, for a change. I'm a little on edge when I approach engineer bases (especially yesterday when I arrived with 200t of Landmines for Liz), but then again, it's kinda fun, mostly because I've not been blown up yet xD
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That goes for anyone else in this thread looking for some direction/context to their elite experience.
Without our player faction I woulda quit a long time ago.
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Wandering aimlessly around, sometimes doing one thing, sometimes another. I have no direction or goal. Max ranked with all the engineers I need, so none of that anymore.
Recently, did the Palin pop-up mission for 15 million CR (4x Thargoid Tech samples!), followed by a just-about-made-it escape from a Thargoid. Dropped a load of meta-alloys off at a dysfunctional space station, bit of trading back in the core systems, followed by a couple of Aegis runs. Now I'm trying to decide what to do next. Perhaps I'll try and push the last 70% or so I need to get a Corvette. Maybe a refit and go bounty hunting in a haz-res somewhere.
Recently, did the Palin pop-up mission for 15 million CR (4x Thargoid Tech samples!), followed by a just-about-made-it escape from a Thargoid. Dropped a load of meta-alloys off at a dysfunctional space station, bit of trading back in the core systems, followed by a couple of Aegis runs. Now I'm trying to decide what to do next. Perhaps I'll try and push the last 70% or so I need to get a Corvette. Maybe a refit and go bounty hunting in a haz-res somewhere.
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i'm doing mainly the same things since two years or so:
- backgroundsimulation. either helping a player backed minor faction, or running tests on the mechanics.
- exploring. mainly travelling to real galaxy sights, like visiting all real galaxy supergiants. but now i have signed up for a year long group circumnavigation.
- tourism in and around the bubble. visiting a new installation, megaship, generation ship, a new thargoid base etc. basically ingame hollidays.
having three accounts helps with the above.
things i have enjoyed in the past, but don't have the time currently: taking part in any CG. buckyball races. setting up multistop trade routes between the three capitals. working out how prices are influenced by minor faction states. getting top 10% in a bountyhunting CG in an eagle. learning to use an all-railgun DBS. visiting any coordinate with 1000 ... like +1000/+1000/0. building the wrong ship for the right job, like a travelling FDL, or a combat orca.
there are two great lists on these forums: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/287248-How-many-of-these-have-you-tried and https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/288316-How-many-of-these-have-you-tried-Part-2 .... i still haven't done it all!
and, ofc, i take breaks from the game. if i don't love to play it, i do something else, till i feel the need to come back. read a book, go to the cinema, watch some tv series. ED will still be there.
- backgroundsimulation. either helping a player backed minor faction, or running tests on the mechanics.
- exploring. mainly travelling to real galaxy sights, like visiting all real galaxy supergiants. but now i have signed up for a year long group circumnavigation.
- tourism in and around the bubble. visiting a new installation, megaship, generation ship, a new thargoid base etc. basically ingame hollidays.
having three accounts helps with the above.
things i have enjoyed in the past, but don't have the time currently: taking part in any CG. buckyball races. setting up multistop trade routes between the three capitals. working out how prices are influenced by minor faction states. getting top 10% in a bountyhunting CG in an eagle. learning to use an all-railgun DBS. visiting any coordinate with 1000 ... like +1000/+1000/0. building the wrong ship for the right job, like a travelling FDL, or a combat orca.
there are two great lists on these forums: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/287248-How-many-of-these-have-you-tried and https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/288316-How-many-of-these-have-you-tried-Part-2 .... i still haven't done it all!
and, ofc, i take breaks from the game. if i don't love to play it, i do something else, till i feel the need to come back. read a book, go to the cinema, watch some tv series. ED will still be there.
I'm currently trying (and failing) to improve my times in the Buckyball Race linked in my signature. Since one stage of the race is a 50km SRV trek this means my SRV driving (fliving?) skills are improving by leaps and bounds (baddum, and indeed, tish).
I'm also catching up on some of the recent sights (barnacle forest as mentioned by Codger, also some of the new installations and the INRA base).
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/95490-Screenie(s)?p=6028036&viewfull=1#post6028036
The Cave Johnson Memorial Science Lab seems like a cool place to bounty hunt so as soon as the race is over (this Sunday) I'll be heading back there in my Python.
[video=youtube_share;ah2DVLCXMLE]https://youtu.be/ah2DVLCXMLE[/video]
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/95490-Screenie(s)?p=6028036&viewfull=1#post6028036
The Cave Johnson Memorial Science Lab seems like a cool place to bounty hunt so as soon as the race is over (this Sunday) I'll be heading back there in my Python.
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something i've been meaning to do for a long time: take the Alliance seriously. find a suitable home, set up a special fleet, and get allied with the factions that matter.
my Alliance base is at Tellus, Ahern Enterprise - so selected because the station orbits the sun directly, which is unusual.
my Alliance base is at Tellus, Ahern Enterprise - so selected because the station orbits the sun directly, which is unusual.
Cheers.
Now I am doing some engineer work. About to work on empire rank, but diverted my FDL to Laksak to engineer its shields. My first ever g5 roll was pretty sweet. Got good secondaries on it too. My shields should now be much tougher.
Pick up diamondback explorer, pick random direction, go into void.
Its best thing to do in elite honestly.
Going to the heart nebula in a pre engineers adder
I have no shortage of things I could do in the game. I don't know exactly what I've going to do in the game in the next few weeks and thats fine with me. I'll be ready to do whatever I want in the game at any given moment. Wish that was more true is real life!
Truck driving. The most tedious and generic job you can imagine while playing open space sandbox. I just roam from place to place, buy low and sell higher. Not affiliated with any superpower, no rep with factions I'm trading. I just load my cargo space and head up toward destination I can sell it with profit. Rinse and repeat. Money is low but steady as I keep an eye for income being higher than costs.
I long for exploration, tried it few times and after first 1k LY I'm totally bored. Jump, honk, jump, honk, jump, honk... And going to see anything takes so much time, not to mention scanning whole system. If it's small I can manage. But scanning 70+ bodies - takes ages and after an hour or so I feel I didn't made any progress. Looks like I'm a too much of a casual and expecting instant gratification I'm willing to admit. Still, I want to visit Sag*A but knowing how far it is I must really prepare well myself for that trip.
By then I'm hesitating: finally buy AspX, dig into engineering to boost FSD range and finally hit the road. Or postpone it and get Space Cow (T-9) just for pure haulage...I know it's big, fat, slow and ugly. But my kind of big, fat, slow and ugly pinnacle of trader.
Until I decide I'm away from the game. Sadly.
I long for exploration, tried it few times and after first 1k LY I'm totally bored. Jump, honk, jump, honk, jump, honk... And going to see anything takes so much time, not to mention scanning whole system. If it's small I can manage. But scanning 70+ bodies - takes ages and after an hour or so I feel I didn't made any progress. Looks like I'm a too much of a casual and expecting instant gratification I'm willing to admit. Still, I want to visit Sag*A but knowing how far it is I must really prepare well myself for that trip.
By then I'm hesitating: finally buy AspX, dig into engineering to boost FSD range and finally hit the road. Or postpone it and get Space Cow (T-9) just for pure haulage...I know it's big, fat, slow and ugly. But my kind of big, fat, slow and ugly pinnacle of trader.
Until I decide I'm away from the game. Sadly.