Moar rep yeah!!!
A bloody night I have! Wish me sweet dreams then.
A bloody night I have! Wish me sweet dreams then.
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Congrats. The hardest Elite in Elite.I have this technique that I have now patented. It is called: N'TESFO ™ *
It got me this in combat (finally!):
* "It's the only way to be sure"
Well done Tyres!I have this technique that I have now patented. It is called: N'TESFO ™ *
It got me this in combat (finally!):
* "It's the only way to be sure"
Ever reached combat Elite once. I don't knowmI have the willpower to do that ever again, but honestly, that tripple elite decal does look rather nice.
Not as exciting as Cmdr Tyres' promotion to triple Elite, but I've just been made a Knight.
Henceforth, I shall go NEE!
Henceforth, I shall go NEE!
It's not that difficult. I did it in a Sidewinder. From memory, using the Sidewinder, it took about 200 hrs of killing pirates in a high RES. If you have a big combat ship, you can average 50 pirates an hour and you need about 6500 kills from start, so 130 hrs in total. When you reach Deadly, you're just past halfway and have about another 3000 to kill, which is 60 hrs.
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Once a King always a King, but once a Knight's enough.
Yeah. With my combat skill, it's probably more like 400 hours. Which probably means something like three or four months doing nothing but combat. I would go mental after a week.
So within my usual playstyle, it's a two years horizon. I rarely play for more than a year before getting bored, clearing my save and starting over.
In other words, that shiny decal is out of my reach.
But that's fine. I will proudly wear the exploration one and pretend I'm not jealous.
Bring me... a shrubbery
Chris, what can I say? After the first couple of evenings, you're working on auto-pilot. Put on the TV, Netflix or whatever you have and watch a couple of films. That's another 180 pirates. Only 6320 to go. If you do that three times a week, you'd be done in 12 weeks. For me, these things are like an itch. I can't relax until they're done. In 2015, it took me a month to get Combat Elite from start of playing, though I wasted a week going backwards by trading. I can't remember what I did for Trade Elite, but I can remember scanning all the neutron stars to get Explorer Elite in about a week.Yeah. With my combat skill, it's probably more like 400 hours. Which probably means something like three or four months doing nothing but combat. I would go mental after a week.
So within my usual playstyle, it's a two years horizon. I rarely play for more than a year before getting bored, clearing my save and starting over.
In other words, that shiny decal is out of my reach.
But that's fine. I will proudly wear the exploration one and pretend I'm not jealous.
Day 2 of my 200ly "trek" to Shinrarta... still haven't arrived. Got distracted by a lovely planet with a CO2/SO2 atmo and primordial sludge pools...
Then a relatively mild ammonia moon...
And by this point I'm asking if I even need to have a small alternative to my iClipper, because these planets have had (relatively) gentle rolling hills and the autopilot only had to set down on a 15 degree slope, so surely this is fine?
(I am terrible at getting things done in this game. One boobshroom and I've lost the plot.)
Then a relatively mild ammonia moon...
And by this point I'm asking if I even need to have a small alternative to my iClipper, because these planets have had (relatively) gentle rolling hills and the autopilot only had to set down on a 15 degree slope, so surely this is fine?
(I am terrible at getting things done in this game. One boobshroom and I've lost the plot.)
Are you quite sure you shalln't say NI?
Tanya now on 5 billion.
And Dangerous.
Explo Elite: accidentally achieved while doing a CG.
Trade Elite: accidentally achieved while doing a CG.
Combat Elite: Yeh, not happening any time soon.
And Dangerous.
Explo Elite: accidentally achieved while doing a CG.
Trade Elite: accidentally achieved while doing a CG.
Combat Elite: Yeh, not happening any time soon.
It does seem to me that combat elite is far more difficult (read: grindy) than other disciplines. Feels a bit misaligned.
I can't answer for the "new" elites though.
I can't answer for the "new" elites though.
Oh so slow..... Slow.... Slow..... Echo... Echo.... Echo...
I guess its more depends on what you like to do in ED, I like pewpew a lot (PVE only) so I actually feel its less grindy as the other 2 categories.
For me, its pve pewpew > exploration > trade/mining .
My ranks tell it all:
Decided to go gardening for a while. The change from driving the Scorpion back to the Scarab is a thing to behold. It feels like I'm driving somehting with a V8 engine and a paper fuselage. Already compromised my chassis twice
Because I got combat years before the others that feels wrong for me, but I suspect it is more that the changes to how fast you could ‘earn’ in the other disciplines accelerated progress in them relative to combat.
Well, part of my 'problem' with Combat Elite, is I won't sack the SLF crew.
I decided on the Tanya account that grinding was right out. Of course all the previous experience means achieving 'x' involves little that might be called 'grind' anyway.
(I still keep doing Guardian Sites even though I've unlocked all the Broker stuff...
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Same here. Trained mine up to Elite and don’t want to let him go. We’ve been through a lot together and he deserves his billion credits plus. Just that last push from Deadly to Elite does seem to be taking a rather long time now though (currently 77% Deadly and creeping)Well, part of my 'problem' with Combat Elite, is I won't sack the SLF crew.
I decided on the Tanya account that grinding was right out. Of course all the previous experience means achieving 'x' involves little that might be called 'grind' anyway.
(I still keep doing Guardian Sites even though I've unlocked all the Broker stuff...