But, but, surely you know that it's been dying since release!
what else are they making harder for new players? How many hours it is taking now?
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MUST NOT RISE TO THE BAIT
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Nope its just to hard.............. Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd
Sorry i tried O7
You need some Imagination for this but it works realy nice. I have set up a squadron, named it proper and advertised it for employees and customers alike on INARA and some other sources. With luck i got 3 employees (ok, one is my wife) and some customers. We work as logistic support company. Some FC owners hire us as loading/unloading Crew, other squadrons hire us for BGS work or we simply role-play that we were contracted by Thorval Mining or whoever hosts a hauling CG. At the moment we are on a Deep-Space Mining Operation 1500Ly outside the bubble. It is fun no doubt... but you need that requiered Imagination.
I came to the game for fun, not work haha
probably will be burnt out on all the that when I get the thing, I will stop playing lol
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It was fun i can asure you
LOL as if they aren't in demand for a ton of things right now, instead of just engineering like they were
the work engineering unlocks and upgrading is boring for me
that is just all stuff in the way of what I came to enjoy
and I am actually playing the game, the others I bought it for were like hell no, that is boring work except for one haha
You dont need engineering or upgrading (not sure what you mean with upgrading) to run a business company.
But make it something fun, go and see a nebula you've never seen, check out some of the interesting things you might find, don't just do it to get an unlock. Or get on a fc and go to colonia, unlock what's there and come back.
Even if there was anything to the highly suspect correlation implied, it wouldn't answer any question.
I've never really played this game as if it has an end, but it started no later than the moment I launched it for the first time.
FCs are neither here nor there for me. The FC beta was enough to convince me FCs were a bad idea for the game in general, and had nothing to offer me personally. At best they are system map clutter. At worst, a disruptive (in the negative sense) BGS element.
I can imagine running a logistics support company just fine, and I can do this entirely within the scope of my own mind. I could even simulate it pretty well with nothing more than a sheet of paper and a pencil.
Why do I need Elite: Dangerous to pretend to do that things that Elite: Dangerous doesn't have mechanisms to simulate, emulate, or facilitate?
Elite: Dangerous is about as good a business simulator as it is a fly fishing simulator.
I suppose that's how you'd have to approach it, sure. Credits may be almost meaningless, but as always time has value. Loading, hauling, etc are all perfectly sensible services to provide. I wonder, though, what you take in payment. If you're being paid in those funny money credits, I fear you might be getting the short end of the stick.
For me this is perfect. By the way... of course i do some paperwork for the company. Indeed i have a file-folder on my desk with vital Information for the company (Personal fact sheets for employees, Data of valuable resource sites, op-orders for different operations, Information about Business partners ,...). I dont know how you play ED, and i am the last Person to tell someone how it should be played. What i know is, that i bought the game roughly one year ago, have 2.700 hours in this one year, played nothing else since i bought it and it is the best game i have ever played so far. Before i mostly played TW Warhammer 2, a decent well game, but never touched it since.
Yes, we are paid with credits. Of course there are some shortcomings with this because credits are somewhat meaningless.
this forum is showing the difference between players and wannabes, no such thing as a free meal you earn it,many of us have and took our time enjoying the game,didnt start on monday and was triple elite friday, c,mon earn youre place in galaxy ,have fun 07.
That was fun because it was a danger.
If only humans agreed.
I asked for minefields but the salt was too much.
The Fleet Carrier is a huge mobile base and would be classed as an endgame item in a game that had an end, to suggest one should only take 20 hours is ridiculous.
The point of the game is to have fun doing what you enjoy.
How long should it take to get a Fleet Carrier, that is the same sort of pointless question as how long is a piece of string.
Twitch and youtube thrive on new content, the game is not producing that right now. Steam stats only reflect those playing via steam accounts not everybody who buys the game from steam runs it that way and steam only accounts for a fraction of players so those stats are unreliable.
There are 25 engineers for ship based stuff plus others for onfoot.
Now here is your biggest problem the game is built around us players being operators not owners of businesses, you can sim all the activities and do so with friends if you can find some that like the game but the game is not going to give you the feeling of being the boss.
Yes the game isn't easy for beginners, at least not for ones expecting to be competitive against the likes of Thargoids and the rest in a mere handful of hours. It is a game to play for thousands of hours eventually.
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