What Should I Do Now?

[Arubeto]

My advice: stop playing with only credits in mind and try to experience all the facets the game has to offer in small and often varying doses. Do some planetside missions, some CGs, a little exploration, some mining, follow some NPCs around the galaxy, try to influence a system and support a faction, play some CQC (it's awesome) etc.

The game only becomes a grind if you make it one. Everything can be done with small ships, so there is no real need to amass credits for buying large and expensive ships - only if you want to grind and Max out everything.

 

[tafkabb]

You're playing for progress, you're not playing for fun.
Yesterday I bought an Orca, painted it yellow, armed it and took it to a high intensity extraction site, and it was an absolute scream.
I've taken an Orca to Sagittarius A*, I've visited Barnard's Loop in a Vulture, I've attacked a player Anaconda in a stealth DBS. That went incredibly well, until it didn't.
Make up your own rules. Go and find a UA and give it to a newbie in a Sidewinder. Watch him either sell it or explode.

Just have fun. Grinding's no fun.

 

[Schmack]

I haven't played Dangerous in months. That's because I got where you are (billionaire basically) and have all the toys. I didn't get bored with the game though. My friends did. I don't like playing in Open and playing solo is where boredom sets in. Therefore I played with friends in a group setting. That was lots of fun for various reasons and the possibilities are almost endless. When your friends find other grind out games to occupy their time, or when they return to real life issues in lieu of gaming online, you're left to either search out a group server (which, if you don't know anyone is virtually the same as open with fewer interactions) or just accept playing in Solo, if you abhor playing in Open. There's likely not going to be any more group goals that you have any control over, so that, for me, was when I stopped playing. Now a new game I am playing is suffering from the same thing, folks moving on.

I think, when you look at leader boards for games like this and see these astronomical figures, you're looking at people who play all day, every day, and didn't walk away from the game for other things. That's hard to do, so you either have to find something you enjoy doing by exploring things you never did or hang it up until something interesting comes along in the game at which point you can revisit it. I've considered revisiting, but I haven't purchased Horizons and have no plan to. My Thrustmaster sits idly by, giving me that puppy dog stare.