Hello to everyone reading this.
I'm very new to the Elite universe and I've been playing for about a month now. While I'm an astronomy and science fiction aficionado I had stowed away my trusty Thrustmaster for quite a while and I was very reluctant to return to any open world game since well, life is short. But someone convinced me to give Elite a try. So I did and also bought Horizon.
To begin with, this game looks great, feels great and last but not least SOUNDS great. It looks like the fine British tradition of quality sound design is respected at Frontier. I'm especially thrilled by the planetary landings, the whole flight model, landing, the way the ship can be controlled via automated pilot all of these and many more aspects of the game are totally awesome.
However I am now at a point where I'm asking myself, now what? I have found out that the only quick and reasonable way to make money is by tagging along authority ships and "helping" them hunt down wanted ships. This has brought me a huge amount of credits very fast or way, way more credits and way way more faster than by taking on ANY jobs available at stations at hubs. For instance, at a hub a job that required a 125 ly journey through some dangerous space was paying 30,000 credits. By comparison, hunting along authority ships can land you over 170,000 credits in a couple of minutes. Same with mining. I purchased a Cobra MKIII and tried mining (and gathered ore manually as I couldn't figure out to purchase and configure an automated gathering system). This being said, while I would like to take on other activities there is no incentive from a gameplay perspective or otherwise to do anything else than waiting around rich resource sites or beacons for Wanted ships to spawn and destroy. I want do to something else and frankly now I set my mind to gathering enough credits to buy an ASP explorer and just go as far away from discovered space, roaming the galaxies for discoveries. But other than that my main activities have been hunting down ships and wondering aimlessly around a few systems, occasionally getting killed. I do enjoy A LOT landing and exploring planets but even there I run into lifeless settlements where I have to activate weird beacons to be awarded a few thousand credits and well, that's about all I can do. There's no incentive for me to take on any other activity (hauling, mining, etc.) Ironically even kill missions award way too few credits to be worth taking on since they are usually risky, time consuming.
I totally understand that this is an expanding universe. I'm not joking. I'm just asking you guys what I have to do to bring more variety and interaction to my experience. Also, since I played I never ever met a live human player with the exception of the guy that brought me into this game.
Thanks and congratulations to the Frontier team for this otherwise great game!
Cheers!
Andrei
I'm very new to the Elite universe and I've been playing for about a month now. While I'm an astronomy and science fiction aficionado I had stowed away my trusty Thrustmaster for quite a while and I was very reluctant to return to any open world game since well, life is short. But someone convinced me to give Elite a try. So I did and also bought Horizon.
To begin with, this game looks great, feels great and last but not least SOUNDS great. It looks like the fine British tradition of quality sound design is respected at Frontier. I'm especially thrilled by the planetary landings, the whole flight model, landing, the way the ship can be controlled via automated pilot all of these and many more aspects of the game are totally awesome.
However I am now at a point where I'm asking myself, now what? I have found out that the only quick and reasonable way to make money is by tagging along authority ships and "helping" them hunt down wanted ships. This has brought me a huge amount of credits very fast or way, way more credits and way way more faster than by taking on ANY jobs available at stations at hubs. For instance, at a hub a job that required a 125 ly journey through some dangerous space was paying 30,000 credits. By comparison, hunting along authority ships can land you over 170,000 credits in a couple of minutes. Same with mining. I purchased a Cobra MKIII and tried mining (and gathered ore manually as I couldn't figure out to purchase and configure an automated gathering system). This being said, while I would like to take on other activities there is no incentive from a gameplay perspective or otherwise to do anything else than waiting around rich resource sites or beacons for Wanted ships to spawn and destroy. I want do to something else and frankly now I set my mind to gathering enough credits to buy an ASP explorer and just go as far away from discovered space, roaming the galaxies for discoveries. But other than that my main activities have been hunting down ships and wondering aimlessly around a few systems, occasionally getting killed. I do enjoy A LOT landing and exploring planets but even there I run into lifeless settlements where I have to activate weird beacons to be awarded a few thousand credits and well, that's about all I can do. There's no incentive for me to take on any other activity (hauling, mining, etc.) Ironically even kill missions award way too few credits to be worth taking on since they are usually risky, time consuming.
I totally understand that this is an expanding universe. I'm not joking. I'm just asking you guys what I have to do to bring more variety and interaction to my experience. Also, since I played I never ever met a live human player with the exception of the guy that brought me into this game.
Thanks and congratulations to the Frontier team for this otherwise great game!
Cheers!
Andrei
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