Where is the FUN???
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My fun is meeting a CMDR tonight and exchanging chit chat...nothing of great import....his cat was on the keyboard...I said my dog is jealous of the keyboard etc....
I sat nose to nose with the Nav beacon...(it's not really a Nav beacon, it's my beer cooler) then I got a message from him saying "Give me a hand with this 'Conda..."
So I stayed behind him and entertained the 'Conda's turrets along with a few bored NPC's....
BOOM! He got the bounty and I boosted and spiraled thru the remains...
I actually don't need the money...I have 3.5M Cr in the bank..an 'A' Class Cobra..I grind, I bounty hunt.... I don't have any aspirations to get a bigger ship (+bigger problems etc..)
We went back to the Nav beacon for a beer and continued chatting, Cobra and an Asp, nose to nose...
Happy as Larry and I'm really having fun here!
Just sayin....
I sat nose to nose with the Nav beacon...(it's not really a Nav beacon, it's my beer cooler) then I got a message from him saying "Give me a hand with this 'Conda..."
So I stayed behind him and entertained the 'Conda's turrets along with a few bored NPC's....
BOOM! He got the bounty and I boosted and spiraled thru the remains...
I actually don't need the money...I have 3.5M Cr in the bank..an 'A' Class Cobra..I grind, I bounty hunt.... I don't have any aspirations to get a bigger ship (+bigger problems etc..)
We went back to the Nav beacon for a beer and continued chatting, Cobra and an Asp, nose to nose...
Happy as Larry and I'm really having fun here!
Just sayin....
The fun in this version of Elite is just like in the original. What you make of it for yourself.
My fun recently has been saving up for a Python. It involved a fair amount of grinding trade routes (not fun), with manic hours of Resource Site bounty hunting (fun, especially in the dark - boosting through an asteroid field in a Clipper is... challenging!)
last night, I bought my Python. A bit more grinding a new trade route kitted it out as a trader (248t cargo, D class equipment). Now I will have fun saving up for each new & improved bit of kit to turn my big, beautiful, unarmed Bullseye into a big, beautiful, kickazz armed trader who can eat pirates and other outlaws for breakfast without even burping.
Once I have reached that target, I will probably start saving to do exactly the same with an Anaconda.
It's all about setting goals and working towards, then achieving, them. Much like RL, in fact: I work hard (not fun) to pay for a new car, or a foreign vacation. Or, as at the moment, an Oculus Rift
last night, I bought my Python. A bit more grinding a new trade route kitted it out as a trader (248t cargo, D class equipment). Now I will have fun saving up for each new & improved bit of kit to turn my big, beautiful, unarmed Bullseye into a big, beautiful, kickazz armed trader who can eat pirates and other outlaws for breakfast without even burping.
Once I have reached that target, I will probably start saving to do exactly the same with an Anaconda.
It's all about setting goals and working towards, then achieving, them. Much like RL, in fact: I work hard (not fun) to pay for a new car, or a foreign vacation. Or, as at the moment, an Oculus Rift
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Best idea is check on Dangerous Groups See if people posted a area where pvp is going on.
Indeed, we didn't come here to play some mindless FPS game where we run around like lemmings endlessly shooting, killing, dying and respawning as we watch some arbitrary numbers count down until the battle is over which admittedly can be fun but Elite is something totally different and becomes much more interesting when you approach it from a different angle as no one is going to tell you where to go or what to do. Hence we make our own stories for the moment until Fdev finds a way to guide people into contentious game play dynamics with a useful risk reward aspect and some assets to fight over.
Do check out some of the groups as many play along with other people fighting over trade routes, killing NPC, bounty hunting or mining, others simply shoot some one just because they feel like ruining their day (not that I personally like to ruin peoples day unless provoked). For me the fun comes when you are attacked by various people and you organise some furious wrath and anger with your friends in teamspeak or other online comms, admittedly Fdev could have provided a better in game community comms or group comms system which would have fostered such attack/counter attack game styles but it is still early days. Some of the best fun I have had to date was fighting over certain trade routes as the other group occupying the area seemed to have claimed ownership as it was a rather lucrative route, me and several friends on TS did what we could to break their monopoly which was the basis for several group battles. The game as is however really does lack any serious game assets to contend for other than trade routes though there are plenty of pirates and stone cold killers around the more populated areas should you wish to bounty hunt.
Elite will not always deliver instant multiplayer PVP game play on a plate, in this way its a true sandbox where you have to decide what you want from the game and have to create the scenario of contention which several people/groups are doing in various ways, Fdev do occasionally introduce some aspect or other that will give you a reason to go out into open play and fight over a particular game asset with various results. Grinding in solo mode or friendly groups will simply restrict your game options though it provides a nice safe area to get your credits built up so that you can go into battle with others with little regard for losing a few ships once you have the credits and the guns etc.
Go forth and multiply your credits, wingmen, ships weapons and so forth as only then will the heavens be yours spake the profit!
Trade first and shoot later when you can afford to lose a ship or two said the man from WISE J000517 :S"I've stood on the back deck of a blinker bound for the Plutition Camps with sweat in my eyes watching the stars fight on the shoulder of Orion…"
I do one rare trade/smuggling loop with bounty hunting between stations, sale all that cargo then go off into the void for 2000lys while listening to music or watching shows, netflix, youtube and try not to smash into too many event horizons. when I get back to human space I find cmdrs and interact/ help/ chat with them. Lots of casual fun some evenings.
Oh i actually enjoy the game allot haha, but sometimes things get very mundane and dull. I had just finished watching the Imagination episodes, so as soon as i found this thread, and read the title, i figured this would've been a suitable post.
The FUN is located in an unmarked star system, but there is probably a mission that will send you to the right system. FUN trades a lot like rares do - the further you take it, the more it's worth. So once you find the FUN, run with it and make bank.
I have lots of fun. Right now space jumping, listening to some good tunes and chair-dansing. Space muppet I am. But at least I'm not pretending to be drunk on a forum on a friday night. What do you do for fun other than that and playing games you don't like? Thought about getting a hobby?
Rep for an awesome post.