So, after 5 months in the game (10 weeks, 4 days, 4 hrs and 19 minutes of game time), playing purely "old school" PvE and grinding the ranks without using overt exploits, I've made triple Elite, Admiral & King, and 100% Allied with the major powers. What to do next? Do I:
a. Venture into the world of PvP where an early dip led to me being ganked heartlessly by an over-engineered Phantom.(I considered reporting him but, as one reddit commentator responding to a similar posting reminded me, the game is called "Elite Dangerous, not Elite Mildly Miffed" (or words to that effect) and when I finished laughing I realised he was right). As I'm not much of a typist and have no microphone, the interactive Comms experience is likely to be tricky.
b. Go all Trekkie on the undiscovered parts of the Galaxy? My only serious venture so far only showed me that Cmdr Validating (or, as I called him, Cmdr Kilroy Woz'ere)- and others like him had already beaten me to most of the best planets and earning the Codex kudos of named discoverer;
c. Hone my anti-Xeno skills? - but after 1600 Thargoid Scout bonds grinding my Combat rank from Deadly to Elite in Asterope, I'm still a little jaded.
d. Join a Powerplay Faction and find humour in combat bonds against such heinous villains as Cmdr Ray Diator and his buddy Cmdr Walter Pump (true) - I really wanted Cmdr Rev. Counter to be the third in the wing but it didn't happen. (I wonder if any US players have come across "Cmdr Mrs Trellis of North Wales" and, if so, whether that has led them into the wonderful world of 'Clue?) There again, to mis-quote Will Rogers, I never met a "Lumpkin I didn't like" or, for that matter, a King Munmu I haven't wanted to fry!
e. Turn to the darkside, Luke, and pirate my way to Colonia? or , finally,
f. Take the Monty Python option and go "For Something Completely Different"?
In other words, having reached my main goals where should I play next in the sandbox? What's given you the most rewarding experience - I'd like to hear......
o7 - Cmdr Speerspitze
a. Venture into the world of PvP where an early dip led to me being ganked heartlessly by an over-engineered Phantom.(I considered reporting him but, as one reddit commentator responding to a similar posting reminded me, the game is called "Elite Dangerous, not Elite Mildly Miffed" (or words to that effect) and when I finished laughing I realised he was right). As I'm not much of a typist and have no microphone, the interactive Comms experience is likely to be tricky.
b. Go all Trekkie on the undiscovered parts of the Galaxy? My only serious venture so far only showed me that Cmdr Validating (or, as I called him, Cmdr Kilroy Woz'ere)- and others like him had already beaten me to most of the best planets and earning the Codex kudos of named discoverer;
c. Hone my anti-Xeno skills? - but after 1600 Thargoid Scout bonds grinding my Combat rank from Deadly to Elite in Asterope, I'm still a little jaded.
d. Join a Powerplay Faction and find humour in combat bonds against such heinous villains as Cmdr Ray Diator and his buddy Cmdr Walter Pump (true) - I really wanted Cmdr Rev. Counter to be the third in the wing but it didn't happen. (I wonder if any US players have come across "Cmdr Mrs Trellis of North Wales" and, if so, whether that has led them into the wonderful world of 'Clue?) There again, to mis-quote Will Rogers, I never met a "Lumpkin I didn't like" or, for that matter, a King Munmu I haven't wanted to fry!
e. Turn to the darkside, Luke, and pirate my way to Colonia? or , finally,
f. Take the Monty Python option and go "For Something Completely Different"?
In other words, having reached my main goals where should I play next in the sandbox? What's given you the most rewarding experience - I'd like to hear......
o7 - Cmdr Speerspitze