Hi all, my first post here!
I finally got around to buying Elite: Dangerous (and Horizons) last week and have been enjoying the universe, despite a few things rankling (like not being able to look behind you whilst reversing - or indeed to the side - as you could in Frontier: Elite and First Encounters, and as you can in many modern cars).
Today I hit my first real stumbling block though, and it was as I attempted to go out mining with my flatmate.
We kitted out one Class 6 with a large cargo hold and collector drones, whilst we used a Viper III with an uprated powergrid to fly around and do the dirty work. All went well, though the discovery that each asteroid is unique to each player - that whilst you can share prospector data, the data it reports is different to each person and can essentially be mined as many times as you have players (exploit much when you find a painite 'roid?) - came as a bit of a surprise.
This was nothing compared to the fact that once we'd used all our drones and headed back to the station, we discovered there really isn't any way to divide the profits. We ended up having to sit down and work out exactly how much we'd taken in, then sit outside the station ejecting painite from the hauler and scooping it up in the viper, docking, selling and repeating.
I'm well aware that money can't be transferred between players - for reasons that make no sense to me, but if that's the way it is then so be it - but given that it's possible to share bounties and to pay dividends to pilots in your wing, how could it be that mining in wings was overlooked?
This has put a serious downer on the game for us; I find it baffling that we lack even the simplest tools to trade amongst players, or if this is considered to be an issue, the tools to be able to share in the proceeds of our labour. We have our PCs set up next to each other and because of this, we might as well go back to doing our own thing - and do it in solo mode.
Am I missing something obvious? Even the dividend payments you would usually get for being in a wing with someone who was trading didn't apply when we sold our mining proceeds.
I finally got around to buying Elite: Dangerous (and Horizons) last week and have been enjoying the universe, despite a few things rankling (like not being able to look behind you whilst reversing - or indeed to the side - as you could in Frontier: Elite and First Encounters, and as you can in many modern cars).
Today I hit my first real stumbling block though, and it was as I attempted to go out mining with my flatmate.
We kitted out one Class 6 with a large cargo hold and collector drones, whilst we used a Viper III with an uprated powergrid to fly around and do the dirty work. All went well, though the discovery that each asteroid is unique to each player - that whilst you can share prospector data, the data it reports is different to each person and can essentially be mined as many times as you have players (exploit much when you find a painite 'roid?) - came as a bit of a surprise.
This was nothing compared to the fact that once we'd used all our drones and headed back to the station, we discovered there really isn't any way to divide the profits. We ended up having to sit down and work out exactly how much we'd taken in, then sit outside the station ejecting painite from the hauler and scooping it up in the viper, docking, selling and repeating.
I'm well aware that money can't be transferred between players - for reasons that make no sense to me, but if that's the way it is then so be it - but given that it's possible to share bounties and to pay dividends to pilots in your wing, how could it be that mining in wings was overlooked?
This has put a serious downer on the game for us; I find it baffling that we lack even the simplest tools to trade amongst players, or if this is considered to be an issue, the tools to be able to share in the proceeds of our labour. We have our PCs set up next to each other and because of this, we might as well go back to doing our own thing - and do it in solo mode.
Am I missing something obvious? Even the dividend payments you would usually get for being in a wing with someone who was trading didn't apply when we sold our mining proceeds.