Hi fellow Cmdrs,
I thought that I would share my experience of my journey through the game. I have just ranked up to Combat Elite having been Explorer Elite for about 6 months. I have only a Trade rank of Merchant so I guess I still have a ways to go before doing the triple.
Amazingly I bought the game (pre Horizons) on the 11th July 2015 (checked the Frontier store) and I reached CE on the 10th July 2017 so I have been playing the game on and off for exactly 2 years. My 'in game' time is 4 weeks, 1 day and 22 hours so about 30 days. I am sure many of you fellow Elitists have reached CE much quicker but I did not try to grind for goals too much. Having said that once I got to about 80% Deadly I did push for it.
For all the Cmdrs that have just turned Deadly and for anyone else that is interested I kept a log of the last 20% of kills. Every 1% took between 25 and 27 kills on average ranging from expert to Elite. I focussed my efforts mainly in Haz Res sites and for me moving from Deadly to Elite it took between 2500 and 2700 kills!
Throughout the game I have only made 16 insurance claims (which I think is pretty amazing) playing in the open and in private groups. It would have been 15 but I forgot to increase my life support in my Anaconda and ran out of o2 right outside the letterbox....Kaboom! I should have known better as I learned that mistake in a Vulture where the canopy seems to be made of rice paper!
I had hoped for some fireworks or something when I got the message but the only reward seems to be the Founders World permit (which I had anyway for some reason) and Elite ship and suit decals. I think we should get a nice reward from the store like a credit for ship kits or coloured lasers etc. Or do you think I am asking too much?
Altogether a great game which I will keep playing as I want to rank up to get a Corvette. I played the original Elite back in 1984 but only managed to reach deadly then as I had 2 young children taking up my time, so you could say it has taken me almost 33 years to reach hallowed ground ha ha!
Sorry for waffling on a bit but us 63 year olds tend to do that when we get excited!
Fly safe Cmdrs o7
Cheers, GD
I thought that I would share my experience of my journey through the game. I have just ranked up to Combat Elite having been Explorer Elite for about 6 months. I have only a Trade rank of Merchant so I guess I still have a ways to go before doing the triple.
Amazingly I bought the game (pre Horizons) on the 11th July 2015 (checked the Frontier store) and I reached CE on the 10th July 2017 so I have been playing the game on and off for exactly 2 years. My 'in game' time is 4 weeks, 1 day and 22 hours so about 30 days. I am sure many of you fellow Elitists have reached CE much quicker but I did not try to grind for goals too much. Having said that once I got to about 80% Deadly I did push for it.
For all the Cmdrs that have just turned Deadly and for anyone else that is interested I kept a log of the last 20% of kills. Every 1% took between 25 and 27 kills on average ranging from expert to Elite. I focussed my efforts mainly in Haz Res sites and for me moving from Deadly to Elite it took between 2500 and 2700 kills!
Throughout the game I have only made 16 insurance claims (which I think is pretty amazing) playing in the open and in private groups. It would have been 15 but I forgot to increase my life support in my Anaconda and ran out of o2 right outside the letterbox....Kaboom! I should have known better as I learned that mistake in a Vulture where the canopy seems to be made of rice paper!
I had hoped for some fireworks or something when I got the message but the only reward seems to be the Founders World permit (which I had anyway for some reason) and Elite ship and suit decals. I think we should get a nice reward from the store like a credit for ship kits or coloured lasers etc. Or do you think I am asking too much?
Altogether a great game which I will keep playing as I want to rank up to get a Corvette. I played the original Elite back in 1984 but only managed to reach deadly then as I had 2 young children taking up my time, so you could say it has taken me almost 33 years to reach hallowed ground ha ha!
Sorry for waffling on a bit but us 63 year olds tend to do that when we get excited!
Fly safe Cmdrs o7
Cheers, GD
