Of course you don't need an Anaconda.
You need a fully engineered Cutter!
Damn it. You beat me to it!
+1 ! I agree! One does not need an Anaconda when you have a
delicious!
Of course you don't need an Anaconda.
You need a fully engineered Cutter!
You are dead wrong. I love Sandbox Games. However, there is not enough sand in the game.
I enjoy X Series for example, or Eve. Both have grind, but that is only the means to do stuff in the game.
In both games i can build my own Empire and others can come to knock it down.
Even if I just dominate a small sector in the market in Eve, it is highly satisfying. I will never be a big player in Jita, but I supply Ammo for a lot of mission runner hubs and make enough money to plex my account every month.
I used to own a POS and do T2 research, now I own a small citadel. So all the money making is not to only get bigger ships, but I actually change the Universe. What I do, matters. In Elite, it does not.
The station will be the same, it won't get removed or otherwise influenced, prices of ships or modules won't change.
There is no direct consequence for the player how the war turns out. Tell me how I am wrong. The only thing I can think of is artifact influence that stops you from fitting your ship or using the market for a day or so.
But that is hardly meaningful change.
Exactly!
I've been playing for well over 2 years since the Beta days.
I stuck with the Sidewinder for the best part of a year, then I upgraded to an Adder - perhaps not very cool but I really liked it!
Then after a year or so of exclusively Adder based antics, I upgraded to a Cobra Mk III just a few hours ago! Great fun!
Never flown anything other than those three humble ships so far!
Early on I made a decision not to tear through to the biggest ship as fast as possible.
Edit - Although, saying that, I do feel that the mindset that my wilful shippy-abstinence was born out of has left me with fewer ingame mechanics with which to engage.
A lot of the mechanics do seem grind-based.
I have no solution for this.
Another high horse thread telling people what their goals should be and how they should be enjoying the game.
...Oh yeh, and grind... That's not just in your mind.
It's not a question of 'how?'; it's a question of 'if you aren't, and spend your time wishing the game was another game, why are you playing it? You are supposed to be doing something fun right now.'
Honestly, this thread has brought me back to ED after a 10 week break. LOL
I want an Anaconda again and I want to take it to Colonia.
THAT is a grind! I own every ship myself, most fully A-rated, but my damn Cutter is still like HALF of my assets [ugh]
It's a long road to that bliss.
Luckily I had come some of the way when it was introduced.
And was pretty close when I understood that I wanted it.
Only did some grinding at the end.
It was rather expensive.
But it looks like a Dragon. [yesnod]
A rather BIG Dragon.
Took me 2 years to finally buy an Anaconda, then I reset my save...
I'm with you on this one, OP.
Agreed. Cutter + Black Friday Paint = whyflyanythingelse.
I completely disagree with the sentiment that there is a grind in this game.
I've never had enough to buy anything bigger than an Asp.
People are just saying this game has a grind for no reason. People are meanies.
Gamers are very entitled and will continue to moan until the Matrix is built.
EXACTLY. A fun ship that doesn't cost much. Yet most new players I encounter are like "But it's boring because it's small."
I literally don't understand that mentality.