Would love to to what's your PS4 background. 
Your PS4 Background
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Currently on holiday so I can't share mine, but it's shockingly similar to yours! At least for now; I change it all the time because I'm always taking screenshots, even when I'm not exploring it's one of my favourite things to do.
I have the WipeOut Dynamic Theme
I live in Mexico since my retirement and one of the many holidays here is "Grand Parents Day". My grandkids bought me and setup for me a new ps4 last August and installed NMS. Which I played until well, though I don't play anymore, I may in August when the new update comes out. But it was a gateway to ED, and for that, I'm thankful.
... But what is your background?
He told you what his PS4 background is
I also understood the original question as: "What did you play on PS4 before ED?"
In America, I owned and operated an small accounting company, that specilized in small bussiness and personal taxes. And had investments in a half dozen taxi's and three long haul independent over the road trucks. Though I had all the technology and updated it as needed. I also had people to do it, like typing for instance. Since my retirement I've learned how to type with two hands. The hell of it is, my dam tablet is or has a touch screeen and my one finger typing sucks. Though I have one of the newest smart phones with all the bells and whistles, I basically only bought it for keeping in contact with the wife and an google app for interpeting spanish/english or visa versa.
With my accounting experience and knowledge as to transportaion hauling passengers and or freight fit right in. But now, I'm ready to venture out of my comfort zone and try another aspect of the game. Because of my real life experience with actual combat during the Viet Nam era, I've no desire to do it in a game. Thus avoid it like a plague.
Money though it's important, should never be the driving force behind an endevor unless of course one is only an investor. I could well afford a top of the line pc and multiple screens and someone else to actually play it for me. Like I've done in bussiness, I want to experience it for my self. Playing on a ps4 apposed to a pc involves a whole lot less of a learning curve, which for me and technology is huge. A console makes it considerably less.
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Commodity prices on PS4
Hi all,
My name's Edoardo from Italy.
I'm relatively new to Elite Dangerous on PS4 (I've played the original Elite on PC a LOT of years ago)
I love this game!
I've a question : I'm trying to use EDDB to plan my routes and to find the best goods to buy or sell.
Unfortunately the commodity prices, in EDDB, are different than in the game ( sometime the differences are HUGE).
Is the "console" economy different than the PC one?
If yes, someone knows if a "convergence" is planned, or not?
Bye.
Hi all,
My name's Edoardo from Italy.
I'm relatively new to Elite Dangerous on PS4 (I've played the original Elite on PC a LOT of years ago)
I love this game!
I've a question : I'm trying to use EDDB to plan my routes and to find the best goods to buy or sell.
Unfortunately the commodity prices, in EDDB, are different than in the game ( sometime the differences are HUGE).
Is the "console" economy different than the PC one?
If yes, someone knows if a "convergence" is planned, or not?
Bye.
Indeed it's an ambiguous question, i said to myself it could be about either subject when i saw the title.
Well to answer both questions...
.I've been playing games on the consoles and home "PC" systems of my cousins and friends since the 1988-89 (when i was about seven or eight) and arcade games since about 1990 (when i was around nine), 'til about the last ten years or so, 'til most of the ones near me either closed down or stopped getting new games.
I played on the Master Systems, Mega Drives, NESs (never really on the Super NES, only once in a shop), Commodore 64's and two different Amstrads, one that played tapes, the other floppy discs (which is why i put PC in the quotation marks further back as while the systems could do a little more than play games and weren't exactly game consoles, i never saw anyone use them for anything other than games
), before i ever owned anything other than LCD handhelds. While indeed since the late 80s, i've had a passion for games, but didn't have a lot of money or expensive presents many of my cousins and friends did as i'm an only child from a one parent family.
I didn't get my first gaming system 'til i bought a Master System II for £30 (to be specific that was 30 Irish Pounds, which was a separate currency to the British pound since 1922, we started using the Euro about 2000) with pocket money, when i was 15 in 1996, when its' games were selling for a pocket money friendly price of around £10 each, which of course was when the Mega Drive was already on the way out and the PS1 was already in shops
.I bought my first TV about a year later so i could play games in my room, without having to steal time on the sitting room TV, mostly from pocket money and €40 from a week's work experience for school, which the shop didn't have to give me (i did a second week six months later, elsewhere, and they didn't give me a penny
).I bought a PS1 two years after my Master System, after getting my first summer job in 1998.
I bought a PS2 about a year after it came out in late 2001, partly from summer job and college grant money.
Up to this point when i didn't have a massive amount of money, i didn't buy THAT many games (as i couldn't afford many), but those i could, i played to death, in particular i knew every character in Soul Blade backwards and had played the likes of, MDK, Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 and Max Payne, literally about 15 times each or more
.But in late 2003, i started my first full time job. In particularly it meant i then had plenty of money to spend on games, also bought my first car and own home in about the two years after i started it, but it also let me branch out into different types of games.
While console gaming and Playstation gaming in particular had always been my favourite type and still is, i had never played games on a proper PC 'til i bought one in 2005 (which i only replaced last Christmas
), also since i now had the money to buy more games than i could ever play, i then and since now mostly only play most games about once through properly, so i've only played MGS3 and Max Payne 2 once each etc.Since then, i bought both a PS3 and PS4 at launch and the latest game i've bought is this one.
On PS4 themes, they don't do much for me, in general, i liked the PS3's a lot more, but my current PS4 one is a Witcher 3 one which i got when i bought the game, but i've yet to install it.
I'd a Just Cause 3 one before that and have yet to install that game either.
I'd a Rise of the Tomb Raider one before that, which i have installed but not finished.
But really the only PS4 theme that has spent any large amount of time on my screen is the Playstation 20th anniversary one and i often reactivate it
.(One of my favourite PS3 ones was called, Ark and was by persons unknown to me, but should still be on the PS store...
.)
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Witcher 3 Geralt/Ciri
I'm pretty sure i have the same one too, but uninstalled.
Specifically the one i've activated is two landscape shots
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I'm pretty sure i have the same one too, but uninstalled.
Specifically the one i've activated is two landscape shots
Mine is a Witcher 3 shot of a siren, but when you switch to the top-line of icons on the GUI it switches to a scary, dark image of a grave-hag.
I'd forgotten that when I was playing with my nephew and it scared the daylights out of him when I went to switch the console off. I just ignored the image and he thought he'd imagined it....
