Elite: Dangerous
Discussion
willisit said:
I'm now 2 weeks and 5 days of game play/450 hours.
I've managed two Elites, and I'm working on Combat (currently Expert).
I've managed two Elites, and I'm working on Combat (currently Expert).
Something must have changed...took me about 8 months to get to that point on V1.0 and I was playing it 30hrs+/week in a very focussed way to hit those goals. IIRC it took the competition winner about 6 months to get to triple Elite with a bigger time investment.Some of the exploits have made credit acquisition trivial but I didn't know it was possible to rank up so quickly. Right On Commander!
PhilboSE said:
Something must have changed...took me about 8 months to get to that point on V1.0 and I was playing it 30hrs+/week in a very focussed way to hit those goals. IIRC it took the competition winner about 6 months to get to triple Elite with a bigger time investment.Some of the exploits have made credit acquisition trivial but I didn't know it was possible to rank up so quickly. Right On Commander!
Combat is another thing all together. I don't intend to grind it out so I suspect it may be months before I see Elite.
In the meantime, trade and exploration got me the Corvette and Admiral without grinding or trying. I'm not that far with Empire purely because I seem to spend most of my time in Federation systems. I DO have the Cutter though. I intend to get "King" because of completeness.
None of it exploit-based either as far as I can tell, but how the game is designed (albeit, perhaps that's wrong!).
So, I need Dangerous to open the last Engineer. I still haven't seen a Thargoid, but I did just buy a Type 10 to go punch one in the nethers, when the rest gets boring
willisit said:
None of it exploit-based either as far as I can tell, but how the game is designed (albeit, perhaps that's wrong!)
By "exploit" I didn't mean a bug - I meant the game working (apparently) as designed but with envelope-pushing mechanics. Things like the Robigo smuggling runs were introduced and survived multiple updates, so must have been as intended, but they made credit acquisition trivial. A couple of weeks doing that and you could get enough credits to A-grade an entire fleet.Interesting that the Engineering path takes you up the ranks almost as a side effect. Probably a good thing for people coming to the game now, but not so good for the early adopters.
Me and a few friends tried to take on a 'goid interceptor (Threat 5) last night and failed miserably.
Got the first heart down to 60% by the time our wing of 4 was wiped. Good fun doing it though.
Wing was of:
AspX (Me) - R2 AX MC, R2 AX ML
AspX - R2 AX MC, R2 AX ML
Conda - 2x R2 Flak, 2x R3 AX ML, 2x R3 AX MC
Vulture - 2x R2 Flak
Just didn't have the damage output one we had exploited the heart.
Flaks kept the swarms down, missiles kept the hearts out. Just the heart modules wouldn't die so got killed in attrition.
Its probably due to having the two combat asp's in the wing,the other one had a T-10 but couldn't get it to Merope in less then 55 jump which may help once its more outfitted.
Anyone successfully killed 'goids on here?
Got the first heart down to 60% by the time our wing of 4 was wiped. Good fun doing it though.
Wing was of:
AspX (Me) - R2 AX MC, R2 AX ML
AspX - R2 AX MC, R2 AX ML
Conda - 2x R2 Flak, 2x R3 AX ML, 2x R3 AX MC
Vulture - 2x R2 Flak
Just didn't have the damage output one we had exploited the heart.
Flaks kept the swarms down, missiles kept the hearts out. Just the heart modules wouldn't die so got killed in attrition.
Its probably due to having the two combat asp's in the wing,the other one had a T-10 but couldn't get it to Merope in less then 55 jump which may help once its more outfitted.
Anyone successfully killed 'goids on here?
Not touched the Thargoids, never met one, never been hyperdicted either despite being around the Merope/Pleiades sector quite a bit when they were attacking and I had also been to check out Liman Legacy on fire.
I have been to see Jameson's crashed ship (few pages back on here) and listened to his audio log, in my opinion Aegis are to blame, the Thargoids have only attacked Aegis stations so far I think. And sent Jameson on a mission that started their revenge. So Aegis can be destroyed by the Thargoids, I won't be trying to stop it.
Oh and the Farragut ship dock moved again. I think it's stalking me.
I have been to see Jameson's crashed ship (few pages back on here) and listened to his audio log, in my opinion Aegis are to blame, the Thargoids have only attacked Aegis stations so far I think. And sent Jameson on a mission that started their revenge. So Aegis can be destroyed by the Thargoids, I won't be trying to stop it.
Oh and the Farragut ship dock moved again. I think it's stalking me.
Found out that there's a really nice bug IRT wing fighting Thargoids... Where only the instance creator can do damage... That'll be why we got destroyed then.
Apparently in wings of 3 or more there's a known issue where everyone apart from the person who initiated the drop into the USS can't do damage. So broken and what a waste of a rebuy.
Apparently in wings of 3 or more there's a known issue where everyone apart from the person who initiated the drop into the USS can't do damage. So broken and what a waste of a rebuy.
Q1 update launches in beta on Jan 25th.
With it comes the crime and punishment update, and a complete rejig of mission payouts. So anyone wanting to cash in on the current highly profitable passenger missions, I'd get on it.
Bought the game about a week ago, and with casual play, have a conda with 250m in the bank...
With it comes the crime and punishment update, and a complete rejig of mission payouts. So anyone wanting to cash in on the current highly profitable passenger missions, I'd get on it.
Bought the game about a week ago, and with casual play, have a conda with 250m in the bank...
The official trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcclm3dFzk
Glimpse of the Chieftain and new planet textures.
Glimpse of the Chieftain and new planet textures.
Lazadude said:
Q1 update launches in beta on Jan 25th.
With it comes the crime and punishment update, and a complete rejig of mission payouts. So anyone wanting to cash in on the current highly profitable passenger missions, I'd get on it.
Bought the game about a week ago, and with casual play, have a conda with 250m in the bank...
Where did you read that? ED forums? I've been out the game for a while and need to get up to speed with things before I get back into it.With it comes the crime and punishment update, and a complete rejig of mission payouts. So anyone wanting to cash in on the current highly profitable passenger missions, I'd get on it.
Bought the game about a week ago, and with casual play, have a conda with 250m in the bank...
Chuck328 said:
Where did you read that? ED forums? I've been out the game for a while and need to get up to speed with things before I get back into it.
Reddit.. Here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/39939...Lazadude said:
Bought the game about a week ago, and with casual play, have a conda with 250m in the bank...
That's just wrong, IMO. I have no problem with anyone doing it, given the opportunity. I probably would have, and I was guilty of leveraging a couple of flawed mechanisms along the way.But the 8 month battle to progress slowly up through the fleet ranks into a Conda made it much more worthwhile to get there, via the journey.
I actually read this whole thread through the other night as it traced the challenges that we faced in 2014/2015 going through the ranks (slowly) and grinding credits. I actually enjoyed those years much more than I did when making billions via Robigo runs. It felt like every credit counted, and the pain of losing a ship and it's cargo...well the evidence of that is all over this thread on the first few pages (mostly from me whinging, tbh!)
But conda+250m after 1 casual week...the designers have seriously lost touch with the game. Even if they're balancing it, to allow it get to this state and continue like it for months is wrong.
PhilboSE said:
Lazadude said:
Bought the game about a week ago, and with casual play, have a conda with 250m in the bank...
That's just wrong, IMO. I have no problem with anyone doing it, given the opportunity. I probably would have, and I was guilty of leveraging a couple of flawed mechanisms along the way.But the 8 month battle to progress slowly up through the fleet ranks into a Conda made it much more worthwhile to get there, via the journey.
I actually read this whole thread through the other night as it traced the challenges that we faced in 2014/2015 going through the ranks (slowly) and grinding credits. I actually enjoyed those years much more than I did when making billions via Robigo runs. It felt like every credit counted, and the pain of losing a ship and it's cargo...well the evidence of that is all over this thread on the first few pages (mostly from me whinging, tbh!)
But conda+250m after 1 casual week...the designers have seriously lost touch with the game. Even if they're balancing it, to allow it get to this state and continue like it for months is wrong.
The sense of achievement to get the ship you wanted - guess it is easy come easy go now.
Oh well - haven't played for awhile so may have to head back in over the weekend.....
I just blasted the s
t out of pretty much anything I could. Didn't earn me any real money but it got my Elite combat rating and a decent fleet - after a few years of play 
I remember when Philbo, myself and Castex met up in the hope Castex and I might get a nice bounty from Philbo's dead or alive poster. Half a million each IIRC. That was a st load of cash to me at the time. Didn't work as I remember but was a nice offer.
t out of pretty much anything I could. Didn't earn me any real money but it got my Elite combat rating and a decent fleet - after a few years of play I remember when Philbo, myself and Castex met up in the hope Castex and I might get a nice bounty from Philbo's dead or alive poster. Half a million each IIRC. That was a s
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