Official Elite Dangerous Thread

Reavs said:
As much or as little as you want. It's not the same as regular mmo's where everything moves on and you leaves you behind. Imagine Freelancer multiplayer with regular content updates.

I usually spend about 30 - 40 mins an evening to do some bounty hunting.
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Seconded, play in a solo game, undock, shoot some pirates in bounty sites or mine in a belt for about an hour or less sometimes. Make some money, have some fun, relax.
 
Shrike said:
Seconded, play in a solo game, undock, shoot some pirates in bounty sites or mine in a belt for about an hour or less sometimes. Make some money, have some fun, relax.
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I disagree with the Solo game mode. Though most of the time I'm playing by myself I always play in Open mode. There something strangely exciting/eerie about bumping into other CMDR's.

There's that and that fact that I believe you should play the game it was meant to played. But each to their own, I'm not going to judge or criticize you for it.
 
BeoTeK said:
I disagree with the Solo game mode. Though most of the time I'm playing by myself I always play in Open mode. There something strangely exciting/eerie about bumping into other CMDR's.

There's that and that fact that I believe you should play the game it was meant to played. But each to their own, I'm not going to judge or criticize you for it.
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yeah and I am yet to run into a hostile CMDR. everybody I've met were all friendly
 
I mine in solo/private group mode since I am an Eve escapee and I dont want to be ganked by people in space while I am trying to relax ;-). There are no intel channels in Elite to give you warning!
 
mottamort said:
Guys, how much of your life do you need to give to this game?

Is it something you can "quickly" play for 30-40 minutes in a session, or not really?
Like...is it not as much fun if you dont commit to a few hours of gametime?

Is it persistent in that if you aren't on for a week you either have to start-over or have a lot of catching up to do?
From what is seems thats not the case, but just wanna make sure

Been lurking this thread a few weeks now and my interest is peaking...
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You might be able to come right, but word of warning. The game doesn't save the state of where you are when you quit, like it would have had it had offline mode, unless you quit after having successfully docked at a station. The quest timers also don't stop if you quit, so any open quests will continue to run until they run out of time and you are then penalized for not completing the quest (not just not getting the reward like other games). So basically you won't be able to do missions.

You will have to leave the station, fly somewhere, look for a ship with a bounty to kill, kill it, and fly back to a station within 30-40 minutes. That is possible, but I don't really see you able to do much else. You won't be able to head in a random direction and explore the galaxy until you carefully plot a route to a system with a known space port, and then if you get interdicted you might be in time trouble.
 
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Wyzak said:
You might be able to come right, but word of warning. The game doesn't save the state of where you are when you quit, like it would have had it had offline mode, unless you quit after having successfully docked at a station. The quest timers also don't stop if you quit, so any open quests will continue to run until they run out of time and you are then penalized for not completing the quest (not just not getting the reward like other games). So basically you won't be able to do missions.

You will have to leave the station, fly somewhere, look for a ship with a bounty to kill, kill it, and fly back to a station within 30-40 minutes. That is possible, but I don't really see you able to do much else. You won't be able to head in a random direction and explore the galaxy until you carefully plot a route to a system with a known space port, and then if you get interdicted you might be in time trouble.
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Really? Does a bounty only last in a session? I did not know it went away if you logged out of Elite.
 
Wyzak said:
You might be able to come right, but word of warning. The game doesn't save the state of where you are when you quit, like it would have had it had offline mode, unless you quit after having successfully docked at a station. The quest timers also don't stop if you quit, so any open quests will continue to run until they run out of time and you are then penalized for not completing the quest (not just not getting the reward like other games). So basically you won't be able to do missions.

You will have to leave the station, fly somewhere, look for a ship with a bounty to kill, kill it, and fly back to a station within 30-40 minutes. That is possible, but I don't really see you able to do much else. You won't be able to head in a random direction and explore the galaxy until you carefully plot a route to a system with a known space port, and then if you get interdicted you might be in time trouble.
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sorry dude but this is incorrect. the game saves the state you quit at. I have quit the game mid supercruise and when I logged back in it spawned me right where I left off, only in deep space so just needed to fire up the FSD again.

The mission timer thing is true still so you will have to pick those carefully. bounties are better in this situation and pays A LOT better


Shrike said:
Really? Does a bounty only last in a session? I did not know it went away if you logged out of Elite.
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They stick till jou hand them in or die
 
Wyzak said:
You might be able to come right, but word of warning. The game doesn't save the state of where you are when you quit, like it would have had it had offline mode, unless you quit after having successfully docked at a station. The quest timers also don't stop if you quit, so any open quests will continue to run until they run out of time and you are then penalized for not completing the quest (not just not getting the reward like other games). So basically you won't be able to do missions.

You will have to leave the station, fly somewhere, look for a ship with a bounty to kill, kill it, and fly back to a station within 30-40 minutes. That is possible, but I don't really see you able to do much else. You won't be able to head in a random direction and explore the galaxy until you carefully plot a route to a system with a known space port, and then if you get interdicted you might be in time trouble.
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Wat. None of this is true. The game saves precisely where you quit. Missions are not that bad. Cargo haul missions are the only ones for which you get fined when you fail (and that's only because you then 'steal' the goods). Plus the average cargo haul missions or data delivery mission takes about 10 - 20 minutes max. Assassination and pirate hunt missions might be a problem, although I've personally never had an assassination mission take more than 30 minutes. You just need to drop into random signal source locations or search for the target in open space and interdict him. You also don't get fined if you fail an assassination or pirate hunt mission.

Bounties vouchers also don't expire, so if you shoot someone with a bounty you can turn it in any time you like, whether it's minutes later or months later. The only time it expires is if you die. You also can absolutely pick a direction a travel there. Just add a fuel scoop and go. You don't need to make it to a station before you quit.

Are you sure the game you played is called Elite Dangerous, Wyzak? Because nothing you said is remotely accurate or even true.
 
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