DieGrootHammer
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So, I threw a bit of a temper tantrum this morning, but after taking all the sage advice, I've managed to make enough money to buy a Viper. I get it now. All of a sudden the game is fun again.
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BeoTeK
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Mine is busy downloading to the Xbone. Maybe start up a party chat some time, I'll also try get XBL so we can Wing it.
(pun intended)
Yeah absolutely, all of the mechanisms required to make it fun should be in the game itself, or should be up to me to discover or find out for myself. I stopped playing dota because everybody expected me to play the recipe, and if you dare stray from the recipe you get the stick for the next 45 minutes.
BeoTeK
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Yeah, and as with real life, I'm not that great with markets and knowing when/where to sell/buy and thus often make a loss at the destination or a marginal profit. But I love it that way, I love finding out the little tricks of the trade and nuances of the game.
Finally got into Sol last night, nothing spectacular to be honest, but at least I got to see Earth
And a motherfsking huge Capital Ship. Starting to battle to find missions though at most outposts/stations, as my Viper is specced for bounty hunting every bulletin board shows Available but Unobtainable missions as they're all mostly courier/smuggling/etc.Yeah, and as with real life, I'm not that great with markets and knowing when/where to sell/buy and thus often make a loss at the destination or a marginal profit. But I love it that way, I love finding out the little tricks of the trade and nuances of the game.
Finally got into Sol last night, nothing spectacular to be honest, but at least I got to see Earth
That's part of the challenge though, and when you overcome it you know that it's through your own skills and labour and not from just reading up on the best trade route on some site along with thousands of other people.
I think I stopped playing at Sol, I was also quite whelmed when I saw Sol. I was expecting it to look amazing, but it just didn't match my expectations.
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BeoTeK
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The problem is that if I had to rely on only in-game tools, I might be able to afford my Anaconda in 2025.
Yeah same, and I'm kinda okay with that. I'm only now (soon) going to afford my Asp Scout/Explorer (still to decide) or contemplating a Keelback.
Though I do have a complete A specced Eagle and Viper mkIII.
MalicE
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I'm telling you you're wasting your money on the Scout. Cobra is still the better option there till you can scratch together the 10mil for an Explorer
Grievous
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I've just got the game. Only played about an hour. Just wondering if I'm missing out on anything by only having the base game?
Still finding my feet though, kind of still feel a little lost. How do you find missions, do you randomly go from station to station until you find ones that are available for you? Also getting use to the controls, so many buttons.
Still finding my feet though, kind of still feel a little lost. How do you find missions, do you randomly go from station to station until you find ones that are available for you? Also getting use to the controls, so many buttons.
BeoTeK
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The only thing you're really missing is planetary landing and the ability to use an SRV. Frankly I think the base game is worth it's now asking price, ~R250 I think you would have paid?
Be sure to check out previous post from yesterday. Hammer was also having a hard time getting bearings and what to do.
http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthr...erous-Thread?p=1190219&viewfull=1#post1190219
axon1988
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I think it's more fun to make money slowly in this game. Other wise it becomes one massive grind to get to the "end-game"
In my case, I have a decent amount of cash, mostly made from bounty hunting, missions and exploration. Maybe 5% of it is from trading / smuggling. And it took me a long time to get there, but it's been a fun ride. Lately we've been playing around with UAs to see how they react to planet surfaces. It's been quite a lot of fun.
In my case, I have a decent amount of cash, mostly made from bounty hunting, missions and exploration. Maybe 5% of it is from trading / smuggling. And it took me a long time to get there, but it's been a fun ride. Lately we've been playing around with UAs to see how they react to planet surfaces. It's been quite a lot of fun.
MalicE
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only thing you're missing out on is your money
Horizons cost more than the base game and it includes the base game.
My advice for beginners. stay around the starter areas and maybe begin with some bounties which you can easily find at any local nav beacon. this will earn you some decent cash and rep/promotions to unlock more missions. slave smuggling is easy money and can pay anywhere between 100k and 200k in the beginning.
Alternatively fit your ship with a detailed surface scanner (once you can afford one) and go out looking for unexplored astronomical objects. takes more time to make semi decent money though and you can only sell that data to a system that's more than 20Ly away
axon1988
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only thing you're missing out on is your money
Horizons cost more than the base game and it includes the base game.
My advice for beginners. stay around the starter areas and maybe begin with some bounties which you can easily find at any local nav beacon. this will earn you some decent cash and rep/promotions to unlock more missions. slave smuggling is easy money and can pay anywhere between 100k and 200k in the beginning.
Alternatively fit your ship with a detailed surface scanner (once you can afford one) and go out looking for unexplored astronomical objects. takes more time to make semi decent money though and you can only sell that data to a system that's more than 20Ly away
I would advise new players to move away from the central star systems are quickly as possible. Mostly due to the fact that running into someone malicious has a higher chance to happen in the central / starting systems. Also stay away from Leesti / Lave systems. I almost always get attacked or interdicted there.
MalicE
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ah, yes. I forgot about those Beo types
They seem to have increased soon as elite went on sale
The NPCs make life hard enough as it is
axon1988
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So to prevent a quick grind you recommend a slow grind?
Well, it never felt like grinding to me
BeoTeK
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Well, it never felt like grinding to me
Yeah, same here.
ah, yes. I forgot about those Beo types
They seem to have increased soon as elite went on sale
The NPCs make life hard enough as it is
Wait until you start smuggling missions, especially the high value missions. NPC interdictions are rife!
Interdicted, escape... interdicted, escape... jump... interdicted, "I've found you!", escape... repeat.
MalicE
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I'm getting that now and I don't even have a cargo hold
axon1988
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So there is a way to get past this. Although the recent more aggressive AI sure have made it tougher. And some might consider it a cheat of sorts... depending on your point of view.
Basically when you are smuggling and you jump to a new system, you can tell when an NPC is about to try and interdict you by looking at your radar. You'll see it leveling behind you and getting in range. There's a way of getting them to "stop"
So what you do is try to get some decent speed built up, flying away from the star, and then if you see an NPC get into position to interdict, you do a 180 and fly towards the sun. So once the NPC also turns around and when they get into position you just throttle down to 0 and watch as they zoom past you straight into the star.
Lately it has become quite a bit tougher to do, but it can be rewarding in it's own little way.
Grievous
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Awesome thanks. Got it as an xmas present from a friend. I've figured I need to sink some time into it before I really get the hang of it. I'm still pretty horrible at landing. The game looks really interesting, just have so many games to get to, my backlog has only got worse over the holidays.