Official Elite Dangerous Thread

mottamort said:
Ok noted. Also...if I buy a ship, and someone blows me up or I crash into a planet...what happens. Do I respawn somewhere with/without my ship? is life over, start again? Is there some kind of xp/skills/traits system in place, or is progress solely based on money earned and ship bought with said money?
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You get an option to replace your ship with/without upgrades deepening on your insurance. Otherwise you get a free Sidewinder with 1k credits. You can also take out a loan to replace our ship with a repayment of 10% of any income you earn.

There are no skills/xp so the only thing that you need to worry about is cargo.
 
mottamort said:
Ok noted. Also...if I buy a ship, and someone blows me up or I crash into a planet...what happens. Do I respawn somewhere with/without my ship? is life over, start again? Is there some kind of xp/skills/traits system in place, or is progress solely based on money earned and ship bought with said money?
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Reavs said:
You get an option to replace your ship with/without upgrades deepening on your insurance. Otherwise you get a free Sidewinder with 1k credits. You can also take out a loan to replace our ship with a repayment of 10% of any income you earn.

There are no skills/xp so the only thing that you need to worry about is cargo.
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yeah and the better equip your ship is the higher the buy-back cost will be so it's good to always make sure you have enough money for insurance just in case shit goes sideways.

But, like Reavs said, if you don't have money for insurance you can make a loan. iirc you can loan up to 700k

when you die you will respawn at the last station you docked.

Also, you can't crash into planets. trust me :p
 
Shrike said:
Not entirely true, if you have the expansion you can crash into the planet if you are trying to land on it, otherwise you cannot crash into them.
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ok you can'r accidentally crash into a planet. especially not from supercruise :D
 
MalicE said:
I think they're mostly just whiny little bitches. the only major gripe I have with the game is their ridiculous pricing model

nooooo cause it also requires a bit of luck. you have to hold thumbs you get a mission requiring the resource you have in your cargo hold
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Meh for the mission thing. The metacritic user rating is 64%. The steam score peaked at 78%, but has been gradually coming down (I think primarily due to people running out of patience with regards to missing features and promises). It was 73% before it crashed down to where it is now after they announced Horizons and the pricing model. So a significant portion of those "whiny little bitches" agree with you Malice :P
 
Wyzak said:
Meh for the mission thing. The metacritic user rating is 64%. The steam score peaked at 78%, but has been gradually coming down (I think primarily due to people running out of patience with regards to missing features and promises). It was 73% before it crashed down to where it is now after they announced Horizons and the pricing model. So a significant portion of those "whiny little bitches" agree with you Malice :P
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hahahaha!

yeah but I'm not gonna give the game a bad review because the devs are money grubbing bastards though :D
 
Have you guys tried the new planetary missions yet? They stack! I just took 11 'Cut the power' missions, shot one generator and got tons of credits. xD
 
mottamort said:
Thanks for the feedback guys. Whats your thoughts on the steam reviews...they've put me off quite a bit, but I wanna know your side of things :)
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It seems to be mostly people who didn't understand that Horizons was a season pass, not a fully complete set of features. Frontier was pretty upfront about this and most people seem to have missed that point anyway.

MalicE said:
I think they're mostly just whiny little bitches. the only major gripe I have with the game is their ridiculous pricing model
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Is it really that obscene, though? They have to make money to fund further development somehow, and I don't think selling ship skins really makes them that much money. Considering they occupy roughly the same niche as Eve Online, and Eve Online charges $15 a month, I don't think $60 a year is that unreasonable. Especially because you don't have to buy the expansions and they still add plenty of content and new features to the base game.
 
Graal said:
Is it really that obscene, though? They have to make money to fund further development somehow, and I don't think selling ship skins really makes them that much money. Considering they occupy roughly the same niche as Eve Online, and Eve Online charges $15 a month, I don't think $60 a year is that unreasonable. Especially because you don't have to buy the expansions and they still add plenty of content and new features to the base game.
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my problem is more with the fact that the "expansion" cost more than the initial game
 
MalicE said:
my problem is more with the fact that the "expansion" cost more than the initial game
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Well to be fair, the original was about the same price on release. Think I actually paid just over 1k for it on release (with conversion rates).
 
BeoTeK said:
Well to be fair, the original was about the same price on release. Think I actually paid just over 1k for it on release (with conversion rates).
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you're missing the point. they expect me to pay R630 for a game that I already own more than half of
 
BeoTeK said:
yet you still complain when someone tries to buy it for you :mad:
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