Elite: Dangerous. I broke down.

[undercovergeek]

i think in your case JD its an external shot of someone carrying the bits of your ship home in a carrier bag - a bit like eric morecombe at the end of each episode, with his mac and brown paper bag, 'JDs pride and joy' written on the side

[JudgeDredd]

lmao

NPC's. As JH said - the problem is you can be in combat for an hour, collecting vouchers and then BAM! It's all over in one hit! Ship lost. Upgrades lost. Vouchers lost.

[Jarhead0331]

I'm a few grand short of being able to afford a Viper again. I've had a few successful runs without any catastrophes, although the Lord knows, I've had some REALLY close calls. Anyway, I finally hooked up my TrackIR. It definitely helps being able to keep my eye on the enemy, but its going to take some time before I feel really comfortable with it.

[undercovergeek]

Let us know how you get on - that could be my next purchase for elite

I had 5 more goes at crimson bollocks last night and beat him every time, so I'm getting there

Have you fought a player yet?

[Jarhead0331]

Have you fought a player yet?

No. Meet me at the flagpole at Azeban city at 3:00 high.

[undercovergeek]

lmao - forgot, youre in solo

[JudgeDredd]

UCG - I'm using the Trade Tool for Elite Dangerous which allows you to specify certain things and gives you an idea of markup...but I'm wondering...not all the systems are in place - so how do you know what to buy and where to go. There's only a handful of systems, right?

You can make a modest living at best (from what I'm doing) on trade. With only 4 cargo slots (that's a bit disappointing, even for a startup ship in a trade game!) certain products net me 300+ credits per journey.

But - I'll be honest - it's much more satisfying than losing all your vouchers in an hour with a collision!

But I'm wondering about the systems. The Galaxy map shows a fair few systems...but I've wasted quite a bit of fuel travelling to a system only to find nothing is there...or is that not the case? Am I just not looking right? Does every system modelled in the Galaxy have a port? I have to own up to being lost in the galaxy map...and apparently it's not a fraction of the size it's going to be!

[JudgeDredd]

This game is both stunning and incredibly captivating (and with the voucher system infuriating) all at the same time!!

[undercovergeek]

AFAIK every main system has a port - eranin is azerban, next door is beagle 2, and then chango station at ibootis - i think the main star has the port as opposed to eranin 3 or whatever, easiest thing to do is as soon as you come out of a jump pull up the navigation list and you should see the port in the list

[mikeck]

If the game engine generation creates 400,000,000,000 stars, I have to believe some systems will end up with nothing but the star and some planets

[undercovergeek]

indeed - and now that ive written down the trade prices of 3 planets im wondering how big a book ill need!

[JudgeDredd]

Did you know about this UCG?

http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/

This has netted me 18k credits in about 15 runs. Not a great return - but safe

[undercovergeek]

Yeah.......... it's cheating  :P

[Jarhead0331]

Had a tough day...three sorties, two of which ended in collisions resulting in total loss. The third I barely escaped with my life after only taking down 17 ships. So, after expenses, I'm just about even with where  I started. Sometimes I swear the game feels like it gets harder.

[JudgeDredd]

There have been times in the FDS where I've came out of jump and kind of wandered about killing shit without even seemingly being noticed - other times I've been jumped on by a multitude of Fed ships and don't even get a single kill before I'm getting the eject warning!