Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarted Sandbox Space Flight Sim)
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How do you mean?
It is both. The Solo Mode, I believe, acts as completely single player. You'll still have NPC pirates and everything, just no PVP from PCs.
Online Mode puts you on the server (both are technically on server... like no offline play) so you'll run in to PCs and it is pretty much FFA with certain negative consequences for killing non-wanted people.
It is both. The Solo Mode, I believe, acts as completely single player. You'll still have NPC pirates and everything, just no PVP from PCs.
Online Mode puts you on the server (both are technically on server... like no offline play) so you'll run in to PCs and it is pretty much FFA with certain negative consequences for killing non-wanted people.
Harfle
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Thanks thats what I wanted to know. I should probably pick up a joystick or something because keyboard and mouse has going like all over the place. Maybe I just haven't caught on yet.
Quineloe
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The Harmless' Guide to the Galaxy
most newbie info you could ask for
Things you wish you knew on DAY ONE of Elite
basically a dont read, only post - spam thread, but has many interesting pieces of information.
most newbie info you could ask for
Things you wish you knew on DAY ONE of Elite
basically a dont read, only post - spam thread, but has many interesting pieces of information.
It's fun to fly but steers like a skyscraper. However, it has a limited jump range (about 11 LY IIRC) so be careful where you buy one and make sure you have plenty of cash left over for the upgrades (like tens of millions).Starting the grind for a Transport 9, anyone having experience with this beast of a ship (besided being rammed by them when docking).
Faith
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Aiming for trading in my Python (worth about 75-80 mil, has quite a few upgrades like an A class FSD) and saving up 30-40 millions in addition to that bringing the total up to 120 mil. According to the shipyards tool the full price of the T-9 I am aiming for, including upgrades, is about 97 mil but you never know. The 20-25 mil left over should cover insurance and a full cargo load.
I dunno why I dont like the Python. Its a decent cargo hauler with the A class FSD, it handles like a dream in combat but.... something is lacking. I have way more fun in a Viper doing bounties then in the Python for some reason.
Harfle
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Fixing those controls like they said in the newbie guide helped a lot from spinning like a boomerang.
They are full when they tell you "docking not allowed". I made the same mistake. Instead of waiting, I started only using the docks where you fly into the structure. No waiting on those and time spent waiting while doing trade runs is money lost.
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The first 100k is by far the hardest. Once you have played a bit you will become more familiar with the buy/sell patterns of certain station/system types which helps. Try loading up on missions that don't have a penalty for not completing. Lots of people see the ones 'Bring 2 silver to this station for $$' missions and balk at them, but there is no downside to taking them and just keeping an eye out while doing other stuff. I often had an entire screen of those types of missions when starting out and whenever I docked from a ferrying/bounty hunting I would just check and see if the station had any of the requested goods.
Alternately, head to a system with a resource extraction site and hunt some ships tagged 'wanted' to start out. It will familiarize you with the controls more and you will have system 'police' ships to help out (assuming you don't do it in Anarchy space). Just keep in mind that friendly fire on system police turns them agro on you (at least until next patch) so you need to be pretty careful about your aiming.
If you just nick a police ship's shields with your pulse laser, or a stray bullet from your multicannon, then you'll get some abuse from the NPC pilot but no more.
If you zap them with something like a railgun, or hit them multiple times, or hit an unshielded police craft, then it will be just like it is now. The leniency level will also depend on your standing with their faction. If they're unfriendly to start with, don't expect any favours.
Preview of what's coming in 1.1, with collaborative missions:
Elite: Dangerous patch 1.1 preview: Community Goals revealed - PC Gamer
One of the devs mentioned bug fixes to existing missions (where the results are being applied to the wrong factions) last week, so I imagine there'll be changes in this weeks mini-patch. They have patched missions before though and they are still buggy.
The mission generator still seems to create what I would call counter-productive missions, such as a faction offering a mission to destroy system authority ships when said faction is the system authority. When nothing unusual is happening in the station I think it's just a basic random mission generator so you get odd tasks every now and then. If the station is in an "interesting" state like famine or outbreak you do get slightly different missions being created, but there's little depth to them at the moment.
Fixes to missing permits (where some Fed/Empire system permits are currently not being offered if your rank is too high) is incoming.
Elite: Dangerous patch 1.1 preview: Community Goals revealed - PC Gamer
One of the devs mentioned bug fixes to existing missions (where the results are being applied to the wrong factions) last week, so I imagine there'll be changes in this weeks mini-patch. They have patched missions before though and they are still buggy.
The mission generator still seems to create what I would call counter-productive missions, such as a faction offering a mission to destroy system authority ships when said faction is the system authority. When nothing unusual is happening in the station I think it's just a basic random mission generator so you get odd tasks every now and then. If the station is in an "interesting" state like famine or outbreak you do get slightly different missions being created, but there's little depth to them at the moment.
Fixes to missing permits (where some Fed/Empire system permits are currently not being offered if your rank is too high) is incoming.
