Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarted Sandbox Space Flight Sim)
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I tried out some real bounty hunting like Quineloe. It didn't go as well, all three of the million + bounties I caught up to logged off before I could finish them.
Frontier are supposedly tracking those who persistently log off in combat, but unfortunately no actions have been taken against them yet.
?Combat Logging?: Update
Nester
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I am very interested in the space exploration side of this game. Has anyone compared it withSpace Engine - Home page?
Agraza
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That's very cool Quin.
A solution I've always desired for PvP and logging out is that my character remains present when I exit, always. I just assume command of him when I log in. When I'm gone my character becomes another random citizen of the universe, but one that I've programmed to behave in a unique way. So every person who plays the game is populating the world with unique characters, and if they quit, their character(s) continue to interact with the world. Your guild and friends list would turn into hireable mercs when they're not around, wingmen or haulers or w/e else they make their characters available for. And a huge side benefit: no one logs out of unfavorable situations. The AI version of your character is far less capable of surviving a player interaction 1on1.
A solution I've always desired for PvP and logging out is that my character remains present when I exit, always. I just assume command of him when I log in. When I'm gone my character becomes another random citizen of the universe, but one that I've programmed to behave in a unique way. So every person who plays the game is populating the world with unique characters, and if they quit, their character(s) continue to interact with the world. Your guild and friends list would turn into hireable mercs when they're not around, wingmen or haulers or w/e else they make their characters available for. And a huge side benefit: no one logs out of unfavorable situations. The AI version of your character is far less capable of surviving a player interaction 1on1.
There's a fiction book (Elite: Reclamation (Elite: Dangerous) eBook: Drew Wagar, Heather Murphy: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store) for which the author used Space Engine to create the Prism system, which Frontier then took the data from and plugged it into the ED stellar forge to recreate the same system in game for fans of his work.
There's a few threads on theEliteforums about SE but its more about comparing the look of it than any gameplay ideas.
Dandain
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I don't think you will be disappointed, I purchasedelitefor the exploration side. I've visited more than 700 systems which is not many in the grand scheme of people who have done far more exploration than me. The "best" deep space exploration ship currently will run about 16.7 million with the modules you want and one insurance rebuy. It has a jump range of around 35 and the best sight seeing cockpit (almost all glass, more than 180 degrees of view). I've gone to numerous local stellar sights so far, in both a 13 and 17 light year capable ships. My networth is around 15 million - which is 7 from exploration and 8 from bounties. I have done virtually no trading. I have found 2 earthlike worlds, in all of my 700 systems so far - one ammonia world. Its really rich to go sight seeing - the sense of scale is awesome.
Earlier in the thread I recapped some of my exploration profit (its not the greatest per unit time, but it is awesome in fun). They recently added explored first by - if you head to some of the unknown reaches of space you will certainly be the first human player to scan many many bodies in the 400 billion star milky way. I have taken a lot of screenshots.
Harfle
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Quineloe
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in unrelated, equally important news, it seems CMDR Itchynipples can no longer connect to open play, he's instead being put in the "Griefer play" mode, as David Braben explained a year ago
Elite: Dangerous Griefing Interview - YouTube
Elite: Dangerous Griefing Interview - YouTube
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I'm 10k LY from the core of the galaxy right now. Exploration is for a certain breed of (patient) people. For most of the population it will look dull and boring, but i get my kick out of finding weird systems with multiple neutro stars and black holes, finding the most brilliant or hotest stars, or earth like worlds etc. I jumped to a trinary star system the other night and almost fried upon arrival, shit was tense.
Sightseing in this game is breathtaking, but again, it's not for everyone. I have no interest on trading, did my share of bounty hunting, and exploration is where it's at for me right now.
Those lengthy trip videos are amazing! I think this could finally give me a reason to upgrade my 2011 laptop.
Lithose
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"One of the biggest dick heads on the forum".
Aww, he knows our Quin so well! (Seriously though, that guy seems like a fucking douche. His logic is literally you shouldn't hunt pirates because they will hurt traders faster? lol, just more proof that 99% of wolves have no interest in fighting other wolves. My response to people like that is always "I'm not protecting the traders...I'm doing this because it's fun to kill you.")
Quineloe
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he's 36 years old, long time unemployed "professional DJ" and has a girlfriend that buys his computer hardware for him.
And he willingly admits this on stream.
I also have no idea where he'd get the idea I'm contra-piracy on the forum. I've repeatedly stated their profits need to be higher.
And he willingly admits this on stream.
I also have no idea where he'd get the idea I'm contra-piracy on the forum. I've repeatedly stated their profits need to be higher.
That was great to watch. I love the mentality that it's fine for him to disrupt someone's enjoyment of the game with whatever playstyle they choose (as long as they can't fight back of course) but people can't disrupt his.