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[se5a]

So i found i had an eagle in the hanger,  so ive tricked that out a little.  Attempted to turn the sidewinder into a miner,  but sort of failed misserably,  the single bin refinery is useless.  And i accedentaly voided my hopper twice.
Will try catch up with my eagle over the weekend to do some bounty hunting.

[forsaken1111]

So i found i had an eagle in the hanger,  so ive tricked that out a little.  Attempted to turn the sidewinder into a miner,  but sort of failed misserably,  the single bin refinery is useless.  And i accedentaly voided my hopper twice.
Will try catch up with my eagle over the weekend to do some bounty hunting.

Oh jeeze, yeah mining with a small refinery is terrible. You need at least 3-5 bins for it to be worthwhile.

I have recently been doing some lucrative new smuggling missions. I made 1.6 million last night off of just two missions.

[Flying Dice]

Decided to dump the progress I'd made (not much) and restart with the good ol' stock Siddie. I'd almost forgotten what it was like to be jumped by a kitted-out Federal Dropship too dumb to realize that the ammo costs aren't worth 6t of cheap cargo, never mind the bounty.

Or the hell of trying to find a mission that you can actually complete, I.E. not sourcing a bunch of rare metal or an assassination contract with 15min left and a target 200LY away. 

[forsaken1111]

Just made another cool 2 million from 2 smuggling missions and a cargo hauling mission all to the same system. Getting closer to my python...

[Chiefwaffles]

Necroing to rather uselessly say that I got Elite an dit's actually a lot better than I was expecting. Felt like everyone was saying that it has no content and gets boring super fast, that it's basically space trucking simulator 2015.
I love it so far. I have 49 hours in and got it (without Horizons) about a week ago, and while it may not be too complicated or in-depth, it's just fun. Right now I have a Viper MKIII fitted out with twin beam lasers and twin multicannons and have been bounty hunting in REZes.

Really just curious, but does any one else still play Elite?

[Retropunch]

Necroing to rather uselessly say that I got Elite an dit's actually a lot better than I was expecting. Felt like everyone was saying that it has no content and gets boring super fast, that it's basically space trucking simulator 2015.
I love it so far. I have 49 hours in and got it (without Horizons) about a week ago, and while it may not be too complicated or in-depth, it's just fun. Right now I have a Viper MKIII fitted out with twin beam lasers and twin multicannons and have been bounty hunting in REZes.

Really just curious, but does any one else still play Elite?

I was about to get it before the whole Horizons thing - I think that put a lot of people off. I'm definitely going to buy it when they do a bundle sale though.
I really hope they've learnt their lesson from Horizons - I don't think it went as planned at all. I think they were aiming for a sort of WoW type expansion idea and instead it just pissed everyone off.

[sluissa]

I still play elite all the time. I don't know what you mean by "The whole Horizons thing". So far it's a great expansion with plenty of content to come.

[forsaken1111]

Well people are free to wait for a sale or until the content catches up with their expectations.

I still play at least once a week, and driving around on planets is a blast.

[sluissa]

Well people are free to wait for a sale or until the content catches up with their expectations.

I still play at least once a week, and driving around on planets is a blast.

This, basically, it will get cheaper, and as time passes, more content will be added to horizons making the value even better.

I was mildly disappointed with Elite when it first shipped. It wasn't a bad game, I felt it had parity with the original elite, however, which was good enough. As the year passed up until just before Horizons was released, they added so much to the game that it became something completely new and different.

If you're looking at it from a traditional game purchase expectation, yeah, I'm not surprised you were disappointed. Horizons today isn't the full game. It'll be added to and expanded upon over the next year or two. This is how E:D development has played out so far and they were very open about it, so it shouldn't have surprised anyone. If you need more than just "driving around a bit" then you probably should wait. It's also still very possible to get the base game on it's own for a very reasonable price, which includes the year of additional dev features that didn't ship with the game , and I have no doubt around the time the next expansion comes out, Horizons will have dipped down quite a ways as well and have a lot more added to it.

Patience is a virtue in this case. Personally, I'm having a blast and don't mind supporting the game. I had my reservations at the beginning, but Braben and his team have redeemed themselves, and proven, in my eyes, they're worthy of my trust on this game.

[werty892]

Ah, Elite, not dangerous. Best not dangerous game to be made.

[ukulele]

Anyone else trying to find aliens in the pleiades?

[forsaken1111]

Anyone else trying to find aliens in the pleiades?

I'm planning a trip out there soon yeah.

[ukulele]

I made the mistake of building a diamondback scout for the trip, i chose to equip a fuel scoop and the plan was to sell it on obsidian station and equip a cargo hold, dont make the same mistake, seems there is no outfitting down here.

[forsaken1111]

I made the mistake of building a diamondback scout for the trip, i chose to equip a fuel scoop and the plan was to sell it on obsidian station and equip a cargo hold, dont make the same mistake, seems there is no outfitting down here.

I'm bringing an Asp myself.

[Bauglir]

I have spent entirely too much time playing this game. I like it less lately, but it's been a week or two so maybe there's been a new update, but the newer missions feel overly grindy in a lot of ways and they're starting to stretch suspension of disbelief*, not to mention the glitch when Horizons launched where I'd get multi-part missions that, on the final leg of the mission, required me to land on a planet. Despite not owning Horizons. Pretty sure that one's been fixed, though.

*I took a mission to rescue a kidnapped hostage, but the target had no bounty. I'm an idiot who forgot how bounties work for a bit, so I fired anyway to get their shields down, and this led to a whole clusterfuck that would've been a great story if it weren't kicked off because law enforcement took exception to me doing a job they gave me.