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[forsaken1111]

*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.

I've seen similar missions. Are you sure the faction who gave you the mission was also the system authority? I had a minor faction ask me to rescue a 'hostage' (prisoner) who was being held by the faction currently in power.

[Bauglir]

I am, yeah. They were the system authority, and they were running the outpost I took the mission at, and I found the target in the same system and he came up clean. When I looked into it apparently other people were having similar problems, as well as ones like the Hostages not counting for the mission and stuff, so I'm pretty much just chalking it up to poor testing and waiting for the bugs to get worked out.

It's a fantastic game, but only when it works properly.

[MDFification]

Let's get this thread going again! With the Dangerous Games starting, the universe of Elite: Dangerous is about to see its first player-made power! Who are you going to back? Personally I'm voting for UGC as the wildcard entry and hoping the Border Coalition wins the overall competition, but I'd love to hear what you guys think and why!

[Ultimuh]

Sorry for Necroing this months old thread. But I just got this game suddenly gifted by my two brothers.
While downloading and installing.. I have a question.. What will I expect from this game? (I have tried the old old old DOS game, but I only remember it vaguely.)

[forsaken1111]

Sorry for Necroing this months old thread. But I just got this game suddenly gifted by my two brothers.
While downloading and installing.. I have a question.. What will I expect from this game? (I have tried the old old old DOS game, but I only remember it vaguely.)

elite is a game that does very little hand holding. If you are the type that can make his own fun and enjoy a massive map in which to do it, you will enjoy this. Keep in mind that many things will change over time too. The devs have a years long development plan for annual paid expansions which add new features as well as regular content updates which are free.

[Ultimuh]

Will I easily get overwhelmed by the everything?

[forsaken1111]

Will I easily get overwhelmed by the everything?

there is a definite "crisis of choice" moment for some people. If your brother's are going to play with you that will help but my advice is to pick a system and focus on it and a few nearby. Run missions and get comfortable with flying, landing, and planetary approach if you have the horizons expansion. Do some paste hunting at a nav beacon or something once you understand how your ship flies.

Never ever fly without enough cash to cover the insurance fee for destruction.

[Ultimuh]

Ah but they do not actually play the game.
They just skimmed through my wishlist during my cakeday (It is over now though.), and decided to buy that one.

So this game seem to have multiplayer, right? In what way though?

[forsaken1111]

Multiplayer is optional. If you log in with "open" mode you will see some other players if they also happen to be in the same system. It uses a complex instancing system so you won't be inundated with other players even in a full system with thousands of others online.

You can go solo instead and never see other players, or set up a private group to play with. There are a few big private groups that discourage PvP play and just help each other out.

Happy belated birthday by the way.

I play the game still. Mostly I have been waiting for 2.2 patch to drop.

[Ultimuh]

Oh? What will happen in patch 2.2?
Don't want any major spoilers though, if you can help it. :v

[forsaken1111]

Oh? What will happen in patch 2.2?
Don't want any major spoilers though, if you can help it. :v

just some fun features. Ship launched fighter craft, passenger missions and some new visual stuff. New planet textures and station variants.

Also some new story progression is coming which I won't spoil. Should be fun.

[ukulele]

Just started playing this again, farming imperial ranks ATM, should be done by tomorrow, and then i need to farm the engineer upgrades. Basically setting up for the new update.

[Ygdrad]

Ship-launched fighters should be fun if they are cheap to replace. Something tells me they'll get annihilated by laser turrets or homing missiles though, and I'm not even going to get started about railguns >.>. I'm not really interested in the upcoming passenger missions though since it's most likely going to be just a different flavor of FedEx mission with different equipment/ship requirements.

What I'm really hyped for is the 2.3 and 2.4 patches which, if I'm not mistaken, will bring character creation/customization and multi-crew ships. This will give a proper reason to play with friends since at the moment there is little reason to group up aside from fun since the way bounties and trading works, a player in a group makes less money over time than one doing his own thing alone. With the exception maybe of war zone ship-destroying mission stacking as a group.

[ukulele]

As you im not very interested in this patch mechanics, im curious about the new sites and possible new story developments.

[forsaken1111]

So the thing happened. We've had first contact with aliens. For now it's a scripted event that triggers on specific circumstances but they look pretty amazing