Anyone interested in playing Elite Dangerous?

[Kenadian]

Joe and I were talking about Elite Dangerous last week and will hopefully start getting back into it soon.

Just out of curiosity, is anyone else willing to jump back into Elite Dangerous?

My guess is we'll be playing Horizons and probably on the weekends, preferably after the Saturday afternoon stream if possible.

 

[little P]

I'm up for joining in late night if I can stay awake. I'm orbiting Earth at the moment looking for something to do. I wonder if they finally sorted out the connection issues we used to have being in the same instance.

 

[Kenadian]

I have no idea if the connection issues are sorted out yet? I sure hope so, it's been out long enough now.

I haven't played since Engineers just released and found it to add nothing substantial to the game other than OP enemy when RES milking. Since that destroyed my primary source of income I just gave up on the game.

 

[little P]

Yeah I kind of lost any sort of interest in it too and Engineers added nothing really to entice me back. I was reading the missions have more depth now and also there are some sight seeing mechanics but I don't know how they work either. Smuggling is something that would interest me now I think so might try that along with some pew pew and exploring the "planets". God I wish they would release an update where we can land on proper planets and not just a procedure generated rock. Now that would be cool. But I'm mostly looking forward to jumping back in with the Vive as I really haven't played much at all in VR.

 

[Kenadian]

Ya definitely, the game is amazing but could be so much more especially if we could land on inhabited planets with unique ecosystems.

The other thing that's terrible in this game is balancing income over time invested. Some missions take forever to complete and make about 1/10th (at best) as one or two drops into a Hazardous RES.

 

[Skid_Marc_]

Ya definitely, the game is amazing but could be so much more especially if we could land on inhabited planets with unique ecosystems.

The other thing that's terrible in this game is balancing income over time invested. Some missions take forever to complete and make about 1/10th (at best) as one or two drops into a Hazardous RES.

Actually, I think you'll find that, if you work with Joe, completing really long trade missions will be more profitable than HazRez Mining. HRM can lead to exciting battles, but what hasn't been done by our wing (on stream at least) is some actual 'across galaxy' exploring. It would be a lot of jumps/resource managing, but you'd at least get to see some systems we never really got to, and maybe see a black hole or something. Manotonous tasks, like anything that includes the word 'mining', is just asking to get burned out through. At least doing missions you'll be seeing different systems and maybe come across some interesting/random side stories or something.

Would definitely love to see the B2O wing back in action, but I'll be sitting it out. I'm with P that there really isn't anything luring me back into the game right now, my controller is a ticking time bomb that I don't want to deal with, and I'm currently fighting having my pilot's licence revoked. Too many ridiculous and fabricated strikes on the ol' record:

• Multiple Counts - Leaving the scene of a docking bay accident or failing to offer help at an accident site (beam lasers do NOT cauterize cuts or puncture wounds to limbs, but rather just remove the limb entirely.. I said 'problem solved', but the courts currently say otherwise...);
• Multiple Counts - Eluding or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer / security scans;
• Multiple Counts - Causing serious injury with the operation of your vehicle (like I was supposed to know they were doing a EVA repair on a dock when I bounced... err... temporarily landed on the wrong pad );
• Multiple Counts - Excessive speeding in speed controlled space and inside high traffic stations;
• ...a laundry list of other blatantly false charges brought on by the Alliance, ranging from manslaughter to first-degree murder (but seriously who gives a s*** about them, right?)

Annnnnnnyways...

 

[JMart]

Unless they have patched them, you can easily make a few million doing short missions on planetary surfaces. On top of that, you can always go to the other side of the galaxy and pick up passengers to bring them back. Might take you a few days to do it, but you'll get 40-50 million, unless they have patched it?

 

[Kenadian]

That shit is boring though lol.

I like fighting.

 

[Ninj]

If you want to make loads of money atm, you need to find a faction that is at war and stack massacre missions.

Problem is, wars only last a few days maximum. Also, you don't tend to make much money unless you have an above-average reputation with the local faction/s.

If you want something interesting though, aliens turned up.

Don't look below unless you can deal with spoilers.

Harmless so far, but who knows. In any case.. if anyone wants a hand to help in meeting them, message me in-game.

 

[JMart]

I played most of yesterday afternoon and evening, about 4 million creds in bounties. Combat is back in all its glory, the only problem I had was the AI will target your subsystems a lot more when your shields are down and can do a ton of damage to those systems.