Looking up guides on Elite Dangerous and constantly getting advice that says “the minimum you need to be effective is insert equipment with a price tag of 10 million credits” which is not that useful 🙄
Reminds me of the “you could buy a house if you stopped eating avocado toast” line of financial advice
I’ve upgraded my ship to a Cobra Mk3 at least so I have enough cargo space to do some trading, but I’m only making low tens of 000s at a time. I tried my hand at bounty hunting & got completely wiped by my first band of pirates (I could have taken 1 or 2, but there were 5), so I don’t think I’ll be going that route. Started mining but completely misunderstood collector drones so wasted a bunch, and the UI for managing what you discard is wonky enough that I mostly lost what I did retrieve
@sinbad Fwiw I found exploration to be by far the most lucrative early on, but then I don't really enjoy combat and do enjoy being out in the middle of nowhere with nobody bothering me, so ymmv.
@teahands yeah I did notice the value building up in the charts I have, sadly I lost them all when the pirates killed me so I have quite a way further to travel before I can sell the new stuff I got this last session
I realised I needed a refinery with more bins to avoid having to manually discard the minerals I don’t want every time I pick something up (& risk binning the wrong one). Why can’t you tell it what to keep & auto discard the rest? And apparently the key to not wasting drones is to NOT direct them to specific chunks, or they self-destruct after each? This game is needlessly obtuse sometimes. But I’ve mastered manual docking and flying about, even landing on planets and the ships sound good
Honestly I think it’s the sound that’s making me want to keep playing the most. Every ship I’ve had (only 3 so far) sounds different but all are extremely satisfying. The noise they make when you drop out of hyperspace, or when they shut down on docking especially. Top notch fwoom / djeeoooow type noises you’d make with your mouth if no-one was watching.
The sounds that space itself makes (yes I know) as well - it’s like sci-fi whale music. The sound folks really over delivered on this one
@sinbad Yeah, the refinery and drones are annoying.
I tend to only mine for void opals and low temperature diamonds (using core mining), the other stuff clutters up my inventory and isn't work much.
Ah, the classic Cobra Mk III. I grew up with Elite (C64) and Elite Plus (Amiga).
Although in Elite II I mainly used an Imperial Courier, then a Panther Clipper. (And I didn't play Elite III much)
@kojack I played Elite a bit on BBC in school lunchtimes but the window of time didn’t really allow for much. I played Frontier a bit on the PC as well since I switched from Amiga to PC in 1991, but I don’t think I got that far before being distracted by other things
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