Elite Dangerous - Yay or Nay?

[MadMaxHellfire]

i wish my ignore list was as long as my dick. thanks for helping.

 

[J_C]

Since I know by now that MadMaxHellfire is a retard on a mission to have an argument with me.

Here is a video showing how you travel through entire solar systems with 2000c, in few minutes

What do you want to show here exactly? That you can go into empty space with 2000c speed? Well great, although there is no reason to do that since there is nothing in the outher reaches of a solar system. The area where you can find plantes and missions is easily reachable with much slower speed. Also there are some convenient cuts in the video, to skip the waiting time. Because it takes quite a lot of time to accelerate to 2000c. And finally, this is still not time compression.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Ask the bald guy why he is making such a fuzz, not me.

I only said that you can travel half a light year within a few hours that's all and it's the same as using time machines.

There isn't anything going on outside your ship anyways, enemies wait at the conflict zones wether I use time compression or not. You seem to be under illusions that there's more going on this game than there actually is, and the bald retard is having a hissy fit.

i wish my ignore list was as long as my dick. thanks for helping.

nobody cares

 

[Stokowski]

And finally, this is still not time compression.

This feels like hair-splitting.
You could have sub-light-speed travel with time compression (Frontier: Elite 2, etc.), or
you could have faster than light travel that acts as de facto time compression (at least from the player's perspective, if not the universe's internal clock, which is busted anyway, because you're going faster than light ...)
See what I mean?

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

So, what,you want it to take a few days to fly from one planet to the other? Or you want to have to use jumps for everything?

And you could achieve 2000x effective light speed while standing still with Alcubierre drive (aka Roddenberry warp drive).

It is splitting hairs, yeah. You could larp that it's taking a few days or a month and let it go.

btw, i don't play this because it's boring, but it cost me about $12, so I don't care.

 

[Stokowski]

So, what,you want it to take a few days to fly from one planet to the other?

No. Why are you imagining anyone is asking this?

Or you want to have to use jumps for everything?

Why are you assuming "want"?

And you could achieve 2000x effective light speed while standing still with Alcubierre drive (aka Roddenberry warp drive).

Mmmkay.

It is splitting hairs, yeah.

No kidding.

You could larp that it's taking a few days or a month and let it go.

Bit of a challenge to larp that in a setting with a single global server tick, really.

btw, i don't play this because it's boring, but it cost me about $12, so I don't care.

Quality contribution as always Lambchop. Congratulations on being the poster child for lowest common denominators everywhere.

 

[Burning Bridges]

It's not time compression, it's Alqumbiers-drive

 

[.Pixote.]

I might as well show the beautiful piece of junk that I enjoy flying around...this is purely an explorer ship, it couldn't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag. I prefer the aesthetic of a beat up ship, I wish the game allowed players to buy second hand rust buckets, the colour schemes on offer with Frontier are pretty much crap, I go for a basic colour then allow time to burn off the paint.

 

[Voids]

I might as well show the beautiful piece of junk that I enjoy flying around...this is purely an explorer ship, it couldn't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag. I prefer the aesthetic of a beat up ship, I wish the game allowed players to buy second hand rust buckets, the colour schemes on offer with Frontier are pretty much crap, I go for a basic colour then allow time to burn off the paint.

Sharp! What's your exploration meta? I always feel like I'm not quite efficient enough. Do you take the time to scan each individual body or just the system?

 

[.Pixote.]

I'm at 'elite' for exploration, but I wouldn't recommending flying around blindly to find decent scannable planets to increase your rankings, it's better to use the road to riches method. This game has a problem with balance, the arseholes who designed are obviously hardcore sadists...the grind can be fucking horrible, but break it down, don't do any one thing too long. Engineering is critical, you have no choice but to go and collect materials (mind numbing shit). I'm getting close to visiting Colonia through the neutron superhighway, but like everything in Elite you have to grind money and materials to upgrade the best ship with the longest jump range...

Neutron Superhighway


Material Collecting


https://www.alpha-orbital.com/pathfinder

 

[PrettyDeadman]

I would say Nay.

 

[Fedora Master]

I've gotten to Elite in Exploration by just randomly exploring my way towards Sag A. With the new payouts it has become rather easy. Used a kitted out Conda but really should've done it with a Krait MKII since it's the overall more convenient ship for exploration. Got quite a few Neutron Stars and Earthlikes with my name on too.

 

[ADL]

might be cool

 

[ADL]

Also Horizons is becoming free. If you paid for it, you'll get a universal paint job for all your ships.

 

[ADL]

Honestly it looks pretty fucking cool. Looks like someone tool a blow torch to stainless steel and got it all crazy looking.

 

[J_C]

Also Horizons is becoming free. If you paid for it, you'll get a universal paint job for all your ships.

Hope that exquisite skin will make all the sods who got it for full price fell real good.

I think I bought it full price years ago, when it released. Can't say I care about it being free now, I got my money's worth all these years. That said, I would probably be more butthurt if I purchased it right now, and all I got is a paintjob.

 

[Fedora Master]

Horizons was okay for buying it on sale. Full price? Hell no.

 

[praetor]

i bought it back then full price 'cause i still had a smidge of optimism left that they can get their shit together. that optimism was killed off rather quickly, and this travesty "we'll make a 40€ expansion pack free... you get a paintjob!" is pretty much a nail in the fucking coffin, as far as i'm concerned. they won't be receiving a single cent from me (not that they care)

 

[freygeist87]

I think this game is always a good alternative, if Star Citizen fails. Yes they did some shady shit, but its still a good space game, for what it does. Combat is great fun, Exploration and Trading are a bit boring and it can be too much of a grind to get good ships.

 

[.Pixote.]

Finally I reached Elite in the 3 fields (Combat - Trade - Exploration), the final combat field required me to kill 1600 Thargoid scouts - good times not...over all it takes approximately 1000 hours + to accomplish this meaningless result, such is modern life.

 

[Tiger]

Finally I reached Elite in the 3 fields (Combat - Trade - Exploration), the final combat field required me to kill 1600 Thargoid scouts - good times not...over all it takes approximately 1000 hours + to accomplish this meaningless result, such is modern life.

Didn't you ever stop to think about what you're doing with your life?

 

[DraQ]

It's like this thing DraQ was talking about.

 

[praetor]

It's like this thing DraQ was talking about.

it's absolutely nothing "like this thing DraQ was talking about" because the only thing Draq was sperging about was his incessant, petulant, inane bitching about the flight model (which is, ironically, by far the best feature of the game)

 

[Burning Bridges]

Horizons is becoming free. If you paid for it, you'll get a universal paint job for all your ships.

A blow job would have been nice.

 

[DraQ]

It's like this thing DraQ was talking about.

it's absolutely nothing "like this thing DraQ was talking about" because the only thing Draq was sperging about was his incessant, petulant, inane bitching about the flight model (which is, ironically, by far the best feature of the game)

Incorrect. I was bitching half of the time about that and half of the time about it being a shitty MMO with all it entails.
And also about the former being caused by the latter.