![]() ![]() In the beginning you could make some money on the side doing exploration but now I think the starting systems are all well mapped and there is no money anymore. Strange thing is completing them does not raise your trader rating.Įxploration is quite fun and interesting, problem only is you need very expensive equipment to make good money, and quite a big ship to mount it all. The small transport missions at the spaceports often bring more profit then a regular run, especially if you only have a small ship. Also without any trading tools its can be hard to find a lucrative route where you can make good money. I play mostly as a bountyhunter, as I tried trading in the beta but really found it sleep inducing, more then once I fell asleep on a long run. The multiplayer part is a bit thin so far, you can fly for hours and not meet another player, currently its for me a singleplayer game where others might or might not participate. Have to agree with mostly with Lees opinion. You'll log back in exactly where you left off. Drop out of supercruise anywhere you like and just save and quit. If you have limited play time though you'd need to be more selective about taking missions and I'd definitely recommend *not* taking combat missions as they normally take quite a while.Īs syntherMD said though, there are other ways to spend an hour or so fighting stuff.Įxploring you absolutely can do in small chunks. I haven't found it too much of a problem myself - the timers are fairly generous, so there have been times when I've accepted a mission at the end of a play session, gone out for the afternoon and finished the mission that evening. Yeah, missions are timed and the timer keeps going even when you're logged out. If you start in LHS 3447, leave immediately! You just need to find the place (Kremainn is a good starter RES zone). You don't need to be on a mission to do it. If you want to spend an hour shooting things, you could simply visit a resource extraction site (a mining place in Saturn like planets) or be in a conflict zone (eravate is closest to LHS 3447) for an hour and shoot some guys for money. I'm okay with "it will take me a long time to advance", but if I get a mission to kill 10 pirates (or whatever), can I be halfway done, log out, and come back a few days later to finish it up? Is it a game you can play for small windows of time? I'm very short on time these days and may only have 45 minutes to an hour to actually play the game. I've been on the fence about Elite: Dangerous and hopefully you guys can push me off: You can afford to take risks in the sidewinder, as if you get blown up, it's cheap to rebuy the upgrades you've already bought - or just get another free sidewinder! Try to avoid taking on anything too big like an anaconda or python without help! Spend money on weapons and a kill-warrant scanner, and you're away. If they're wanted, killing them will allow you to cash in bounties for them at stations. Then you can start with trading with that initial float, or if you're of a shooty mind, go out of supercruise around a resource extraction site or nav beacon in a non-anarchy system and scan ships. The fetch quests often involve collecting illegal cargo, the 'find this bad guy' missions are far too tough for a sidewinder. Just make sure you can get to the target system, using the galaxy maps - your jump range is very short to start with, so you can't reach all stars. The elite forums have a bunch of layouts to choose from for a lot of sticks, in case the stock one doesn't float your boat.Īs a starter to get some initial cash, I'd recommend doing the delivery missions (go drop x cargo off at a station, they give you the cargo). WASD is used for thrusters, so you're usually going to have your keyboard hand resting there - so kinda makes sense when you flip to a side panel. This is a nice keyboard layout as a starter set that's a bit nicer than the stock layout. It's definitely still playable with any of them, but I do recommend a joypad at least if you have one. Ease of flight goes hotas -> joystick -> joypad -> mouse + kb. You don't say if you're using a joystick or mouse/kb. Here's the basic stuff that should have been in the manual. Mainly as there's a LOT of stuff they don't tell you. Yeah, I think the review could have spent a bit more time on how bloody steep the learning curve is, this is nothing like TIE-Fighter or Freespace, or even the X series.
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