Elite: Dangerous
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hendo
Fish finger sandwiches
Yes because Landing On Planets. I always wanted to do this in the original and now we can. And there are Thargoid bases to find etc etc.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
And engineers, who have made it possible for me to own a ship that jumps 58.8 light years at a time
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
got horizons. so how do i land on planets? do some planets have space ports? The passenger missions are new as well - with good money to be made it seems.
Still toying with the idea of starting over again. Ive got 3 ships and £50 million credits - but to need to relearn how to play the game.
Still toying with the idea of starting over again. Ive got 3 ships and £50 million credits - but to need to relearn how to play the game.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Kaka Tim On the system map it should tell you if a planet can be landed on if it has a blue curve round it. Then just fly at it. You'll enter orbit, keep the angle roughly 45 degrees and eventually you'll enter "glide". Then you'll come out of that a few km above the surface. Gently descend, don't forget to put yer landing gear down, use downward thrusters for the last couple of hundred metres. Best to try on a low gravity world (once a planet is scanned you can see the gravity).
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
And yes there are planetary bases
Cid
Proper break this time
You need a planetary vehicle hangar and a Scarab to go in it. Landing you just need to be cautious... At least for your first few goes. And avoid high gravity worlds...
Cid
Proper break this time
Horizons requires a GTX 470, going by google GTX 660 benchmarks higher, so should be fine.
souljacker
innit
I think I'm getting the hang of this now. I've been buzzing around fed space in my sidewinder getting bounties. Now up to enough cash to consider a new ship but no idea what to go for.
One thing I don't get is how do I get closer to planets? My FSD force drops me when I get too close but then it takes for ever to get anywhere near the surface and I usually give up. Am i missing something? I haven't got Horizons so I know I can't get the little car thing but I assumed there would still be things to see down there.
Also, where the fuck is sol? I want to see earth and Mars and the moon but I can't find them. I'm in ross 421 (or something) at the moment. No idea where I am if I'm honest.
One thing I don't get is how do I get closer to planets? My FSD force drops me when I get too close but then it takes for ever to get anywhere near the surface and I usually give up. Am i missing something? I haven't got Horizons so I know I can't get the little car thing but I assumed there would still be things to see down there.
Also, where the fuck is sol? I want to see earth and Mars and the moon but I can't find them. I'm in ross 421 (or something) at the moment. No idea where I am if I'm honest.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
You can't land on anything or even enter orbital flight without Horizons I'm afraid souljacker - I highly recommend it though.
As for Sol, the good news is you can search for it in the Galaxy Map. Bad news is you need a permit to enter the system. Which takes more grind than I've been added to do so far.
hendo
Fish finger sandwiches
It's the grind that's putting me off this game. You can make a lot of money by doing massive repetitive cargo runs on Community goals, or long long rides for passengers and that's how you get the big ships, or so it seems to me. But it takes an epoch of time, which maybe it should but it seems to me that months after starting I'm still a vulnerable minnow in the Elite fishpond. On Thursday night I got jumped by three ships as I attempted a dodgy salvage black box mission and I was debris inside twenty seconds. I nearly rage quit. You think you're starting to be decent at the game and lo and behold, you're paying out insurance for a new ship and looking at a screen of failed missions. Gah.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
hooray. Finally found an undiscovered by anyone else earth type planet! but fuck the galaxy is big an empty and full of boring planets. Might start the long haul back to civilisation - and im hardly any distance away from the bubble in terms of the big map - 4000ish light years.
souljacker
innit
I'm thinking exploring is the way forward with this game. What ship do you use?
@S☼I I'll get horizons when I've worked out what the fuck I'm doing on this version.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
I'm thinking exploring is the way forward with this game. What ship do you use?
@S☼I I'll get horizons when I've worked out what the fuck I'm doing on this version.
Asp explorer - which seems to be what everyone else uses. Not cheap though. Some people use an Anaconda - but that cost north of £100 million.
I found doing the community goals was a good way of getting lots of money early on.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Well maybe 18 hours of game time exploring earned me over £45 million! Not sure i'll bother for a while though - tis not the most exciting thing. Although i did enjoy seeing my name listed as the discoverer of 2 earth type worlds. Shame you cant name them yourself. In fact - i think the game should make more of earth world discoveries - maybe if you discover one you can then lead a colonisation mission for your chosen faction - or even start your own colony and recruit other players. loads of scope.
Next Question - should i buy a fully kitted out Anaconda?
Next Question - should i buy a fully kitted out Anaconda?
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Depends Kanda
I've now done 970,000 light years, probably over two thirds of that in my Asp. If I had to pick just one ship I'd pick that because it's very manoeverable in super cruise, but it doesn't jump as far as my Conda. The Conda steers like a cow in supercruise, which personally I like - a ship the size of an aircraft carrier shouldn't be able to be thrown around - but I know it annoys the hell out of some people.
My Asp has a range of 48, the Conda is 58. The former is worth around 17m, the latter 188m.
I've now done 970,000 light years, probably over two thirds of that in my Asp. If I had to pick just one ship I'd pick that because it's very manoeverable in super cruise, but it doesn't jump as far as my Conda. The Conda steers like a cow in supercruise, which personally I like - a ship the size of an aircraft carrier shouldn't be able to be thrown around - but I know it annoys the hell out of some people.
My Asp has a range of 48, the Conda is 58. The former is worth around 17m, the latter 188m.
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Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
hendo Kaka Tim souljacker
Exploration is a pretty quick way to make a lot of money if you do the Earthlike tour. It's all pretty close to the bubble, and you don't have to do it all at once. Get as big a jump range as you can, detailed surface and advanced discovery scanners and spend a day or two on this. Grindy if you're not into exploring but it WILL put you in a different league money-wise.
Here's a good build for this, requires no engineering and yet will still get you a range over well over 37ly
Coriolis EDCD Edition
and here's the Earthlike tours - there's a big one and a little one - I recommend the latter.
The Great Earth-Like World Tour
Exploration is a pretty quick way to make a lot of money if you do the Earthlike tour. It's all pretty close to the bubble, and you don't have to do it all at once. Get as big a jump range as you can, detailed surface and advanced discovery scanners and spend a day or two on this. Grindy if you're not into exploring but it WILL put you in a different league money-wise.
Here's a good build for this, requires no engineering and yet will still get you a range over well over 37ly
Coriolis EDCD Edition
and here's the Earthlike tours - there's a big one and a little one - I recommend the latter.
The Great Earth-Like World Tour
souljacker
innit
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Ah, sorry, I wasn't very clear. You go to the named system, honk your Advanced Discovery Scanner, open the system map, find the Earthlike world, target it, scan it. With a detailed surface scanner on board, even a previously tagged ELW will get you over 600k in exploration data credits when you cash in.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Also
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Another milestone - one million light years travelled.
