It'll never work.

My second try at epic last word

fiftykyu wrote on Aug 12, 2015, 21:06:
Steam keys have been available since the end of May. I remember getting mine, playing a few minutes and then forgetting about it. I couldn't remember what I was doing, or how to play, or anything really. Looked cool though. Check https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=148965 for the procedure, assuming it hasn't changed.

Thanks that did work.

SpectralMeat wrote on Aug 12, 2015, 10:56:
By the way whatever happened with the promise of the Steam cd key for those that purchased the game from their website?
I would prefer to have this game on Steam, so I can stream it on my home network.

Steam keys have been available since the end of May. I remember getting mine, playing a few minutes and then forgetting about it. I couldn't remember what I was doing, or how to play, or anything really. Looked cool though. Check https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=148965 for the procedure, assuming it hasn't changed.

I know what you meant, what my point was that sometimes you have to grind for that new ship because what you enjoy doing in the game may not be so profitable. It was a pretty long haul for me also until I finally got into an Asp. There was a bug that was preventing me to jump the ships maximum jump range so I was doing the trips with a lot more jumps than what I should have had.

It does get mind mumbling sometimes and so as long as you do not set up unrealistic goals for yourself but just play the game you should be fine. Take some breaks or do something else before you burn yourself out.

I did hear they've nerfed a lot of stuff since I last played. People were buying Anacondas within a month or so playing when the game came out.

Yeah but I don't want to explore for profit, I want to explore for the sake of exploring, the sake of fun. And that's why it's so annoying that it's actually not profitable. Just like mining.

It's like I want to do these things and the game is telling me "Well, you COULD explore or you COULD mine but it's gonna be a LONG time until you can get that shiny new ship."
And that is what's so frustrating.

I don't even have such high goals. I just want an outfitted ASP so I can travel the galaxy but before I get the 20 million credits required for that a long time will have passed, especially since I don't get to play that often (I'm on vacation right now, which is the only reason I made any progress at all).

Mining and exploration were never the most profitable activities. The rare trade runs were great and killing pirates was the second best for income. Doing missions was also great for money income.
It was still a bit of a grind fest but you have to switch it up a bit to make it interesting.

Because I want to play a game where I can fly around in a spaceship and have fun. And blowing up other space ships is fun, however, I want to try things like mining and exploring and trading.

The problem is that I have to constantly worry about how I can increase my standing with the factions and how I can maximise my profits because everything is so god damn expensive that I cannot just go out and mine or trade because I am just stuck with one ship and cannot but any more since the game is such a grind.

Which begs the question, why do you keep playing it if it's a drag? If you don't enjoy that type of gameplay than don't play it.
I've made quiet a bit of money before all the nerfs. Rare trades and pirate hunting was quiet profitable.
I haven't played in a while, but I am sure I'll come back to it some day.

By the way whatever happened with the promise of the Steam cd key for those that purchased the game from their website?
I would prefer to have this game on Steam, so I can stream it on my home network.

Finally I reached the friendly reputation status with the alliance. What a drag. Now to think that getting allied will be at least as much... >_>

Also I used almost all of my 3 million to further upgrade my Cobra. I'll never get my ASP at that pace.

I think it was time that someone posted in here again.

I actually played some E:D on Friday but I think the grind is too much for me. I actually only want to be be friendly with the alliance and get an ASP but even that will cost me so much time I don't even want to play.

I never thought in the first place!

Think again.

Just thought I'd pop in here for abit to give it a bump.

Also would be cool if I got last word in a epic thread

I'm sure this thread is dead, but I've picked this back up. The community goals are actually pretty fun! The game has a bit of a Guild Wars 2 feel to it now...

Anyway, if anyone is still playing and wants to play around in a wing, hit me up.

Sounds like fun! Hopefully, I'll get some time this weekend to try it out.

So I grew a pair and played Open last night with my Vulture. Was hanging around the Eravate NAV Beacon to conduct some Bounty Hunting. Of course I'm cautious about other players when a CMDR in a Python starts asking me questions about the Vulture, but it ends up that he's a good guy and we talk about creating a Wing (my first time).

So being a Wing noob, the CMDR sends me a Wing invite and I have no idea how to accept the invitation... very embarrassing!!

So just for you folks out there, you type '2', then 'ESC', then use 'E' to move to the right to select the InBox icon to get to your invites. This is also documented, I didn't have it readily available.

The Wings experience was cool, a Vulture and a Python bring a lot of damage with large hard points so we were one/two shotting NPC ships. We/I ran out of time but next time doing a mission will being some challenge as it ends up being Elite Conda's a lot of times.

Anyways, Wings is a good time, look forward to doing it more.

I'll just say that the Olsen sister is hot. The movie looks fun, pretty much the same spirit as the first one. Also got to see an extended trailer for the new Star Wars. Weird seeing Han Solo and Princess Leia on screen again...

My exploration didn't end up going that far. I was having fun with the debug camera taking pretty pictures. I go back to my cockpit, and I'm on fire at 75% hull. Ouch, didn't realize I was that close to a star.

The Auto repair thingies seem useful now, as heat damage starts breaking your subsystems now.

Vall Forran wrote on Mar 23, 2015, 19:20:
And, yay..the Avengers 2 is done! Shawarma for everyone!

So do you want to share some of that Avengers 2 goodness with your fellow Elite pilots?

Just purchased a Vulture yesterday and have tried it out a little. Class 3 Hard points are nice, I took down a Fed Drop Ship pretty quickly yesterday, but I do miss have 4 Hard points for variety. Also not too easy to find a variety of Class 3 weapons to choose from as of yet. Nice fighter so far though, will have to do more dogfighting with it.