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The height of newbie tedium...

shassshass Member UncommonPosts: 107
edited February 2016 in Elite: Dangerous
Good grief, this game for a new player is the absolute definition of tedium. It's all well and good reading posts that state it gets better when.. but for crying out loud give the new player a break. I have been trying for two days and can get nowhere. I don't have enough fuel to cart any commodities anywhere to make a snivelling bit of profit. I have now lost three ships to pirates or whatever they are. Now, as usual, at the station I restart in I am presented with a list of totally unavailable missions. WTF. I don't mind a steep learning curve but let me have just a little bit of fun, or let me accomplish something. Totally given up on this game, it was a miserable experience of searching the net to find how to play as the manual and tutorials were crap, followed by pure frustration at not being able to achieve anything. To those who play, grats you must have earned it. Going back to X3, at least I can do something.

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  • KatillaKatilla Member UncommonPosts: 829
    At launch it was a lot easier, then they added a couple patches and now the pirates are all over the place making it a pain in the ass.  They also nerfed the trade routes and made it harder to get cash from them.  I actually stopped playing and was going to come back for the horizons update, until i read on the forums that a lot of people are losing ships while trying to land on planets.  The insurance on ships was lowered, but not enough to draw me back.  If you could actually land on habitable planets then maybe, but not now.
  • warsaber1375warsaber1375 Member UncommonPosts: 19
    I didn't have any problems landing, its the npc i have issues with, trying to ram you as the scan you, i had just destroyed a wanted criminal, and had very little hull strength left, then all of a sudden i get scan by a anaconda and notice its engines is getting louder as it scans me, just when i started to hit boost the anaconda plowed right through me, i was like screw it and logged out and haven't been back since, till the fix that bug im taking a break from it. Even the target you was trying to destroy was trying to ram you head on.
  • LobotomistLobotomist Member EpicPosts: 5,981
    edited February 2016
    shass said:
    Good grief, this game for a new player is the absolute definition of tedium. It's all well and good reading posts that state it gets better when.. but for crying out loud give the new player a break. I have been trying for two days and can get nowhere. I don't have enough fuel to cart any commodities anywhere to make a snivelling bit of profit. I have now lost three ships to pirates or whatever they are. Now, as usual, at the station I restart in I am presented with a list of totally unavailable missions. WTF. I don't mind a steep learning curve but let me have just a little bit of fun, or let me accomplish something. Totally given up on this game, it was a miserable experience of searching the net to find how to play as the manual and tutorials were crap, followed by pure frustration at not being able to achieve anything. To those who play, grats you must have earned it. Going back to X3, at least I can do something.

    Ok... as a newbie you can do exactly same thing I am doing after a year and earn around 1,000,000 credits in hour. Yes - million credits in hour.

    How:

    1. Do few mission. Earn enough money to buy a Hauler ( its second ship for newbies)
    2. Equip it with maximum cargo spaces, and as good jump ability as you can.
    3. Open this web page http://eliteraretrader.co.uk/
    4. Welcome to Rare Commodity trading

    Ah... and please stay away from Lave, you dont need to go there



  • Mors.MagneMors.Magne Member UncommonPosts: 1,549
    I'm 42 years old, and I played the original Elite in 1984.

    I'd say that E:D is a proper 'old school' game - the grind can be long and hard - and that's even after you've researched the meta-game on the internet!

    To make matters worse, unpredictable things can happen! 

    However, all these are small parts of what makes the game addictive. It's like trying to climb a mountain.

    Personally, I'm a little tired of the rank grind, so I will return to the game soon when more content comes out.
  • mayito7777mayito7777 Member UncommonPosts: 768
    I tried to play the game but I couldnt, I got interdicted to every turn I went, I couldn't land because of the excessive amount of commands to land a ship, couldnt find any route, hopefully No man's Sky may save the day. I will not recommend ED to anyone.

    want 7 free days of playing? Try this

    http://www.swtor.com/r/ZptVnY

  • Mors.MagneMors.Magne Member UncommonPosts: 1,549
    mayito7777 said:
    I tried to play the game but I couldnt, I got interdicted to every turn I went, I couldn't land because of the excessive amount of commands to land a ship, couldnt find any route, hopefully No man's Sky may save the day. I will not recommend ED to anyone.
    You were getting interdicted for a reason (most likely you were a serious pirate with a huge bounty on your head). Normally, you just get randomly interdicted once in a while.

    ED is primarily a simulation of space travel. Eventually, just about every key will do something.

    I agree that No Man's Sky should be good, but ED will have far more variety of tasks a few years time.

    ED is a good AAA game. It's Cobra engine is innovative.
  • ErillionErillion Member EpicPosts: 10,328
    If newbies look for things to do, the new DLC "The Engineers (2.1)"  will allow them to track the locations of Community Goals on the galaxy map.  So they can fly there and participate in larger projects, also greatly enhancing their chances to meet and interact with other players.  If they are not into PvP, they can fly there in solo mode too.


    Have fun
  • sgelsgel Member EpicPosts: 2,197
    mayito7777 said:
    I tried to play the game but I couldnt, I got interdicted to every turn I went, I couldn't land because of the excessive amount of commands to land a ship, couldnt find any route, hopefully No man's Sky may save the day. I will not recommend ED to anyone.
    If you think landing your ship needs an excessive amount of commands you should probably stay away from mildly complicated games. It really isn't that hard and I remember succeeding on my first try (with a bit of sweat and adrenaline).

    Maybe you should recommend ED to people who actually can be bothered to actually sit down and learn the game they're playing.

    ..Cake..

  • AxxarAxxar Member UncommonPosts: 104
    It's a fun game for a while, but much of the game design is amateurishly executed. The content is barebones and there is stillp placeholder stuff from the beta. The flight system is top notch, though, and the graphics are nice. I wish there were seamless transitions when supercruising as that would make the game a lot more immersive.
  • NasherUKNasherUK Member UncommonPosts: 480
    edited May 2016
    The NPC/spawn mechanics right now are heavily rigged. They pretty much run off a script and it will spawn X if condition Y is met. There is no persistence or consistency. So if you have cargo run missions it will throw pirates at you. If your smugging it will throw cops.

    It's a shitty system and why I don't play so much any more. It was supposed to be a placeholder back in alpha, but they never changed it or created persistent NPCs. Hopefully they will finish it properly at some point.

    As a demo of what is possible in a game, it's amazing. As an actual GAME, it still has a long way to go. Braban has planned 10 years of ongoing development for the game. So eventually it will be epic.
  • VelifaxVelifax Member UncommonPosts: 413
    If the research and learning were not in themselves enjoyable for you, take that as a sign that Elite is likely not your game. It possesses many elements that tend to attract the mature gamer crowd (such as "too many commands to land ship", and "grind"). 

    You have Star Citizen, No Man's Sky, and of course a bazillion other space shooters to enjoy, this one is ours :) 

    Strange though, that you enjoy X3. Those typically also require patience, investment, and setbacks. What sort of mods do you run?
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