This grates on me too.
I bought No Man's Sky during this last Steam winter sale and I've played over 50 hours with it since then, and I just can't help feeling how NMS does so many things better than Elite. And yet Elite has far better flight mechanics and is the better game in many ways, but NMS is just so FUN to explore and sightsee in.
What I really want is a game with the dynamic variety of NMS plus the sim light flight mechanics of Elite. Such a game would rule my life for so damn long.
Fer-De-Lance is the biggest offender on this. It's my favorite ship in the game and is biggest blemish is that stupid bar right in front of you.Decided to pick this up again and was reminded of my perennial hatred for ships where the pilot seat isn't in the middle. It unduly bugs the shit out of me that I had to look at the side of the windscreen.
Fer-De-Lance is the biggest offender on this. It's my favorite ship in the game and is biggest blemish is that stupid bar right in front of you.
By not existing in a video game where they don't have to do things put ugly bars right in your way.
Not through space and on a lane where a side aligned seat makes more sense. I mean as I said its an irritation. Though given other players could sit in the co-pilot seat I think you should at least be able to switch around what seat you are in.
It's been a long time coming, but I've been playing (sometimes on and off) for almost exactly 5 years and I finally did it.
For combat, the way that sped it up for me was taking my FDL out to a Hazardous RES in Gende (extremely close to a station) and killing only wanted Elite, Deadly, and Dangerous ships, prioritizing them in the order. When you hit Deadly, only those ranked ships count toward your rank. Avoid fighting wings if possible, and if not, only engage wings you think you can reasonably beat by yourself. For instance, I see a lot of Federal Assault Ships with two Eagle wingmates, those are pretty easy especially if you focus the Eagles first.Congrats! I think I will never have the patience to do it myself, stuck at the end of Dangerous forever.
For combat, the way that sped it up for me was taking my FDL out to a Hazardous RES in Gende (extremely close to a station) and killing only wanted Elite, Deadly, and Dangerous ships, prioritizing them in the order. When you hit Deadly, only those ranked ships count toward your rank. Avoid fighting wings if possible, and if not, only engage wings you think you can reasonably beat by yourself. For instance, I see a lot of Federal Assault Ships with two Eagle wingmates, those are pretty easy especially if you focus the Eagles first.
Also Elite Eagles CAN spawn but are pretty rare. Definitely take out the easier ships of those high ranks if you just care about grinding rank.
If the enemy uses ship launched fighters, unless your ship is really light and mobile, they usually aren't worth trying to chase. Just focus the mothership.
I moved over to Jameson Memorial in Founders World now, and set all my ships to deliver there last night. Having access to every ship and module in one place is NICE. My next goal is a combat ready Cutter. I need to grind Imperial Navy and get more credits for outfitting. I have about 280 mil right now, and the Cutter was around 190 mil at Jameson Memorial. I assume insurance cost is still calculated from the FULL price value of the ship?
On another topic, I got the CH Pro Pedals about a month ago, but now they have started going weird on the reads of the input. My suspicion is dirt, dust, or cat hair got in there since they are under my desk... Where my feet would be. Anyone know how to clean them out without voiding my warranty? It's kind of disappointing that they fail this easily.
Damn, congrats! I'll never reach Elite in any of the rankings but it's so cool to see those that do!Congrats! I think I will never have the patience to do it myself, stuck at the end of Dangerous forever.
Damn, congrats! I'll never reach Elite in any of the rankings but it's so cool to see those that do!
I miss Robigo runs and don't get why they had to nerf that into Oblivion. If you got scanned you lost all undelivered missions anyway, so that resulted in a lot of wasted time: something FD loves. It was high risk high reward and a lot of fun.Back in the day, Trading Elite rank was easily obtainable doing Robigo or Sothis runs stacking multiple delivery missions. That's how I've got mine and 2 billion credits on the way.
Probably the fastest and most efficient (and most tedious) way to grind Imperial Navy ranks is doing courier runs between outposts in Ngalinn - Mainani systems.Trying to do Imperial Navy grind and getting sent on missions to stations in systems that are 200k+ Ls away from the star you arrive in is really aggravating. I've just had one that was over 500k so I locked the camera front and center and played my Switch. Unless your game is Microsoft Flight Simulator, I feel like this is a failure in game design when literally all you can do is just sit the screen there and wait for a while.
I might have to do that, probably switch to my Asp.Probably the fastest and most efficient (and most tedious) way to grind Imperial Navy ranks is doing courier runs between outposts in Ngalinn - Mainani systems.
The outposts (so no large pad) in those systems always have courier missions for eachother and are pretty close to the main star, 800-900ls.
But again, extremely tedious.
I've just been stacking any and most missions that contain Rep+++ (3 pluses or more) that that's worked out, but yeah, still tedious given some of the systems I have had to go to. I need to grab my Asp and go to Ngalinn/Mainani. I'm doing these missions in my Anaconda right now.Yeah I ground out Imperial rank doing courier runs. But it is hard to over emphasise how tedious it becomes.
Try playing Flight Simulator some time. You think Elite has a lot of key bindings? lolSidenote - using a HOTAS with scripts, a VR headset, AND Oculus dash while running a game is what people should mean when they say PC gaming is too complicated. 😇
Try playing Flight Simulator some time. You think Elite has a lot of key bindings? lol
I'm actually really looking forward to MS Flight Sim...I can put all the equipment I've bought for Elite to use with it.Fleet Carriers are completely worthless for explorers, no stellar cartography at all.
FDev is so disconnected from their own game. Their lack of vision is alarming.
I kind of think I'm done with Elite. I have very little faith the New Era, whatever it is, will have anything worthwhile for explorers anyway. And MS Flight Sim will be out by then. I think it's time I free up the hard drive space instead.
First of all, I recommend you check through your key binds, maybe in full, or at least each time you come across a new feature.So jumping back in. Questions!
I never really used weapons or heatsinks and I am using the crab KBM bindings (which I got a long time ag) and voice attack. I had heatsinks in my voice attack but I didn't realize you need to mouseclick to extend hardpoints..then click again to shoot. Then I have to press a different button to retract..so:
1) How do I make this process easier?
2) How do I manage when I get a ship where I need weapons and heatsinks both? How do you switch between them?
Now playing with a friend, took us a bit but one of us was only able to find one in search and not other way around. I joined their group but we are so far away. What are our options? What can we actually do together instead of it being like like single instance?
It's a lot more than what was originally planned and yet you're still somehow underwhelmed?
It's a lot more than what was originally planned and yet you're still somehow underwhelmed?