Elite dangerous

[Flossy]

Do you deliver pizza's Flossy?.

If the price was right, of course I would!  Not come across any yet though... 

There is ranking but three different ways of increasing rank.  Everyone starts out as Harmless in Combat, Penniless as a Trader and Aimless as an Explorer.  After a long exploring session on Saturday, I am now Mostly Aimless in the Exploration category. 

As a kickstarter backer, I have various starting options, and can start in a Cobra kitted out for whichever option is chosen.  I am hoping we have 3 commanders so that I can play 3 different types of play; one as an explorer, one as a trader and one for something like mining.   

Launch date in "two weeks!"   

[Nathan60]

So last night the last day of preorder I finally decided to grab this game, and of course my card gets lock for trying to use it on an overseas site. Got it straightened out today but missed on the preorder special. Been playing my copy of space trucker 2014 for a few hours stopped taking the 'find a pirate' missions and now im just hauling stuff around in 3 hours only got into 1 fight and was giving a better ship then mine all she wanted but was going south for me when out of nowhere some federal ships show up! Lol guess I got the last hit in and a nice little 9k bounty collected. Took a mission to deliver some tea for 12k then since I had bought some extra another 600 credits for them. Yeah I'd say this game is pretty fun except not being able to find things to blow up.

P.s. Ingame name is Killomend if ya want to friend up

[Flossy]

Argh, sorry to hear you missed out on the Preorder special but glad you managed to get into the game in the end.  If you want fights, look for the Conflict zones - I believe there are some around Eranin at the moment.  Also keep an eye on the Galnet news in the Starport services panel as that often gives hints of where to find action.  The missions are a good way of earning credits so that you can beef up your ship and eventually buy a better one.  If you upgrade your frameshift drive to get a better jump distance, there are some nice rare goods in the Commodities market which increase in price the further away you can get to sell them (at least 120 LY).  There is a list of systems/stations where rare goods have been found so far at https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=63119, with others being added all the time.  Rare goods are highlighted in yellow in the Commodities market.

Hope you continue to enjoy playing.  More will be coming in further patches during the coming weeks I think; they kept the release version very close to the latest Gamma to minimise problems on launch day, but there is more to come.  I will add you when I get online shortly. 

[zack1234]

What pre order special?

[Ack-Ack]

What pre order special?

A free pie.

[zack1234]

 

[Nathan60]

A free pie.

It was  a leftover Pecan pie from Thanksgiving tho.

[Nathan60]

lol FSD interdictors and nav points is where it is at, unfortunately federal ships like to pop in when you pull someone from FSD and clear your 12, you hit them one time next thing you know your wanted and now fighting 3 fed ships while the guy with the 12k bounty  jumps away  . Anyone using a teamspeak or vent we all can hop on when were playin?

[Nathan60]

I tell ya now if you run into an Asp with a 35k bounty that's labeld "harmless" that's a lie its gonna be a dog fight

[Mar]

Their ranks are usually say of on. Harmless NPCs sometimes can't even tell that they're being shot at for a few seconds and have bad aim, while Elites love to fly backwards so you can't escape their fire. And they have turrets. Lots of extremely annoying turrets.

[Nathan60]

Their ranks are usually say of on. Harmless NPCs sometimes can't even tell that they're being shot at for a few seconds and have bad aim, while Elites love to fly backwards so you can't escape their fire. And they have turrets. Lots of extremely annoying turrets.

yeah tangled with a really tough asp ended up getting my canopy shot out like half a minute before I got him, lol had to make 2 different sprints to different places to get repairs. Didn't have money at the first place I went so had to sprint to another station that was the right faction AND I was in a system I was wanted in lol 1 interdiction and I was done.

[Nathan60]

This is a screenie of when I had to run and get my canopy repaired I got to  this staion only to not have the money to even repair my canopy, and the bounty I had just killed couldn't be turned in here so I had to refill my oxygen(5 mins worth) and make another sprint lol. Needless to sau I have upgraded my life support systems.


These 2 moons couldn't get any closer


I flew all this way, to find this tiny brown dwarf without the help of advanced scanners. The orbit path would sometimes show up but usually I had to fly at an angle and look for it to move against the background stars(took about minutes because I lost it once and had to reestablish the orbit line.

[ImADot]

SweetFx works really nicely with ED:

Vanilla:


SweetFx:


Split Screen:


Lone Station in white dwarf system:

[Nathan60]

I'm going to have to ive sweetfx a try, I already think the game is great to look at, especially the lighting and shadows;
Little game of spot the difference
Throttled down
Throttled up


as a sidenote I am looking forward to 'wings' being implemented so I can wing up with friends universe is pretty lonely out where I am. Bought an adder for exploration  dint have money for an asp, however I can't see as well as I would like to out of cabin as I it's not as easy to find things without an advanced scanner.

[PR3D4TOR]

The sweetfx screen just looks a bit darker to me. What more does it do? My main problem using the 3D option is getting sharp detail in the distance and some annoying flickering in highlights and reflections.