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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rogwar on January 03, 2015, 03:35:35 PM
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Thinking about giving it a go. A lot of stuff to learn for this nearly 50 year old dude. Might be fun to play on the road in the evenings and such. I guess start with the tutorial and free trial? Then go from there.
I work related to mining so maybe I'll look for a good mining corp to join. Know any?
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Go and find a good group of pleople to play with. A new pilot is basically helpless in any kind of PvP area when going lone wolf, and will be for a loooong time, as your charactes hasn't got the skillz and the equipment. :old:
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Elite Dangerous is the future :old:
Eve online is poo! :old:
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Couple of guys who used to be in the Widowmakers play it a lot now, their rigs couldn't keep up with AH and they migrated to Eve online
wrag & Spacer play it - think they have the same handles there.
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Elite Dangerous
They appear to have issues.
Well I have downloaded eve. Just have to give it a go and find a good mining corp.
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I refuse to play Elite until they at least fix the issue of the police attacking you for absolutely no reason. :old:
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Rules of EVE:
1)Anything can happen in the sandbox
2)Trust no one
3)Be careful wondering into low sec
4)Do all the available beginner missions (even if you don't plan on doing combat, or transportation, or exploring etc etc. You get isk and free ships/modules/etc)
5)Re-read 1 and 2
Have fun! EVE is one of those games if I had everyday to commit to gaming I'd be on. Still hop on once and while and flail around helplessly in faction warfare.
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I've been playing Eve for a year this month. Great game. I'm primarily a miner with a little bit of PVP on the side. My in-game name is Dylan Tompkins. Shoot me an Eve-mail sometime and I can hook you up with anything you need for mining. I also have some corp members (corp = squad in AH) who are good at PVP that can help you if you decide to go that way.
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They appear to have issues.
Any 'issues' are rapidly fixed, but most seem to be caused by players themselves making mistakes; hitting 'boost' while in a station and crashing into the walls being a common one.
I refuse to play Elite until they at least fix the issue of the police attacking you for absolutely no reason. :old:
Carelessness when firing guns so that stray shots hit System Authority ships (police), resulting in them shooting back can be avoided! There is no equivalent of Killshooter in Elite, so it's a bit like shooting friendlies in a scenario, except they instantly turn into enemies and will kill you. So, watch where you are firing and avoid hitting the police and they won't attack you.... simple.
I can honestly say I have had very few issues in over a year of playing the various testing stages of Elite: Dangerous and none since release just under three weeks ago. Police used to interdict all players regardless of whether or not they were 'wanted', but never went on to attack any player who was 'clean'; however, changes were made so that police don't interdict clean players at all now - any interdictions I have had recently have been from pirate NPCs and I usually manage to successfully evade them. Even if the evasion fails I have always managed to boost away until the frame shift drive is ready to use again and jumped away.
Another problem people seem to get caught out by is non-payment of fines for things like loitering over landing pads or in station doorways. I don't think it is easy to miss the text warnings given before and when fines are imposed and, although annoying if a bigger ship was to blame for not being able to get away from a pad or blocking the doorway, paying the fine as soon as possible avoids the non-payment turning into a bounty after 24 hours and your status changing to 'wanted'.
I have only been wanted once which was caused by my own mistake when landing at an outpost. I think I must have been trying to land on the incorrect pad and was warned for loitering, warned again when I continued trying to land on it and finally blown up! Because the station was quite a long way out from the main core area and the station I had started from, when I respawned back in the game I was back at the original station many light years away. I tried to pay the fines but was in the wrong system and couldn't find anywhere to pay them, eventually becoming wanted. I managed to reach the original outpost and pay the fine, clearing my name and have remained clean since then.
Another common mistake is to upgrade to a better ship without adequate 'insurance' to rebuy it if it is lost; or buying too much cargo without leaving enough credits for insurance. Very easily avoidable with common sense. :)
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Carelessness when firing guns so that stray shots hit System Authority ships (police), resulting in them shooting back can be avoided!
That is not what is happening, though that is also something they should do something about.
Scanning for, finding, and attacking wanted ships will always eventually result in the system authority vessels (or whatever they're called) to declare crime detected after laying eyes on you, not even scanning you. Sometimes it seems they will follow you without firing for a while, but eventually you will come under attack by the police while you are in clean status, and they will not end up wanted when they hit you. The only thing you can do is run, go back to the station and claim all your bounties, and that resets the problem. Until the next round that is.
It is possible to ignore those corrupt cops and continue to hunt, until you get too many of them after you, or just one 'conda. Basically, this limits how much cash I can make before heading back to base. It could be 250k or 500 credits before it happens.
I believe the problem has something to do with the wanted ships being in the same faction as the cops. Eventually every ship I see shows as enemy on radar.
This is not worth the $75 I payed for the beta, and I will not play until at least this issue is fixed.
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If you have a bounty on your head, yes you will attract the authorities. Avoid getting bounties and all will be well. Sounds like things are working as they should be to me, but then I'm more of a trader/explorer and avoid fights as far as possible. :)
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Elite Dangerous is the future :old:
Eve online is poo! :old:
The first sensible post from you I've read! WTG! :cheers:
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And why not rekindle you inner childhood NASA astronaut and build fantastic rockets and fly them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONP9jS14toE
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eventually you will come under attack by the police while you are in clean status
As annoying as the game is right now, people trying to defend it are even worse.
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Heh all that explanation about 'loitering' and getting accidental tickets that may require you to travel to another star system sounds more like a chore than fun gameplay to me. If I wanted that kind of fun I could just go to the city centre and make some donuts with my car untll I get ticketed lol.
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The first sensible post from you I've read! WTG! :cheers:
You smell :rofl
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Rules of EVE:
1)Anything can happen in the sandbox
2)Trust no one
3)Be careful wondering into low sec
4)Do all the available beginner missions (even if you don't plan on doing combat, or transportation, or exploring etc etc. You get isk and free ships/modules/etc)
5)Re-read 1 and 2
Have fun! EVE is one of those games if I had everyday to commit to gaming I'd be on. Still hop on once and while and flail around helplessly in faction warfare.
Guess I'm a total space cadet so far. I'm about on the 4th or so beginner mission, just made my first jump outside the system and back. There is a lot of stuff to learn.
Will probably try mining when I get to that point. Maybe find a good corp.
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Going to be interesting once Star Citizen is up and enters the fray. Haven't seen this much attention paid to the space side of things since the days X-Wing/Wing Commander back in the 90s. Maybe they'll FINALLY do a legitimate sequel to X-Wing.
And I mean X-WING, not that glorified arcade shooter WarThunder bullchit they tried to pass off last year (and subsequently got dumped in the garbage where it belonged).
Incidentally, I just read an article today where someone plotted out the course of the Voyager II probe, used that to estimate its position c. 3300AD, then went looking in Elite: Dangerous.
And FOUND IT.
Others have apparently done the same for Voyager I. That's some impressive attention to detail, right there.
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Freak :rofl
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Kind of fun so far. Interesting how small you feel.
Here is a neat video about the age of players.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVWC6I-FLEA
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You know you want to :D
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I refuse to play Elite until they at least fix the issue of the police attacking you for absolutely no reason. :old:
There is an update happening now which may solve that problem:
- When deciding if we should go hostile to a faction we just shot, consider whether the target has a local bounty rather than a bounty with their own faction. Prevent people being attacked by the police after attack nearby wanted targets
I sincerely hope so! :)
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Dangit. I'm in on this one too.
I got Elite, and I LOVE the flight mechanics, and getting in to it with systems and a joystick, but I LOVED expanding into capital ships and station ownership with X3, and Eve seems to be the only option in that direction. Between these, and DCS, and still paying my AH sub, and the puppy... It's a darned good thing I'm in A-Pool!
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I just reopened my account for a month (for I can fool around here much easier with the young one on my lap than in AH), and I realized have forgotten about anything I knew ... not that this has been much in the first place :noid
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I didn't like Eve Online because the ship flying was point and click, no cockpit view and the shooting was automatic. Basically you grind away your 'skills' while being only a system manager. Except that, amazing off course. I like Elite because I actually get to fly/dogfight the thing I want when I want with what I want as long as I make the money for it.
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EVE is the one game I always wanted to enjoy, but never could. It takes way too much time investment to do even the most basic things. The early levels were fun though.
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I like Elite because I actually get to fly/dogfight the thing I want when I want with what I want as long as I make the money for it.
I would prefer that very much, but EVE has the lower system requirements ;)
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Do you really look like Freddie Murcury?. :)
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Rog if you like Ive been playing now for close to 4 years and have a nice group of guys where we can show you the ropes we have Teamspeak set up and can give you all the training and jump starts you need several of the guys I play with are over 40 so not all whipper snappers. If youre interested send me a PM in here or search for me in game Flyin Hornytoad. Look forward to hearing from you. Also have no fear we arent in low or null security space. This invite is extended to anyone else wanting pointers or some support in game.
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Eve is a great game for a number of reasons but it can also be very boring at the same time although i will still say this about eve it has the 2nd best community i have ever played with (2nd to AH2) so many adults on there rather than kids trolling, sry to jack a Eve thread with Elite Dangerous stuff but i seen a few others talking about it.
Lusche, tbh elite runs quite well on my crappy pc with most things on high i dont know how crap your machine is in comparison but it seems to be very well coded in that respect, its a shame they dont offer a free trial just so others can see how it runs because i know i was a little unsure it would run on mine until i bought it.
Mar, the random police attacking you for hitting up wanted targets has indeed been fixed now you can hammer them all day without consequence :) :joystick:
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eve is great.
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Lusche, tbh elite runs quite well on my crappy pc with most things on high i dont know how crap your machine is in comparison but it seems to be very well coded in that respect, its a shame they dont offer a free trial just so others can see how it runs because i know i was a little unsure it would run on mine until i bought it.
I have an i3-2120 & Radeon HD 6800, so I don't even have a 4 core CPU which was stated to be a minimum requirement. And I just can't spend 51€ just to find out it doesn't run or runs only at like 15-25fps.
And as far as upgrading my computer goes: The above is my upgrade :lol
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I tried it once. A very graphically beautiful game. But I have the most least desirable work schedule you could have for gaming and dont even have time to play let alone learn such a complex game.
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Eve is a great game for a number of reasons but it can also be very boring at the same time although i will still say this about eve it has the 2nd best community i have ever played with (2nd to AH2) so many adults on there rather than kids trolling, sry to jack a Eve thread with Elite Dangerous stuff but i seen a few others talking about it.
Lusche, tbh elite runs quite well on my crappy pc with most things on high i dont know how crap your machine is in comparison but it seems to be very well coded in that respect, its a shame they dont offer a free trial just so others can see how it runs because i know i was a little unsure it would run on mine until i bought it.
Mar, the random police attacking you for hitting up wanted targets has indeed been fixed now you can hammer them all day without consequence :) :joystick:
:O :banana:
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Rog if you like Ive been playing now for close to 4 years and have a nice group of guys where we can show you the ropes we have Teamspeak set up and can give you all the training and jump starts you need several of the guys I play with are over 40 so not all whipper snappers. If youre interested send me a PM in here or search for me in game Flyin Hornytoad. Look forward to hearing from you. Also have no fear we arent in low or null security space. This invite is extended to anyone else wanting pointers or some support in game.
It's a trap! :old:
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I have an i3-2120 & Radeon HD 6800, so I don't even have a 4 core CPU which was stated to be a minimum requirement. And I just can't spend 51€ just to find out it doesn't run or runs only at like 15-25fps.
And as far as upgrading my computer goes: The above is my upgrade :lol
Ah damn that sucks :(
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EVE rocks, still playing it (10th year for me now)
If you need some pointers just send me a pm here or contact me in EVE, Character Viperius or Dash Moore