E:D is like seven dollars right now

If you have VR, you have to get it. Flying in the ships is just awesome.

There is PvP if you play in open, but there are only a handful of locations players congregate. There he will get ass raped by wings of uber-engineered ships piloted by people with 2000 hours in the game. But that's easy to avoid, or yeah, he could just play in solo.

I started playing it a month ago, 100 hours in.

I fucking love it,it's mostly repetitive but extremely comfy gameplay with certain tense moments of combat.

I started off as a space trucker hauling cargo and listening to music. 8/10 experience.

Became a bounty hunter after that, combat feels grjndy and unrewarding in the early game, might try later when I get a decent ship and outfit it for combat. 4/10

Currently an explorer, going around different solar systems and scanning planet surfaces for cash. There are 400 billion stars and some hauntingly gorgeous sights in deep space. Easily the best aspect of the game 10/10

Dlc will go free end of this month and there's gonna be a big expansion 2021. I'd say it's worth a shot op.

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This.

Dlc basically unlocks more grind. Devs are talking about a "credit rebalance" which basically guarantees a nerf to anything that currently makes money.

it's a shittier Eve Online but with all the stuff stripped out of it that makes Eve good.
if you enjoy single player solo space games where everyone is instanced into their own server and where nothing happens ever, then E:D is your game.
if you want a space 1st person dog-fighting game play something proper like Star Conflict or X3.

I've bought something like twenty thousand painite at my carrier and have never once actually seen a real player land at it. Everyone plays in solo because nobody wants to waste hours of grinding to some over engineered FDL asshole.

I will say that the modding community and third party tools of elite dangerous are by far some of the best I've seen in any game ever.
Inara and EDSM are fantastic with eddb and edtools being great too.

EDDiscovery even has built in voice attack commands for people that want to yell at their ship to do things.

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The reason elite is popular is because it feels like you're actually in control of the ships. In eve it's like controlling a ship through microsoft excel

for 7 dollars absolutely. It eventually becomes grindy as fuck but it's a fun game to play off and on

If you want to be a Space Trucker, Elite is your game.

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EDSM is fucking based and pleases my astronomy autism

Elite is a game that loves to fuck you over without actually telling you. If I fly to Ramon hub right now and try to sell my 576 painite I won't be getting that sweet sweet 958k per unit. I'll be getting far less because of some bullshit "bulk sales tax" garbage that the devs implemented but you're never actually told about. So in order to get the full amount I need to make sure I'm only carrying 1/4 of the demand quantity in my cargo hold when I dock.

So I need to make fifteen round trips to the same god damn station at about 283 painite per trip to make sure I get my maximum payout. Elite dangerous LOVES tedium for the sake of tedium.

Never buy an SLF pilot. They take a % of literally everything you earn even if your current ship doesn't even have a fighter bay for them to use. Plus the game never actually tells you that they're siphoning away your money until you look and realize you've payed them half a billion credits for doing literally nothing.

Buy pilot>use pilot>Land at station>fire pilot>Turn in bounties.

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Should I play this game if I'm already playing EVE? I know they are different genres but I'll still start as miner/trucker anyway

If you actually enjoy EVE you'll probably get your moneys worth out of elite for 7 bucks.

The bulk sales tax thing has always been there, you need to sell at station that has 10x the demand that you're holding and you'll get full price, so in your case the demand needs to be 5760 at least

Not sure why people didn't realize that during the Low Temperature Diamond craze before mining got nerfed to hell. All they did was increase the tax but if you go to a station with high enough demand you still get full price

Nice, I wanted to experience the first person view which I miss while playing EVE.

I've been watching the boards for weeks and haven't seen it go past 1.5k.

FYI, everything you just did will be exactly the same everywhere else in the game. I hope shit changes when they release space legs but ED is criminal for being a shallow puddle of a game.

jesus, is this for real? I'm about to cancel the download

Fucking christ why does FDev hate their players?

they don't know how to balance shit
before they nerfed mining it was the most overpowered thing ever and you could literally make billions of credits in your first day playing, then instead of just fixing the 1 commodity that was causing it they just nerfed trade as a whole. They don't really playtest anything when they make changes, it's glaringly obvious

No, it goes way beyond not understanding how to balance shit. Back when I was palying FDev was instantly nerfing any sort of thing they deemed an exploit. People figure out the next way to make money to circumvent the tedium and FTroop nerfs it into oblivion. Repeat until the end of time.

This was such a stupid idea, at least it was moved from 5% of the demand to 25% before it kicks in but it still shouldn't be there. Just a tip, its often more efficient because of travel time to sell to someone's fleet carrier at that 715,960. Your credits per hour will wind up being much higher if you're using the typical mining cutter.

Also, fuck engineering up the ass. Keep the unlocking engineers at most but ditch the materials or if the devs insist on keeping it than increase the materials earned to something like 15-20 per pick up and/or drastically improve the trading rate and put materials traders at every station or at the very least every engineer has every materials trader. Getting an explorer, combat ship, and miner fully engineered was so god damn boring because of the material grind and it also would have been more enjoyable if cockpits weren't boring and the planets didn't look like ass.

When I first started playing I wound up going to fucking reddit for quick start tips and one of the people there said they like to "look at their systems and check everything over while they're space trucking." Like what the fuck are you talking about you dumb forum dad? There is no reason to ever check your modules unless you got attacked or used a neutron highway and need to use reboot and repair or field maintenance unit. The game is so fucking boring and lacking mechanics that you're pretending they exist. Putting on a fucking podcast or watching netflix when playing a game means the game is not fucking good. These people are why elite dangerous will always be super shallow and hiding the lack of content with grind and trying to act like there will be a reward for your effort.

Also, engineering in general is completely retarded. Many of the upgrades and experimental effects are completely useless.

The game was amazing for combat before engineers.
They made the grind terrible and changed the scope of combat and effective health up to 10x what it was before.
They've done work to reduce the grind but combat is no longer fun or balanced in the slightest.
All multiplayer elements of the game are terrible, and the most tragic part is that they could all be fixed in a week besides matchmaking bugs.
As this user said it is super fun early on but as soon as you dent the surface and realize what's beneath it becomes terrible.
Aliens are still worthless to fight in wings (they scale exponentially with the number of people in a wing encounter), SRV is still terrible, all the deployable fighters are useless (the fact that you have to grind for 20-30 hours to get guardian fighters which are supposed to be the best anti-thargoid vessels but are actually the worst for fighting them shows how little they understand their own game)