The closed game is virtually no different than the public game, once you get out of the heavily player populated areas. Like Eve, if you were in highsec, there was basically nobody outside of Jita.
Similarly, you’ll rarely ever encounter another human outside of the heavily populated areas, so much so that there’s no functional difference to playing alone, but with a smidge less worry about getting jumped by some rando looking to rack up a bigger bounty. There’s still large amounts of AI traffic if the population of the system warrants it, and some of them may try to jack you for your stuff. (They’re just not in combat-optimized craft and can be dealt with reasonably.)
I usually just played it in a private game of my own that only had friends invited. So we’d form squadrons and go about our business. The AI would still step in to sass at us of course, and if anything it was more immersive because I wouldn’t get interrupted by YOlOSwaGGkinZ420 blathering on in a public channel.
Delivery missions stack and you don’t need to move everything at once; take what you can then come back for the rest, as many times as needed. Courier missions are even better, they don’t take cargo space.
So I took some passenger missions and they were pretty decent returns so I tried a ‘rich tourist mission’ for 900k. I checked the first destination and it was only 30ly so I took it. I then found out the second location was 110ly…
20 jumps there and 20 back but an extra 500k in scanner data helped sweeten the deal.
(cobra III with class D on all drives etc)
Not confident on doing any combat yet or any misions that might draw fire.
The AI almost always announces when they’re after you. My favorite way to deal with them when I’m not looking for combat is to get close to the local star, do a 180°, and wait for them to get too close to the star when they’re trying to line up for interdiction.
Another way to deal with AI attacks is to drop into an area which is likely to side with you. Navigation Beacons (not Compromised Navigation Beacons!) are usually good to drum up some support. Signal Sources which resolve to naval convoys are great, if you can get to one and the local navy isn’t hostile.
Sometimes it’s best to submit to the interdiction, spam Boost, and get the hell out of dodge.
The issue with repetitive missions is that they’re still rather dull, though, not that I can’t stack them. That just means I am doing five dull missions instead of one. It’s efficient, not interesting. But, well, everybody wants the Imperial Clipper amiright?
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I’ll give that some attempts.
I think the ‘evade interdiction as best I could then spam the thrust boost’ was my technique when I was playing a while back.
I think I quite like the long range tourist runs, it gives an incentive to get out of the local cluster and poke around. I think I want to build up a ship configuration that is a single customer long distance fast and some defense fast private jet, no questions asked or long trips for the cash and happy to help some refugees and political prisoners get out of dodge for the rep.
Elite Dangerous is a flagship VR game, it was made to play in VR mode. You will need a well set up HOTAS, so you are not pulling off the headset to find the keyboard constantly.
If you have only played with the monitor you are going to be surprised by the sense of scale and immersion. The ships are absolutely huge. The cockpit of your Asp is a two storey livingroom. The stations are cavernous.
Scooting around in a scarab is a blast. Situational awareness is vastly improved. Jumping into a system with huge star in you face for the first time in VR is… well, just empty your bladder first.
Used to be long-haul smuggling runs but the devs got wise. Nowadays, a short-hop trading loop is typically best. Use this to find the most profitable one close to you, just input your current system.
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I have managed to get an Asp X and it’s kitted out almost the same as yours, I just need another 8 million to finish out the type A power plant and thrusters. The type A fuel scoop makes skimming easier and the type A frameshift and finding the ‘shortest route’ button on the plotting screen has speed things up a bit!
The ‘Oh no not again’ is finished and taking passengers for rep. Cmdr Precambrian Mollusc at the helm.
Today’s lesson, fuel skimming on the second GnT may result in excessive heat damage.
I have a Beluga parked in Abe Lincoln for when I feel like taking on luxury passengers. This is the first of my eventually three-part Duffo Tours fleet, as in Benny Hill.
