Thrudd’s Trading Tools, originally linked in Post 36.
Use the Calculator to fill out your racks when running missions, Lists to find the closest station selling a commodity needed for a mission, Trades to find the best standard trade route within a certain distance from your current system, and Search to find which nearby stations have a repair facility, black market, etc.
You only need to register there if you want to update system, station and/or commodity data.
And here’s a neat little thing for planning rares routes. Just heard about that one during my lunch hour today.
Now that this game has been out for a bit, yet continues to pique my curiosity, I just have to ask: do you genuinely need to have a HOTAS (lame acronym if you ask me) or whatever? Would it be possible to succeed with mouse + keyboard?
I’m doing just fine soloing with keyboard and a 360 controller.
Granted, I’ve remapped pretty much all of the 360 controls. Left & right shoulders are down & up throttle increments, left & right thumbs are variable throttle controls, left stick is pitch & yaw, right stick is roll, D-pad is thrusters, A is fire primary, X is fire secondary, B is engine boost, Y is targeting, select is toggle hardpoints, left stick button is toggle cargo scoop, and right stick button is toggle freelook.
I’m doing fine with keyboard and mouse. Mainly been exploring and mining, however.
One thing that keeps confusing me; the commodities prices are listed as “buy” and “sell”, but those are in terms of me doing the buying and selling. Pretty much everywhere else, “buy” and “sell” refer to the prices at which they are buying and selling (i.e. “We buy from you for…” and “We sell to you for…”).
I might do better at this game if the computer wouldn’t keep locking up while I’m playing it. I’m pretty sure it’s a core or CPU temperature problem, but the computer is only a year old, and it’s not always being triggered by massive processing (like when I am trying to cut a Blu-Ray image file from videos).
Heck with this rares trading. Been having these weird accidents ever since picking up that supply of Vidavantian Lace. First, my Cobra somehow explodes on a station’s interior wall immediately after entering the airlock. Then, my computer reboots while I was trying to dock at an outpost and crashes me. After another airlock problem took out the canopy and 85% of the hull, next outpost I landed on I ended up exploding into upon launch due to a stupid mistake.
Going back to Hanggardi where it’s safe.
That was interesting. Still hanging around Lalande 30271 to get back a bunch of lost exploration data, again, and picked up two units of Motrona Experience Jelly dropped by a crook.
Pretty sure that’s how it was with the other/older versions of Elite. Maybe a bit of nostalgia kicking in.
I finally manage to master docking. I think that is a huge bonus since I have been having difficult with that in the past. Made some good money from that.
To anyone reading this thread who wants to play the game on something other than a Windows-based PC: Mac and Xbone versions are expected sometime this year.
Cool. This sounds interesting. I wonder, will it come to PS4?
Apparently they plan to start on a PS4 version after the Xbone version goes into beta.
Wouldn’t be surprised to see Mac & Xbone versions out in tine for Christmas this year and PS4 for Christmas next year.
Oh, nice change in 1.2! Unidentified Signals are now separated into Weak Signals (cargo) and Strong Signals (ships, presumably).
Have yet to investigate a Strong Signal to verify. Bought a Type-6 outfitted for mining last night and docked the Cobra.
Oh, I did see one Unidentified Signal so some continue to exist.
I’m just curious. When you say already discovered, does that just count in the MMO portion of the game? Can I discover everything myself laying solo?
Or am I sharing a common galaxy with the MMO even in solo mode?
This.
Although the heaviest traveled parts of the galaxy have already been discovered, plenty of objects have yet to be scanned up close. A detailed surface scan can be worth 5K to 15K per system, enough to be useful if you’re passing through on a mission or trade run.
OK, thanks. I’m still thinking about whether I want to try this game.
So if I’m understanding this correctly, the longer I wait before playing this game, the harder and less profitable it will be to explore (probably the thing I’d do the most), because the galaxy is getting explored now even for the solo players?
That pretty much rules out my ever getting it.