Elite: Dangerous

I'm gonna wait until the weekend to even DL.

I'd say the load its under today has it going nuts.

I had the old launcher for the Mercenary Edition solo-training missions. I got an error if I tried to log in. I redownloaded the launcher and it was completely different, logged in no prob and started downloading the main game. It got stuck around the 90-95% mark for a little while so I just closed the launcher and re-opened it and it was fully done.



What settings are people using on Keybard and Mouse?
I moved left/right mouse to Yaw and hold mouse2 to roll. I didn't know about the secondary fire button at that stage so I don't know what to do.

Was DC'd about 30 mins ago mid hyper cruise. Start grayed out since. Also my cred seems reset and ship back to standard. I had some gimballed weapons and about 50k and an upgraded scanner in beta. Weird.

Just bought and X55 Rhino for this bad boy, cant wait to get in and playing but not going near it until the new gfx card gets here.

Chance your arm complaining to Saitek about it?

Ok, I only picked this up 24 hours before launch and.... I'm kinda lost.

I've worked out how to trade (more or less... haven't figured out where to go to get cheap goods and where to sell them for high prices so its kinda hit an miss). I've made 20K just couriering stuff already though.

I'm lost about a few things, so if anyone who has been playing for a while can shed some light, that would be most welcome.

1. Planets and suns that say "unexplored".... can you do something to set them to be explored? (I've sold astronomical data already but that seems to be just from main stars).

1. My Eagle's starting location is 120,000LS from the nearby Sun and its a FREAKING PAIN to go there and switch ships. Can I ever leave this place without leaving a ship behind? (I can switch there but there will always be a ship left behind it seems...).

2. I noticed a fight going on between a wanted guy and some Federal police. I decided to try to help out but as soon as I shot the bad guy (only!) and I got fined for shooting him... Should I be able to jump into these dog fights? Or do I have to get a bounty first and then hunt pirates?

DeVore wrote: »

Ok, I only picked this up 24 hours before launch and.... I'm kinda lost.

1. My Eagle's starting location is 120,000LS from the nearby Sun and its a FREAKING PAIN to go there and switch ships. Can I ever leave this place without leaving a ship behind? (I can switch there but there will always be a ship left behind it seems...).

2. I noticed a fight going on between a wanted guy and some Federal police. I decided to try to help out but as soon as I shot the bad guy (only!) and I got fined for shooting him... Should I be able to jump into these dog fights? Or do I have to get a bounty first and then hunt pirates?

1. You can swap ships, then open the "shipyard" tab and sell the one you swapped out of. However since it sounds like the one you swapped out is the free sidewinder you get nothing for it. ( i am not sure if you get some value from selling it if you had upgraded). Anyway the point is that this is a problem relating to teh free sidewinder and not to ships in general. However you do take a hit if you sell your ship - you get less back than you paid for it. I think that is 10% less or so. So there is an incentive to "store" a ship if you intended to go back to it.

2. You don't get a fine for hitting a wanted guy, you must have hit someone clean or someone who you had not scanned to establish wanted status.

Fian wrote: »

1. You can swap ships, then open the "shipyard" tab and sell the one you swapped out of. However since it sounds like the one you swapped out is the free sidewinder you get nothing for it. ( i am not sure if you get some value from selling it if you had upgraded). Anyway the point is that this is a problem relating to teh free sidewinder and not to ships in general. However you do take a hit if you sell your ship - you get less back than you paid for it. I think that is 10% less or so. So there is an incentive to "store" a ship if you intended to go back to it.

2. You don't get a fine for hitting a wanted guy, you must have hit someone clean or someone who you had not scanned to establish wanted status.

The thing is I like having the sidewinder as its got 4 storage and if I get blown up for any reason (like when I boosted by accident inside a space station and rammed into everything and they killed ) .... it costs nothing to restart.

The eagle I keep for hunting. The problem is that there will always be on ship left in that godforsaken 5-minutes-of-hypercruise hole. Since you say the hit isn't too bad on sale, I might take the Sidewinder, sell the Eagle and then rebuy it somewhere nice and close.

I was really careful about shooting him, he was the only thing on my screen and each time I shot him I got a warning about getting 200 CR fine for shooting him (something about federal blah blah... I didn't read it well because I was in a dog fight ). I shot him twice, got the message twice and then hightailed it out of there. Strange thing is... I'm not on record for having a debt nor am I prohibited from landing in Federal stations, so I dunno what happened. I'll try again...

DeVore wrote: »

The thing is I like having the sidewinder as its got 4 storage and if I get blown up for any reason (like when I boosted by accident inside a space station and rammed into everything and they killed ) .... it costs nothing to restart.

The eagle I keep for hunting. The problem is that there will always be on ship left in that godforsaken 5-minutes-of-hypercruise hole. Since you say the hit isn't too bad on sale, I might take the Sidewinder, sell the Eagle and then rebuy it somewhere nice and close.

You will sell the eagle (if not upgraded anything) for about 40k if I remember correctly and it will cost about 50k to repurchase, so it will cost you in or around 10k to do this.

You may well be better off selling your eagle and putting that towards the purchase of a hauler, which can hold 16ton cargo if i remember right? That will enable much more earning potential from bb missions and normal haulage. Or mining if that's your thing.

Fian wrote: »

You will sell the eagle (if not upgraded anything) for about 40k if I remember correctly and it will cost about 50k to repurchase, so it will cost you in or around 10k to do this.

You may well be better off selling your eagle and putting that towards the purchase of a hauler, which can hold 16ton cargo if i remember right? That will enable much more earning potential from bb missions and normal haulage. Or mining if that's your thing.

Yeah that's basically my choice right now. I have 20K in the bank and would like to upgrade to a hauler asap but I do also want to have a fighter to do some bounty runs too if I feel like it. The problem is , right now I hate having to fly all the way out to the dock to change ships...

I think I'll buy the hauler sooner rather than later and use it to make the money back to buy the Eagle somewhere else.

Thanks for the advice!

I found this: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6279 on the topic, but its a bit dry

I have to say, for a game of this status and time in development, the amount of explanation they do is pretty limited. I dunno if that's deliberate to make you feel like its a big universe out there to explore or if its just an oversight due to development pressure but it really leaves me feeling like there is a lot to do, I just don't really know how to do it.

Like, even the upgrade system on the ship looks daunting and complex... apparently I cant fit a mining refinery AND have a shield generator at the same time?? That seems nuts or else I'm misunderstanding things...