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Post by RoadDemon on Apr 12, 2015 15:03:04 GMT -5
While I really want to play this game, I currently cant spend the money and I dont know if I have the extra time to spare. Is this game really time consuming? Can you play for a little while and stop or does it require a few hours at a time?
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Post by Pilot on Apr 12, 2015 23:09:21 GMT -5
I've been playing for a few hours at a time, though you can log out at anytime and be in a safe area till you log in again, I actually tend to read a bit while I run my trade route, which is a bit lucrative I recently made 80k+ in one run and 20k+ on the return so for every 60 ~ 70 ly (round trip) I travel I can gain approximately 100k+ ~ 120k+ while using the Transporter 5 (a million credit ship*) space craft which is not much different than flying "a brick with an engine attached." (Babylon 5: Rangers reference)
You can make money in the game to buy better gear, which I highly recommend. But one again make sure to save enough for the replacement few where applicable as well as trade goods if you play trader.
Admittedly my in-game story has went as follows,
First I made nice starting money from pirate interdictions in law abiding systems or by finding wanted criminals by chance. (Remember to cash in bounties!! If your ship is destroyed while you have an uncollected bounties you will not be able to collect them!)
-Upgraded ship.
Second went exploring.
-Sold mapping data.
-- Upgraded ship...
Third found a decent trade route.
- Bought a mercantile ship.
Fourth repeating my third step.
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Post by riedquat on Apr 17, 2015 11:41:02 GMT -5
I got the game, heh... surprise! I sold my worthless soul and acquired my first legal game ever... somehow! And I'm in love, and not only with the game  Only played few hours since I got it, the first few hours were 7 straight, and most of those spent playing the training missions An probably I should spend some more time there, I suck as fighter and also as pilot, or I need to get my eyes checked, a lot of time I ram into things ruining the paintjob of my sidewinder, I hate not having an external view to check the wreckage, the spectacle of scrap metal parts floating inside space stations is awesome! |
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Post by Pilot on Apr 17, 2015 13:11:39 GMT -5
I got the game, heh... surprise! I sold my worthless soul and acquired my first legal game ever... somehow! And I'm in love, and not only with the game Only played few hours since I got it, the first few hours were 7 straight, and most of those spent playing the training missions An probably I should spend some more time there, I suck as fighter and also as pilot, or I need to get my eyes checked, a lot of time I ram into things ruining the paintjob of my sidewinder, I hate not having an external view to check the wreckage, the spectacle of scrap metal parts floating inside space stations is awesome! . . . You just brought up bad memories, two or three days ago, I crashed into the landing cage, everyone really should go slower when landing. . . , and brought my trade ship down to 13% health. . . What make this worse is that I had just "respawn" after crashing into the same place on a different station on this same trade route and was going fast enough that I lowered my ships health by more than 100% and lost it and my 104 units of Palladium^1 which was more 98% for my liquid capital. I haven't had the chance to play much for the last couple of days so I've only managed to rebuild a little of my capital. ^1: Each unit of Palladium costs 12,903. 12,903 * 104 = 1,341,9012 credits Docking is half as Dangerous as anything else. |
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Post by riedquat on Apr 17, 2015 14:03:16 GMT -5
Oh man, yesterday rammed a set of those communication towers near the landing pad of those crappy stations with bays outside, the bloody thing wasn't illuminated at all... scary moment there but awesome physics!  |
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Post by Denacity on Apr 17, 2015 17:34:22 GMT -5
I plan on getting a new video card soon, I'm going to wait until I get it before I start playing.
Upgrading a GT 640 to a GTX 960
Might order it next week when I get paid.
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Post by Pilot on Apr 17, 2015 23:59:55 GMT -5
I see, that is a good card from what I understand. In your opinion what are the pros and cons of nVidia and ATI cards? That said with some nVidia models you can in some games (Elite: Dangerous is one of them) have the nVidia software set the resolution to 4k and then downscale it to your monitor's native resolution.
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Post by Denacity on Apr 18, 2015 7:35:25 GMT -5
I need a card with a blower style fan to go in my Alienware X51, they are harder to find AMD cards with them.
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Post by Pilot on Apr 20, 2015 8:48:31 GMT -5
Blower style?
Also, Alienware I thought you used to use a custom build? And has the quality dropped, since Dell bought them out?
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Post by riedquat on Apr 20, 2015 9:08:44 GMT -5
IMO all graphic cards suck! Expensive pieces of crap, time ago I preferred Ati over Nvidia, then Nvidia over ati, now neither. When the price of any video car is way over the price of motherboard something is wrong, that is unnatural! And also can cope with their life expectancy, which sucks really bad.
I'm a bit pissed of because here you can't chose, you buy what you can get, there is no alternative in the market only vague promises of what perhaps they would be able to get in the next couple months.
When assembled my current pc got and amd R9 280 or 290, still not sure, the bloody price of the thing was 1/3 of the total price of the whole computer, that is insane, and it was the cheapest one :/
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Post by Denacity on Apr 21, 2015 5:57:10 GMT -5
I bought it refurbished since it was cheap.
Intel i7 3770, 6GB, 1TB, GT 640, W8 for around $600-700, I couldn't argue with the price at the time. The main issue with building anything these days is the extra $100 if you want to buy a legit version of Windows, really makes the prices of components more expensive than if you just buy something.
But I also like the form factor, its a slim Mini ITX that accepts full size video cards. Its just advisable to get a blower style card that blows the air out the back instead of ones with fans on top that blow the air inside the case.
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Post by Pilot on Apr 21, 2015 18:55:00 GMT -5
I see. Steam is currently gearing up to release SteamOS which is a customized version of one of the many Linux distros, so maybe in the next 5, 10, or 20 years the OS price will no longer be a factor. That said, I wouldn't put it past micro to make efforts to impede Steam's OS by hiring freelance programmers to create virii and exploits that attack Linux systems though this may be based in my absolute distrust of microsoft's personal.
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Post by Denacity on Apr 21, 2015 19:44:58 GMT -5
Always paranoid about something eh? Microsoft isn't going to do anything about it, and even if they tried, do you honestly think they could hire guys smarter than the Linux guru's out there?
Steam OS doesn't appeal to me because I don't "just game" on any of my PCs, I browse the web, play videos off my server and various other things that Steam OS might do, but one thing it can't do for sure is play my favorite older games.
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Post by Pilot on Apr 22, 2015 10:22:47 GMT -5
In most cases neither can windows, not without dosbox. :/ Games released around 95 like Fragile Allegiance, you know that RTS game packaged with the U.S. release of Hardwar. . . Some of you do remember. . . After all these years the game's GUI has held up well, and in my opinion trumps many games made before or after it. Even though it had a maximum install size of 230MBs.
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Post by riedquat on Apr 22, 2015 11:25:21 GMT -5
I bought it refurbished since it was cheap. Intel i7 3770, 6GB, 1TB, GT 640, W8 for around $600-700, I couldn't argue with the price at the time. The main issue with building anything these days is the extra $100 if you want to buy a legit version of Windows $100,00? Please stop torturing me!!! If I'm not mistaken the price of legit win7 in american dollars at the time I got the pc was above $450... dollars... |
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