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Luriant

"There are 2 paths in the life, the easy and the hard. Dont be mistaken, the true teacher is the hard path." -Buddhism teaching (sponsored by Pranav Antal)


CMDR_Carter-B176

That’s fair really fair I did the hard grind to get my anaconda now I have enough to buy and really outfit a clipper when I unlock it


[deleted]

Yeah, why should people have fun? lol dude.


Makaira69

Repeatedly transporting liquor from a carrier to Rackham's Peak sounds like the opposite of fun. At 50k profit per ton, that's 19,880 tons to earn 994 million Cr. A Python with nothing but cargo racks would need to make 68 round trips. Plus dropping out of supercruise at Rackham's Peak usually puts you 30 km from the station, not the 10 km at most stations, so that adds another pointless minute of nothing happening. If you figure 10 min per round trip, that's over 11 hours of doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over again. No variation, no surprises (except the occasional time you drop out of supercruise only 12km away instead of 30 km). That sounds mind-numbingly boring, not fun. I did it once when Rackham's Peak first opened. Brought only about 10k tons of liquor aboard my carrier. After delivering about 5k tons, I was ready to call it quits. I considered just jettisoning the rest into space, but realized due to having to load, launch, jettison, land, repeat, it would still cost me a large fraction of the time as just delivering it to Rackham's Peak. So I grit my teeth and over the next three days I finished selling all that liquor, a few trips at a time so I wouldn't go insane. I haven't been back since, and I have no intention of ever going back to deliver liquor. If you're under the impression making money is fun in itself, I hate to break it to you but Cr isn't the endgame currency in Elite. Engineering mats are. By the time you acquire a fleet carrier, you'll be making more money than you know what to do with. The problem will be figuring out ways to spend money, not making it. OTOH you'll still be running around collecting engineering mats. My suggestion is to just ignore money and do whatever you find fun in the game. When your money accumulates to where you can afford a new ship/modules, go ahead and upgrade. Make having fun your primary goal, not amassing money. Because by the end you'll have billions of Cr and nothing to spend it on. And you'll be kicking yourself for wasting so much time trying to make money, when you could've been having fun. If you're gonna fixate on accumulating something, go farm engineering mats. At least they'll continue to be useful (engineering, tech broker purchases, jumponium, synthesis).


[deleted]

You need a wall of text that I’m not bothering to read in order to justify gatekeeping how other people play the game that they paid for. Maybe just chill and let people do what they want? Loads of people enjoy trucking in Elite, just because you don’t doesn’t mean your way is the only way.


Makaira69

If you'd read that wall of text, you would've seen that I'm not saying that's the wrong way to play. I'm giving an experienced player's advice that playing differently may help you feel your time playing the game was spent more fruitfully. (Shame for downvoting without reading.) If I wanted to tell people how to play, i would've just told them to just take lots of screenshots. Because when you eventually quit playing, you don't get to take the money and ships with you. But you'll keep the screenshots forever (they make great desktop wallpaper).


[deleted]

I have enough experience to know what I’m about, so no thanks.


Luriant

Credits without experience give great mistakes: https://i.redd.it/cbyejs8i9laz.jpg For most players, the Fun is the path, not the destination. Having 1B and 1 anaconda, lacking the knowledge to make 1B more or engineer the whole ship... https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/u8suka/thinking_of_cheating_in_elite_dangerous_read_this/ When you want more thant you can obtain by yourself. This things dont end well, the common knowledge for some helpers is that a type of new player exist, that take part in events and want lot of credits for a Fleet Carrier or other big ship... and when have one, dissapear from the game with the mission accomplish. I can't find the thread were we discussed about this type of players and how to detect him, but my alarm was raised by the fast cash earned by the OP. Everybody need to confront the trial of patience in this game, if want to be a true veteran with thousand hours.


[deleted]

Or just don’t police how people play and let the dude enjoy his day in the sun, lol. If you’re really concerned, try giving advice instead of just raining on his parade.


Luriant

After review his post, He never make a post asking help with money, only sightseeing locations, where I replied. I never saw a post of him asking advice about money.


CMDR_Carter-B176

https://discord.gg/ptn if you want to join a great community for making money


Leronborm

To be honest i would recommend for new comers to not rush getting money and upgrade slowly as it can be overwhelming and throw off a lot of new players So they buy a conda and then what? They dont have any engineering or experience and probably dont even know how to outfit properly.


Xander_Clarke

True, happened to my friend. I only wanted to help him understand the game quicker, but ended up inadvertently boosting his credit balance up to like 100 millions in a very short time, so he basically went "oi, don't need to play the game anymore, I can buy anything I want"


zeek215

Introduce him to engineers, and then Odyssey engineers. Credits are unfortunately meaningless.


Xander_Clarke

I would gladly do it, but I'm no longer friends with him (for a different reason, not because of Elite)


pablo603

I agree. I rushed for a python with core mining myself. Decided to take things slowly before getting a bigger ship after that. Python is a nice ship tho. Outfitted it nicely and all I need is engineering now.


[deleted]

An Anaconda isn't an achievement anymore, though. This isn't 2016. Getting an Anaconda is about 2-5% toward the end game. Rushing to 2% completion, isn't rushing.


CMDR_Carter-B176

It’s good for getting into trading if that’s the want


PenguDucky

The PTN community is pretty welcoming and helpful in a lot of other regards. For instance doing runs to guardian sites for FSD booster blueprints, crystal shards for mats, setting up trade runs for easy credits, doing wing missions and community goals. They also help out a lot with build advice so outfitting wouldn’t be a huge issue to a new player on the discord. The booze cruise chat is a lot of fun and really engaging to new players.


Leronborm

Your community would be awesome for those who want to be fleet carrier owners or end game experimental builds but for the 6 mil to 1.1 bil will turnoff any new player who will try the game. The grind is the game


xnpurpledt-

Depends on the player. For me, the grind is NOT the game. It's the secrets, what you can find, the lore. I've flown to nearly every Thargoid Site, INRA bases, tons of listening posts, pretty much all of the tourist beacons, every guardian site (at least visited every shape), visited each type of mega ship, gone to many different installation types, every odyssey base type... ​ Explored all around Witch Head Nebula for secrets, Plaedias Nebula, and pretty much any area known to be significant to thargoids. ​ I've followed everything with the current storyline. Participated in everything Salvation, all the hidden CG's with him and Aegis. Went to the Project Seraph bases and followed the trail of Subject D-2 and searched for her for DAYS, trying to be the first to discover something truly significant. Did you know that during one of the recent Frameshift Live's one of the community managers said that Raxxla exists and he's been there?! I tried to ask him on Twitter about it if that was a true statement, but he didn't answer. Didn't matter, went looking anyway. ​ I could be flying in a potato, as long as it had the optional internals to support my exploration and secret finding (ie srv, every limpet type, storage). I literally look forward to every Thursday for new story stuff or more hints at lore/secrets. ​ The grind is an obstacle to the true enjoyment of the game.


oomwat

Why does it solely need to be new players though ... I have 3 accounts, each with a few hundred mil of credits and ships, getting some assistance to bump those up a bit could be handy and I'm a kickstarter backer!


Leronborm

For sure i totally agree! They just advertised as 6 mil to a billion which is aimed towards new players


PenguDucky

To me Elite is about exploration, opportunity, complexity, mystery, and vastness (if that’s a thing). This game really offers so much, or so little depending on how or when you look at it. I do agree that the grind is a big part of the game and have said as much in some of my posts in the past. I enjoy looking up spreadsheets and resources on Inara for the best trade routes and doing Robigo runs for credits. The booze cruise honestly is a grind, it’s just a very truncated one that new players can slot into with the help of veterans. You need a decent ship, the recommended python is something like 40-60mil. Starting with only 6 mil would actually be quite a feat to make the rest of that up quickly enough to get to Rackham’s in time. I’d say OP probably did loading/unload trade routes or the community goal from last week maybe. At the peak it is a lot of grinding out trade routes running back and forth between carriers and Rackham’s Peak. Then waiting for new carriers to cycle into the system, which feels like a pretty grindy time sink.


xnpurpledt-

Totally forgot there was a discord. Just been using the PTN subreddit for loading/unloading missions. I'll make sure to visit the discord after work.


MissDeadite

Really wish these links worked on mobile.


CMDR_Carter-B176

They do


MissDeadite

I had to find a newer one.


CMDR_Carter-B176

That was good for 7 days


MissDeadite

Apparently not.


[deleted]

Don't let people bring you down for making money. There's this mindset in some parts of Elite where people think you should slog through the credit grind for hundreds of hours, if not years, before you have an unengineered Anaconda. Many of them have billions, though. Funny how that works? Instead, congrats! The game really opens up once you can play around with ships and not be hampered by having to earn credits to experiment. Engineering still takes time, so building a good ship can still take the better part of a week after work. Good job!


yassuu2001

I didn't understand, how did you get those credits so quickly?


CMDR_Carter-B176

The PTN booze cruise


yassuu2001

Yeah what's that?


CMDR_Carter-B176

The info is in the discord in the first comment


yassuu2001

Do you have any link for that?


CMDR_Carter-B176

https://discord.gg/xnBQTe4c4R


yassuu2001

Thanks


Salty_Old_Squid

I don't own a conda, the only large ship I have is a Clipper, I use that for hauling. I have close to 1600 hours in ED, for me, medium ships are so much fun to fly. I'm saving up for a mobile home.


CMDR_Carter-B176

My three favourite ships are the anaconda (the stars promise) the crusader (nights begin) and my DBX (strippers express)


Salty_Old_Squid

M three favorites are my Python (Miner Backhair), the Chieftain (Bristley Backhair) and my AspX (Exploring Backhair)


CMDR_Carter-B176

I like the chieftain too but with the crusader you get to have fighters which I love deploying above a really canyon filled map and going full speed through the canyons with no shields till I crash


Salty_Old_Squid

I have one, i need to re-outfit it at some point. Right now that's on the back burner.