Elite: Dangerous

[Leshma]

Shall we rename this thread into: Leesin buying Elite Dangerous, yes or no?

[Casimir]

best review ive heard is that its Euro Truck Simulator in space.

[Kafein]

Perhaps the most positive Zero Punctuation review ever:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9991-Elite-Dangerous-Review

[Molly]

He said like 3 times something along the line "Not everybody will like it but I do."
He was pretty "soft" on it overall, kinda weird

[Kalam]

DAMN IT MOLLY onionheads got wiped out by the navy fascists. What am I going to do in Kappa Fornacis, now?

[Molly]

HAHA!

EGM 762 has Slaves! Just saying... there are... like... forced-volunteer workers.

Anyway, I am back in my lovely ASP and this time I made sure that I don't fly around with re-buy not covered

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Love those WW2 bomber prop noises it makes <3

[Molly]

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Slow but steady

[Kafein]

dat rebuy cost

[Molly]

...and it's just the ASP. Keep that in mind if you ever see a CMDR Anaconda blow up in front of you

In all fairness, my ASP has 88t cargo and it takes me like 2 round trips (2 jumps one way) to get 300k. Fuel scoop means no costs there. It's more or less pure profit.
Repairs are a bitch too. 1% damage = 2k repair

[Moribund]

...and it's just the ASP. Keep that in mind if you ever see a CMDR Anaconda blow up in front of you

In all fairness, my ASP has 88t cargo and it takes me like 2 round trips (2 jumps one way) to get 300k. Fuel scoop means no costs there. It's more or less pure profit.
Repairs are a bitch too. 1% damage = 2k repair

You can consider selling the scoop and buy cargo racks. Your route sounds roughly like 12000 per hour per ton. Profit is bigger when you are paying for the fuel and you save time as well.

[Vibe]

So the galaxy in Elite:Dangerous is based on Milky Way right? Can I visit Betelgeuse for example?

[Molly]

You can go wherever you want, like these guys...

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=80753

<3

And yes, people have been to it apparently: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=99229

[Casimir]

Do they have pulsar stars because if so I must see.

[Kafein]

Do they have pulsar stars because if so I must see.

Yes, according to this infographic:

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Although of course, neutron stars are quite rare.

So the galaxy in Elite:Dangerous is based on Milky Way right? Can I visit Betelgeuse for example?

It's not "based" on the Milky Way, it is the Milky Way, to a degree of accuracy pretty close to what we know from observation.

[Molly]

Kafein is right. It actually is the Milky Way. They used some NASA/ESA/whatnot database and generated the galaxy with those exact values.