Postby Kraken-keeper » Fri Jan 17, 2020 3:26 pm
Dang, I am totally unorganized, compared to most of the post.
So I am didn't watch any of the "how to start Elite off right / get rich quick" vids.
So after playing around, leaving "Trainer" space the first day I got the game, picked up a courier that took me out, arrived at destination, logged for the night (played all of 2 hours at most), then next night found out I couldn't go back....lol
So mostly courier missions, with the money, bought different ships. Got me a Dolphin, going to try to do some tourist missions. Again, learning as I go, got me a short distance tourist, worked my way to his spot, then seen he wanted some clothes on the way to his second spot. Like an idiot, I didn't realize have to bring him all the way back to the starting station. Brought him back, got paid, looked closer, seen there are some that are round trip, some are one-way. So pick up some one ways. Watch some youtube vids (very few). Stop at a station (don't remember name), hey this group of 10 want to go to station close to the center of the galaxy, "well that can't be to hard, and be good to go sightseeing myself", they give a full week to get there. I should be able to do that. Pick them up, then every minor faction in the station had a courier mission to the same system, heck I pick them all up. Make some real money.
I head off, I got my fuel scoop, my destination, well I can't get the map to work right, and can't plot a route cause it to far away, so I plot that direction. I am jumping along, not getting very far. After 3 hours of jumping while watching a show with my wife, I realize my plot is having me jump 3 to 5 ly at a time. Ugh, I change that plot to fastest, there I go I am jumping now, all 20-23 ly. 2 days later, I am only about a 4th of the way there, got 4 days left on my missions. I start really looking for info on all this, my calculations says I need to be making over 200 jumps a day to make it there. I also come to realize, I haven't seen a station or settlement in a while. I have a wife who wants me to play games with her, rather than the next 4 days straight playing ED only. So I look at how to "honk" a system as I found I wasn't doing that. How to FSS a system aslo.
So I am out in Scutum Dark Region, just now learning how to search a system. I not going to reach the Colonia area quickly. I abandon my missions. I don't know what to do with the passengers. So I abandon the mission. I think, I will drop them off at next station. I get an immediate mission critical message that states they want me to drop them off at closest station. I think, "Sure, when I get back to the Bubble". Nope they think it should happen in 14 mins. 14 mins later, I get message that escape pods have been used. And a mail message that they have taken matters in their own hands. (Next time, if I am going to abandon a taxi mission, I wait til I am closer to stations.)
So now I am trying to redo my keybinding controls, do some mapping of systems and maybe some DSS of a few planets on my way back to the bubble. (I was drawn to the game because of exploration of space.)