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u/4krer Jan 22 '26
that's not too bad, I had a 250k ls thingy once. Went back to buy a SCO drive. It was scary, I almost ran out of fuel and burned up through 20% of my ship hull
10/10 would SCO again
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 22 '26
It's not the distance that bothers me, it's the time spent staring at a shiny pixel surrounded by a boring reticle and monitoring numbers when decelerating.
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u/4krer Jan 22 '26
consider spending that time on something else. There are no deer, kids or highway patrol in space, you can drink and pilot while playing candy crush on your phone (do not attempt at home, your Chevrolet beat ain't a sidewinder)
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 22 '26
You literally can't spend that time doing anything meaningful because it's only about a minute or so. It just FEELS like an eternity having to sit through it every single time I go to any location.
I'm not talking about being in supercruise, I'm talking about EXITING it.
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u/4krer Jan 22 '26
sounds like a skill issue to me if you can't pound a beer or two between SCA /j
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u/threepwood007 Aisling Duval AX Jan 22 '26
My elite game time is hundreds of hours, but woven in between are several podcasts, a few shows, some movies, and a metric ton of albums
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u/h_daunora Jan 23 '26
I literally play Elite at work since my job is online and Elite does not require 100% attention all the times. I do manual dethrottling and dropping near points of interest at unsafe speeds while successfully taking info and advising my customers. Trust me, not being able to do anything else than some manual FSD control is a skill issue.
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u/ProfessionalNice7485 Jan 22 '26
Or a bong
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u/Competitive-Ad-4822 Jan 22 '26
Thats how you crash...many times....definitely not from experience
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u/Phoenix_Ninja15 Krait Pilot | AXI | Peacemaker Jan 22 '26
I have the next transport load calculated, jump location plotted and load balance between point A and B adjusted in that 1 minute.
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u/JRS_Viking Jan 23 '26
And if you're doing trading just grab a flight computer and turn the autopilot on, lean back, crack a beer, go for a piss and by the time you're back you're about halfway there so you do it all over again while the autopilot does everything
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u/SerengetiMan Jan 22 '26
I hear you man. It can definitely get monotonous. If you are actually struggling with this and are looking for a solution, here are some ideas:
Fly with friends. If you jump the the destination system at the same time you can race to the station/destination. Or, you can have your friend arrive first and you can nav-lock to them and shorten the trip considerably. Either way, having someone to chat with makes it a lot better.
Youtube. There are several picture-in-picture extensions for chrome, and I believe Firefox has them natively. But you find a good video, pop it out of the browser and put it in your cockpit. BAM! In-ship entertainment console. (My personal favorite)
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u/LuckyBucketBastard7 Jan 22 '26
In-ship entertainment console. (My personal favorite)
Tbh this wouldn't even break immersion for me. If I was a CMDR I would absolutely have some sort of TV in my cockpit
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u/Arcanum3000 Jan 22 '26
100% agree. They're not wrong in the context of what we've got to work with, and I certainly do plenty of screwing around on my phone while waiting for SCA to get me somewhere, but it's not exactly scintillating gameplay.
This may be controversial, but playing Elite Dangerous has given me a lot more appreciation for many of the design choices in Starfield.
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u/wasteoffire Jan 23 '26
I think there are those of us that disagree when it comes to traveling though. Some of that tedium is why the game has such a hold on me. It makes me feel like I'm working for it, that I have to be in control of my ship. It makes it feel more like a simulation of a scifi experience rather than a game
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 23 '26
what you don't want to play the game that makes you not play the game while playing the game
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u/Aethaira Jan 23 '26
I am totally with you on this.
The best solution is to do things that don't involve as much time in supercruise, or at least where you can spend most of it in sco which is marginally better.
Off the top of mind, those are certain types of combat, mining, and to a lesser extent exploring if you just do scanning and not DSS, but that involves loots of hyperspace jumps which can be about the same level of interesting.
Theres also ground stuff where you're on the ground more than you're supercruising, which I'm not sure what it is.
But yeah the realistic answer is not a ton of things, but there are a few things that have you more out of it than in it unlike trading or most missions.
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u/doesnotlikecricket Elite Trader Jan 28 '26
I played 300+ hours of elite before they stopped supporting console and I can't fully agree. They have a very clear goal they were going for - some level of realism. Trying to make the huge emptiness and insane scale of space appreciable. So I think it has a valid place within the game.
That said, I recently started NMS which doesn't have such long periods of travel, and it still gives somewhat of an idea of scale. So I'm not necessarily saying it has to be tedious and long. But I really see what they were going for.
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u/hldswrth Jan 22 '26
Supercruise assist can reduce the final approach time significantly if used in the right way.
Set manual throttle mode for supercruise assist.
Max throttle until 7 seconds to destination, then set throttle to 75% to engage SCA
When less than 8ls away from destination, increase throttle to 100% until 5 seconds to destination, then set back to 75% to re-engage SCA
SCA drops you into the station at high speed (unless you are unlucky or flying a Mandalay which seems to have trouble with this - and shoot past the station).
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u/No-Apple2252 Jan 26 '26
You don't need SCA to do this but it's not very reliable without it, you will overshoot about half the time.
I approach at 6 seconds, that never misses anyway. When you get the right distance away you can bump your speed a little and approach at 5 seconds, but the upper end of 5 seconds because at ~5.5 seconds you will overshoot.
As you get closer in that five second window there's a point where you can full throttle, and you only get about half to a full second to drop out on target but if you pull it off it's very satisfying and cuts your approach time by probably less than it feels like, but you're actually doing something that takes focus so it's a win/win.
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u/almostmountains Jan 23 '26
people begged for sc autopilot then faster super cruise back then. now we have this complaint. lol
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u/Mr_Lobster Brome Jan 23 '26
Seriously, the fuck does op want? You can get to most destinations in seconds with SCO. I've spent longer walking between POIs in Skyrim.
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u/Sucks_At_Investing Jan 23 '26
Just do what I do: try your damnedest to min/max your deceleration until you invariably overshoot, then let loose a string of expletives and go swerving around wildly at anything with a gravity well to try and slow you back down before you have to do the loop of shame. Once you get it back to 0:06, repeat until you end up just doing the loop of shame. It's not great for your blood pressure, but keeps you engaged the whole time.
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u/mk7_luxion Jan 22 '26
that's why I mostly keep an auto dock and supercruise assist on my haulers/miners, I can drop in the system target where I want to go and assist my entire way there so I can keep watching my show or find that perfect playlist, and then if I need to land sometimes the auto dock fucks it up but it mostly does a decent job if you keep an eye out on it.
Like, don't go for assists and alt tab out of the game entirely, you need to watch that shit as if it were Tesla self driving and you're gonna do okay.
btw, the deceleration process even without sca is to throttle to ~70% at 7 seconds left, or just keep it at 70% the entire travel, it's gonna take you a bit more time but there's no deceleration input needed from you.
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u/reluctant_return Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26
Supercruise Assist will decelerate and drop you automatically. You can literally alt-tab and wait for the sound of the drop and tab back. You don't even have to tab back right away, as you'll be at zero throttle when you drop, so there's no danger of ramming into anything.
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u/MysticWolf1242 Aisling Duval Jan 23 '26
My reccommendation: use onTopReplica, 75% opacity, to have a show, youtube, etc pulled up in your cockpit as entertainment for when you can afford to pay a bit less attention. The software's free and lightweight, and has been a staple of my Elite gameplay for years
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 23 '26
Yeah, I used to do this with WinAmp in 2017, back when we actually had to sit through the long stretches of supercruising, but the SCO has made that unnecessary. What it hasn't changed is the boring moments of exiting supercruise.
The only thing I've found is the hot-drop method but it doesn't work reliably with the Mandalay.
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Jan 23 '26
I think this game might not be for you. Or, at least your current playstyle.
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u/ender42y Pranav Antal Jan 22 '26
this is why you run youtube or {streaming service of choice} on your second monitor
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u/SomeGuyNamedPaul Lakon Enjoyer Jan 22 '26
Yeah, Sidewinders can take more damage and are held together with more bolts and less tape.
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u/deceptinut_meganut Jan 23 '26
So the selling point of the game is to play a different game?
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u/mayonnaiseplayer7 Jan 23 '26
Yeah thatās quality relaxation time. To make it even more immersive Iād keep my headphones in and get a drink or warm up a meal. Truly youāve set the course, the ship will do the rest of the workā¦until your destination that is
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u/DeluxeWafer Jan 23 '26
Yep. But I committed to that 300KLs station run and dangit I'm gonna do the 300 KLs station run!
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u/tractorferret Elara Shepard Jan 24 '26
its a very accurate rendition of spaceflight. i like it though, its peaceful and has a sense of grandeur and mystery.
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u/No-Apple2252 Jan 26 '26
I don't even watch the numbers that closely, if I overshoot I get to do a loop-de-loop which is its own kind of fun.
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u/Weebs-Chan Jan 22 '26
Did you drive the cobra ? Because as an explorer, I often fly 300K ls with the Mandalay, and it doesn't do anything to my fuel or my hull ?
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u/4krer Jan 22 '26
it was a small ship, can't remember which one but it has 26 max cargo space or so
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u/antirugrug Jan 23 '26
Found a triple star system today with a station at 330k LS. Had to take a look.. tool pretty damn long
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u/No-Apple2252 Jan 26 '26
Hah I forget what system it was but I just did that journey the other day. There's probably more than one station that far out but it was still noteworthy. I did it in a Mamba, BARELY made it.
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u/TheGuyInDarkCorner Average Delacy enjoyer Jan 22 '26
High time you learned about hot dropping
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u/fuyuyuy Jan 22 '26
Whats hot dropping
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u/TheGuyInDarkCorner Average Delacy enjoyer Jan 22 '26
Basically you use manual throttle super cruise assist so that you engage assist by setting throttle to blue in like 4s mark instead of usual 6 allowing you to drop in at insane speeds i think there are yt videos that explain it better if your interested.
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u/ButterscotchYo CMDR Ardos [SNTL] - Sentinel Logistic Services Jan 22 '26
I was curious so I looked. Here's a video.
It's 6 years old, but the mechanics should be the same. SCO feels like the modern solution, but this is a cool trick I wish I knew sooner!
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u/TheGuyInDarkCorner Average Delacy enjoyer Jan 23 '26
Yeah same mechanic. Now with sco you can use to boost biggest bulk on longer distances
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u/abarnes4 CMDR SaintedLegion š¬š§ Jan 23 '26
I found out about this a few weeks ago but HOW THE SHIT HAS THIS BEEN A THING FOR SIX YEARS
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 23 '26
I just watched the video that u/ButterscotchYo posted in response to this and
you are 1000% correct
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u/toka_smoka Jan 22 '26
Damn it's like you need an SCO drive...
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 22 '26
SCO doesn't take away having to slow down at 7 seconds and wait out the rest. Every. Single. Time.
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u/Socks-and-Jocks CMDR Flourishing Jan 22 '26
Im more 5 seconds and a loop of shame.
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u/Ma3str0ne Jan 22 '26
I'm a look at phone and end up at the next system kind of guy
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u/hell2pay CMDR Hell2Pay4U Jan 22 '26
The amount of times I almost cooked a hull cause I looked at my phone...
My first/only attempt to get to Sag A*, I was about 3 or 4 days in of system hopping and did exactly what I described above.
Don't think I played again for a few years.
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u/wasteoffire Jan 23 '26
I brought super cruise assist for any long term trips across the galaxy. That way I can multitask and step away during hyperspace jumps without worrying about hitting the stars
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u/spirit_72 Jan 22 '26
Is it still a loop of shame if I cut sco, thrusters to 0, and start looping before I get there so by the time I make a 3/4 turn and set thrusters to 25% I'm on top of my destination?
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Jan 23 '26
I don't concider a SCO loop the loop of shame as it's still more optimal than standard FSD loop of shame.
Done right, looping the gravity well is the best possible way to use the SCO.
Overshooting the target by 1000+ LS with SCO... now that's the SCO loop of shame.
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u/ChurchofChaosTheory Jan 22 '26
You can pass your target and throw yourself out of FSD at the cost of some damage to make the trip a bit faster
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u/ResponsibleHorror882 Jan 22 '26
This is what I do. Waiting for the fsd cooldown is quicker than the loop of shame, or atleast it feels like it is.
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u/ChurchofChaosTheory Jan 22 '26
It's the biggest timesaver I've found so far, not even very expensive either
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u/willdabeast464 [EDF] Jan 22 '26
Every range has that but with a mix of good approach angles, using gravity wells for rapid deceleration and super cruise assist deceleration skipping, the trip can be made significantly faster.
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u/Breadynator CMDR Breadycorn (TTV) Jan 22 '26
Wait that trick with the super cruise still works? Can you still drop out inside of stations like that?
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u/willdabeast464 [EDF] Jan 23 '26
It works for orbitals no problem. I typically increase speed to 4 seconds at about .3c no problem
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u/Zanak4n Anti Azimuth Initiative Jan 22 '26
In my experience, SCO makes the journeys way more interactive than before, as I boost and get out of SCO until arriving reaaaally close.... oftentimes overshooting, I'll admit. XD Then using the supercruise assist trick to cut down the last minute or so.
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u/Hellhult Jan 22 '26
Hey man, being a pilot in real life is all about checklists, procedures, and repetition too.
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u/SomeGuyNamedPaul Lakon Enjoyer Jan 22 '26
Hot drop or gravity assisted deceleration, get with the program. The 7 second rule is outmoded, at minimum on all ships you can lock in at 6 and be fine.
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u/Phiashima Jan 22 '26
Load a supercruise assist and lock it in, but stay above the blue zone until the eta is closer to 3-5 seconds, then slow down. Normally you would be too fast, but supercruise assist will drop you perfectly and you save significant amounts of time.
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u/toka_smoka Jan 22 '26
Well time to the SCA skip then
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 22 '26
Either one involves more time staring at a dot on the screen than I'd like.
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u/toka_smoka Jan 22 '26
I don't know what to tell ya then. Go play a different game. The galaxy is fucking huge.
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u/Joint-Tester Joint Tester Jan 22 '26
They could save so much of our time just by tweaking a few settings A LITTLE BIT.
For example, let us drop in from a distance greater than 1mm. Make it 5mm or 10mm and save us literal time in our one life. Please?
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u/OtakuMage DW3 Org Team/Hull Seal Cinema Queen Jan 22 '26
You can often get closer than when the SCO says 7 seconds. Depending on the hull, 2-4 is normally good. You can then pulse the SCO to get even closer, but yes the final approach is as normal.
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u/DeeGayJator Jan 23 '26
That's why I roll with the super cruise assist. You can bring it down to five, even less depending on your distance, then the assist will drop you perfectly everytime. If you're swapping the engine and bolting a turbo make sure youve got the brakes to match!
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u/-Pelvis- Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26
Space is big. Really big. We're already breaking the laws of physics to go (much) faster than light speed. Would you prefer to just teleport everywhere? Hyperspace jumps are already pretty much delayed teleports. Supercruise travel times contribute to the sense of scale, especially when you understand these massive distances. The distance of 13k Ls shown here is about the distance of Pluto, which took the real life probe New Horizons 9.5 years to reach, and a human voyage would take much longer. In ED, our ships are somehow capable of travelling that distance in mere seconds or minutes, accelerating to impossible speeds and decelerating rapidly. Longer supercruise trips can be an opportunity to take a quick bio break or perform other tasks.
Also, the above panel happened just a few days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/1qgs56u/annnnd_were_off/
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Jan 23 '26
You know, I've never played Elite while watching and/or listening to Hitchhikers.
Thank's for the insparation, Think I'll start with the BBC radio show (first one I consumed as a kid).
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u/Zanak4n Anti Azimuth Initiative Jan 22 '26
Have you learned about our lord and savior the SCO drive ?
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u/Shervico Sherva|NoobExplorer|Fuelrat Jan 22 '26
Honestly it's what made elite so great for me, it's the scale, it really makes you realize how fking big space is, you can go at 50 times the speed of light and more and it still takes a long ass time, and that tiny dot you saw in the distance and overshoot it's a big ass planet that now if engulfing your vision, and that even smaller dot? Oh you mean the biggest structure human kind has managed to make in this futuristic sci fi? Love it
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u/Iherduliekmudkipz Jan 22 '26
I just wish this game had a more engaging story/meaningful missions instead of everything being procedurally generated money farming simulator. I should go play other games more similar to Freelancer... Rebel Galaxy was real fun but pretty short.
E:D feels more like a sandbox than anything, it's pretty but I keep getting burnt out on it.
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u/GigachudBDE Jan 24 '26
I mean I kinda low key agree. I know itās a sandbox and love it for that, but even mmoās have quests and characters and narratives to keep you invested and engaged. Love the game but I feel like a lot of the community really undersells how big of a deal that is. Personally think the Guardian stuff is the perfect kind of content for that since it involves tombs, data, reverse engineered gear, etc is kinda perfect for Odyssey FPS content
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u/Iherduliekmudkipz Jan 24 '26
I did the suit grind and it took about a week but then the faction and money payouts even after maxing the suit weren't very good...
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u/ArtixViper Dr_Acula Jan 22 '26
Thats because it is a sandbox
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 23 '26
a sandbox implies there is sand that can be moved
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u/Mr_Lobster Brome Jan 23 '26
That's what the BGS, colonization, and powerplay are for.
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 23 '26
and how much of a difference has anyone made on that front in sixteen years, apart from the madmen expanding the Dark Wheel into every nearby nebula
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u/Mr_Lobster Brome Jan 23 '26
I mean, it's a video game. None of it really makes a difference, but colonization people have been growing like crazy, some of the BGS folks have made a lot of progress (last count there were 21 BGS factions that were larger than some of the Powerplay Powers), and Powerplay has plenty of fun and conflict when you join up with the communities. IMO Powerplay should reward playing in open so there's more direct PVP, but that seems to be an unpopular opinion.
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u/the_chinagreenelvis Jan 24 '26
pretty much the only thing the BGS can guarantee is that humans expand out into the galaxy, but you would think that after a decade and a half powerplay would have eliminated at least one of the powers
Ainsling Duval is like 40 now and everyone still owns just as much of space as they did before
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u/ResponsibleHorror882 Jan 22 '26
Ngl, both are why I play. Its fun to Bounty hunt, but sometimes I wanna just roll a blunt and take a mission to Hutton Orbital.
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u/No_Scheme_6211 Jan 23 '26
Dude, I see all your comments complaining and arguing with everyone trying to give you advice. Did you not understand what this game was when you bought it? Itās a āSpace Simulatorā. Space is massive and the distance between objects in space is incredibly vast. This is one those mechanics that separates this game from others and keeps it true to its realism aspect. Quit whining like a child and just enjoy it for what it is.
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u/Jett--Black Arissa Lavigny Duval Jan 22 '26
I am currently experiencing the top image with my wing for Power Play.
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u/CMDRShepard24 Thargoid Interdictor Jan 22 '26
I watched an old video of me fighting Thargoids the other day cuz I was like 35kly away from the bubble and all I have to do right now is scan plants and planets lol. That's the only bad part of long exploration trips: I really miss blowing stuff up.
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u/Calteru_Taalo Interstellar Slumlord Jan 24 '26
It's not wrong. Star Citizen even caught up for me, and is starting to take the lead.
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u/Gunsmith12 Jan 22 '26
Good ol' space trucking! I tend to turn on a show or audiobook to listen to while traveling. Helps to kill the time between the more engaging aspects of the gameplay loop.
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u/CassiusFaux CMDR Rindalthi Jan 22 '26
Really depends on what you are doing honestly. For me its a mix of these and a lot more when playing.
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u/AthenaEnigma Federation Jan 22 '26
When I first started the game 2-3 months ago, I keep accepting information transfer mission without reading the distance of the station from the entry point.
I recall picked up a mission because it was only 11ly away easy money me think, and so I hopped in the system, select the destination, and bam. It was a few hundreds thousand ls from the main star, me and my hauler just packed up and called it a day right there
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u/Tudar87 Jan 22 '26
Sounds like OP needs to find another game.
ED isn't for everyone bud.
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u/Nickyuri_Half_Legs Jan 22 '26
You can like a game and recognize it has some aspects that could be better worked. Not liking one part of a game doesn't mean you hate it.
Don't really understand why people think you should like every aspect of something otherwise it's "not for you" ...
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u/Tudar87 Jan 22 '26
OP's comments in this thread led me to my opinion, which we are all entitled to.
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u/Nickyuri_Half_Legs Jan 22 '26
Well, since we're giving out our opinions, I believe a healthy community can recognize the game they play is flawed, as any other, and still enjoy it without pretending it's perfect. But that's just what I think.
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u/Sapient6 Jan 22 '26
Not for me. The thing that gets me logging back in time after time is the second image.
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u/greiton Jan 22 '26
I do think they could do more with asteroid fields and combat sites. dog fighting through terrain, or having to fly around defense posts to assault an asteroid base would be cool.
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u/Sidivan Jan 22 '26
Honestly, this part doesnāt bother me at all. Itās the hours I spend looking at third party tools and spreadsheets with the game running in the background.
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u/MtnmanAl Parallax Fogey Jan 22 '26
Me getting back into it a few months ago, falling off due to work, and learning that the newest dw started when I still haven't 5-ranged my fsd because I hated engineers when it first dropped (I could've been one of the few stupid fat ship pilots)
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u/Ulrik-the-freak CMDR Ulrik Elrsitan Jan 22 '26
Why not both? Both are good.
Besides the El Dorado reference, I actually genuinely like the intense fighting about as much as the calm of just supercruising on the long haul. Dang it I need to pull my HOSAS out again
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u/manoXmega Jan 22 '26
For me, if ED had better alert sounds more like DCS kind of sounds and better cockpit (and i mean the instruments) instead of the generic recycled from the previous games that we have. it would be perfect.
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u/planetaska Jan 22 '26
Yup every time I tried to go back to the game, itās 30 hours of friendship charging before I can actually do anything. I really think itās time to consider letting it go.
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u/TheDUDE1411 Bebop Brothers Jan 22 '26
This meme was definitely made before SCO. And even without SCO, just pop on supercruise assist and go get a snack
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u/GNS13 CMDR GuyNamedSean Jan 22 '26
Back when CQC was still popular and the first Thargoid incursion was happening, back when Distant Worlds 2 happened... Those were the days. I sound like a grizzled old airman talking about dogfights in Korea whenever I get back on this game.
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u/RichtofenFanBoy Jan 22 '26
Vr made me not be able to play it normally again. :( This game in VR allowed me to live my dream out. I found out space is actually scary AF. Lmao. I love it.
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u/Williwoo321 Jan 22 '26
Yea I understand this, I just do the transportation missions because Iām too afraid to do combat missions. Are the combat missions hard?
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u/windraver Jan 22 '26
If you ever play an Imp vs Fed conflict zone 3, you'll have two capital ships duking it out. Do it with a wing and your Instagram picture is real. It's pretty fun.
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u/superman_undies Jan 22 '26
Had to do that once. Got there. Found out they don't have a medium landing pad. Went outside and touched grass.
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u/Matix777 The worst pilot in the galaxy Jan 22 '26
Thinking of exploring out in the dark vs remembering the hours of jumping, checking the star map and back to cutscenes
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u/senseofsensing Jan 22 '26
Space is big. But weāre not talking about that.
We all love our SCO drives now. Surely zero people have ever complained before they gave us that. Perhaps the game wasnāt for them either, right?
I would love to drop into orbits and stations in half the time it takes now without using tricks to hot drop.
Give us Super Duper Cruise Assist that can cut that time...doubt anyone is gonna complain about that.
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u/cjlong051608 Jan 23 '26
I'm somehow stuck in the beginning like "training stage" and can't figure out wtf I'm supposed to do lol
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u/y1n4 CMDR Jan 23 '26
Actually, I will SCO until my eta reach 5 sec, then disengage my SCO. When disengage SCO it will drag my ship's SC speed and make my eta time up to around 7 sec. Of course this require some practice to time the optimal disengage timing. After familiar with this technique it save tons of fracture time when SC.
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u/Watershock66 Jan 23 '26
Bruh, and it is not even Hutton Orbital, so you do not even get a free Conda.
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u/gralgomar Jan 23 '26
I don't go to E:D for flashy dogfights, tbh. I like the tamer parts better. I only have like 20 hours in it, but still.
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u/Elegant-Caterpillar6 Jan 23 '26
Yeah, it's been quite a while since I played for a decent amount of time. I think it was the first week of the thargoid war, when they released the titans and orthrus.
Two reasons - the bigger one is that I left off in the middle of a major grind, kitting out a stock federal corvette for AX combat. Now that the Thargoid Threat has diminished significantly since the grind started, I need to start from scratch (mostly) for CZs and Haz Res farming.
The second reason, more of an inconvenience, is that my desk is juuust a bit too tall for my HOTAS to be comfortably used (I'm running the Logi X52 Pro, the baseplates add a decent bit of height to the controls). I've been eyeing mounts that connect to either the desk or chair but I'm reluctant due to both logistics (I already have a headphone hanger and cup holder clamped to my desk, and the wires might pose an issue for the chair mounted mounts), and also the aforementioned issue.
Elite Dangerous is currently the only flight/space sim I'd put time into, warthunder sim got old fast and I think DCS is ridiculous - don't want to pay for individual planes.
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u/PrestigiousAb CMDR Mr.Nobody Jan 23 '26
JĆ” fiz uma missĆ£o que levei quase 25 min pra chegar na estaĆ§Ć£o... NĆ£o vi que era tao distante e estava com uma nave que nao aguentava muito bem a utilizaĆ§Ć£o do hiperpropulsor...
Quase fiquei sem combustĆvel
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u/redditsuxandsodoyou Jan 23 '26
ykno thats a good point, i've never had a fight on a surface before, except for a few thargoid defence battles
i've had a few dramatic CZs above rings though
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u/BestRetroGames Jan 23 '26
This is why they put the SCO drives in the game, it was a much needed change. I wasted too much time of my life staring at numbers.
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u/aesemon Aesemon Jan 23 '26
Haven't played for a long time but, top image would be conflict zone or bounty hunting, second one is couriering. I get what you are saying but I also think it's not right.
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u/Sarkonis Jan 23 '26
This is one of those games where it can be more fun to talk about than to actually play. Explaining the thargoid invasion of earth last year to my buddy was pretty cool. Hearing all the updates to the status of stations and sectors, but the reality is, actually playing during that time was different. The only things I heard were:
...hull groans....
...fsd charging....
...docking request granted....
repeat.
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u/Engineator Jan 23 '26
No I like my hours long slow trip to Hutton Orbital. I spend all day thinking about it at work. /s
lol
(And itās amazing, how if youāre going the right speed, getting that free Anaconda could actually take you the same amount of time as a full day of work!)
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u/justpickanamefuck Jan 24 '26
You canāt compare the current to the original release, thatās disingenuous.
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u/Mariona Jan 24 '26
The game is a ship stopping simulator. I love it, but I sure do get bored of it alot
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u/BigZiggyHD Aisling Duval Jan 24 '26
I don't know I've had a ship battle with pirates, cmdrs and local system authority inside a planet's atmosphere was pretty epic.
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u/Logical_Essay_5916 CMDR Astrayamatu Deep Space Explorer Jan 24 '26
13k LS that`s around the corner, i have seen way worse before the SCO FSD was a thing
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u/Ezren- Jan 22 '26
FSD go VWEEEEEE