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starkatt - It's still kind of blowing my mind that the playable area of Elite Dangerous is the entire Milky Way.

Not just "select locations in the Milky Way". All of them. 150,000 real-world surveyed stars and 400 billion procedural ones. And, yeah, most of them have accompanying planets and moons.

Only the local bubble is actually /inhabited/ but that's still a huge number of locations. If you want to hop all the way to the center of the galaxy 20ly at a time, there's nothing to stop you.

The game also seems like the kind of thing that really works best if you sink hundreds of hours into it and I just don't have that kind of time.

I'm trying to decide if the game is fun enough for me to plunk down the thirty bucks, or if I should just abandon the mission and do something else, or just walk away from ED entirely.

It seems like there's a relaxing game in there somewhere but I have to fight a horrible UI to find it. And I don't know if it's so chill I'd just get bored.

After spending like an hour on that mission and a half hour trying to figure out what was wrong, yeah, that really sours me on the whole game.

:( :(

Yeah so Elite Dangerous totally just let me accept a mission that in order to complete I need the $30 DLC, with no warning save a coded icon (and maybe not even that, I can;t remember).

That's not cool.

I really really want to be a fan of this game but bullshit like this is just so frustrating.

This game has some serious UX issues, mostly relating to navigation :/

So I got a mission to drop some goods at a surface base and I cannot figure out how to do so, and haven't been able to find a guide.

I can open the planetary map and see the base, and select it, but my HUD only ever shows a target centered on the planet and displays the whole planet as the target.

Also I can't connect to the server even though the launcher says server status is okay :(

I kinda like to imagine that custom exhaust colors are the Elite Dangerous equivalent of truck nutz.

heckromancer

snekromancer

I read this in a novel and it was so immediately and obviously correct.

I just finished sipping a glass of nice scotch and then immediately poured myself a bowl of lucky charms and I feel like this says something about me.