6481

Keep it a sim, just add interesting things to do.

6482

and fix some of the more glaring bits of bullshit, such as the economy of the belt rats.

6483

I guess the Type-10 is available now?

6484

Fuel rats launch mission to rescue player stranded further from civilization than any other player has ever been

6485

The fact the Fuel Rats exist is so cool.

6486

If only she could make a microtransaction to get the extra fuel! PROBLEM SOLVED!

6487

Or pay $500 for a JPEG of a space fuel tanker!

6488

Now that is some emergent gameplay.

6489

You can plot long-distances by scoopable stars now, so I’m wondering how someone can run out of fuel?

6490

Women drivers.

6491

My understanding is they left the galaxy in an attempt to set a record, but miscalculated their fuel use for the attempt, and ended up stranded.

6492

Didn’t run out of fuel jumping, she ran out of fuel by leaving her computer on in supercruise mod for a long time to reach those 11ly away from the star since she couldnt jump anywhere else.

Using your ship normally and doing supercruise also uses fuel but it’s so little you will never pay attention to the usage.

6493

I own the base game, bought it on release and haven’t played much in the past year. Never bought the expansion, which is now on sale for $15 (its called Horizon season pass). If I jump back in, is the expansion must-have? I play solo only. Mostly just fly around and try to trade and make cash. Are planetary landings a good addition?

6494

Yeah you will want it. It expands your options for trade significantly and also give you the ability to complete many more passenger and other missions. Its a good expansion while not technically a must have I cant imagine playing without it.

Edit: Oh and all the Engineers are on planetary bases and you will be engineering your ship at some point so yeah.

6495

So, Beyond is out now and I’m planning to jump back in to ED this weekend to check it out and make a bit more progress. I never got very far with the Engineers before, preferring to just do dogfights with my unupgraded Vulture. Given the changes to them, what should I be doing first now to get on the ladder?

6496

The change to Engineers sounds good. I got so sick and tired of micromanaging my Materials inventory to stay under the tiny cap all in order to make repeated sacrifices to RNGesus for complete and utter crap.

I don’t know enough about the specific changes to tell you how best to get started, but do report back with your thoughts on Beyond. :)

6497

I don’t do combat but the new engineer system is ok. The experimental effects are kinda cool but tbh the whole thing is really just a sideways step from the old engineer system.

Unfortunately they are still spending a bunch of effort on the Thargoid & Guardian stuff, but so far at least it seems completely ignorable which is good.

Everything else about the new patch is decent though, new planets are nice and the mission stuff is very cool indeed.

6498

If you have a spare minute would you mind elaborating a bit? What’s changed with the missions?

6499

They added new types (like bulk delivery) plus you now get to pick your rewards. I will say trading looks a lot more interesting in the new update I intend to play around with it over the weekend after I get back from the latest exploring expedition. Oh and you can now do wing missions with others, which makes groups like Mobius a little more tempting.

6500

I guess it is time to break out the Lakon and make some money