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I see Elite Dangerous is now available for the princely sum of £40 on the PS store. I'm wary of being No Man's Sky-ed again, but this does look just lovely. Has anyone purchased it and have views that might be relevant to readers of this thread?

I remain, sirs and madams, your humble servant.

Old Man Afterthought has. He was dedicating yesterday evening to "learning to land on a pad". I shall report back.

I'd quite like it, but it looks like a time sink, and i have far too many games to get through.

Thank you sir.

Oooh, it's actually only £20 this week. That might change the calculation a bit. And the £20 I save can go towards a VR headset.

Oh hell yes for £20

Although that's without the season pass thingy... Hmm. Is that important?

I love the idea of this but I also love the idea of having enough time to dedicate to it.

Ditto and I have just started Breath of the Wild so I think I'll hold off.

Good choice!

Yeah I think you pretty much want the "Horizons" add on. It adds planetary landings amongst other stuff.

I'm finding the galaxy map next to impossible to navigate, am I missing something? Searching for systems flat out fails to ever find anything, and trying to work out what leads to where is a mess.

So down to £14 in the current sale for the basic game

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-gb/ ... GAME000000

Do i need that, or the expansions?

I want this, but I really won't have much time to play it. Is it a game you can drop in and out of?

Also, what MaliA said

I did a couple of hours last night and am starting to get the hang of it a bit, I think. I'm getting quite good at running away from bad guys. I do think the interface is extremely clunky.

Bring us 4 water purifiers!
Wait there
Exit mission board
Exit station services
Open galaxy map
Check nearby systems for industrial station
Found one
Exit galaxy map
Enter station services
Enter mission board
Find mission again
Okay I will get your water purifiers

What bobby said.

If ever a game called for a good companion app sitting on an iPad next to you where you can check commodity stocks and prices at remote locations, this is it.

The Horozons expansion (an extra £20) is supposed to be enormous and transformative, based on people talking about the PC version I own but barely played.

I have it too, but have barely played it. It's excellent in VR but barrel rolls make me feel a bit queasy.

Until you get a ship with no windows...

I also found the ui elements to be quite hard to use in VR.

If you were going to go down that route its better to buy this one

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-gb/ ... DELUXEPACK

Which is the base game / horizons add on / and the 'Commanders pack' for £28

Horizons enables you to land on airless moons and planets, and adds a few other features into the game.

It does transform the game and makes it enormously better and more immersive, but unfortunately the gameplay itself is still mind-numbingly shallow and grindy.

I bought this for £15 or so, and I quite like flying about and moving clothes from one system to another. I haven't yet started to make enemies, but i have a natty red ship which is becoming more efficient. It seems that there is a lot in it, though.

Mind you, I do a lot of this

Didn’t realise this game had a pancake mode

Got me a new ship, so I can move forty four tonnes of clothes at a time now. Fourty four! Imagine!

Speciality bras for the Triple Breasted Whore of Magrathea?

Currently at 57% off, I can download this for 14 dollary-doos.

I don't have any space fly-shoot-tradey games in the collection at the moment and I'm wondering if it's worth it.

However, and this is probably more a reflection on me, I do find that cheap games are easily discarded. I'm of the impression that this is a real time sink of a game, that requires a fair commitment to get the best from - is that an accurate impression?

I really like it. I like making the imaginary numbers increase on the screen as I run trading missions and be a space lorry. Or a space taxi. You don't need to go madly into it, you could just do a one jump run and save it.

But I want to be trapped in hyperspace, battling Thargons on a knife edge where I'm only just picking them off before another wave homes in on me from their Thargoid mother ship, never sure when their reserves will be depleted and only emerging heroically when I'm soaked in sweat from the ordeal.

Purchased. Downloaded. Not yet played.

At the moment I look for systems that have an outbreak of disease. Then fly basic medicine into them to sell. 280 tonnes (python) gets 1.3million profit per run. I found a one jump run which gets 5 million an hour.

So I bought a type 9 freighter. It needs to do two jumps but gets 2 million profit per run (480 tonnes) and I think it will be about 7 million per hour profit.

The freighter is huge and slow. No guns or anything but the cargo is only 220k so a dump and run isn't breaking the bank if there's a piracy incident.

Speaking of space piracy: I bought a Viper MkIV and tooled it out as a hard as nail fighting ship and went bounty hunting which was quite good fun but not as profitable as the trading.

Adder: I have a scanning Adder which pops about in system and scans all the Wales and anomalies and things to upgrade my FSDU drives to jump further

Exploration: A trip to Saggitarious A is being planned, bit not quite there with the jump drives yet. I need a modded one, and a lot of time. When I have 300 million in the bank (140 trade runs time, barring accident) it might be GO TIME. Unless I go to Beagle point which is further and you have to cross The Abyss

Woohoo! Spent 17 million credits and got me a new jump drive. I can now do a whopping 12 light years with 720 tonnes of cargo, so the medicine runs are now 12 million an hour!

This noodling around in space business is quite fun, isn't it?

Oddly so

Woohoo!

Space lorrying for profit!

I am taking 720 tonnes basic medicines one jump to a station 110 light seconds from the star away, and then hauling back 720 tonnes tritium to a station 5 light seconds from the jump in. That''s 3 million Moon Dollars pure profit for the medicine, and 5 million Moon Dollars for the tritium. About 35 million an hour, so in 2 hours the hauler is paid for.

And I modded my FSD a bit more so now can go 14 light years fully laden.

I now have a small space bus and am driving around paying passengers. It's oddly enjoyable.

you passenger's occasionally ask for extras? Is it possible to sell them into slavery?

I got the bank balance up to 110million and then popped back into my Asp Explorer. It'll jump 42 light years, so that's about 630 jumps to get to Saggitarious A star black hole. I'm learning to scan the systems and planets on the way. It's very quiet and lonely out in the black (I'm only 200 LY away from home right now). I have my whip in the cargo hold for some surface driving, too.

See you in 50k LY.

If the extras are two tons of clothing I usually oblige. If they ask to add an additional stop 8 jumps out of the way I usually ignore them.

Asp Explorer is probably next on my shipping list though I'm tempted to go straight for a Mamba

Uh, Houston, we may have a problem....

Have a look at a krait phantom. Might be prettier

Also on my list, yes.

Is it time to call out the Fuel Rats?

I might have scooted when I should have scooped. I will check and see if there is anything within jump range later on.

I think I left a box checked that should have been unchecked when route planning, as the next jump is a brown dwarf star

Phew! 38 lightyear jump and am now sat filling up and repairing. Bit too close, that. Onwards!

On the way to the Trifid nebula at the moment. I knew you were all worried. Leisurely pace, jump 49 LY, scan some planets , and move on again. Scoop fuel when at 40%

Every jump you make, you make a new friend.

Unless you like talking to suns, this is rarely true

Chilling after another refuelling stop. The destination nebula is just above the star. Check out the heat venting out of the spine of the ship!

There are a few stations in deep space so I am meandering towards one, no rush. All I do is jump in, honk, fuel, fss scan, jump out.

As cras said three years ago, the map is rubbish.

Huh, have just read back what I said three years ago. Turns out there are now a shit ton of online community tools for checking prices, ship builds, routes, etc.

4,482 light years away from Kernow, I have dropped into orbit over a settlement where I have refuelled, repaired and restocked.

I also discovered a few planets on the way. Which was nice.

In space no one expects to find a planet sized truffle.