• cygnus
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    11 months ago

    Meanwhile, Elite Dangerous, hiding in the corner: move along, nothing to see here!

    • TroyOP
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      11 months ago

      Sell me on it – I bought it on a steam sale because it was in genre, but I’ve never fired it up. :)

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        11 months ago

        So many different ways to play Elite… from ‘space trucker’ to bounty hunter and everything in between. Best played as part of a group, though that is a bit grey. The group part can be that you ‘wing up’ with people, or just a social group to help you get through a steep learning curve. Join PTN (Pilots Trade Network) for a fantastic group of people who will support any who want to participate.

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        11 months ago

        Oh, I don’t know if I can really sell you on it, unless you already like Elite or the many games like it. It was just a reference to that game being incredibly wide (life-size Milky Way galaxy, with 400 billion star systems) but very shallow (they are procedurally-generated and most of them are barren)

        Edit: a fun stat from EDSM (also remember this game is 9 years old)

        0.020293% of the galaxy has been discovered on EDSM, it will take 41,743 years, 0 months, 16 days to discover it entirely.