Possibly some sponsorship on the horizon?
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HAHAHHA i wish, definitely the F-4 comes out first so… No chance.
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Today I briefly considered wiping my two profiles and starting them from scratch. Problem is, I doubt I’d be motivated enough to get them back up to where they are now. At least not my main one, which is all Elite levels, more credits than I’ll ever need and a hangar with about a dozen fully modded ships in it.
I wondered if that matters at all - I mean, at some stage either this game will be simply discontinued as Frontier decide, or it will get to where I’m unable to play anyway - then all that stuff will count for zilch. So why not?
Still not decided - but I’ll leave it for now and probably do it in a spur of the moment lapse at some stage in the future.
edit: Ya know what? I just decided. If this game is still going in 2024, I’m going to reset both my profiles at New Year and start again. Why not?! 
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Okay - been thinking about it more and more and today I went through the inevitable update extravaganza!
Still requiring a fresh launcher download for each update! What a farce… wouldn’t be that bad, but requiring log in and email verification on a PC where it was already done, still! Talk about paranoia!
And then, of course, all my assignments are AWOL, so it’s back to my back-ups (if they work - hasn’t always been the case) and wondering if I really do want to bother…
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It will be worth it! 
Funnily enough my keybindings survived the most recent uodates. It felt a bit weird not having to fix them afterwards.
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In a way I suppose it’s not a bad thing - there are so many and if I redo them manually rather than using my back-up at least it will remind me where everything is. With no kneeboard in Elite (why not? - that would be great!) I can’t just stick some assignment diagrams in to view in VR when I forget what is where.
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These are the errors I got, which I don’t really understand because nothing has changed since I last played.>
There where errors when loading preset file: Custom.3.0.binds
There are multiple entries of binding “MouseGUI” Only the first will be used
Failed to find GUID for device: 06A30765
There are multiple entries of binding “MouseGUI” Only the first will be usedThere where errors when loading preset file: Custom.4.0.binds
There are multiple entries of binding “MouseGUI” Only the first will be used
Failed to find GUID for device: 06A30765
There are multiple entries of binding “MouseGUI” Only the first will be used
Failed to find GUID for device: 06A30765
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Okay - it’s me again!
I just reassigned all my controls, took about an hour or so.
I forgot exactly what my situation was when I last played in January and decided to jump in for a look. What a shock!
I’d noticed some new stuff in the controls, plus they have changed what some things are called (again - as if players weren’t angry enough about that last time they did it) but I fortunately guessed right with some - I’ll find out about others when I start going “Huh?”.
But the UI, especially on the galaxy map - is hugely different. I went through the various menu stuff, much of which didn’t really help. Talk about information overload - and I played a couple of thousand hours since Mrs bought me the original beta right up to January this year. Now it’s almost like a different game.
I’d forgot where I was as I said - and it turns out I was on an exploration route (think it was just for some peace and quiet and to earn some money) but with the update the route has been deleted.
I seem to have 5 ships - and am currently in my DBX outside the Bubble, while my ‘home’ system seems to be LTT 4898. I may still have an active INARA profile - have to check that later.
Anyway, the big Q is - do I go home and have a mosey around the Bubble, or do I wipe and start again? I’m a bit concerned that changes may disadvantage that option and it may be better to keep my ships - the DBX, a Krait II, a Chieftain, a Federal Gunship and a Dolphin - probably mostly modded up.
Decisions, decisions! The good news is that, although I was using my Index rather than the Pico, I had the settings on VR Ultra (with a couple of very minor changes - blur off and bloom on) my fpsVR display was showing 120fps and very good frametimes for both processors.
So what to do…?
edit: I do have a second profile, of course, which is maxed out with ships, money, rank etc - so would be a fallback option
2nd edit: I just went to INARA and yes, my profile is still there, but the only things listed are my ships - everything else has been wiped! And it turns out I didn’t last play Elite in January - it was January last year!
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There have been quite a few changes since then. Welcome back!
You may wish to try some exo-biology as the payouts have increased. That’s what I’m doing in the North American nebulae at the moment.
Or do a little light Thargoid hunting - if you pick a system with surface settlements under attack the ambience is excellent - although I did get tired of that after a few weeks. You could check out the Titans, I hear they are quite the spectacle. But there is a certain amount of grind you have to go through to get the equipment you need to spend any appreciable amount of time in the maelstroms. I haven’t bothered yet but I might look at it after the next update.
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Thanks. I actually reset my profile - but using legacy Horizons, which doesn’t affect the current version.
When I last attempted Thargoid interaction it was a bit too spontaneous and though I spent a lot of time doing it, I ended up giving up. Probably changed since then. I watched an entertaining video on YT to try and catch up a bit - I’ll post it, but be warned, there are lots of expletives…
I had to redo all the assignments yet again for the legacy version! Oh well, at least now I know where they all are.
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Meet my new Elite persona:
I forgot how much the hours fly by in this game - especially in VR and was very late to bed last night and just wanting to get back in the void this morning.
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Haha! Gateway drug
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I’m so frustrated now! Getting a few million together was no big deal (remember back in the first days when it took a while to earn enough to buy a Hauler - not just one or two jobs!) and I have a Dolphin, one of my fave early ships, set up just for hauling right now. I’m heading towards Meene, ready for doing Ram Tah to get that 111 million credits in a couple of days.
I doubt if I can get a good enough range on the Dolphin to do Ram tah - I’d normally use a DBX, or even a DBS if the X can’t be found - but I have been unable to locate either type. I’ve done loads and loads of systems and keep going to random ports to try and locate a Diamondback of any description, but not come across a single one. I’ve not even come across an Asp - the definitive up and coming commander vessel.
I don’t know if EDDB are still doing their thing, but it wouldn’t matter, as I’m using the legacy game (which also has to be selected at every start) and the info in the database will be for the current release of Odyssey.
May be worth looking and hoping it hasn’t changed much in respect of ship availability. Currently, it’s very hard to find any ships in the low-to-mid price range between 1.5 and 15 million creds.
I will just keep looking until i find one, but as my Dolphin has a crappy jump range, I’m having to fly around empty a lot of the time, to cover as many systems as possible. Suppose I could take on more courier missions. I’m also stocking up at every USS I come across, and luckily so far they have all been high-grade or encoded stuff.
I was bit of a doofer, though - I had in mind that the DBX was more expensive than it is, so I did more hauling than I needed to, but turned out it didn’t matter, as I couldn’t find one anyway.
Onwards and outwards! 
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Ok - got a DBX at Meene.
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I tend to use Inara.cz for everything these days. I’m not sure about the difference between legacy and Odyssey in terms of ship availability though ?
I was just coming to post about that. I tried to link my reset profile to INARA but it just doesn’t work. As the two game types are completely separate, and Legacy is considered the old, out of date version, FD only track your progress on the current versions of the game.
When I linked my profile to my FD history, it sent my Odyssey (actually Horizons) status, which I didn’t reset.
So if anyone is considering returning to Elite and decides, as I did, to use Legacy due to the overwhelming amount of new stuff added, be aware that there is not much help on the internet, only the old stuff that will continue to apply such as Canonn website data. There will be nothing for the current gameplay in Legacy.
When I first started playing this, after the beta, I gathered all my own information on local systems, trade routes etc etc and it was a lot of work and something of a slog (aka grind). That is the only way to do it now in Legacy, although there are some apps available that will log it for you. The ones I know of are not the easiest to use, however.
So I’m torn between continuing on this path or switching to the current version and having the convenience of INARA to help, but the hassle of having to practically relearn the game. Just wish they wouldn’t change so much from an established and known UI and system. PITA. This alone would stop me returning to the game under normal circumstances, unless I was keen on learning it all for whatever reason.
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Nice to know I’m not alone in my thoughts…
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Dunno, it’s a game that is about 10 years old.
Pinning the player’s decline to one factor devoid of any context is not very wise.
And in fact the writer is Crimson Kaim, that has always been spreading doom and gloom about ED since I started my tenment on the Elite Dangerous’ forums.
Now- is Odyssey perfect? No. Was it meant for everyone? Also no.
Is development goin on anyways? Yup.
Be as it may, I have hundreds of hours in ED, close to 1000, and stopped playing shortly after Odyssey release but for completely unrelated reasons. I am just one but remember in the past two years there’s been MASSIVE gaming franchise releases so…
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It’s not just him, though - there are loads of videos complaining, posts complaining, sites complaining that this UI is rubbish, that there are too many issues, that the person who designed it a) probably never had to use it in a gaming scenario (/sarcasm) and b) didn’t listen when it was in beta and most were saying it was no good.
Myself, today I actually gave it another go. I’ve been using the legacy Horizons version with the setting on VRUltra - today I reset my profile in the current Horizons (3.0?) and it was very stuttery - so stuttery that for the first time in 7 years I was feeling sick flying the ship - even before I got out of the spaceport.
I had to set it to medium. However, that was already enough and I went straight back to Legacy and ultra settings.
People are complaining for the same reason I’m not happy with this - we didn’t need it. The original UI was just fine. They are also sick of FDev claiming all the time that they are listening to feedback from customers, when they obviously didn’t.
I was actually going to post a YT review of the changes but it was so full of expletives I decided it wasn’t fit to post here.
I’ve had my money’s worth, after 9 years. I had my money’s worth long before that - but that’s not the issue.
I’ve sort of gone over to a ‘Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it did…’ mindset with Elite Dangerous. Frontier aren’t some single title laser focused outfit like CCP games, they have moved on to other things as they’ve grown. It was (and is) such a unique and fantastic thing that obviously has some issues with self-sustaining profitability, or at least profits versus other things they could be working on. They could have chosen a lot more monetarization paths worse than we have in the last 7 years and the servers are still on, with previous versions available (which is a bit of a unicorn for an online game like that).
I didn’t get into Odyssey but can see what they were thinking. It might have a big comeback one day as well.
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