To star this I think I will have to go back some time, in the year 2008 when the game Spore was released and I fell in love with the space stage and the limited freedom that I had to explore the galaxy, and if limited and simple at that time it amused me so much.
Years have passed by, played a lot of other games, always loved space, felt in love for Mass Effect Series and for the TV Show Star Trek as well, all abou the space, than enormous darkness always called my attention because it doesn't matter where I looked there will be at least a point of light a point of light that I knew that it had it own star and planets orbiting it . Just the sky I was able to see was so vast and hard to measure and knowing that it was just a tiny amount of that things that exist in this universe make all of this even more fantastic.
And finally around the year of 2014 an 2015 start to appear some games that resemble me of the space stage of Spore, specially NMS, like everybody else I get in in the hype, if it was't a disappoint to me like it was for the most of players it wasn't what I was looking for, I was looking for something more realistic or at least something that passed the sensasiton of something more tangible. And than I've bought Elite Dangerous that I was already looking for some time and in the first glance it was fantastic but dreadful as well. It was a really complex game, it had some kind of realism in the controls, in flight system, in combat, in the galaxy simulation and this, the same reason that scared me was the reason that made me keep playing. I tried to engage in combat may times at the beginner, none with success, and that I start to make delivery missions. And with some time I started to get in handle with flight controls make my key bindings suitable to my style of gaming.
And something that is important in this star in the game is that you to need to be frustrated because you wasn't able to do some tasks. The game is meat to be hard, it gives you immersion, it isn't another arcade game, you have to feel that you are making part of another world. And I started with minimum help as possible. I started to see more videos and tipo about the game after I get my Cobra Mk III, and I think you should try this as well. Get familiarised with the game, it has some tutorial, and good ones to get the basics, do them and get practice. And you start confident with the basic I recommend you to start with tutorials, and you will star to understand what give more money, how to get expert in mining or trading, how to start in combat and so on.
With the help of those tutorial you will start to see what interest you the most. I started with exploration, there is some third party tools for make exploration profitable, the say the truth there is third party tools for almost everything in the game, and this is a thing I wish I knew early. And some time after that I start to explore just for the passion for discovery unique planets and systems out there. Just put a marker in some place of the map that I thought was interesting and took my ship into the unknown.
Always get Interact with the community of ED, I think it is one if not the best game community out there. They organize expeditions to explore the galaxy, travelling to the farthest point from our sun. And my first expedition it was unique, The Distant World 2, making collective jumps, betting race with SRVs with new friends, discovering new planets and landscapes, after that I knew I would be spend a lot of time playing Elite Dangerous. And before I forget in this time I have brought my first flight joystick, if you can afford it I guarantee you that it is a well spent money, play the game with a stick or a HOTAS is a unique experience and make everything more fun.
And after some hours I started to do a lot of things, I improved my ships, stared bounty hunting, started mining, started making trade routes, started xenohunting, I'm trying to help in the war, I just see what I like or don't like to do in the game, and that is the most important thing to do, do what you like in the game, it gives you a ton of ways to play this game, and you do not need to start the game with exploration like me. You can search for a ship build to start bounty hunting, or by some ship to start mining and after that you can try other gameplay, you're free to do whatever you want and go to any star in our galaxy, enjoy you new life commander and welcome to the Pilots Federation Farewell and godspeed o7
