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#4415456 - 04/09/18 04:22 PM How profitable is your Elite time?  
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In my In to the Void thread I posted my exploration stats, which happens to show how long I've played. It says 2 weeks, 19 hours, or 355 hours in all. Now it should be stated that a good portion of that is idle while I walk the dog or watch the Liverpool match, and all the while Elite is running. Be that as it may, it's still time recorded as play time.

If you take your current assets and divide by number of hours played, what's you profit per hour?

My assets are 230m. Divided by 355 hours and I've made a paltry 647,877 credits per hour playing Elite.

What's yours?


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#4415481 - 04/09/18 05:18 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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I don't think I can calculate that. The game doesn't keep time played does it? I know the Steam version does. Either way,I'm pretty sure I haven't done that well.


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#4415507 - 04/09/18 06:29 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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While it surely isn't much I have to say it feels like -400 quid an hour frown

#4415509 - 04/09/18 06:38 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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I don't think the enjoyment of the game for me comes down to how much I can earn an hour. I'm currently working towards 200 million spare credits in the kitty (about 170 now) and I've been playing since 2015,although I have taken large breaks from it in that time. I'm not sure what I'm going to spend it on though but I'll keep amassing it. When I see certain players on YT that have billions of credits I often wonder how they did that.


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#4415520 - 04/09/18 07:17 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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It's just for fun.

Game time is shown on exploration stats in right panel.


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#4415526 - 04/09/18 07:51 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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Ok,I'll check it next time I'm in game smile


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#4415531 - 04/09/18 08:20 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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Like I said just for fun, I suspect that many will be more than double what I've managed to produce. But of course it's not all about money, and if you've spent much time exploring, then it's REALLY not about the money. Personally, I'm not concerned with what I am making per hour or whatever, just as long as I'm making some. I just thought it would be fun to see what everyone's answers were.

This forum has lots of good mechanical discussion. Best trade routes, good build advice, favorite ships. But little about how commanders actually spent their time. What they are doing. What they find fun, stories about their experiences. So this thread is a little window in to how other commanders are faring. Maybe. smile


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#4415534 - 04/09/18 08:33 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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I've managed a combat rating of 'competent' but now all my ships are unarmed. I fly with mouse and keyboard only though. To be honest I didn't enjoy the combat much,or mining, but scanning systems seemed a little therapeutic somehow.

My trade rank is 'Entrepreneur' and explorer rank is 'Pathfinder'. My CQC rank is 'helpless' 0%.

My Federation rank is 'Rear Admiral' Empire is 'Squire' and I have no rank with Alliance.

I have 251 million in assets and 528 hours of play so that's 475,378 credits per hour (if my maths are correct). I was exploring for a long time though

*Edited* Fed rank incorrect,not Vice Admiral.


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#4415536 - 04/09/18 08:41 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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Thanks Chucky. OK, let's expand the scope a bit

Assets: 230m
Hours Played: 355
Credits per hour: 647.887


I'm pretty close to you

Combat: Master
Trade: Broker
Exploration: Pathfinder (but not for long!)
CQC: Beyond Helpless

Feds: Petty Officer
Empire: Knight


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#4415606 - 04/10/18 08:35 AM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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Balance - 320,833,869
Assets - 882,593,354
Time Played - 3W 6D 13H 43M

Combat - Expert 33%
Trade - Elite 100%
Explorer - Pathfinder 11%
CQY - Helpless

Imperial Navy - Duke
Federal Navy - Read Admiral

INARA Rank - 6678

Works out to 665 hours and 1,840,943.021 credits per hour but I suspect I've earned more than that. I wonder if the game calculates everything earned or if I've "lost" funds through the donation missions I've done to rank up in Fed/Imp Navy ranks?


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#4415622 - 04/10/18 11:18 AM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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That's a fine return on your time investment Ice. Congrats on hitting Elite level, that's impressive. I just checked what it would take for me to hit Elite exploration and it's 307 million! I might be at around 60 million even after this trip. So that's still a really long way to go.

You mentioned Inara and I registered there when I began playing Elite. Isn't there a way to import all your stuff from Elite in to Inara so it displays all of you ships, and assets and all? I haven't worked that out.

When I am done with my exploration expedition I want to see how many first discoveries I may have gotten. I've seen players say things like 'I have 24,221 first discoveries' and I doubt they recorded them all by hand. So I assumed they were pulling this data from a place like Inara. I need to work out how to use it correctly.


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#4415638 - 04/10/18 12:03 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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Nice stats Ice! But then you've put the time in.

Does anyone have an end-game? I suspect not because of the nature of the game.

I'll keep plinking along.Maybe once I can afford a beast combat ship I'll start fighting again to work on the rank.

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#4415648 - 04/10/18 12:54 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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Well, I try not to think about that. There's no real end game, but I fear if and when I have every ship I want that the motivation may wane. But that's a long way off yet.

Personally I'd like to reach triple Elite. I'm level 6 out of 9 in each discipline. But it costs way more to gain the last three levels than it did for the first six. Whether I will play long enough for that to happen remains to be seen.

In the mean time I am having a blast. I try to mix it up, always shift in to a different gear. Trading, some sightseeing, then go gather some mats, make a SRV run, then a little bounty hunting. By always doing something different I can help stave off the grind. The fact that I am level 6 in all three I think shows that I'm spreading it around a bit.

So I have the Corvette and Cutter on my wishlist, and those are out of reach enough to keep me going.


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#4415719 - 04/10/18 05:52 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: Chucky]  
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Originally Posted by DBond
You mentioned Inara and I registered there when I began playing Elite. Isn't there a way to import all your stuff from Elite in to Inara so it displays all of you ships, and assets and all? I haven't worked that out.

Use EDMC, go to File - Settings - Inara and tick the box. On the INARA webpage, login, go to Settings (top), then INARA API (left side), and generate new key. Copy that key into the EDMC API Key window. Done.

It will update INARA depending on how you've set up EDMC to throw out the updates. I've set mine to delay updates until I dock.



Originally Posted by Chucky
Nice stats Ice! But then you've put the time in.

Thanks Chucky! I would say 98% of my Elite time has been spent in the accumulation of credits, so that's a big factor smile I think I only went as far as a Cobra then switched to trading for most of my game time. I'd do some pew-pew and mining and missions, but again, mostly just to try them out then return to trading.


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Does anyone have an end-game? I suspect not because of the nature of the game.

Mine was and is getting the ship(s) that I want. Right now, I can grind some more to get more ships in my hangar but now I'm thinking to what end? They'll just sit there. If my end-game is to have ships that are actually useful, then I've hit that as well as I've got a Cutter for mining/trading, Python for pew-pew- DBE for travel, and an Asp for exploring if I ever want to do that. I can grind some more materials to Engineer my ships, but at the moment I'm feeling end-game again so will most likely give this a rest. 500 miles wide, 1 inch deep.... or 1.5 inches deep if you include the Engineer grind. frown


Originally Posted by Chucky
I'll keep plinking along.Maybe once I can afford a beast combat ship I'll start fighting again to work on the rank.

For combat rank? You can work on it for as low as a Cobra. A Vulture is a very respectable combat ship as well. If you enjoy pew-pew, you don't need the expensive ships for it. If you like your tight turns and no drifting, you do not want the expensive (bigger) ships for it.


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Ok Ice,I understand. I think that is a way off yet,I want moar ranks first!

I will ask again when I need a combat ship,especially a build guide,as it's not my strong point. I'm also a keyboard/mouse guy so I expect gimballed weapons is the way to go?


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#4415729 - 04/10/18 08:10 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: Chucky]  
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Originally Posted by Chucky
Ok Ice,I understand. I think that is a way off yet,I want moar ranks first!

I will ask again when I need a combat ship,especially a build guide,as it's not my strong point. I'm also a keyboard/mouse guy so I expect gimballed weapons is the way to go?


Some of the best PvP players I've seen fly and aim with the mouse and often run fixed weapons. It's actually easier than a joystick.


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#4415747 - 04/10/18 10:25 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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Start a thread with your desired ship or ships Chucky. You will get plenty of build advice I reckon. I will throw my two credits in.

I use gimballed weapons on all of my ships and not just because I am a poor shot. I like gimballed because it allows you to keep weapons on target while in lead or lag pursuit. Gimballed do less damage, but maybe they spend more time on target.


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#4415766 - 04/10/18 11:59 PM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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Assets 1,849,745,889
Time 1,526
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Explorer: Pathfinder 5%
CQC: Harmless 0%


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#4415787 - 04/11/18 02:14 AM Re: How profitable is your Elite time? [Re: DBond]  
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Time: ~ 1,500
Cr per hour: ~ 860,000

I can't recall my rank numbers, but they are:

Novice
Tycoon
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Systems visited is right at 10,000
Total distance jumped: 306,000LY

Not the best return per hour, so far as credits go. But I often spend loads of play doing things that don't pay any credits at all, but are (IMO) quite rewarding otherwise. And I've spent an easy 100,000,000 credits along the way, things like donation missions, ship transfers, and whatnot, all of which only consume credits.


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Originally Posted by Chucky
Ok Ice,I understand. I think that is a way off yet,I want moar ranks first!

Ranks for what?

Originally Posted by Chucky
I will ask again when I need a combat ship,especially a build guide,as it's not my strong point. I'm also a keyboard/mouse guy so I expect gimballed weapons is the way to go?

Originally Posted by adlabs6
Some of the best PvP players I've seen fly and aim with the mouse and often run fixed weapons. It's actually easier than a joystick.

What adlabs said. smile Also no need to wait, a cheap Cobra can be fitted nicely for not very much and will serve you well in pew-pew.


Originally Posted by WingNuts01
Time 1,526
Cr per hour = 1,212,153

Combat: Elite 100%

I'm impressed gaining that mostly through combat!


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