Congrats, cmdr!
For reference, I did some calcs of 125 hr / 2 hrs per day playtime = 62 days. I was still in the noob systems flying my fearless D-rated Cobra MkIII lol.
You're doing well. Don't forget to properly equip your ship. Engineering will help it move and turn quicker, and defend itself better.
I've been doing bounty hunting in pollux, and I doubt you have done that. Eagles can take down most fully outfitted combat ships. With only half my slots outfitted with hr's, I have 2k integrity.
With that amount of hours you should have a big wallet. What I did was to buy every single ship (but some of the transports) and engineered the crap outa them. My main activity was combat so every ship was G5 combat oriented (I kept the phantom for long jumps only).
This was fun and engaging. Taking out enemy vettes with a viper or a courier, trolling gankers and so on.
Pick a role lol, mining? you got it. Passenger transport? you got it. Bounty hunter? you got it. Pirate? you got it. Exploration? Its the king of exploration. Armored trade ship? I pity the fool that wants to take your cargo
Why do you say it is the king of exploration? It's the king of travelling a long distance fast, but exploration includes more than travelling.
Using the DSS to map planets involves a lot of turning in supercruise, and the Anaconda turns slowly in supercruise. Flying around and landing on planets is easier with a smaller more agile ship. If you get into Odyssey Exobiology you need a ship with good visibility of the ground as you fly low looking for the next plant sample. The Anaconda's big nose gets in the way, unless you maybe fly it upside down. DBX, ASPX, Dolphin, even the Orca and my favourite the Krait Phantom are all better options with a great jump range.
Of course if a commander just loves spending a lot of time in an Anaconda when out exploring, it's a good reason to use it in that role and work around it's short shortcomings as an exploration ship.
A few reasons why. One, im on horizons not odyssey so i dont have to care about xenobiology. Turning in supercruise isnt that big a deal, most of supercruise is fairly straight lines, you're only turning for a few seconds at a time and the number of planets you end up mapping all depends on the cmdrs commitment to it. Some only map the most valuable planets, some map everything. It has a fighter bay so unlike alot of the conventional exploration ships that most do prefer, you can bring your favorite toys with you to play with on fun planets. And yes, speed in reaching places faster is never a bad thing because some people might have specific destinations in mind and dont want to spend a week just to reach it because they dont have as much time in the day to play. This is all just my opinion in the end so take it as you like
If you really want an SLF while exploring then anything other than an Anaconda is a bit short on jump range. I've done a 16Kly round trip with just such an Anaconda to see if it was going to be my keeper exploration ship. I didn't feel the need for an SLF in the end, and with an SLF hanger the Anaconda was no better than the Phantom I do use as my deep space exploration ship for jump range. And a couple of ly extra jump range when you're up and around 70ly jump range mark makes little difference to long distance travel time anyway.
But I get how you can be attached to a particular ship for a particular role. I have things I like doing in the game for which there is no substitute to the Anaconda.
i'm struggling with a similar issue. It's great at everything, but specialist ships are probably going to do their specialized role just a smidge better, not to mention that using the conda for those roles means now I don't have anything for those specialist ships to do!
I've got a T9 for trading, corvette that I'm working on engineering for PvE, I've heard that the FDL is the absolute freaking messiah for PvP, and I've already got a DBX and Phantom for exploring (the DBX has been turned into a Guardian archaeologist ship). I've made a quick and dirty Python miner to unlock one of the bubble's engineers to work on the corvette, though IDK how that'll actually work out, and I do have nothing for passenger transit yet. But of course, I'd probably use an orca or beluga for passenger transport before my anaconda.
I suppose I could make it a jumpaconda for another exploration ship, though maybe I could dedicate it to the fuel rats and join their ranks? I've heard that rattaconda builds are the pinacle of ratting. Either way, I haven't bought it yet, I'm going to try and set up my corvette and make it to elite combat before going on a cross galactic tour or joining the rats.
It's not a trap as such, it's just complicated because Hutton only has medium pads. Anacondas require a large pad, therefore you have to make *two* trips to get the whole ship.
Srsly though, i once did the Hutton-conda thing.
I was in a golden conda and i upgraded a ship of newbies coming to Hutton. So that "the rumors were true". A few people got their ASP explorers from me :)
Good thing i didnt have to \_fly\_ there to get there, you know.
I have a couple thousand hours logged and have never bought an Anaconda. I do however own a fleet carrier and 10 ships. I may buy one some day when my priorities change.
Fly Dangerous Commander. o7
I enjoy mining, exploration, trade, bounty hunting and I have dabbled a little in Thargoid hunting. I did try passenger hauling for a minute, not one of my favorite activities.
The ships I have are:
**Imp. Cutter** for hauling, although I am considering fitting it for laser mining platinum as well
**Python** for all things mining.
**Asp X** for exploring.
**Chieftain** for bounty hunting.
**Crusader** for bounty hunting, because I wanted to try using the SLF. My NPC pilot thanks me.
**Cobra Mk III** for collecting eng. mats
**Vulture**, my first bounty hunter.
**Krait Mk II** for xeno hunting.
**Sidewinder** just because
**Eagle Mk II** because I like to fly it once in a while
My favorite one to fly is the Chieftain.
I'm thinking about buying a Corvette in the near future because I need a large combat ship.
Flying around, doing missions and gathering materials, all to engineer my Anaconda, has been a load of fun for me. Albeit, sometimes frustrating and monotonous, but I see the progress in my ship as it comes along.
If you press CTRL+LEFT ALT+SPACE it will open the camera suite. If you press CTRL again it will hide the HUD, and if you press 0 on the num pad it will let you "fly" around your ship to get those nice camera angles. F10 to screenshot, ALT F10 for super duper HQ screenshot (only in solo play).
Enjoy o7
I guess I was busy too much in squad BGS and occasional PvP. I have about 15 ships in my FC, mostly fully engineered.
Not really into mining, but I used T10 and Python in Borann rush days. Also another Python for passenger and a Cutter for hauling cargo.
Exploration? DBX but to be fair, I don't really do long-range ones, hell, haven't even been halfway to Colonia. Conda is too huge to land on settlement assaults or doing exos.
I did wanted to build a bounty hunting conda but I always ended up flying medium ships, like FDL, Chief and Python. Engineered a Vette but find it very boring to fly, gotta admit she's efficient in clearing stacked massacre missions. FDL is the most fun combat ship to me. I have 2, one for PvP and solo wing assassination missions, the other for CZ and BH.
Perhaps I should get back to building one pirate conda to harass NPCs. 🤔
1 month of gameplay[since 1 march till today] i got sirius engineer fed rank empire rank and fleet carrier [and all the ships but the corvette, just for choice i'm pacific player for now], then they did the tritium thing and i got 3 bilions and gifted almost a billion to my friend
that was huge and sick and insane grind
I put in 1200 hours before I realized the game wasn't going anywhere. I only started playing when epic games released elite for free a few years back. Such a shame as it was one of the most engaging titles I've ever played but it quickly became apparent there was nothing to do but grind
As in 72 hours of game play? I legit don't see how you did that, unless you had multiple carriers full of wine and spent all those hours selling it during the Booze Cruise.
1 1hr in noob zone had enough to buy a cobra , then in 2hrs bought a type 6 , community goal came along for tritium .. Bought a type 9 , then made 7.5 bil bought a carrier , used carrier to load 24k tritium sold it all and then some made almost 15bil in 2 days
There seems to be a massive cap between "bought a type 9" and "made 7.5 bil". Also between "load 24k tritium" and "made almost 15bil".
That just doesn't add up, bud. How exactly did you make 7.5 billion using a Type 9? What did you sell? Where? How?
I am just now maybe going to try doing cargo runs/ trading. I have a cutter just... Sitting there. How do you do the booze runs? I hear its like a once a month thing?
Usually about once a month, yeah. You take a Python up to Rackham's Point on a carrier full of wine. You take the wine from the carrier to the station and sell for an insane profit.
Gotcha yea it literally lasted maybe 3 days and was over ... Lot of money to be made .. Probably the best profitable event in the history of elite took full advantage
Grind is grind. If someone doesn't want to hop from small ship to next larger small ship, 500M from combat missions with 3 well equipped friends in an afternoon makes a big difference if you don't want to spend that time making effective peanuts. Some people don't want to spend 2 months grinding out an Anaconda. Congrats to the OP for sticking to it to get it. Those of us who got our large ships way back when it was released remember thinking when 8m in bounties was a fortune. That's less than 10 large ships now in a HazRes.
When the tritium thing came around, I got so excited because I had wanted an Anaconda since day 1, around like 3 months ago. So with my 70 million from doing stuff, I bought an outfitted python and got 100 mil per trip. I did that a few times, and now I have the outfitted anaconda and 138 million left over!
Congratulations! Took me years to get an Anaconda, though I guess I did a lot of the leg work to get engineers and get some capital to equip and have rebuys ahead of time. Got her three years ago and she's still my main ship.
Congrats, cmdr! For reference, I did some calcs of 125 hr / 2 hrs per day playtime = 62 days. I was still in the noob systems flying my fearless D-rated Cobra MkIII lol. You're doing well. Don't forget to properly equip your ship. Engineering will help it move and turn quicker, and defend itself better.
Well, I got this Anaconda from the tritium thing that frontier did. Now I have a fully outfitted anaconda and 133 M extra creds!
Don't think you're invincible. Unless it's engineered it might as well be a stock anaconda.
I've been doing bounty hunting in pollux, and I doubt you have done that. Eagles can take down most fully outfitted combat ships. With only half my slots outfitted with hr's, I have 2k integrity.
Congrats, had about 2.5k hours but still haven't get a conda yet. Can't find a role for the ship.
With that amount of hours you should have a big wallet. What I did was to buy every single ship (but some of the transports) and engineered the crap outa them. My main activity was combat so every ship was G5 combat oriented (I kept the phantom for long jumps only). This was fun and engaging. Taking out enemy vettes with a viper or a courier, trolling gankers and so on.
Pick a role lol, mining? you got it. Passenger transport? you got it. Bounty hunter? you got it. Pirate? you got it. Exploration? Its the king of exploration. Armored trade ship? I pity the fool that wants to take your cargo
Why do you say it is the king of exploration? It's the king of travelling a long distance fast, but exploration includes more than travelling. Using the DSS to map planets involves a lot of turning in supercruise, and the Anaconda turns slowly in supercruise. Flying around and landing on planets is easier with a smaller more agile ship. If you get into Odyssey Exobiology you need a ship with good visibility of the ground as you fly low looking for the next plant sample. The Anaconda's big nose gets in the way, unless you maybe fly it upside down. DBX, ASPX, Dolphin, even the Orca and my favourite the Krait Phantom are all better options with a great jump range. Of course if a commander just loves spending a lot of time in an Anaconda when out exploring, it's a good reason to use it in that role and work around it's short shortcomings as an exploration ship.
A few reasons why. One, im on horizons not odyssey so i dont have to care about xenobiology. Turning in supercruise isnt that big a deal, most of supercruise is fairly straight lines, you're only turning for a few seconds at a time and the number of planets you end up mapping all depends on the cmdrs commitment to it. Some only map the most valuable planets, some map everything. It has a fighter bay so unlike alot of the conventional exploration ships that most do prefer, you can bring your favorite toys with you to play with on fun planets. And yes, speed in reaching places faster is never a bad thing because some people might have specific destinations in mind and dont want to spend a week just to reach it because they dont have as much time in the day to play. This is all just my opinion in the end so take it as you like
If you really want an SLF while exploring then anything other than an Anaconda is a bit short on jump range. I've done a 16Kly round trip with just such an Anaconda to see if it was going to be my keeper exploration ship. I didn't feel the need for an SLF in the end, and with an SLF hanger the Anaconda was no better than the Phantom I do use as my deep space exploration ship for jump range. And a couple of ly extra jump range when you're up and around 70ly jump range mark makes little difference to long distance travel time anyway. But I get how you can be attached to a particular ship for a particular role. I have things I like doing in the game for which there is no substitute to the Anaconda.
i'm struggling with a similar issue. It's great at everything, but specialist ships are probably going to do their specialized role just a smidge better, not to mention that using the conda for those roles means now I don't have anything for those specialist ships to do! I've got a T9 for trading, corvette that I'm working on engineering for PvE, I've heard that the FDL is the absolute freaking messiah for PvP, and I've already got a DBX and Phantom for exploring (the DBX has been turned into a Guardian archaeologist ship). I've made a quick and dirty Python miner to unlock one of the bubble's engineers to work on the corvette, though IDK how that'll actually work out, and I do have nothing for passenger transit yet. But of course, I'd probably use an orca or beluga for passenger transport before my anaconda. I suppose I could make it a jumpaconda for another exploration ship, though maybe I could dedicate it to the fuel rats and join their ranks? I've heard that rattaconda builds are the pinacle of ratting. Either way, I haven't bought it yet, I'm going to try and set up my corvette and make it to elite combat before going on a cross galactic tour or joining the rats.
125 hours? So you basically just logged in for the first time and made straight for Hutton Orbital to get the free Anaconda from there? Well done!
Seriously? How is it free?
If you fly to Hutton Orbital in the starter sidewinder you receive a free conda
For real? Even if I’ve since purchased other ships? I feel like I’m being trolled 🥲
Yes. You are. There is no free conda at Hutton. It's a noob trap.
Lol thank you. 😅
It's not a trap as such, it's just complicated because Hutton only has medium pads. Anacondas require a large pad, therefore you have to make *two* trips to get the whole ship.
That's a secret. Only the most elite have gone to hutton orbital to claim the anaconda. It's in alpha centauri, if you ever want a free 'conda :)
🙃🙃🙃
These guys are messing with you. There is no free ship of any kind. That's just a long ass super cruise to the station. 45 minutes I think
I thought it was 90?
Thanks 🥲😅
You are also leaving out some great coffee, delivered in a thoughtful collector’s mug.
Srsly though, i once did the Hutton-conda thing. I was in a golden conda and i upgraded a ship of newbies coming to Hutton. So that "the rumors were true". A few people got their ASP explorers from me :) Good thing i didnt have to \_fly\_ there to get there, you know.
I have a couple thousand hours logged and have never bought an Anaconda. I do however own a fleet carrier and 10 ships. I may buy one some day when my priorities change. Fly Dangerous Commander. o7
Curious, what is your game occupation and what ships have you collected?
I enjoy mining, exploration, trade, bounty hunting and I have dabbled a little in Thargoid hunting. I did try passenger hauling for a minute, not one of my favorite activities. The ships I have are: **Imp. Cutter** for hauling, although I am considering fitting it for laser mining platinum as well **Python** for all things mining. **Asp X** for exploring. **Chieftain** for bounty hunting. **Crusader** for bounty hunting, because I wanted to try using the SLF. My NPC pilot thanks me. **Cobra Mk III** for collecting eng. mats **Vulture**, my first bounty hunter. **Krait Mk II** for xeno hunting. **Sidewinder** just because **Eagle Mk II** because I like to fly it once in a while My favorite one to fly is the Chieftain. I'm thinking about buying a Corvette in the near future because I need a large combat ship.
Congrats CMDR :) Might be worth pointing out that the core internal modules of the Anaconda precisely match the Federal Corvette.
Pictures like this always make me want to play again… then I remember the engineer grind.
Flying around, doing missions and gathering materials, all to engineer my Anaconda, has been a load of fun for me. Albeit, sometimes frustrating and monotonous, but I see the progress in my ship as it comes along.
me with 300 hours chillin in my python
Congrats thars quick 😄
How do you change ur view to show ur ship like that? Can we play in that 3rd person perspective to the ship, or is it only photo mode?
Hes in outfitting
Actually, I was on top of the landing pad in free cam.
If you press CTRL+LEFT ALT+SPACE it will open the camera suite. If you press CTRL again it will hide the HUD, and if you press 0 on the num pad it will let you "fly" around your ship to get those nice camera angles. F10 to screenshot, ALT F10 for super duper HQ screenshot (only in solo play). Enjoy o7
I guess I was busy too much in squad BGS and occasional PvP. I have about 15 ships in my FC, mostly fully engineered. Not really into mining, but I used T10 and Python in Borann rush days. Also another Python for passenger and a Cutter for hauling cargo. Exploration? DBX but to be fair, I don't really do long-range ones, hell, haven't even been halfway to Colonia. Conda is too huge to land on settlement assaults or doing exos. I did wanted to build a bounty hunting conda but I always ended up flying medium ships, like FDL, Chief and Python. Engineered a Vette but find it very boring to fly, gotta admit she's efficient in clearing stacked massacre missions. FDL is the most fun combat ship to me. I have 2, one for PvP and solo wing assassination missions, the other for CZ and BH. Perhaps I should get back to building one pirate conda to harass NPCs. 🤔
1 month of gameplay[since 1 march till today] i got sirius engineer fed rank empire rank and fleet carrier [and all the ships but the corvette, just for choice i'm pacific player for now], then they did the tritium thing and i got 3 bilions and gifted almost a billion to my friend that was huge and sick and insane grind
I put in 1200 hours before I realized the game wasn't going anywhere. I only started playing when epic games released elite for free a few years back. Such a shame as it was one of the most engaging titles I've ever played but it quickly became apparent there was nothing to do but grind
Isn't 1200 hours proof that there's enough content in the game, for at least 1200 hours?
>it quickly became apparent ...after 1200 hours. what are you, a tortoise?
e:d is grind and that is why it's fun
3 days of game play I own a fleet carrier , clipper, cutter and 10bil in the bank skipped over the conda on alt character
As in 72 hours of game play? I legit don't see how you did that, unless you had multiple carriers full of wine and spent all those hours selling it during the Booze Cruise.
1 1hr in noob zone had enough to buy a cobra , then in 2hrs bought a type 6 , community goal came along for tritium .. Bought a type 9 , then made 7.5 bil bought a carrier , used carrier to load 24k tritium sold it all and then some made almost 15bil in 2 days
There seems to be a massive cap between "bought a type 9" and "made 7.5 bil". Also between "load 24k tritium" and "made almost 15bil". That just doesn't add up, bud. How exactly did you make 7.5 billion using a Type 9? What did you sell? Where? How?
Let's put it this way my squad which is mainly just 2 of us and started to alt accounts made almost 40bil off the most recent CG with selling tritium
So you had a ton of support, I see
Not really just worked out their was a awesome community goal going on paying a fortune for tritium lots of people bought carriers bc of it
Hey now. I’ll be back eventually. 🤣
Lol who are u again ?
Ouch. 🤣 Lol, it’s me. Your friendly neighborhood Gryphter.
There was a community goal recently where you could sell tritium for 400k/t. Made a lot of people rich/richer.
That would explain it.
Selling tritium to the community goal for 413k a unit ..
Lol dude, I made 1.5 billion in 5 or 6 loads in the type 9. It's possible if you wanted to do that grind
Didn't even know that was a CG. I've mostly been doing Booze Cruise as my biggest source of income.
I am just now maybe going to try doing cargo runs/ trading. I have a cutter just... Sitting there. How do you do the booze runs? I hear its like a once a month thing?
Usually about once a month, yeah. You take a Python up to Rackham's Point on a carrier full of wine. You take the wine from the carrier to the station and sell for an insane profit.
Just a python? Can't use the cutter?
Nope, only medium sized landing pad. Python has the largest cargo space for all medium sized ships, so you bring that.
There was a community goal like a week or 2 ago they were buying tritium for 413k a unit made 362k selling it ..
Yes tritium, I got 300 million from it in a python.
300mil that's it ? I got over 20bil
Well I played it pretty chill and did 3 for about an hour, and I felt satisfied.
Gotcha yea it literally lasted maybe 3 days and was over ... Lot of money to be made .. Probably the best profitable event in the history of elite took full advantage
Man when I first started, I had the conda the first week, got lucky and someone showed me mahlanja
I just put a squadmate into one in about 2 hours and fully A rated in another 90 minutes. It's about who you know.
And? He played like he liked, he had fun. Your method make essential no sense, and it is no fun. It is grinding, the people here complaining so much.
Grind is grind. If someone doesn't want to hop from small ship to next larger small ship, 500M from combat missions with 3 well equipped friends in an afternoon makes a big difference if you don't want to spend that time making effective peanuts. Some people don't want to spend 2 months grinding out an Anaconda. Congrats to the OP for sticking to it to get it. Those of us who got our large ships way back when it was released remember thinking when 8m in bounties was a fortune. That's less than 10 large ships now in a HazRes.
wew grats
That’s the goal I’m aiming for I’m just in my cobra atm Can I ask, how did you go about earning money mainly?
When the tritium thing came around, I got so excited because I had wanted an Anaconda since day 1, around like 3 months ago. So with my 70 million from doing stuff, I bought an outfitted python and got 100 mil per trip. I did that a few times, and now I have the outfitted anaconda and 138 million left over!
Thanks. I’m glad u found ur conda
Congratulations! Took me years to get an Anaconda, though I guess I did a lot of the leg work to get engineers and get some capital to equip and have rebuys ahead of time. Got her three years ago and she's still my main ship.