You try 'Using the Force' with a moggy on your shoulder

[major_clanger]

I haven't posted much about Elite:Dangerous lately. I continue to play it on and off, and have now traded in my Cobra Mk.3 for a Vulture, less an all-purpose craft and more one fit for bounty-hunting. My game play has been very much of the form of unwinding by blasting pirates to smithereens and spending the resulting bounty payments on upgrades, to the point that I still only have a few million credits in the bank but now have a ship that can single-handedly take out a Python.

Anyway, yesterday I was having a play and I found myself with a passenger. I don't recall Luke Skywalker or Starbuck having this problem; maybe Mira thought she was Nimitz from the Honor Harrington books.



I think I have a case of Back Seat Space Pilot Cat:

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[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

It starts off fairly straightforward: shift a few tons of low-value cargo (all your initial ship can carry) to from one star system to another, having looked to see where it's likely you'll be able to sell at a profit. Repeat for a while until you eventually find that you have more money than the cost of even a high-value cargo that fills your hold, so buy a bigger ship. At some point you can afford good enough weaponry that actively picking fights with pirates becomes a money-spinner as you pick up the bounties on them. Or head off into the unknown and make money surveying star systems.