The General Pooter Games Thread.

[Psychosplodge]

Trade rare commodities.
There's a web tool I've been using, I'll link later I've got it bookmarked at home, you have to do long 130ly+ trips, which is hard in the basic ship. But the payout is a lot higher than any regular commodity.
Or if you're good enough you can go pirateing/bounty hunting.
Mining is another option, but pirates prey on you more often than as a trader.
Exploration needs a good couple of million credits dropped into it to get the most out of it. Though if you wanted a lower return you could explore in the basic ship.
Bulletin board cargo runs we need four of these moving/procuring is the way I made enough to buy my second ship (before I'd discovered the rare commodities) because they're paying a higher rate for normal cargoes, and the times are usually quite generous.

[Tyrendian]

sounds like the economic system is a bit simpler/smaller than in X3? as in, you don't produce stuff yourself (aside from mining) and don't have your very own economic empire lategame with dozens of factories and underlings doing your bidding?

[Psychosplodge]

I've not seen any opportunity to buy factories, or anything mentioned about it.
The universe is so much bigger though it would cause you defence issues I'd imagine if you could.

[Psychosplodge]

[URL="http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/"]This[/URL] is what I've been using to maximise profit, because I'm saving to go exploring
It's user updated, so it's accuracy is slightly off for exact quantities/prices, but it tells you where stuff is and can be found.

[Kirsten]

struggling with my tablet memory settings. I have 4gb of free internal memory, and 28gb of free SD card memory, and it tells me I have insufficient memory -.-
played some Bloodbowl (79p amazingly) some Horus Heresy Drop Assault (though I can only play the intro because it wont let me unpack the rest of it, needing 400mb of free space) and some Snotling Fling

Also, Zombie Army Trilogy came out today, everybody must play it. seriously creepy, especially one PS4 where the controller occasionally makes arcane creepy whisperings at you. has a real feel of desperation to it, it can so easily go wrong and you get swamped. nice to have a zombie game where you need headshots as well, makes things tricky when you are trying to snipe shambling, staggering zombie. very tense.

[eldargal]

[URL="http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/"]This[/URL] is what I've been using to maximise profit, because I'm saving to go exploring
It's user updated, so it's accuracy is slightly off for exact quantities/prices, but it tells you where stuff is and can be found.

Neat, should prove useful. Played it for a bit last night, I suck at flying, think I'm going to need to remap controls to WASD for moving about because when I get interdicted (hur) my piloting style can only be described as flailing about in terror until superspeed cooldown runs out.

[Kirsten]

really getting in to Zombie Army Trilogy now. Eight characters to choose from, four male, four female, all with a little bio and different backgrounds as well. I am playing as Beth Coleman, who was a portrait painter until her sitting subject tried to eat her. The games remind me a lot of Resident Evil 4, it feels like a proper zombie game, rather than stuff like Left 4 Dead or CoD Zombies. You need headshots to kill, most enemies you will kill with your sniper rifle, which means no peripheral vision, so you have to keep stopping and looking round you. I am using the M1 Carbine, 15 rounds to a magazine. you can get 15 headshots, drop 15 zombies, feel really good, then realise there are still at least 15 more bearing down on you. gets pretty tense as you frantically reload trying to keep them far enough away to snipe effectively. there are a few siege moments as well that are a lot like Resident Evil 4's that work extremely well. It does creepy very well too, at one point I was moving through a ruined building and could hear a radio somewhere with a message on loop, a desperate voice was pleading in German then in broken English saying 'please... save our souls...' over and over.

[eldargal]

Sounds nifty, also approve of equal numbers of female characters.

Had a mishap in Elite Dangerous last night, was delivering cargo to somewhere and was just about to dock when one of my kittens jumped on the keyboard and managed to hit the dump cargo button which I didn't know was a thing. Dumped cargo, couldn't get paid, got fined for that and also got fined for dumping cargo inside a space station.><

[Tyrendian]

on a related note, a friend of mine got into the alpha for Star Citizen (lucky bugger!) - man that game looks amazing. Holy moly. And it's got voice control for your ship's various functions, which is awesome. Totally looking forward to seeing more of that!

[Psychosplodge]

@ Kirsten, wouldn't it be far less stressful with a mouse and keyboard?

@EG, Forgot to warn you to unmap that on the config screen. Btw don't forget to unmap that on the config screen. Don't forget to actually pay your fine within 24 hours or they put a bounty on you. You have to contact the relevant station authorities while landed there and pay it.
Regarding interdiction I just put the dot behind me on the radar boost and run the engines up to full till the cooldown timer has run down. It normally works.

@Tyrendian While star citizrn looks good, it also looks very pay to win and your ship insurance costs actual real money every six months doesn't it?