Help me see the light, don't see the 'fun' in this game

[Exsiled_one]

Wha, endgame? then I'm never reaching it.
Btw, lvl 84 in month and half, only piracy and short smuggling (nothing to liberty or tokyo).

Endgame for me is never out there. Piracy, helping OPG grow to something even more respectable, changing the discovery server, helping dusty change mining with proposals, things like that etc.

Endgame for me is when i run out of free time to play this because RL has caught up.

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<span style="color:#33CC00">I AM GIVING AWAY MONEY TO CREATIVE MINDS*</span>

[Ayem]

Green melon is good.

Yellow melon is better.

Freelancer discovery doesn't work in the same linear direction games like WoW do, "end-game" is not an issue. If you are desperate to have a battleship, then go for it. A battleship however, does not equal end-game viability. If you want a WoW equivalent, it is a destruction specced imp-sacrificing warlock with permanent hamstring but bosslevel hp. Just like a boss, people will take you down. Over and over again. You sacrifice a lot to have that firepower, armour and size.

The best way to make trading interesting is, as mentioned above, to RP your trader. An ALG plutonium hauler making top dollar but with a significantly increased mortality and a wife who isn't happy with his retirement plan, a smuggler that is borderline autistic, three sisters in business together running synthetic marijuana and one of whom that samples the product to the contempt of the others. Just because your trader is in a playerfaction does not automatically give it gold-plated RP.

Alt-tab less, system chat more.

mini-Edit: Productivity hint; don't go through Liberty and keep an eye on where players are in the chat board. If you see OPG in Leeds, don't go to ~:@:@@~:PP@:KN.

Okay, I won't give you that much help. Ivan would murder me.

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[Thurgret]

Your choice if you want to fly a battleship. Personally, if I had one it would just sit gathering dust. Even my two gunboats (Liberty Navy one and a Freelancer ID'd Explorer) just gather dust. I find that flying a fighter is much more enjoyable.

[silverleaf]

I keep my big mouth shut, try to fly leaving as small a footprint as possible, hopefully no one notices me. Its all about the profit. Sure I lose a trade or two, like I just got pirated by someone really stupid who didnt want my money but shot all my cargo (he too kwhat he could carry and shot the rest), but basically its still a living.
So yeah how do I increase profits?

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Scavengers of the Abyss - A Freelancer Short Story

[JakeSG]

There is no endgame. You do not need a Battleship. If you really want one, suck it up and do the time. I've been here nearly a year, still havn't got even a Cruiser, yet I've blown up countless Battleships/Cruisers/Whatever and had fun doing it. You don't need to have a Battleship to have fun. I'd suggest that if you seriously feel that's what you need to enjoy the game, you don't get one. Ever. This being an RP server and all, it seems illogical that you would find a WOMD necessary to enjoy it.

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For the Core.

[schlurbi]

The game is not about getting money....or codeweapons....

It's about Roleplay, that is what creates the fun. I'd rather have a good Role Play while pirating than getting 20 Million of it and be bored.

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"Who is it doing this synthetic type of alpha beta psychedelic funkin'?"

[reavengitair]

I'm trying not to complain but just hope someone can help me enjoy the game again.

First of all, its taking WAYYY too long to reach endgame (battleship+1.1bil isk) + trader + fighter.

I have the trader, I have the fighter, I have the battlecruiser, but taking some time on the level 90 and bship.

Problem is its taking FOREVER. I asked one guy how long he took for level 90, his answer freaked me out. 5 months. No wonder I'm getting nowhere with my pathetic 2 months (with 2 weeks hard grinding). Any tips on how I can improbe my productivity?

Then after that the task of getting codename weapons for all my ships...

Right any way to improve my trader productivity appreciated.

I'm making about theoratical 30mil an hour but it usually boils down to 20. Usually make that much a day. Thats if I don't meet any pirates. The way this is going, 1500,000,000isk just for my bship and fittings not counting the 1.1bil isk I will need is going to take FOREVER. Thats gona be a pain.
Too bad there aint no goldsellers/game time codes to sell for freelancer.

Seriously man. What the hell are you on about. Please explain everything you said there carefully, because, I don't get any of it.

I doubt many people here do either.

Why? WTF IS THIS ENDGAME NONSENSE! I really don't get it...

[JakeSG]

He seems to think this is WoW or Guild Wars or whatever game has given him his impression of online gaming. Reality is, it is a poor game when you can get to the point that you have the best weapons, armour, maxed skills etc., and except for the thousands of other people who also have the same, you are the 'elite'. This is what I believe he thinks of when he refers to endgame.

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For the Core.

[Marcus Lindberg]

Actually, by my calculations, if I powertraded with the ship I have right now for the next 10 days, I could afford everything I ever wanted.

Sadly, its too boring.

[Jongleur]

I don't get it either..