Gaming

I'm still patiently waiting for that moment when Elite Dangerous becomes "fun".
Last night I abandoned that deathly combat training mission and decided to just go ahead with a proper mission. Picked one of the data courier jobs so that I wouldn't have to worry about cargo space and then set off for the destination.
Supercruise.
Overshoot and turn around to supercruise back.
Overshoot again etc.

Finally I'm within range and then discover that I'm not going to be docking at a station, instead I have to try and land on a moon.
Also it's night, everything is pitch black so I can't even see the moon I'm supposed to land on. I spin my way towards the target before everything changes into "orbital mode" and I'm falling at too steep a rate.
Better get on the thrusters.
I fly around for ages but never seem to get closer to my target even though it's supposed to be around here. Still can't see it cos everything's still dark. Maybe that means I'm too high up and that never-reducing distance is my height?
So I fly downwards and this seems to be working better, hopefully I'll get there soon and-

CRASH!
BOUNCE!

More crashing and bouncing.

And I'm still no closer to the landing pad.

Oh wait. It's on the other side of the moon, isn't it?
That's why I can't get any closer. I've been trying to fly straight down through the ground.

Banj wrote:

...and it takes forever to travel anywhere...

That's probably the worst thing about the game. There's a bit too much waiting around while the ship travels in an uneventful straight line to a distant destination.The old sequel, Frontier, had a time acceleration system which cut all that out but obviously you can't do that any more when you want the game to be multiplayer.

Anyway, this video has helped me to understand what I'm doing so I'll try and have another go later...

Haven't done much gaming for the past week or so. I think I've only managed a single hour (maybe less) on Life Is Strange as I slowly progress through episode four.
I really want to do that second quest of my long northern exploration in Skyrim to get that Horn Of Whoever-It-Is but the combination of time and tiredness keeps stopping me.
Don't even have some cats to wake me up.

Makes me want to play Ark so I can pick up Phiomia poo again.

Put your cat poo collection on a medium crop plot and see if you can grow some Mejoberries.