The cold I have had is still not full gone though I ain't suffering as much as I was earlier in the week. Yes the first half of the week saw me grumpy as I dealt with the choked up feeling that goes around as the cooler months close in. It didn't stop me from seeing to the grass but I still have some things to do out in the garden. Yeah I did use the cold as a bit of an excuse to not do everything I had been planning. I think we all do that from time to time.
Elite Dangerous has had a very steep learning curve. I did the first of the tutorials but found that they were very good a teaching you. They would be greatly improved with a voice over telling you which buttons you need to press and when. Yeah more of a walkthrough than they are at the moment. Of course that may come as time goes by as we are still in the beta phase of the game with a long way to go before we reach the polished game that will be the release model. Anyways it took me until Wednesday to get to grips with the game. I think the hardest aspect was Super Cruise mode, it allows you quickly to fly through a solar system, or rather exiting it. Of course my son wasn't pleased with all the moaning I did as I vented my frustration of the games mechanics. I so wish it had auto-pilot it would have been so simpler. I think that is another thing that will come later in the development but I did miss it when I started playing. Saying that though I am no enjoying the game much more now though there are one or two small niggles. One of them is finding your docking bay on some stations is not as easy as I would like. Especially if it is a station where the landing pads are on the exterior of the station. The first time I tried landing on one of these I ended up in a panic as my time counted down, you have ten minutes to land, and I couldn't find the pad. Yeah why panic I hear you say. Well it does draw you in, well it does to me. Another niggle is that I have been fine twice as I entered a station. I slow right down so I can get my bearing to the landing pad I have been assigned. Sadly the game see this as me loitering at the entrance sometimes and fines me. Luckily they are too large so easily paid. In general I am enjoying the game and look forward to more content later this month. That will come in the form of being able to mine asteroids just as I remember in Frontier. Until then I still have some exploring to do in my Eagle.