Knifegrab posted:

Voice attack makes this game a billion times better.

IffyNewtz posted:

Sorry, but that requires loving with the Cobra mkIIIs cockpit wiring. You need special tools just to get the cover off.

Ahdinko posted:

To join in on the joystick talk again, just to reiterate, gently caress Saitek and gently caress the X55!
Had mine for about 3-4 months now, it broke last week when trying to undo the collar to change the spring. Saitek support have been giving me the runaround for a week and have a returns policy thats illegal in the UK and their attitude to me bringing it up was pretty much "already got your money so tough poo poo" (gotta pay to ship it to them)
Luckily I bought it from a retailer who is not Saitek and is awesome, theyre doing an RMA and then i guess they just send it back to Saitek themselves or whatever.

Also I don't think it has an Elite profile and I've been struggling to setup one that works well, anyone else got one they can share so I can stop accidentally boosting into stations when my stick comes back?

IffyNewtz posted:

This game is pretty much what I have wished for since I was kid playing Elite on my dads bbc.
Just wandering around, exploring cool stuff like quadruple binaries, neutron stars, scooping fuel from blue hot supergiants... oh my, I've made a mess in the cockpit again.

So with my freetrack project a disappointment (lighting conditions and a window behind me + having to wear a hat), and my EDtracker componants on backorder until after Christmas. I decided to make something for my tablet that clears a few functions off my hotass, satisfies my primevel urge to press shiny clicky buttons and looks more like you're in the future or something instead of using that filthy old keyboard:




Stuff lights up and everything

I use CPP for a couple of games, most notably Kerbal. It's a customisable control pad app for tablets that lets you design a layout specifically for each game. It comes with some defaults but they're generally pretty crap. It takes a while to make a profile, but in generally the editor is straightforward and surprisingly powerful. The downsides are limited skins and buttons/graphic elements etc. And there don't seem to be many updates for the app, although it runs well in general on my ipad2.
http://www.frozenpepper.it/ccp/
You can check it works with the lite version, but custom skins etc need the full app.

I am sure I'm missing some important controls, and button placement etc. Any suggestions?
I'm going to tidy it up a bit and I'll upload the profile if anyone wants it. To get it to work you'll need to bind some stuff ingame and check they are correctly set for hold or toggle.

Ideally I'd love it if Frontier themselves did something like this with the proper UI styling and tabs etc, instead of the crappy app they released for smartphones.

See you at Big Harry's!

Stanko-Prussian posted:

Psst, "Stellar"

Frontier posted:

Hi,

here are the latest server changes:

Hot-fixes from over the weekend:

- When a distributed transaction fails in a certain way, make sure the servers roll back such that Commanders' credit balances should be added to, even if we might have failed to remove the item they were selling
- Significantly reduce the number '499' timeout errors triggered when Commanders travel to certain types of star systems.
- Improve the 'stuck cargo' cleaning check when a Commander first logs in
- Fix a bug preventing some people logging into the Companion app

Today's changes:

- Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing a market to flip from being a net consumer to a net producer when the AI traders supplied significantly more into that market than the market demands. This will mean that many commodities currently listed at a low level of 'demand' will revert back to the 'not interested' price, as they should have been.

- Fixed a small set of bugs that were working together to cause the AI traders to significantly over supply an import market in a specific set of circumstances.

This bug fix will increase the demand numbers being offered to Commanders for consumed commodities where there isn't a large exporting market nearby supplying that demand.
Where large exporting markets are nearby, the AI traders will now respect their import caps and leave some demand for Commanders.
In that situation, the exporting markets should see a slightly increased level of supply available for Commanders to purchase.

These bug fixes together should also sort out some of the 'backwards' trade route data over the next day or so when the data next update.

For the trading the changes in demand should propagate quickly but for the trade routes may take a day or so. This has uncovered an issue with split markets stacking rather than being netter out, although this effect is minor compared to the previous issue. We'll then record the stats over Christmas to identify what further tweaks are needed.

Thanks!

IffyNewtz posted:

E: Here is the profile if anyone wants to mess around with it.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=66823524863097897366

Stanko-Prussian posted:

Psst, "Stellar"

e: this is loving amazing though and the perfect use for those shitbox android tablets you can basically buy by the pound.

e2: ugh wait is this ipad only, what the

Bloody Wanker posted:

TheMightyZang posted:

Anyone know of something similar that does run android?

bonds0097 posted:

Yessir:

http://power-grid.roccat.org/en/Download/

They have an E:D profile too. Or rather many.

Funkysauce posted:

Nice! Now my iPad has something to do again! Hurry up 5PM!

slidebite posted:

So I finished my training missions and tried my first real mission, got a mission to deliver beer from the little station I was at to the Aubakirov system orbital. I took the mission, did the jump, docked at the target and now... what? How do I deliver the cargo to the people and get paid? Sorry if this is stupid, but I went through every menu I could find

Groggy nard posted:

The panicked evasives I see people doing whenever they see CMDR Struggle Snuggle going through the mail slot at Max Thrust is worth the eventual collision.

IffyNewtz posted:

Cool, have a play around because I really don't know what I'm doing. The profile works great and is fully functional, but it's basic and someone with a bit of knowhow could do all sorts with it. The app can read data outputs and apis from games, and show dynamic readouts and gauges etc. Here is my Kerabl layout, which was easy because there was already a game protocol for it in the app, with each 'channel' outputting different data such fuel, thrust, position etc

All those readouts are updated in realtime with no discernible overhead I can tell. It's great. Someone needs to make a plugin for elite.

Kesper North posted:

I'd like to talk about guns, particularly for the Cobra and Asp.

I've still been focusing on multicannons and lasers in my weapons loadouts, but I've noticed people talking about weapons other than multicannons lately - what do you think are good combat loadouts for these ships?

Also, I like the idea of using fixed weapons on the Asp because they're so well placed, but I think my accuracy is poo poo. Is it worth it to use them anyway?

KakerMix posted:

The answer is "beam lasers forever"

Kesper North posted:

I'd like to talk about guns, particularly for the Cobra and Asp.

I've still been focusing on multicannons and lasers in my weapons loadouts, but I've noticed people talking about weapons other than multicannons lately - what do you think are good combat loadouts for these ships?

Also, I like the idea of using fixed weapons on the Asp because they're so well placed, but I think my accuracy is poo poo. Is it worth it to use them anyway?

Kesper North posted:

Really? I thought they were inaccurate when gimballed and eat too much power.

Kesper North posted:

Really? I thought they were inaccurate when gimballed and eat too much power.

Ak Gara posted:

If my lasers are sucking down too much power, do I upgrade the reactor first or the distributor first?

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Yeah, the Discovery scanner is fired off in supercruise (or normal speed) like a weapon. It sends out a Magic Space "Sonar" ping that reveals all celestial objects within 500LS/1000LS/Systemwide(?) range for the basic/intermediate/advanced. These will show up as "Unexplored" contacts in your navigation menu. You then have to target these Unknowns and scan them by facing them and flying close enough (distance varies depending on object). If you have a detailed surface scanner it works automatically as part of this process.

KakerMix posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDwqBwnOJMw

tooterfish posted:

With fixed guns you either need to be maneuverable enough to keep a close target in the crosshairs, or be fast enough to burn away and make strafing runs.

It'd work fine against larger ships, but smaller ones would get in your face and cut you to pieces with impunity IMO.

Mr. Wookums posted:

So earlier a color matrix was posted with negatives. I used that utility earlier to get a nice blue gui which is nice, but it's also sorta gross. I'm at work so cant' look at the utility now, but will it show negatives if manually inputted? If not, could someone who uses negatives post theirs and a screen so I can steal em? The one posted earlier stated something about their colors with no screen, it was

code:

<MatrixRed> 0.18, 0, -1 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> -1, 1, -1 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0.15, 0.32, 1 </MatrixBlue>

Luccion posted:

I have no shields.

BaconPigbutt posted:

That was my experience with them. But one thing to keep in mind is that the inferior weapon slot on the cobra really need to be equipped with gimbals to be anywhere near useful.

KakerMix posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDwqBwnOJMw

IffyNewtz posted:

This game is pretty much what I have wished for since I was kid playing Elite on my dads bbc.
Just wandering around, exploring cool stuff like quadruple binaries, neutron stars, scooping fuel from blue hot supergiants... oh my, I've made a mess in the cockpit again.

So with my freetrack project a disappointment (lighting conditions and a window behind me + having to wear a hat), and my EDtracker componants on backorder until after Christmas. I decided to make something for my tablet that clears a few functions off my hotass, satisfies my primevel urge to press shiny clicky buttons and looks more like you're in the future or something instead of using that filthy old keyboard:




Stuff lights up and everything

I use CPP for a couple of games, most notably Kerbal. It's a customisable control pad app for tablets that lets you design a layout specifically for each game. It comes with some defaults but they're generally pretty crap. It takes a while to make a profile, but in generally the editor is straightforward and surprisingly powerful. The downsides are limited skins and buttons/graphic elements etc. And there don't seem to be many updates for the app, although it runs well in general on my ipad2.
http://www.frozenpepper.it/ccp/
You can check it works with the lite version, but custom skins etc need the full app.

I am sure I'm missing some important controls, and button placement etc. Any suggestions?
I'm going to tidy it up a bit and I'll upload the profile if anyone wants it. To get it to work you'll need to bind some stuff ingame and check they are correctly set for hold or toggle.

Ideally I'd love it if Frontier themselves did something like this with the proper UI styling and tabs etc, instead of the crappy app they released for smartphones.

See you at Big Harry's!

Third World Reggin posted:

You unlock your lasers and pretend they are fixed?