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Helter Skelter posted:You don't take any damage if you submit. I just love eluding those fuckers. No submitting for me.  Knifegrab posted:Are you sure they are system security vessels and not just... eagles or vipers? The difference between a ship called "Eagle" and one called "System Authority Vessel" is quite telling, I assure you. And those little strays only appeared in empty systems close to non-anarchy systems. "Normal" anarchy systems with people in them don't spawn their own police ships, as far as I can tell. Empty systems close to them also have never spawned wandering authority vessels in my experience. TK-42-1 posted:I've had system security vessels spawn in empty systems. It was at a USS when I was scooping prototype tech. It jumped in and tried to scan me but I bugged out. Was that in the middle of nowhere, or were there non-anarchy systems around it? Maybe factions really do send ships into other systems sometimes. Libluini fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Dec 27, 2014 |
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Hmmm yeah now I am confused, in all my time in anarchy systems I've never seen this. And what happens if they do scan you with stolen goods? Its not like you can become wanted. I'm assuming the faction listed for those guys is the major faction of the nearby system?
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Dec 27, 2014 00:47
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Man, shield cells and chaff are some hilarious bullshit. With the Clipper I can just sit right behind an Anaconda pumping death right up its engines, and it can't do poo poo about it. Between popping chaff and having the shield cells to fall back on... they're cake.Sh4 posted:Yes I have a ship stored somewhere but pretty far from there, must be it also I downloaded the manual just for this icon and they don't talk about it anywhere Yeah, when I swapped ships for a bit the game was telling me my Clipper was in Orrere, which is a good 160Ly away from where it was actually docked in Cegreeth. The system map was correct, but the galaxy map was waaaaaay off. I'd bet money that it's the same bug happening to you. Knifegrab posted:Hmmm yeah now I am confused, in all my time in anarchy systems I've never seen this. And what happens if they do scan you with stolen goods? Its not like you can become wanted. I'm assuming the faction listed for those guys is the major faction of the nearby system? I've had space cops spawn in Anarchy systems occasionally, and even unpopulated systems. Seems to be a random chance for that poo poo to happen, and yeah, unless they're hostile to you they'll do a standard scan and find your cargo and you'll get a nice big fine for it. If you're in an unpopulated system, though, it's anarchic and you can just shoot them with reckless abandon before that happens.
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Dec 27, 2014 00:47
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If you submit to FSD interdiction then you can immediately make a new jump. If you want to avoid a fight, the best thing to do is plot a course to a nearby star system when getting interdicted, then throttle all the way back to submit and avoid hull damage. Then 4 pips to engines and boost away while charging FSD for the jump.
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Dec 27, 2014 00:50
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Gonkish posted:I've had space cops spawn in Anarchy systems occasionally, and even unpopulated systems. Seems to be a random chance for that poo poo to happen, and yeah, unless they're hostile to you they'll do a standard scan and find your cargo and you'll get a nice big fine for it. If you're in an unpopulated system, though, it's anarchic and you can just shoot them with reckless abandon before that happens. Sometimes the RNG makes the best stories. I've had a Federal Dropship show up in six systems I've explored, one after another and I started to think it was the same ship following me around. 
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Dec 27, 2014 00:54
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Gonkish posted:Man, shield cells and chaff are some hilarious bullshit. With the Clipper I can just sit right behind an Anaconda pumping death right up its engines, and it can't do poo poo about it. Between popping chaff and having the shield cells to fall back on... they're cake. Since I changed my Asp to cannons (before ditching it for a clipper) I started alternating between hauling and big-game bulletin board hunting. With the clipper getting 10 shield cells out of an A fitting, I'm assuming it's even better.
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Dec 27, 2014 00:56
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Libluini posted:I've encountered system authority vessels in empty systems, so it is definitely true. Caveat: I never got close enough to them to see if they do anything. I guess if a faction closeby is spawning them as some sort of scouts or something, you could theoretically test if they do anything by getting wanted by factions around that empty system and then go back and wait for another police ship to turn up. Sounds like a collossal waste of time for something so rare, though. More discussion on the official forums - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=79343
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Dec 27, 2014 01:00
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Sylink posted:I think Altair has them. Thanks, I ended up getting on in Beta-1 Tucanae. Also, for anyone having trouble with fuel scoops, this is how I do it:  The green line near the top is the whatchacallit gravity line around a star where it will grab you out of supercruise. If you're rotated so the star is 'above' you and keep the line up at the top of the screen, you can skim circles around the star without risking falling in and to disengage all you do is pitch down.
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Rotation Confusion posted:Since I changed my Asp to cannons (before ditching it for a clipper) I started alternating between hauling and big-game bulletin board hunting. With the clipper getting 10 shield cells out of an A fitting, I'm assuming it's even better. It really is. It's a ridiculous shitstorm of bullshit and you can just essentially park behind them and fire death right up their butt and they just can't do poo poo about it. Even if they boost away, you can just pop chaff and follow them and repeat the process until they go boom. It's silly. I have a C grade shield and never once had it go down while taking out an Elite Anaconda worth 153k. Poor bastard.
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Dec 27, 2014 01:19
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Gonkish posted:I've had space cops spawn in Anarchy systems occasionally, and even unpopulated systems. Seems to be a random chance for that poo poo to happen, and yeah, unless they're hostile to you they'll do a standard scan and find your cargo and you'll get a nice big fine for it. If you're in an unpopulated system, though, it's anarchic and you can just shoot them with reckless abandon before that happens.  But what jurisdiction is the fine in?
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Dec 27, 2014 01:26
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WarLocke posted:Thanks, I ended up getting on in Beta-1 Tucanae. Yeah this is the way. It also helps to have like a C power generator and C scoop, then it takes a bearable amount of time and you usually can be in there a long time before taking damage. What is the threshold for starting to take damage? I let it get up to like 125% a bit ago and I was still at 100%. Maybe it's sitting at 125 / 130 for some time?
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Dec 27, 2014 01:38
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superh posted:Yeah this is the way. It also helps to have like a C power generator and C scoop, then it takes a bearable amount of time and you usually can be in there a long time before taking damage. 150% and above causes you to start taking hull damage.
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Dec 27, 2014 01:41
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Knifegrab posted:150% and above causes you to start taking hull damage. Depends on engine rating and hull.
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Dec 27, 2014 01:48
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I'm too impatient for Star Citizen and I want to play a space mans game where I can get a big cargo ship and deliver freight across the cosmos. Space Truck Simulator basically. Is this the game for me and is it worth £40? e: How are players online? Will I get trolled for being a weak cargo based ship.
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Dec 27, 2014 01:50
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Jarf posted:I'm too impatient for Star Citizen and I want to play a space mans game where I can get a big cargo ship and deliver freight across the cosmos. Space Truck Simulator basically. The mumble crew is basically all space truckin' all the time (with a couple guys who mine or do combat for money)
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Easier to just hit zero throttle once the fuel/second and heat meters are where you like them, then spend that time looking at the map/scanning the star/honking at the rest of the system before moving on. And I swear that 150% has been the point where my dashboard starts melting, no matter what generator I've had. Better generator does take longer to hit that point! Jarf posted:I'm too impatient for Star Citizen and I want to play a space mans game where I can get a big cargo ship and deliver freight across the cosmos. Space Truck Simulator basically. Sounds like this is your thing. You can play solo or group-only, but full online is more... amusing. There are a number of players who hang around the highly populated newbie areas to interdict and try to run their bounties up to a high score, but away from there it's just you and maybe a couple other truckers and explorers.
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All I needed to hear, I'm on the buy page right now. It's gonna happen. The life of a Space Trucker is the life for me. Jarf fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Dec 27, 2014 |
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RearmingStrafbomber posted:Sounds like this is your thing. You can play solo or group-only, but full online is more... amusing. There are a number of players who hang around the highly populated newbie areas to interdict and try to run their bounties up to a high score, but away from there it's just you and maybe a couple other truckers and explorers. If you go hardcore into exploring you will be all alone in the void. Not even NPCs go out that far. Entire strings of systems with nothing in them but orbital bodies and you.
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WarLocke posted:If you go hardcore into exploring you will be all alone in the void. Not even NPCs go out that far. Entire strings of systems with nothing in them but orbital bodies and you. This is basically my space life right now. Wish I had the cash for the advanced scanner and the internal storage space for the planetary scanner. Until then, it's all basic scanner and parallax in the middle of nothing.
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Xae posted:I did some exploration today and I wasn't impressed much with the returns. Were you scanning frozen blocks of ice that are one in a million?
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Dec 27, 2014 02:17
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If I get somewhere and they only have 1 of the rare, if I wait 10 minutes does it add more rares or reset everything so it could just still have one rare?
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Dec 27, 2014 02:18
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Libluini posted:Uh and don't go above 100% heat when fuel scooping. Even if you think your ship can take it, it just takes one dirty bastard to pull you out of supercruise and bad things can happen. I've taken a Cobra up to 205% and lost about 20% of all the systems, mainly due to a weirdness in the way that it calculates acceleration. I spotted a zone while I was scooping slowly at around 105% heat and decided to drop in and blat an adventurous eagle. Afterwards, aligned away from the sun and throttled up to hit supercruise, and while the countdown starts, the heat starts shooting up to 165% and hits 175% before it actually jumps.
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Dec 27, 2014 02:20
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Is there any reason to ever have your cargo hatch powered? It doesn't really seem like it.
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kharaa posted:Is there any reason to ever have your cargo hatch powered? It doesn't really seem like it. The only things I can think of is if you are mining (need to scoop up ore chunks, or spit out the kinds you do not want from your refinery), scooping up cargo floating around, or just pooping out cargo for some reason. In all those cases, you can just power it back up turn it on when you need it. Cargo hatch power doesn't have any current effect on simply buying/selling from stations. EDIT: Also, unbind or remap your "jettison all cargo" button in your settings to something you will not accidentally push reaching for another button. There is no warning or confirm prompt, it will just poo poo out everything then and there that isn't Mission Haulage. EDIT Two: vvv Praying they stay flying saucers. Section Z fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Dec 27, 2014 |
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Chompers posted:Your graphics cards memory is likely overheating, corrupting texture data as you can see. Yep, that was it. This laptop had taken on a lot more crud than I expected in its first half year of life. Also, the Thargoids say "hi!"
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Is there a way to flip a system to anarchy - basically helping the local pirate gang gain influence?
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Angrymog posted:Is there a way to flip a system to anarchy - basically helping the local pirate gang gain influence? You would have to do missions for them, sell things to them, kill ships aligned with the system's owning faction, etc. Basically just do anything that increases their influence in the system. If they don't have a station of their own it's apparently near impossible to do this.
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A reminder to folks that abandoning missions hurts your rep with the faction that gave them, as well as negatively impacting the faction's influence!
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Gonkish posted:You would have to do missions for them, sell things to them, kill ships aligned with the system's owning faction, etc. Basically just do anything that increases their influence in the system. If they don't have a station of their own it's apparently near impossible to do this. Okay, didn't know if there was something I could do that would flip ownership of a station - the system I've picked as home atm has a pirate faction, but they don't have a station.
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Jarf posted:I'm too impatient for Star Citizen and I want to play a space mans game where I can get a big cargo ship and deliver freight across the cosmos. Space Truck Simulator basically. I don't know if you would like it, you can't pay several thousand real dollars for new spaceships.
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Has anyone found good mining areas anywhere even remotely close to Jotunheim? Like within 100 ly or so? The best I could find was common reserves of metallic asteroids in Atfero.
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Jarf posted:I'm too impatient for Star Citizen and I want to play a space mans game where I can get a big cargo ship and deliver freight across the cosmos. Space Truck Simulator basically. This game is basically the uber space trucking simulator. Like, trading is one of the best ways to make money, and get new ships, which leads to more efficient trucking, which leads to more ships, etc. If you like that poo poo, this is your game. Playing online (i.e., in open play) is pretty sparse as far as players go. There's billions of star systems, and thousands of inhabited ones. The chances of running into someone outside of the handful of starter systems is pretty slim. No one really cares what ship you're flying, btw, they all pretty much only care about whether or not you have a bounty or cargo that they can sell.
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So I've finally worked up a little over a mil and I think it's finally time to grab myself a lakon type 6 and make real money. Should I just go for it or crush some more asteroids for seed cash- if so, how much?
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Derakarsis posted:So I've finally worked up a little over a mil and I think it's finally time to grab myself a lakon type 6 and make real money. Should I just go for it or crush some more asteroids for seed cash- if so, how much? You should get at least 2 million... because its going to cost you a million to get the Lakon, and at least 500 - 800k more to get the decent engines for jumping.
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Tempus Thales posted:You should get at least 2 million... because its going to cost you a million to get the Lakon, and at least 500 - 800k more to get the decent engines for jumping. What's the baseline cargo capacity for one?
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Tempus Thales posted:You should get at least 2 million... because its going to cost you a million to get the Lakon, and at least 500 - 800k more to get the decent engines for jumping. Yeah I figured that was the answer. The mining is getting soul crushing, even in pristine belts. Wish there was an easier way to identify the ore types without tapping them all individually.
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Tempus Thales posted:You should get at least 2 million... because its going to cost you a million to get the Lakon, and at least 500 - 800k more to get the decent engines for jumping. Keep in mind that you will also need money to buy the goods you are going to transport.
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Acquire Currency! posted:What's the baseline cargo capacity for one? 50 or 52? You can expand it to 112 IIRC (if you're willing to go without shields or a fuel scoop)
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quote:Two factions need to be pretty close in influence % and you need to help a faction with missions and actions to increase how strong they are. You deliver weapons to them (not just through missions) and cause civil unrest in the system (kill police and army forces of the ruling faction, take ruling faction missions but choose the alternative mission ending, kill traders, etc...) Basically you make a faction strong enough to challenge the ruler and then you cause unrest to cause an actual war https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2qg4pz/we_did_it_civil_war_in_ho_hsi_started_by_players/
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WarLocke posted:50 or 52? You can expand it to 112 IIRC (if you're willing to go without shields or a fuel scoop) Bet your rear end I am E: one of the Lave special cluster systems sells regular slaves if you need to free a few frank.club fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Dec 27, 2014 |
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