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t-nutz posted:Are there any ships that can survive destroying their FSD? You can cause aborted jumps with some damage to it but if you get it to 0%, they'll explode won't they? Yeah this was my understanding as well. Although I didn't know damage would cause the jump to abort, thats really good to know.
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Knifegrab posted:Yeah this was my understanding as well. Although I didn't know damage would cause the jump to abort, thats really good to know. Yeah, apparently the more damaged your FSD is the greater chance of attempted jumps either aborting or the ship exploding upon the attempt. Someone a page or two ago said it started at 70% and gets worse from there. Antoine Silvere posted:Put 6 multicannons on my Asp and it's like having a lead fire hose
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Dec 30, 2014 19:56
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Kenshin posted:Based on what 2 size 2 cannons do on my Viper I'm pretty sure 6 cannons on the Asp (what size are those?) will obliterate many small ships in a single volley. Two Class 2s and 4 Class 1s. I can't wait 
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Dec 30, 2014 19:58
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Hey guys, I'm an honest hard working Space Trucker hauling goods back and forth in my trusty Voyager. You probably know somebody just like me  We work long hours to earn some honest credits. Lately I've noticed an increase in pirate activity, bunch of kids with guns think they can harass the everyday workman. Any of you guys have some advice to help a fellow Space Trucker like me protect his cargo from the unscrupulous types out there?
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Jarf posted:Hey guys, I'm an honest hard working Space Trucker hauling goods back and forth in my trusty Voyager. You probably know somebody just like me Play in solo mode. If you're just truckin' by yourself there is literally no reason not to unless you find being ganked fun
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Dec 30, 2014 20:06
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Antoine Silvere posted:Play in solo mode. If you're just truckin' by yourself there is literally no reason not to unless you find being ganked fun Booooo this advice sucks. I am not a pirate...
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Dec 30, 2014 20:12
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The real answer is to haul in a combat fit cobra and fight back.
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TK-42-1 posted:The real answer is to haul in a combat fit cobra and fight back. This also works and is p fun as well
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Dec 30, 2014 20:16
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Smuggling is legit a ton of fun and quite profitable.
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Antoine Silvere posted:Play in solo mode. If you're just truckin' by yourself there is literally no reason not to unless you find being ganked fun Is it bad that I do enjoy the random ganking? Watching real live human beings dock their ships is a beautiful thing that I can't give up. I was wondering more what is best for defence. Are the chaff launchers worth saving up for? Can I upgrade something to make it easier to evade/survive interdictions?
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Surviving interdiction w/o fighting: Fit chaff/ECM/point defense Fit mine layers Bind all but point defense (which you can't bind) to a single trigger. Have another for just chaff and ECM. When you get interdicted, drop throttle to zero. You'll submit to interdiction and maintain your prior FSD target. The second you drop into the interdiction island, full throttle and boost towards your FSD target, max engines,. If your attacker is wanted already, drop ecm/chaff/mines. If not, use your chaff/ECM bind and drop mines after they hit you and flip to wanted. The second your FSD cooldown is over, go back to supercruise.
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Jarf posted:Is it bad that I do enjoy the random ganking? Watching real live human beings dock their ships is a beautiful thing that I can't give up. I was wondering more what is best for defence. Are the chaff launchers worth saving up for? Can I upgrade something to make it easier to evade/survive interdictions? I saw a human at Big Harry's the other day, and to show off I boosted into the mail slot - I had to full on slam the brakes and try to turn to avoid smashing against the back wall. Even though they were leaving and couldn't see me I bet they were impressed...!
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What does ECM even do? I just figured it blocked the already-pointless tracking missiles. Two chaff launchers will make you more or less immune to tracking missiles, turrets, gimbals, and to an extent scanning. Pop one every 30 seconds or, better, have VA do it for you until you tell it to stop. Point defense turrets will do an okay job knocking mines or dumbfire missiles out of the sky. As RC mentioned, submit to interdictions, that makes your FSD cool off faster then the aggressor's. Boost away and jump; if you're really scared, jump to another system- most people will just jump to SC and get interdicted again.
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Jarf posted:Is it bad that I do enjoy the random ganking? Watching real live human beings dock their ships is a beautiful thing that I can't give up. I was wondering more what is best for defence. Are the chaff launchers worth saving up for? Can I upgrade something to make it easier to evade/survive interdictions? Not at all my man, you do you. That said chaff launcher are definitely worth it, since most people are scrubs that use gimballed weapons. Heat sink might be useful too. Don't think there is anything to make avoiding interdictions easier. Might be better to just submit so you don't lose hull and your FSD recharges faster and then just pop a heat sink plus chaff and book it
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Dec 30, 2014 20:43
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For you see, I am a noble smuggler. I steal from wanted pirates, claim their bounties but still smuggle in their goods. Sure some might call me a monster, rescuing a ton of slaves only to them sell them to a black market, but I call it capitalism.
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Second flight report: Took a Federation mission to supply guns, spent about an hour finding some (one station had just one, another had more but I ran out of money and had to shoot some pirates). Finally loaded up with guns, realized I couldn't find a route back to the original system with my reduced jump range. I feel like I'll eventually get good at this game purely by the number of mistakes I'll remember never to make again. 
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Haledjian posted:
This sums up the first 15 or so hours I played... E: I'm still not good.
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Rotation Confusion posted:When you get interdicted, drop throttle to zero. You'll submit to interdiction and maintain your prior FSD target. Note: Only do this if you've found evading player interdictions difficult in the first place. Jarf posted:Is it bad that I do enjoy the random ganking? Watching real live human beings dock their ships is a beautiful thing that I can't give up. I was wondering more what is best for defence. Are the chaff launchers worth saving up for? Can I upgrade something to make it easier to evade/survive interdictions? In addition to what others have said about chaff/ECM/et. al., upgrading your thrusters and (assuming you haven't just dumped them so you can haul more stuff in your van) shields will both go a long way towards making the odd player pirate encounter more survivable. I would also recommend that you spend more time flying with F/A off (if you aren't already doing so); learning how to wrangle your van into position during take-off/landing quickly will also pay off when you need to space-serpentine your way out of someone's crosshairs.
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Hey Frontier, bring back the "sell all" button for system data. Been selling data one by one for an hour now 
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^ Yeah, there's hardly even a case where I wouldn't want to sell all. It's not like it changes price or anything interesting. Ernie Muppari posted:In addition to what others have said about chaff/ECM/et. al., upgrading your thrusters and (assuming you haven't just dumped them so you can haul more stuff in your van) shields will both go a long way towards making the odd player pirate encounter more survivable. I would also recommend that you spend more time flying with F/A off (if you aren't already doing so); learning how to wrangle your van into position during take-off/landing quickly will also pay off when you need to space-serpentine your way out of someone's crosshairs. t-nutz fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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So here I am, hot dogging in my viper assisting space police in taking down a 112k bounty anaconda, doing these silly FA off strafing runs... straight into a rock. I ate it. This game
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Very new to the game, I've purchased/upgraded a hauler and have done some mining and delivery missions. I've only managed to rack up 40k credits or so. Is there something I'm missing as far as making cash, or is it just a slog until you can haul fucktons of cargo and do big supply misisons. I haven't fired a single laser shot yet. I'm simply a trader.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Hey Frontier, bring back the "sell all" button for system data. Hah, now I really fear the day I'm coming back from my adventure in deep space.  Edit: By the way, NPCs still spawn for me even though I'm hundreds of light years away from civilization. Yesterday I had to evade the same Python three times. That NPC really wanted to stop my empty Cobra for some reason. Libluini fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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Libluini posted:By the way, NPCs still spawn for me even though I'm hundreds of light years away from civilization. Yesterday I had to evade the same Python three times. That NPC really wanted to stop my empty Cobra for some reason. It gets awful lonely in the black, guy wanted some company. You know, twixt the nethers.
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Ledenko posted:It gets awful lonely in the black, guy wanted some company. You know, twixt the nethers. Nice.
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Libluini posted:Hah, now I really fear the day I'm coming back from my adventure in deep space. Just pop a movie in.
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Phummus posted:Very new to the game, I've purchased/upgraded a hauler and have done some mining and delivery missions. I've only managed to rack up 40k credits or so. Is there something I'm missing as far as making cash, or is it just a slog until you can haul fucktons of cargo and do big supply misisons. I haven't fired a single laser shot yet. I'm simply a trader. Basic trading is going to feel really rough at first. You are essentially at the mercy of your tiny amount of starting capital and whatever the RNG gods decide to throw your way in terms of trade missions. Profit is really small off of small starting capital, so yeah, the big money doesn't start to pile into short-distance (0-40 ly) trading until you are capable of buying up large amounts of stock and moving large amounts of cargo. The early-game high-profit method of trading likely applicable to your scenario is going to be rares trading. Rare items are special items that only spawn in specific systems and show up as bright yellow amongst the rest of the gray inventory in the commodities market. Rares have a special property whereby they can be sold anywhere, but they really only drastically appreciate in value once you get beyond 150 ly from where you bought them. They are also notoriously low in stock in their home station because they are... well... rare items. For a guide on rare item trading check out this post. It helped me get into an Adder with 500k credits to spare in one evening.
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Libluini posted:Hah, now I really fear the day I'm coming back from my adventure in deep space. Did they fix that bug where your game will crash upon opening universal cartographics if you have a shitload of systems to sell?
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Jarf posted:Is it bad that I do enjoy the random ganking? Watching real live human beings dock their ships is a beautiful thing that I can't give up. I was wondering more what is best for defence. Are the chaff launchers worth saving up for? Can I upgrade something to make it easier to evade/survive interdictions? Totally understand this. It's just a game after all, and the tension of having to outrun unpredictable actual humans is one of the things that makes it fun. If credits were real money I'd be all over soloing, but since they aren't what's the point? I'd rather have the constant threat of being beaten up for my space money be a thing. Disconnecticus fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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t-nutz posted:I'm a fan of a better power distributor so I can boost twice and more often. It makes take-off / landing more tolerable in slower ships. True, it'll also help keep your shields up longer under fire. Really your FSD, Thrusters, Power Plant, and Power Distributor are the modules you should pretty much always be trying to upgrade all the way to A Ranks because they're the things that make your ship go (and the A Ranked versions are pretty much just straight upgrades for the E Ranks). EDIT: Also, about the flight-assist chat: Don't try to use F/A to kill your forwards or backwards velocity, that's not what it's for. Think of F/A as a stabilization switch, it's meant to kill your lateral velocity and rotation so you're only moving along a single vector. Ernie Muppari fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Dec 30, 2014 |
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Frank Horrigan posted:Did they fix that bug where your game will crash upon opening universal cartographics if you have a shitload of systems to sell? I have no idea, considering I'm still literally days in real-time away from every human settlement I could sell exploration data to.
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Ernie Muppari posted:True, it'll also help keep your shields up longer under fire. Power plant only needs to be good enough to power all your stuff. After that I think it only matters for heat dispersion. Distributor controls sys/eng/wep refill rate and amount of energy in each at full.
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Libluini posted:I have no idea, considering I'm still literally days in real-time away from every human settlement I could sell exploration data to. How far, roughly have you gone?
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I know the developers are on Holiday, and they absolutely deserve it, but its so weird hearing/seeing no patch notes for so long. I hope the next patch is a mile long in its changelog.
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Rares update every 15 mins right? Or did they change that. Im sitting waiting and it doesnt seem to be happening.
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Knifegrab posted:I know the developers are on Holiday, and they absolutely deserve it, but its so weird hearing/seeing no patch notes for so long. I hope the next patch is a mile long in its changelog. The next patch note will be 3 lines of important stuff they do right as they get back The one after that will probably be hysterical
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Touchdown Boy posted:Rares update every 15 mins right? Or did they change that. Im sitting waiting and it doesnt seem to be happening.
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Touchdown Boy posted:Rares update every 15 mins right? Or did they change that. Im sitting waiting and it doesnt seem to be happening. There's a cap on how many you can have now, something like 15-20 if memory serves. If you've got more than that, supply won't restore at all. No more idling at a station until your hold is full, unfortunately.
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