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It's probably different now, but prior to Powerplay (Which was the last time I paid any attention to faction rank) I would get my faction rep up to green with bounties and then run a non-combat mission for them. Then the rank mission would pop up by the time I was back. I took empire from nothing to whatever was required for the small empire faction ship (not the eagle) in a single night like that. Started on Federation but lost interest in favor of trying to chase down pvp with other goons.
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How many charity missions does it roughly take to get access to Sol? I handed in my Cobra for a Space Van to start exploring, wanna begin my crazy trip there.
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=185551 Good update for anyone interested in trying CQC, it seems like matchmaking has been fixed.
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Dante80 posted:https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=185551 I've heard that before, but I hope it truly is. CQC is great loving fun.
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timn posted:Calling bullshit on the bounty vouchers. I turned in tens of millions of credits worth in bounty vouchers and never saw a single rank ascension mission until I tried my hand at grinding charity missions. I've gotten naval ascension ranks for the Empire by bounty hunting when I was making cash money.
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I've cashed in over 100 million in bounty vouchers in empire space, I'm considered an "ally" by empire systems, and yet no rank, no missions to even start on the path. poo poo seems broke.
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:I've cashed in over 100 million in bounty vouchers in empire space, I'm considered an "ally" by empire systems, and yet no rank, no missions to even start on the path. poo poo seems broke. Well it IS  we're talking about, it's entirely possible this changed several patches ago and they neglected to notice it. It's also probably broken, maybe you've turned in a lot of bounties to broken factions but since everything is obfuscated you have no way of knowing you're not really getting Empire credit. The general advice I saw before was that if the faction didn't seem to be offering you any ascension missions after a while to pick a new system and poke at that one. Also I was advised to move to a new system as soon as you got your rank, partially on the speculation that advancing a minor faction from neutral to friendly or whatever was worth more points toward ascension missions than just grinding the same amount of missions with a faction that already liked you. Doing that crap got me into a Clipper in a weekend or so, but that was before 1.3.But you see by not giving you any information about their actually quite simple game it feels way deeper and more immersive! 
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:poo poo seems broke. Of this I have no doubt.
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I was 1 click away from ordering an Saitek x52 despite all the warnings about the crappy build quality because it seemed like the most affordable HOTAS setup. Then I took one last look at the Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X and read the features list and saw that the throttle is detachable so I'm getting the Thrustmaster instead. They should really show pictures on the product pages with that throttle detached because i'm sure they've lost sales because of idiots like me who don't research enough.
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I really like the x52 pro. Bought it used on eBay for a decent price and it's held up great. Anecdote isn't the plural of data and all that, however. I have done the magnet mod and will probably tinker with the spring. Some 5-10 year olds came over and were pretty rough with it while doing the training missions and it held up reasonably well through their onslaught.
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I've been happy without my x52 pro as well so far. Only issue I've run into is that weird stuff seems to happen if I unplug it while my computer is turned on. Did the throttle indent-removal thing because gently caress having that.
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timn posted:Calling bullshit on the bounty vouchers. I turned in tens of millions of credits worth in bounty vouchers and never saw a single rank ascension mission until I tried my hand at grinding charity missions. I have to call bullshit, too. The Feds threw several rank missions at me for doing literally nothing for them. And my advance through empire-ranks was by using solely non-combat missions. Sure, it was a bit wonky sometimes -either I got nothing for days or got flooded with rank missions, but it was still rather fast overall.
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Hey, are there any exploration-related events happening at the moment? I'll be returning from a multi-month exploration trip to the core and back, and I'm going to have a poo poo ton of explore data to sell.
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Zaardvark posted:Hey, are there any exploration-related events happening at the moment? I'll be returning from a multi-month exploration trip to the core and back, and I'm going to have a poo poo ton of explore data to sell.
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Parallelwoody posted:I really like the x52 pro. Bought it used on eBay for a decent price and it's held up great. Anecdote isn't the plural of data and all that, however. I have done the magnet mod and will probably tinker with the spring. Some 5-10 year olds came over and were pretty rough with it while doing the training missions and it held up reasonably well through their onslaught. I don't have any great love for the x52, as I really hate the joystick part, but theres something to be said for it being basically the exact model of the in-game joystick. There are times while wearing a rift where I almost really want one just for ~my immersion~.
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Tom Guycot posted:I don't have any great love for the x52, as I really hate the joystick part, but theres something to be said for it being basically the exact model of the in-game joystick. There are times while wearing a rift where I almost really want one just for ~my immersion~. It'd be awesome if there were multiple versions of the ingame throttle and stick that matched the most popular current HOTAS setups. It's such a minor thing too, but
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Siets posted:Sometimes when interdicting, the targeting UI freaks out and stutters between two positions super fast and I end up failing the interdiction shortly thereafter. Is this a bug? Anyone else run into this? Happens to me sometimes, yeah.
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There are two main reasons that were observed to cause that: the abovementioned lag/desynch is one and the other is initiating the interdiction near an asteroid belt or other such objects that will mess with the tether. Of course it's probable that there are other reasons for that to glitch out as well that we don't know about yet. 
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I'm back from my round-trip to the core. It took about two months, and I did a lot of detailed surface scanning en route. In total, I submitted about 1900 system scans, paying particular attention to the usual rare planets (terrestrial, Earth-like, Type IV gas giants, etc.). They were collectively worth 44 million credits. Stupidly, it took over an hour to sell all 95 pages of exploration data, page by page (man, that interface could use some work). I considered waiting for an exploration CG to sell it all, but it's Friday, and I don't want to wait until next Thursday on the slim chance of an exploration CG. Unsurprisingly, my paintwork (default Explorer yellow) and ship integrity were both 0% upon my return. There was absolutely no visual effect I could see. Here's a small album of screencaps: http://imgur.com/a/4J1OL And a few highlights:      
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MULTICREW MULTICREW MULTICREW E:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Em7TLwFifE E:BOBBLEHEADS PILOT FACES FIGHTER LAUNCHING COMBAT AUTOPILOT AAAAAAAAAA (I'll try and put a summary together once the vod is up.) AndroidHub fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Really!? That's a bit out of left field, didn't expect them to even discuss that until much later on.
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Bobbleheads are back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwNOuEVMobs
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Bloody Wanker posted:Bobbleheads are back! Oww. My sides. Ok god, fine I'll pre-order. Jeez.
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AndroidHub posted:MULTICREW Holy poo poo. Gg frontier Here's the whole thing in text https://community.elitedangerous.com/node/300 frank.club fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Faces! yay!   stolen from reddit: (avatar editor) 
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radintorov posted:There are two main reasons that were observed to cause that: the abovementioned lag/desynch is one and the other is initiating the interdiction near an asteroid belt or other such objects that will mess with the tether. There is another reason that I've observed. Sometimes the interdictor is going so fast, they fly past the ship being dicted. This causes a similar spazz out in the favour of the interdictee. Also, is everyone bald in the future? that's literally a pic of CMDR Bald People In A Box(ed shaped pic) DarthBlingBling fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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That video also mentions a crafting system, and the Devs talk about using rare components to craft differently coloured lasers and weapons with stat variances, and also some crafting components being 'rare'. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Tentatively good? All of the above stuff (faces, multicrew, crafting) is still scheduled for 'Holiday 2015', apparently.
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Bloody Wanker posted:Faces! yay! For some reason i absolutely cannot put my finger on, no matter the ethnicity here, they all look absolutely british.
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Zaardvark posted:That video also mentions a crafting system, and the Devs talk about using rare components to craft differently coloured lasers and weapons with stat variances, and also some crafting components being 'rare'. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Tentatively good? All of the above stuff (faces, multicrew, crafting) is still scheduled for 'Holiday 2015', apparently. Nice, especially crafting and multicrew - even though I have doubts, the one thing that stops this game actually being fun with other people is that you have to actually spend half an hour flying to where said people are. If to join a multicrew session you have to jump across the galaxy, it's not fun. Just as it's not fun to have to fly 200 LY to change ships. I understand *my immersion* and all that, but if I have one hour to play I'm not spending more than half of it jumping ...
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I guess I shouldn't really complain, since paint jobs should've prepared me for this, but bobbleheads at 5 quid a pop is... kinda sad for a feature they cut out of beta.
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My guess (or at least hope) is that the 5 quids will only be for special bobbleheads, like the limited edition Braben. Otherwise it'd be kinda sad, like you said.
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That update has basically given me hope for the future of this game - it sucks to see features from the original DDA like player carriers for starfighters stuck behind what is presumably going to be a paywall (unless it's coming with Ships), but everything else seems good - a character creator and multicrew seem like the first steps towards 'spacelegs', which is the thing I want the most in this game. As Star Citizen looks to be collapsing, I need this more than ever.
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M-M-M-M-MULTICREW
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Truga posted:It's the round head. That's a cavalier thing to say.
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RubberJohnny posted:That update has basically given me hope for the future of this game - it sucks to see features from the original DDA like player carriers for starfighters stuck behind what is presumably going to be a paywall (unless it's coming with Ships), but everything else seems good - a character creator and multicrew seem like the first steps towards 'spacelegs', which is the thing I want the most in this game. Star Citizen was never not collapsing. The entire thing was a scam. 5 years from now people will finally allow themselves to admit it.
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It's better for dumb stuff like bobbleheads and paintjobs to be pricey, and not have anything that effects gameplay for sale than some other, worse models.
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