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Now this has hit release on Xbone - is the background sim seperate or linked to pc? Will i find diamond frogs?
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 03:18 |
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SquirrelGrip posted:Now this has hit release on Xbone - is the background sim seperate or linked to pc? The background sim is linked to pc, but pc and xbone players apparently inhabit different instances. So, basically, same city, different (and non-connected) boroughs.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 03:20 |
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That said, its pretty neat at least that xbone players can help out with our activities and goals, regardless.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 03:30 |
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Literally Kermit posted:If possible, put on a prospector module. It can be a size 1, they tell you what a rock has and may also boost yield No "may" about it - this is what they do now, by a factor of 3-4x. Get a prospector module before getting a second collector module. Literally Kermit posted:Shop around and look for gold, platinum, palladium, osmium, and jesus christ yes, painite. Plenty of other metals and minerals here to grab but try to make sure you prioritize any of those five. For the curious, by order of value: Alehkhs posted:You are looking for PPPGO - Painite, Platinum, Palladium, Gold, and Osmium (You uh... want a mnemonic? I just go by "PPPGO," but how about... Get somewhat close. Fire mining lasers into rock. Make sure cargo scoop is open. Now the fun part - watch your refinery and cargo hold slowly fill up! When depleted, move on and go back two steps and repeat. Literally Kermit posted:Hold full? Take dat pure profit to a high tech or a refinery. I suggest Xihe which is a high tech refinery. Mining a system that's got the RefTech station right there will cut down on jumps (read: there won't be any needed). There's one a little less than twice the distance from GoatSec, if anyone really wants to sink some time into mining: Njikan
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 03:33 |
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CQC is surprisingly fun. I really like the Condor and can't wait to cart one around the galaxy in a bigger ship.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 03:38 |
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Took gimbaled lasers out for a 300k killspree and it was MUCH better, esp with the most expensive thrusters I could afford and starting to mess around with full reverse. Thanks for the help guys~
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 05:06 |
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Gonkish posted:The background sim is linked to pc, but pc and xbone players apparently inhabit different instances. So, basically, same city, different (and non-connected) boroughs. cheers, as i thought/hoped Tom Guycot posted:That said, its pretty neat at least that xbone players can help out with our activities and goals, regardless. yeah this im down for
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 05:11 |
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they fixed RES spawns
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 05:15 |
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I just helped 4 police anacondas fight: - one npc anaconda - winged with two npc fer-de-lances - and a pair of clippers all at once.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 05:21 |
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TRON JEREMY posted:I just helped 4 police anacondas fight: Holy crap they did it. They made a game.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 05:37 |
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Welp, PowerPlay is now completely broken as a money-maker and is 5x the painful chore that it used to be. I used to be able to manage around 800 merits per hour, but was only able to pull off 200 merits per hour tonight after several hours of consistent applied effort. Let's see:
At this point, if I fail to get my remaining merits tomorrow, I am planning on cutting my losses and never touching PowerPlay again. What a god awful, grindy, boring experience. I take back all of my previous praise that I posted about it. edit: Oh and figured I'd mention that someone from IRC said that the A Lavigny bonus to bounties has been tamed down as expected too, so there's that. Siets fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Oct 7, 2015 |
# ? Oct 7, 2015 06:04 |
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Anyone else's mouse basically not be a thing after the patch? It has the big grey icon of a 3d device but as much as I move it, it won't stray from the center of the screen.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 06:30 |
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Siets posted:Welp, PowerPlay is now completely broken as a money-maker and is 5x the painful chore that it used to be. I used to be able to manage around 800 merits per hour, but was only able to pull off 200 merits per hour tonight after several hours of consistent applied effort. Nuts to it, son, mining is where it is at
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 06:33 |
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Literally Kermit posted:Get a collector control module. Make sure it is size three. 3A is best, drones from it last 12 minutes and you can have two at once. You can have another module and another two drones at once, but launch them from a different fire group (you can't launch two at the same time) You can absolutely fire multiple drone controllers at once.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 06:50 |
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Siets posted:
They put some actual penetration mechanics in now instead of the previous "your lasers go right through the ship I guess, whatever" and one of the repercussions is apparently larger lasers do more damage to hulls of smaller ships. Could be that?
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 06:53 |
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Collector drones will also snatch up mining shards from NPC's
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 06:58 |
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Anyone have a list of hazardous RES sites?
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 07:42 |
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chaosapiant posted:What's the consensus on reverse throttle controls on a HOTAS? I'm currently using my X52 as a full range forward throttle, with a reverse toggle button for reverse thrusters. Looking at Youtube vids of folks mastering FA mode makes me think that having throttle forward/half reverse might be better, as well as free up the toggle button for something else. I hope these words make sense to space nerds. This little slider on throttle stick is perfect for forward/bakwards switching IMO.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 07:50 |
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Siets posted:...at this point, if I fail to get my remaining merits tomorrow, I am planning on cutting my losses and never touching PowerPlay again... Good, it was garbage before, it's bigger garbage now.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 08:04 |
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Siets posted:Welp, PowerPlay is now completely broken as a money-maker and is 5x the painful chore that it used to be. I used to be able to manage around 800 merits per hour, but was only able to pull off 200 merits per hour tonight after several hours of consistent applied effort. Yeah, my findings are p much the same. I'll add a few:
I was close to my merit goal, so I grit my teeth (and relearned how to interdict all over again) to get there, but this pretty much kills powerplay for me. So this is my last week. To be honest, we were wondering how long the gravy train was going to last. On the other hand, it feels like they either don't want anyone at rank 5 or playing this at all. Edit: To expand, I still don't believe rank 5 is attainable by hauling mcguffins (without spending money on them, which requires money to begin with) or doing literally any other powerplay activity. There being no other economic incentive to powerplay - which I firmly believe was why there were so many merit farmers - will, I believe, ensure that only the ~roleplayers~ keep at it. Chrysophylax fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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Please tell me people on the brown sea are getting angry about all this
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 10:43 |
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Wait, mining is good now?
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 10:49 |
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DarthBlingBling posted:Please tell me people on the brown sea are getting angry about all this Idk about the forums but on reddit there are petitions going about reverting these changes. Frustration abounds about merit farming being super slow, and traders being salty about interdictions they can't escape.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 10:49 |
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Exactly as predicted; I'm so happy
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 10:52 |
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Literally Kermit posted:Mining stuff
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 11:43 |
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Chrysophylax posted:Idk about the forums but on reddit there are petitions going about reverting these changes. Frustration abounds about merit farming being super slow, and traders being salty about interdictions they can't escape. People actually asking Frontier to make the game more friendly to a mindless and empty playstyle... That's what you get when you gently caress it up the first time around, Frontier! Now you're stuck with the Stockholmers.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 12:05 |
So what's the procedure for applying the 15% discount? Strip/sell your ship, relog, buy new everything? Wanna reduce the insurance on my rare trading/explorer Asp.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 12:25 |
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QuantaStarFire posted:So what's the procedure for applying the 15% discount? Strip/sell your ship, relog, buy new everything? Wanna reduce the insurance on my rare trading/explorer Asp. Yeah you'd have to sell your ship and re-buy it at Rui space. The discount also only applies for one death-rebuy cycle.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 12:35 |
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DarthBlingBling posted:Please tell me people on the brown sea are getting angry about all this The one thread I saw about this on the E:D forums last night had been started by a guy with the same complaints I had. Then you had about 5:1 numbers of people responding to him with "you do know this is Elite:Dangerous right!?! " and "Good! Interdicting should be hard, in fact Frontier should make it harder!" and "Ohhh... Is someone sad they have to actually work for their merits now?? " So yeah. A bunch of sad lonely masochists actually praising Frontier for breaking this aspect of their game with the usual fanboy responses we know and love.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 13:53 |
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Can confirm mining is p. good now. As already mentioned. You get basically x3 to x5 more fragments than 1.3. No refinery bin management, and limpets are much smoother in practice.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 13:57 |
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What's a good ship for mining that's cheaper than the Vulture?
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 13:59 |
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Type6 (edit: Possibly Diamondback Explorer, but I'm not too sure on Max Cargo), but if it's a fancy Vulture an Asp would be sweet.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:04 |
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I was looking at the OP and reading the buyers guide flowchart and am left with a question: I bought into the premium beta for $90 back before Gamma rolled out. Is there any way to verify if I still need to buy Horizons or not? I can't remember what the original package details were but I know it also came with the "mercenary edition" of Elite.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:09 |
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Yeah, the Type 6 looks the best in that price range: http://coriolis.io/outfit/type_6_transporter/03C4D4A2D3D2D4C2l2l---04041vC043P4C5.Iw1-kA==.Aw1-kA== The DBE would have only half the cargo capacity.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:09 |
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LCL-Dead posted:I was looking at the OP and reading the buyers guide flowchart and am left with a question:
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:12 |
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Siets posted:The one thread I saw about this on the E:D forums last night had been started by a guy with the same complaints I had. Then you had about 5:1 numbers of people responding to him with "you do know this is Elite:Dangerous right!?! " and "Good! Interdicting should be hard, in fact Frontier should make it harder!" and "Ohhh... Is someone sad they have to actually work for their merits now?? "
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:14 |
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radintorov posted:It's in the flowchart: Premium Beta owners have already access to Horizons and the Lifetime expansion pass. Yeah, that part is in the flowchart. I pulled up my receipt from when I bought the game and it just says "Elite Dangerous - Beta" purchased for $90 USD with the euro amount below it. I know I purchased prior to release/gamma, I think it was Beta 3 or so when I jumped in, when the pill was still active. I'm just curious if I bought in to the premium beta or if I somehow didn't and still need to drop the cash on Horizons. The question was: How do I verify this is the right beta package? Should I just email support or is there another way? I can't get to the store account page from work due to filter policy.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:20 |
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Powerplay is poo poo, and anyone playing it deserves everything they get for encouraging them to iterate on that shitshow instead of ripping it out from the root and starting again. I'm glad you're having a bad time. Glad, you hear!
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:20 |
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tooterfish posted:Powerplay is poo poo, and anyone playing it deserves everything they get for encouraging them to iterate on that shitshow instead of ripping it out from the root and starting again. I mean... I was already having a bad time before. With this patch, it's more like I got laid off by the man on a Tuesday rather than a Friday just so they can screw me that little bit more on my last paycheck. At this point I'm ready to retire to the peaceful, pastoral life of being a space rock miner in non-colonized space.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:35 |
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LCL-Dead posted:The question was: How do I verify this is the right beta package? Should I just email support or is there another way? Did you have access to the closed CQC beta? If so, you should be more than covered. *at least I can't find it on mine, and I know I have the Lifetime expansion as part of my Kickstarter/Alpha reward
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