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chaosapiant posted:So I played around last night with this method of control and...I dunno. I don't like it. It might take getting used to because I keep throwing myself into reverse, or lurching forward from the pad when trying to lift off because my throttle is ever so slightly forward. I didn't edit the deadzone though, but it still feels unnatural as a whole. Try setting it for the slider, feel very intiutive for me. Slider forward is forward, slider back is reverse.
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DatonKallandor posted:2000 credits a match is fantastic money? It barely covers your gas mileage in most ships. From an RP aspect, yeah, you as a scrub pilot started out with 5000 credits. Of course, you can get paid as much for transporting blacknet trade data for 'some folk' so it is all relative.
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Literally Kermit posted:Get a refinery. The more bins, the better. It is all automatic now as long as there are empty bins Requoting this nugget from our fellow illustrious froglord since it is full of helpful info and what I plan to try tonight. (Goodbye PowerPlay forever. I never loved you anyway...  )A few questions: How do you handle the pirate NPCs that will inevitably harass you? Do you have to do this in a RES or can you just crash anywhere into a pristine ring and go to work? Does a higher difficulty RES equate to better yields?
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Siets posted:Requoting this nugget from our fellow illustrious froglord since it is full of helpful info and what I plan to try tonight. (Goodbye PowerPlay forever. I never loved you anyway... Thinking of getting the black lung myself with my Cobra, and would also like answers to these questions. Mining is kinda relaxing busy work when I find an area with a nice view.
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Siets posted:Requoting this nugget from our fellow illustrious froglord since it is full of helpful info and what I plan to try tonight. (Goodbye PowerPlay forever. I never loved you anyway... I outfitted a mining Clipper so I generally have no problems. An Asp can also pull this off nicely. Smaller miners can just run straight up and out of the ring - no need to be a hero. Conversely, hire a Frog to fly with you and watch your back. Wing up! You can crash anywhere in a ring but pay attention to the system map and check if the world has multiple wings. They are listed from inside out. Regardless where you mine, pirates and or security might show up anyway. RES zones may or may not have sweeter yields but a pristine metallic ring like Frey 4 already has impressive rocks especially when prospected first. You don't ever have to jump out of the area to "reset" an area. I usually fly towards the planet and constantly get good results. Don't feel obligated to mine anything just because you prospected it either, always priority valuable metals and minerals
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I tried the new mining today and it is super chill and a nice break from combat. I'll bet mining is going to look amazing in VR, with the asteroids everywhere and your collectors zipping around and returning to you. Sold for $1.2M on the commodity market (there were no mining missions available and I'm too lazy to reroll). Not as fast as Vulture RES murder time, but it was fun! I went cheap with it, so my refinery only had 4 spaces. It wasn't bad as long as I stayed on top of venting junk resources, but I'll definitely grab one with ~7 bins at some point. Thanks to all who've posted mining guides! Siets posted:A few questions: My sample size is a whopping "one," but I crashed into a random section of ring and I was the only ship around. I doubt NPC pirates fly into random areas like that. Dunno about the RES yields, but I had no problem finding rocks with PPPGO in my random ring area. About every other one I prospected had at least one PPPGO and several had 2-3. If there if a difference, then I doubt it's worth to have pirates swarming around and disrupting your chill-mode space mining. Zaardvark posted:Just for general FYI, this is my current dedicated mining Asp. As someone who's never done any scanning of anything, would you mind explaining what the benefit of surveying is? I didn't bother with the scanners, so instead of a 5D I got two smaller limpet controllers, which still gave me 3 at once and let me slap another 32T onto that 5 slot, but I can work scanners into them if there's some nice benefit I'm missing.
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Shine posted:I tried the new mining today and it is super chill and a nice break from combat. I'll bet mining is going to look amazing in VR, with the asteroids everywhere and your collectors zipping around and returning to you. I have other people telling me it boosts the yield of the prospected rock multiple times. I believe it, i usually stop half way and let my collectors catch up. They are a steady drain on your limpets which is why i recommend hauling a little more than half your cargo space as blank limpets.
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Shine posted:As someone who's never done any scanning of anything, would you mind explaining what the benefit of surveying is? I didn't bother with the scanners, so instead of a 5D I got two smaller limpet controllers, which still gave me 3 at once and let me slap another 32T onto that 5 slot, but I can work scanners into them if there's some nice benefit I'm missing. I happen to have the scanners because I'm a semi-serious Explorer (Pioneer). The various scanners are used only for gathering information on un-surveyed systems. You won't discover the most distant planets from a sun without an Advanced Scanner, and you won't get information about the composition of a Gas Giant's rings without a Detailed Surface Scanner. If you intend to mine in established systems, you don't need either of them. I like having them so I can scan and discover new systems, while I'm en route to wherever. If you use that space for more capacity between return trips, your mining excursions will be more efficient.
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Literally Kermit posted:I have other people telling me it boosts the yield of the prospected rock multiple times. I believe it, i usually stop half way and let my collectors catch up. To clarify, are you talking about discovery and surface scanners? That's what I was asking about, since Zaardvark has those on his mining Asp. If you are talking about prospectors then yeah, I have those already  .
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Zaardvark posted:I happen to have the scanners because I'm a semi-serious Explorer (Pioneer). The various scanners are used only for gathering information on un-surveyed systems. You won't discover the most distant planets from a sun without an Advanced Scanner, and you won't get information about the composition of a Gas Giant's rings without a Detailed Surface Scanner. If you intend to mine in established systems, you don't need either of them. I like having them so I can scan and discover new systems, while I'm en route to wherever. If you use that space for more capacity between return trips, your mining excursions will be more efficient. Okay, that's what I figured but I wanted to make sure. Thanks!
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Wow, this pubbie's mining video has him manually scooping individual pieces of ore and talking about how maximizing his profits involves not ejecting lovely ore from the hoppers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCBB1HyA6RA
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What on earth is a "pubbie" in elite.
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Adult Sword Owner posted:Lol I can't use the mouse at all in E:D now Go into Menu and switch the control scheme then flip it back, that worked for me. They released any information about new ships or Modules in 1.5 yet? Or any information about making the fitting screen less painful? Or less Generic than "Grade X" modules?
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Gestalt Intellect posted:What on earth is a "pubbie" in elite. The same thing a pubbie is everywhere else.
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Shine posted:To clarify, are you talking about discovery and surface scanners? That's what I was asking about, since Zaardvark has those on his mining Asp. If you are talking about prospectors then yeah, I have those already Nope i was talking prospectors Having scanners lets you discover new planetary rings, but everything outside of civ space tends to be "pristine" anyway
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Gestalt Intellect posted:What on earth is a "pubbie" in elite. It's everyone, including everyone posting it
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Gestalt Intellect posted:What on earth is a "pubbie" in elite. Bad at the game and wasting their time manually scooping crap ore, apparently.
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Looks like I might get bit by the mining bug too
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Adult Sword Owner posted:Looks like I might get bit by the mining bug too Yeah, give it a go. It's like space fishing.
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Does anyone have any tips for working up ranks on the Federal side of things? I'd like to work towards putting myself into a Federal Corvette when they get put in the game, but most of the "Guides" I've seen around are dated or heavy mic breathing you tube videos about people guessing at mechanics. I sided with Hudson for the cash from bounties for now so as not to put my Fed rank in the toilet until I get the ship, then its defection time so I can actually play with human beings. Semi-related: I've been trying to get in a wing with a friend of mine and we simply cannot meet up in space. Everytime either of us drops on the other's wing beacon it just dumps us into empty space. We've tried logging out, refreshing the instances, etc. What's the deal with this janky poo poo? We're on literally opposite sides of the earth, is that going to be a problem?
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Derakarsis posted:Does anyone have any tips for working up ranks on the Federal side of things? I'd like to work towards putting myself into a Federal Corvette when they get put in the game, but most of the "Guides" I've seen around are dated or heavy mic breathing you tube videos about people guessing at mechanics. I've been raising my fed rank by mining and then reloading the BB for mining missions. Went from recruit to petty officer tonight. Some systems only have donation missions on their BBs - if you can find one of those then you can just pay to increase your rank. Multiplayer is peer-to-peer, so there's probably a latency cutoff which prevents you from meeting up.
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Shine posted:Yeah, give it a go. It's like space fishing. I wondered why I was suddenly overcome with the urge to drink heavily. Gonna be a bit before I can fill the cargo hold of my hastily piecemealed Mineaconda since the server's throwing a fit at me tonight. Maybe tomorrow night or hopefully sometime before Frontier nerfs the profits for mining right back into "definitely not worth it" tier.
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a big fat bunny posted:before Frontier nerfs the profits for mining right back into "definitely not worth it" tier. Someone that travels the brown sea, tell us: Are people bitching for a nerf to mining?
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BTW guys, mining at a HazRES is amazing. The yields are spectacular, you can fill your ship in almost no time. We just had a session with a few of us providing cover while others mined. Great fun
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I just had an NPC ram me as I was trying to enter a station. Do they do that to you now? 'Cuz that's kinda funny.
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Chrysophylax posted:BTW guys, mining at a HazRES is amazing. The yields are spectacular, you can fill your ship in almost no time. We just had a session with a few of us providing cover while others mined. Great fun Playing mining escort is fun, and you even get a cut of the take in the form of trade dividends! HazRes guarding can get fairly intense, too, so bring a hefty ship that can slug it out.
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I'm down for team mining or playing bodyguard. Commander name is Shine, friend me for shooting time.
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Team mining is extremely my kind of jam. We can become very very space rich and even use the rare ores to power game influence missions!
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Im also down for tag team mining, tho only got my crappy starting ship at the moment, CMDR Scarecow is my name
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Did they change mining in the latest patch? I tried after they added limpets and after a couple hours and about 80 limpets I had 1 gold. Yeah, it was a pristine metal-rich location.
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Literally Kermit posted:Team mining is extremely my kind of jam. We can become very very space rich and even use the rare ores to power game influence missions! I just bought and outfitted an exploraconda a few days ago, but once i get back I'l turn it into a mineaconda and provide income and security to frog mine operations. Sounds fun as hell 
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This mining poo poo is fun and different and I like watching my little limpets scurry about. Traded my Cobra in for a Type 6. Now I can chill out to Pink Floyd/Daft Punk while scooting from rock to rock in the shadow of a star or planet.
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Haven't played ED in several months and just thought about coming back to it only to see all these posts about mining lately and now I'm having PTSD style flashbacks to the early days of Eve Online. I don't care how good mining is, just talking about mining in a space game being in any way a positive is downright wrong.
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nessin posted:Haven't played ED in several months and just thought about coming back to it only to see all these posts about mining lately and now I'm having PTSD style flashbacks to the early days of Eve Online. I don't care how good mining is, just talking about mining in a space game being in any way a positive is downright wrong. People are saying it's fun though, unlike before, especially if you like combat mining (RES spawns were fixed). More fun and another viable source of income sounds like a good thing, not a bad thing. How could anyone dislike the idea of space mining for fun? That's like disliking trains and 20th century European canal systems 
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Literally Kermit posted:Team mining is extremely my kind of jam. We can become very very space rich and even use the rare ores to power game influence missions! I've been waiting for this day. I'll no longer be alone in the rings. 
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