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Kurr de la Cruz posted: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. How close do you have to be to get trade dividends? Do you have to be in the same station instance as the person with the ore is selling or is just being in a squad with them good enough?
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DatonKallandor posted:How close do you have to be to get trade dividends? Do you have to be in the same station instance as the person with the ore is selling or is just being in a squad with them good enough? Same station instance, I believe. It's generally expected you're flying as an escort for the dude doing the trading. Also screw you guys, now I'm tempted to fit a pair of C2 mining lasers on the Lady and seeing how much painite I can squeeze out of rocks.. I am the minerpython scrub
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no_recall posted:Gonna try mining tonight. Looks fun Mining is actually worth doing.
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Oct 8, 2015 11:55
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radintorov posted:It's relaxing and it pays well, now. The whole 'one player does relaxing mining, a couple of others grouped with him fend off pirates, everyone gets paid' thing is basically the holy grail of the online space sim experience.
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Oct 8, 2015 12:19
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Alchenar posted:The whole 'one player does relaxing mining, a couple of others grouped with him fend off pirates, everyone gets paid' thing is basically the holy grail of the online space sim experience. It's kinda weird too. Like, what does the miner do when his buddies aren't around to prevent him from being shot? :p
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Oct 8, 2015 12:50
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QuantaStarFire posted:It's kinda weird too. Like, what does the miner do when his buddies aren't around to prevent him from being shot? :p Based on my experience, types "guys, help. Help! Guys help!" a bunch of times.
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You don't get trade dividends from mining, dividends only come from trade profit, which is specifically what is made by selling something that you bought. You currently can't share mining profits unless you drop stuff for other to sell, it's reasonable to make the assumption that it would work but  e: it is also worth noting that while there is an increase to mining in a res or hazres it's not big enough to really care about unless you're in an endgame ship that can defend itself or you have a wing of dudes t defend you. AndroidHub fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Oct 8, 2015 |
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Oct 8, 2015 13:09
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Gold farmers aside.. .. really should put in the ability to pay other players from your credit balance for services rendered.
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Oct 8, 2015 13:14
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LCL-Dead posted:Gold farmers aside.. ..
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Paramemetic posted:Based on my experience, types "guys, help. Help! Guys help!" a bunch of times. I've noticed that the blue wing blip on the radar flashes when someone comes under attack.
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Oct 8, 2015 13:34
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Pilchenstein posted:Would gold farmers even be much of a nuisance between the instancing and the general lack of effort put into the social aspects of the game? Honestly, aside from the fact that every scrub tier pilot in the game would suddenly be running around in conda's or python's, which doesn't really affect anything except for the flow of tears when they lose a ship they didn't properly budget for, I can't see how gold farmers would be a nuisance to anything. Pros: People would make money off of Elite. Players would finally be able to help/pay other players without having to perform the cargo crate jettison mating ritual. Cons: Maybe some loss of participation in public events. 's plans for a player market (if any exist) would have to account for gold sellers. It's not like there's an auction house that would suffer from massive inflation and ships being bought are good for the economy (theoretically) and equally good for us since you'd have guys who've never flown anything bigger than a Cobra or Viper suddenly hopping into an Anaconda or Python and wondering why they can't turn fight, eventually screaming and crying at their monitor as their precious autism chariot explodes. I'd buy credits..
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So is anyone playing this on XBox One, is it worth a shot if you like tedious space games? I'm really tempted in by the exploration stuff if that's something you can legitimately do.
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Aramoro posted:So is anyone playing this on XBox One, is it worth a shot if you like tedious space games? I'm really tempted in by the exploration stuff if that's something you can legitimately do. Is it ever!  But no seriously, it is a Good Game and if you already have a tolerance for tedium in the genre you are going to fall in love my friend. A lot of people consider the exploration to be the best part of the game as well. Just look at some of the screenshots or spaceblogs that people have posted of their trips to the galactic core and beyond. The views and things you will see along the way are amazing, and the scale of your journey feels truly massive.
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Aramoro posted:So is anyone playing this on XBox One, is it worth a shot if you like tedious space games? I'm really tempted in by the exploration stuff if that's something you can legitimately do. You can legitimately do exploration after a spell (you need to save up enough cash to buy a good ship and the proper modules for it first, either the Diamondback Explorer or Asp are best) and it will get better but it, like all things Elite, takes time and money (in-game).
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Siets posted:Is it ever! I played EvE for 10 years this feels like it could be in a similar vein. Do any goons play on XBox though?
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Aramoro posted:I played EvE for 10 years this feels like it could be in a similar vein. Imagine the MMO feeling of EVE, with less of the "players make everything" but a much bigger universe with many more star systems to compensate. Oh and also combat in Elite: Dangerous is actually fun unlike EVE's "automatically orbit a thing until it dies" paradigm. 
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Aramoro posted:I played EvE for 10 years this feels like it could be in a similar vein. me plus a few others I saw scattered early on the thread add no wizards k
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Aramoro posted:So is anyone playing this on XBox One, is it worth a shot if you like tedious space games? I'm really tempted in by the exploration stuff if that's something you can legitimately do. Aside from the "what can I do in this game?" is the issue of "how does the game feel?" This is the best space game imo in regards to making you feel like you're piloting a ship in space. Everything from controls to sound design are incredible. Probably my favorite scifi-sim type game since MechWarrior 2. It's the best poo poo ever! The ever so slight MMO feel makes it so that we can affect each other's games, play together a bit (which I have yet to do) but no real griefing so to speak or other annoying MMO poo poo.
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AndroidHub posted:You don't get trade dividends from mining, dividends only come from trade profit, which is specifically what is made by selling something that you bought. You currently can't share mining profits unless you drop stuff for other to sell, it's reasonable to make the assumption that it would work but This is not true, I was receiving dividends from Dils all last night whenever he was selling the things he mined. It's a stupid small amount compared to the profit from shootmans as an escort, but it's there.
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Paramemetic posted:This is not true, I was receiving dividends from Dils all last night whenever he was selling the things he mined. This is true, I made a couple hundred k from "Trade Dividends" whatever those are. Most of the money made last night came from good old fashioned honest space american space murder, though. I think I pulled in about 10 million or so? The Frantic nature of things prevented me from hitting the pirates with a KWS, but all things considered it was fun and good.
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I got a sneaking suspicion that I'll have my x52 near my pc abit more now. New stuff to do in Elite and Sublevel Zero is out today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FjhqyOgJn4
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radintorov posted:It's relaxing and it pays well, now. For me it was very frustrating me: Oh, painite, great! Frontier: Haha no. <Transaction server error> me: <relogs tries to mine> Frontier: You forgot to open cargo scoop me:<opens scoop> Frontier: Haha got you agan! <Transaction server error> 5 or 6 times in one session Sekenr fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Oct 8, 2015 |
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Siets posted:A lot of people consider the exploration to be the best part of the game as well. Just look at some of the screenshots or spaceblogs that people have posted of their trips to the galactic core and beyond. The views and things you will see along the way are amazing, and the scale of your journey feels truly massive.  IC 1805 Sector DQ-Y E3
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Sekenr posted:For me it was very frustrating It kept crapping out on me last night, too, including when I found a 50% platinum rock 
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When you guys are mining, do you throw a prospector at every rock, or do you blast it a bit to see what comes out then decide to prospect it if it's interesting?
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Chalks posted:When you guys are mining, do you throw a prospector at every rock, or do you blast it a bit to see what comes out then decide to prospect it if it's interesting? I prospect every rock. I bring "too many" limpets and just dump a bunch between rocks if I hit some early jackpots. They should change it so that your collectors ignore stuff you "abandon." Makes it a bit awkward to dump junk materials or excess limpets because your collectors will just snag them right up. You can work around that by dropping stuff after your collectors expire and moving several KM away before deploying new ones. If your collectors are still out, then you can close your hatch, drop stuff and then move away. Your collectors will still grab one item each, but the closed hatch will prevent them from grabbing any more. If anybody knows a better way to dump unwanted stuff while using collectors, please share!
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Shine posted:It kept crapping out on me last night, too, including when I found a 50% platinum rock Everything seemed fine yesterday. Then today I log in again and find out the server seriously hosed itself. First, it erased all scans I made inside the solar system I was in last yesterday. Second, one of the gas giants was just a giant unscannable void now. I'm seriously hoping it's really only the last that is bugged and not all 27 systems I explored yesterday.
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Shine posted:I prospect every rock. I bring "too many" limpets and just dump a bunch between rocks if I hit some early jackpots. I'll give this a go, thanks. On the "dumping unwanted stuff" front, I found this really irritating until I hit my "dump all cargo" button instead of the open cargo scoop button and my little limpet buddies saved my rear end (over an excruciating length of time, admittedly).
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A tip for when you want to empty your cargo for junk metals but don't want to wait for your limpets to expire: Disable your collector controller(s) in the power management tab - that'll instantly destroy the drones.Chalks posted:I'll give this a go, thanks. On the "dumping unwanted stuff" front, I found this really irritating until I hit my "dump all cargo" button instead of the open cargo scoop button and my little limpet buddies saved my rear end (over an excruciating length of time, admittedly). Unbind that key right now mister! It'll only ever cause you grief.
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Shine posted:I prospect every rock. I bring "too many" limpets and just dump a bunch between rocks if I hit some early jackpots. Sorry I almost got you killed
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Dev update out. quote:Hi everyone, https://community.elitedangerous.com/node/314
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All this game did was make me wanna play Eve online again.
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Sex Robot posted:All this game did was make me wanna play Eve online again. okay
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Well, the Imperial Eagle is definitely fun to fly, but man, the guns feel so anemic after even the Imperial Courier, nevermind the Vulture. I think I've been completely spoiled. Also, does everything feel crisper to anyone else? Especially the HUD.
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Man, Hazardous RES are amazing. I pulled in 5 million in about 45 minutes thanks to an endless stream of 100k+ Clippers, Pythons, Dropships, Gunships, Assault Ships, Anacondas, etc. It was basically just a free for all. I haven't been doing PP poo poo in ages, so I don't have the bounty bonus anymore.Galaga Galaxian posted:Well, the Imperial Eagle is definitely fun to fly, but man, the guns feel so anemic after even the Imperial Courier, nevermind the Vulture. I think I've been completely spoiled. Yeah, the HUD definitely feels better. Not sure what changed but it's nice. The text is easier to read somehow.
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I went to a HazRES tonight with my tricked out battle python. I got cocky and took on a wing of one dropship and two adders, because they were adders. The little shits were also both sporting railguns so for the first time ever I had to run from NPC adders. They stripped my shields through SCB spam and had me to 75% hull before my frameshift drive kicked in.
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I took on a wing of an Elite anaconda and three of his Python buddies in that HazRES (my cannon was out of ammo so I was headed back to rearm anyway, and the FDL can easily outrun all of them), and holy poo poo don't ever do this solo. Everything was lasers and doom and then my shields went down in record loving time and I was running for my life. I loved it.
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Been thinking about giving the FDL a try, but man, that jump range...
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Been thinking about giving the FDL a try, but man, that jump range... I tried the fdl and went back to a vulture/python combo for about the same price. It has the grace and agility of the python, combined with the cargo space of the vulture. Nice looking ship, though.
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