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hakimashou posted:So i outfitted my imperial clipper as that mining build and bumbled over to the nearest metallic ring and figured out how to do prospecting limpet and other limpets and laser the rocks. I made that much smuggling slaves 4 hops over in my starter ship. 
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hakimashou posted:So i outfitted my imperial clipper as that mining build and bumbled over to the nearest metallic ring and figured out how to do prospecting limpet and other limpets and laser the rocks. Where were you mining? Pristine rings give the best yield (check the planet on the system map. Frey and Njikan are two popular systems), and among those you want to seek PPPGO (Painite, Platinum, Palladium, Gold, Osmium, in order of descending value) and ignore/discard the other stuff you find. Prioritizing those and mining in pristine reserves, you should be able to stuff about $2,000,000 of rocks into a Clipper, with potentially much higher profits if you turn in at a base that spits out lots of mining missions (mostly for painite and platinum, it seems).
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Oct 12, 2015 04:39
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It came from the reddits: 
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Oct 12, 2015 04:41
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:It came from the reddits: Wow, you basically get a new Vulture for selling 3 containers of weed. So far I haven't seen a single mission with a 7-digit pay. Do these appear as your reputation improves or is this some sort of a bug?
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Oct 12, 2015 04:46
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Must be some really good poo poo
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Oct 12, 2015 04:47
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I saw some 1 million credit combat missions (not assassination) before the patch. Could be legit
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Oct 12, 2015 04:54
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Yeah I have seen 1 mill missions but they usually require elite rank.
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Oct 12, 2015 05:03
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That's true
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Oct 12, 2015 05:06
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Shine posted:Where were you mining? Pristine rings give the best yield (check the planet on the system map. Frey and Njikan are two popular systems), and among those you want to seek PPPGO (Painite, Platinum, Palladium, Gold, Osmium, in order of descending value) and ignore/discard the other stuff you find. Prioritizing those and mining in pristine reserves, you should be able to stuff about $2,000,000 of rocks into a Clipper, with potentially much higher profits if you turn in at a base that spits out lots of mining missions (mostly for painite and platinum, it seems). the first random 'metal ring' planet i found. I just hoovered up everything i found, it was the first time i ever did mining. I'll find a pristine one and be more discriminating. fake edit: Also drat a 5m credit smuggling missions would be nice
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Oct 12, 2015 05:46
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hakimashou posted:the first random 'metal ring' planet i found. Besides finding a ring with pristine reserves, go for "Metallic," not "Metal Rich" Metallic
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Oct 12, 2015 06:01
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Just wondering if the update borked the interdiction for everywhere. I mean middle of nowhere and Pow you are interdicted by an NPC and you can't escape. One other question, if someone interdicts you, do you still have to warrant check them before opening fire or does the interdiction also class as a criminal act to you meaning you can defend without checking?
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Oct 12, 2015 06:31
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TheresaJayne posted:Just wondering if the update borked the interdiction for everywhere. I mean middle of nowhere and Pow you are interdicted by an NPC and you can't escape. Just interdicting someone is a fine, so you still need to scan them unless they start shooting.
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Oct 12, 2015 06:54
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I think one thing that they need to improve on is mid-level ships. Sidewinder -> Eagle\Adder -> Viper\Cobra works well, but then after the Cobra, you've got a loooonnngg time before you end up buying a new ship. It isn't until you start making millions fairly quickly before you can start looking at the upper level ships like Pythons and Vultures. I reckon they need to fill out their roster a bit more so there's some good stuff to progress to after the Cobra.
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Oct 12, 2015 07:14
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H13 posted:I think one thing that they need to improve on is mid-level ships. I went Cobra -> Type-6 -> Asp in the space of a couple of days which isn't too bad by just running this loop. After the Asp though it completely drops off - without rank grinding you've got a 50 million credit gap and I feel like they really need to fill in some more accessible multi purpose ships in there.
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Oct 12, 2015 07:33
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The Federal Assault ship is a very good low-number-of-targets ship, it's maneuverability is insane and the speed at which it can change direction with just maneuvering thrusters is quite incredible. You can engage a target and blast the poo poo out of it before it even has time to react. If it does react just twirl around it as it fruitlessly tries to get a bead on you. Incidentally it also makes a very good civilian killer 
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Oct 12, 2015 07:33
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Shine posted:discard the other stuff you find
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H13 posted:I think one thing that they need to improve on is mid-level ships.
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Oct 12, 2015 11:06
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KakerMix posted:The Federal Assault ship is a very good low-number-of-targets ship, it's maneuverability is insane and the speed at which it can change direction with just maneuvering thrusters is quite incredible. You can engage a target and blast the poo poo out of it before it even has time to react. If it does react just twirl around it as it fruitlessly tries to get a bead on you. Wow, I may try this ship for combat then when I come back from the Outer Arm. I thought about refitting my Asp before, but I didn't know the FA is actually more maneuverable. My lovable little blimp can stay the explorer and get stored, it seems.
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Oct 12, 2015 11:10
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KakerMix posted:The Federal Assault ship is a very good low-number-of-targets ship, it's maneuverability is insane and the speed at which it can change direction with just maneuvering thrusters is quite incredible. You can engage a target and blast the poo poo out of it before it even has time to react. If it does react just twirl around it as it fruitlessly tries to get a bead on you. Do you know what fed rank you need to be to get it?
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Oct 12, 2015 11:14
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ralfi is at it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A__nbX9TxEE
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Oct 12, 2015 11:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfMqbxEWFH4
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Oct 12, 2015 13:01
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He lives in apartment 15b, habitat ring level 5. This is clearly pilot error, he told the computer to take him home. 
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Oct 12, 2015 13:12
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It's been a while since I've booted up Elite, but before I started this video I thought "why would anyone trust the Elite AI to land their ship when you always see NPCs loving it up?" Then the video confirmed my suspicions
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Oct 12, 2015 15:11
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I have never seen one of those stations dang Now that I'm just running cargo maybe I'll come across one
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Oct 12, 2015 15:20
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Dante80 posted:ralfi is at it again. That's a loving great video.
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Oct 12, 2015 15:42
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double riveting posted:That's a loving great video. That guy is a natural. Watch his DCS videos btw, they are stellar. Some more ED from him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqbFfxRArhE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzCFXIBrFP8
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Oct 12, 2015 15:50
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Pilchenstein posted:Be aware though - your collector drones will not only pick jettisoned cans back up, they'll prioritise them over chunks of rock. Yeah. What I usually do is dump unwanted stuff whenever my collectors expire (every 12 minutes or so). Someone also posted a tip that your collectors will instantly expire if you disable your collector module(s), so you can do that, dump stuff, fly several KM away, then deploy new ones and resume mining. I swapped my Asp for an Imperial Clipper. Mining just got way sexier. 
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Oct 12, 2015 17:47
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Can I raise empire rep just through trading or am I going to need to regularly do missions? Trading seems to be the easiest way to gain rep but will it generate rank progression missions?
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Oct 12, 2015 18:47
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There was an explanation of this fairly recently, to generate rank progression missions you need to do missions for affiliated minor factions, which raises a hidden stat (that never lowers) called 'faction skill' or something. Once faction skill is high enough, you get a mission.
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Oct 12, 2015 19:32
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Shine posted:I swapped my Asp for an Imperial Clipper. Mining just got way sexier. 
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Oct 12, 2015 19:37
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I got my rep up with the "cheesing donations" bit that's all over the ED forums. I'd accept any ~$500K smuggling missions that came up, and when I got bored enough of donation spamming I'd head out and do them all at once to make a few easy millions.
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Oct 12, 2015 19:53
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The Diamond Frogs combat zone NPCs are basically goons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzoXUGKz0M
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Shine posted:The Diamond Frogs combat zone NPCs are basically goons. This rules Shine posted:I got my rep up with the "cheesing donations" bit that's all over the ED forums. I'd accept any ~$500K smuggling missions that came up, and when I got bored enough of donation spamming I'd head out and do them all at once to make a few easy millions. So just find a place that is Empire-affiliated (so owned by Avril), do all the donations and grab the biggest smuggling missions, swap modes, repeat until bored/full? Which missions am I looking for?
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Oct 12, 2015 21:01
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Anyone read any of the Elite novels? I'm thinking about reading one....
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Adult Sword Owner posted:So just find a place that is Empire-affiliated (so owned by Avril), do all the donations and grab the biggest smuggling missions, swap modes, repeat until bored/full? Which missions am I looking for? I went to Tamar because it has several minor Empire factions that regularly offer donation missions (sometimes I'd get 4-5 at once, but sometimes you go several rerolls without any; yay probability). Basically sit there all goddamn day rerolling the board and doing all the cash donation missions that come up (and donations for commodities they sell, like food cartridges). If you're doing this just for the Clipper, then keep in mind the time you'll spend doing this trick could be spent collecting enough RES bounties to very easily afford a Python. I just went the Clipper route because it looks cool.
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I absolutely love that the Diamond Frogs system seems to be in a constant state of conflict. JUST ANOTHER DAY IN A WAR WITHOUT END
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Oct 12, 2015 21:20
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Anyone else have a hell of a time doing combat zone bounties? I pop in, pick DF and deploy weapons and then generally some shithead starts lighting me up, usually a loving railgun packing Asp. I lose my shields before I can even take him down, assuming some of his friends don't jump on me and get in a little bit on the 'kick the vulture in the teeth' action.
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Innerguard posted:Anyone else have a hell of a time doing combat zone bounties? I pop in, pick DF and deploy weapons and then generally some shithead starts lighting me up, usually a loving railgun packing Asp. I lose my shields before I can even take him down, assuming some of his friends don't jump on me and get in a little bit on the 'kick the vulture in the teeth' action. I'll beeline to greens before I start looking for targets. That way I'll have some help. It's really annoying though when you start getting pelted by railguns from a bunch of angles. Anyway, the PGS thread is focusing hard on the conflict zone right now, so there should be plenty of people to wing up with you if you post in there.
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chaosapiant posted:Anyone read any of the Elite novels? I'm thinking about reading one.... You can read The Dark Wheel for free, over at Ian Bell's website! It was the first Elite novel(la) ever, and was included with the original '84 release. 
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Alehkhs posted:You can read The Dark Wheel for free, over at Ian Bell's website! Is it good? Also are you the same "Alehks" as "CMDR Alehks?" You're in my friends list yay!
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