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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 don't want to say ~this patch ruined everything~ but before I was having no problem dropping in, choosing a side, and hanging around greens and just kiting dudes into greens if things got hot Every time I've tried this patch I've been immediately focused, as in guys fighting greens broke off and gangbanged me. This was when I first learned what life support was actually for! (Somehow never broke canopy before) Shine posted: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). I mean I'd like a way to get that rep without having to invest time and attention into combat (still have to pay attention to the screen as a Cobra), but I might say screw that and just use that one weird trick (switching modes) to stock up a few million of smuggling missions and hope that cops stop trying to interdict me.
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chaosapiant posted:Anyone read any of the Elite novels? I'm thinking about reading one.... The ones I've read are pretty good if bog-standard science fiction. I'd recommend Elite:Reclamation since some of its plot threads have made it in game.
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Is it just me or has anyone else been sitting in witchspace for way too long today?
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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 do CZ in my vulture so if I ever start to get focused I eject chaff like nervous farts and boost away to get to supercruise then jump back in unless I need to rearm at the handily nearby station. Generally since I'm running I put 3 pips in sys and engines to I can chain boost while still running good damage resistance.
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chaosapiant posted:are you the same "Alehks" as "CMDR Alehks?" You're in my friends list yay! I am indeed. chaosapiant posted:Is it good? It's... readable? It's pretty rushed. I mostly dig the official Elite fiction for the world-building. Here's the description of Faraway transportation. Pre-FSD, Pre-Witchspace Drive: quote:Making a Faraway jump in a system as complex and crowded as Lave is no simple business. A hundred eyes are watching you for the slightest mistake. Make a mistake in orbit-space and the next time you go to dock at one of the world's Coriolis space stations a big NOT WELCOME sign might flash in the vacuum before you.
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3 posted:Is it just me or has anyone else been sitting in witchspace for way too long today? These smuggling missions, how much cargo do they ask you to run? Is it an excuse to bum around in a sidey again?
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Pilchenstein posted:Once or twice, yeah. A Sidewinder would miss out on a bunch of them. I had several that were a dozen tons or so.
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3 posted:Is it just me or has anyone else been sitting in witchspace for way too long today? Just got on and yeh it's taking forever Bulletin board operations are also hell of laggy and I got "cannot retrieve missions" or some sort of similar error once All I want to do is complete the ascension mission that just popped up ugggh
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Pilchenstein posted:Once or twice, yeah. It varies but I don't think I've seen over 20 or so units. It was actually an amazing excuse to get back into a Cobra since I feel like that is the perfect smuggler.
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3 posted:Is it just me or has anyone else been sitting in witchspace for way too long today? I think there's something going on with the servers, I've had long
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The money earned by star citizen jpgs is actually spent on reducing all other space games to the same level as star citizen.
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Drake_263 posted:I think there's something going on with the servers, I've had long
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:It varies but I don't think I've seen over 20 or so units. Both diamond back variants are great too
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Figured I'd ask here - I'm getting that major fps drop in supercruise that seems to be happening to Windows 10 users with R9 3xx series cards. Anyone know of a fix for it?
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Two smuggle missions to the same outpost with a combined payout of one million? Sign me the gently caress up for easy money! 
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Go make dinner or something? That isn't too bad at all if you have something else you need to do for 15 minutes.
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Insert name here posted:Two smuggle missions to the same outpost with a combined payout of one million? Sign me the gently caress up for easy money! That place got me too. I said "gently caress it" and abandoned those missions.
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Insert name here posted:Two smuggle missions to the same outpost with a combined payout of one million? Sign me the gently caress up for easy money! Would've taken them up on it, too, if it wasn't for a station 396 LY away.
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peter gabriel posted:Hey spacebros, how's it going? Better now that you are here 
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Literally Kermit posted:Better now that you are here Yeah I am a let down, not played any games at all so it's not ED or you guys  I plugged my Rift and HOTAS in but Win 10 said no, not tried to play since I updated. I think I have it figured out though!
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I'd not done much interdiction since the update, but it doth appear to be hosed now. On both sides of the equation playing the game almost perfectly against NPCs does nothing but keep me at parity with the largest A-rated FSD I can fit in my Python. It's a game of seeing how long I can hold out before slowly and inevitably losing.
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timn posted:I'd not done much interdiction since the update, but it doth appear to be hosed now. On both sides of the equation playing the game almost perfectly against NPCs does nothing but keep me at parity with the largest A-rated FSD I can fit in my Python. It's a game of seeing how long I can hold out before slowly and inevitably losing. Yeah I couldn't interdict a T6 in my vulture and it took what felt like a minute to pull a T7 out of cruise.
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Fortunately powerplay targets have some kind of deathwish and are easily lured into initiating, so I can just submit to them and get down to business. 
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peter gabriel posted:Yeah I am a let down, not played any games at all so it's not ED or you guys It is okay here I drew you as a pilot cat:  I was going for a Chii's Sweet Home look and ended up with an onion-head induced thousand yard stare 
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Literally Kermit posted:It is okay here I drew you as a pilot cat: Works for me!!
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Bought a new Adder for runabout duties so I could meander around civilized space without having to drag the ol' Anaconda everywhere, and decided I might as well tick something off the checklist: 
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I just got friendly rep with Diamond Frogs. I credit this to talking with Kermit earlier.
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Where's the best place to buy/outfit ships again? It blows my mind that the game's this old and you still have to go bargain hunting across the entire galaxy every time you want to get a new ship.
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Gort posted:Where's the best place to buy/outfit ships again? It blows my mind that the game's this old and you still have to go bargain hunting across the entire galaxy every time you want to get a new ship. http://ed-td.space/ Players have stepped up and made some nice tools. They rely on people reporting what they find ingame and it turns out ED players are happy to help fill in the gaps.
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Is online supposed to just dump you into space without any exposition? I have a contract but no idea how to get these military signals or whatever. Playing on Xbone.
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Agoat posted:Is online supposed to just dump you into space without any exposition? I have a contract but no idea how to get these military signals or whatever. Playing on Xbone. It just kinda turns you loose at a major hub area of the Federation and lets you go at the galaxy with zero direction, yeah. Protip: taking missions in a sidewinder is usually a bad idea BUT sounds like you grabbed a mission a 'winder can probably accomplish as long as you have a large enough cargo hold. If they want you to go out and find military signal cargo to bring back try cruising around the system it says in the mission (might not be the one you are in but it'll be close) and look for signal sources, probably weak signal sources. Jump into those and look for white contacts on your radar, that's loose cargo pods. Hunt around this way and you will likely stumble onto the items you are after pretty quick. To scoop cargo you open the cargo hatch (it's on the right panel but you can also have a key bound to this) and then fly into it, watching the mini-game-like indicator on your middle left dashboard. When it's blue and centered you can scoop it. #elitedangerous on irc.synirc.com is a great place for instant help too. Space Skeleton fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Oct 13, 2015 |
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Haven't checked into E:D in a while, I saw some posts about the new Federal ships being a lot more agile than the FDS. I was originally grinding slowly towards that, but are the new ships cheaper or of lower required rank? I really like the chunky design of these ships and want something like the Advanced PatCom from I-War 2 to tool around in. The Diamondback Scout is fun and has that feel but I gotta move up sometime.
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Had a great time today bounty hunting and smashing combat zones with goon Wings. If you've never done Wings, try it if for no other reason than to use the voice chat. It makes your voices sound like this, right down to the beeps. It's really cool; way more immersive than Mumble or whatever.Gort posted:Where's the best place to buy/outfit ships again? It blows my mind that the game's this old and you still have to go bargain hunting across the entire galaxy every time you want to get a new ship. I still and always will wish this game took some cues from Space Rangers 2 and let you access Space Google to look up where to buy anything you need and check prices of trade goods across the galaxy. Alternately, take cues from IRL 2015 where we can do this stuff and presumably would still be able to do so in the year 3400 or whenever this takes place. Agoat posted:Is online supposed to just dump you into space without any exposition? I have a contract but no idea how to get these military signals or whatever. Playing on Xbone. The game doesn't explain poo poo about dick, but once you learn the ins and outs it'll be fun as hell. Anyway, if it's the sort of mission I'm guessing it is ("go find the containers of this-or-that and bring them back here"), then you need to supercruise around the in system the mission points you to, and look for random "signal sources" to pop up. Travel to them as you would to a station, and cross your fingers that it contains whatever doodah you've been asked to retrieve. Open your cargo scoop and very slowly scoop it up. Then never take those missions again because they are boring. To make it easier, supercruise at minimum speed. That way you can immediately cruise into the signal sources when they pop up instead of having to slow down and all that jazz.
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With that said, I agree 100% on Goku being able to defeat Kenshiro and there are many facts that back this up with the proper research online.
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Thanks for the help, guys. I'll pop into IRC next time I play. And yeah the mission is really dumb. No real feedback on whether or not I'm doing it right.
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Shine posted:With that said, I agree 100% on Goku being able to defeat Kenshiro and there are many facts that back this up with the proper research online. Excuse me Kenshiro can definitely kick Goku's rear end, but I'd buy that Goku could beat Superman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po77bJk1DdI I mean he turns around what would obviously be a killing blow without even doing anything to the guy.
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I am going to strangle someone the next time I get a transaction error while mining Painite. Holy poo poo.
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Sard posted:Haven't checked into E:D in a while, I saw some posts about the new Federal ships being a lot more agile than the FDS. I was originally grinding slowly towards that, but are the new ships cheaper or of lower required rank? I really like the chunky design of these ships and want something like the Advanced PatCom from I-War 2 to tool around in. The Diamondback Scout is fun and has that feel but I gotta move up sometime. 
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