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Literally Kermit posted:So basically Bump & Jump: In Space. 
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Oct 15, 2015 17:55
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Actually big player organized racing in canyons would be dope
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quote:Do you think that having the ability to have a ship delivered to a station of my choosing would be possible in the future? Nooooooooo  
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I just want a zoom function for when I'm in camera mode or just looking out of the cockpit. Am I a failure and this exists but I don't have it mapped? I'd love to be able to zoom in on the ships/stars/nebulas for pretty picture time.
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Oct 15, 2015 18:32
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Here is a pink solar system. 
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Oct 15, 2015 18:44
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Dante80 posted:You are a partial failure.
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Oct 15, 2015 18:46
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They should add a giant ball so we can play Space Rocket League.
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Oct 15, 2015 18:47
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Shine posted:They should add a giant ball so we can play Space Rocket League. Just get a small ship with really high armour and shields, shut down your engines and be the ball.
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Oct 15, 2015 18:54
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Xae posted:I just ultra-cheesed the mission generator at Sothis and only picked up missions that ended at outposts.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:01
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About to dive in for the fist time. Welp.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:03
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So why is Sothis the preferred smuggling station?
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Adult Sword Owner posted:So why is Sothis the preferred smuggling station? I'm an idiot. vvvvvv LCL-Dead fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 19:04
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Adult Sword Owner posted:So why is Sothis the preferred smuggling station?
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Oct 15, 2015 19:07
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So get there, cheese the mission resets to fill up my log and hold, then get back to civilization and drop it all off?
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Oct 15, 2015 19:08
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Adult Sword Owner posted:So why is Sothis the preferred smuggling station? That said, they seem to have loosened the restrictions on missions in general, so you don't have to go there. It's just very efficient for Asps and other long-range pilots.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:08
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ChickenWyngz posted:About to dive in for the fist time. Good luck!
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Oct 15, 2015 19:12
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FronzelNeekburm posted:It seems like stations that are farther away or less frequented now bump the rewards up to entice people to take them. Sothis is the farthest station, so it can generate some ridiculous payouts, depending on your ranks and local faction standing. On a personal note, I've been grinding away for ages to get over 100 million credits. I had been stuck at the 60-70mil range for a very long time. Sothis just netted me ~25mil for two trips. 
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Oct 15, 2015 19:13
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It's also nice variety from the typical grind. It takes a lot of time, has reasonable challenge and pays well - I've done two Sothis runs and worked up maybe fifty million in two days. I think I'll give it a shot or two more and fund myself a T9.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:16
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Mind you, jump range, fuel tank and cargo hold all play into Sothis. In a DBE fitted for 24.7LY jumps with 20 cargo and a 3A fuel scoop, leaving from Goat-Xihe and travelling to Sothis, spending 10 minutes resetting the boards to get as many 1mil+ missions as possible and then dipping out with the Sothis rare good to the destination areas 420-470LY away took about 90 minutes, give or take a few smoke breaks. My payout was 12.5mil after all was said and done. 11 million from Sothis missions, another 1.5 from rare good and grabbing commodities between mission drop offs.
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Sard posted:my wild optimism here is that there will be stuff like carrying tanks and infantry for this. It would be really cool to be able to fly around with some marines or something, to help with battles for surface installations or space stations, and to help board and defend ships. Seems like we already have the "tanks" coming up in Horizons though. LCL-Dead posted:What everyone else said. I used to power down as low as possible coming into large stations but don't anymore. Running the Sothis missions last night I would just approach the station and at about 4km out I'd go into silent running and poo poo a hockey puck out the rear end of my ship to bring my head down below 10% for just long enough to get in the gates. I'd do the same on the way out since I was still carrying illicit cargo and it's not unheard of for system security to hit you with a scan as you leave. Just make sure you don't do it while drunk. I once lost a python loaded with 186 tons of rares doing that (some of them were illegal at the station). I thought I was lined up with the slot, but instead i hit the cage at 200 meters per second 
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Adult Sword Owner posted:So get there, cheese the mission resets to fill up my log and hold, then get back to civilization and drop it all off? This is correct. I went there last night in an Asp fit posted in the Elite PGS thread. Took me about 3 hours start to finish to get out to Sothis, cheese reloading to pick up missions in the 2-5 million payout range (got about 12 of these), fly back to colonized space, then dock at 12 different outposts/stations to turn in and get paid. All in all this netted me 45 million for the entire thing. I plan to do a similar outing each night until they inevitably nerf this because Frontier hates semi-casual players getting spacerich and want only the grindiest of sperglords to be able to fly Anacondas apparently.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:19
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chaosapiant posted:Good luck! Oh god its pretty also I'm terrible at the tutorials 
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Oct 15, 2015 19:23
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ChickenWyngz posted:Oh god its pretty Don't worry about the combat tutorials. Just do the travel and docking ones.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:28
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ChickenWyngz posted:Oh god its pretty Learn how to fly your ship before anything else. Fly around a station, learn your maps and controls, learn how to dock. The game doesn't hold your hand in this regard. You're really flying a loving space ship.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:29
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ChickenWyngz posted:Oh god its pretty Add me to your friends list (Shine) and I'll be happy to answer questions and help you with monies. I'll note that in a way the tutorials are harder than much of the actual game.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:32
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Huh. Solo, out near the Pleiades, popped into a gas giant's ring to take a look at some rocks, and found a Python and escorting Sidewinder mining. That was neat.
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Siets posted:This is correct. I went there last night in an Asp fit posted in the Elite PGS thread. Took me about 3 hours start to finish to get out to Sothis, cheese reloading to pick up missions in the 2-5 million payout range (got about 12 of these), fly back to colonized space, then dock at 12 different outposts/stations to turn in and get paid. All in all this netted me 45 million for the entire thing. I plan to do a similar outing each night until they inevitably nerf this because Frontier hates semi-casual players getting spacerich and want only the grindiest of sperglords to be able to fly Anacondas apparently. I do hear the siren call of a FAS with top tier everything and my Cobra is a badass at hauling Crappy trade rank will probably not make it worth it though
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Oct 15, 2015 20:12
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FAS is roughly 19mil, right? So I should be looking at about 30 to fit it out properly? Gonna poopsock the gently caress out of this to get there and then go run the rest of my Fed rank missions.
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Oct 15, 2015 20:19
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I want to get in on this but using the route planner on ed-td I am over 40 jumps from Sothis with my Cobra Is that system under control by anyone who would give me trouble for being pledged to princess good shields?
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Oct 15, 2015 20:31
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LCL-Dead posted:FAS is roughly 19mil, right? So I should be looking at about 30 to fit it out properly? 84 million because go big or go home
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Oct 15, 2015 20:33
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Jesus gently caress.. What's the rebuy on that? (I can't go to the link but 80 million gives me a decent idea of the fitting) Is FD going to do anything about the poo poo cost scaling here? It costs me 12 mil to fit a 4.5 mil vulture in all a class fittings. It shouldn't cost me 60mil to fit a 20mil ship.
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Oct 15, 2015 20:34
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Quick Gunship trip report: It's really fat
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LCL-Dead posted:Jesus gently caress.. 4.2 million rebuy I mean, 1410 armor is gonna cost you, and that's with some attention to shields.
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Oct 15, 2015 20:36
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84 million credits and an 8 ly jump range.
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Adult Sword Owner posted:I do hear the siren call of a FAS with top tier everything and my Cobra is a badass at hauling You'd be surprised on the trade rank thing. I did my 45 mil run last night all from missions obtained at trade rank Merchant (achieved when you have around 3-4 million in trade profits to your name.) It took a fair bit of resetting the bulletin board to get the desirable 2-5 mil payout missions though. Usually I'd see one pop up every 3-4 resets. I'd say I spent a good hour just resetting the bulletin board before I found 12 solid payout missions, but it is certainly doable at lower trade ranks. Hoping that tonight now that I have reached Broker that things will be much more profitable. 
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Shine posted:Add me to your friends list (Shine) and I'll be happy to answer questions and help you with monies. I'll note that in a way the tutorials are harder than much of the actual game. Shine confirmed for cool guy
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Oct 15, 2015 20:49
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Mike the TV posted:84 million credits and an 8 ly jump range. That's because he forgot to upgrade his FSD. It's still a D. 15 ly/jump with a proper A-class.
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 ATTENTION SMUGGLERS Here's one crazy trick to prevent your rear end from being scanned by the po-po: Pop a chaff You can't be scanned while chaff is active! Old Johnny Law Hates this trick!
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:
 Thank you. This will be immensely helpful for tonight's run. Now if we could just do something about the god awful chain interdictions. 
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