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thetechnoloser posted:I'm finally in the market to upgrade my rares-trading/sothis run Cobra (which is kitted out with pretty much A class everything).. Looking at an Asp. Looking to basically stay multi-role, so that I can also dabble in a little CZ if I so do so / defend myself if I get interdicted. http://coriolis.io/outfit/cobra_mk_iii/24A4A4A3D3A3D4C1b1b24240n04-5d45---.Iw1-kA==.Aw1-kA== I use something similar when I was grinding CZs. You're better off purchasing a Vulture or Courier though.
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LCL-Dead posted:I wonder how they're going to push the transition from ship to SRV in horizons. If it will be a little mini-cinematic that will have you force walked through the interior of your ship to the SRV or if you'll just blink and appear behind the controls when you go to drop it onto the surface. They've said that for right now it's a "fade to black" similar to when you change ships at a station. More when SpaceLegs arrives. tooterfish posted:Standard issue spaceman boots have tiny electromagnets in the soles. Also, if you look around the cockpits, there are grab bars all over the place. Yup - they're were even messing around with this back in the very early stages (@ 06:03, if BBCode doesn't work): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WmsnwNq98&t=363s
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Toplowtech posted:Reminds me of battlezone (and it's a good thing). God drat I miss that game. I played the hell out of that from about 1998-2004. I would pay good money for a faithful reboot. 
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Chrysophylax posted:
Thanks for the help, man. Much appreciated!
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Oct 20, 2015 02:34
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slidebite posted:God drat I miss that game. I played the hell out of that from about 1998-2004. I would pay good money for a faithful reboot. There was one on Kickstarter but it's going about as well as an obscure crowdfunded indie remake of a forgotten PC game can go.
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Alehkhs posted:They've said that for right now it's a "fade to black" similar to when you change ships at a station. More when SpaceLegs arrives. The Adder has a cup holder with a cup in it to the right of your chair, and it has a top on it that looks what a futuristic zero-g mug might look like
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Here we see the majestic Anaconda carefully laying its eggs in a nearby asteroid So did a few million surprisingly quickly in a Hi mostly because of incidents like above. Buuuut two things 1) Wow I just realized my shield is literal poo poo 2) I run out of power FAST with 4 weapon pips, and I even take massive amounts of heat. What am I doing wrong? Here is me http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/24A5A4E3D5A4D3C0v0v0k---42f32j4v2h.Iw19kA==.Aw19kA== Feel free to mock the shields
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Adult Sword Owner posted:Here we see the majestic Anaconda carefully laying its eggs in a nearby asteroid Do you really seriously have a class 3 C shield in a class 5 slot? This might work a lot better. http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/24A5A4A3D5A4D3C1e1e0k0400025j452o2566.AwRj4zyA.AwiMIy3Ug=== This Vulture should be pretty solid, beams on a vulture really are pretty bad due to the fact that it doesn't radiate heat well, nor does it have a lot of power to spare. You want a B Shield cell bank to get the extra charge out of it, and each cell is ~50% of your shields.
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Adult Sword Owner posted:Here we see the majestic Anaconda carefully laying its eggs in a nearby asteroid The Vulture can't really deal with the required power upkeep of two large beams firing continuously. Swap them out for pew pew pulses to keep firing
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Adult Sword Owner posted:Here we see the majestic Anaconda carefully laying its eggs in a nearby asteroid You're using two large beams with a class 5 distributor, i.e. there's just no way to fire them for long on that ship. I gotta shame you for that shield situation man  I took the liberty of redoing your build a little, here. Swapped out a beam for a cannon, which will give you a mightier punch versus armor (just keep close to your enemy), made your shield 2.68 times stronger, gave you a decent cell bank to recharge between fights, gave you a chaff, 2 shield boosters and a much shittier warrant scanner. I also suggested some power priorities. But to be honest, I'd get rid of the beam - the vulture's power plant is tiny and can't support those sorts of weapons without sacrificing somewhere else - 23.6% of the power available was just guns, in your build. Try messing around with dual pulse lasers if you want more tank. Edit: redid the build a little, oversight Chrysophylax fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Yeah, pulse is the way to go in a vulture. They burn through just about anything short of an Anaconda plenty fast enough, and even those fall before too long. And don't feel too bad about the shield; I had a class 3 in mine when I was refitting it right after buying it and got my internal slots mixed up. I figured it out real quick when I went into a combat zone.
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I don't know how that shield happen but I have to power manage as it is just to have working weapons I'll switch things around thanks for the help guys~
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~30 minutes in a HazRES ALD faction bonuses are kinda ridiculous. Nostalgia4Infinity fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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frank.club posted:Adder is incredibly cool Even cooler in concept.  Chrysophylax posted:Because then you can either move on to some other activity or actually enjoy the content that does exist in any ship and configuration you dream, aka playing the sandbox with any/all tools I've been playing since premium beta, and tend to reset my character every three months or so (or in 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc etc). I view this as FE2/FFE with friends (ie a niche product), not a persistent MMO where you have to grind to reach an end state, and then beg the developer to add more high end poo poo for you to not get bored. Then again, I'm weird (necrogamer + astronomy nerd). Just flying around and enjoying the scenery is enough for me at most times. In the end, I just want to remake/relive this intro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbegNmKRZUM Maybe in 2017 we'll be there. Dante80 fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Dante80 posted:Even cooler in concept. We're not in disagreement, really, I have pretty much the exact same view. I too played FE2 and FFE and that's all I wanted out of E:D and for the most part got it. But I enjoyed FE2 a lot more when my brother got me a save with almost infinite money, and I could just buy anything and everything and do anything I wanted  E: I guess what I'm trying to say is, I dislike the fact that in order to experience all the ships and configurations you have to put in a lot of time. I view that as the sandbox impeding me from playing with it, and in this case it's just ridiculous the level of grind you gotta do if you want to play with any ship past the Vulture. The ships themselves stop being 'better than' at that point too, which makes the whole grind even more pointless, I really don't get it. Chrysophylax fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Libluini next time you come home from the black, here's a neat game to try with random exploration if you ever get bored of just jumping system to system. E: I'm probably gonna try this when I reach the core, and do that for about a week or 2 before heading back home to sell data. I'll obviously forego the lives portion because I'll be ~26000 LY from home, but it should generate a decent amount of "First Discovered" systems for me. orange juche fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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orange juche posted:Libluini next time you come home from the black, here's a neat game to try with random exploration if you ever get bored of just jumping system to system. Huh, that could actually be interesting. Good way to map regions as well.
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Cannons: the melee weapons of ED Effective but the limited ammo is terrible. It's worse than multi, I'd say e: Hey does anyone else notice that Pythons are uh, dumb as all hell? I never have any issue with them.
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So - I have about a 100 mil in free assets, the question is trade Python or T9? 250 cargo space isn't a very big improvement over ~200 that my Clipper can carry. So - is outpost landing preferable over 500 loving tons, opinions goons?
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Sekenr posted:So - I have about a 100 mil in free assets, the question is trade Python or T9? 250 cargo space isn't a very big improvement over ~200 that my Clipper can carry. So - is outpost landing preferable over 500 loving tons, opinions goons? A trader might know with more certainty, but despite being boring as all get out, the T9 prints money - I've heard profits of 2 million per leg of a roundtrip aren't uncommon. Outpost landing allows you to trade certain goods for higher profit margins, but nothing that gets close to having twice the cargo space.
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Sekenr posted:So - I have about a 100 mil in free assets, the question is trade Python or T9? 250 cargo space isn't a very big improvement over ~200 that my Clipper can carry. So - is outpost landing preferable over 500 loving tons, opinions goons?
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orange juche posted:Libluini next time you come home from the black, here's a neat game to try with random exploration if you ever get bored of just jumping system to system. Huh. That's an interesting idea. I would have to use one of my 1D4 out here, though. Not enough targets for normal dice. 
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So I bought a Cobra Mk III last night, fitted it out for cargo and did some space trading, wasn't massively profitable but made some. So far most of my money has come from smuggling missions and bounty hunting so I thought I would do some more bounty hunting, this is what I'm currently running in my Viper http://coriolis.io/outfit/viper/03C3D3D2E3C3E2C27270p0p--01442s2h.Iw1+kA==.Aw1+kA==?bn=Pew%20Pew The guns seem ok, they take down shields quickly and the multi cannons do decent damage but what should I upgrade next, I was thinking I need to improve my defences a bit, maybe get a heatsink. Baring in mind I'm a space-poor so I need maximum bang for my buck.
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I have an asp and a vulture fitted out and 70m left from Sothis. Not sure what to aim for next. I like rares, smuggling, and fighting round the worlds.
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Mercurius posted:The main expense on the Clipper is the shield if you put in a Size 7 one but remember that a 6A shield will still give you a good amount of shields when you couple it with boosters. The following should be pretty okay for PvP since each time you pop a shield cell it'll restore half of your total shields: Thanks for the info. Anyone know when this discount stuff is going to happen with the Imperial stuff? I'm heading out of town on Friday and will be gone until Monday. It would be just my luck if it were to only last the weekend or some poo poo.
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Dante80 posted:
Huh, thats pretty neat how despite 20 some years old, and amiga level graphics I instantly recognized the eagles when the flew into the intro. Would love to see that recreated in ED, though I don't know what that main ship was supposed to be.
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Tom Guycot posted:Huh, thats pretty neat how despite 20 some years old, and amiga level graphics I instantly recognized the eagles when the flew into the intro. Would love to see that recreated in ED, though I don't know what that main ship was supposed to be. That was the original Imperial Courier, a very heavy fighter sporting a pair of class 5 hyperdrive engines. The basic design (two very big engine nacelles and the fuselage in the middle) has carried over to ED. Dante80 fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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It's an imperial courier. Which I know without even watching the video. E:f;b
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Others were faster on the draw, but yeah that is the old iCourier. In E:D the iClipper is basically a more modern Imperial Courier (down to a similar look, size and mass), while the actual iCourier in-game is a new design.
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So I've got the budget stick in the OP winging it's way to me in the post. I'm still terrible though 
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Regarding the smuggling mission nerf. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=193353&p=2976583#post2976583 quote:Hello Commanders!
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Then why we're all the other non long range missions cut back too? It's too bad the switching modes exploit wasn't fixed instead of this. Fixing the game's problem instead of just cutting the fun stuff would be cool frank.club fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Because frontier just grabbed all the levers and yanked them backwards. What's lovely is the people on the forums crowing about how happy that they are that the missions got nerfed because how dare you expect to make credits in a somewhat reasonable amount of time because the old elite games you had to work so much harder for everything.
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orange juche posted:Because frontier just grabbed all the levers and yanked them backwards. What's lovely is the people on the forums crowing about how happy that they are that the missions got nerfed because how dare you expect to make credits in a somewhat reasonable amount of time because the old elite games you had to work so much harder for everything. Frontier should do the same thing the company I'm sometimes filling out polls for does: If someone gives clearly insane opinions, the poll closes itself and deletes the mad and clearly wrong answers.
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frank.club posted:It's weird reading people say thanks to spite others who were smuggling? That's crazy Its not crazy, in that those guys that say it are thinking that this was an exploit, not a balance problem for a feature. The simple idea of trying to get more missions by exiting and re-joining the instance-session to re-roll the BB is a game exploit for them. Which is partially right, but - in the end - irrelevant.
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frank.club posted:It's weird reading people say thanks to spite others who were smuggling? That's crazy I don't really get what the problem with the nerf is though? It was clearly unintentional and it made smuggling loads better than the other professions for making money. I mean you can still use your cheesy exploit to get ahead if you want, it's just not as effective. It was horribly broken, it's now fixed a bit, life goes on.
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