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SharkTattoos posted:So I started a couple days ago. Got a couple million and a well fitted Cobra. Is this Robigo thing just go to robigo, take missions, profit or is there some catch I can't find anywhere? Keep logging out and in into different game modes to refresh mission board until you get lucky and see 4-5 mil mission and take it. Keep doing until you see another or a mission that needs you to go the same station as previously taken mission or 2 missions that go to the same station or another 4-5 mil mission. Keep doing until your hold is full than go deliver everything. You can also sell all the materials they gave you and take even more missions but I will not even go there.
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There's not really any requirement for Robigo apart from "don't be in a Large ship". Yes, it's just go out and get missions. Your trade rank and local reputation will affect the payout and variety of missions available (just like every other mission you've ever done), but "doing the missions" will raise both fairly quickly. The more cargo space you have the more missions you can take, but even a Cobra can get a fair 3-5 million credit payout out of the box; more if you don't mind lingering over your fuel scooping and get a 2A scoop; even more if you have balls of steel, go bare metal with no shields, and trust yourself to boost out of any interdictions and not slam into the side of a station somewhere. I would not recommend scrapping the shields until you've done at least one run and gotten used to the number of times you'll get jumped on your way back to habitable space, though. Just be sure to set aside a block of time for these, as it takes a fair chunk of time to turn everything in, depending on how many missions you get that go to the same station. e: Sekenr posted:You can also sell all the materials they gave you and take even more missions but I will not even go there. I have made some effortposts about Robigo* in the other thread if you want to get crazy. *which were written while dealing with Robigo dropoffs Ursine Catastrophe fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Nov 19, 2015 07:53
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A word on Robigo. Be paranoid about star classes on your route, make very sure you get scoopable stars BEFORE you run out of fuel. If you hit half empty on your fuel tank, check your route again to make sure you hit a KGB FOAM.
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Nov 19, 2015 07:57
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:
Yes, I wanted to link to your much better explanation but couldn't find it.
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Nov 19, 2015 08:01
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Awesome thanks for the posts. Pretty fun game so far but I haven't used a joystick in 20 years so I fly like a complete Mister Magoo style rear end in a top hat everywhere I go.
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Nov 19, 2015 08:16
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Hahah, no poo poo, I logged out in that system in the current version. I wonder if I wait for 1.5 to drop, I will log back in and suddenly there will be a station.
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Nov 19, 2015 08:21
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You're way the gently caress out there? Doing exploring I assume? I'm kinda planning on exploring when I get bored of shootymans and am space Romney.
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Nov 19, 2015 08:54
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Probably because that's where the new station that there have been 10~ CGs about building is going, I'd wager he's not the only person out there.
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Nov 19, 2015 13:17
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Oh right, I'm dumb
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Nov 19, 2015 13:20
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So I burned out on Robigo runs and found out about this one system, Arexe, that spawns a ton of combat missions to one of its neighbours, Orrere. Hit Orrere's RES and finish 40 missions in one go. It's surprisingly good money (not on the level of Robigo, and Orrere being an Anarchy means no bounties) and probably the least boring way to rank up for the Federation. Took me around 170 missions in total to go from Lieutenant to Lt. Commander.
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Nov 19, 2015 14:37
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Anyone play elite on Xbox one? I was thinking about picking it up, just curious how the population is (if it's same universe or separate)
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Nov 19, 2015 15:05
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Literally Kermit posted:Hahah, no poo poo, I logged out in that system in the current version. I wonder if I wait for 1.5 to drop, I will log back in and suddenly there will be a station. Built a station around a black hole gently caress with me
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Nov 19, 2015 15:09
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:honestly it rubs me the wrong way no matter how they couch it, but otoh i've actually worked in video game qa so the idea of people making it even more exploitative where you need to pay for the honor of doing it feels somewhere between "tom sawyer" and "gently caress you" They've said repeatedly they don't want people who aren't into it playing the betas. That's one of the reasons there's a premium on it, so they don't get completely inundated with shitposting timewasters while they're trying to test things out (paraphrased). Opening up beta access would also dick over those who paid for it during their kickstarter, so they literally can't do anything in this situation without pissing someone off.
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Nov 19, 2015 15:27
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Foehammer007 posted:Anyone play elite on Xbox one? I was thinking about picking it up, just curious how the population is (if it's same universe or separate) From what I understand the XBox and PC games share the BGS, that is, market prices and Community Goals and Power Play and system ownership and stuff like that, but they do not share instances, so you will only ever see / play with other XBox people.
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Nov 19, 2015 16:45
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Chrysophylax posted:So I burned out on Robigo runs and found out about this one system, Arexe, that spawns a ton of combat missions to one of its neighbours, Orrere. Oh shiiit I should head over there
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Nov 19, 2015 16:55
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Thronde posted:You're way the gently caress out there? Doing exploring I assume? I'm kinda planning on exploring when I get bored of shootymans and am space Romney. AndroidHub posted:Probably because that's where the new station that there have been 10~ CGs about building is going, I'd wager he's not the only person out there. Actually, it's the former, and just coincidence that there'll be a new station there. I met a player out there who was also in a DBE, except he was rated for distance, and I was A-ranked and sporting lasers and a shield  but I hadn't the heart to end him. He was on the tail end of his trip, so we just posed for photo ops: "sup?" When suddenly:  "S-sempai?!  "Maia is one of the closer black holes to civ-space, and an all around neat system with lots of stars orbiting around, most can be scanned from where you jump in! The black hole is a haul from there, tho.
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Nov 19, 2015 17:24
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New Horizons sneak peek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6DEbuVGtUw
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Nov 19, 2015 18:28
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radintorov posted:New Horizons sneak peek I need this in my life.
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Nov 19, 2015 20:04
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radintorov posted:New Horizons sneak peek I get that this is all industrial facilities and realistic landscape but give me some space wonders to gawk at instead of shipping containers, Frontier!
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Nov 19, 2015 20:29
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Can't wait for CQC to be updated with "SRV Race" and "SRV Death Race" modesGroggy nard posted:check your route again to make sure you hit a KGB FOAM. Glad someone else besides me uses the best main sequence star acronym 
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Nov 19, 2015 20:31
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Sekenr posted:I get that this is all industrial facilities and realistic landscape but give me some space wonders to gawk at instead of shipping containers, Frontier! The shipping containers are for future FPS cover mechanics. Can't wait until we have characters who can hide behind crates.
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Nov 19, 2015 20:41
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Zaardvark posted:From what I understand the XBox and PC games share the BGS, that is, market prices and Community Goals and Power Play and system ownership and stuff like that, but they do not share instances, so you will only ever see / play with other XBox people. Xbox one player here chiming in to confirm that this is correct.
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Nov 19, 2015 21:22
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radintorov posted:New Horizons sneak peek If we get bobbleheads for our ships, will we get fuzzy dice or truck nuts for our SRVs?
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Nov 19, 2015 21:46
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Chrysophylax posted:So I burned out on Robigo runs and found out about this one system, Arexe, that spawns a ton of combat missions to one of its neighbours, Orrere. There are bounties, actually, but you'll have to fire up the KWS to activate any of them and to be honest they're not that great. Worth doing if you can finish the scan before the target dies, but otherwise  . The only other problem with Arexe is that for the most part it seems to be just pirate killing missions. Some trader and smuggler ones pop up from time to time and even more rarely bounty hunters and nomads, but never enough to eclipse the pirate killing. Based on what others have posted about ranking up fast from super smuggler missions, I'm assuming that the higher the reward for a mission the more it impacts your rank, and missions that target civilians pay a lot more than those targeting pirates (and are easier to boot), so if someone could find a system like Arexe that mostly gives trader targets in a single neighboring system, that'd be the holy grail of this stuff.
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Man, I just love my Imperial Courier. I finally A-graded the drat thing and added the packhound-missile launcher I wanted. It's moving so smooth and fast! And when 1.5 and 2.0 goes live, the new buff to reinforcement packages will give my special snowflake ship more HP than my Asp. On the other hand, my FSD-range is now down to ~15 ly/jump and I have only 4t worth of cargo space left. Of course I still have a full set of scanners, being fully combat fit doesn't mean I can't make stops to explore things, after all. 
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Sard posted:....so if someone could find a system like Arexe that mostly gives trader targets in a single neighboring system, that'd be the holy grail of this stuff. Sothis did exactly this. mostly civilian contracts, all to the system next door.
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Tom Guycot posted:Sothis did exactly this. mostly civilian contracts, all to the system next door. Oh, well poo poo. Guess I should have listened to Xae and made the trip after all. Does it still do these?
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Literally Kermit posted:Actually, it's the former, and just coincidence that there'll be a new station there. 2 Questions, how do I enable the screen shot camera (what keybind do i need to set) and 2, was your DBE yellow from paint/sun/or is that how it comes? I want skins for DBS 
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Thronde posted:2 Questions, how do I enable the screen shot camera (what keybind do i need to set) and 2, was your DBE yellow from paint/sun/or is that how it comes? I want skins for DBS The debug camera (i.e. the external camera) is toggled on / off with CTRL+ALT+Space. The camera controls are a bit stupid, you manoeuvre it the same way you'd steer the ship.
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Zaardvark posted:The debug camera (i.e. the external camera) is toggled on / off with CTRL+ALT+Space. The camera controls are a bit stupid, you manoeuvre it the same way you'd steer the ship. That doesn't work for me at all. I haven't changed the defaults either.
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Pogue Ma Hoon posted:That doesn't work for me at all. I haven't changed the defaults either. Go into your menu and scroll down the bindings until you find the camera, then just add whatever you want as a binding. (In my case there also wasn't a default binding, fancy that.)
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Libluini posted:Go into your menu and scroll down the bindings until you find the camera, then just add whatever you want as a binding. The only camera listing I see is "classified camera" and neither the default nor the keybind I switched it to worked.
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Pogue Ma Hoon posted:The only camera listing I see is "classified camera" and neither the default nor the keybind I switched it to worked. That's the right one. You can only use it while flying in normal space, not while supercruising or while docked.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:That's the right one. You can only use it while flying in normal space, not while supercruising or while docked. That is incorrect.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:That is incorrect. Then I guess my game hates me, because even having it bound as a keyboard binding (instead of a controller one) prevents me from using it in either of those situations 
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Does anyone have any strong opinions about the FAS? I'm thinking of stepping up to one from my vulture and I didn't see anything about them in the PGS thread OP. I'm a little concerned about the weapon firing arcs since I've been spoiled with large gimbaled pulse lasers on the vulture for a few weeks.
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Derakarsis posted:Does anyone have any strong opinions about the FAS? I'm thinking of stepping up to one from my vulture and I didn't see anything about them in the PGS thread OP. I'm a little concerned about the weapon firing arcs since I've been spoiled with large gimbaled pulse lasers on the vulture for a few weeks. The FAS is a very good ship that can run almost any setup with power to spare. Two large plasma and two medium multicannons works well for RES farming but you should probably do something involving lasers for CZs.
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Derakarsis posted:Does anyone have any strong opinions about the FAS? I'm thinking of stepping up to one from my vulture and I didn't see anything about them in the PGS thread OP. I'm a little concerned about the weapon firing arcs since I've been spoiled with large gimbaled pulse lasers on the vulture for a few weeks. It's less agile than the vulture, but not as much as the game would indicate, like the clipper it's fairly easy to get it under that magic 720 tons which gives it maximum agility. It's also got a much beefier powerplant, meaning you have a lot more room to play with. It's shields are complete and utter poo poo though, but that will probably become less of a problem in 1.5 because you'll be able to beef the hull up to compensate. And it's faster than the vulture.
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Sard posted:Based on what others have posted about ranking up fast from super smuggler missions, I'm assuming that the higher the reward for a mission the more it impacts your rank, and missions that target civilians pay a lot more than those targeting pirates (and are easier to boot), so if someone could find a system like Arexe that mostly gives trader targets in a single neighboring system, that'd be the holy grail of this stuff. The problem I have with that is the fact that you can complete like 10 pirate missions (including the time it takes to reroll that many) in the time it takes for you to complete a single assassination one, especially if the target is uncooperative in showing up; I seriously doubt that assassination missions have 10x the impact. Not saying you're wrong tho, I think you're absolutely right, but like donation missions before this, the time you spend doing this is, I believe, lower than the alternative. Reddit has found the Empire equivalent of Arexe, HIP 7916 which spawns combat missions to the system HR 466. Unlike Arexe tho, there's only a single Empire faction, so it'll make rerolling more tedious. Keep an eye on this thread as they may suggest more systems. Edit: I misread a word somehow Chrysophylax fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Nov 20, 2015 |
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Chrysophylax posted:The problem I have with that is the fact that you can complete like 10 pirate missions (including the time it takes to reroll that many) in the time it takes for you to complete a single assassination one, especially if the target is uncooperative in showing up; I seriously doubt that assassination missions have 10x the impact. Not saying you're wrong tho, I think you're absolutely right, but like donation missions before this, the time you spend doing this is, I believe, lower than the alternative. However, I'd still say that the "go kill pirates" variation of that mission is the best, mainly because pirates are the most abundant of all the target types. Astroniomix fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Nov 20, 2015 |
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