Jack Trades posted:

I can't rebind my controller controls for some reasons. My Xbox controller works absolutely fine as long as I use a preset but it won't let me rebind anything.
Anyone else had the same issue?

TorakFade posted:

I want a proper multirole, cheapish ship to gently caress around that can do whatever. Some cargo space, decent weapons and shields, good jump range, low rebuy. Imperial courier? Or wait for the Cobra mk 4?

I love the concept of the new cobra but they tend to make improved ships heavier and fatter, and I would rather not have worse range / agility than the mk 3 (also for God sake frontier give it better shields)

Helter Skelter posted:

First, you need a discovery scanner. These come in three varieties: Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.

Basic discovery scanners come with all ships when purchased (and can be sold to be replaced with a better one or free up the internal slot for something else) and will scan out to a range of 500ls. Advanced cost a bunch of money for a newbie and scan out to 1000ls, I've never really bothered with them because... Advanced cost 1 million credits and will scan the entire system in one go no matter how large. You really want the Advanced version, so maybe hold off the hardcore exploring unless you're some kind of masochist who enjoys spotting distant bodies through parallax.

Anyway, you assign that scanner to a fire group, then any time you jump into an unexplored system just honk your space-horn and see what pops up. This is what the game considers a Level 1 scan. You can just sell this basic exploration data at any station located more than 20ly from where it was gathered (select the "Universal Cartographics" option at the station menu), and if you're just packing a scanner along while you're just on your way somewhere, it can be a nice way of collecting a bit of cash while you're scooping fuel and/or waiting for your FSD to cool down for the next jump. You can also get a bit more information about an object (and thus, money) by targeting it and flying close enough for your ship's scanners to do a more detailed scan. This is a Level 2 scan. Level 3 scans are even more detailed and can only be achieved by fitting your ship with a Detailed Surface Scanner, which is a module that costs 250k, and then doing the same thing (point ship at targeted object, get close).

Payout for exploration depends on what's in the system and the detail level of the scans. More interesting planets (like candidates for terraforming or anything with life on it) and stellar masses (eg black holes and neutron stars) will pay out more money (particularly if detailed scans are gathered), while boring stuff like brown dwarf stars and lovely little ice planets will pay out much less.

Nobody gets rich quick off of exploring, but if you get touched by the space madness bug and decide to take a vacation to the center of the galaxy or something, it can make for a decent enough payday once you get back.

Fork of Unknown Origins posted:

Oh, and as a warning I tried to play this with a steam controller on a steamlink, made a controller binding, hated it, went back to play on my actual PC and had lost my joystick binding. Don't know why or if I did something wrong but watch out.

Libluini posted:

Libluini posted:

Well, for multirole the Imperial Courier is kind of poo poo. The cargo space is practically non-existent. Or you just have to live with refitting the drat thing every time you want to do something new.

The Diamondback Explorer would probably more like what you want, you can make it heavily armed while retaining 30+ light year range. It has decent agility and you can press 16t cargo into the hull when you forego the AFM.

Cobra MK3 would be the obvious choice until the Cobra MK4 comes out (for those of us with both the base game and the expansion. ).

The new Viper-variant is also quite good. It has less agility but tons more armor and jump range than the old Viper. But of course this is another ship where you have to wait. The Asp Scout would be ideal, since it's just a cheaper, downgraded Asp.

If you want to stay cheap I'm out of ideas at that point, though. Cobra 3, DBE or waiting.

Oo Koo posted:

Also regarding xbox controllers. I think that you can make custom bindings, but you'll have to use the "keyboard and mouse" or "empty custom" binding presets as the base and bind all controls from scratch instead of modifying the default xbox bindings. At least I remember making a custom xbox controller bindings sometime during gamma or standard beta and not having to mess with xml, so unless they locked the xbox controller down after that (which is possible) it should work just like any other controller as long as you don't try to modify the default xbox preset profile.

TorakFade posted:

I tried the DBE a while ago and it was kind of meh, the 1 large / 2 medium hardpoints aren't that good with the smallish PP / distributor and even with A thrusters it's not what I'd call agile (but the Vulture has forever spoiled me in this regard). Having 30 LY range is good but 20LY would be quite good enough for general farting around.

I loved my A-rated Cobra and have fond memories of it from patch 1.1 or so, but that lovely shield in a metagame where shield beefiness is king ... it was fine back then when the alternative was the Viper with extra shields but no hull whatsoever, but now there's bigger badder ships coming at you, and most new ships have the same firepower and better agility/shields compared to it.

What I would really like is a fast, agile craft with middle-of-the-line weapon setup - basically a DBS with more internal slots and a bit more shields, and/or a Courier with bigger internal slots and a bit less shields.

Anyway I have purchased Horizons so I'll just wait and get the Cobra Mk IV, hopefully they put some decent shields on it and don't make it go 200m/s tops with 3 agility or some nonsense like that

TorakFade posted:

Anyway I have purchased Horizons so I'll just wait and get the Cobra Mk IV, hopefully they put some decent shields on it and don't make it go 200m/s tops with 3 agility or some nonsense like that

alphabettitouretti posted:

Haven't played since before Powerplay dropped. Have there been any drastic changes to mechanics I should know about?


What colour settings are you using?

RabidWeasel posted:

The only niche I can see for the Cobra MKIV is as a shorter jump range more combat-focused Asp but I can't really see that happening; either it's going to have lovely speed and agility or lovely shields. All the new ships have been bad so I'm setting the bar really low.

TorakFade posted:

I wish they just do as it says on the tin : a more expensive, better version of the MkIII to keep it relevant once you have more than 10 millions. Similar speed/agility/internals, 1 more small hardpoint with better placement, some more base shield rating and let's say 5x the hull price.

But I fear they're not going that way. Since it has one more hardpoint and more utility slots, it's surely going to have higher base weight + more weight from the extra stuff on it - so lower jump range, speed and agility are pretty much a given (unless they slap a size 5 FSD / thrusters in which case ), and those are EXACTLY what I look for in a multirole ship

Also while we're dreaming, I hope they put more size 1 internals on some ships. It feels so wasteful to use a size 2+ slot for a discovery scanner...

Libluini posted:

Even if not, reinforcement-mods, especially the smaller ones, get a massive buff so going armor over shields will become easier. As an example, class 3 RPs will go from 60 to 260. Additionally, Frontier has promised the new RPs will add damage reduction to make it harder to lose modules. Put a class 3 RP on a Cobra and it's suddenly harder to kill than an Asp.

Literally Kermit posted:

Or, y'know, combine the two 2-ton adv. discovery and detail surface scanners into one four-ton size 2 module

Sard posted:

And have the docking computer enable AI flight for more things like supercruise approaches and scooping cargo. That'd be a huge quality of life improvement for early miners who can't efficiently use collectors due to their small ships.

Shine posted:

If a small ship has enough space for an AI flight computer, then it has enough room for a single collector module.

Adult Sword Owner posted:

This should be explained in the OP, by the way

Sard posted:

Yeah but if you're doing small ship mining and you've done a little homework, you'll be hunting exclusively for painite and platinum to make your money trading it in through the bulletin board. Fitting the collector controller is one thing, but you're also going to have to devote some of your very limited cargo space to limpets which is going to be awkward as your ship gets more and more full of refined stuff. Unless you get really lucky, you'll be spending most of the lifespan of any one drone looking for the next rare rock. I think it'd be less of a headache to let the computer scoop it, AI ships are pretty quick about it if you watch them work and it'd play well with the agility of something like the Adder.

They might as well add value to a presently valueless module.

Shine posted:

Limpet management isn't as hard as you're making it sound. An unshielded Cobra (the smallest thing I'd bother using for mining) can hold 48 tons of cargo/limpets even if it uses prospector and collector modules. Simply bring 30 or limpets, burn through them with the prospector module, and if you get lucky early on and find some good rocks and fill your hold, then dump a few limpets between rocks to make room. To do this, simply depower your collector module to scuttle your active limpet, dump excess limpets/junk rocks, and then fly a KM or two away so the dumped stuff will be out of range of your next collector. If your hold fills up while you're mining and you need to dump things, then just fly away from the rock, dump junk, and fly back (keep your prospector targeted so you can find the rock again). Then you can resume mining that rock.

Easy peasy.

TorakFade posted:

I wish they just do as it says on the tin : a more expensive, better version of the MkIII to keep it relevant once you have more than 10 millions. Similar speed/agility/internals, 1 more small hardpoint with better placement, some more base shield rating and let's say 5x the hull price.

But I fear they're not going that way. Since it has one more hardpoint and more utility slots, it's surely going to have higher base weight + more weight from the extra stuff on it - so lower jump range, speed and agility are pretty much a given (unless they slap a size 5 FSD / thrusters in which case ), and those are EXACTLY what I look for in a multirole ship

Also while we're dreaming, I hope they put more size 1 internals on some ships. It feels so wasteful to use a size 2+ slot for a discovery scanner...

Kowboat posted:

Basically why I'm not looking forward to the Cobra mk4. If it's slower, it loses the ability to outrun things, at which point you're better off in a bigger/tougher ship anyway.

The privilege of picking your battles is worth a lot more than centered hardpoints.

MisterZimbu posted:

Is there a way to tell which direction your ship is pointing? I think it'd be neat to find something interesting in the distance, then find it on the galaxy map and plot a course there; but I don't see anything on the HUD resembling a compass I can use.

Or are all the pretty looking things off in the distance too far away to actually reach even through hyperspace, and just there for decoration?


Get this if you're averse to spending money (or something more expensive if not).

http://www.amazon.com/Thrustmaster-...eywords=hotas+x

MarcusSA posted:

Which stick would be the best in the $100-$200 range? I was looking at the x52 pro but I wouldn't be opposed to spending $200 on a better stick.

MarcusSA posted:

Which stick would be the best in the $100-$200 range? I was looking at the x52 pro but I wouldn't be opposed to spending $200 on a better stick.

Bushiz posted:

If you don't care about "Things looking pretty" or fancy MFDs or what not, the CH Fighterstick and Throttle Pro come out to a little north of 200 bucks and are basically the best money you can spend. The throttle has an analog thumbstick on it that works perfectly for vertical/lateral thrust

Goredema posted:

I just picked up E:D and have this fancy CH throttle and Fighterstick to use. My problem is that the game won't recognize either controller, the CH configuration tool looks like it was written in 1982 and is virtually incomprehensible, and the official E:D forums were zero loving help.

The weird thing is that the Controller configuration menu in the game doesn't even list all the saved config files, just give or six random ones.

Any guesses what it might be?

Sard posted:

I'm getting close to buying another new ship, possibly a Type 9 so I have a new high-end dedicated miner for the next mining CG, with some trade work inbetween. I just found an interesting guide to rogue traders and was curious- is this a reliable way to make good money, running weapons and narcotics to these ships? It seems like a more engaging way of offloading goods, but I'm not sure if this is any better than trade routes than those indicated by eddb.io. The best I usually get from the automatic route tool is 3000-3500 for short range loops, but I've seen people mention routes worth over 4000 before, what's the trick there?

Dante80 posted:

Its pretty sad that we have been playing for months with bad asteroids. Many people were thinking that the game was downgraded in graphics in some of the latest versions. So its either a bug, or they did downgrade the graphics and now in 1.5 beta you can get the old shadows back unintentionally. Hope they fix the bug soon.