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Dante80 posted:Here is how to do a better video showcasing a skin. Ok, whats the trick here? How did he disable the crazy aliasing I get in my game despite having all graphics options on max?
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Sultan Tarquin posted:I just lost my viper on a smuggling mission by boosting just at the entrance to the orbital and I couldn't slow down in time to avoid the back of the orbital and blew up Don't worry, you're not alone. When I was starting up I once point-blank boosted a Type-6 full of gold into the wall next to the mail slot. The wall won.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:I just lost my viper on a smuggling mission by boosting just at the entrance to the orbital and I couldn't slow down in time to avoid the back of the orbital and blew up If you ever end up in a situation where you’re going to run into something you don’t want to run into, your best bet is to turn flight assist off and put 4 pips into SYS. Most of the damage when you run into poo poo isn’t from the initial collision, it’s from your thrusters continually pushing you into the wall or whatever other poo poo you’ve steered yourself into. Just kill everything and let yourself bounce around until you’ve bled off momentum and can get your bearings again.
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Sekenr posted:Ok, whats the trick here? How did he disable the crazy aliasing I get in my game despite having all graphics options on max? Disable the AA and use supersampling instead, just 1.5x for me leaves very little aliasing, needs more juice to run but if you're maxing it anyway you should be OK.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:It is very much not worth it to do a Robigo run with any trade rank less than Broker. But you can get to Broker fairly quickly by doing some trading runs or rares loops. You might - might - be able to get away with being Merchant.
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KakerMix posted:I have the warthog and for a long while I used a digital directional button on the stick where your thumb rests as my yaw. Up for left, down for right. It was perfectly serviceable but since that button is ridged pretty heavily and made out of metal it destroys your thumb. I tried putting tape on it, bits of rubber, lots of things to make it not shred my skin but in the end I got pedals and am much more happy about it. The Warthog is a bitchin' stick but be aware you are going to need to tweak it more than most sticks because it has true flip switches and E:D doesn't have the ability to understand this by default. Lucky for us people have this all figured out and ready to go already and once you have it set up it is smooth sailing. Thanks for the advice. I've been doing some reading and I'm super excited to get this setup. I've actually been eying it since it was released. Hopefully the back order isn't too long. I'm ready to get my space flight on.
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tooterfish posted:You get more and better stuff the higher you're ranked, but to say it's not worth it isn't accurate, since I ranked up to Broker exclusively with them. I almost never see Penniless or Mostly Penniless hauling/smuggling missions from Robigo. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, or I don't even consider missions at that level because I've learned to skip over them for better missions. Either way, if you're a complete newb with very little outfitting money, doing a Robigo run in a ship that has to make 50+ jumps both ways with a low-rated fuel scoop is torturous. MarcusSA posted:I just said gently caress it and pulled the trigger. Amazon has it for 330 (it's back ordered) and I had 120 in gift cards. 
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:If you ever end up in a situation where you’re going to run into something you don’t want to run into, your best bet is to turn flight assist off and put 4 pips into SYS. Most of the damage when you run into poo poo isn’t from the initial collision, it’s from your thrusters continually pushing you into the wall or whatever other poo poo you’ve steered yourself into. Just kill everything and let yourself bounce around until you’ve bled off momentum and can get your bearings again. Shields were down due to silent running, it barely cost anything for the insurance so it's just funny more than anything.
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Thronde posted:So, no, you can't always get missions there at penniless. I've taken Penniless Unfriendly Haul missions before so, yes, you can if you don't mind mission board scumming.  Except at Robigo it pays something like 800,000 credits, so most Robigo vets ignore it unless it happens to go to the same station as a higher paying Haul. Groggy nard fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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Sultan Tarquin posted:Shields were down due to silent running, it barely cost anything for the insurance so it's just funny more than anything. For future reference, you can easily get into a station without silent running before the cops have a chance to finish scanning you, and IIRC it's up in the air whether or not silent running hides you from NPCs anyway. I can't wait for the buggy moon buggy beta.
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I learned the hard way that bounty rewards are tied to your ship, not to you. Lost ~800k credits worth of bounty while loving around in a RES since that pirate decided to actually hit me full force and not focus the federation guys that were in there. That would've put me at ~1.5m so I could've made a solid Viper or something to replace my Sidey.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I almost never see Penniless or Mostly Penniless hauling/smuggling missions from Robigo. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, or I don't even consider missions at that level because I've learned to skip over them for better missions. Either way, if you're a complete newb with very little outfitting money, doing a Robigo run in a ship that has to make 50+ jumps both ways with a low-rated fuel scoop is torturous. Peddlar is a good place to start. You can do them fine in a Cobra fit for rares trading, since it's practically the same thing anyway. edit: I just realised in my original post I removed mention that I started them at Peddlar but left in the "ranked up to Broker exclusively with them". What I meant was I levelled from Peddlar to Broker exclusively with long range missions, not from Penniless to Broker. tooterfish fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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Shine posted:For future reference, you can easily get into a station without silent running before the cops have a chance to finish scanning you, and IIRC it's up in the air whether or not silent running hides you from NPCs anyway. Does chaff spam prevent scanning? The few times I've lived the life of a smuggler (white knuckled bouncing my lumpy pig of an Asp back from Robigo or happily gliding in a Cobra at full speed) I've always had a chaff launcher or two because it prevents kill warrant scanning in RESes. Has it all been for naught?
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Duuk posted:Does chaff spam prevent scanning? The few times I've lived the life of a smuggler (white knuckled bouncing my lumpy pig of an Asp back from Robigo or happily gliding in a Cobra at full speed) I've always had a chaff launcher or two because it prevents kill warrant scanning in RESes. Has it all been for naught? Chaff does zilch against NPC scans, sorry.
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MarcusSA posted:Flight stick talk again. The wife got me this one as a reward for getting a certain job. If you've got the money left over from car/rent etc, I consider it worth it. It's very stable and durable, I'm huge and it doesn't move much without me wanting it to. It has 7 different thumb sticks, 4 on the stick and 3 on the throttle, and its almost enough. I have buttons bound for everything, separate buttons for cargo scoop, cargo hatch, shield cells, chaff, heat sinks, silent running, all forms of thrust of course, as well as all the gun stuff, targeting each and everything, both kinds of fast pants drivin, lights sensor range etc etc etc. The down side, as mentioned before, is that many are toggles that aren't fully supported, so rather than all the metal toggle switches have an on/off, you end up just pressing them "the other way" to hit a button. Also, I have yet to figure out how to make configs from scratch, so you end up taking other people's setups and just modifying them in elite, so the fanciest custom features are not readily available. People are making custom light scripts that are potentially p cool but if you figure them out, hook me up I guess. So yeah worth it if you have money handy. Two questions of my own since I'm postin: How do you direct "tell" to people in chat? I keep seeing chat in my HUD after I log out or something, so /reply won't work, and that's the only part covered on the elite wiki. Edit: smoov and Darth that's why I didn't reply, I am too stupid to figure out the comms How do you takes those beautiful screenshots, that include your own ship? JosephSkunk fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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If you target somebody and press enter it will default to sending a direct message to them, otherwise you can cycle through people who have sent you a direct message/wing chat/local chat using tab (by default).
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Here's a fun question that I forgot to bring up back when it was relevant: Has anyone using a controller successfully gotten into classified camera mode when in a dock or in supercruise? I've tried binding it to a keyboard command but still no luck with it in anything but normal flight-- I have to "take off" and sit on the landing pad to get ship screenshots for Inara.
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AndroidHub posted:If you target somebody and press enter it will default to sending a direct message to them, otherwise you can cycle through people who have sent you a direct message/wing chat/local chat using tab (by default). What.
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JosephSkunk posted:The wife got me this one as a reward for getting a certain job. If you've got the money left over from car/rent etc, I consider it worth it. It's very stable and durable, I'm huge and it doesn't move much without me wanting it to. It has 7 different thumb sticks, 4 on the stick and 3 on the throttle, and its almost enough. I have buttons bound for everything, separate buttons for cargo scoop, cargo hatch, shield cells, chaff, heat sinks, silent running, all forms of thrust of course, as well as all the gun stuff, targeting each and everything, both kinds of fast pants drivin, lights sensor range etc etc etc. Yeah I've been doing quite a bit of reading and it looks like it is going to take some time to set up but once you have it the way you like it the thing is flawless.
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Any sign of the panther or the other passenger ships? They weren't in the beta of 1.5, so is there any word if they're coming? Probably not.
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I've been out of the loop for months now, and tried a hazardous RES last night in my dusty Vulture. It was fun, made 250k in 10-15 minutes, but I'm just wondering if there's something better I can be doing weapons wise. Got a C3 gimballed pulse laser and I think C3 fixed cannon, and it felt like I was a little undergunned. Anyone got a suggestion for kitting out a kill ships get creds Vulture? Also lol I tried to pick off an FDL escorted by a pair of Eagles and limped my way back home with 50% hull left 
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I don't know if I mentioned this before but: Fehu is like Robigo, except that you simultaneously are achieving Empire ranks and you can do a score of charity missions while refreshing the boards. I've been doing 10 runs a day for a while, grinding placidly up to Marquis.
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Sekenr posted:Ok, whats the trick here? How did he disable the crazy aliasing I get in my game despite having all graphics options on max? Supersampling.
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Capn Beeb posted:I've been out of the loop for months now, and tried a hazardous RES last night in my dusty Vulture. It was fun, made 250k in 10-15 minutes, but I'm just wondering if there's something better I can be doing weapons wise. Got a C3 gimballed pulse laser and I think C3 fixed cannon, and it felt like I was a little undergunned. You could swap the pulse for a beam. A single beam won't insta-overheat you, and the cannon's heat impact is minimal so you can fire it even if you've beamed yourself to like 90% heat. Beam/Cannon is the loadout I'm using now after months of dual C3 G/Pulses and it's lots of fun and will demolish Pythons and smaller very quickly. The dual C3 G/Pulse combo is very effective, incidentally. With 3 or more pips to weapons they can fire long enough to trash any small ship or take a healthy chunk out of larger ones. I'm weaning off that though, in anticipation of 1.5 reducing laser damage against unshielded targets. When attacking an FDL/Eagle wing solo, I'll blitz one of the Eagles (ram + shoot up within a few seconds), then focus on the FDL while tanking/chaffing fire from the other Eagle. The big key is to avoid the FDL's nose (use your superb agility and directional thrusters to keep on its side/butt), because that C4 gun will smack the poo poo out of you. Once the FDL's down, then kill the other Eagle.
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So, for assassination / retirement missions I need an interdictor, right? All my targets seem to be in supercruise at all times
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What will happen if I don't pay the fines? I bumped the space station while exiting and didn't notice that I had a 100Cr fine, now I'm way too far from where I did that.
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Jack Trades posted:What will happen if I don't pay the fines? Nothing!
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Jack Trades posted:What will happen if I don't pay the fines? Unpaid, in a week, it will become a bounty, a week after that the bounty goes "dormant" and you won't immediately be wanted when you jump into that system - unless you get scanned by a Kill Warrant Scanner
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About how much should I be looking for credit wise until I trade up out of the Sidewinder? I like the ability to do a bit of everything so the Cobra is really tempting, it just really expensive comparatively.
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Shine posted:You could swap the pulse for a beam. A single beam won't insta-overheat you, and the cannon's heat impact is minimal so you can fire it even if you've beamed yourself to like 90% heat. Beam/Cannon is the loadout I'm using now after months of dual C3 G/Pulses and it's lots of fun and will demolish Pythons and smaller very quickly. Good stuff, thanks  Can anyone suggest a bounty hunting zone in Federal space near Jotunheim with a good shipyard and outfitting? I kinda like the sounds of the FAS, but I need to get my level up before I can buy one.
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jaffyjaffy posted:About how much should I be looking for credit wise until I trade up out of the Sidewinder? Enough to buy the new ship, equip everything at least 'D' grade, and maybe 10% left over to pay off the insurance. And if you want to trade, enough left to buy cargo too. Don't try and get straight to a Cobra using a Sidewinder. If you like killing, focus on getting an Eagle, or for trading/smuggling, a Hauler. For just about managing to do 'everything', the cheapest option would probably be an adder like this, so about 250k+. And sell/downgrade all the ship's equipment before selling the ship.
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Capn Beeb posted:Good stuff, thanks For Federal rank up missions I'd suggest going to Arexe and stacking kill pirate missions from all the Federation factions there. They all send you to Orrere which is an anarchy system (no cops) and kills count for all active missions so if you have 5 missions to kill 2 pirates each and a mission to kill 3, killing 3 pirates will complete all of your missions at once.
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Just finished updating the op for 1.5/horizons and got a new thread title, check it out. As always suggest things that you see missing or contribute guides or w/e and I'll change/update the op as appropriate.
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Mercurius posted:Orrere which is an anarchy system (no cops) On that note, be wary of jobs where you do need to kill system authority vessels, because they can be a real pain in the rear end to get ahold of. Also the police in Orrere are corrupt as hell and at least once I've had one scan me and use pirate lines about looking for cargo to steal, instead of the usual "no crime detected" act. Ursine Catastrophe posted:I Sard fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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AndroidHub posted:Just finished updating the op for 1.5/horizons and got a new thread title, check it out. As always suggest things that you see missing or contribute guides or w/e and I'll change/update the op as appropriate. I
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AndroidHub posted:Just finished updating the op for 1.5/horizons and got a new thread title, check it out. As always suggest things that you see missing or contribute guides or w/e and I'll change/update the op as appropriate. You made me think the beta dropped, you motherfucker.
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My goondolences (I'm starting a new job tomorrow so I wanted to get most of the changes out of the way.)
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Mercurius posted:Xihe has a great set of Resource Extraction Sites that are around a dwarf star (so it's never completely dark) which are also helpfully right next to the station Zhen Dock. Zhen Dock has a good selection of parts for small/medium sized ships (although the selection of stuff for class 5 and above stuff is less great) and is a full sized starport to boot so you can land any ship there. Haha poo poo, I can't do any work with the Feds out in Arexe because I'm not even Allied with them yet. Guess I just need to be careful when I go bounty busting. Also do rings get random haz RES added to them?
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