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Capn Beeb posted: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. That's the problem I'm running into as well. I'm friendly with them, but still no ranks. Run what missions I can for the subfactions in system but it doesn't seem to boost my faction rank enough. I'm allied to both the Fed players in Arexe now. Edit: Right after I posted this, I got my promotion mission. Aaaaand it's an assassination. 
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Thronde posted:That's the problem I'm running into as well. I'm friendly with them, but still no ranks. Run what missions I can for the subfactions in system but it doesn't seem to boost my faction rank enough. I'm allied to both the Fed players in Arexe now.
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I got to Xihe and where the hell are the gimballed C3 pulse lasers good lordThronde posted:That's the problem I'm running into as well. I'm friendly with them, but still no ranks. Run what missions I can for the subfactions in system but it doesn't seem to boost my faction rank enough. I'm allied to both the Fed players in Arexe now. Are those still guaranteed Anaconda fights? I did one once, jumped in, and immediately got plasmaed through the windshield 
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So yeah this Vulture is pretty awesome, its big lasers chew things up. Thanks for the tips guys.
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Capn Beeb posted:I got to Xihe and where the hell are the gimballed C3 pulse lasers good lord Zhen Dock should have basically everything that isn't Anaconda-sized. Sort by name and double-check?
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Capn Beeb posted:I got to Xihe and where the hell are the gimballed C3 pulse lasers good lord The best thing to do when lazy/in a poo poo fighting ship, is to just refresh the bulletin board until you get a rank-progression mission that involves transporting two tons of space poo poo. It's a lot easier than taking on an anaconda.
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Capn Beeb posted:I got to Xihe and where the hell are the gimballed C3 pulse lasers good lord That's near Jotunheim, right? If so, Beta-1 Tucane was usually my goto fitting stop.
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This game is frigging fantastic - another $15-on-steam-sale buyer here. It's everything I wanted from EVE, but fun! I'm rocking around in a Viper now and got up to an Asp, but sold it because gently caress that thing handles like a brick. Rah! posted:The best thing to do when lazy/in a poo poo fighting ship, is to just refresh the bulletin board until you get a rank-progression mission that involves transporting two tons of space poo poo. It's a lot easier than taking on an anaconda. What's the trick to refreshing the bulletin board? I want some more of those easy "donate 2k for ++++rep w/ faction" missions. Urit fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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I'm coming back to this after not playing since shortly after powerplay launched. Mostly I flew around hires belts in a Cobra taking on big ships thanks to two banks of shield boosters and a class A powerplant. I heard they nerfed shield bosters. Should I throw out the boosters for something else or did little actually change?
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Cirofren posted:I'm coming back to this after not playing since shortly after powerplay launched.
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AndroidHub posted:My goondolences (I'm starting a new job tomorrow so I wanted to get most of the changes out of the way.) I thought there was also a cobra mk4? Edit: never mind didnt notice the line above every thing =V
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Shine posted:Zhen Dock should have basically everything that isn't Anaconda-sized. Sort by name and double-check?
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Shine posted:Zhen Dock should have basically everything that isn't Anaconda-sized. Sort by name and double-check? Zhen Dock has some really weird gaps in fittings, it's bizzare. INARA is pretty awesome for finding things near you under the galaxy tab -> outfitting. (Be sure to set your location.) In other news, I finally reached my final two pre-Horizons goals tonight: 1B Cr in assets and Elite rating (in trading -- thanks <<REDACTED>>!) I celebrated by buying the Federal Dropship family at Jameson Memorial because 
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So, controls. Anyone else here use a controller? What bindings do you use? The 'advanced' config works great for me with a few tweaks (like target ahead on Y+shoulder button rather than Y+Dpad), but the one thing that bugs me about it is that I cannot find a combat-viable way to work in lateral thrusters alongside roll and yaw. Maybe if I put the throttle on the face buttons, I could put lateral thrust on the shoulder buttons? Would mean giving up yaw and vertical thrust for a second in order to adjust speed, but that doesn't sound crippling. What's your favorite config, if anyone else uses a controller at all? As far as joysticks are concerned, how about opinions regarding the Logitech 3d Pro vs the Thrustmaster T-Flight X? I'm kinda leaning towards the Logitech, because while a full HOTAS would be a really fun novelty, what matters to me more in the long term is the quality of the stick. I tend to trust logitech on this. Plus, most reviews praise the smoothness and tight control range of the logitech, while criticizing the large deadzone and greater tendency to develop wallow on the Thrustmaster, both of which are are things that bother me. Thoughts from anyone who's owned either?
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Cathair posted:As far as joysticks are concerned, how about opinions regarding the Logitech 3d Pro vs the Thrustmaster T-Flight X? I'm kinda leaning towards the Logitech, because while a full HOTAS would be a really fun novelty, what matters to me more in the long term is the quality of the stick. I tend to trust logitech on this. Plus, most reviews praise the smoothness and tight control range of the logitech, while criticizing the large deadzone and greater tendency to develop wallow on the Thrustmaster, both of which are are things that bother me. Thoughts from anyone who's owned either? This doesn't help you much, but I have a Saitek X52 Pro and it's amazing for this game. You can bind everything! If you're going for a joystick make sure it has a billion buttons because you're going to need them. I actually honestly wish I had a 4th hat switch for some of this stuff.
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My biggest issue with my 3d extreme is more an issue with my playstyle. I use freelook a huge amount- to navigate all the inflight menus, situational awareness, and just to see the sights. I can't beat the fluidity of pressing the middle mouse button to switch in and out of it, and the hat switch on the joystick is terrible for that purpose. I feel like I fly way better with a mouse and keyboard- until I spend the dosh on a TrackIR for headtracking, I'm sticking to the simple solution.
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I know the OP is busy but any chance they could read over these last few threads and put the advice being dispensed out in the OP? Some great information that will sadly be lost to time within a week.
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Urit posted:What's the trick to refreshing the bulletin board? I want some more of those easy "donate 2k for ++++rep w/ faction" missions. Switching between open and solo mode usually does it (which is a way that you can stack up trading/smuggling/assassination/combat missions as well, until 1.5 drops at least), as does waiting around 10 minutes. Though at some point you'll end up seeing 20 rank-up missions available at the same time, and then you can just choose whatever looks easiest or the most fun. edit: but never take more than one rank progression mission at the same time, because that apparently fucks them all up. Rah! fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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Cathair posted:So, controls. I currently use the Xbox 360 controller and I've dwelt on this problem since I started playing at launch. I honestly think the true solution is to buy a HOTAS but for now I am using this config that I purloined from the Interwebs. It is not perfect and has a few weird assignments that take some getting used to or just need to be reconfigured but as a starting point it is serviceable. An alternate setup would be: Vertical Thrust - Left stick Y axis Horizontal Thrust - Left stick X axis Pitch - Right stick Y axis Yaw into roll - Right stick X axis My issues with the alternate setup are: I already learned from the setup linked above and re-learning on something that's not a HOTAS is annoying, and the yaw into roll is really finicky. You have to be very precise with your stick movements to get the intended results and I struggled there. Also I rely a lot on roll for obvious reasons and yaw for quick corrections when aiming and interdicting so I kinda need both of those to be accessible. Good luck on sorting your config out.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:I know the OP is busy but any chance they could read over these last few threads and put the advice being dispensed out in the OP? Some great information that will sadly be lost to time within a week.
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Cathair posted:As far as joysticks are concerned, how about opinions regarding the Logitech 3d Pro vs the Thrustmaster T-Flight X? I'm kinda leaning towards the Logitech, because while a full HOTAS would be a really fun novelty, what matters to me more in the long term is the quality of the stick. I tend to trust logitech on this. Plus, most reviews praise the smoothness and tight control range of the logitech, while criticizing the large deadzone and greater tendency to develop wallow on the Thrustmaster, both of which are are things that bother me. Thoughts from anyone who's owned either? The only thing coming close to a gripe with it that I might have is that the throttle on it kinda sucks, but a) that's true of pretty much any non-HOTAS throttle, and b) I never use it anyway since I keep my other hand on the keyboard (where all my thruster controls are).
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Helter Skelter posted:I'd recommend the Thrustmaster T.16000m (about the same price as the T-Flight) over either of those if you're worried about deadzone issues or the stick becoming loose over time. It's solid as hell, and probably the least expensive stick out there using magnetic Hall effect sensors (also found in the Thrustmaster Warthog) rather than traditional linear potentiometers that tend to go crappy over time. They're very well-regarded. I've had mine for about a year and it's just as precise as the day I got it.  Holy poo poo, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I didn't know there was such a good option available in a relatively affordable price range. I'm trying to keep the price as low as possible for a device that I'm not going to use for very many games, but that's not too much more to pay for Hall Effect sensors and really solid action.Like you said, I don't care about having a throttle on a flightstick's base either. It's far too out of the way to constantly keep a hand on, which negates the biggest advantage of an analogue throttle. Keyboard throttle is fine. How does the hat switch feel? It looks a bit crappy. Which isn't a dealbreaker, just wondering.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:INARA is pretty awesome for finding things near you under the galaxy tab -> outfitting. (Be sure to set your location.) how long has this been a thing because holy poo pooalso I hit up the top ten results near Xihe for the C3 gimballed pulse lasers and got nothin' 
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I was playing about at our own station in 63 G and noticed we had gimballed C3 pulse. The outfitting isn't all that bad
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JosephSkunk posted:How do you takes those beautiful screenshots, that include your own ship? There is an unbound key in your bindings (I believe it's still defaulted to unbound) for a debug or third person camera. It's clunky and you're limited on angles you can choose to snap a picture from but it works well enough to get some pretty screenshots when you want them. Someone else can give you the actual name of the bind you're looking for. I haven't looked in my bindings since they gave us that feature some time ago and I've forgotten it's name to be honest. Literally Kermit posted:What. I laughed too hard at this. I send little nonsense messages to every player I see so I've always got a list of 8-10 people in my contacts who I'm not friends with. LCL-Dead fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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Cathair posted:How does the hat switch feel? It looks a bit crappy. Which isn't a dealbreaker, just wondering. I will say that the buttons on the top of the stick feel a bit mushy (a bit like a membrane keyboard), but it doesn't affect their reliability or anything.
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Honestly, the changes to shield cell banks left me cold until yesterday, when I had to fight a loving Adder which just refused to die. That NPC-fucker just blasted off shield cells repeatedly to stay alive and just before it finally died, it lasered my Imperial Eagle through the canopy. Limping home across multiple systems, just using my radar, was a fun experience at least. 
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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. Also, unless it's changed since I last played you brake slightly faster with FA off. That's saved me a few times when I boosted too close to the station entrance. Cathair posted:As far as joysticks are concerned, how about opinions regarding the Logitech 3d Pro vs the Thrustmaster T-Flight X? I'm kinda leaning towards the Logitech, because while a full HOTAS would be a really fun novelty, what matters to me more in the long term is the quality of the stick. I tend to trust logitech on this. Plus, most reviews praise the smoothness and tight control range of the logitech, while criticizing the large deadzone and greater tendency to develop wallow on the Thrustmaster, both of which are are things that bother me. Thoughts from anyone who's owned either? Cobra M5 is best cheap(er) joystick. Has hall sensors like the TM16000 but also multiple hats, pinkie switch and dual stage trigger. Though availability is an issue. Easier if you're in Europe, can order it off various Polish or German sites. Libluini posted:Fresh from my override-xml: Thanks. it dont matter fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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Turning FA off and "bouncing around with 4 pips in sys until you stop" just seems like a bad idea to me. If you boost at the wrong moment and know you're going to hit the wall, 4 pips to sys is a must, outside of that you should be providing proper throttle management to mitigate as much of the damage as possible. You know, putting on the brakes. Once you've hit the wall and your forward momentum has been effectively erased, zero out your throttle and allow Flight Assist to bring your ship to a complete stop. Then you can adjust course as needed to get back to where you were originally going.
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LCL-Dead posted:Turning FA off and "bouncing around with 4 pips in sys until you stop" just seems like a bad idea to me. I have a keyboard-key bound to zero speed for that exact reason. Hammering my emergency-stop-button has saved my rear end more then once.
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Protip: deploying the cargo scoop makes you slow down faster.
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Libluini posted:I have a keyboard-key bound to zero speed for that exact reason. Hammering my emergency-stop-button has saved my rear end more then once. Mike the TV posted:Protip: deploying the cargo scoop makes you slow down faster. If I am trying to stop as fast as possible I deploy all of the things. Hardpoints (Even though this does nothing), landing gear and cargo scoop. I'm a joystick + keyboard player so I have a -50/0/50/100 keybinding set up on F1-F4 for speed control with fine tuning done via W/S. When landing gear is deployed WASD becomes directional as well so not only do I hit the reverse thrust key and then mash S to drag it up to -100% but depending on the angle I'm moving I'll use my lateral thrusters to try and bleed speed as well. When I first flew the Asp I promptly splashed it into the station wall just shy of the mail slot and exploded. This was because I had come from a Vulture and left the landing pad like I was still flying one.
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Mike the TV posted:Protip: deploying the cargo scoop makes you slow down faster. Same with landing gear. Throw your landing gear down, slam reverse, and 4 pips sys. This is how you survive accidental ramming. This is the only way to use a landing computer, btw. If you have a docking computer, boost on into the slot, then zero the throttle and let it do the final approach. Skips the whole "waiting your turnnnn" bullshit that will gently caress you when smuggling.
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What should I aim for with my Eagle? This is my current, bounty hunting loadout: 
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Rah! posted:Switching between open and solo mode usually does it (which is a way that you can stack up trading/smuggling/assassination/combat missions as well, until 1.5 drops at least), as does waiting around 10 minutes. Though at some point you'll end up seeing 20 rank-up missions available at the same time, and then you can just choose whatever looks easiest or the most fun. I've noticed a distinct lack of "give money for rep" missions recently but it might be my garbo luck
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Inacio posted:What should I aim for with my Eagle? An Imperial Eagle 
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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. Nice OP updates. And it's a great subtitle, no doubt, but "Elite Dangerous: Horizons - This Game Just Got Buggier" will always hold a special place in my heart
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I wonder if it's worth it to not pay smuggling fines, considering that I'm flying a Cobra, which is not that expensive to buy. I haven't died once yet, so I have no idea how death work in Elite but I was thinking that maybe skipping the fines would save me more money than enough money to re-buy the same ship after an eventual death to some bounty hunter. Also, does anyone have any tips on how to dock without getting your cargo scanned? No matter how fast I try to dock, and if I do it manually or via a module, whether I get scanned or not seems to be entirely random.
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Jack Trades posted:I wonder if it's worth it to not pay smuggling fines, considering that I'm flying a Cobra, which is not that expensive to buy. You will be forced to pay fines when you die - it'll be part of your respawn cost. Fines are not bounties, either. I've found that getting in with the ruling party seems to mean my ship gets scanned less. Also there are no cops at Outpost stations (the ones without the mailslot to fly though, they're just open-to-space pads).
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Urit posted:You will be forced to pay fines when you die - it'll be part of your respawn cost. Fines are not bounties, either. Not always true. I've run into outposts with cops that scan you as you come in. But it seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
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