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frank.club posted:I'm really sure Braben himself said that Gravity was modeled He did. David Braben posted:
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So I got this game on Steam sale. Right now I'm just sort of wandering around to random star systems around the starting point. I did the space trucker thing and sold some water purifiers to an agricultural station. Is there somewhere I should be heading? Or should I be hanging out around the starting area?
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If there is anything more than "extremely rare" in terms of frequency for outposts on worlds beyond the bubble I'm thinking that I may finally take a trip out into the black once I've got my SRV and synthesizers loaded into my ship. I don't want to do it in an Asp, am too poor for the gimmick Exploraconda and dislike the DBS for reasons. Does the Keelback fit out to a decent jump range? I'm not looking for 30+, but 23-25 would be nice. I made it halfway to Sag A in a 22ly Cobra before Glyph called all goons back to Harry's for expansion and control wars. Hell.. If I can get the Python to 18-20LY I'll just take that out with minimal armament.
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Grondoth posted:Are there still courier missions? I love taking a message 350 light years in 15 minutes for a pretty decent reward. Almagest is the best for this. Lots of courier missions, basically not much else. The higher your exploration-rank is, the better the payout. LCL-Dead posted:If there is anything more than "extremely rare" in terms of frequency for outposts on worlds beyond the bubble I'm thinking that I may finally take a trip out into the black once I've got my SRV and synthesizers loaded into my ship. Just try this: quote:[Python] I was incredibly lazy, so there's still a lot of cargo space in it. I guess in Horizons you can put in a class 6 module for landing vehicles instead of one of the cargo holds. Range with full tanks and empty cargo: 25,12 ly/jump. Can be boosted in Horizons to 50,24 with the right materials. Go hogg wild.
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Literally Kermit posted:100% Metal indeed. Thanks man, hope you liked the payoff! This was a good choice of location for my first landing. 
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Dr. Tough posted:So I got this game on Steam sale. Right now I'm just sort of wandering around to random star systems around the starting point. I did the space trucker thing and sold some water purifiers to an agricultural station. Is there somewhere I should be heading? Or should I be hanging out around the starting area? Basically I just started taking the bulletin board missions I could. One threw me out 10 or so jumps from my starting point and I forgot where I started from, and so we work from there.
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Libluini posted:I was incredibly lazy, so there's still a lot of cargo space in it. I guess in Horizons you can put in a class 6 module for landing vehicles instead of one of the cargo holds. Hot drat that is sexy. The larger landing modules will hold more vehicles, did I see that somewhere earlier in this thread or something? It's going to be interesting to see how the extra modules will balance out the min/max PvP builds.
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Cowcaster posted:Basically I just started taking the bulletin board missions I could. One threw me out 10 or so jumps from my starting point and I forgot where I started from, and so we work from there. I've been checking bulletin board stuff too, but it seems like 90+% of them are unavailable to me right now.
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I can't fight in this game worth poo poo. Just got my Sidewinder interdicted by some random npc in what looked like a Hauler and lost the fight  It worked better in the tutorials. I even got myself some gimbal guns to make up for my crap aim.
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The reason the board doesn't just generate missions specifically for you and your rank is that they have this daft notion that people go and wing up to run missions, and the game allows people to see and take the same missions on the board at any given time. However you still need the required rank, and you have to be pretty quick when taking the missions, because the refresh time on the boards is roughly 5 minutes. In reality very few people do this (if any, since most don't know it's even a thing that you can do.) So the system really just leads to people being annoyed that there's all these missions the game is showing them that they can't take. 
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Crossposting from the PGS thread, but the topic is of general interest to all fine Horizon havers or wanters. radintov and Ejecto Moronic and I are doing a little investigating the upgrades between base game and Horizons. We went to the goonholm for this one, of course. The "bad" news is some features have been changed, because the surfaced are now a lot more detailed. This is the current Capricorni 2:  This is horizons Capricorni 2:  Note that it's possible the big crater in both are one and the same what with them polar draw lines, whatchacallem. Here is Capricorni 3 currently in Live:   and bonus points for it being a blueish ball at that.Edit: whoooops, 4 and 5 are the co-orbiters. More on this later, then. Alas, it appears its color is now brown, but the following set of images is radintov's first decent into the new Cap 3: http://imgur.com/a/syEPK  At least it is wrinkly! Cap 3 has a Diamond Frog settlement called "Schade Settlement", with "Schade" being an obsolete old german word for "Harm" or "Damage"  It is not very big. It is that little building to the right of Ejecto's Cutter, here:  Gosh, it is so us, isn't it?  There's ten settlements total in 63 G. Capricorni, out of six landable bodies. Cap 10 has no atmo, but it has ammonia based life which I assume is a whole new ball game for until atmosphere landings anyway. Cap `12 has a very thin helium atmosphere, so no dice. We can land on Capricorni 1 -5 and the moon of Capricorni 7.Yesterday we confirmed Betelgeuse 2 was landable. We weren't the only ones jumping to go there, and if you didn't see it before, check out this guy's vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4ugKLiQwU0 I bring this up because Betel 2's surface temp of 1200K or so. Its orbit is in fuel scoop range, actually. If you can land there, you can land pretty much anywhere. Next up, stupid SRV tricks! Literally Kermit fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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Keep posting more Horizons poo poo since I am locked out of it due to my lovely machine for the next few months.
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Literally Kermit posted:the following set of images is radintov's first decent into the new Cap 3: Also we tested the effectiveness of driving an SRV over an Imperial Cutter:  The iCutter exploded pretty quickly. Turns out that the SRV deals constant impact damage while taking very, very little in return. And a couple of choice screenshots:   http://imgur.com/a/88qOL radintorov fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Dec 2, 2015 |
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I've heard of the Lonely Planet, but I've never heard of the Lovesick Puppy Planet before now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceskuwaJCuY
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So a mission gave me 13 slaves last night, and then the server died, so the mission failed, leaving me with 13 slaves in Federation territory that I didn't really want to deal with. I jettisoned them into a nice canyon. They'll do fine.
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^^^ Yeah, SRVs drill down like they're made of unobtanium or something. Which they are. We do of course need to devise some tactics around the SRVs potential for clingy destruction. Well then again, it's not like it's ever going to make it into release! 
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Dr. Tough posted:So I got this game on Steam sale. Right now I'm just sort of wandering around to random star systems around the starting point. I did the space trucker thing and sold some water purifiers to an agricultural station. Is there somewhere I should be heading? Or should I be hanging out around the starting area? These are questions I wonder myself as well since I'm a fellow newbie to the world of Elite: Dangerous. This thread seems to be just for the veterans though so I'm wondering if there's a good website or something that can help answer questions like this and others that I might have as someone starting out and who just upgraded to an Adder.
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Electrophotonic posted:^^^ Yeah, SRVs drill down like they're made of unobtanium or something. Which they are. I think I'd prefer them fixing it to not, since SRVs that can pierce the heavens probably aren't ever going to be viable weaponry. And it gets in the way of srv-sketball.
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The one thing disappointing for me in the Horizons Beta: I wanted to try bombing a starport using mine launchers as bombs. Because, eh they have proximity fuses, same thing as bombs when dropped onto a planet, right? Sadly dropping them onto a space city just made them vanish instead of exploding. Bah.
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Libluini posted:The one thing disappointing for me in the Horizons Beta: I wanted to try bombing a starport using mine launchers as bombs. Because, eh they have proximity fuses, same thing as bombs when dropped onto a planet, right?
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Got the Warthog today and hot drat is it awesome. I'm having a blast shooting spacemans even though I haven't figured out how to set 90% of these buttons. This is one hell of a set up and I have no regrets.
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Is there a way to map the controls to the way they are on the xbox one? I'm trying to use a 360 controller and I started going through the bindings, it seems like the controller presets they offer still make use of the keyboard. Sorry about the dumb question
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Libluini posted:The one thing disappointing for me in the Horizons Beta: I wanted to try bombing a starport using mine launchers as bombs. Because, eh they have proximity fuses, same thing as bombs when dropped onto a planet, right? Mercurius posted:I think Kaker tried it last night and basically they ignore gravity so they just sit wherever you drop them. Clearly the answer is a Federal Gunship with Torpedos instead Yeah http://gfycat.com/DisguisedSelfassuredIndianabat
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MarcusSA posted:Got the Warthog today and hot drat is it awesome. Thanks jerk, I'm $300 poorer because of this post (or I will be once Amazon gets them back in stock).
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I'm trying to figure out what works best for a 360 controller. Are horizontal thrusters or yaw more important in dogfighting? I'm not looking to be elite top killer pvp but I don't want to start off playing gimped.
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punch drunk posted:I'm trying to figure out what works best for a 360 controller. Are horizontal thrusters or yaw more important in dogfighting? I'm not looking to be elite top killer pvp but I don't want to start off playing gimped. You need both, really. Fine aim adjustment without yaw would be hell and every thruster matters. I'd take yaw if I had to choose though.
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I'm new to the game, what determines your hyperjump range? I just got told that I couldn't make a jump of about 9.15 LY, but that's where my nav computer told me to go. Why would it plot a route I can't actually jump?
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tofes posted:Is there a way to map the controls to the way they are on the xbox one? I'm trying to use a 360 controller and I started going through the bindings, it seems like the controller presets they offer still make use of the keyboard. All the bindings at least have optional keyboard bindings, but if your computer recognizes the controller you have plugged in as a 360 it should show you options for “Default Context”, which is probably what you’re looking for. If you want to get more complicated, read on. Ursine Catastrophe posted:So in case anyone else made the same mistake(?) I did and got an XBox One Elite controller thinking that you can actually make use of the back paddles as additional buttons, I have good news for you: I've got a control scheme you're (probably) going to love. punch drunk posted:I'm trying to figure out what works best for a 360 controller. Are horizontal thrusters or yaw more important in dogfighting? I'm not looking to be elite top killer pvp but I don't want to start off playing gimped. It varies by ship. I got away for a long time with no lateral thrust, though.
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super fart shooter posted:I'm new to the game, what determines your hyperjump range? I just got told that I couldn't make a jump of about 9.15 LY, but that's where my nav computer told me to go. Why would it plot a route I can't actually jump? Did you buy cargo or fuel after you plotted the jump? edited: for spacegame, in space.
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tooterfish posted:
Ah, that must have been it, I'll have to remember that. Thanks Also, I just got interdicted by the feds saying that I was a suspected smuggler or something, would they have just said that to anyone, or has someone actually been paying attention to all the easy money slave missions I've been running? I don't think I've ever actually been scanned coming into port with contraband....
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Guys, I take it back. I-I I think I'm gay for the Corvette 
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Guys, I take it back. I-I I think I'm gay for the Corvette Welcome home, citizen. 
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super fart shooter posted:Ah, that must have been it, I'll have to remember that. Thanks super fart shooter posted:Also, I just got interdicted by the feds saying that I was a suspected smuggler or something, would they have just said that to anyone, or has someone actually been paying attention to all the easy money slave missions I've been running? I don't think I've ever actually been scanned coming into port with contraband.... You'll see people occasionally complaining about being followed by dozens of these guys at once. That's because they've been resetting the missions board for two hours while watching Netflix. 
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Dessert Rose posted:Thanks jerk, I'm $300 poorer because of this post (or I will be once Amazon gets them back in stock). That is awsome! I don't think you'll regret it because while it maybe overkill the controls feel so perfect that you can't imagine playing with anything else.
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AndyElusive posted:These are questions I wonder myself as well since I'm a fellow newbie to the world of Elite: Dangerous. This thread seems to be just for the veterans though so I'm wondering if there's a good website or something that can help answer questions like this and others that I might have as someone starting out and who just upgraded to an Adder. IRC is always good for questions - all i do is ask dumb poo poo.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Guys, I take it back. I-I I think I'm gay for the Corvette I also personally think it looks way better than the Anaconda, especially how the flight deck looks from the bridge. The way the Anaconda flight deck looks like a straight rectangle from the bridge despite the ship being slightly contoured has always slightly bothered me and the Corvette thankfully is obviously tapered to fit the shape of the ship so it doesn't look slightly wrong. I assume the Anaconda is actually fine and it's just the weird perspective on the bridge causing my brain to not like how it looks but it still bothers me 
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Mercurius posted:I like it a lot (especially the massively better pitch in supercruise compared to the Anaconda) but I'm still not buying it until I can get C4 beams or autos. Now I just have to figure out how to grind up Fed ranks (I have read the rank up link in the OP) and earn tons of money for it.
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