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I reinstalled E:D now that horizons is out and noticed something seems really wrong.. I last played right around the time Powerplay launched, I have a kitted out vulture for combat missions and conflict zones and a long range asp with very strong shields for doing hauling and occasional interdictions. I jumped in my Asp, undocked, flew around in supercruise and saw a wing of eagles with the 'wanted' tag. So, I did what I had done many times before, I interdicted one and started the warrant scan. While the scan was running, he opened fire on me and as I had done dozens of times before in my Asp; I deployed two medium pulse lasers and four medium multi cannons (and this seemed less effective than I remember). Eagles are generally too small and maneuverable to bother with targeting hardpoints, so I put as much damage on him as possible before his buddies jumped in, I must have hit thrusters because he went into a slow spin right as the two other eagles started shooting at me. Last I played, I could easily take on three eagles, I did it all the time in conflict zones, interdictions and resource collection areas, I regularly would swat down a couple eagles or cobras and then move on to an anaconda or take on almost endless streams of small ships, but something changed. They chewed through my shields almost instantly. I was taking hull damage before I could even get through the shields of the second eagle and had to jump out with only one kill. Was there a major rebalancing of shields and weapon damage recently? I feel like my weapon loadout was much less effective than it used to be, possibly because I had to be much more evasive and couldn't just ignore their shots, and my shields were made of paper.
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Dongattack posted:Didn't see this post until now. Um, any money making tips then? If you can wait a bit for the money to come in, sign up for the CGs running now. Just do a little bit to get counted, then let others do the work. You won't get much, but depending on how crazy other people are going, you can at least expect 1-2 million credits if you sign up for all of them. If you only do the ones you like, you may even get more depending on how much you do. CGs are always a nice boost for beginners, if they're succesful: Even the lowest payout will be multiple times of what you have now. Inara has a list of which ones are running now. The trading community goal is probably the hardest to do for you right now, since large cargo space is needed if you want to see more then the lowest tier. If you want to shoot something, there are two CGs running for that. Personally, the rare trading one is probably the best for some beginner's money, since you make about 100k credits per 12t of cargo every time you sell in Hel. Ideal for small and cheap ships! Just remember (because people sometimes just forget): Sign up at the station before handing in bounty vouchers/selling stuff. Or it won't count.
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Dec 18, 2015 18:41
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Arrath posted:So last night I landed on my first planet and tooled around in the SRV for a while then went back to my ship and called it a night. Logging in this morning I can't launch my ship from the surface, the prompt to start the engines/launch isn't right there between my artificial horizon like it was when I first landed and the button does nothing. I've tried getting back in my SRV and driving around a bit before loading back up, still can't. Tried the ship repair/reboot, nothing. This sounds like a bug I had in beta. Check your thrusters are online. It's also possible they they'll online and still do nothing, in which case restart the game
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Dec 18, 2015 18:42
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Cowcaster posted:Can you mess with HUD colors from in game or does it require .ini tweaking? Requires ini tweaks, but this is helpful for ballparking things. Pro-tips: the values in the ini can go from -2 to 2 (-200 to 200 on the sliders for the web-thingy), so don't limit yourself to the default. Do you need a cargo bay to collect space goop for making fuel boosts/ammo/truck gas, or is having the vehicle hangar enough. The longer version of my questions would be, is this a viable DBE build which will let me land on planets and collect rocks to make gogo-juice? It's essentially the same thing I am running now, but with A-thrusters and the vehicle hangar instead of an extra gas tank. Also, what is the difference in the H and G versions of the hangar? Is it just mass/power draw? Nostalgia4Infinity posted:
 Now I wish I'd bought-in on Black Friday...oh well, surely they'll drop it again next year!
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Dec 18, 2015 18:47
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Strategic Tea posted:This sounds like a bug I had in beta. Check your thrusters are online. It's also possible they they'll online and still do nothing, in which case restart the game Figured it out, the launch button is vertical thrust up, not Joy 1 or 8 as the HUD message was telling me last night for some reason 
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Dec 18, 2015 18:50
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deadly_pudding posted:My understanding is that the time frame they give you is like a literal clock time in Galactic Standard Time, which I'm pretty sure is just GMT. You can see a time readout on your dash while you're docked, and I'm not sure how to get that clock otherwise besides "open a GMT clock in the other monitor". So when it gives you a target system and a time frame of 23:45-23:51, they don't mean it's gonna be 23 minutes from now. They mean your dude will literally spawn in between the times of 23:45 and 23:51 GMT. I guess I'm just an idiot because I don't remember seeing a range of time in the mission prompt, I'll have to check next time I see one on the bulletin board Also apparently hostage rescue missions are all broken: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3x8wuf/til_that_hostage_missions_are_broken_and_have/
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Dec 18, 2015 18:53
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Libluini posted:If you can wait a bit for the money to come in, sign up for the CGs running now. Just do a little bit to get counted, then let others do the work. You won't get much, but depending on how crazy other people are going, you can at least expect 1-2 million credits if you sign up for all of them. Cheeers, gonna try some trading. Combat was really unfun. I gotta say that it feels kinda frustrating to have to do combat/trading grinding just so i can do some basic exploration.
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Dec 18, 2015 19:06
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I apologize if I missed this, just crunched for time so I cannot go through the last 30 pages right now. Is there a downside to buying Horizons through Steam? It works out a little less from me (after I convert  ) to do it via steam that the Frontier store.I already have the steam key for the main game, I've just never installed it/played it through steam before.
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Dec 18, 2015 19:12
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Ah crap I appear to have lost my ship while gallivanting around the surface. Time to search fruitlessly until I run out of fuel or air! Ed oh cool I can summon my ship like its the fuckin batmobile. Arrath fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Dec 18, 2015 |
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Dec 18, 2015 19:14
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Yeah, your ship automatically departs into orbit if you drive more than 2 kilometers away from it.
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Dec 18, 2015 19:20
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Arrath posted:Ah crap I appear to have lost my ship while gallivanting around the surface. Time to search fruitlessly until I run out of fuel or air! Press L to make tearful recordings to all your loved ones
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Dec 18, 2015 19:31
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Just got blown up by a PC pirate hauling snowballs at Hel - it was a mission getting there in my lovely hauler. It's space Christmas, you bastard!
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Dec 18, 2015 19:35
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Arrath posted:Ah crap I appear to have lost my ship while gallivanting around the surface. Time to search fruitlessly until I run out of fuel or air! Press F to pay respects 
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Dec 18, 2015 19:36
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atal posted:Just got blown up by a PC pirate hauling snowballs at Hel - it was a mission getting there in my lovely hauler. It's space Christmas, you bastard! Merry Christmas, I got you some missiles! Batteries included!
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Dec 18, 2015 19:39
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deadly_pudding posted:Press F to pay respects F
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Bushiz posted:That had to cost a shitload but putting an advertisement for a spacegame in front of every nerd in the western world when they are at peak space nostalgia is probably the best investment they could have possibly made. http://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda/04A7D6A5D1D8D5C----------------3jv2v2v24d0t0t--2i2f.Iw18WAMPLpA=.Aw18ZlA=?bn=Esplor Here's what mine looks like right now. 3 vehicle hangars for a combined total of 12 SRVs, in case I break one. Shields to absorb the impact of my ship touching down and a 7C fuel scoop because it save 86 million credits at the cost of a whopping 10 extra seconds to fill the tank compared to an A grade scoop.
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Goliath drones are more powerful than I expected. I barely escaped with my life in A graded Viper Mk 4
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Sekenr posted:Goliath drones are more powerful than I expected. I barely escaped with my life in A graded Viper Mk 4 Same with base turrets 
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Astroniomix posted:http://coriolis.io/outfit/anaconda/04A7D6A5D1D8D5C----------------3jv2v2v24d0t0t--2i2f.Iw18WAMPLpA=.Aw18ZlA=?bn=Esplor This is what I'm looking for. I want something that can make the previously impossible jumps in the outer part of the galaxy by boosting the FSD how do the weak thrusters get by on high gravity worlds?
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Dec 18, 2015 19:46
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Bushiz posted:how do the weak thrusters get by on high gravity worlds? About like this http://youtu.be/WDebwFrQdeU
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Well, just had my first hauler experience. Jumped a a lot and at some point hosed something up and had to spend 20 minutes in supercruise, that was pretty harsh on my mellow and i almost took to the forums to shitpost in a furious frenzy. But i'm not gonna lie, when i eventually got there, skimmed the "atmosphere" of the moon over the poles and into the night side of the moon as some really good Lindsey Stirling came on my spotify playlist and i roaringly set my hauler down on the mining base i felt like it was pretty worth it. My next mission i must have smuggled performance enhancers i think, but it was np cause i'm a bitch and a half at docking my minuscule and pathetic ship into loose and gyrating holes, would be nice if it actually mentioned that "hey this is illegal" tho.
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Natsuumi posted:About like this http://youtu.be/WDebwFrQdeU Hah! This achenar planet is the next Hudson Orbital except kind of more evil. Although a saw a video by a dude who landed a Cutter there, but had to boost upwards several times
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Dec 18, 2015 19:55
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So I can just delete all the miscellaneous beta folders on my hard drive without losing my sweet as gently caress black skins or anything like that?
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Dec 18, 2015 20:00
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Bushiz posted:This is what I'm looking for. I want something that can make the previously impossible jumps in the outer part of the galaxy by boosting the FSD There's a reason I'm using 7D thrusters and shields instead of the usual 5D, but still check the planet's mass before landing, I would avoid anything over 2g.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:So I can just delete all the miscellaneous beta folders on my hard drive without losing my sweet as gently caress black skins or anything like that? You could reformat your drive and you wouldn't lose skins. They keep track of that stuff server-side.
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Sekenr posted:Hah! This achenar planet is the next Hudson Orbital except kind of more evil. Although a saw a video by a dude who landed a Cutter there, but had to boost upwards several times I landed there with a Cobra III and the upshot is "it's not too bad if you take it very, very slow". The problem, such as it is, is that with FA on your thrusters are keeping you roughly in place at, say, 80% output. Then you tap "go down", your bottom thrusters turn off and your top thrusters turn on, and even if that only happens for a split second, it takes a good 10-20 seconds for your bottom thrusters at 100% to get you back to neutral. Naturally, if your thrusters can't overcome the gravity for your ship weight you're just flat hosed, so I wouldn't recommend showing up without As. e: Also I would say try it at least once because once you're in an SRV, you're loving glued to the ground for the most part. (That said, a 5 foot drop will ding like 5% of your hull off, so don't go running off of cliffs) Ursine Catastrophe fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Dec 18, 2015 |
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Is it possible to just buy the materials for FSD boost or do you have to mine them?
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Luneshot posted:Is it possible to just buy the materials for FSD boost or do you have to mine them? Currently you have to find it yourself. There is possibly a way to trade/sell between players coming with/after the larger crafting update though. They have expressed the intention to get a player economy going with this stuff.
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Luneshot posted:Is it possible to just buy the materials for FSD boost or do you have to mine them? You keep materials in your pockets, and you're glued to your ship chair, so you can't actually get out of your ship so that someone with the materials can put them in your pocket. It's a drat shame all around. (No, you have to mine them.  )
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Press L to make tearful recordings to all your loved ones Pressing X to pay my respects
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Are rare trades, and the loop in the OP still a solid way to make moolah or did that all get nerfed to hell? I haven't played in a while.
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Elendil004 posted:Are rare trades, and the loop in the OP still a solid way to make moolah or did that all get nerfed to hell? I haven't played in a while. Rare loops are still a solid method, though any particular route or rare spawn may have changed with the update. Xihe still sells the companion robot things, I know that much.
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Sard posted:eddb.io can help point you towards the right systems. Probably. You should get at least a few million credits though, so you can buy an advanced scanner and a good frameshift drive. Can you prospect in some way other than buying a prospecting drone controller? I already have a collector drone controller but my Hauler is strangely short on internals for the task. (Don't really remember what I had fitted, I'm at work, but I was being cheap, I know that much.)
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Elendil004 posted:Are rare trades, and the loop in the OP still a solid way to make moolah or did that all get nerfed to hell? I haven't played in a while. Rare trades are fine. Most stuff pays well nowadays. Every now and then there is a hot new trick or exploit, but in general you can do the stuff you enjoy in the game and make reasonable money.
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Ciaphas posted:Can you prospect in some way other than buying a prospecting drone controller? I already have a collector drone controller but my Hauler is strangely short on internals for the task. (Don't really remember what I had fitted, I'm at work, but I was being cheap, I know that much.) Before prospector limpets, you'd have to shoot off a piece of rock and see what it was. If you don't have collectors deployed, then just target the chunk. If you have collectors deployed, then let them bring it to your refinery and you can see what it is. Don't do the targeting method if you have collectors deployed, as doing so will make your collector retrieve the chunk and then self-destruct. This is an intentional feature of collectors.
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Speaking of rare items, surface settlements are identical to space ones beyond being on the ground, right? So each and every one could potentially spawn rares?
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What's the easiest way to get large amounts of phosphorus? Googlefu is still weak on this sort of thing. Get cracking, min/maxers!
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slidebite posted:I apologize if I missed this, just crunched for time so I cannot go through the last 30 pages right now.
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slidebite posted:Anyone? I presume it makes no difference? It's the same, yeah. You still log into the Steam version launcher using your Frontier Account, and any Cosmetic poo poo you buy from Frontier's store gets added because it's part of your Frontier Account.
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Toadsmash posted:What's the easiest way to get large amounts of phosphorus? Googlefu is still weak on this sort of thing. Get cracking, min/maxers! Time.
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