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Dongattack posted:How do you find minerals and whatever that the SRV can interact with on planets? Just drive around aimlessly or is there more to it? Use the Wave Scanner, as the scanner travels left to right across the HUD you will hear a noise and see a bright line in the general direction of where the thing is. As you get closer the tone will change and the line will get shorter and more defined as to where the thing is. It doesn't define distance so you still need to use the Mark I Eyeball and your regular scanner to help pinpoint the thing you are looking for, but it will get you close enough that those things will work.
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Amethyst posted:I have a basic discovery scanner and have flown around all of the gas giants, and found nothing. do I just need to upgrade my scanner? Yes, and just pray the planet isn't a couple hours of real time in supercruise away from your entry-sun.  Or if you're really feeling hardcore, use real astronomy to find the missing planets. Disclaimer: If your missing planet is really, really far away, you may never find it without an advanced scanner. (See above)
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I'll giver Frontier credit, they've made smaller ships compelling again. I've had a blast in a Cobra MkIII zipping through canyons and landing in places that would be a pain in the rear end in anything bigger.
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Whats a good upgrade from a Viper 3. Budget about 4m.
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So I'm loading this back up after falling off in interest when they released Powerplay. I'm getting back up to speed, and it like I'm right on the cusp of being able to afford and kit out a python. Is Big Harrys still the official goon hangout or did we move on? I did buy horizons, is there decent money to be made on surface excavations?
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cheesetriangles posted:Whats a good upgrade from a Viper 3. Budget about 4m. Viper 4 is really good, alternately try a Cobra 3 or save up another 1.5m and get a basic Vulture.
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TomR posted:I got pretty close to this black hole. Is that a black hole practically right next to a sun, how does that even work 
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The Elite bug has bitten me and now I'm looking at head tracking solutions. Edtracker seems like a good low-cost option, right? 3DOF vs 6DOF not a big deal?
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The wave scanner is something you learn to use well with practice, as much of it is identifying the space noises it emits for different objects. In addition, the patterns on your scan are all distinct. As a rule of thumb, bright returns on the bottom of the scan bar are heavier elements like rocky meteorites. A brighter, focused line at the bottom is a more dense object like the rarer metallic meteorites. A return with values all the way up and down the scale is an object composed of heavy and light elements like wrecks, cargo cans and your ship. If you're out hunting materials, you can use the patterns to avoid the Bronzite Chondrites (common, diffuse line at the bottom), and seek out the Mesosiderites (uncommon, focused line at the bottom) and Metallic Meteorites (rare, two focused lines at the bottom). There's also Outcrops on planets that aren't icy bodies, but I don't know about those since powersliding around while doing geology is the stuff. It looks like each planet also has it's own set of materials on offer, so you'll have to jump around to collect 'em all.
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Ciaphas posted:Is that a black hole practically right next to a sun, how does that even work Well it should look something like this: http://www.askamathematician.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/black-hole-star-accretion.jpg but I guess we can cut Frontier some slack for not considering these edge cases.
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Ciaphas posted:Is that a black hole practically right next to a sun, how does that even work A black hole has no more or less gravity pull beyond its event horizon than any other object of equivalant mass, and will orbit stuff the same way as a visible body. It's just that all the mass is in a very small volume, and *really* dense. Also 'right next to' in space is still a loving long way away, and gravity is a very weak force compared to all the other fundamental forces, plus its attractive power decreases in proportion to the square of distance, so you can get quite close to one in astronomical terms. Although 30,000 Km is super close in those terms, so it's probably a very small one. All the above is qualified by my knowing just enough  to know I'm probably wrong about something though...
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IIRC the pull of a black hole is the equivalent of its original mass, so it's not like itd be any stronger than a normal star.
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xiansi posted:A black hole has no more or less gravity pull beyond its event horizon than any other object of equivalant mass, and will orbit stuff the same way as a visible body. It's just that all the mass is in a very small volume, and *really* dense. edit: Oh, right, it's 30Km! That's...close. Can a black hole be that small? I have no idea.
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xiansi posted:edit: They can exist as basically any size. It's just matter that got too dense.
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tofes posted:The Elite bug has bitten me and now I'm looking at head tracking solutions. Edtracker seems like a good low-cost option, right? 3DOF vs 6DOF not a big deal? Pitch and yaw are basically all that matters for head tracking in ED, so 3DOF will be fine. 6DOF is more something that's good in plane sims where sometimes you want to look up over the nose or press against the window to get a better angle on something.
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The black hole was 2.8 solar masses. Not very big. I dropped out and got to 25km from it.
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Where is the closest black hole to the bubble? I need to try something... ...for science.
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I find the idea of being within like a billion KM of a black hole absurdly loving frightening. I still freak out a little after warps in ED and the star suddenly approaches at speed, especially when it's like a white dwarf or whatever those small bright white powerfully hot ones are. gently caress those things, god drat
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I think its Maia in the pleiades cluster? HIP 63835 is relatively close as well and has 3 black holes :o
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Is there a trick to getting weak signal sources to spawn? The Feds want me to grab an ancient artifact and from browsing around it seems they often spawn in the weak signal sources. So far I've only seen two, and I chose the wrong one. Not seen once since.
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Capn Beeb posted:Is there a trick to getting weak signal sources to spawn? The Feds want me to grab an ancient artifact and from browsing around it seems they often spawn in the weak signal sources. Fly around supercruise at minimum speed and twiddle your thumbs until one spawns. Doing this at minimum speed will make them spawn very close to you and you won't have to do the usual supercruise extended slowdown bit to drop on them. Also don't take missions like that because they are boring RNGfests.
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LCL-Dead posted:Where is the closest black hole to the bubble? I need to try something... I got you: Rah! posted:HIP 34707 has a black hole, is only 189 light years from Sol, and has inhabited systems right next door. HIP 63835 is also closer than Maia, and it has
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Arrath posted:You're straight hosed if your FSD gets shot out, aren't you? You can try the reboot & repair option on the function menu on the right panel.
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Space Skeleton posted:You can try the reboot & repair option on the function menu on the right panel. Yeah that worked, bumped it from 0 to 1%. Enough for me to limp home which is much preferable to suiciding out of these bounties.
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Shine posted:Fly around supercruise at minimum speed and twiddle your thumbs until one spawns. Doing this at minimum speed will make them spawn very close to you and you won't have to do the usual supercruise extended slowdown bit to drop on them. Also don't take missions like that because they are boring RNGfests. It was the only one for the rank up mission thing  At least it was a close one, the other rank up mission was a "go get us stuff" one, only 350LY away.
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I'm running two C2 cannons and two C1 beams on my Cobra. It sounds like space shotguns are good now though, would I get more damage with them in place of the cannons? Followup: how the heck do the damage numbers work in the coriolis ship builder? Is it Hull Damage (Shield Damage)?
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Cowcaster posted:I'm running two C2 cannons and two C1 beams on my Cobra. It sounds like space shotguns are good now though, would I get more damage with them in place of the cannons? Space shotguns own own own.
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You'll still burn through the ammo for fewer kills than you would with cannons, but the damage output is phenomenal if you're in a fast and agile ship that can hug butts. I think the FAS is the best ship for using them, since it can easily power two medium beams for stripping shields, and the two large slots are lined up vertically so you just aim along the target spine and unload. You can kill a ship as heavily armored as a Dropship with about 18 shots, so 3 reloads on a dual shotgun FAS.
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I hit Chief Petty Officer, so it's FAS time  Is $27 million enough to buy one at $19 million and have enough to decently kit it out for PvE bounty blasting?
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I guess it's kind of a moot point because Elite has become dangerously unstable on my system. The latest crash I got left my system with a scrambled screen that persisted through several reboots leaving me terrified I fried my graphics card and/or computer as a whole. I'll probably be playing something else for a while.
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Cowcaster posted:I guess it's kind of a moot point because Elite has become dangerously unstable on my system. The latest crash I got left my system with a scrambled screen that persisted through several reboots leaving me terrified I fried my graphics card and/or computer as a whole. I'll probably be playing something else for a while. it sounds like that's exactly what you did. Same thing happened to me with WoT back in the day.
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YellerBill posted:Yeah the HazRESes in Xihe are the closest RESes to the star, close enough that if you hang out near them in supercruise you stand a good chance of overheating. In realspace it's not as hot but most ships still sit at 50~55% heat when there. The plus side to this is that it makes a great place to hone your heat management skills, as well as making it easier to spot NPCs because they all have larger heat signatures there. Ahhh so this is why I felt like I needed a heat sink last night. I didn't realize this, actually I almost forgot that that was a star at all rather than a gas giant.
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Sard posted:You'll still burn through the ammo for fewer kills than you would with cannons, but the damage output is phenomenal if you're in a fast and agile ship that can hug butts. I think the FAS is the best ship for using them, since it can easily power two medium beams for stripping shields, and the two large slots are lined up vertically so you just aim along the target spine and unload. You can kill a ship as heavily armored as a Dropship with about 18 shots, so 3 reloads on a dual shotgun FAS. Yeah I love them space shotguns. I am actually spending time planetside to scrounge up materials for 4-5 reloads, but it takes forever.. I hope I can buy them from some korean materials farmer or whatever
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New patch is out:quote:- Crash fix for following crafting sub-menu access from modular menu
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For one goon the flip out during dock off an blow yourself horribly fix came a tad bit too late. Where is empire space? I want to start grinding their rep because I like how their ships look. Also I like how the blue hair anime girl looks, I will pledge my undying support for her blue hair.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:For one goon the flip out during dock off an blow yourself horribly fix came a tad bit too late. Just check blue hair's "base of operations" system, and go hang around that vicinity. All Empire, all the time, pretty much. Remember to only do missions that have a little "empire" symbol on the bulletin board. I spend a lot of time on the Empire/Federation border so I can either focus on either one, or just kind of alternate depending on where I landed from the last mission.
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