nessin posted:

You can scan planets, but some people don't bother because it isn't a big payout unless you hit an earth-like planet.

Libluini posted:

But yeah, some planets aren't worth it.

Dongattack posted:

Lmao, holy poo poo this game has a lot of popular negative reviews on steam. I posted a tentatively positive review for the game just now and decided to see what the most helpful positive review said.
4 pages later i'm still scrolling haha

nessin posted:

You can scan planets, but some people don't bother because it isn't a big payout unless you hit an earth-like planet. You also have to get pretty close, usually within 25-80 for your scanner to work, whereas stars can be scanned from 1-2k away.

Shine posted:

Elite is a very good game that I can easily understand why people might think it's awful.

year199X posted:

Yeah, but I mean, do you need to scan it for your name to be on it? Or is honking enough?

Not that I care that some random guy sees my name, just curious.

year199X posted:

Yeah, but I mean, do you need to scan it for your name to be on it? Or is honking enough?

Not that I care that some random guy sees my name, just curious.

year199X posted:

Yeah, but I mean, do you need to scan it for your name to be on it? Or is honking enough?

Not that I care that some random guy sees my name, just curious.

Dongattack posted:

I ended up really liking it tho, in a Eurotruck 2 kinda way. But i need to research ways to cheese my way past the early economic game tomorrow, the trading mission grind is getting boring and i need a decked out Asp Explorer so i can say bye to civilization for weeks on end.

Mercurius posted:

Come hang out with the goons that look after the Diamond Frogs around 63 G. Capricorni. You can mooch off people shooting up Resource Extraction Sites (where pirates try and steal things from miners) to get yourself into a ship capable of holding its own in combat and then kill pirates until you have enough cash for your Asp. Also, check out the Diamondback Explorer for a cheaper alternative to the Asp.

EponymousMrYar posted:

fed rank stuff

Mercurius posted:

I believe the last time someone checked most of the negative reviews were posted by people who had drunk the Star Citizen kool-aid and were dunking on the perceived competition. Seems to be working out great for them

Libluini posted:

Nope, honking just reveals the existence, to explore it you actually have to be close enough for your on-board scanners to work. You don't need a detailed surface scanner, though. That one is just for additional information and more money, your name gets vomitted all over every planet scanned, even without it.

Davoren posted:

Newbie question: I found some cargo floating in space, scooped it right up, now I have 4 units of limpets marked as stolen. I found a station with a black market, but its saying I have nothing illegal to sell. What gives?

Transmetropolitan posted:

I bought this game right before the 15th and my crowning list of achievements is:

- Getting owned

Shine posted:

You can't sell limpets through the commodities market; they are handled through the restock screen. I dunno if that screen treats stolen limpets any different, but if not then you can drop them there for like 50 big ol' smackers each.

EponymousMrYar posted:

For those who are stuck on Fed ranks and want to grind it via donations, I just finished my Rear Admiral grind at 17 Draconis.

17 Draconis is a system ~350ly from the bubble with two Fed factions, a service economy and a whole host of problems. The main highlight is that it spawns only charity/donation missions and you'll make consistent progress up to Rear Admiral (post captain is a bit slow at 1% being around 20k credits.)

So if you want to donation rank grind feds, grab a Robigo Asp or a Trade Python head on out there, play in 1.5 (hearsay has me believe it generates more charity missions without planet stuff getting in there) and bring a few million credits for whatever rank you want. The system's port is also an actual starport so you can bring Anaconda's, Cutters etc. up there for maximum cargo giveaways.

The main reason I say to bring a Robigo Asp, Trade Python, Robigo T6 etc. is that because the system is so far out of the bubble it tends to generate pretty good Shadow Deliveries, and more importantly, normal smuggling missions back to the bubble. Trade Python with around 200 cargo could take almost any smuggling mission there and you will make more than enough money to cover your credit donations and most cargo giving you decide to do.

Speaking of Cargo Delivery, 17 Draconis wants three groups for charity: Medical supplies, Food, and Weapons. You want to take the most expensive stuff since it seems credit value is the most important when ranking up.
Here's a simple list:
For Food, the system wants pretty much everything but you want to take Animal Meat, Coffee and Tea.
For Medical Supplies, the system pretty much wants everything as well but you want to take Performance Enhancers and Progenitor Cells.
For Weapons, take Non-Lethal Weapons and Reactive Armor. That's all the station wants.

Perusing EDDB had bubbles-edge systems that can supply that stuff fairly easily so you only have to do about 200ly travel with a full hold. Although some of the supply was a mite on the low side when I did some pickups.

As of yesterday from the writing of this post, the main charity faction is in Civil War, recovering from Boom, and Pending like, 6 different states, notably Outbreak and Famine (which I'm fairly certain they recovered from during my donation streak.)
17 Draconis is pretty messed up in the BGS side of things.

Edit: Oh right I caught wind of this system via the Fast Ranking thread on the main forums so pubbies do know about it and there were a small handful of them out where while I was doing stuff. Also I forgot to mention if you're ranking up via Auxiliary, missions signals can take 5-10 minutes to show up out there so get comfy when doing your rank missions! The plus side is that I only had one case where my first weak signal didn't have what I needed in it.

Transmetropolitan posted:

( Hell, I have trouble finding my goddamned assigned landing pad in a station but at least I haven't bought Star Citizen )

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Is it just me or are Federal Dropships in RES's like insanely difficult to kill?

Paramemetic posted:

They hull tank hard now, and their powerplant is only accessible from the bottom, downrange of all the guns. You have to hang out behind and above them, like on a conda, and just beat the hell out of them with kinetic weapons now. They used to be the free money but the hull changes have definitely helped all three fed ships in RES.

Paramemetic posted:

They hull tank hard now, and their powerplant is only accessible from the bottom, downrange of all the guns. You have to hang out behind and above them, like on a conda, and just beat the hell out of them with kinetic weapons now. They used to be the free money but the hull changes have definitely helped all three fed ships in RES.

RearmingStrafbomber posted:

HapiMerchant posted:

Well, it went down to 15 bucks so I grabbed it. Even if it's a mile wide but an inch deep i'd have a hard time regretting +5 for what appears to be a very make-your-own-fun type game.

Paramemetic posted:

They hull tank hard now, and their powerplant is only accessible from the bottom, downrange of all the guns. You have to hang out behind and above them, like on a conda, and just beat the hell out of them with kinetic weapons now. They used to be the free money but the hull changes have definitely helped all three fed ships in RES.

RearmingStrafbomber posted:

Weissritter posted:

If I am not planning to go down to planets, does Horizons add anything for me? Or I can just stick to the base game for now?

Ciaphas posted:

I didn't even think stars could be that close without accreting into each other.

EponymousMrYar posted:

For those who are stuck on Fed ranks and want to grind it via donations, I just finished my Rear Admiral grind at 17 Draconis.

17 Draconis is a system ~350ly from the bubble with two Fed factions, a service economy and a whole host of problems. The main highlight is that it spawns only charity/donation missions and you'll make consistent progress up to Rear Admiral (post captain is a bit slow at 1% being around 20k credits.)

So if you want to donation rank grind feds, grab a Robigo Asp or a Trade Python head on out there, play in 1.5 (hearsay has me believe it generates more charity missions without planet stuff getting in there) and bring a few million credits for whatever rank you want. The system's port is also an actual starport so you can bring Anaconda's, Cutters etc. up there for maximum cargo giveaways.

The main reason I say to bring a Robigo Asp, Trade Python, Robigo T6 etc. is that because the system is so far out of the bubble it tends to generate pretty good Shadow Deliveries, and more importantly, normal smuggling missions back to the bubble. Trade Python with around 200 cargo could take almost any smuggling mission there and you will make more than enough money to cover your credit donations and most cargo giving you decide to do.

Speaking of Cargo Delivery, 17 Draconis wants three groups for charity: Medical supplies, Food, and Weapons. You want to take the most expensive stuff since it seems credit value is the most important when ranking up.
Here's a simple list:
For Food, the system wants pretty much everything but you want to take Animal Meat, Coffee and Tea.
For Medical Supplies, the system pretty much wants everything as well but you want to take Performance Enhancers and Progenitor Cells.
For Weapons, take Non-Lethal Weapons and Reactive Armor. That's all the station wants.

Perusing EDDB had bubbles-edge systems that can supply that stuff fairly easily so you only have to do about 200ly travel with a full hold. Although some of the supply was a mite on the low side when I did some pickups.

As of yesterday from the writing of this post, the main charity faction is in Civil War, recovering from Boom, and Pending like, 6 different states, notably Outbreak and Famine (which I'm fairly certain they recovered from during my donation streak.)
17 Draconis is pretty messed up in the BGS side of things.

Edit: Oh right I caught wind of this system via the Fast Ranking thread on the main forums so pubbies do know about it and there were a small handful of them out where while I was doing stuff. Also I forgot to mention if you're ranking up via Auxiliary, missions signals can take 5-10 minutes to show up out there so get comfy when doing your rank missions! The plus side is that I only had one case where my first weak signal didn't have what I needed in it.

Paramemetic posted:

They hull tank hard now, and their powerplant is only accessible from the bottom, downrange of all the guns. You have to hang out behind and above them, like on a conda, and just beat the hell out of them with kinetic weapons now. They used to be the free money but the hull changes have definitely helped all three fed ships in RES.

Xtanstic posted:

I just flew out here before going to bed. Wow there's an Outpost all the way here! I've never done rank stacking missions so what is the standard procedure here? Am I supposed to mission scum like crazy?

Sard posted:

Here's an abyss to stare into.