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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. Or a terraforming-candidate, or a metal rich planet, or a planet with live on it. But yeah, some planets aren't worth it.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 00:57 |
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Libluini posted:But yeah, some planets aren't worth it. They are if you have space madness
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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
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 02:04 |
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. Elite is a very good game that I can easily understand why people might think it's awful.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 02:20 |
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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. 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.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 02:22 |
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Shine posted:Elite is a very good game that I can easily understand why people might think it's awful.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 02:28 |
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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.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 02:32 |
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year199X posted:Yeah, but I mean, do you need to scan it for your name to be on it? Or is honking enough? Just opening it up on your navigation list via the discovery scanner doesn't do anything, to get the money and get the discovered by tag you have to get up close with the detailed surface scanner.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 02:33 |
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year199X posted:Yeah, but I mean, do you need to scan it for your name to be on it? Or is honking enough? 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.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 02:33 |
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year199X posted:Yeah, but I mean, do you need to scan it for your name to be on it? Or is honking enough? I care and would like to know the answer to this question before I embark on my first exploration journey into the abyss.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 02:34 |
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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.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 02:36 |
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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. Thanks! I'll look at the Diamondback. I don't like playing online games tho and i don't like the combat in Elite, but thanks for the offer!
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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. EponymousMrYar fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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EponymousMrYar posted:fed rank stuff You're doing God's work. 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 Here's an abyss to stare into.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 03:19 |
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I bought this game right before the 15th and my crowning list of achievements is: - Getting owned while trying to do a pick-up mission - Getting owned while trying to go to another system - Getting owned while jumping into a conflict zone - Ending up without fuel after trying to find something in surface only to learn that was in another PLANET instead While I am definitely enjoying going around and exploring, I can't seem to do even the most basic poo poo without something bad happening (lol). I read through the OP and couldn't find some sort of basic "hey newbie these are the relevant things you should know". ( Hell, I have trouble finding my goddamned assigned landing pad in a station but at least I haven't bought Star Citizen )
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 03:39 |
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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. Oh jeez, I feel bad for the people bothering to scan planets 200,000LS+ away from the entry point then.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 04:17 |
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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?
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 04:40 |
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I swim through a sea of stars, without looking back to shore. Faster than light, bending time. Forever Wherever
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 04:40 |
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? 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.
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Transmetropolitan posted:I bought this game right before the 15th and my crowning list of achievements is: This is a pretty harsh game, it just dumps you right in the deep end of the pool and doesn't really explain itself at all. Don't feel bad about struggling to figure out what the hell is even going on and what you should do, that's just the first step of getting into the world.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 04:47 |
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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. Imagine the look on that space cop's face when he realizes he interdicted and scanned you over a handful of stolen limpets.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 04:50 |
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Still not sure what a limpet is, but something tells me its definitely going to have been worth hauling four of them millions of miles!
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 04:53 |
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They're tiny little drones that you can program to do all sorts of things if you have the appropriate control modules. Limpets are great.
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I'm thinking I can't sell them as I don't have a controller, so they don't show up as ammo, gently caress it, I'm gonna dump em. Edit: Oh man, salvaged 4 units of technical blueprints floating in space, sold 'em for 13k, my first "big" payday. This game owns bones, makes me wish I had more patience for the original back in the day. Davoren fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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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. A good post Transmetropolitan posted:( Hell, I have trouble finding my goddamned assigned landing pad in a station but at least I haven't bought Star Citizen ) I still do this. Especially on outposts where the pad is not in an obvious place.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 05:26 |
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Is it just me or are Federal Dropships in RES's like insanely difficult to kill?
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 05:38 |
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Is it just me or are Federal Dropships in RES's like insanely difficult to kill? 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.
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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. That makes sense. There's one loadout with beam turrets that is downright annoying in my Corvette, almost to the point where I'll ignore them if I see them and fight something else.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 05:52 |
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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.
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 05:52 |
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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. That also explains why they're so friggin tanky in the CZ I've been doing against Gak
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 05:55 |
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That one is really nice. I'm about 2,000 ly into my first trip to the core. Horizons really made exploration worth it for me, planetary sightseeing is so great.
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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.
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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. I often ignore them with my pulse Vulture because they don't pay enough for how annoying they are to kill. They don't last long against the triple frag FAS, though. Shine fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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I didn't even think stars could be that close without accreting into each other. Space and gravity is loving weird and I wish I'd studied astronomy in college instead of comp sci. It's so much more fascinating than computer programming
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 06:49 |
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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?
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 06:51 |
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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? Not at the moment, but as the "season" goes on there might be things you're interested in that will be horizons only.
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Ciaphas posted:I didn't even think stars could be that close without accreting into each other.
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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. 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?
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# ? Dec 23, 2015 08:57 |
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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. I think I've actually had more success hitting their power plant from above. Or maybe that's FAS's. 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?
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tbh if I spent $150,000 on a game like this fool claims to have done, I'd be convincing myself pretty hard about its quality as well. dude probably had custom-made SC bedsheets made and poo poo.
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