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KakerMix posted:Yes, there was this element along with the top spot only allowing one (1) person up there. 
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Ok, so why does my galaxy map say I have a Viper MKIV somewhere where I've never been?
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Ok, so why does my galaxy map say I have a Viper MKIV somewhere where I've never been? It's thanks to the frogs who saved space Christmas.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Ok, so why does my galaxy map say I have a Viper MKIV somewhere where I've never been? 
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Jan 8, 2016 17:56
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I got a bounty for assaulting a skimmer with a bounty while on a surface. Is that working as intended?
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Ok, so why does my galaxy map say I have a Viper MKIV somewhere where I've never been? Bedshaped posted:I got a bounty for assaulting a skimmer with a bounty while on a surface. Pilchenstein posted:They gave one free to all new players after a community goal. This is where you say you've been playing for months and I shrug and say That confirms it, then. \/\/\/ radintorov fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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It's in Gunnovale, I didn't pre-order Horizons, and if I took part in some sort of community event I am not aware of it. I guess they just gave it to me for being a new player? I know I didn't have it a few days ago because I remember zooming out and playing around with the map. 
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drat Dirty Ape posted:It's in Gunnovale, I didn't pre-order Horizons, and if I took part in some sort of community event I am not aware of it.
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radintorov posted:In that case, it is a global CG reward because you are a new player and we goons saved Christmas. Yay goons! 
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I'd completely forgotten they'd promised beta players another ship, though to be fair it's been a year and I clearly wasn't the only one.
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Jan 8, 2016 19:25
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If the PP factions offered normal missions that generated PP via a separate section of the bulletin board that would go a long way to making it less grindy because you could then choose how to support a power.
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Alright so if I plot a route, and then change my target, is there a hotkey or something to go back to the route I originally plotted or do I have to go back to the map and do it again every time?
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Alright so if I plot a route, and then change my target, is there a hotkey or something to go back to the route I originally plotted or do I have to go back to the map and do it again every time? There's a hotkey you can bind. Check your controls for the bind, I don't know if it's bound by default to anything.
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Pilchenstein posted:I'd completely forgotten they'd promised beta players another ship, though to be fair it's been a year and I clearly wasn't the only one. Beta player here and no ship.  Unless you meant that eagle that I sold immediately.
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well turns out frontier donated me a free viper IV - a beta player with x days played - am guessing is not part of the CG as that was for noobs under 8 hours played which is pretty cool (thanks Diamond Frogs) My thinking is that Frontier finally caved in under the pressure of various autists who got upset on the brown sea that they were promised one of the new 5 ships as part of a package they bought (beta and so forth) - Frontier then rather sneakily tried to change the text restrospectively and therefore change the terms/content of the offer after it had expired - of course in the age of turbospergs such a weird and frankly head scratching attempt never went unnoticed and various pubs on the forums demanded what they were originally promised - i.e. a free ship. Frontier support were totally confused for much time, stating things like 'oh that relates to the ability to buy a Cobra MkIV, or it means the eagle paint job' despite a growing mountain of evidence from newsletters and copies of the actual wording from the original deal pages that they were wrong. Some pubs even went so far as to threaten lawsuits for false advertising, breach of contract and so forth - was all very entertaining and very puzzling as to what Frontier were up to (i.e who gives a poo poo if various non-noobs got a free ship they probably dont want?) Anyhoo looks like after weeks of harrassment by pubs Frontier has caved in (wonder if any lawsuits were actually raised) and today I find I have a Viper MkIV located in Barnard's Star. Like I know where that is and I'll ever use it. Anyhoo, some dramalama drama has gone on obviously - interesting U-turn imo  So there you go - news you weren't interested in reported by me - See you in space. Oh worth a listen to radio Skvortsov if you dont know about it when space trucking/exploring/exploding shiny and chrome - tis the goon (Diamond Frogs) radio station in character for Elite Dangerous - most groovesome. http://streaming.radionomy.com/RadioSkvortsov Turbosnowy fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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Turbosnowy posted:well turns out frontier donated me a free viper IV - a beta player with x days played - am guessing is not part of the CG as that was for noobs under 8 hours played which is pretty cool (thanks Diamond Frogs) Barnard's Star is practically next door to Sol.
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I was shooting up a conda in xihe's hazres and suddenly boom, got a bounty for murder of some random npc. Must have wandered in front of my beams with 1% hull or something and now I'm stuck for 6 days with a bounty in the system where i keep all my ships. This sucks, can I get rid of it somehow? It used to be that you could pay off bounties but I can't seem to do that now. I should just gently caress off to another system for a week?
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TorakFade posted:I was shooting up a conda in xihe's hazres and suddenly boom, got a bounty for murder of some random npc. Must have wandered in front of my beams with 1% hull or something and now I'm stuck for 6 days with a bounty in the system where i keep all my ships. Yes, or just don't worry about it. There's no law in hazres anyway and sneaking into the station is easy. Pretend you're a pirate for a little while. It's fun!
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Go to xihe, get in a sidewinder, let the cops scan you, wait for the sweet release of death.
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Go to xihe, get in a sidewinder, let the cops scan you, wait for the sweet release of death. This is exactly what I did but I also rammed the cop to get their attention
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Adult Sword Owner posted:This is exactly what I did but I also rammed the cop to get their attention Yes, this is the right way I think. I shall get drunk(er) and do it. 
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Stringbean posted:I wish I was good at combat. I'm getting my rear end handed to me at lowres and it's ridiculous. What are you flying and why aren't you mooching off cops?
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Spanish Manlove posted:What happens when start heading towards the far rim of the galaxy? Also in the center of the galaxy? Center  Far side 
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Xtanstic posted:What are you flying and why aren't you mooching off cops? Cobra Mk. 3 and whenever I start shooting at cop targets, said targets tend to turn on me quickly. I'm finding it really weird actually.
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Stringbean posted:Cobra Mk. 3 and whenever I start shooting at cop targets, said targets tend to turn on me quickly. I'm finding it really weird actually. NPCs prioritize players over cops and other NPCs because reasons. When you engage something, do it from the back and be prepared to take some heat. In a cobra, don't engage anyone bigger than you until their shields are down and yours are fully charged, at least until you get more confident.you're a multirole, not a heavy fighter, act as a poacher! Also upgrade asap to good shield, thrusters, power distributor and decent weapons (I used 2x medium beams and 2x small multicannons, worked great against most enemies your size) If you can stick with someone good and wing with them, look at them tear poo poo up, it teaches you a lot.
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A Tartan Tory posted:Center Thanks! That saves me 100 hours of countless 7ly jumps in my little lovely sidewinder.
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Turbosnowy posted:turns out frontier donated me a free viper IV - a beta player with x days played Yep, I got one of them too. I am now going to post on the brown sea and complain that it fucks with my careful placement of Sidewinders to mark systems of interest  Either that, or fly over there, pick the fucker up, and then fill it full of hull re-enforcements, and ram things...
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iRend posted:e3: Wow, I have 3 rats headed my way. This is just silly. Coolies. I checked in on this one this morning. I understand you've got one UK Rat ~21 kLYs out, and two AU Rats on route from the bubble. If no fish were biting I'd jump in the Asp and head out, but it sounds like you're covered.
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Literally Kermit posted:Barnard's Star is practically next door to Sol. At least in FFE they had a scripted medical emergency in one system right at the start of the game so you could make mad cash from supplying medicines and get out of your silly space corkscrew ASAP.
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drat Dirty Ape posted:Alright so if I plot a route, and then change my target, is there a hotkey or something to go back to the route I originally plotted or do I have to go back to the map and do it again every time? If you don't want to set a hotkey or go into the galaxy map, you can look at the navigation panel on the left and look for the system name that has the route icon next to it. Selecting that will get you back on your planned course. It's what I do, as I'm using a hotas and buttons are at a premium.
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iRend posted:I am near Holy crap. That's dedication.
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I discovered I own a viper, would it be useful as baby's first actual spaceship?
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Spanish Manlove posted:I discovered I own a viper, would it be useful as baby's first actual spaceship? It's really good at shooting things and fairly bad at hauling cargo or going long distances, it depends on your play style really. IMO you should keep it as a shooty boat and get something less combat focused for everything else, at least until you can afford to replace it with a Vulture.
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magic mountain posted:It's really good at shooting things and fairly bad at hauling cargo or going long distances, it depends on your play style really. IMO you should keep it as a shooty boat and get something less combat focused for everything else, at least until you can afford to replace it with a Vulture. Not so the Viper 4. It's as versatile as a Cobra 3 although the Cobra is a bit better suited to hauling than fighting (weak shields, another size 4 internal and pure speed.)
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Davoren posted:If you don't want to set a hotkey or go into the galaxy map, you can look at the navigation panel on the left and look for the system name that has the route icon next to it. Selecting that will get you back on your planned course. It's what I do, as I'm using a hotas and buttons are at a premium. Nice thanks. I'm currently using key bindings I took from somebody on the official elite forums but I'm going to have to change them soon since I am constantly hunting and pecking for random things on the keyboard. Spanish Manlove posted:I discovered I own a viper, would it be useful as baby's first actual spaceship? I just picked up my Viper IV and it's pretty amazing so far. I still have it set up for multi-role stuff since I don't have enough money to buy everything I would need to make it a decent fighter.
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magic mountain posted:It's really good at shooting things and fairly bad at hauling cargo or going long distances, it depends on your play style really. IMO you should keep it as a shooty boat and get something less combat focused for everything else, at least until you can afford to replace it with a Vulture. In which case it's more of a combat leaning multi role ship, and makes a pretty decent long range rare trader/hauler/smuggler. It's about on par with a Cobra mk III, except its internals work out ever so slightly smaller, and it's also slower and (inexplicably) less manoeuvrable. It makes up for these things by being 50% more expensive! (it does have much better shields though) Assuming you can't sell it and just buy a Cobra, I'd use it in the same role. edit: I should type faster. tooterfish fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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Spanish Manlove posted:I discovered I own a viper, would it be useful as baby's first actual spaceship? If you are new, and have a surprise Viper IV, it's because goons battered the hell out of the Christmas event, and got you the best gift. It's a decent mid-range ship, and way, way better than 'baby's first' anything. Grab that thing as soon as possible.
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