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I have recently run into a wing/grouping problem I can't seem to work around. Over the last few days I haven't been able to see a friend in instances when we're winged up. Instead, I just see his wing beacon in place of his ship, moving around in what I presume is witchspace (alternate instance for the same location) concurrent with his actual movements. He sees the same thing for me, no matter how many times we restart or reset instances. The game refuses to group us together, so our nights have pretty much been a bust. We've played together plenty before, even after horizons dropped. He lives in Australia, I live on the East Coast, USA. Thoughts? I haven't ruled out Koalas/Dingos.
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Drop bears, clearly. Seriously though, the instancing is finicky at the best of times.
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Jan 14, 2016 17:58
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So, can I still dump cash at Draconis, Y/N?
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Jan 14, 2016 18:05
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Annath posted:So, can I still dump cash at Draconis, Y/N? My anecdotal evidence is that no, you can't. There are lots of donation missions but they're all for goods. I refreshed for an hour and saw one cash mission in that time. If you're going to run goods, Tun seems like a better choice as you don't have to fly 300 LY to restock.
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Jan 14, 2016 18:33
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I wonder if the finding of the Antares wreckage and the finding of the barnacles will tie in to the release of the thargoids. The timing seems too perfect. Antares wreckage survey results indicate that they can bring a new form of travel to us. Barnacles are found in Merope a few days later..
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Jan 14, 2016 19:22
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Well finally made it to Robigo to try some smuggling, find my first mission for 3.5m. Fly all the way to the target system, interdicted immediately upon arrival at the exact same instant that I get a knock on the door from someone I wasnt expecting from another hour. Ship scanned, mission failed. That was a colossal waste of time. Two new community goals up, a bounty and an onionhead trading one. I tried using thudds trader thing and it wouldn't let me search for stations selling it. Where do you get it?
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Jan 14, 2016 19:23
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TEAH SYAG posted:How do you like the bi-weave shields vs STD? Does the faster recycle time work out better than up front endurance? Pretty sure I'm too new to know! I stole most of the build from other players, and on the Vulture I've never actually had a 'normal' shield. Because of power constraints on the Vulture, if I go to a 5A shield, I have to drop a booster, so the 5C Bi-Weave with 2 boosters is at 441MJ, and the 5A with a single booster is at 465MJ, so it's really not that much different. I've only had my shields knocked out completely once so far in the HighRES, when I took on a wing of 3 (2 ASP and a Cobra I think) but I've only been in there for a very short period of time.
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Jan 14, 2016 19:44
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LCL-Dead posted:I wonder if the finding of the Antares wreckage and the finding of the barnacles will tie in to the release of the thargoids. The timing seems too perfect. There was a recent GalNet story about the station in Maia having mysterious failures as well.
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Jan 14, 2016 19:46
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Target Practice posted:Two new community goals up, a bounty and an onionhead trading one. I tried using thudds trader thing and it wouldn't let me search for stations selling it. Where do you get it? Where do you see community goals?
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Jan 14, 2016 19:48
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Target Practice posted:Well finally made it to Robigo to try some smuggling, find my first mission for 3.5m. Fly all the way to the target system, interdicted immediately upon arrival at the exact same instant that I get a knock on the door from someone I wasnt expecting from another hour. Ship scanned, mission failed. That was a colossal waste of time. Pretty sure Onionhead is a rare commodity only sold in one station. Ah, yep, here it is in my rare notes: Kappa Fornacis/Harvestport (918ls) Onion Head That's going to make for a difficult community goal.
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Jan 14, 2016 19:52
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xEbWIg6lJA&feature=em-upload_owner Edit: This is me having just found the barnacle. I knew I would find aliens out here. 
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Jan 14, 2016 19:55
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http://www.pcgamer.com/space-barnacles-discovered-in-elite-dangerous/ MOTHERFUCKING ALIENS, TO WAR
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Jan 14, 2016 19:57
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LCL-Dead posted:I wonder if the finding of the Antares wreckage and the finding of the barnacles will tie in to the release of the thargoids. The timing seems too perfect. It would be about loving TIME. And if the "new form of travel" isn't either a) in-system microjumps b) an ability to jump say up to 100x your normal jump range in a single jump once per day c) somehow letting your ships be delivered at a convenient location near you, I don't care.
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Jan 14, 2016 19:57
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TomR posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xEbWIg6lJA&feature=em-upload_owner Did you find them before the guy in the thread? If so, congratulations! Also, KILL THEM ALL.
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Jan 14, 2016 20:12
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Jan 14, 2016 20:13
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Nope, I've been on that planet for a week though so when I found out the co ordinates I just flew over there. Once I was there people started showing up until the instance was full. Someone dropped a UA on the ground and then went into solo so I had a free UA. I also got two meta alloys.
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Jan 14, 2016 20:14
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Some more barnacle things: In Solo:  In Open:  
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Jan 14, 2016 20:17
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Just jumped into my first close orbiting binary star system while half paying attention. I jumped out of my seat and yelled in fear 
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Jan 14, 2016 20:18
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In similar news, I HOPE YOU LIKE ALIENS
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Jan 14, 2016 20:25
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So.. Get within 23ly of Maia and start hitting up USS and Distress Signals? Interesting. I'm really glad that Frontier is rolling forward with this and extremely disappointed that I won't have time to get out there until tomorrow night.
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Jan 14, 2016 20:30
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No, it's on a planet - it's something planet Lat: 2X.XX Long: 9X.XX/ Edit: Binary Planet Aethernet fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Jan 14, 2016 20:36
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Aethernet posted:No, it's on a planet - it's something planet Lat: 2X.XX Long: 9X.XX/ The poo posted:I found the crashed Anaconda from the article (possibly). JC-U B3-2 1. Apparently it's a crashed ship. Others are moving to close planets relative to that location to verify things.
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Jan 14, 2016 20:42
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More of the coordinates are visible in the Galnet post that appears on Inara. Lat: 27.x3, Long: 9x.xx
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Jan 14, 2016 21:10
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Am there now. It's another barnacle. The metaalloys really look like seeds. Will get pics. Edit: apparently there is a crashed anaconda too
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Jan 14, 2016 21:12
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There's a lawndarted anaconda there, alright. Got a few containers of rare minerals, can't spot much else.
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Jan 14, 2016 21:17
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In non-  related news, the latest Dev Update has some interesting bits:quote:Characterisation and a more personal connection to the game world has always been one of the goals for Elite: Dangerous. It’s such a massive play space that it’s easy to feel dwarfed by it and the current impersonal contacts inside the game only enhance that perception. In an interesting coincidence I saw some lovely concept that fans had created for personalities and as part of the mission flow. This is something that we’re working on as part of the 2.1 release (as with the 2.0x point releases some of the changes will be applicable to season one owners). So NPC quest givers who are actual recurring characters (LFT 123 Butts Party will always have the same person giving out lovely courier jobs or w/e) and Mechanics who are part of the ~loot and crafting system~ which we know nothing about yet. It's cool that they're using the tech behind the Commander Creator to do something I actually give half a gently caress about, though  E: And slightly more hype overall regarding what I'm pretty sure is the 3rd or 4 overhaul of the mission system, not sure why it was so loving difficult to do it right any of the previous times but here's hoping. RabidWeasel fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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There are two barnacles and the crashed conda on the planet. Coords for all three are up in the ED forums UA mystery thread already.
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The Conda is good for one particular thing: Sick nasty jumps from its rear end. Aside from that it's just a source of rare materials from respawning cargo racks, although Frontier being Frontier, some of those cargo racks levitate:  I also got this shot:  The Meta-Material is the weird seed looking thing. You know, if I was a space-borne creature and I wanted space-travelling creatures to take my seeds around (like Space Bees) I'd make them valuable too.
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Jan 14, 2016 21:52
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I'm from LHS 3447 And I Say Kill 'Em All
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Aww yeah, sounds like poo poo is starting to go down. How long until full-scale Thargoid invasion, I wonder? If I was running it, it'd go like this. They'd probably start with the occasional scouts that jump away from you as soon as they're interdicted, so you can't get a good look at them- maybe even optical cloaking. This happens only a few (<5) times in scattered regions both inside and outside the bubble. UAs become slightly more common, but still rare. Then a single lone player outside the bubble is decimated by a Thargoid warship, but catches it on video. Hundreds rush to that system to see, but the Thargoids are nowhere to be found and people accuse them of faking it. Then...nothing. No news for almost three months- no scouts, no warships. Barnacles and UAs stop spawning or spawn very rarely. The Pleiades return to their normal traffic level, save a few hopefuls who keep looking. In mid-September, all hell breaks loose. The station in Maia is obliterated, killing everyone onboard. Players rush to the system and are interdicted and incinerated by a Thargoid armada the instant they exit hyperspace. A heavily armored Cutter brute-forces its way to where the station was, only to find a debris field and wreckage. In a panic, the Federation and Empire mobilize for war. Over the next several days, surgical strikes take out stations in Eravate, Sol, Achernar, Vega, Sirius, and more. Any player opposition is utterly crushed. From then on, player response dictates the progress of the war.
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^^^ this sounds a little heavy-handed; I think that would be pretty cool, but imagine the reaction of the brown sea to being obliterated straight away by a much superior force against which they can do nothing... especially after a year of the game being a little bit too unchallenging unless you wanted to actually be in danger. People are finding a shitload of those things. Aethernet posted:The Meta-Material is the weird seed looking thing. You know, if I was a space-borne creature and I wanted space-travelling creatures to take my seeds around (like Space Bees) I'd make them valuable too. This does not bode well. And I'm very, very happy. Will be kitting out my Cobra Mk III with some weapons, an SRV, and come join in the fun tomorrow (if there's still fun to be had and not Thargoid-y death, in which case I'll kit my Python  )
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Helter Skelter posted:Drop bears, clearly. This is basically the answer I found on their tech support forums. I get it, we're on opposite sides of the globe and its all magical, we're living in the future, etc... I just wish the people focused on making a multiplayer game would try and make it, ya know- Multiplayer.
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Jan 14, 2016 22:09
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Guess I'm taking the old Horizons content Cobra out to the Pleiades tonight
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Jan 14, 2016 22:19
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RabidWeasel posted:In non- There was already something slightly like that, some of the missions in Skvortsov were given by "Skvortsov Defense Officer" or something like that (who'd inevitably turn out to actually be one of the other factions and never Diamond Frogs).
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Jan 14, 2016 23:21
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The real counter to the Thargoid threat: https://gyazo.com/1341abbf56e1cf670a11ad8f776af0a2
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Jan 14, 2016 23:42
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Hope I get real close to Frag cannon a some thargoid, and get my ship torn in half by a tentacle or some poo poo. I'd gladly take the bankruptcy.
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Jan 14, 2016 23:49
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I haven't seen any players the last few times I've gone in open. Is there a way to know if I've been shadow banned, or have I just run into some weird instancing glitch?
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Jan 15, 2016 00:27
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I'm kitting out an asp to go look at big stars. A 2A generator fulfills my power requirements. Will a 4A provide better cooling?
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Jan 15, 2016 01:11
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DreadLlama posted:I'm kitting out an asp to go look at big stars. Nope, the 'A' rating is all that matters. If you can get by on that, enjoy the extra jump range.
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Ugh this bounty CG has only a low res in the system. bloooooooows
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