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Jack the Lad posted:Is Robigo still a thing, and in what form? Can you still abandon shadow deliveries and sell the cargo? Yes, you can just sell the slaves there. You now get a fine equal to the market value of the slaves, which makes for an interesting bounty board there  I recommend a python for this.
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So with Force Cannons proving to be hilariously powerful, what's stopping me from pinballing people coming into and out of stations, aside from a respawn screen at times?
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nightwisher posted:So with Force Cannons proving to be hilariously powerful, what's stopping me from pinballing people coming into and out of stations, aside from a respawn screen at times? e: also, what's the story with mission payouts now in beta? Any significant improvements? El Grillo fucked around with this message at 16:15 on May 15, 2016 |
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Chrysophylax posted:Yes, you can just sell the slaves there. You now get a fine equal to the market value of the slaves, which makes for an interesting bounty board there Cool, yeah - I'm doing it in a Python. Can't find a way to make the Open board 'stick' but I'm making 47m/hr so far anyway.
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May 15, 2016 17:40
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El Grillo posted:Are any of the larger ships able to withstand station lasers for a little while? I'm thinking Batball out of Iain Bank's Excession novel, but using heavily shielded/armoured sidewinders as the balls and a coriolis as the hoop. It is time for you to conduct an experiment wherein station laser tracking speed is compared and contrasted against upgraded small ship thrusters.
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May 15, 2016 17:49
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DreadLlama posted:It is time for you to conduct an experiment wherein station laser tracking speed is compared and contrasted against upgraded small ship thrusters. The lasers are only inside the docking area and the cowcatcher in front of the mailslot, I'm not sure you can ourtun their tracking speed but it's likely irrelevant because your only option at those speeds is to fly straight out of the station, otherwise you'll crash into a wall. Outside of the station are those giant autocannons which are easier to evade but also significantly more punishing if you do get hit. Your best bet would probably be to sit near the cowcatcher in an iggle or something and try to bounce people into it so that they get stuck.
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May 15, 2016 18:07
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Wowwwww losing 3+ million worth of high res bounty hunting for the cg is a hell of a way to find out they don't persist through death and to always high jump out of interdictions when losing, godddaammnnnittt. Think it's break time
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Astroniomix posted:The lasers are only inside the docking area and the cowcatcher in front of the mailslot, I'm not sure you can ourtun their tracking speed but it's likely irrelevant because your only option at those speeds is to fly straight out of the station, otherwise you'll crash into a wall. Outside of the station are those giant autocannons which are easier to evade but also significantly more punishing if you do get hit. Incorrect. There are lasers around the exterior of the station as well. Capital class auto-cannons are on the face of the station only.
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May 16, 2016 12:00
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Eagle (mine) bomber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpGyxVwtQFU
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May 16, 2016 15:01
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Lima posted:Eagle (mine) bomber: That is loving hilarious and makes me hopeful for engineers content.
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May 16, 2016 15:21
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Lima posted:Eagle (mine) bomber: That is a really stupid build. But it would be fun as hell.
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May 16, 2016 16:44
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I tend to put shock mines on my roadrunner cobra so whoever is chasing me takes annoying noises to the face. If they're actually good now then 
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May 16, 2016 16:52
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Boogalo posted:I tend to put shock mines on my roadrunner cobra so whoever is chasing me takes annoying noises to the face. If they're actually good now then I'm having such wonderful flashbacks to what we did to that poor Corvette!
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May 16, 2016 18:21
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I like that you can collect materials after blowing people up now, just wish it wasn't so tedious. A tractor beam like the one in Freelancer would be great.
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May 16, 2016 20:17
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tunah posted:I like that you can collect materials after blowing people up now, just wish it wasn't so tedious. A tractor beam like the one in Freelancer would be great. 
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May 16, 2016 20:25
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Limpet controller. There's your tractor beam. The space pirates won't try to kill you for carrying limpets anymore.
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May 16, 2016 20:49
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Some people might look at that as a crummy module tax, especially if you prefer to run around in a smaller ship with few slots to spare. Then again, the ships worst impacted probably can't fit much cargo space anyway.
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May 16, 2016 21:19
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It's probably intended to encourage flying something other than a vulture in combat.
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May 16, 2016 21:51
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But the Vulture owns (I just got one).
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May 16, 2016 22:49
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Yeah, having to take up two module slots just to pick up space debris is unfortunate.
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May 16, 2016 22:57
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I think it makes sense for the Vulture to be ill-suited to salvaging (despite the name ). The problem is that without a robust system for collecting, storing, and transporting cargo independently of your personal ship it becomes a pain to get both your Vulture and the cargo in the same place at the same time for upgrading. I think it was Independence War 2 that had an NPC you could call in to scoop up salvage for you. Really cool game and I'd like to be able to call in an AI controlled type-6 or something to do the same thing.
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May 16, 2016 23:05
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That's true. The Vulture is a great interceptor, if you want a hybrid with some cargo space, go with something less focused. Or fly with a friend!
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May 16, 2016 23:08
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May 16, 2016 23:11
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DreadLlama posted:It's probably intended to encourage flying something other than a vulture in combat. But most smaller "combat" ships than the Vulture have less module capacity  EDIT: I Courier may have one more slot, but it also tops out at Class 3. Section Z fucked around with this message at 23:26 on May 16, 2016 |
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May 16, 2016 23:24
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The vulture is quite power hungry. You really need to watch your power when flying it. The iCourier on the other hand can be much more free with its power usage. With 2.1 you might be able to go a little more free with power and modules with the Vulture. 2x beam lasers would tear apart things. But I have a FAS now, and that does beam lasers quite easily.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Just about everything you get from exploding poo poo goes in your material storage. You still need a cargo hold to store the limpets, though.
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I just dont have very good luck with the frags, so I hope to go for the M-M-M-MEGA VULCAN setup on my FAS with a Beam to shield strip too. Hopefully the ammo will last a good while  EDIT: Can I not buy Horizons on its own now? Its priced at 37 bucks on Steam, with Elite itself being 30 and only available in a merged-format.
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Dandywalken posted:I just dont have very good luck with the frags, so I hope to go for the M-M-M-MEGA VULCAN setup on my FAS with a Beam to shield strip too. Hopefully the ammo will last a good while Cannons are getting a big buff, so they'll be another option. Their flight speed is increasing a ton and they'll have reduced (or no?) damage fall-off at range. Still won't be great for popping Eagles, but big, slow stuff will be prime targets
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Shine posted:Cannons are getting a big buff, so they'll be another option. Their flight speed is increasing a ton and they'll have reduced (or no?) damage fall-off at range. Still won't be great for popping Eagles, but big, slow stuff will be prime targets I need at least 6 huge hardpoints on my vette for all of my plans.. This will get expensive.. and the material grind for upgrades will be brutal :P
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Dandywalken posted:EDIT: Can I not buy Horizons on its own now? Its priced at 37 bucks on Steam, with Elite itself being 30 and only available in a merged-format. If memory serves, there is no "on its own" for Horizons. When you get Horizons, you're basically rebuying ED. They had a discount for existing ED owners when Horizons first launched, but I think that's done now. Check the ED website to be sure. Frontier has an unconventional (to put it politely) way of listing their products. Not only is the Horizons expansion a re-purchase of the base game instead of an expansion/DLC in the usual sense, but they also call it the "Horizons Season Pass." A season pass implies that it is a pre-purchase of all DLC content instead of a la carte, but since there's no way to buy only some of the Horizons content, it comes off like they're just using "season pass" because somebody in marketing read the term online and said "we should have one of those."
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Shine posted:If memory serves, there is no "on its own" for Horizons. When you get Horizons, you're basically rebuying ED. They had a discount for existing ED owners when Horizons first launched, but I think that's done now. Check the ED website to be sure. You can't buy Horizons by itself anymore. You can buy Elite Dangerous: Deluxe which includes Horizons (and the pilot starter pack) on Steam for cheaper than buying just Elite and Horizons seperately. They changed it because it was confusing to people, thinking you had to buy Elite all over again to get Horizons.
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They backpedaled on that, though. Horizons is now treated as a more traditional expansion/DLC for the base game.
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Yeah it's on Steam right now as DLC for $37.99.
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LCL-Dead posted:Incorrect. You'll have to point them out to me because I have never seen them.
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Astroniomix posted:You'll have to point them out to me because I have never seen them. Of course you don't see them when they are retracted
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Astroniomix posted:You'll have to point them out to me because I have never seen them. IAmTheRad posted:Of course you don't see them when they are retracted lol if you haven't stationcamped while copmurdering Also I keep finding tiny rock moons with "Candidate for terraforming" even one with no atmosphere 
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Groggy nard posted:lol if you haven't stationcamped while copmurdering Guess that in 3302 an atmosphere is not required for terraforming.
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May 17, 2016 03:11
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The atmosphere is stored inside the planet, you just need to start the reactor.
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Groggy nard posted:lol if you haven't stationcamped while copmurdering I have never been fired at by lasers from a station while outside of it. Not saying they aren't there, but if they are they aren't worth mentioning because they don't protect anywhere important.
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There are two lasers inside the mail slot, but the majority of the exterior armament is bigass cannons.
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