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Tippis posted:…at least for certain values of “completely safe”. There's always the lurking danger of (very) close binaries. This is loving scary, I've had a few close calls with binary stars while playing in VR and its the worst.
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Finally was able to settle down for some elite on Sunday. After babby's first exploration trip, I found myself w/ ISK 15 million and decided I wanted to work toward an icourier. I had never really done any missioning in Elite yet, having done RES sites and exploring. For full immersion and brown nosing points, I've started my icourier slaving in an iggle. That's a very fun ship to fly around in. A rating the thing is cheap and it sounds like a Ducati with four pips to the engines and boost engaged. I can almost hear the dry clutch rattling about. I'm not sure if it's the best ship for rank grinding, but I can always switch it out if needed. The space chatter around stations is fun as well. The imperial stations sound very Star Wars Empire with their received pronunciation British English. "You may alight when ready and we at Imperial Control hope you enjoy our facilities." The contrast with some lonely station in an anarchy system where some lady with a southern drawl sounded like she just got woken up, "Sure, dock here, I suppose, at your own risk." I wonder if traffic control talks to the player differently depending on reputation. The happy drunk Russian at Skovrtskov Orbital sounds pretty cheerful, but I got ally status with DF by dumping all that exploration data. Does reputation with the major or minor factions degrade over time?
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Jun 20, 2016 16:06
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Major factions will degrade from Allied down to Friendly, but no further. Minor factions do not degrade that I've ever noticed.
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Jun 20, 2016 16:20
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Blind Rasputin posted:Still the best elite dangerous video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHIAibDr3yM
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Jun 20, 2016 16:22
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Helter Skelter posted:Major factions will degrade from Allied down to Friendly, but no further. Minor factions do not degrade that I've ever noticed. The problem being that there is usually no point to grind minor factions other than possible permits.
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Jun 20, 2016 16:22
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ShadowMoo posted:The problem being that there is usually no point to grind minor factions other than possible permits. And better missions. Unlocking at least one engineer too, but that's pretty much the same as a permit.
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Jun 20, 2016 17:40
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What they pay you for doing the missions goes up with your rep too.
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Tippis posted:…at least for certain values of “completely safe”. There's always the lurking danger of (very) close binaries. The scariest thing for me is jumping to a main sequence after being in a neutron field for a while. The first few neutrons are scary for the emptiness of it, I'll grant you that. But after going to a few dozen in a row, jumping back to a G-type and having it suddenly fill the entire canopy like you are going to smash into it before the FSD slows down all the way really wrenched my guts!
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Jun 20, 2016 18:09
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At the most, crashing into a star while in the black will cost you months of exploration data. Nothing to be worried about. Not entirely sure why you don't just save the exploration data to your escape pod's computer when you get blown up.
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Jun 20, 2016 18:13
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ShadowMoo posted:At the most, crashing into a star while in the black will cost you months of exploration data. Nothing to be worried about. Not entirely sure why you don't just save the exploration data to your escape pod's computer when you get blown up. Take New Horizons for an instant: This probe from today and real life collected years worth of data just by flying by Pluto and it took months of time to send the data back to Earth. Now imagine a thousand years later what kind of super-data you could collect from stellar objects. It's probably easy to say your escape pod isn't capable of holding any kind of exploration data. Wrong kind of computer and Frontier is too nice to give you to option to perma-kill yourself by overwriting important bits of your escape pod computer with random data from star systems you visited. If I were David Braben I would totally implement this and not tell people taking your exploration-data with you would literally be a suicide option. After all, no-one really would be dumb enough to do this, right? It's obvious what would happen if you overwrite the computer tasked with helping you stay alive, after all. 
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Jun 20, 2016 18:27
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:The scariest thing for me is jumping to a main sequence after being in a neutron field for a while. The first few neutrons are scary for the emptiness of it, I'll grant you that. But after going to a few dozen in a row, jumping back to a G-type and having it suddenly fill the entire canopy like you are going to smash into it before the FSD slows down all the way really wrenched my guts! Hmm. Yeah, I can see that happening. I had something of the opposite experience when I somehow found a whole bunch of C, S, MIII stars clustered together. Having had my fill of those, I jumped into a system with a regular F-star, which was 1) a really strange colour all of a sudden, and 2) very tiny.
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How does the goon group (Diamond Frogs?) stuff actually work? Is it something to do with Powerplay? Do we have our own faction to support or something? I'm thinking about selling my only ship (Diamondback Scout, I forget the fitting quality) and flying out there in a Sidewinder and figuring out what to do once I'm there. I kinda want to try mining just 'cos it sounds pretty chill.
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Jun 20, 2016 18:51
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Ciaphas posted:How does the goon group (Diamond Frogs?) stuff actually work? Is it something to do with Powerplay? Do we have our own faction to support or something? Diamond Frogs is a NPC faction that we wrote the lore for and FDev created in game. We support them by running missions and helping them expand. Power Play will be GalCop, which we are a part of.
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Jun 20, 2016 18:55
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Ciaphas posted:How does the goon group (Diamond Frogs?) stuff actually work? Is it something to do with Powerplay? Do we have our own faction to support or something? The DF thread is here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3773251 e ^^^ beaten
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Hi, I started playing this recently, after getting it on sale a while ago, and I don't know how to anything. I like the space ships, and flying them around is fun. What is the blue area next to the throttle for? How do I kill anything? It seems like most solo legal-to-shoot things are either Eagles, and can fly circles around me to stay outside of my narrow firing arc forever, or are bigger and more heavily armed, and can still rotate fast enough that I can't get on their blind rear end-side. I have a Cobra 3 with chainguns, but I don't feel like I'm any more : Dangerous than the starting ship.
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StringOfLetters posted:Hi, I started playing this recently, after getting it on sale a while ago, and I don't know how to anything. I like the space ships, and flying them around is fun. The blue area near the throttle indicates the "sweet spot" for where your thrusters will be most effective when pitching or turning your ship - keeping your throttle in that area will make sure you are turning your craft as quickly and effectively as possible. Allocating more or less pips to ENG will move this zone around. You can find wanted targets in Resource Extraction Sites, which are always in the rings around larger planets, or in Nav Beacons. If you're starting out, it's worth waiting for the Authority vessels to start firing on a wanted target - it helps you take them down, and gives the target something else to worry about which lets you focus on it more. As long as you deal some damage to the target before it pops, you'll collect the bounty.
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Jun 20, 2016 19:18
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currently watching a type 9 heavy NPC kill itself attempting to take off from Long Sight Base in Khun. It's just flailing around on the ground and slowly beating itself to death.
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Jun 20, 2016 19:29
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Tabletops posted:currently watching a type 9 heavy NPC kill itself attempting to take off from Long Sight Base in Khun. It's, what? 1.5G? Even NPC will under-size, apparently. 
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Intl Cron posted:it's worth waiting for the Authority vessels to start firing on a wanted target - it helps you take them down, and gives the target something else to worry about which lets you focus on it more. As long as you deal some damage to the target before it pops, you'll collect the bounty. Addendum: target the enemy using the 'target under crosshairs' button, and wait til the scanner in the bottom left says they're wanted. If you blast in to a beef between an authority ship and a NPC without this your authority friends won't stay friendly long. This and stray fire on auth ships are my #1 'Oops; Bug out ASAP' reasons 
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Jun 20, 2016 20:06
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Tabletops posted:currently watching a type 9 heavy NPC kill itself attempting to take off from Long Sight Base in Khun. Funny, that's the same thing I did when I visited LSB with my Explo-Conda during beta. I very nearly didn't make it. Nice to hear I'm not actually worse then a NPC.
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Welp; getting over halfway to the core presents a new challenge - waiting for the navcomp to plot a route 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Welp; getting over halfway to the core presents a new challenge - waiting for the navcomp to plot a route Go about 900ly (or your jump range * 30) in the direction you want to go on the galaxy map, then try plotting different stars, slowly edging back towards your current position. If it doesn't plot within ~10 seconds, it will likely take >5 minutes, so just keep selecting different stars and plotting them until the navcomp finds an easy one. I can usually find one within 5 or 6 tries. This method has never taken longer than one minute to plot >900ly routes all the way to Sag A*.
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The only way to move multiple ships to a new "home" is to get to a destination, buy a cheap piece of poo poo Sidewinder, fly it back, switch to your other ship, sell said piece of poo poo, repeat ad nauseum, right? Don't these people have space craigslist or something? (e) Or maybe I should just sell aforesaid Viper Mk4 for some dosh instead?? Either way I guess I still gotta fly to it
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Does anyone else find that reverse thrusters are extra weak on planets? Like, if you're just a few meters above a landing pad, and want to reverse so that you're properly centered, sometimes it just doesn't work (i'm thinking it's tied to how strong the gravity is)...but once you get maybe 100 meters up, suddenly the reverse thrusters work again.
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Ciaphas posted:The only way to move multiple ships to a new "home" is to get to a destination, buy a cheap piece of poo poo Sidewinder, fly it back, switch to your other ship, sell said piece of poo poo, repeat ad nauseum, right?
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Quite easy to make a space taxi. Get a hauler, remove all modules. Put in D rank everything, except for the FSD which should be A rank. Put in a D rank shield for accidental bumping which might happen. You don't want to travel 100 LY and then explode when trying to dock at a station. I guess you could use a docking computer instead of shields. That's it. When you get to the destination, downgrade the FSD to an E rank. If you're really cheap downgrade everything else to E rank and sell the shield/computer, then sell the ship when you get your new one.
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IAmTheRad posted:Quite easy to make a space taxi. Get a hauler, remove all modules. Put in D rank everything, except for the FSD which should be A rank. Put in a D rank shield for accidental bumping which might happen. You don't want to travel 100 LY and then explode when trying to dock at a station. I guess you could use a docking computer instead of shields. That's it. When you get to the destination, downgrade the FSD to an E rank. If you're really cheap downgrade everything else to E rank and sell the shield/computer, then sell the ship when you get your new one. Did the HaulerTaxi thing to get my asp, and nearly wet my pants twice during that trip. Getting interdicted by an elite Eagle with rails. Shields insta-hosed, and then hammers on my hull. Fucker even followed me to the next system! (Eagle with 21 ly jumprange ftw) Finally made a narrow escape with 46% hull. My SpaceTaxies from now on will be small and fast as gently caress. No point in the extra jump range when i don't survive.
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Dabir posted:C4 beam, missiles everywhere else, blow their drives if you can get behind them and their guns if you can't. Cheers to you and the other chap who responded, but the game has subsequently refused to spawn assassination missions for me to try these loadouts on. I did switch to 4xC2 pulses and a C4 cannon, though, which chews through large hulls very handily. I also tried Dirty Thrusters. They feel like cheating. I can now out-manoeuvre sidewinders.
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Since we've been talking about crashing into stars, a friendly PSA/reminder to my fellow pilots in the black: Being outside of the exclusion zone does ~not~ mean you are safe... 
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Shadow_333 posted:Did the HaulerTaxi thing to get my asp, and nearly wet my pants twice during that trip. The rebuy on a Hauler is like 5,000 credits. Who even cares if it gets blown up
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quote:Were they changed in an update? I've flown through those and as far as I can tell they're just graphics.
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DreadLlama posted:Were they changed in an update? I've flown through those and as far as I can tell they're just graphics. Stationary graphics at that. Most stars are just 3d static images.
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Yeah if you fly through a solar flare you should get a massive temp spike. Nothing doing so far, though.
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ShadowMoo posted:Stationary graphics at that. Most stars are just 3d static images. They're actually not, but the distances, and thus time involved in the image changes take forever. Have a timelapse though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGupxOG853I
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Main Paineframe posted:The rebuy on a Hauler is like 5,000 credits. Who even cares if it gets blown up Getting blown up, and reset 150 ly back where you started
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Picked up a Cobra Mk3 and fitted it for mining last night. Pretty chill and nice and profitable activity, though not one that warrants wearing an HMD since I'll want to browse the net/youtube while waiting for limpets What should my next step probably be, ship-wise, if I want to continue mining? I've heard Lakon Type-6 bandied about?
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Ciaphas posted:Picked up a Cobra Mk3 and fitted it for mining last night. Pretty chill and nice and profitable activity, though not one that warrants wearing an HMD since I'll want to browse the net/youtube while waiting for limpets Asp is a good mining vessel.
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I've had this game for months (only the base game, not horizons), but only yesterday managed to complete the tutorials / remap the controls more or less to my liking for my Xbox controller, successfully run a couple of delivery missions and dock without killing myself a few times. Is there any advantage to playing "Open" instead of "Solo" mode as a new player? I tried open for a couple of minutes while doing the first run to McMahon station, but quickly swapped back to Solo because there were a couple of ships loitering in my assigned landing pad and I couldn't dock through them. Also, I've seen a lot of people suggest the Eagle as a starting ship, but it seemingly has almost no cargo space. If I want to do some trading is there a different good starter ship I should be working towards?
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Shadow_333 posted:Getting blown up, and reset 150 ly back where you started That's like six jumps in a proper Hauler taxi
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Substandard posted:I've had this game for months (only the base game, not horizons), but only yesterday managed to complete the tutorials / remap the controls more or less to my liking for my Xbox controller, successfully run a couple of delivery missions and dock without killing myself a few times. It's really neat to see other players going about their space business. Also lots of people are really friendly and will strike up a conversation if you're in a combat zone together or whatever 
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