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anyone wanna save me by delivering some fuel to pegasi sector rj-n a8-3?
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Panch posted:So you submit, which lets you charge FSD faster, but gimps you insanely by having you spin for a ton of time. No, the problem is that submitting doesn't work instantly. Even after you throttle all the way down and the "Submitting" message appears, it takes a few seconds for the submit to actually come into effect - and the minigame keeps going during that time, along with the possibility of losing the minigame before the submit finishes. The intention is probably to keep people from playing the game and just submitting when they're about to lose, but it does mean that even someone who's genuinely trying to submit faces the risk of losing the minigame and being successfully interdicted before their submit comes into effect and ends the minigame. To minimize that risk, you have to keep following the crosshair while submitting.
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Jun 27, 2016 05:23
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There any good ED mods besides EDSM and EDMC?
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Jun 27, 2016 06:04
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Strategic Tea posted:The Cobra is about Millennium Falcon size IIRC, and a Corvette is about the size of the Normandy. But nothing gives that 'I am flying an office block with fifty souls aboard' feeling as far as I know. Never flown anything really big though so If you want to fly an office building, the Type 9 is your ship.
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Jun 27, 2016 06:54
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FronzelNeekburm posted:If you want to fly an office building, the Type 9 is your ship. Hardcore NPC even use the T9 in CZ now.
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Jun 27, 2016 08:21
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GuyonthecoucH posted:Fit the largest biweave shield you can along with milspec armor and as many HRPs as you can fit. The vulture doesn't lose a whole lot of speed from weight and it's biweaves regen fast. To expand on this, it's almost impossible to load the vulture down enough for the mass to have any affect on it's flight performance. It's engines are just that big. The magic number is 420 tons, anything below that won't reduce it's speed or agility at all.
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Jun 27, 2016 11:55
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Tabletops posted:anyone wanna save me by delivering some fuel to pegasi sector rj-n a8-3? Aw man, you posted this like 10 minutes after I logged for the night.
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Jun 27, 2016 11:57
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I hope that when we get Create-a-Pilot later this year, they give us options for applying colors and patterns to the flightsuit. I wanna make a real Willy Wonka-looking motherfucker.
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Jun 27, 2016 16:51
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Reminder : http://archive.is/2Hzu6
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Jun 27, 2016 17:27
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deadly_pudding posted:I hope that when we get Create-a-Pilot later this year, they give us options for applying colors and patterns to the flightsuit. I wanna make a real Willy Wonka-looking motherfucker. Only $7.00!
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Jun 27, 2016 17:47
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Nice meltdown.
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Jun 27, 2016 17:50
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I've read that chaff is useless on NPC's; is that true? Long-haul trucking made me a fair amount of money over the weekend, especially since I was able to a-rate the FSD on my shiny new Asp. 6 jumps would net me ~3m - 4m credits from an outpost outside the bubble. I was able to gear up the Asp (a-FSD, b-Power Plant, c-Thrusters, 3a-Shield). I've had lots of NPC interdictions, thought from reading the thread, a lot seem to be coming from the materials / cargo which may be rewards for engineers? The game even threw a Dangerous Imperial Clipper at me. I've gotten a little better at flying with flight assist off, spinning and corkscrewing while boosting away, 4 pips to shields and 2 to engines. Flight assist off tends to make the npc pirate miss a lot and I usually get away with a few shield hits. I'll have to give the mine launcher and some seeker missiles a try because the only time I've bothered using them is when I'm interdicted by a novice or "mostly harmless" or whatever. Also managed to rank myself from none to mid-way through "serf" so I can get my icourier.
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Jun 27, 2016 19:09
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MoraleHazard posted:Also managed to rank myself from none to mid-way through "serf" so I can get my icourier.  Courier is fun. It gets decent jump range for what is mostly a combat ship, it's quite agile, has tanky shields, looks real good, and mounts medium hardpoints. There's even room in there for cargo racks so you can pick up salvage or do small-time smuggling runs.
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Jun 27, 2016 19:13
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Any suggestions for an iCourier weapon load out for RES hunting? This ship is easily the best cockpit in VR I've been in. Holy crap! Gutayama believer from now on. Now to just stomach that dumb rep grind.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:38
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How 2 get the monies/rep for ships like the Empire Clipper so I don't spend literally all my free time for the next year trying to grind for it.
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Jun 27, 2016 21:52
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Wtf is this?
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Jun 27, 2016 21:59
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Kramjacks posted:Wtf is this?  . Truly exciting times we live in.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:05
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Mercurius posted:That would be the lead AI programmer for E:D having a meltdown because people were annoyed about the difficulty of her new AI in combination with the bugged weapons and engineer modules on all NPCs bonanza Ah ok, I remember she said "looks fine" about that video where an NPC Vulture kills a player's Python in like 0.2 seconds.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:08
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Excuse my rant for a minute here So, I've been away from E:D for a while. I log in and my Cobra Mk4 has some kind of bi-weave shield? wtf? So I start crusin the rare goods circuit to get some coin and I get interdicted on the way in to sell a big pile of stuff and in the past it was either fed patrols or 1-3 stupid pirates that I could always bring down easy peasy. Well nope! It's a single pirate with one of those federation space APC's and he blows down my shields and pushes my poo poo in faster than I can even get my power levels adjusted. I try another circuit... same thing... oh and then insurance is like 100x more than it used to be. wtf happened? I don't know if this is the Cobra Mk4 being trash, or the bi-weave shield thing, or what? Was the Cobra Mk3 better for combat or something? I don't know what I'm doing anymore.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:27
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Mercurius posted:That would be the lead AI programmer for E:D having a meltdown because people were annoyed about the difficulty of her new AI in combination with the bugged weapons and engineer modules on all NPCs bonanza Holy poo poo. I read it and just figured it was an oforums "It's called Elite Dangerous for a reason" type's blog post but wondered why they would have deleted it. I love when devs post that sort of stuff.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:27
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Kramjacks posted:Ah ok, I remember she said "looks fine" about that video where an NPC Vulture kills a player's Python in like 0.2 seconds. Wait what
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Jun 27, 2016 22:28
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So Elite Dangerous, the extremely grindy space game, has now become extremely difficult so it is now very hard to grind oh
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Jun 27, 2016 22:32
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Finster Dexter posted:Wait what https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZN_yZ07-18 
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Jun 27, 2016 22:35
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Phi230 posted:So Elite Dangerous, the extremely grindy space game, has now become extremely difficult so it is now very hard to grind git gud little piggy 
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Jun 27, 2016 22:40
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I get interdicted more frequently with rare engineer materials in my cargo hold than when I carry mission goods  I think I'm going to jettison them all because its actively loving with my ability to farm non-cargo materials.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:58
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I don't understand conflict zones. I go to a low intensity one, side with a faction, about two seconds later a hundred NPCs are on me and blow me up. Like, what in hell kind of mechanic is that. I've even tried to stay with the green pack and not shoot until they do, but that doesn't work either.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:33
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Blind Rasputin posted:I don't understand conflict zones. I go to a low intensity one, side with a faction, about two seconds later a hundred NPCs are on me and blow me up. Like, what in hell kind of mechanic is that. Yeah that's been my experience with CZs since the Engineers patch dropped too. You don't want to try CZs without a wing.
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Jun 27, 2016 23:47
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Hmm yes because 4 pips in SYS would've made any lick of difference there 
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Jun 27, 2016 23:54
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Finster Dexter posted:Hmm yes because 4 pips in SYS would've made any lick of difference there look at this little piggy 
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Jun 27, 2016 23:59
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Hexenritter posted:Yeah that's been my experience with CZs since the Engineers patch dropped too. You don't want to try CZs without a wing. CZs have always been a bad time if more than one NPC takes a liking to you at once, and pre 2.1 AI was about as good as gang banging the player as it is now. You're just simply not going to make it without a ship that can survive a group hug long enough to frameshift out.
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timn posted:CZs have always been a bad time if more than one NPC takes a liking to you at once, and pre 2.1 AI was about as good as gang banging the player as it is now. You're just simply not going to make it without a ship that can survive a group hug long enough to frameshift out. Well, right now I can't even survive being interdicted by a single ship, where I used to have no problem being interdicted by 2-3.
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Finster Dexter posted:Excuse my rant for a minute here NPCs got a massive buff in 2.1. They've been through a couple nerf cycles since then but they're still far more vicious than they were when you last played. Also, if you have a high combat rank, they'll be even tougher and also have a very high chance of packing engineered weapons that are even more powerful than normal and can have nasty special effects on top of that. Have fun! You'll probably have a far better shot in the Cobra III, which is fast enough to run away from things.
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Jun 28, 2016 00:19
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Flying around in this machinegunning vulture I almost like NPCs interdicting me. 
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Jun 28, 2016 01:01
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I cannot wait to get level 5 dirty drives on my Vulture. All I need to do now is grind an engineer for an invite, then grind another engineer for an invite, then travel 5000 LY and find a couple UAs.
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Only had bad luck with the Engineers so far. Did an upgrade to my PowerPlant with 3x 1% improvements and it just wasn't worth the extra mass. If you plan on upgrading something beyond an A-Rating, stack up enough of those fancy materials... I already started making a shopping list
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Jun 28, 2016 01:37
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Which engineer takes all those shield scans? I have about a billion of them.
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Jun 28, 2016 01:53
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MoraleHazard posted:I've read that chaff is useless on NPC's; is that true? Are you trying to dodge NPC scans for some reason? If yes, then chaff is worthless. Are you trying to gently caress with the tracking of gimballed and turreted weapons? Then no, chaff is not worthless.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Which engineer takes all those shield scans? I have about a billion of them. The answers to all things http://inara.cz/galaxy-engineers
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Finster Dexter posted:Hmm yes because 4 pips in SYS would've made any lick of difference there 4 pips would have bought him just under 2 seconds, which would be enough time for him to notice his shields were taking damage right before they went down and his hull evaporated anyway.
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Is this mostly a Euro based game or is the bubble so big that player sightings are comparatively rare? I hardly ever see other players in USTZ, maybe one or two.
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