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ShadowMoo posted:A patch was applied which removed the AI sentience.  cheers..
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Is there a trick to getting promotions in 2.1? I've been sitting at 100% of my next rank for two days now but I haven't seen the old advancement missions pop up anywhere I've docked.
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Conskill posted:Is there a trick to getting promotions in 2.1? I've been sitting at 100% of my next rank for two days now but I haven't seen the old advancement missions pop up anywhere I've docked. After the most recent patch they changed it so you actually have to do the missions in real life, in space, in order to rank up. A lot of people complain, but i think it's still not hard enough. Maybe elite dangerous just isn't for them  I've already bought my first half-dozen bolts for an Atlas V rocket.
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3 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkh_U3DRrd4 
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SkySteak posted:OK just before I make an exploration ship, is it a bad idea to put weapons on one? I understand that you really shouldn't be in a fight but being completely defenceless sort of rubs me the wrong way. On top of that, do you really need a cargo bay? I am looking a Dimondback Explorer and I am wondering weather to just load almost all of it with fuel tanks scans a decent fuel scoop and a discovery scanner. This is the one I've used for my SagA* trip: AMFU and heatsink haven't been needed yet, even crashing into a few stars. If I was making a run to Beagle Point, I would fit an AMFU (since you can reup with crafting), but would probably avoid the heatsink. Each one only has 3 shots(?), so they are of limited use anyways. https://coriolis.io/outfit/diamondback_explorer/0p0tdFfldddsdf5-------32f4432i2f.Iw1kAziQ.Aw1-kA==?bn=Bananarama After using this a while, I'd recommend avoiding the extra tank and either taking cargo for picking up pods, or a hangar for landing on planets. When I get back, I will run it like this for planetary landings: https://coriolis.io/outfit/diamondback_explorer/0pataFflddfsdf52b1b1b----32v4402i2f.Iw1kAziQ.EwBjwkEYbMGYAscg?bn=Bananarama%20Mk2 I will swap the shields and thrusters out for the largest versions to make landings safer, and added weapons because I plan on upgrading the FSD, so I'm not bothered by the extra mass. I have never needed guns and haven't seen another human player (or an NPC) since I left the bubble. Blind Rasputin posted:Eek. I'm way outside the bubble right now in my first Asp and didn't put heat sinks on it and my distributor is kind of just big enough for one boost if I need it. I have already jumped into binary systems but thankfully on their outside edge. Never? If you zero your throttle before you land, it is essentially impossible to crash into a star. Coming out of superluminal into a binary system is scary, but you have to try to break your ship via the heat mechanic. Someone had a video of them trying to kill themselves in a star and it taking, like, 10 minutes or something absurd. I'm too lazy to find it, or it's in one of the old threads.
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Yeah, I went to the core and back with 30% hull and never used a heatsink. Even without zeroing the throttle you'll almost always be fine. I've seen videos of binaries where you get dropped way too close to one of them but never ran into one myself.
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One thing I've noticed while out here is that some planets have that blue ring around them as if you can land, but I get close and end up getting the message "dropping out, too close." I go into orbital flight first but never drop into actual glide mode. What am I doing wrong there?
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Blind Rasputin posted:One thing I've noticed while out here is that some planets have that blue ring around them as if you can land, but I get close and end up getting the message "dropping out, too close." I go into orbital flight first but never drop into actual glide mode. What am I doing wrong there? Maybe you accidentally loaded elite dangerous instead of elite dangerous horizons? That happened to me once.
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Blind Rasputin posted:Eek. I'm way outside the bubble right now in my first Asp and didn't put heat sinks on it and my distributor is kind of just big enough for one boost if I need it. I have already jumped into binary systems but thankfully on their outside edge. I jumped straight out as soon as I could, though, so it wasn't instant death. Just keep an eye when jumping in, and be ready to truck on out of there if you see a giant glowing ball whizzing past.
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Made it to the North American Nebula tonight. The nebula lighting is much more pronounced than I imagined. Pretty worth the trip.  I think I'll bebop around on the trip back in and then do some missions until the July patch hits and materials gathering gets easier for the engineers. I only saw one earth like the entire time out and about. Three water worlds, and named a ton of planets. I felt like the systems were repeating themselves in an area with a brown dwarf and four pink rocky planets for a stretch. How far out do you have to go to start seeing neutron stars and black holes?
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Speaking of nebulas, have they reopened the Orion cloud complex (Orion nebula/Horshead nebula/Barnad's Loop et al.) yet? And was there ever any explanation why those systems were suddenly slapped with a permit restriction?
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I heard they were reworking the in-game model for the dyson sphere out there.
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Conskill posted:Is there a trick to getting promotions in 2.1? I've been sitting at 100% of my next rank for two days now but I haven't seen the old advancement missions pop up anywhere I've docked. They're rare as gently caress. I've only seen two since 2.1 hit and couldn't do either of them to advance beyond Baron because the cargo requirements were trade python tier and I wasn't flying one.
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Boogalo posted:I thought I was in one of the IT threads for a second. 
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Conskill posted:Is there a trick to getting promotions in 2.1? I've been sitting at 100% of my next rank for two days now but I haven't seen the old advancement missions pop up anywhere I've docked. Tell me about it. The day before yesterday, I hit 100% serf, one bump to Master and I could get my icourier. I spent all last night board scumming and flying around so I could get an advancement mission I could do. It was a little frustrating too being in a non-combat fit Asp-E and getting "kill this politician for the navy" missions. I was thinking to myself, "What am I, Blackwater?" Typical  the Navy missions aren't well identified that those missions are the ones that rank you up. Also, thanks to Tippis, I think, for the mine launcher suggestion. They work fine in an Asp. I just fa-off go nose down 45 degrees or so and pop the mines. It's nice seeing the guy who interdicted you stop shooting at you and start maneuvering to deal with the mines. I also got to see the green point defense fire which was cool.
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Oh, missed this…Blind Rasputin posted:How far out do you have to go to start seeing neutron stars and black holes? It's not so much a matter of “how far” but of “under what conditions”. If you just want to see black holes, go to HIP 63835. If you want to see more, and not just go by random chance, you need to be a bit more deliberate. While this obviously still translates into a distance, I suspect that the question you're really looking to answer is “how far do I have to go to find one of my own”. Dotted around the galaxy are various stellar birth- and death zones that will have an overabundance of some particular type of star. For instance, the Omega nebula is a birthing ground which has spawned a huge swath of B-stars, and this the kind of prime hunting ground you're looking for. In such regions (and you'll have to ask an astronomer how realistic this is), Stellar Forge has a great fondness for creating billion:ish year-old B-star binaries, and under the right conditions — which are pretty frequent — one of those B-stars will be just heavy enough and old enough to have collapsed into either a neutron star or a black hole. While those systems can appear anywhere, birth zones will have them in abundance, and often in the form of triple or quadruple stars — binary binaries — where one or more has collapsed. For a good example (and some good old clenched-sphincter-time), I would "suggest" 2MASS J18185805-1647318. One problem with these zones, though, is that they're fairly obvious and often completely explored already, so you probably won't put your name on the map with them. For that, you're probably better off looking at the opposite end of the spectrum: in a stellar death zone, which doesn't show up as easily on the map since there are no bright star clusters or nebulae to give them away. Black holes and neutron stars won't be as abundant there as in the birthing zones because there won't be those binary/tripple/quad systems, but they'll still be relatively common. After all, they're stellar remnants, like any other, just from a particular star type. What you get instead is huge stretches of white dwarfs, giants and supergiants, even the odd C- and S-star, and the black holes and neutron stars dotted in among them with the density and distribution you'd normally expect from, say, B- and A-stars in a sea of F–M.
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TorakFade posted:As an iCourier nose weapon, medium PAC or medium railgun? I've used both. I'd say Railgun is easier to aim, but PAC is more fun to hit things with.
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Blind Rasputin posted:I heard they were reworking the in-game model for the dyson sphere out there. ngc 7822 is full of black hole systems, binary black hole + a tertiary star systems, quaternary black hole systems.... theres a lot of dark, black holes in ngc 7822. has anyone tried the pack hound since the stealth missile buff in 2.1?
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Tippis posted:One problem with these zones, though, is that they're fairly obvious and often completely explored already, so you probably won't put your name on the map with them. For that, you're probably better off looking at the opposite end of the spectrum: in a stellar death zone, which doesn't show up as easily on the map since there are no bright star clusters or nebulae to give them away. Black holes and neutron stars won't be as abundant there as in the birthing zones because there won't be those binary/tripple/quad systems, but they'll still be relatively common. A Also, you can change your galaxy map filters to show specific types of stars. But as Tippis notes, everyone and their brother has already done this for the interesting stars -- black holes, type O/B/A, etc., so if you want discovery credit, you're better off trying to find a patch of space that hasn't been heavily traveled (no nebulae).
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Is it really a stealth buff if it was mentioned in the patch notes? 
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Nicetalga4Meltdown posted:Is it really a stealth buff if it was mentioned in the patch notes? 
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A prophet looked into the future and told us what they saw.
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DancingShade posted:A prophet looked into the future and told us what they saw.
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Has someone else trouble logging in? The launcher behaves weird (freezes with white background, refuses log-in with "unable to connect to remote server"-message), which was a nasty surprise since I only had about an hour time to play today and that hour is now gone.  Just in case I've opened a support ticket, but I thought I could ask around if someone had similar trouble this week? Edit: gently caress, of course just 5 minutes after filing a support ticket the launcher works again like normal, without explanation. About 30 minutes after I ran out of time for playing. poo poo, I'm going to bed. Online-games really hate people who need to get up early in the morning, it seems. Libluini fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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Its a holiday weekend and as such i finally have free time to goof off in elite again. Has any thing major changed recently? I am pretty much just planingon finding an asteroid belt and shooting anything that has a bounty.
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Do the Community Goal and sign up for GalCop, it's easy and you make good money.
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Dreadwroth posted:Do the Community Goal and sign up for GalCop, it's easy and you make good money. In retrospect I should've totally looked at the system map before I started doing this.
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Conskill posted:In retrospect I should've totally looked at the system map before I started doing this. Suck it up and keep trucking. Do your part to beat the Red Menace.
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Have not played this game since engineers. Got Horizons via the steam sale. Logged in. Forgot where I was.
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Okay so it's been over a half a year and I'm still considering getting Horizons. I know there's a lot of stuff to do but I've also read that it's been a harsh couple of months for people, especially lovely people like me. Overpowered AI, over-aggressive AI, lots of interdictions, so on and so forth. This is bad for lovely people like me who rage-uninstalled because I couldn't deal with getting my rear end kicked. I know I have a lot of stuff to (re)learn, but I don't want to do anything more than live a humble life doing (mainly combat) missions. Not for any rush to power, but just because this game's so damned pretty that it can't escape my mind. I keep reconsidering reinstalling it or, like right now, buying the expansion. Is this game still rough in terms of the common/general experience? Is it still a sequence of workarounds and places to avoid to not get your rear end kicked despite how well equipped or reflexive you are? In short, is this game still "annoyingly/unfairly" difficult? Because if it is, I'll wait for another sale to keep being indecisive. 
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eukara posted:I should try hitting Robigo and Sothis sometime soon for some out-of-the-bubble action. Robigo got nerfed pretty hard - it can no longer be used for smuggling runs. If you're just planning on using it as a base for exploration, I don't know if it's still viable for that.
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Morter posted:Okay so it's been over a half a year and I'm still considering getting Horizons. Your rear end will get kicked equally well everywhere now. Horizons isn't really the cause of any of the major complaints about the game; it just doesn't resolve them. However, if you're going to keep playing, you might as well get Horizons, since you're locking yourself out of planetary landings and now the crafting system, which means you're at a disadvantage against NPCs if you can stomach any sort of grinding at all.
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