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I can't wait for all those engineering changes to drop.
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FronzelNeekburm posted:If your scoop is big enough, you can just wander close enough to the star while honking that it won't matter. There's no big time difference either way. There's a sweet spot if you're going tangent to the star and have a large scoop where you can complete the scoop and straddle the star without falling into it. I can gauge it by the yellow "danger" line around the star but it's too hard to describe without getting a feel for it. In any case usually when I've lined that up I have enough time to pop into system view and give it a cursory glance. When I'm back out I'm out of the corona and am ready to scan or move on. It works very well for quick travel so for those with a big scoop, I recommend it.
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Jul 22, 2016 23:37
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Blind Rasputin posted:I can't wait for all those engineering changes to drop. 
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Jul 22, 2016 23:38
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deadly_pudding posted:There's a sweet spot you can find around most stars where you heat up to about 60-70% heat and then just stay there. I usually park myself there with my slow-rear end scoop on the Courier and look at my map/browse the web. Yeah, though to be fair if you go any closer with a Courier you basically incinerate immediately. Cobras, FDLs and Pythons can idle crazy close and remain fairly heat neutral.
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Jul 23, 2016 00:01
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So I flew out to the Pleiades. Apparently there is a populated system there. Is this the hotbed of PVP I am assuming it is since plenty of explorers pass through here?
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Panch posted:There's a sweet spot if you're going tangent to the star and have a large scoop where you can complete the scoop and straddle the star without falling into it. I can gauge it by the yellow "danger" line around the star but it's too hard to describe without getting a feel for it. In any case usually when I've lined that up I have enough time to pop into system view and give it a cursory glance. When I'm back out I'm out of the corona and am ready to scan or move on. Yeah, never fly straight at the star to scoop. Fly towards the outside of the exclusion zone at a tangent and don't let your heat get above 65% or so!  If you are a crazy person like me, you can do this while you are firing the discovery scanner, then drop your speed to 0 and point at the star to scan it while you refuel. Never not scan all of the things. mister magpie posted:So I flew out to the Pleiades. Apparently there is a populated system there. Is this the hotbed of PVP I am assuming it is since plenty of explorers pass through here? I don't know about the Pleiades, but I haven't seen another CMDR except for my friend who escorted me in, even now that I'm back. Still not completely convinced this is a multiplayer game...
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Jul 23, 2016 02:30
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I don't know about the Pleiades, but I haven't seen another CMDR except for my friend who escorted me in, even now that I'm back. Still not completely convinced this is a multiplayer game... I saw one once, he messaged me about the Keelback I was sitting in port with, when I was just flying one for a day to see how bad it was. Then once I saw one in Frame Shift going the other way. I think that was in Lembava.
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Jul 23, 2016 02:33
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Newsletter is out. http://goo.gl/mUUwei This video really scratches my space madness itch..C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_EOwPfzMSU
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Jul 23, 2016 05:13
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drat that is truly an awesome video.
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mister magpie posted:So I flew out to the Pleiades. Apparently there is a populated system there. Is this the hotbed of PVP I am assuming it is since plenty of explorers pass through here? Are you talking about Maia? That's old news, the discussion last revolved around Eol Prou RS-T d3-94, the system Jaque's station is in. That system is something like 20+ k ly from the bubble, not just a couple hundred.
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Jul 23, 2016 08:02
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I want to see all of the starship interiors using the Vive. Is there a way to do this without cheating or spending 100 hours playing?
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Jul 23, 2016 08:07
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hazyrazor posted:I want to see all of the starship interiors using the Vive. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmX89YRYfWK1uk0S88cZEovIT6HtCaifF Not a vive, but will do.
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Jul 23, 2016 10:30
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Yeah, never fly straight at the star to scoop. Fly towards the outside of the exclusion zone at a tangent and don't let your heat get above 65% or so! But if you're going to go make a sandwich or especially poke around in the system map, be aware that you're still in motion in supercruise, even with the throttle at minimum. And you can't hear warning sirens in the map screen until everything is on fire and shutting down.
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Jul 23, 2016 10:53
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Yeah, never fly straight at the star to scoop. Fly towards the outside of the exclusion zone at a tangent and don't let your heat get above 65% or so! Nah. Fly at the star. When you leave supercruise, reduce your throttle to just below the blue zone and immediately start scanning the star. Slam on the brakes when your fuel scoop reaches 3/4 capacity and you'll stop at just around max input. The two biggest time sucks when exploring are the time it takes you to scan the central star and the time it takes you to scoop fuel. Having tried the flying around star thing, this way is much faster for both. Disclaimer: results may vary for ships that aren't my particular build of Asp.
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Jul 23, 2016 14:22
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Before I head to Maia, does that station sell meta alloys and nowhere else or is eddb lying?
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Jul 23, 2016 17:27
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Truga posted:Before I head to Maia, does that station sell meta alloys and nowhere else or is eddb lying? There's a planetary outpost that sells them there. It still was as of last week.
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Jul 23, 2016 17:36
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Went to Maia to get a meta alloy, honked all the systems along the way, fully explored maia and another one, only got elvira up to rank 2.9. I wish I kept all the exploration data until now instead of selling
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Jul 23, 2016 22:13
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Dante80 posted:This video really scratches my space madness itch..C: Is there a signup for this somewhere I'm missing? Just a link would be great, I've got a stripped out D-back explorer! Let's do it! A class diamondback, fuel scoop/ extra tanks. A class scanning stuff. Complaint Compilation fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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Jul 24, 2016 03:24
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PoorMoralCompass posted:Is there a signup for this somewhere I'm missing? Just a link would be great, I've got a stripped out D-back explorer! Let's do it! Having just done a similar build, I wouldn't recommend the extra tanks. They are entirely unnecessary and will just increase the time you spend refueling instead of scanning/taking pictures.
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Jul 24, 2016 04:37
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Having just done a similar build, I wouldn't recommend the extra tanks. They are entirely unnecessary and will just increase the time you spend refueling instead of scanning/taking pictures. yeah, but it helps my laziness.
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Jul 24, 2016 05:11
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PoorMoralCompass posted:yeah, but it helps my laziness. You're only postponing your laziness. For every scoop you skip with extra tanks, you have to refill that much more once you do decide to scoop.
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Jul 24, 2016 20:18
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Which i do not refute. However, the question still stands: Is there a singup for that thing or is it just a cool video?
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Jul 24, 2016 22:03
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Extra tanks can help when you go through an area with few to no scoopable stars.
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PoorMoralCompass posted:Which i do not refute. However, the question still stands: Is there a singup for that thing or is it just a cool video? If there is, it's probably on the FD forum's exploration section: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/117-Elite-Exploration Fake Edit: yeah, about 2 seconds found what I think you are looking for: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/274385-August-Exodus-A-Jaunt-to-Jaques
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An extra class-3 fuel tank in the DBE massively expands its range. Jump it as soon as the FSD cooldown finishes. Run it until it's almost dry (easy to see on the galactic map) and only scoop then, saves time from dipping into the star and flying back out on every jump. And while the tiny scoop does its work, get a sandwich or make a cocktail or check the mail or catch up on the StarCit thread or whatever. The tank's more useful than an AFMU. And, yeah, it can skip through unscoopable badlands or farm neutron fields with little worry.
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Since i tried the class 4 Beam on the FDL i think grinding Imperials for the Cutter was a mistake. I cant imagine what a corvette with 2 of those will do to anything smaller than a dreadnaught. e: also my class 4 multicannon doesnt deplete ammo upon reloading a magazine. Guess thats a bug? Yolomon Wayne fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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Jul 25, 2016 09:29
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Yolomon Wayne posted:
Yes, it is a bug. A good one. (One that noone reports to Fdev) Edit: same bug also for several other weapons.
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Shadow_333 posted:Yes, it is a bug. A good one. (One that noone reports to Fdev) Ah good, i was fearing it would eat up my ressources. But boy am i disappointed with the sound and feeling of it. I was hoping for a faster firing cannon, but its more like a peashooter...
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Jul 25, 2016 10:10
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Ah good, i was fearing it would eat up my ressources. The twin huge mc on my corvette sounds glorious. Having both firing above pilot's head also helps the cool-factor.
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Shadow_333 posted:The twin huge mc on my corvette sounds glorious. Im curious, have you tried twin beams?
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Im curious, have you tried twin beams? No, and i kinda regret not doing so before i fell in love with the huge mc. Think capasitor will be a problem tho
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Jul 25, 2016 12:20
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Once the engineer grind is reduced I'm gonna replicate the build I saw in a youtube vid: corvette equipped entirely with modded multicannons that do thermal damage, melting any enemy in under like 5 seconds
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Jul 25, 2016 12:26
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Shadow_333 posted:No, and i kinda regret not doing so before i fell in love with the huge mc. Think capasitor will be a problem tho Well i speculate they will completly rape every shield out there, so you can go hogwild with cannons on all other ports.
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Surprise Giraffe posted:Once the engineer grind is reduced I'm gonna replicate the build I saw in a youtube vid: corvette equipped entirely with modded multicannons that do thermal damage, melting any enemy in under like 5 seconds Im interested in how many tries one would need for that. What you speak of is one of the random mods, no? So basically you have a 5% chance to get the correct one, multiply this with the number of cannons you want to outfit.
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Well i speculate they will completly rape every shield out there, so you can go hogwild with cannons on all other ports. For about 2.5 seconds.
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Jul 25, 2016 12:49
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Just use burst lasers so you don't cook yourself.
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Jul 25, 2016 14:10
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E:D weird rock opera thing at Edinburgh Fringe: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/07/25/theres-an-elite-dangerous-rock-opera-playing-this-years-edinburgh-fringe Goddamnit nerds. Anyone live up there? I suggest you go just to experience (what I imagine will be) one of the most cringeworthy spectacles you will ever see.
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Jul 25, 2016 14:56
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question about engineers: If an invitation requires like "traded with 50 markets" does that work retroactively? I have been trading a boatload back then, will this count when i have the guy unlocked by getting the other guy to rank 3?
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Jul 25, 2016 15:10
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Yolomon Wayne posted:question about engineers: As soon as the update launched I received the invitations from those Engineers that require you to travel x light years away or trade with x black markets.
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radintorov posted:It is. The travel-engineers were always confusing to me, since Frontier never fixed the bug with your travel distance always shown at maximum possible distance. When I'm looking at my display stating the completely wrong fact that I travelled 65k+ light years, is the game using that wrong number or is it just a display error and engineers are actually using your true travel distance? In my case I can't test this, because even the true number would be about four times as high as what the most demanding engineer wants. Someone would need to make a new account, see if he gets the same display error and look if he gets invitations from engineers based on the error.
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