Main Paineframe posted:

There's some amount of scaling based on ship (spawns got noticeably nastier once I upgraded from Asp to Anaconda), but mostly in terms of what ships you come up against. If you downgrade to an Eagle, you'll probably be coming up against engineer-boosted Eagles and Vipers instead of engineer-boosted Anacondas.

Main Paineframe posted:

No idea. I just punched vague terms into Google Image Search and picked something that looked cool

Yolomon Wayne posted:

2 runs for loving 50 cigars that are only sold by one station in the galaxy in batches of not-50.
2.5 hours of buggying for a single loving drop of (3) Tellurium.
14 jumps to get grid somethings, 16 jumps back.
Outcome: 35.13MW power plant on my FDL.

Thanks Hera, it was totally worth it.
But i dont think i want to see you ever again.

tooterfish posted:

Scoopable stars are:

Oh
Be
A
Fine
Girl
Kiss
Me

Space Skeleton posted:

Kurr de la Cruz posted:

Sounds like you need to modify yo poo poo! I got the hookup right here:

The Tadpole's Uplifting Engineering Primer

Capn Beeb posted:

This is pretty neato. Now I just need to buy the Engineers update

Edit:

Oh, it's Horizons that's the paid DLC. Can I do all this with the base game then?

Met posted:

Is there a site I can input information about a system and it'll give me a list of systems that fit that?

Specifically, I'm trying to find a High Tech system in a boom state in Empire Space. It'd be nice to have such a tool for future scenarios as well.

Tippis posted:

Do you mean in general or in the special case of joystick in VR? I've done the former, and it works pretty well — hell, it's more reliable in terms of keeping a system focused than using mouse + kb. I To make it work well, though, you kind of need 6 different axes, not all of them analogue.

My setup is joystick x/y to dolly the camera x/y, with a switch to make it a z-axis dolly instead; rotation is bound to a hat and zooming is bound to another. That hat also skips left/right through the map submenues, while a a third hat does the usual selection of system actions (select, path to, system map etc). It works pretty well, if a bit bit slowly, but as mentioned it's actually more precise and reliable than not using the joystick.

…now how well that works in VR, I can't answer.

StarkRavingMad posted:

I'm doing the (hilarious) mines thing against NPC interdictions. Question: do pips to weapons do anything for mines?

Tippis posted:

Not really. Keep them in SYS and ENG depending on how you intend to avoid exploding and just spam more mines.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

https://eddb.io/system

CapnBry posted:

I just checked this and holy cow what a dick move. You lose 10% of the cost of the modules if you just sell the ship with everything on it. I thought for sure you'd get full price for the modules, 10% off the ship. Numbers:
Sidewinder: cost 32,000
Sell: offered 28,800
Added reactive surface composite armor (139,424): offered (forgot to write this down but it was ~154k) not 28,800 + 139,424 = 167,424.

So yeah that sucks. I guess I lose money every time I buy a Hauler to be a taxi and fit it with an A class FSD and fuel scoopie and sell it outright when I get where I am going.

Regarding using the galaxy map in VR, I was doing a twitch stream yesterday and I was going from Lave to Delkar and I thought, "I have a pretty good idea of where that is and what is around it so let's just find it using the HOTAS." Nope, a minute later I take the hat off and go walk to the other room, type it in, hit enter, waggle the rotation left and right a bit so I can select it and tromp back to the VR room grumbling. Relying heavily on "open galaxy map" from the mission list, or having a handful of bookmarks really helps but space is so big, I don't want to go to just the same places over and over again!

Anyone with a GTX 1070 have a good configuration that isn't all alias-artifacted to hell and doesn't drop too many frames? Funny I can run this game at 100+ FPS on Ultra with 2.0x SuperSampling with the GPU at 100% usage, but in VR even "VR HIgh" reprojects like a mo-fo in the station. All that news from gamescom and not one question was if they're looking at doing FOVeated rendering, lens-matched shading, or implementing simultaneous stereo rendering using the new Nvidia stuff. I want my VR to be as beautiful as my desktop!

CapnBry posted:

I wish there was some way to set what you wanted, either by going to certain places which are of a certain type (larger ships vs smaller ships, or engineer ships vs stock) or just being able to set it directly. I was in my Vulture and was in a high res blasting away on Anacondas and FDLs for an hour and having a great time, getting like 2M in bounties in an hour, and I said "Let's go get the Anaconda!" Flew back and switched ships and went back to the exact same place and it was all Cobra, Cobra, Cobra, Cobra, Cobra, Eagle, Cobra, Cobra, Imperial Eagle, Cobra. I tried logging out and back in, same ship assortment. I switched to solo play, same ships. I wouldn't mind as much but they only spawn so fast and killing a dude for 10-30k bounty every 4-5 minutes is balls. Especially if the space cops come and destroy the poor fellow before I can get my 800 ton rear end over to him.

It's like playing a fantasy MMOG where all the dungeons are filled with random level dudes, that spawn one at a time, on the other side of the dungeon.

Gonkish posted:

I decided to go out and see the fsd lady (not felicity). I kitted out an Asp in order to do so, and somehow I have the gold skin for it? I have never bought any Asp skins on the store. (The only one I remember having is the black Friday skin)

What happened there?

Also, was I wrong in believing that you could modify the equipment of any ship you owned, regardless of the fact that it's several hundred light-years away? This lady seems to only let me tweak the Asp, not my FDL which is like 300ly down the road.

Rasmussen posted:

Offtopic:

Hello CapnBry, I like your blog and still use your mob finder for daoc sometimes.

Ontopic:

I really dislike flying the Anaconda due to its size, so I sold it and went back to a python and some other smaller, nippier ships. I'm kinda slowly grinding up the last couple ranks for the corvette but I'm worried I will hate it like the Conda. Anyone have a first-hand comparison?

mpyro posted:

What did you dislike about the Conda? The Vette is large like the Conda, turns better, better huge gun placement. Still slow in normal space like the Conda.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

Know thyself, frogfriend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Peterson _(balls)

Yolomon Wayne posted:

I know you like to throw this meltdown thing around, but this is none.
Im actually pretty glad ive gotten my 25.2mw to a 35.13 cause i now will never have to worry about power supply again.

I still would like to see hera tani die in a fire for the surface part of the mission though.

Rasmussen posted:

The general hugeness of it, and the placement of the cockpit were the two main issues.

mpyro posted:

The Vette is the same cockpit placement and about the same size.

Rasmussen posted:

I think I might save myself the trouble if that's the case!

Sultan Tarquin posted:

I don't know if they changed it for assassination missions but have you tried honking the system or scanning the nav beacon?

Astroniomix posted:

It's also just as much an immovable brick in supercruise as the conda is.

The anaconda's normal space performance never bothered me, it's flying the drat thing in supercruise that drove me mad.

IAmTheRad posted:

As an earthlike planet was found around Proxima Centauri. I know they changed Pluto's graphic due to the actual images of Pluto. Think they will change up the Alpha Centauri system at all due to the discovery of the new planet?

It's in the habital zone. It orbits Proxima Centauri every 11 days. It's orbit is 0.05 AU.