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Trustworthy posted:Some lovely Xbox clan moved into my home system, a rugged, independent mining colony at the edge of the bubble. Now Mahon's cronies are stinking up the joint. I do not like this. Come join the frogs. We've got frogs on logs. Frogs on dogs. Frogs on hogs. If you can put a frog on it, we've got it.
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How do you turn in exploration data for Elvira? I don't see a Cartography option under her. Do you have to leave/revisit the station for it to show up once you unlock her?
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Aug 25, 2016 19:36
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MisterZimbu posted:How do you turn in exploration data for Elvira? I don't see a Cartography option under her. Do you have to leave/revisit the station for it to show up once you unlock her? That's how it worked for me with Felicity, so give it a shot. You'll have to leave the planet entirely, though; IIRC you can't just launch and immediately re-dock.
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Aug 25, 2016 19:57
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MisterZimbu posted:How do you turn in exploration data for Elvira? I don't see a Cartography option under her. Do you have to leave/revisit the station for it to show up once you unlock her? Log out and back in.
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Aug 25, 2016 20:02
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Natsuumi posted:Log out and back in. Same with every engineer, first order of business upon entering their hideout is to relog.
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Aug 25, 2016 20:09
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Thanks to the person who posted that Engineers guide; I've started playing again and want to get some sweet upgrades and it's a great help. Can't wait to get those good thrusters on my Python. I've been playing No Man's Sky recently and while I like that game a lot, I had forgotten how satisfying Elite is. The flight model and the sound and the scale of everything is just so good. The other night I was about to get started collecting some materials but ended up just flying around a planet's surface in a Courier for like an hour. Eyud fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Aug 25, 2016 20:18
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Reinstancing is enough to get cartographics to show up! Switch modes to solo (or open if you're strange), or jump to another system and back. Coincidentally: it takes ~7M credits to rank 4 an engineer with exploration data, and another 7M to get to rank 5.
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Aug 25, 2016 22:44
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Rebought the FDL and put 4 missile launchers and a huge MC on it. This is the ship I wanted it to be when I first bought it over a year ago  Now I have to ween myself off the 42LY+ jump range of my asp 
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Aug 25, 2016 22:53
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Reinstancing is enough to get cartographics to show up! Switch modes to solo (or open if you're strange), or jump to another system and back. Hmm. Do any of the cartography-accepting engineers offer upgrades that are worth picking special effects for? Because that sounds like a pretty easy way of getting tons of “free” (for someone who's space mad) adjustments.
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Tippis posted:Hmm. Do any of the cartography-accepting engineers offer upgrades that are worth picking special effects for? Because that sounds like a pretty easy way of getting tons of “free” (for someone who's space mad) adjustments. No, I think only the engine-related Engis take explodata...  You can sell most of them combat bounties, however! 
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Aug 25, 2016 23:09
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:No, I think only the engine-related Engis take explodata... Did they ever fix it so that The Blaster got boosted by bounties other than his own? I know you can turn all kinds of them in, but only ones attached to his faction seemed to give XP.
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Aug 25, 2016 23:14
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Reinstancing is enough to get cartographics to show up! Switch modes to solo (or open if you're strange), or jump to another system and back. Quickest is to log off to main menu and back in again. No need to change what type of game you're playing, either. Or are you telling me there's some way of changing between solo and open without going back to the main menu?
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I.... I just travelled from Euribya to Khun. I was one jump away from the system and I got interdicted by an NPC FDL. I had my shields off to save power and heat to make the fuel scooping a little more efficient. I'm back at Euribya. I just wasted an hour and 4 million credits because the NPC wanted the four magnetic emitter coils in my cargo hold. This is so loving horrible I can't even get mad at it.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:I.... NPCs LOVE minuscule amounts of components. If I'm trying to avoid being interdicted I've learned to make sure my cargo hold is totally empty.
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StarkRavingMad posted:NPCs LOVE minuscule amounts of components. If I'm trying to avoid being interdicted I've learned to make sure my cargo hold is totally empty. They still interdict you with the cargo hold empty.
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Aug 26, 2016 00:41
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Sultan Tarquin posted:I.... NPCs will harass you constantly if you have engineer-related cargo in your hold. At least it was one of the ones you can just buy from the market. Losing Modular Terminals sucks monkey nuts. Gromit posted:Quickest is to log off to main menu and back in again. No need to change what type of game you're playing, either. Nope, I was referring to what you said. Didn't know it would refresh to the same mode, so neat!
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Aug 26, 2016 00:43
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Mine launchers are the answer to the problem. Pirates hate this one crazy trick!
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:Mine launchers are the answer to the problem. Pirates hate this one crazy trick! I tried out your guide after a good 6 months away from the game (thank you for the sick-rear end guide btw). I used to do Robigo runs totally gunless; the moment I dropped mines I started laughing and pretty much didn't stop that whole night.
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I was flying my combat fit FDL with a 13LY jump range and I don't know if I can face trying to make the run again back another 100LY in the opposite direction to pick up the commodities and then back to Khun 
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Aug 26, 2016 00:53
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Do "slaughter X of faction" type missions disappear if you do a lot of them? I was doing them off and on with a group and after our latest outing they don't seem to be popping up for me anymore.
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PyroDwarf posted:Do "slaughter X of faction" type missions disappear if you do a lot of them? I was doing them off and on with a group and after our latest outing they don't seem to be popping up for me anymore. I believe it depends on the state of the system you're in. Kurr de la Cruz posted:Sounds like you need to modify yo poo poo! I got the hookup right here: Hey, protip for Marco Qwent to add to the guide: you can max rep Sirius Corp with ~2M in explodata. Then just do a random courier mission to spawn the permit mission. 
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Sultan Tarquin posted:I had my shields off to save power and heat to make the fuel scooping a little more efficient. Never do this.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I believe it depends on the state of the system you're in. Do you have a protip to get 25 modular terminals? I've been to dozens of stations over the last few weeks and have yet to see a mission that gives any.
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Sultan Tarquin posted:I.... If you fly shieldless in the bubble you don't really have any right to complain about getting blown up
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Hey, protip for Marco Qwent to add to the guide: you can max rep Sirius Corp with ~2M in explodata. Then just do a random courier mission to spawn the permit mission. Thanks, I'll add this to the guide. Just needed someone to chime in! Mike the TV posted:Do you have a protip to get 25 modular terminals? I've been to dozens of stations over the last few weeks and have yet to see a mission that gives any. Sadly it's RNG based, and the loot table is fairly large. High Tech High-population systems in boom state seem to get the best results. Kurr de la Cruz fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Aug 26, 2016 |
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Mike the TV posted:Do you have a protip to get 25 modular terminals? I've been to dozens of stations over the last few weeks and have yet to see a mission that gives any. It took me about a week. I got 3 missions worth 12 on the first day, then nothing for 4 or 5, then I got 4 missions worth 16 on the last day. The RNG just hates you, keep at it.
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I got all my Modular Terminals from Sothis, I was swapping between Open/Solo constantly anyways to fill my cargo with biowaste so I would keep an eye on all the data delivery missions and salvage missions with commodity rewards. They seem to pop up pretty often there, I got 25 in 2 days. I spent the past week hauling biowaste from Sothis to the bubble in a Cutter and made over a billion credits. My goal was to outfit and mod the Cutter for combat, but now that I have enough credits for that I'm getting cold feet. I feel like the smart thing to do is to keep my Cutter in it's current skeleton configuration with 696 tons of cargo capacity and 23 LY laden jump range and just pimp out a FDL for combat instead. Then again, flying a high speed lumbering space-tank sounds fun, especially with ship launched fighters.
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Bumbler posted:I got all my Modular Terminals from Sothis, I was swapping between Open/Solo constantly anyways to fill my cargo with biowaste so I would keep an eye on all the data delivery missions and salvage missions with commodity rewards. They seem to pop up pretty often there, I got 25 in 2 days. How many runs did it take to get that many credits?
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Bumbler posted:I got all my Modular Terminals from Sothis, I was swapping between Open/Solo constantly anyways to fill my cargo with biowaste so I would keep an eye on all the data delivery missions and salvage missions with commodity rewards. They seem to pop up pretty often there, I got 25 in 2 days. gently caress it, do both! Once you get them unlocked it's pretty trivial to get the materials.
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mpyro posted:How many runs did it take to get that many credits?
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Bumbler posted:About 12, with a fully packed Cutter you average around 80 million credits per run. That isnt too bad. What loadout did you use?
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Bumbler posted:I got all my Modular Terminals from Sothis, I was swapping between Open/Solo constantly anyways to fill my cargo with biowaste so I would keep an eye on all the data delivery missions and salvage missions with commodity rewards. They seem to pop up pretty often there, I got 25 in 2 days. Do you still get pirates interdicting you constantly if you're only hauling literal poo poo, or are they less interested in cramming 8 tons of crap into their combat fit cobra like they should be?
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mpyro posted:That isnt too bad. What loadout did you use? https://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_cutter/0pftsFplxdssCf6-------0202030404040404070705054i37040302.Iw18ZZA=.Aw18ZCMpA===?bn=Trade%20Cutter If you really want to mix-max it you could probably get away with cutting out most of the shield boosters and going down to a 4A power plant. As long as you aren't carrying engineer commodities you hardly ever get interdicted on legal trading runs. Mahatma-Squid posted:Do you still get pirates interdicting you constantly if you're only hauling literal poo poo, or are they less interested in cramming 8 tons of crap into their combat fit cobra like they should be? The NPC pirates tend to leave you alone if you're just carrying biowaste, but throw some modular terminals in there and they'll be all over your rear end. The Cutter is great at escaping though, it's fast and impossible to mass lock. Bumbler fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Aug 26, 2016 |
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I don't have a cutter, but I may end filling my clipper with cargo racks and heading out there for that level of pay!
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Where's a good place in the bubble to sell 600 tonnes of literal poo poo from Sothis? I haven't tried that before.
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Rasmussen posted:Where's a good place in the bubble to sell 600 tonnes of literal poo poo from Sothis? I haven't tried that before. The poo poo all comes from delivery missions, so no selling involved.
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Is it worth upgrading small launch pad ships with engineers mods? (DBS, Cobra)Rasmussen posted:Where's a good place in the bubble to sell 600 tonnes of literal poo poo from Sothis? I haven't tried that before. Don't be a capitalist hoarder and just dump them inside Cleve Hub or Ackermann stations in Eravate in open for free.
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Bumbler posted:The poo poo all comes from delivery missions, so no selling involved. Oh OK. I've done plenty of Sothis runs before but never focused on biowaste. I'll have to take a peek.
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Rasmussen posted:Oh OK. I've done plenty of Sothis runs before but never focused on biowaste. I'll have to take a peek. There's nothing special about biowaste, it just happens to be the main export from Sothis for some reason. I'm scared of what we'll find when space legs come out and we can explore the interior of that space station. Just focus on high profit trading missions, I aim for anything above 100k per ton.
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Wu Guinagi has been good to me, but I'll probably break ~20m tomorrow and was considering an Asp-E setup to make some cash on Sothis before it's eventually nerfed. Is a 5A FSD really required to open this up? It's made up for with one run but a 5B is so much cheaper. The price break between an affordable Asp and a 20m+ Asp (from googling) seems to be the fuel scoop and FSD chosen.
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