frank.club posted:

I'm sure it's covered in the engi guide. But when I need to modify an fsd I should roll up in whatever ship I want modified? I can't just pick a specific piece of equipment and say "make that good"

Tippis posted:

That's definitely the most straight-forward way of doing it. You can only modify what's currently equipped, but once you've done that, you can transfer modded modules between ships by selling and re-buying them. But of course, that strategy assumes that the module you're fiddling with can be carried on both ships, so it won't work for everything.

With the promise of module storage and transfers, this may all change, though.

Bushiz posted:

I'm really not looking forward to trucking my vulture out to Maia so I hope so.

Mike the TV posted:

The asp and vulture have the same size engines. Just take the asp and modify it, then switch out the engines when you get back.

Valatar posted:

So I went about 1500 ly out last night, figured I could knock out both the 5000 ly requirement for Palin and get the exploration to get allied with Sirius for Quent in the same run. Is there a best thing to do with the leftover exploration data after maxing out Sirius? I'm tempted to try to unlock some more minor factions with it so I can get more system licenses just for kicks, but if it'll be useful for something more lucrative, I'm hardly married to the idea.

Bushiz posted:

my connection is utter garbo and has a tendency to drop when I switch ships so I'd rather not play with fire. The spending two hours trekking to maia at ~15 Ly is an acceptable price for the insurance of not watching some amazing thrusters vanish into the void.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

It takes ~7.5M in exploration data to go from no rank to rank 4, and another 7.5M to get from rank 4 to rank 5.

Rah! posted:

well i've been wanting to go out to jacques station, and i figured this was the perfect time to do it seeing as i could turn in all my exploration data for a fat CG payout...it lasts for 6 whole weeks, more than enough time to get over there right? But it's probably gonna end early with a whole 3 weeks left on the timer, so gently caress that...my spergism wasn't as fast as that of the true space masters

Guess I'll have to just go turn in these modular terminals and then go to Maia and look at aliens spaceships for a month and then get my brains sucked out

StarkRavingMad posted:

FINALLY



suck it, Imperial rep grind, suck it forever



she's so pretty

Trustworthy posted:

Congratulations! I took a break from rep grinding for a little mining zen and some community goal spacebucks, but I'll be getting back to the Imperial grindstone in a couple days. Only a couple more ranks to go!


_{kill meeeeeeeee}

Mailer posted:

Also, why is Ceos so special? Sothis runs are pretty lucrative but the few times I've caught Ceos unbombed it looked like the same stuff.

CapnBry posted:

The easy way to max out an engineer is to take any ship and put 2x class 2 mining lasers, 1x prospector, and enough to get 2 active collector limpets at once. Go to virtually any hazardous RES with nothing in your hold, mine the rocks. Your dudes will collect nothing but micromaterials and in an hour you've got enough to just press spacebar 3x 200 times to rank up from 0 to 5.
Rank 1-2: 3 builds
Rank 2-3: 12 builds
Rank 3-4: 50 builds
Rank 4-5: ~150 builds?

Mailer posted:

Speaking of making money faster than glacially, and as my first outing trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing, how does this Anaconda go for something that would be good for continuing the Sothis gravy train? I'm a little shaky on how optimal shields work, whether top speed in coriolis accounts for four pips in ENG, and the value of thrusters. I basically need just enough to jump my rear end out of interdictions so I can continue my life as the Baron of Liquid poo poo. Would it be worth moving the 5A scoop to a 4A? Dropping shields to a 4A?

Trustworthy posted:

Congratulations! I took a break from rep grinding for a little mining zen and some community goal spacebucks, but I'll be getting back to the Imperial grindstone in a couple days. Only a couple more ranks to go!


_{kill meeeeeeeee}

Libluini posted:

I'm already a Prince.

The Imperial grind for me is over. It even never was that much of a grind, because I suffered from some dumb bug which Frontier felt obligated to save me from in the most ham-fisted way possible (by giving me a shitton of Imperial rep). Software bugs: Sometimes they're kind of awesome!

Edit:

The best part: I only noticed Frontier's "solution" to me getting stuck while grinding Imp rep when, one year later, I was grinding to get a FAS and every time there was an Imperial faction on the same station, they spammed rank-up missions. Every time I did one, the new rank was already at 100% and I was like "Are you making GBS threads me?" when the truth dawned on me.

In the time it took me to get the Fed-rank for the FAS, I boosted myself from "Master" to "Prince".

Only when I reached Prince did my giant mountain of saved-up Imp rep finally run out. If I ever want to get the final Imp-rank ( no), I have to get the missing ~80% for myself.

Jay_Zombie posted:

Got about 4 hours in so far and I'm liking it. I only reversed into a control tower once.

I got interdicted twice the first time I tried to haul cargo. Once I was able to escape interdiction, and the other I got pulled out of FTL and was able to run till my FSD was ready to jump back to FTL again. So that was fun. Right now, I'm mostly just having a good time being a data courier since they mostly seem to be one way trips with only one or two jumps with better payouts than the cargo based jobs you can take with a stock Sidewinder.

Still trying to figure out exactly how the trade maps work. I wanted to give trading a try to see how it worked so I bought a load of 4 semiconductors for what looked like 100cr below galactic average, then proceeded to try and find a place to offload them. I was looking for a system that seemed lower tech, like an agricultural system, but I was still seeing a net loss.

How should I be going about this? I guess that buying commodities first and then trying to sell them somewhere else might be the opposite of what I should be doing. Should I be looking in the commodities market for what's in high demand where I'm at and then heading off somewhere to buy it and bring it back?

I'm still working out the key bindings for my T-Flight Hotas, only because I'm not yet sure what's important enough to bind to the throttle or stick, and what's used rarely enough to keep on the keyboard.

Jay_Zombie posted:

Got about 4 hours in so far and I'm liking it. I only reversed into a control tower once.

I got interdicted twice the first time I tried to haul cargo. Once I was able to escape interdiction, and the other I got pulled out of FTL and was able to run till my FSD was ready to jump back to FTL again. So that was fun. Right now, I'm mostly just having a good time being a data courier since they mostly seem to be one way trips with only one or two jumps with better payouts than the cargo based jobs you can take with a stock Sidewinder.

Still trying to figure out exactly how the trade maps work. I wanted to give trading a try to see how it worked so I bought a load of 4 semiconductors for what looked like 100cr below galactic average, then proceeded to try and find a place to offload them. I was looking for a system that seemed lower tech, like an agricultural system, but I was still seeing a net loss.

How should I be going about this? I guess that buying commodities first and then trying to sell them somewhere else might be the opposite of what I should be doing. Should I be looking in the commodities market for what's in high demand where I'm at and then heading off somewhere to buy it and bring it back?

I'm still working out the key bindings for my T-Flight Hotas, only because I'm not yet sure what's important enough to bind to the throttle or stick, and what's used rarely enough to keep on the keyboard.

FileNotFound posted:

I don't care that it says that you shouldn't do it in a sidewinder - you can and I have and made 2 mil in about 5 hours including travel time there, which for a sidewinder is huge. Yes there are probably more efficient ways to earn early game money - but the reason I recommend this to everyone is that you will probably want to grind imperial rank anyway. You might as well do it when the money actually helps as well.

FileNotFound posted:

In terms of key bindings, make sure the following are easily accessible:

Lateral thrust keys
Flight Assist Off key
Power Distribution keys

Make sure the following cannot be accidentally pressed: silent running (it will immediately turn off your shields so you really do not want to do it by accident mid combat)
Delete the following assignment: Drop All Cargo

Disable the following option: Firing deploys hard points. (This will let you run frameshift wake scans etc without hardpoints out)

That's all I can think of for controls of the top of my head.

In terms of starting out, buy a docking computer it will save you a lot of pain and suffering as early game is all mission running and docking over and over...

If you want to make easy money and do not mind doing the same thing over and over and over - follow this guide:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4sguoa/this_imperial_rank_grind_actually_works/

I don't care that it says that you shouldn't do it in a sidewinder - you can and I have and made 2 mil in about 5 hours including travel time there, which for a sidewinder is huge. Yes there are probably more efficient ways to earn early game money - but the reason I recommend this to everyone is that you will probably want to grind imperial rank anyway. You might as well do it when the money actually helps as well.

Personally, I do not bother with trading as it seems missions are far far more profitable with way less risk.

Main Paineframe posted:

Typically, people use out-of-game external database sites like EDDB to find profitable trade deals - ingame trade is an absolute crapshoot and it's unlikely to find anything meaningfully profitable outside of missions.

Jay_Zombie posted:

So I'll keep at that and work my way over to the HIP 10716 and
Wu Guinagi area.

FileNotFound posted:

Remember when you travel there, you will need to fuel scoop, I found out that hard way that you can only scoop from stars that of the following class: KGBFOAM. Also when you look at the galaxy map with your route plotted, when the solid line turns dotted, that means you will be out of fuel at that point, so there better be scoopable stars along the way our you're SOL.

Jay_Zombie posted:

I actually did pick up a fuel scoop and a slightly better FSD last night and played around/practiced with scooping during my search for somewhere to sell my conductors. I overheated once when I wasn't paying close enough attention, but at least I kind of know where the breaking point is now.

Thanks for the tip. I hadn't considered that you can't scoop from some stars. I will plot my route accordingly.

FileNotFound posted:

turning off shields

Astroniomix posted:

Do not do this.

Jay_Zombie posted:

I actually did pick up a fuel scoop and a slightly better FSD last night and played around/practiced with scooping during my search for somewhere to sell my conductors. I overheated once when I wasn't paying close enough attention, but at least I kind of know where the breaking point is now.

Thanks for the tip. I hadn't considered that you can't scoop from some stars. I will plot my route accordingly.

Valatar posted:

Fuel scooping's easy, just not intuitive. You'd naturally think that you have to be moving to scoop, the faster you go the more hydrogen you pass through to scoop up, etc. Not so. The only real arbiter of scooping is the distance from the star and your orientation (and your scoop class, naturally). So do this:

Point at star.
Fly (slowly) towards star until your scoop starts pulling in fuel.
Keep flying until the scoop rate reaches a decent number (this number varies from scoop to scoop) or your heat starts to get close to 100.
Full stop.
Wait until your fuel tank's mostly full.
Leave. By the time you've pulled away from the star, the scoop will have grabbed enough hydrogen to finish filling the tank.

Valatar posted:

Fuel scooping's easy, just not intuitive. You'd naturally think that you have to be moving to scoop, the faster you go the more hydrogen you pass through to scoop up, etc. Not so. The only real arbiter of scooping is the distance from the star and your orientation (and your scoop class, naturally). So do this:

Point at star.
Fly (slowly) towards star until your scoop starts pulling in fuel.
Keep flying until the scoop rate reaches a decent number (this number varies from scoop to scoop) or your heat starts to get close to 100.
Full stop.
Wait until your fuel tank's mostly full.
Leave. By the time you've pulled away from the star, the scoop will have grabbed enough hydrogen to finish filling the tank.

Libluini posted:

Actually, this works like so:

1. Point your ship at the center of the star and put your throttle at 100%
2. Pull back to zero as soon as you scoop starts pulling in fuel.
3. Profit.

As long as you remember step 2, you will be in no danger.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

Much easier to fly towards the star at an angle. Use the yellow exclusion line as a guide, aim for just outside of it. Fly in until your scoop maxes out or you hit 65% heat and throttle to zero. Pointing directly at the star runs the risk of running into it accidentally or getting interdicted since your rear end is hanging out.

Ideally, you buy a big enough scoop to refill while passing the star. With an Asp and a 6A scoop, you can fill the tank without slowing down.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

Valatar posted:

Trying to get cute with the angle and not slowing down is what's caused every instance of falling out of supercruise and getting my rear end roasted by a star. I've found it much safer to throttle down during a jump, come out at a hover over the star so I'm not hurtling towards it before I get my bearings, then approach it if it's scoopable while doing the system scan and a scan of the star. Target the next jump destination after the scan's done while the fuel tank's filling, orient towards it, then pull away from the star and jump. If I'm concerned about getting jumped, I'd just flip 180 and have my rear end towards the star while scooping. It'll decrease the scoop rate, but make it fairly impossible for anything to get the right angle to interdict.

KakerMix posted:

Listen if you aren't hot rodding around a star while fuel scooping then you are a chump of the highest order and probably also pee your pants like a baby.

KakerMix posted:

Listen if you aren't hot rodding around a star while fuel scooping then you are a chump of the highest order and probably also pee your pants like a baby.

KakerMix posted:

Listen if you aren't hot rodding around a star while fuel scooping then you are a chump of the highest order and probably also pee your pants like a baby.