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orcane posted:So what they get system control but it's just RP and the actual game doesn't reflect their "ownership" in any way? You know how every system in the game has 3-7 "minor factions", usually with randomly generated names like LFT 3447 Democrats or Eravate Free Network, and every station in the system is under the control of one of those factions? They decided that a faction in Eleu, the Social Eleu Progressive Party, was "their faction", named themselves after it, and started doing things to boost that faction's influence and spread it to more systems. They have no actual connection to or control over that faction, they've just decided that it's theirs and that it represents their zone of control. They don't "own" the systems or have any actual control or advantage there, but the systems have their name on them (or to be more accurate, the name of the thing they named themselves after) so they claim the systems as "theirs".
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Ah gotcha. But in this roundabout way they can actually influence "their" faction a bit, within the limits the BGS allows players to influence NPC factions. I was just missing the part where players claim to be controlling/representing NPC factions, then. Next I'm going to read up on this whole EG/Russians thing 
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Sep 10, 2016 16:38
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Main Paineframe posted:You know how every system in the game has 3-7 "minor factions", usually with randomly generated names like LFT 3447 Democrats or Eravate Free Network, and every station in the system is under the control of one of those factions? They decided that a faction in Eleu, the Social Eleu Progressive Party, was "their faction", named themselves after it, and started doing things to boost that faction's influence and spread it to more systems. They have no actual connection to or control over that faction, they've just decided that it's theirs and that it represents their zone of control. They don't "own" the systems or have any actual control or advantage there, but the systems have their name on them (or to be more accurate, the name of the thing they named themselves after) so they claim the systems as "theirs". Wow - I had no idea that it wasn't even a real player faction just a pretend one. That really puts the raging into perspective. How dare FDev screw over my favorite pretend it's mine NPC faction! PS. So glad that so far the only official response is this: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/287437-Enemy-inside-the-gates-Frontier-please-rethink-this/page30?p=4484201#post4484201
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Sep 10, 2016 17:13
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Mailer posted:I was wondering what the hell the point of "owning" a system was or why it'd even matter in this single-player space sandbox but then I saw "roleplay" and everything made sense. Dont know if this is still of concern, but i farmed my stock of manipulators in a "Seeking Weapons" point of interest in "69 G. Carinae" (yes i went there for lols because 69 and g-point). Theres one at the station that is conveniently 400.000 ls away. (just checked, its near the C4 planet) The important thing is that while you can reset points of interest like mission boards, they usually also refill with transports when you kill them. Got about 30 manipulators in 10 minutes of killing T9s. I would still like to know the secret technique of aquiring specialised legacy firmware, "very common" my rear end. Yolomon Wayne fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Sep 10, 2016 |
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Sep 10, 2016 17:25
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Yolomon Wayne posted:I would still like to know the secret technique of aquiring specialised legacy firmware, "very common" my rear end. Most SLF i've found were in USS in deep space. I can't remember the exact name but it was a type of emissions source, and inside there will be a private data cash you just target and scan the same way you do a nav beacon or planet.
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Boogalo posted:Most SLF i've found were in USS in deep space. I can't remember the exact name but it was a type of emissions source, and inside there will be a private data cash you just target and scan the same way you do a nav beacon or planet. I feared so. I got tired of spending hours to chase signal sources so i dedcided to open palin instead. Now im spending hours refreshing mission boards to get modular terminals.
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Sep 10, 2016 17:56
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Yolomon Wayne posted:I would still like to know the secret technique of aquiring specialised legacy firmware, "very common" my rear end. I've gotten a lot by scanning data points in low security + settlements.
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Sep 10, 2016 18:20
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You know what's common? Waterworlds and earthlikes around neutron stars. Earthlike moon this time. I'm neutron hopping around the core and these things just keep popping up.
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Sep 10, 2016 18:33
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Space Skeleton posted:That's how SEPP got on GalCop and our's shitlists in the first place. We had nothing to do with them but before the DGs were even announced we put in for a community goal to celebrate the return of an exploration expedition. They decided that it was a filthy frog trick to ruin exploration and "steal" exploration data from SEPP to whom it rightfully belongs. That ballooned into a whole "GalCop is out to ruin exploration" series of rants and arguments. My favorite part is that a bunch of the SEPP dudes are also in the "neverEve" faction where they don't want anything that could remotely move the game in a direction that even slightly resembles Eve, but here they are, screaming about the goons and russians and how they're going to kill the game.
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Sep 10, 2016 18:56
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X-Ultron posted:I've gotten a lot by scanning data points in low security + settlements. I tried that first, got 1 drop in 4 settlements, decided that wasnt my idea of "very common" and went to uss (which, see above, didnt turn out better)
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Sep 10, 2016 19:14
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Is there any way to counteract getting a 400 credit bounty by shooting a police eagle that flies between me and my bounty? This seems to inevitably end with all 4+ police ships switching from the 50k bounty to me and destroying me before I can escape.
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Sep 10, 2016 19:51
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Stonewalljack posted:Is there any way to counteract getting a 400 credit bounty by shooting a police eagle that flies between me and my bounty? This seems to inevitably end with all 4+ police ships switching from the 50k bounty to me and destroying me before I can escape. Aside from checking your fire? Nothing. Try attacking from another angle.
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Sep 10, 2016 19:53
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Stonewalljack posted:Is there any way to counteract getting a 400 credit bounty by shooting a police eagle that flies between me and my bounty? This seems to inevitably end with all 4+ police ships switching from the 50k bounty to me and destroying me before I can escape. Smart round bonus effects for your multicannon upgrades. Have fund grinding the engineer rank back up again after each time. 
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Sep 10, 2016 20:04
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Stonewalljack posted:Is there any way to counteract getting a 400 credit bounty by shooting a police eagle that flies between me and my bounty? This seems to inevitably end with all 4+ police ships switching from the 50k bounty to me and destroying me before I can escape. You can get smart ammo from an engineer as bonus that will self destruct but I don't think it is worth it compared to other boni.
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Sep 10, 2016 20:33
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Fun fact about smart ammo: It also makes your projectiles slower! So it's a terrible bonus and you should never ever take it.
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Sep 10, 2016 21:12
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:Fun fact about smart ammo: It also makes your projectiles slower! So it's a terrible bonus and you should never ever take it. Better option: get dirty drive tuning and just boost out of there if you anger the security forces. Might as well wait out the timer while rearming and repairing.
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Sep 10, 2016 22:26
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Bountys can be rear end. I just buy a sidewinder and let them wreck me outside the station to remove it. Takes 2 minutes.
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Sep 10, 2016 23:35
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The ship transfer thing seems like it will make the game a lot more playable, anyone know when in october its meant to come out?
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Sep 11, 2016 02:07
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Ship transfers equals grognards bitching about fun being had and how they won't stand for it. I don't know that I have ever seen so much vitriol over a completely optional feature in a game since like... probably something from WoW's heyday.
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Sep 11, 2016 02:23
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hakimashou posted:anyone know when in october its meant to come out? They weren't more specific than that AFAIK. If I were guessing, probably mid to late though.
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Gonkish posted:Ship transfers equals grognards bitching about fun being had and how they won't stand for it. I don't know that I have ever seen so much vitriol over a completely optional feature in a game since like... probably something from WoW's heyday. Elite Dangerous: Horizons - Gonna Die Autistic on the Lunar Road
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Gonkish posted:Ship transfers equals grognards bitching about fun being had and how they won't stand for it. I don't know that I have ever seen so much vitriol over a completely optional feature in a game since like... probably something from WoW's heyday. That was literally an argument one forum-dad brought up. That is was like teleporting to instances. If anything it was like accessing your bank outside a city, but whatever.
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Doing My First Sothis run at this very moment... I have like 6 million in missions on me, which is incredible, but man is this stressful! I keep getting interdicted while fuel scooping inches from the sun. Somehow my cargo hatch has taken heat damage and now I start dropping cargo if I get hot at all. If I drop mission-specific cargo, I basically lose millions instantly. I'm freaking out over here! edit: done! I learned something valuable - if you're carrying cargo and see ANY other ships on radar, get away from the sun. Polo-Rican fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Sep 11, 2016 |
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Sep 11, 2016 03:38
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Polo-Rican posted:Doing My First Sothis run at this very moment... I have like 6 million in missions on me, which is incredible, but man is this stressful! I keep getting interdicted while fuel scooping inches from the sun. Somehow my cargo hatch has taken heat damage and now I start dropping cargo if I get hot at all. If I drop mission-specific cargo, I basically lose millions instantly. I'm freaking out over here! What are you flying? You can also shove your rear end into the sun and the NPC who is trying to interdict you will fly into it and get kicked out of hyperspace.
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Started playing this game a couple days ago, made sixty million off Sothis runs, I will do nothing else until I'm space rich as gently caress. Is there anything better for the run than an Asp Explorer?
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General Battuta posted:Started playing this game a couple days ago, made sixty million off Sothis runs, I will do nothing else until I'm space rich as gently caress. Is there anything better for the run than an Asp Explorer? Nope unfortunately. You're very brave to jump right into Sothis, the alternative to Sothis runs is just doing CGs on a regular basis, which is a lot better for your sanity IMO And back to hunting for Modular Terminal spawns I go.
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It's chill enough to be great for podcast listening and hanging out on Discord. All I need is some space meth for my space trucking. gently caress engineers though, that poo poo sounds horrible.
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General Battuta posted:Started playing this game a couple days ago, made sixty million off Sothis runs, I will do nothing else until I'm space rich as gently caress. Is there anything better for the run than an Asp Explorer? Asp Explorer -> Anaconda - > Imperial Cutter.
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Sep 11, 2016 07:30
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Is the rank grind for a cutter still terrible?
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Emnity posted:Is the rank grind for a cutter still terrible? Oh yes.
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Emnity posted:Is the rank grind for a cutter still terrible? Possibly worse since I don't think you can do the old Cubeo ground assault grind anymore, at least not to the mission stacking extent that we once could.
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FileNotFound posted:Asp Explorer -> Anaconda - > Imperial Cutter. Is the Cutter much better than the conda for this? I would think the massive jump on the conda would make it a bit more efficient. Edit: Also, is there a galactic T9 shortage? Out of the hundreds of USS attempts I've gone through not one has been Seeking Weapons. War system, civil war system, even tried a bunch of Outbreak systems for Seeking Medicine ships... nada. The highest population Anarchy system I've found at war has been ~700k so it's possible you need to wait for some rare thing to happen. Just wish I could find one of these mythical farming grounds for Chemical Manipulators. Mailer fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Sep 11, 2016 |
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Any hauler (including the actual hauler) can drop those, just drop into an anarchy nav beacon and murder whatever pops in. Usually get some T6s if nothing else.
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I do my chem manip farming in 63 G.
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Mailer posted:Is the Cutter much better than the conda for this? I would think the massive jump on the conda would make it a bit more efficient. DancingShade posted:Any hauler (including the actual hauler) can drop those, just drop into an anarchy nav beacon and murder whatever pops in. Usually get some T6s if nothing else. ^This. Don't bother with the USS unless you happen to find a good one. While looking for that, keep scanning your contacts list for any haulers (T-6/7/9, Hauler, Keelback maybe?) and just interdict them! Since you are already in an Anarchy system, it wont make any difference. There is a high population one near Momus Reach, I think it's called Qi Yomisii! 
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Does this work for the chemical Distilleries also? Normally from Combat Aftermath sites.
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I'm heading back to the bubble, when I give an engineer exploration data (after I head over to Maia) do I get credits or is it just rep with the person?
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frank.club posted:I'm heading back to the bubble, when I give an engineer exploration data (after I head over to Maia) do I get credits or is it just rep with the person? Both. You're selling exploration data like normal, but doing it at the appropriate engineer will give you engineer rep as well.
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Mailer posted:Is the Cutter much better than the conda for this? I would think the massive jump on the conda would make it a bit more efficient. 69 G. Carinae, planet C4 Yes its 400k ls out there, but once you hit it you can stock up till you puke. For Sothis i think the Anaconda is supreme to the cutter due to jump range. Given, i didnt pimp my "dear god why did i do this" for jump range but combat, but i doubt it can out-do the 49.88ly of my conda. Speaking of cutters, whats a good combat loadout? Ive got 2med and 2 large beam turrets with "cools your ship while they hit" engineer upgrade on top, And 2 med heal beams with a "part-explosive" Cannon in the huge harpoint in the chin that doesnt hit poo poo.
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Natsuumi posted:Both. You're selling exploration data like normal, but doing it at the appropriate engineer will give you engineer rep as well. Nice
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