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Kaddish posted:Thanks for the tips - I'm in the middle of my second run back to the bubble and it's absolutely a good money maker. One thing I'm disappointed with is the Fed rank gain from the data missions. It's great for the local factions to unlock those higher tier hauls but a typical set of delivery maybe gives me a 1% increase in Fed. I'm not sure if this is anomaly or what - it's been awhile since I messed with superpower rank. What Lib said: the fines are pretty minuscule or you can just not pay them and save a few thousand spacebux. Be careful with the smuggling missions, a lot of them will be "to Ceos" but then change the destination once you get there to somewhere in the bubble. Sometimes you get lucky and it stays Ceos, but make sure not to pick smuggling missions that don't cover the 200k/ton threshold, just in case. Once you get allied with all of the factions, they will start dropping the occasional smuggling mission to the bubble, which will offer awesome rewards like 8M for moving 12t of slaves or something. Deep Space Clan offers the best, in my experience, if you're looking to prioritize. TorakFade posted:Managed to get rank 3 dirty drives, a Vulture that does 295 / 490 m/s is something beautiful StarkRavingMad posted:Wait until you decide you need the rank 5 dirty drives Protip: you can rank 5 any engineer by doing one hundred and twenty rank 1 mods. Or, do thirty-nine rank 1 mods to get to rank 4, then three rank 4 mods to max out. You can avoid all of the annoying rank 2 and 3 mods with the bullshit mission-only commodities.  Also, DD5 is a  must-have. My Anaconda turns faster than my Asp. 
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Protip: you can rank 5 any engineer by doing one hundred and twenty rank 1 mods. Or, do thirty-nine rank 1 mods to get to rank 4, then three rank 4 mods to max out. You can avoid all of the annoying rank 2 and 3 mods with the bullshit mission-only commodities. Oh, I meant that I'm guessing he only did DD3 instead of DD5 because he didn't want to do the Professor Palin unlocking nightmare. Actually taking anything from 1 to 5 isn't that bad once you have the engineer unlocked.
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Kaddish posted:Also, I see some smuggling missions pop up for like 6 million space bucks for a next system haul (Sothis to Ceos). Is it like the old days where I can blast through the gate to avoid scans? What's the penalty for something like 50t of illegal goods if I'm caught? The great thing about the smuggling missions to Ceos is that the security presence is so low (non existant?) that I have taken a bunch of those and literally never been scanned. So snatch 'em up if they appear! Easy money, brother. 
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TorakFade posted:I found a small settlement and scanned the datalinks, but got no SLF. Then went to a medium security settlement and got blown up by a security Anaconda. You gotta go to the right settlements to get certain data (although it's still a bit random). Which settlements give which materials (in case it’s not random) -- copy this spreadsheet, then on the second tab, put in your home system coordinates and choose a filter (the filter button's icon looks like a funnel, it's the second last one on the toolbar). Stick to large, medium security settlements because they give about six drops and you don't have to fight anything if you do it right (don't scan anything marked "private" or you'll aggro the base): Best routes for scanning (click the security level to go to the map) Original source If you've got a buddy or two, it can be fun to fight through the high-security bases.The turrets and skimmers aren't actually much of a threat if you are quick enough with the hull repair synthesis, unless you try to take on more than three at once. (I've never met a goliath (missile skimmer) but people say they're pretty nasty.) jnnnnn fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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StarkRavingMad posted:Oh, I meant that I'm guessing he only did DD3 instead of DD5 because he didn't want to do the Professor Palin unlocking nightmare. Actually taking anything from 1 to 5 isn't that bad once you have the engineer unlocked. Exactly, it was such a pain just getting slf and Micro hoses, that I think I will never even unlock marco qwent with his silly 25 modular terminals request. For now DD3 is quite enough, just need to grind a bit for Rank 5 with the blaster and get a good multicannon upgrade, then I want to actually play and enjoy the game instead of grinding hard to find stuff. Btw is it worth it to upgrade a beam? I see there's only rank 2 mods for them and weapon upgrades get really good (less downsides) from basically rank 4 jnnnnn posted:You gotta go to the right settlements to get certain data (although it's still a bit random). Thanks a lot for this, it's interesting and informative but between SRV physics still baffling me (I keep spinning out even at half throttle, how in hell do I turn gently with a hotas?) and actually finding like 9 slf just orbiting an inhabited earthlike world waiting for encooded emissions uss (got them in around 20 mins of this), I am done with settlements for now 
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TorakFade posted:Thanks a lot for this, it's interesting and informative but between SRV physics still baffling me (I keep spinning out even at half throttle, how in hell do I turn gently with a hotas?) and actually finding like 9 slf just orbiting an inhabited earthlike world waiting for encooded emissions uss (got them in around 20 mins of this), I am done with settlements for now Rocky airless planets aren't terribly flat and if they're low gravity you're going to go flying whenever you hit anything uneven at speed.
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DancingShade posted:Rocky airless planets aren't terribly flat and if they're low gravity you're going to go flying whenever you hit anything uneven at speed. This. Even hitting a wanky little pebble will throw your SRV around. Also, turning while you're also giving it throttle.
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TorakFade posted:Managed to get rank 3 dirty drives, a Vulture that does 295 / 490 m/s is something beautiful I ran through a lot of different engineered weapons to see what I liked before bothering with top level mods, the least effort way is to bounty hunt in Marco Qwents system hand in all the vouchers at his station and buy the experimental effect you want with rep on a low level mod just to see if you like what it does. Bounty hunting to test the weapon quickly gains you enough rep to either buy a different one or properly upgrade the one you've settled on.
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TorakFade posted:Btw is it worth it to upgrade a beam? I see there's only rank 2 mods for them and weapon upgrades get really good (less downsides) from basically rank 4 If you do so, yes, it is really worth it.
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SRV driving tip: I used to hate driving with the SRV until I switched to mouse for pitch and yaw. Set your mouse to relative and stay in assist off and driving becomes much easier because the relative mouse allows you to avoid over/under correcting.
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jnnnnn posted:You gotta go to the right settlements to get certain data (although it's still a bit random). I pasted the wrong link for where to find stuff. Fixed now, sorry. jnnnnn fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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jnnnnn posted:I pasted the wrong link for where to find stuff. Fixed now, sorry. This link requires requesting permission to access. I don't think you meant it to be that way.
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Giovanni0109 posted:This link requires requesting permission to access. I don't think you meant it to be that way. Well, I clicked anyway so he now knows one of my private E-mail addresses. Maybe he wanted to collect our E-Mail-addresses to spam us later?
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should i get heavy duty or lightweight hull reinforcement on a corvette? better maneuverability sounds good but i dont want to gimp durability too far
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Does anyone have a link to a good Vulture build to shoot NPCs as a newbie? Also what shooting NPCs activity has the lowest chance of blowing me up?
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Surprise Giraffe posted:should i get heavy duty or lightweight hull reinforcement on a corvette? better maneuverability sounds good but i dont want to gimp durability too far The mass on a Corvette from your outfitting choices is seriously negligible compared to the base hull for maneverability purposes. You might squeeze out a very small amount of extra jump distance with a hardcore lightweight build, but that's it. Go hog wild with the heavy duty stuff.
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About to hop on the VR wagon. This is would be the main game I'm buying the headset for, and people say the Vive has the best head tracking. What's goonsensus on Rift vs Vive for E:D?
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orcane posted:Does anyone have a link to a good Vulture build to shoot NPCs as a newbie? Also what shooting NPCs activity has the lowest chance of blowing me up? Vulture is a monster even with just d rank internals, this build can already work: https://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/0pctiFalddksif31e7l03000m04B202--2h.Iw19kA==.IwBhrSuo If you have more money go for better thrusters and power plant, and stuff it full of hrps. I also prefer beams to pulse but that's more of a personal taste, you can put whatever weapons you want (but be mindful of power consumption, unless you engineer the PP or give up on A thrusters you won't be having much leeway with available power) To avoid getting blown up, go to ringed planets and find res sites of low or normal intensity, you'll find lots of scrubby pirates that are easy to kill and there's cops to help you out. If shields go down, boost away and recover. Don't aggro wings of 3 pirates unless you feel cocky or have serious police backup nearby. (say an Anaconda or 3 Vipers) TorakFade fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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timn posted:The mass on a Corvette from your outfitting choices is seriously negligible compared to the base hull for maneverability purposes. You might squeeze out a very small amount of extra jump distance with a hardcore lightweight build, but that's it. Go hog wild with the heavy duty stuff. Those are engineering things though. Anyone know if that makes a difference?
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mellowjournalism posted:About to hop on the VR wagon. This is would be the main game I'm buying the headset for, and people say the Vive has the best head tracking. What's goonsensus on Rift vs Vive for E:D? From what I've heard, the Rift is better due to the slightly sharper display. A friend has a Vive and while I haven't tried it myself, he has complained about the readability of the interface in Elite before, but I have no problem in the Rift. Not sure about the tracking but again, no problems here.
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Eyud posted:From what I've heard, the Rift is better due to the slightly sharper display. A friend has a Vive and while I haven't tried it myself, he has complained about the readability of the interface in Elite before, but I have no problem in the Rift. Text in Elite is much better on a Vive than it was originally. You can also tweak Vive's supersampling rate to make it even sharper if you have the GPU horsepower for it (although you can do the same with the Rift IIRC). The Rift has a slightly lower field of view, but a larger center area that stays sharper. You can wear glasses with the Vive, but the Rift typically feels a little ligher/more comfortable to wear. I personally have a Vive but if the only thing you want to do is play Elite, the Rift might be the more comfortable/slightly cheaper option. If you want access to other VR-related features, the Vive is more feature complete at the moment if slightly more expensive. Another thing is if you get Elite through Oculus Home, you get access to asymmetrical time warp, which means you can get better FPS. The Vive's reprojection feature is not as good. There are a lot of little differences that can help with the decision making process, but at the end of the day, you'll probably be happy either way.
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Surprise Giraffe posted:Those are engineering things though. Anyone know if that makes a difference? If you're not engineering anything it makes even less practical difference. Phone posting so I don't have exact numbers handy, but the mass of the base hull is too high to ever get significantly below the optimal mass of the thrusters. On the other hand, the penalty for hitting maximum mass on A-rated thrusters is like <5%, which IIRC you also can't get anywhere close to anyway. In essence, your performance is going to be practically identical no matter what your outfitting is. 
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I have an a-rated corvette with a couple huge multis, turreted lasers, and a ton of money in the bank. But I'm still getting slammed by certain high-ranking NPCs if I don't have shield batteries to spam. I'm guessing I need to start engineering! What's the most important thing to get first?
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General Battuta posted:I have an a-rated corvette with a couple huge multis, turreted lasers, and a ton of money in the bank. But I'm still getting slammed by certain high-ranking NPCs if I don't have shield batteries to spam. Here's the guide that I followed from an earlier post. It helps a lot with getting started with engineering in general: Kurr de la Cruz posted:Hey you! Yeah, you! Are you coming back after months of inactivity? Are you a complete newbie? Do you want to learn how to do engineer stuff? Then boy do I have the thing for you! I present "The Tadpole's Uplifting Engineering Primer" -- this will tell you what you need to know, what you need to do, and all that great stuff. Check it out here:
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General Battuta posted:I have an a-rated corvette with a couple huge multis, turreted lasers, and a ton of money in the bank. But I'm still getting slammed by certain high-ranking NPCs if I don't have shield batteries to spam. Power distributor is probably the easiest important upgrade to do first. I personally recommend lvl 3 WEP focus so you can divert pips to eng and sys as much as possible for faster turning and stronger damage resist. Your stock A-rate distributor in a corvette has plenty of extra ENG and SYS charge/capacity to spare. Overcharged multicannons and dirty drives are both tremendously good but also more difficult to work towards. Heavy duty shield boosters have a huge return on investment. You can make one booster do the work of multiple. Also consider top level efficiency mods for your lasers. The max DPS penalty becomes very small, and the decreased distributor drain helps you further focus pips into ENG and SYS. My corvette with dirty drives and 4 pips in ENG will competently turn fight against any NPC FdL or FAS.
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Libluini posted:Well, I clicked anyway so he now knows one of my private E-mail addresses. Maybe he wanted to collect our E-Mail-addresses to spam us later? Yeah, sorry. I accidentally linked to the copy I made (to use the filter) instead of the original. I thought I fixed it but my phone wasn't saving the edits properly or something. The correct link is ED:HS settlements DB - "data mining" for engineers which you can also find in the maps sheet index. jnnnnn fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Oct 15, 2016 |
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DreadLlama posted:Are there any contemporary space games where the devs don't actively hate the playerbase but also aren't incompetent scammers? Not done yet but, Void Destroyer 2 has an incredibly good handle on how to treat the player with respect. Do an escort mission? You get bonus payments for every enemy you have to shoot down in the course of that escort detail. Shoot down a pirate? The payout is a significant fraction of the cost of the ship they were flying. Cheaply hireable mercenaries (that are smart enough to go and repair themselves if they happen to get damaged too much) of every type (including transports, fighty ships, miners and repair vessels). Have a repair ship? You can call up any damaged NPC and have them pay you for the repairs you provide. It's got a low budget art style (although don't let the screenshots fool you, the blue monocolour backgrounds are optional) and is still far from feature complete, but it's progressing nicely. For anyone who liked Freelancer or X - this is one to keep an eye on.
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Step 1) Go to Sothis Step 2) Haul >1,000,000,000 credits worth of poop Step 3) Become an ~Elite Poopsmith~  Step 4) Profit???
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Yeah gently caress, I was carrying around some loving tubes and kept getting jumped constantly.
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Knock on wood but I haven't been interdicted at all while hauling rare trade goods for the current CG.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Step 4) Profit??? Step 4: Grind empire Step 5: Buy Cutter Step 6: Haul until your desire to play gives out waiting for the next patch
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Oook so no one's playing CQC? Er, Arena? This poo poo is just dead?
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mellowjournalism posted:Oook so no one's playing CQC? Er, Arena? This poo poo is just dead? which is a shame because it's actually a lot of fun, but in typical frontier fashion they made it pay next to nothing so there's no incentive to play it.
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I just checked out my progress in engineering the Vulture: rank 4 Fsd, 3 DD, 1 power plant, distributor (wep focus) shields and shield booster It got me about: +6 ly range, +2 mw power, + 50/100 speed, +100 shields with +4 resistances and about +15max wep energy, +2 recharge It took a while but it's a game changer, I can only imagine how much more powerful it would be with full rank 5 mods  I killed a t6 to grab some materials, it was escorted by a sidewinder. The poor dude kept plinking on my shields while I scooped stuff up, with 3 pips in systems he didn't even scratch them. Poor guy, he kept saying "the boss won't like this".. I really ruined his day TorakFade fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Oct 15, 2016 |
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mellowjournalism posted:Oook so no one's playing CQC? Er, Arena? This poo poo is just dead? I've always found games in deathmatch when I wanted them.
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DancingShade posted:If they made CQC pay out decent cash the people who spent a solid year locked indoors doing Robigo runs would scream that filthy casuals need to earn their space money before going back to counting their billions.
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