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Truga posted:Can't you still just bomb the skimmers from a safe altitude with dumbfires? Don't even need an SRV. That's how I started my imperial grind, bombing skimmers in my jump range fit hauler. Skimmers won't spawn unless you actually land your ship on the surface. If the base has point defence turrets your dumbfires won't hit anything either so I hope you packed an SRV.
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So I haven't logged in since uh May and haven't seriously played even longer than that Wouldn't happen to be any info for returning players anywhere would there be?
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Oct 26, 2016 21:41
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Supposedly, the training has been updated, if anyone is interested.
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New engineer info is up on inara, highlights:
I'm glad they added rank 5 lightweight mods to plasma accelerators, canons, fragment canons, and pulse lasers. Now I have to rethink my weapons build for my Explorvette: I was going to go with all multicanons, but now..... 
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Found a cool little touch, the voice acted flight controllers have little extra blurbs they'll say about the system state when you land. Just had one cryptically warn me about the ongoing civil war and to be "careful who you pledge your allegiance to".
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DancingShade posted:Skimmers won't spawn unless you actually land your ship on the surface. They will spawn, you just need to skim (har) the base pretty low.
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Oct 27, 2016 04:28
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The Beluga is cool and good. That is all 
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Oct 27, 2016 04:29
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2spooky4me posted:The Beluga is cool and good. Welcome to the cool and good club 
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2spooky4me posted:The Beluga is cool and good. I am strongly skeptical of this claim. The shipyards have stats for it where its jump range is godawful and its shields are paper thin.
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Oct 27, 2016 04:42
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Anybody know a good place to grind Empire rank in 2.2 yet? I managed to pick the worst possible time to decide I wanted a Cutter.
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Valatar posted:I am strongly skeptical of this claim. The shipyards have stats for it where its jump range is godawful and its shields are paper thin. I don't like it either: takes forever to fuel scoop despite its size, you can't actually stack many passenger missions the stupid wings get stuck on the mailslot (and kill you) unless you remember to scrape the bottom of the slot may as well not have shields, they are laughable -- get used to the 8M rebuy if you have a high combat rank -- even if mines still worked you wouldn't survive long enough to kill the other ship with them jump range, with the best possible mod, is only 34ly There are two minor positives: it yaws relatively quickly and the cabin is kinda pretty in VR The best way to use this ship is to buy it, look around the cabin, and then immediately sell it. jnnnnn fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Oct 27, 2016 05:03
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Gotta grind up for that shielded fuel scoop upgrade. You never know when you will be scooping while engaged in battle at supercruise speeds.The extra power draw is worth it.
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Not so shameful but kind of shameful confession: last night I abused the Beluga's massive fuel tank to put my ship in supercruise, turn off my monitors and use the white noise to help me sleep. It worked so well I'm doing it again tonight.  I should probably try to find/make a 10 hour loop video on YouTube... Edit: the thunder noise of super cruise can be annoying but I find the thruster noise soothing as well. Might find the "best" thruster sound and make a loop video of that. Shoot I could probably make a series of videos for every ship in the game... Nostalgia4Infinity fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Oct 27, 2016 06:05
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I'd like to think the Beluga started off as a useful thing and then was hammered with "but they'll use it for trading and exploring!" until it became the comedy object it currently is. I am sorry about your silly ship. The local little forum's elite thread has somehow found '84 Dad Prime. Some highlights: quote:I'm actually on the verge of quitting computer gaming completely because of the attitude of so many gamers
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Oct 27, 2016 06:18
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Fans of the original need to realize that the game wasn't made for them in mind. If it was, the popularity of the game would be very, very small. It was made for a wider audience. The only problem is that listens to the Brown Sea where the people who are fans of the original basically just wanted the original game with current graphics. The exact same game with an official title of Elite on it and not Oolite.
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IAmTheRad posted:Fans of the original need to realize that the game wasn't made for them in mind. If it was, the popularity of the game would be very, very small. It was made for a wider audience. This. Reminder for anyone who forgot that original Elite was fully newtonian for all movement and calculating a fuel scoop from a star or gas giant badly meant disappearing into a gravity well with no hope of escape. Imagine the HOTAS crowd having to deal with that. All those LEDs throttles, worthless because they can't math.
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CMDR XDeath found the ruins. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...l=1#post4688478 Canonn thread is going nuts.
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Looks nice, I'll bite. What is there to do once you've looked at it for a while? I presume it's either just the one site or else they seeded the galaxy with a whole bunch of "alien dig site" assets?
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If I understand correctly, there are artifacts to scoop with your SRV and sell or try to interact, possible cyphers to solve on the monument itself that might provide more info or coordinates, ambiance sounds to run through analysis for clues, etc etc. All in all, nothing too engaging, especially for some types of players. This one would be one of those beauty spots that we were calling back on the DDF days, as nice places to visit for explorers, photograph and maybe get a clue or two. Maybe Frontier has a use for it too as far as the lore is concerned, we will have to see.
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/301663-The-Guardians-Update-2-2-01The Guardians Update: 2.2.01 posted:- Don't crash if there's invalid state in the powerplay map
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Now maybe they can go back and un-nerf hauling missions, at least to the extant they did. 10-20% would have been fine.
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Mailer posted:I'd like to think the Beluga started off as a useful thing and then was hammered with "but they'll use it for trading and exploring!" until it became the comedy object it currently is. I am sorry about your silly ship. Holy poo poo gently caress that guy. Elite is a single player game masquerading as multiplayer. If you so choose you can literally never interact with another human being. If you want to gimp yourself and spend hours running bullshit missions then go for it; personally I quit playing because the game is dull as gently caress and making progression fun again would probably bring me back.
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Reduced the module and ship transfer costs by half! why!? I thought they were in a good place... not complaining just curious, did you guys not think they were suitable? I think big ships should pay through the roof to be moved... coming from an owner of a big ship with far to many creds
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Chrysophylax posted:Reduced the module and ship transfer costs by half! why!? I thought they were in a good place... not complaining just curious, did you guys not think they were suitable? I think big ships should pay through the roof to be moved... coming from an owner of a big ship with far to many creds Assuming this isn't a fake post, no. No they were not in a good place. Eating the equivalent to a rebuy cost to move a ship halfway across the bubble is a recipe for me to not use the feature. It's about opportunity cost. If I spend x credits to move this ship, how many hours am I going to have to play to make that money back? I didn't become a space-billionaire by pissing away 10+ million credits unless I absolutely had to.
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DancingShade posted:Reminder for anyone who forgot that original Elite was fully newtonian for all movement and calculating a fuel scoop from a star or gas giant badly meant disappearing into a gravity well with no hope of escape.
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It's what some sperg at the brown sea said. Also note that 50% is not nearly enough, you're still paying like 6 million for 150ly for a vette. I would pay maybe 10% of that? The calculation they're performing is based off of the ship's value somehow, and that's what's screwing up the big ships. E: Realtalk. I don't understand making QoL features that are in every way worse than the alternative. This is the equivalent of making route plotting take minutes and cost credits vs opening the galaxy map every jump. If you must be a stickler for 'mai immersion' and keep the time so that people somehow don't 'abuse' this (for the record, all the 'abuse' arguments I saw are ridiculous), then it shouldn't cost anything. As it stands, it takes both longer AND costs enough money to give billionaires pause. Instead they should've simulated poo poo, like average a bunch of flights for various distances and typical jump ranges, figure out how long, and make it take that much time. Then add a symbolic credit cost if you must. Like instant, they instead took the easy programming way out, and justified it with the idiotic 'barge' concept. No one who's against the gigantic delay and the cost is gonna accept this 'lore' as a sane justification, because it doesn't take anyone 5 minutes to do a single jump (regardless if it's 10, 15, or 30ly). Since engineers it doesn't even take a vette or an fdl an hour to do 150ly. It's less than 10 jumps for gently caress's sake. Even if you haulercab and the distance is doubled it's still not taking an hour. Chrysophylax fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Chrysophylax posted:It's what some sperg at the brown sea said. Save money, it'll do ya good. That's what the guy who flew to Jacques Station used to say.
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I'm torn right now. I've built an explora-combat-conda (22ly jump range, full weapons/fighter/SRV compliment, minimal shielding, D rated core modules) and am tempted to take it out into the black for shits and giggles for awhile. I'm also tempted to head over to that federation rep/money grind to potentially put together enough cash to build out an Exploravette for shits and giggles rather than a conda. Of course, then I'd have to do some engineer mods to it to build up that jump range a bit before I took it out, not to mention the lightweight component mods, etc. I'm just turned off by the amount of time it takes to accomplish most of that.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Holy poo poo gently caress that guy. Elite is a single player game masquerading as multiplayer. If you so choose you can literally never interact with another human being. If you want to gimp yourself and spend hours running bullshit missions then go for it; personally I quit playing because the game is dull as gently caress and making progression fun again would probably bring me back. I thought you quit because they refused to completely remake the game as eve with a cockpit, same as with star citizen. Which space game are you gonna get annoyed about for the same reason next ?.
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LCL-Dead posted:I'm torn right now. It's maybe a week of casual gameplay to get through the basic engineers you'll need for that! You can also engi-up that conda to 45-50ly with weight savings mods and fsd boost!  But, since I'm building an Explorvette myself...uhhh...just do that?
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Morningwoodpecker posted:I thought you quit because they refused to completely remake the game as eve with a cockpit, same as with star citizen. source your quotes
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 In other news Frontier refunded my 20M Cr rebuy so that bought them some goodwill from me.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:It's maybe a week of casual gameplay to get through the basic engineers you'll need for that! You can also engi-up that conda to 45-50ly with weight savings mods and fsd boost! It was your post that made me consider the Exploravette, especially when considered alongside the fed rep/money farm that's apparently been found. I also reeeaaally like the look of the Vette over the Clipper and am not fond of trade in any form (which is why I never participate in CGs). But a week of casual game time for most people is like 3 weeks of game time for me. I only play 2-3 nights a week and it's even harder now, what with Rocket League & Overwatch having their Halloween specials going (I still need to unlock two more skins in Overwatch and have gotten pretty much everything I wanted out of the RL event) as well as Massive dropping that huge end-game fixing patch for The Division.. ..see, torn. e: How much did your exploravette cost you? Need to know how much monies I need to farm.
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LCL-Dead posted:It was your post that made me consider the Exploravette, especially when considered alongside the fed rep/money farm that's apparently been found. Mine was about 420M, but a significant chunk of that is the 7A fuel scoop. Despite my frequent  on the topic, you can get away with a 7B on this build and save ~75M. I'll post a coriolis when I get home. And yeah, it looks so much better. Like a small star destroyer. I like the sound design of the corvette much more, although N4I talking about his beluga white noise has me a little jelly... And "casual" for me is ~5-8 hours per week, so ymmv.
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Silly question, but how do I turn on the ability to ignore non-scoopable stars when plotting a route? I don't see the option in the galaxy map.
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IIRC you have to go into map view, filter for star class, untick all the ones after M class, and find the 'apply filter to route' option further down.
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