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E Equals MC Hammer posted:We really should be able to launch 2 fighters and not only 1... Yes, this one fighter limit is ridiculous.
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Conskill posted:Characterizing it as a space car tow gave me an idea. There was an emergency beacon back in beta, before they added fuel scooping. Then they added scoops and disabled the beacon.
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Oct 30, 2016 08:00
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Beefeater1980 posted:For me it's Elite:Frontier. Yeah, that's where I started too. There was something about playing Han Solo in a somewhat realistic simulation of our own galaxy that grabbed my attention as a kid. Its the only game to have had a permanent place on my hard drive for as long as I've had a PC.
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So did FDev silently implement a limit on mission stacking? I remember being able to stack ~20 missions before being told you have too many open missions. Now, I can't take more than ~6-7. Is this happening for anyone else?
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Oct 30, 2016 11:25
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I'm making an obscene amount of credits with an exploration asp and a single exchangeable size 6 passenger cabin.
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Oct 30, 2016 11:51
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Dolemite posted:So did FDev silently implement a limit on mission stacking? I remember being able to stack ~20 missions before being told you have too many open missions. Now, I can't take more than ~6-7. Is this happening for anyone else? Yes. I am limited to four ATM
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Oct 30, 2016 12:58
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Maybe it is related to account age or rank or something?
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Oct 30, 2016 13:18
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Just had my first death in a good while. I don't really do weapons or strongass shields on my Type 6, instead focusing on getting the best jump range. This gently caress comes in 10Ls from my target station, interdicts me and depletes my shields instantly and gets hull down to 2% in less than a second. Is there even a way to avoid getting destroyed when this kinda poo poo happens? Should I focus on SYS instead of trying to outmaneuver with ENG?
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Oct 30, 2016 17:01
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NPC? Just kill the process when the interdiction starts 
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Oct 30, 2016 17:06
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Inacio posted:Just had my first death in a good while. I don't really do weapons or strongass shields on my Type 6, instead focusing on getting the best jump range. Putting 4 pips to shields gives you ~2x the ehp, while 3.5 pips only gives you ~1.2x ehp. So, if you are losing shields, always go 4 pips. As for interdiction, I usually do the submit and low-wake trick. If you submit to the interdiction, your FSD spools back up in <5s, while if you get pulled from superluminal it will take three times as long! So, my method for interdictions:
2spooky4me posted:NPC? Just kill the process when the interdiction starts Never used it, but I legit had task manager on a second monitor when I came back from my ~9 month exploration trip.
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Oct 30, 2016 17:10
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Depending on what mission triggers the interdiction NPC, it's very possible to have pythons or even anacondas targeting you, and if you're in a ship with paper defenses like the type-6 they don't even have to be dangerous or anything close to be a threat. Sometimes you get lucky and the mission spawns more than one enemy ship too. Either way do what TFS said and/or be ready with task manager (holy poo poo I'd be so paranoid bringing in millions of exploration data too  ). I'd add:
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Oct 30, 2016 17:51
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NPCs are still really poo poo at chasing you in a straight line. Forget manoeuvring and just run. The T6 is also, no joke, really loving fast under boost. It's not top tier, but it can still outrun most (non engineered) things quite easily. Always Be Cboosting. tooterfish fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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Oct 30, 2016 18:01
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It's really fun when you have two or more targeting you for interdiction and, when you submit, they start fighting each other rather than go after you. The problem is that even if they kill each other, it'll just keep happening since NPC kills don't actually kill other NPCs so as soon as you're back in frameshift, both of them will come back to interdict you all over again. 
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My favourite part about NPC interdictions is how you can escape one, and after a few seconds he'll respawn in front of you, interdicting you again once he passes you. And if it happens close enough to a station he'll show up there and get owned by other NPCs.
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Oct 30, 2016 18:44
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FLYING TO A STATION CARRYING MODULAR TERMINALS: THE NOVEL I've come a long way for your cargo. Don't try to run. You have a choice: stay rich, or stay alive. Fear me! I've come a long way for your cargo. Don't try to run. You have a choice: stay rich, or stay alive. Fear me! I've come a long way for your cargo. Don't try to run. You have a choice: stay rich, or stay alive. Fear me! I've come a long way for your cargo. Don't try to run. You have a choice: stay rich, or stay alive. Fear me! Welcome to our cool rear end starport, commander. Don't break any laws. Fear me! This can't be happening! We'll accept your use of automated docking at this facility, commander, but you should really learn how to land.
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Oct 30, 2016 19:33
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I always wondered, does ejecting the engineering cargo actually help when the NPC goes "give me your stuff or die"? Not like I want to try this out 
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Oct 30, 2016 20:23
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orcane posted:I always wondered, does ejecting the engineering cargo actually help when the NPC goes "give me your stuff or die"? Not like I want to try this out Are you actually planning on using that soonish? If not sell it and stop the interdiction bs.
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Oct 30, 2016 20:28
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orcane posted:I always wondered, does ejecting the engineering cargo actually help when the NPC goes "give me your stuff or die"? Not like I want to try this out Yeah, it does. I was hauling some engineering poo poo out to Maia to get dirty drives, and fortunately I had some spares. When a pirate interdicted me I just tossed a couple out my rear end and the pirate started shouting 'mine all mine!' in local.
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Oct 30, 2016 20:30
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SpannerX posted:Are you actually planning on using that soonish? If not sell it and stop the interdiction bs. I'm not carrying any, but I always wondered this when I'm interdicted on the way to an engineer. It might be fun carrying a few of those you can buy on markets for a few dozen credits, except it's easier to just get away again 99% of the time.
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Oct 30, 2016 20:34
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How do the tourist visitor beacons work? I have the passengers and I'm at the target one but nothing happens to the mission?
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Oct 30, 2016 20:48
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Sylink posted:How do the tourist visitor beacons work? I have the passengers and I'm at the target one but nothing happens to the mission? Did you scan the beacon? That's all you need to do. I've had no issues with tourist beacons not working.
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Oct 30, 2016 20:53
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Sylink posted:How do the tourist visitor beacons work? I have the passengers and I'm at the target one but nothing happens to the mission? There is a bug on missions that have multiple destinations. After you scan the first beacon, sometimes the mission is not updated with the location of the second beacon. If you can manually find the second beacon, the mission will still work, but good luck with that. I had it happen and got frustrated to the point I just said "gently caress it" and ejected the passenger.
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I borrowed my brother's Saitek X52. Price was right for me, $0. Holy hell is it fun to fly in a Vulture using a HOTAS. I actually changed my speed on the fly unlike how when I usually fly with my keyboard +mouse going basically "am I in the blue? Ok I'm in the blue". I just have a little issue landing, like it was my first time playing the game. Technically, it is as I am using a controller for the first time. Really fun. - One time when I was at a tourist beacon, I just looked at the galaxy map to find out where the passenger wanted to go. When I was in supercruise my passenger then updated to the next location. I did scan the beacon to get the information, but then just went anyways. Odd that the mission only updated once I went forward.
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Oct 30, 2016 22:31
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This guy. This. Guy. 
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Friction posted:This guy. This too, shall pass...
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Natsuumi posted:Did you scan the beacon? That's all you need to do. I've had no issues with tourist beacons not working. This was the problem, it took ten minutes for this to occur to me.
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Oct 31, 2016 00:42
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orcane posted:I always wondered, does ejecting the engineering cargo actually help when the NPC goes "give me your stuff or die"? Not like I want to try this out Word of warning that some NPCs will still shoot the ever loving poo poo out of you even if you give up your cargo.
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All this time, I had no idea the Vulture was a two seater. How did I not notice that... I loving flew one for months.
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Oct 31, 2016 01:45
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Checkin in after a long time...When did the reboot and repair function go?
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Oct 31, 2016 01:47
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tooterfish posted:All this time, I had no idea the Vulture was a two seater.
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WebDog posted:Checkin in after a long time...When did the reboot and repair function go? You're probably in Supercruise mode. It's on your right hand side under "Functions" just below the options for RADAR range if you're out of SC.
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Einbauschrank posted:You're probably in Supercruise mode. It's on your right hand side under "Functions" just below the options for RADAR range if you're out of SC. I was in SC when I was checking. Having fun being space ferry.
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-Try to make some cash because I want to outfit ships. -Take on 2 passenger missions because they're the only ones that pay worth a drat. -Get interdicted at least 3-4 times between the Wu Guinagi - HIP 10716 run. -With less than 100km to go before landing, the passengers want to go all the way back to where I picked them up. All that for a measly 1mil payout. I...Just...I can't enjoy this game anymore. I genuinely don't understand what both : and the brown sea have against money being available for players to actually DO STUFF in the game. I don't want to spend a month grinding enough cash to outfit a ship for mining, maybe another ship for passenger hauling, a ship for killing spacemans and so on.You don't have the freedom to do anything now. By that, I mean you can't AFFORD to do anything. Especially since you can only stack like 5 missions that might pay out 100K or something. Well, unless you want to fly passengers 20,000 LY for a crazy TWO million payout! I never thought I'd rage meltdown, but drat, this game used to be so much fun. Now, not so much. Good job listening to only the "MAH IMMERSION!!" crew, 
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I agree, the game is much more fun when you are stupid rich. The whole "gameplay" of earning credits is fun for a few hours but it's good that you can usually google a way to make bank when you get sick of it.
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Talking of making bank, any new places working out well? I know the popular spot for skimmer missions has already been removed...
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Dolemite posted:-Try to make some cash because I want to outfit ships. I dunno man, I made like 20 mil for a few hours of tourist shuttling last night (running 3 simultaneous missions). It's not Sothis poop money but it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination. And I've seen missions to the core that pay over 100 million+, so if someone offers you 2 million for a 20k LY trip maybe tell them to gently caress off? Do you have really bad rep or something? Are you just not being selective about the contracts you take? Trustworthy fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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What's a good way to make money when you are new to the game? I've been hanging out in my eagle mk3 in a lawless system in a resource extraction area with lots of popo just jumping in to get some hits on people with bounties that get annihilated. And getting 80k or 130k is fantastic, but it's gotten a bit dull. Tried doing a 20ly rare goods run and got a whopping 75k profit.
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Demon_Corsair posted:What's a good way to make money when you are new to the game? I've been hanging out in my eagle mk3 in a lawless system in a resource extraction area with lots of popo just jumping in to get some hits on people with bounties that get annihilated. Making Money -- Missions -- Skimmer smashing (40M/hr) requires an SRV ** Sidewinder Friendly ** You can do this in any ship, even the default sidewinder. Use railguns, dumbfire missiles, or lasers. You will need to trespass in your SRV to get the skimmers to spawn. Good places include New Yembo/Unity Orbital, Arietis Sector CQ-Y D60/Cochrane Works, and Naitis. Makes about 40M/hr once you're allied if you can stack enough missions to the same place. Everyone's saying Cochrane Works stopped giving missions so maybe try one of the others Other options are: Scooping Precious Gems at the USS near Maiki 3 (not sure how long this will last, it has popped up after the last three updates for about a week) -- each canister is worth 60k if you take it to a black market that other players haven't already bombed, so about 5M/hr in a Cobra RES hunting ** Sidewinder Friendly ** (~3M/hour killstealing cops, or 5M in a proper combat ship), CZ mission stacking (up to 20M/hr) -- you need a good ship for this or you will die a fair bit. Dying doesn't matter in a cheap ship though; it can even be a good way to get back to the station quickly to reload/stack more missions. Killstealling is pretty slow here, you will have trouble finishing the "Kill 50 for $10M" missions in the four hours they allow. Kinetic weapons (flak, multicannons, cannons) are good for this -- drill out powerplants for days. Pick on ships that are already outnumbered, and run away BEFORE you get outnumbered yourself. Use the galaxy map and filter by War/Civil War to find a place to do this. There's a crowd on the Discord (see PGS) that does this for fun. Smuggling missions (Aditi, Ceos, etc., currently all smuggling is nerfed down to laughable levels, RIP) Passenger missions (you'll have to figure this out yourself 'cos it's so new, but either do individual high-paying missions (good in a Cobra/AspE) or in a big ship stack economy missions in Aditi, Tun, Shu Babassi, Wu Guinagi, Vesuvit, etc.) Anything mission-based requires getting the minor factions up to Allied first to get the high-paying missions (sell the controlling faction 2M of exploration data or run ~20 missions for a faction) jnnnnn fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Oct 31, 2016 |
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