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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:melting down over an arbitrary game mechanic " turn rates, shield strength, and top speed" Now considered "arbitrary game mechanics" what the gently caress have I missed
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Adult Sword Owner posted:I just started playing after a year+ break and was disconnected 4 times in ~15 minutes just trying to loving dock Welcome to the reason I spent 98% of my time in solo. Really terrible P2P netcode. I didn't start out this way but by golly did it make things less lovely. Miss bumping into people though. I just spent two hours mining because of engineers. Worse than literally painting a wall. I am a broken person because I have many more to go. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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TorakFade posted:Somehow this military slots thing totally escaped me. Poor FdL is left out of the internals bonanza 
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Einbauschrank posted:Poor FdL is left out of the internals bonanza Well you wouldn't want the premier combat ship with terrible jump range to get any combat buffs now would you?  I'll just note the DBS didn't get any either. You know, the military scout ship.
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Jan 3, 2017 12:25
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quote:Military slots: we’re going to be reducing the number of slots by 1 on all vessels that currently have more than 1 slot. gently caress you, fun. We don't need you.
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Jan 3, 2017 14:05
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Einbauschrank posted:Poor FdL is left out of the internals bonanza If there's one ship that absolutely does not need any more buffs it's that one. Even when all the others are brought up to par the FDL will likely still be top dog.
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Jan 3, 2017 14:18
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DancingShade posted:Welcome to the reason I spent 98% of my time in solo. Really terrible P2P netcode. I did mining for a few days and didn't mind it too much. Getting attacked by NPCs that I way outclassed was the annoying thing. "Oh, you're a novice in an Imperial Clipper. I'm Dangerous in an Anaconda. Say hello to a wall of multi-cannon fire." I had better luck getting materials for the engineers driving around in the buggy. 9 arsenic in about an hour on Deciat 7B around -71.0070, 125.0102. Now all I need are chemical manipulators.
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TorakFade posted:gently caress you, fun. We don't need you. melting down over balance changes in a beta prior to its release 
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Jan 3, 2017 14:42
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So how does the 17 Draconis thing work with the bounties you accrue? How do you dock back up at the station to turn in? Also is there only 1 faction massacre missions to pick up or will any do?
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Emnity posted:So how does the 17 Draconis thing work with the bounties you accrue? How do you dock back up at the station to turn in? You kill yourself. You respawn docked and, all hostile statuses degrade to unfriendly and all bounties become dormant. Any massacre mission (or skimmer kill mission) from any faction that targets the owner of the ground station will do.
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Jan 3, 2017 15:46
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Chrysophylax posted:If there's one ship that absolutely does not need any more buffs it's that one. Even when all the others are brought up to par the FDL will likely still be top dog. It does need way more jumprange though, holy moly
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Jan 3, 2017 16:13
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Chrysophylax posted:You kill yourself. You respawn docked and, all hostile statuses degrade to unfriendly and all bounties become dormant. Ah ok, so use something small and disposabke then like a viper?
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Jan 3, 2017 16:39
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When you're earning 300m an hour, battle conda is disposable as I cannot be bothered changing and refitting.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:melting down over balance changes in a beta prior to its release Wait are you saying that implying Frontier doesn't like fun and actively roots it out from the game is somehow false? If so, lol 
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Meep Meep MoFrogs.
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Jan 3, 2017 16:46
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I've been killing ships in the conflict zone at 17 Draconis, are you saying there's an easier way to make money here? Admittedly I'm not good at this
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Emnity posted:Ah ok, so use something small and disposabke then like a viper? P much. Say, a viper or adder. Pesticide20 posted:I've been killing ships in the conflict zone at 17 Draconis, are you saying there's an easier way to make money here? Admittedly I'm not good at this Chrysophylax posted:You want to check who owns the ground base at 17 draconis and take massacre missions that target said owner.
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Chrysophylax posted:P much. Say, a viper or adder. Oh my god thank you for this
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TorakFade posted:gently caress you, fun. We don't need you. Wait, now I'm confused, isn't lowering the mass on the Viper III a good thing? It means higher maneuverability and higher jump range even when you decide to never do anything with your military slot.
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Libluini posted:Wait, now I'm confused, isn't lowering the mass on the Viper III a good thing? It means higher maneuverability and higher jump range even when you decide to never do anything with your military slot. I think he's talking about removing one of the military slots from any ship with more than one.
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Jan 3, 2017 18:35
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Astroniomix posted:I think he's talking about removing one of the military slots from any ship with more than one. It's an interesting turn of philosophy. When Horizons first came out, people were a bit perturbed that the SRV required an optional internal slot. Then fighters was released, requiring another internal slot being sacrificed, even though not all ships can utilize them. Now, in this beta, special slots are being allocated for specialized hardware. I wonder if they will create dedicated hangar slots retroactively. Nah.
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Astroniomix posted:I think he's talking about removing one of the military slots from any ship with more than one. That's not really bad either, since it's still beta. Technically, we haven't ever gotten military slots, so one less is still one more then we have.
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I was mostly joking about getting good things and then having them removed / nerfed before even making it to live servers actually, probably didn't do it too well though 
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TorakFade posted:I was mostly joking about getting good things and then having them removed / nerfed before even making it to live servers actually, probably didn't do it too well though Did they give a reason for it or is it pretty much "nvm lol"?
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DancingShade posted:Welcome to the reason I spent 98% of my time in solo. Really terrible P2P netcode. This was in Solo which is what makes it frustrating.
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Astroniomix posted:Did they give a reason for it or is it pretty much "nvm lol"? There's a whole thread from Sandro on the Brown Sea dedicated to explaining what will go from beta to live unchanged, what will be nerfed/tweaked, and what will be rolled back completely. For instance, they're rolling back the "sensor class affects gimbal accuracy" thing completely because people moaned about it a lot. They don't really explain the motivation behind these changes, some of them are probably "spergs didn't like it", while others are probably actual balance reasons.
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I just made 65 million credits  what is a good ship for shooting mans? I'm going to grind as much money as possible, but this will be my first time being able to afford whatever I want. Should I save up for a Federal Corvette?
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Pesticide20 posted:I just made 65 million credits A Vulture is a very fun ship for killing NPCs.
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Giovanni0109 posted:A Vulture is a very fun ship for killing NPCs. I've had one, but I hated dealing with the power management.
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Pesticide20 posted:I've had one, but I hated dealing with the power management. A level one overcharged power plant engineering upgrade pretty much fixes that issue. All you need is Felicity Farseer unlocked and some sulphur.
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it'd be cool if i, who like to mine, could sell stuff to people who say, don't like to mine
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Efexeye posted:it'd be cool if i, who like to mine, could sell stuff to people who say, don't like to mine No as this would open up gold sellers and we don't want that and furthermore E: there's this, but I don't know how reliable they are. Chrysophylax fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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Pesticide20 posted:I just made 65 million credits Keep at it (unless the spree is over) and get more. Best shootmans ship is an FdL but I don't know how much it costs to full kit it out.
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Pesticide20 posted:I've had one, but I hated dealing with the power management. If you have the rank for it, the Federal Assault Ship is basically a Vulture that hit the gym and it can coast through life with minimal power management. Also coasts through enemy ships. Post if the well dries up again out there, I'm gonna try and get out there tonight or tomorrow.
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I just got this game. What should my first goal in regards to ship upgrading be?
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Spacebump posted:I just got this game. What should my first goal in regards to ship upgrading be? Frame shift drive, so you can actually go places. If you want, join our player group over on discord, details in OP, we're a chill lot who can answer all sorts of questions relatively quickly. Chrysophylax fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Jan 3, 2017 |
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Keep at it (unless the spree is over) and get more. Best shootmans ship is an FdL but I don't know how much it costs to full kit it out. I'm still going strong on this money making venture. What's a good setup for the FdL?
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Turmoil posted:The closest ship I had was my Anaconda so I'm currently sitting above Faraday Keep picking off skimmers with my huge beam laser. How are you getting such good missions? I am now allied with the jets but it takes me maybe half an hour to get 20 missions most of which are 2-4 million with a handful up to 6. I've never seen any over 7. I'd say maybe 1/4 of the times I relog I get offered missions over 2m in payout, sometimes 2 or 3 from one session. The biggest bottleneck for me is the loading screen from the main menu to loading the station, will lowering settings reduce that at all?
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Pesticide20 posted:I'm still going strong on this money making venture. What's a good setup for the FdL? You'll probably need 2x the price of the ship or more to outfit it, plus don't forget to save up for some rebuys.
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Pesticide20 posted:I'm still going strong on this money making venture. What's a good setup for the FdL? My PVE go-to is biweave, 2xscb, whatever else up to you; 3 shield boosters, double chaff, heatsink. Guns I either go with huge beam + 4 multis or 3 multis (one on huge) and 2 beams. This'll cost around 115 million ish, with the Li-Yong discount.
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