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skooma512 posted:What do you even need for 17drac? Can a noob with a Cobra and 3 million credits cut it or should I not bother making the trip? You could technically do 17 drac in a sidewinder. Pretty much the only necessary purchase component is "as many dumbfire missiles as you can fit on your tiny lovely ship". If you have a ship at 17 drac with dumbfires, you are all set.
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DreadLlama posted:It looks like there's a window where if you were fast enough you could close the gap with the thargoid and shoot it in the arse before it jumps. PAC with a long range mod should be able to shoot 3km, yeah? There are videos out there of people shooting it, no damage taken and it just jumps out.
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Kavros posted:You could technically do 17 drac in a sidewinder. Pretty much the only necessary purchase component is "as many dumbfire missiles as you can fit on your tiny lovely ship". This sounds viable. Especially if it doesn't require me to sacrifice my poor Clipper to get there. Is the Viper the best ship available there?
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KakerMix posted:There are videos out there of people shooting it, no damage taken and it just jumps out. I love how Frontier is a master of both inspiration and disappointment.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:
Stop playing non Steam games through Steam. Don't say "but the overlay" because the overlay is terrible and should be disabled immediately. poo poo I just realised there is probably a whole generation that has only experienced PC games through installers like Steam, GoG and Origin.
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I use the overlay browser so I don't have to alt-tab out to do a gear/commodity search on inara. It's fine. Granted, half the time the overlay opens itself all "Hurp durp, you rang?" when you even think about touching any one of the keys involved in its hotkey combo but it has its uses. Though the lack of an easy button is what led to me learning DOS as a six year old so I could play Bouncing Babies on a CGA monitor...
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Jan 7, 2017 05:24
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Spacewar > bouncing babies any day  Planet + gravity enabled of course!
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Oh no argument from me there. The guy we got that PC from also sold my dad both a Commodore Vic20 and C64 with a 55 gallon trash bag literally full of games. I became addicted to SIDchip music at a very young age.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:This sounds viable. Especially if it doesn't require me to sacrifice my poor Clipper to get there. Is the Viper the best ship available there? I mean at the end I was just lazily using my asp explorer since I would use it to travel up there super fast. I would just head out, blast things, self destruct, mission stack, repeat. The only thing I switched up was not self destructing when I was trying to get the 25 modulars (or any other mission cargo I needed). A viper works fine because it costs nearly nothing to replace and so you just stealth and dive to save yourself the six minute trip back. Always get the missiles before you get there though.
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Kavros posted:Always get the missiles before you get there though. A thousand times this.
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adamantium|wang posted:The war seems to be between Jet Bridge and The Order but the planet is held by New 17 Drac Does the system need to finish the Civil War go into a new state then back to Civil War for the warring factions to change?
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Jan 7, 2017 05:45
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DancingShade posted:Stop playing non Steam games through Steam. Don't say "but the overlay" because the overlay is terrible and should be disabled immediately.
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Mercurius posted:You are aware that Elite is available through Steam as well as directly from Frontier, yes? Yes? Wait are you saying the Steam copy of ED has Steam DRM on top of the server requirement? Because lol if that's the case.
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So when the factions change... 1. Get missiles. 2. Get to Draconis 17 via Hauler. 3. Get Viper and transport missiles. 4. Stack skimmer missions. 5. Complete missions via dumbfire destruction. 6. Suicide. 7. Repeat
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DancingShade posted:Yes? No. Why would it? It only uses Steam as a delivery platform. Come to think of it, is there a way to get steam to accept the regular Frontier install as its own by just pointing to it, somehow, without having to move a ton of stuff around or add it as a non-steam game?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:So when the factions change... That would be the plan but apparently they're patching it next week so skimmers will no longer count for kill missions. e: alternatively stick the launchers on your hauler and then swap them to your Viper. You can't buy the modules in 17 Drac but you can restock them.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:So when the factions change... You can just use the hauler. The main thing is dumbfires or mines and a low rebuy for suiciding back quickly after you complete your mission stack.
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The hauler probably does not carry nearly enough missiles to wipe out all the stacked missions in one go. Stick with the viper minimum.
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Honestly the Cobra-3 works fine for that, too, and it comes with a bonus of not needing the hassle of switching between ships. It's got a jump range roughly equal or superior to the Adder and it's still relatively cheap to rebuy.
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Kavros posted:The hauler probably does not carry nearly enough missiles to wipe out all the stacked missions in one go. Stick with the viper minimum. Yea a single small launcher isn't going to have enough ammo to knock out the big missions.
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One mine takes out all the skimmers. Mine launcher holds 60 mines or something doesn't it? It's 6 skimmers and the biggest mission only makes you kill about 100.
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One small mine launcher holds 32 mines which is enough to finish a stack of missions.
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Status_Surge posted:logged in to get probe by thargoids. 10/10 would get probed again after 12 hours of trying Angrymog posted:Went alien hunting, and found one. Then a Thargoid interdicted me. Following from 3252 when the Thargons appeared in the last game, they showed up at Pleione 6 and then at Polaris 4, I'm not surprised they appeared near the Pleiades sector. Has anyone tried scouting around Polaris? All the action also happened at a star called Miacke, but i looked and couldn't see it on the map. Curiously enough, in First Encounters they were identified as ???? so when they announced that that was one of the titles of season 2 a few months ago I wondered how long it would be until they showed up... Looking forward to my Thargoid interceptor with a 450ly range 
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Strategic Tea posted:and furthermore everything is awful about this game and it is terrible Maybe I'm reading this wrong but isn't getting one's money worth more or less independent of how long they've played? I think people with a lot of experience at the game shouldn't be dismissed like this
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*1000 hours played* *In-Game: Elite Dangerous*
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hakimashou posted:One mine takes out all the skimmers. Doesn't bombing via mines require a ship with mounts on the bottom?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Doesn't bombing via mines require a ship with mounts on the bottom?
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Pilchenstein posted:Hover upside down? Fair enough. I take it the bombing runs aren't terribly precise? How far off do you need to be to drop them?
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Chrysophylax posted:Maybe I'm reading this wrong but isn't getting one's money worth more or less independent of how long they've played? If someone played something bad and not worth their money for a thousand hours they should definitely be dismissed. More likely they've got valid criticism that they're expressing as hysterics. Like an NPC popping in at a dramatic moment becomes UGGH FDEV has bugged this lovely awful game don't bother coming back to see the aliens 
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Strategic Tea posted:If someone played something bad and not worth their money for a thousand hours they should definitely be dismissed. "I can't stop playing or talking about this game that I hate" is basically this entire subforum's gimmick.
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Strategic Tea posted:If someone played something bad and not worth their money for a thousand hours they should definitely be dismissed. Makkes sense, fair enough.
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If you lose your sense of purpose in the game it stops being fun.
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I've read a few brown sea fanboys that dismiss criticism entirely if you have more than some arbitrary number of hours because apparently that's clearly bad for reasons? I find that odd That's not what Strategic Tea said tho.
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I think Elite: Dangerous is a fun game and the developers make more good decisions than bad. 
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:"I can't stop playing or talking about this game that I hate" is basically this entire subforum's gimmick. For a second I thought this was the Star Citizen thread.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:"I can't stop playing or talking about this game that I hate" is basically this entire subforum's gimmick. It's no gimmick. These nerds are for real.
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DancingShade posted:Stop playing non Steam games through Steam. Don't say "but the overlay" because the overlay is terrible and should be disabled immediately. Lol. What year is this? Any computer from the last x years can run games with the Steam service with absolutely zero performance hit whatsoever.
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