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"Should I just fly a second vulture to double our firepower?" "Nah you're such a poo poo pilot that I'd rather fly solo with an extra pip. Get in my space chair for dummies and don't touch anything."
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Second chair in the Vulture is for your alt, clearly.
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Feb 28, 2017 21:53
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TorakFade posted:Gunner? As if you'd put a turret in 1 of your only 2 slots on the most maneuverable ship in the game... They could control missile targeting and the scanners (Kill Warrant or Cargo)
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TomR posted:Second chair in the Vulture is for your alt, clearly. I concede, it's this.
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Feb 28, 2017 21:55
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Why would anyone have an alt for Elite? But I know people do. Eve has broken peoples' brains. It was bizarrely dedicated there and it's worse here IMO 
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Feb 28, 2017 22:01
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Anyone know if elite's auth servers run on s3? I registered my new PC account, but whenever I try to login I just get a gateway timeout
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Feb 28, 2017 22:05
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Strategic Tea posted:Why would anyone have an alt for Elite? But I know people do. A lot of those people seem to have one account for exploration, one account for Bubble Stuff. Which makes a certain amount of sense, I guess...? I mean, on this very page a far-off explorer was complaining about not being able to do cool new Bubble Stuff when the update drops edit: I can't imagine anything less appealing than going through the entire Elite grind twice, esp. for engineers and poo poo Trustworthy fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Strategic Tea posted:Why would anyone have an alt for Elite? But I know people do. Quite a few players here picked up a second account so they could gently caress off into space and still participate in community stuff. With the kind of hardware some people have the cost of the game itself isn't really much 
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Feb 28, 2017 22:08
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Mimesweeper posted:Quite a few players here picked up a second account so they could gently caress off into space and still participate in community stuff. BRABEN PLEASE GIVE ME MY HOLO-WAIFU, I WILL PAY SERIOUS STAR CITIZEN MONEY 
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Feb 28, 2017 22:18
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Trustworthy posted:BRABEN PLEASE GIVE ME MY HOLO-WAIFU, I WILL PAY SERIOUS STAR CITIZEN MONEY 
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Feb 28, 2017 22:20
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That can't be real, the windows aren't blacked out.
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Feb 28, 2017 22:21
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TomR posted:
Also poo poo, time to drop my military supercapacitor hellgrind and start abusing Fehu or Quince or wherever it is you get rich getting Imp rank. I need a Clipper for multicrew. In case anyone hasn't thought about it yet, the Clipper has perfect turret hardpoints, can outrun most ships, and can fire two beam laser turrets with long range grade 5 and thermal vents forever. Gonna kite the heck out of idiots with a gunner and packhounds. Sard fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Feb 28, 2017 22:33
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Trustworthy posted:A lot of those people seem to have one account for exploration, one account for Bubble Stuff. On the other hand, even EVE Online gives you three character slots per account. As long as I only have one character in Elite, I'll just continue on with what I'm doing out of sheer spite. Frontier will only get my money for new expansions and that's it. I'm not buying the same game multiple times because the devs can't program more than one save slot. 
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Dromio posted:I'm pretty new to Elite-- got it for VR and then got hooked. I've been using an Xbox controller in VR and got fairly comfortable with that scheme, then went out and got a HOTAS X. But I can't figure out how to do anything other than fly with the HOTAS. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=178834
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Dromio posted:I'm pretty new to Elite-- got it for VR and then got hooked. I've been using an Xbox controller in VR and got fairly comfortable with that scheme, then went out and got a HOTAS X. But I can't figure out how to do anything other than fly with the HOTAS. You can do that with pretty much any type of input device because, again, ED's binding options are spectacularly versatile. First of all, you can set any command to be a button combination so that you can have a couple of shift/state buttons that modify what, say, a hat switch does. All you do is find the function and press the combination. So on its own, your POV hat might only navigate menus; with [button x] pressed, it instead activates various counter-measures; with [button y] pressed, it activates the different cockpit screens; with [button z] pressed, it toggles lights and landing gears and FA and whathaveyou. …and then there's the “Miscellaneous > Enable Context Menu” option. The UI hint (un)helpfully states that this allows you to assign sub-functions to “pad face buttons” when held, which is exactly what the XBox controller uses for its menus. The problem is that it's not entirely clear what the game actually considers a “pad face button” and how that translates into the buttons for a joystick. I haven't experimented with this, so there's a fair chance that it only does this if it detects an actual A/B/X/Y button bind and knows that there are combo-button functions tied to those inputs. In that case, you just have to resort to muscle memory to learn which button gives you what combination.
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Chilling in VR while watching a movie on a virtual screen taking up the spare passenger side of my Adder as I deliver beer to planets has become the ultimate way to murder several hours.
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So I installed this again to try the character generator. I had the Premium Beta, shouldn't I be eligigle for Horizons? It tells me I need that to fiddle with the character creator. You apparently need Horizons to mess on the planet surface, and I'm pretty sure I did that when I stopped playing. --edit: Some bullshit with Steam accounts apparently. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Well now I feel a little inadequate for posting this. Confirmed, the Thustmaster T.16000M is better than the HOTAS X. It doesn't have the slop in the middle of the stick and has like 18 more drat buttons on it for getting confused and dropping mines in space stations while trying to maneuver. It is going to take more getting used to the fact that it doesn't have reverse throttle (you toggle forward/reverse) but golly it has a lot of buttons. In VR it is really difficult to use more than a couple of the joystick's buttons in the base because you can't see, but the two on each outer edge are easy enough to feel reliably. The buttons in the joystick base are also sort of non-tactile and don't have a lot of push to them so they are hard to tell you've pressed them unless they are mapped to something that happens visually in game. Things like Galaxy Map are hard to tell if they are happening or not. The feel of the stick is much nicer than the HOTAS X, and the throttle is OK although I think my comfort issue comes from all the extra buttons on it I am not quite used to pressing. All in all though, a definite improvement on the HOTAS X. I'd probably still recommend the X if someone isn't sure if they're going to sim much, but if you're already hooked and tired of chording buttons on your XBOX controller, this is definitely for you. Because I am a super nerd who is tired of playing with his joystick in his lap, and the throttle on a nearby chair, I made this 3D printable mount for attaching the pair to some 1.5" PVC frame.    The arms could probably be slightly longer on the joystick mount, but it is really sturdy and when you nail a 3D print on the first try you just want everyone to carry you around on their shoulders for a while without making revisions.
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Hell Yeah thanks for posting that, I know what I'm printing tomorrow. I was thinking just today about how I wanted to build a wood thing for my HOTAS since my desk doesn't accommodate it well, but PVC is much easier
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Mar 1, 2017 02:56
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This teleportation is ruining MUH IMMERSION  
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Mu77ley posted:I haven't heard any indication that this will change any time soon. Another question though: is it possible to plot your route with restrictions now (like say, only plotting to scoopable stars)? I recall hearing about more advanced route plotting back when 2.2 was going to be released but I couldn't see anything and don't know if I hear correctly or not.
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Insert name here posted:Alright cool; I checked a couple of stations randomly and didn't see and had no clue if it said anything on the services tab so I figured I'd ask. Also glad to hear that the engineer recipes will probably stay this way for a while since it's much, much better.
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Mar 1, 2017 04:28
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  Holo-me is exquisite.
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Hahahaha. I'm totally doing some poo poo like that when holo-me hits the main game.
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TomR posted:Second chair in the Vulture is for your alt, clearly. Mimesweeper posted:I concede, it's this. I think you're onto something actually. How many people out there are going to buy alt accounts now just for the specific purpose of getting an extra power pip using a minimized client on their spare laptop? It might be at least a couple.
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Strategic Tea posted:Why would anyone have an alt for Elite? But I know people do. I got an alt so I could take advantage of security holes that Frontier had in the early days to get my ship to places it shouldn't ever been able to go. That got patched so now I have an account with a ton of impossible-to-get unsold data sitting on it. I wonder if I sold that if Frontier would even notice?
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I know some people used alts to store engineering commodities while their mains were off doing fun things in ships without cargo, while enjoying not being interdicted every second system.
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Mu77ley posted:I think you mean commodity storage, we already have module storage. Yes! 
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Alehkhs posted:General quote:[*]Added some new challenge scenarios
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Is this a good game if me and my friend want to hop in and do some co-op space poo poo together? Is it going to be difficult for us to meet up and work as a team? Or would you guys say this is better suited to solo play.
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It will get much better next patch, when you and your friend can both be in the same ship.
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It's fairly easy to meet up, you can have wings of up to 4 people and those always get put in the same instance and share kill credits and stuff.
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Truga posted:It's fairly easy to meet up, you can have wings of up to 4 people and those always get put in the same instance and share kill credits and stuff. This will also be better in the next patch when earnings from bounties are no longer split between wingmen.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:This will also be better in the next patch when earnings from bounties are no longer split between wingmen. Speaking of. have they gone back on the claim that powerplay merits won't be shared between crew, or at least said why?
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I don't know, I don't care about powerplay This game needs more ships that can hold a fighter bay. Anaconda, Federal Corvette, and Imperial Cutter are too big and cumbersome or unavailable to me because I haven't finished the stupid grind. Type-9 is just space garbage. The Keelback is pretty underwhelming, the Beluga is not really for HazRes fighting, so I guess that leaves the Federal Gunship? I feel like Python and FDL with fighter bays would be right up my alley, or even the Federal Assault Ship. Is it worth it to outfit and engineer a Federal Gunship for PvE RES fighting or am I going to feel like I wasted my time?
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Meanwhile new mysterious alien events are showing up in the beta - not going to say exactly what but you can see it in this video starting about 1h 26min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya37h6QPnnw&t=5166s
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