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Boogalo posted:This is my current goal viper with 2 PAC and 2 mines o.o This thing needs to be painted blue and go 'briinngg!' everytime you hit something.
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Drake_263 posted:o.o Nah it's painted red and goes CLANG and explodes.  And then whatever I hit explodes if they were at a station and speeding  it has no guns yet and already racked several kills.
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Mar 30, 2017 21:23
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Fojar38 posted:My only real criticism of the game so far is that I wish that each system looked more distinct. At least change up the skybox every now and then, where are the awesome nebulas and planet varieties? About 10k light years away. Head coreward or towards a dense nebula and the skybox will eventually change dramatically over your journey.
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Mar 30, 2017 21:26
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Also (posting with attachments as Imgur is being poo poo again) I claimed this system with earthlike as NMN sovereign territory as the night view at this point of the year would be spectacular with that big diadem of blue stars taking up a good portion of the sky. TRAIKOA OW-L C21-10 if you want to visit on the way to Colonia / the Core Nice region of space; couple of nebulae, couple of those big stellar nurseries and Black Treasure itself which is a supernova remnant black hole in its own little teensy tiny nebula.
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Mar 30, 2017 21:37
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Busted out my fifteen year old Saitek X45 stick/throttle and played through the first few training missions. Pretty loving amazing on the Rift, money well spent I'd say. I need to get the controls all mapped out a bit better, so I don't have to keep hopping out to rebind or look at menus. I'm gonna let my VR ADD calm down a bit before I really dive into this, but I'll definitely hop in the discord once I do.
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Mar 30, 2017 22:26
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got my first mission to go to hutton orbital lmao
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Mar 31, 2017 00:30
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Mar 31, 2017 00:33
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yeah, they all say that for the first hour or so
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Mar 31, 2017 00:35
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boom data delivery for a cool 14,400 credits
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Mar 31, 2017 00:38
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its not even about the missions anymore this is now a thing i have to do glad i came well equipped with appropriate space tunes
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Bought this game a long time ago and could never get in to it. Bought a t16000m fcs hotas on a whim and finally got started. I made some money getting lucky bounty hunting around the horizons starting point and got up to a diamondback scout then saw the stuff about power play and decided to fly all the way down to Kamadhenu and join the bounty bonus person. Are there any good systems nearby for bounty hunting? I haven't been having much luck and if i die one more time I'm going to be in trouble. Also I upgraded my shields, power and distribution but haven't been able to find anywhere with better than 1G gimbaled pulse lasers.
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I bought my mug When I got here it denied me docking like 10 times because pads were presumably full and I almost lost my poo poo
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Lunimeow posted:Bought this game a long time ago and could never get in to it. Bought a t16000m fcs hotas on a whim and finally got started. I made some money getting lucky bounty hunting around the horizons starting point and got up to a diamondback scout then saw the stuff about power play and decided to fly all the way down to Kamadhenu and join the bounty bonus person. Are there any good systems nearby for bounty hunting? I haven't been having much luck and if i die one more time I'm going to be in trouble. Also I upgraded my shields, power and distribution but haven't been able to find anywhere with better than 1G gimbaled pulse lasers. You can go here to search for stations that have specific modules: https://eddb.io/station Also, if you have more questions, your best bet is to go to the Elite thread in PGS and get on the discord there. There's a dedicated support channel on the server, and the people there are pretty cool to hang out with and sperg out about this game.
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Mercurius posted:Oh hey, I remember that blob of stars, that's out near Black Treasure. I was out there a couple weeks ago to get my 5k light years done for Palin. Still a neat thing to see in space though and I had a little moment when someone said the skyboxes are boring. Lil guy doesn't realize it all looks the same when relatively you're staying in the same place. It would be much easier to see immediate drastic changes if we could just step through a Stargate and be in another galaxy and then could use these skyboxes to program the DHD to get us back to SG-1!
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Enos Cabell posted:I bought this game yesterday to play spaceships in my Rift headset. Did I make a bad decision? Last few pages suggest very much yes I did. I have played the game A LOT for the last three weeks and have to say it's a very, very nice and addictive game which brings about really funny and scary things on frequent basis. It's a great game. It also has some really big issues and very questionable dev choices you see really fast sooooooo it's one of those "why do I have 2000 hours in this terrible game* I cannot stop playing uggh" games you see every now and then. You did not waste your money, but you might get burned out after a mere 200-400 hours! Or maybe not!
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 Up next: loving 10 pieces of panite. There appears to be suggestions to raid it from signal sources.
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WebDog posted:
The Painite isn't the problem, it's the 500 tons refined. I had 50 Painite by the time I had 500 tons refined. It got me this, though, so it was sorta worth it.  edit: oh wow thread title Groggy nard fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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CapnBry posted:That's crazy, that's where I ended up doing my 5k too. I kept trying to "head toward that cool group of stars" but let me tell you it is pretty loving difficult to figure out which way you need to go to get there and ended up lucking into finding the black treasure, which didn't look as cool back then as it does now. Why can't the ship computer tell me what star I am pointing at from the cockpit and plot a route there? I bet it is a lot easier now that your ingress azimuth and apogee (would that be what it is called?) is maintained when arriving out of witchspace instead of just randomly placing you somewhere near the destination star and facing it.  I actually find the skybox changes quite a bit even as you move around in the bubble, particularly with regards to the rest of the Milky Way WebDog posted:
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Fojar38 posted:I bought my mug If you get this in future, quit back to the menu and enter the game in solo mode. It's the main reason I mostly play in solo.
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Gort posted:If you get this in future, quit back to the menu and enter the game in solo mode. It's the main reason I mostly play in solo. In solo there's NPCs hogging the pad sometimes, but they leave after a minute or two when you do a docking request
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Daztek posted:In solo there's NPCs hogging the pad sometimes, but they leave after a minute or two when you do a docking request I haven't heard "docking request denied" in a very long time in solo.
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Fojar38 posted:I bought my mug Wait is there an actual mug?
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Mar 31, 2017 08:33
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He could mean this. http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hutton_Mug or: https://www.frontierstore.net/usd/merchandise/elite-dangerous-merchandise/elite-dangerous-alliance-faction-mug.html On sale for 12 bucks.
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Trustworthy posted:My second refit was my DBX, which I had geared up for Fuel Ratting and misc. salvage duties. Finally stripped it down into a pure exploration ship, in anticipation of 2.3. Lots of lightweight mods, and somehow I got away with not having to overcharge my downsized power plant (went with efficiency instead) Low emmisioned my downsized shield, and just barely got the hull weight down low enough for it to work. Getting 50+ ly out of it now; can't wait to see how much that weight reduction (along with a couple other 2.3 engineering additions) improves things. Report back on how this works for you after the patch. Thinking about making a taxi/short range explorer out of one.
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Knifegrab posted:Wait is there an actual mug? Grinded my way to find out that lightweight armour mods doesn't actually make things lighter.  Well at least I'm somewhat set to roll my space tour bus, especially if the Orca is getting it's weight reduced.
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WebDog posted:Grinded my way to find out that lightweight armour mods doesn't actually make things lighter. Actually it's that not a single armor mod changes the mass of your 'lightweight alloy'/default hull, including the heavy-duty mods (hint hint  ).
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Mercurius posted:I actually find the skybox changes quite a bit even as you move around in the bubble, particularly with regards to the rest of the Milky Way I actually spent a few hours in VR on Sol stargazing which was a lot more difficult than I expected because, guess what, there are actually a lot of stars in space. I've lived in or near a city my whole life so it was challenging to find constellations I knew because there were just too many god damned stars everywhere. Even those I knew had so many extra larger magnitude stars in them that they were difficult to identify. I admit got a little weepy as if I was sitting in the Infinite Perspective Vortex.
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Just checking out Elite again because I wanted to play something with my joystick. Couple questions: Are passenger missions worth it? What's the strategy there- take some long exploration ones outside of the bubble and maybe find one or two that are long range but end roughly in the same area? Just settle on one class or is there any reason to mix it up? I haven't been able to find a succinct guide that addresses the optimal, or at the very least effective strategy for them. All of the guides are like square-peg-round-hole "First you will need a passenger cabin." My only current ship is an exploration Clipper, which now that we have module storage I might make a true multi-role. (Let me guess there's some huge moneywall/restriction on that?) in any case it feels appropriate that the super sleek Clipper has some high value VIPs in it.
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WebDog posted:Frontier has a merchandise design thing on their store where you can actually make a Hutton Orbital mug for yourself. The mods don't effect weight on the stock armor, so just slap a heavy-duty armor mod on it!  Anime Store Adventure posted:Just checking out Elite again because I wanted to play something with my joystick. Couple questions: Are passenger missions worth it? What's the strategy there- take some long exploration ones outside of the bubble and maybe find one or two that are long range but end roughly in the same area? Just settle on one class or is there any reason to mix it up? Do the short-range missions: you'll make more money more quickly. The trick with VIPs is that they take up the whole cabin, even if there is more space. So, if you have a 6-passenger cabin and the missions is for two VIP passengers, they will take up all 6 seats. No penalty for using module storage, but there is a limit to the number of modules you can store (30ish?).
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OH! And don't take wanted passengers: stations will KOS...
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:OH! And don't take wanted passengers: stations will KOS... I've had some success with wanted passengers, but I admit it's a rear end clenching experience. Rarely a mission comes up with a reward that makes the danger worth it. Usual smuggling advice applies. Don't get caught.
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Is there anything inherently "bad" about the long range missions or are they just less effective? It may not be the most efficient but I like the idea of flying out 2kly for 40m instead of bussing a small distance over and over. Sounds like I should have a single VIP cabin and maybe a business cabin or two if I can stack two or more nearby missions. Do the missions with the planet icon require an SRV, or just planetary landing?
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Anime Store Adventure posted:Is there anything inherently "bad" about the long range missions or are they just less effective? It may not be the most efficient but I like the idea of flying out 2kly for 40m instead of bussing a small distance over and over. Nothing inherently bad about the long haul missions so do whatever you prefer. Planet icon missions just involve flying close to the ground to scan a mission specific nav marker. No need to actually land so you can skip the SRV.
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Awesome. I'm excited to do a whole bunch of these in short order and then forget about the game for six months again, as seems to be the cycle.
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Hot tip I just learned: Make sure you have your Alioth permit all squared away before mining Billy's Bromelite.
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vorebane posted:He could mean this. http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hutton_Mug the first one i am going to carry it around in my cargo hold until my next death at which point the mug will drift freely into eternity
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:OH! And don't take wanted passengers: stations will KOS... That's what Silent Running mode is for. A sensible method is to drop into the station, immediately turn round and boost away from the station and get yourself lined up about 10km from the entrance. Then 3/4 throttle in and engage Silent Running at about 8km before requesting docking. A funner way is to boost to the side of the station and use your vertical thrusters like your ship has just took a hit of crack, and as you approach the lip of the station you nose that bastard down so that you schlepppp around the top of the station at stupid oval office miles an hour, popping through the toast-rack as your passenger pops their lunch out of their hat rack.
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Trustworthy posted:Hot tip I just learned: Make sure you have your Alioth permit all squared away before mining Billy's Bromelite. About 2M in explodata unlocked the permit for me, if you've been saving up your scans! apropos man posted:That's what Silent Running mode is for. A sensible method is to drop into the station, immediately turn round and boost away from the station and get yourself lined up about 10km from the entrance. Then 3/4 throttle in and engage Silent Running at about 8km before requesting docking. I like your moxie, kid.
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apropos man posted:A funner way is to boost to the side of the station and use your vertical thrusters like your ship has just took a hit of crack, and as you approach the lip of the station you nose that bastard down so that you schlepppp around the top of the station at stupid oval office miles an hour, popping through the toast-rack as your passenger pops their lunch out of their hat rack. Isn't this how you are supposed to enter stations?
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WebDog posted:Grinded my way to find out that lightweight armour mods doesn't actually make things lighter. Engineered LW armor mod is, imo, nearly useless. The main stat roll does nothing for the default armor so you would only consider it on military grade or higher armor. But if you're fitting military grade+ armor, you most likely are not concerned with the increased mass and are instead looking for maximum hull strength. In which case, heavy duty it's the clear choice. Thus, for default or non-default armor, HD is the only real option.
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