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FDL: four medium multis and a huge beam or vice versa? If I went with the huge multi, what's the best way to mod it? I've only looked into laser mods so far. Also; has there been a change in that you can only cycle a targets subsystem when facing them? I used to target conda plants on a turn circle but it doesn't seem to work any more. It may just be my stick playing up, I seem to have had a few unexplained 'trigger does nothing' moments recently, which is never what you want in the middle of a firefight 
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Pilchenstein posted:I'm genuinely surprised they thought that far ahead. Come on now, they may not be thinking along the same lines as most modern ideas of what games should be but they do put a lot of thought into all this.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:FDL: four medium multis and a huge beam or vice versa? Overcharged Incendiary multis are always hilarious and make it an even more flexible weapon, what with being effective against both shields and hulls. Generally for the more 'efficient' builds, you want to go with smaller energy weapons and larger kinetics; those C2 multicannons have a hard time hurting larger ships, while small energy weapons happily deal full damage to shields regardless of the hull size behind them.
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Space Skeleton posted:If you commit a crime as crew on a ship not set as "pirate" by the host you instantly get booted from the session and the host is not penalized for your actions. they are never going to make this into a good game
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hakimashou posted:they are never going to make this into a good game  That's what happens when you let the brown sea drive your game design.
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Apr 3, 2017 09:38
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so everyone's probably heard of r/place by now kind of cool to see the cooperation among our terrible overhyped space games
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:
Any trip that you come back from with >5% paint integrity has been a pointlessly short one.
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hakimashou posted:they are never going to make this into a good game leaving in an obvious way to grief people and kill off multicrew is good because _________ oh wait you're one of those broken people obsessed with loving with  pubbies aren't you?
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:
Nice paintjob!  Tippis posted:Any trip that you come back from with >5% paint integrity has been a pointlessly short one. Oooooooh...that's under 5%...
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After raising my Explorer rank a bit the planetary scan missions I am getting from Quince are paying a lot more. If anyone else is new and has a low Explorer rank, it's worth it to get a few levels quickly before doing too much grinding.
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hakimashou posted:they are never going to make this into a good game he said, as he turned to cry into his pillow.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Nice paintjob! Lol yup. That's 0% pharoah right thurr. Went to slap on my Distant Worlds tooterfish posted:Your ship's got the same paint job as my first car. So does my current car, and both vehicles before it. I drive like I pilot 
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DancingShade posted:
They should fire the brown sea designer imho EDIT Might as well share this finally. A while ago Frontier didn't have all the loops closed off for ways to do some uh, things, that they most certainly didn't want people to do. Since I wanted to do these things I bought a whole new account just in case I was caught (You'll notice when I look right my exploration rank is at zero). I was careful to not sell data or claim things or mess up anything while out exploring, just did it for the experience and rad pictures. I'm pretty sure I hold the record for longest single jump in Elite history. If there was a single player portion of the game I could gently caress around in I wouldn't have had to do this but ~o well~ check out the FSD on this Hauler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldlciht2bv8       This is how I got to systems nobody can ever get to that I've already shared before. I don't even think you can look these up on the galactic map anymore as to get them to show up before I had to flip the view around all weird just to focus on them. The HIP system is the furthest single system I ever found, something like 30k light years straight 'up' from the disc. Curiously it also has a life-bearing water-world. Those PSR systems are in a cluster straight 'down' from the disc at like 17k? 20k? light years away. Doing this was the most fun I ever had in Elite and it was totally by myself way the gently caress out in the black. KakerMix fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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Internet Explorer posted:After raising my Explorer rank a bit the planetary scan missions I am getting from Quince are paying a lot more. If anyone else is new and has a low Explorer rank, it's worth it to get a few levels quickly before doing too much grinding. yeah your explorer rank helps with those scan missions as well as getting your reputation with the local factions up to allied helps as well getting the more lucrative scan missions to drop i've already made over 250mil doing scan missions out at Quince - it's great and I hope to pad my bank account quite a bit before the update patches out this exploit  speaking of which, after over 150 hours of playing elite I finally got my anaconda!!!!! if it weren't for grinding out at Quince it would have taken me even longer than that 
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I parked in Quince and summoned an iggle before passing out last night. How much does explorer rank help the payouts? I have 87% Ranger, should I run back out into space to get that last 5.3 million for Pioneer? Or would I be better off spending that time grinding now that we have a looming deadline?
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Morter posted:good job this, but unironically
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Edit: Pocket phonepost, please disregard. Didn't mean to self quote.
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:I parked in Quince and summoned an iggle before passing out last night. How much does explorer rank help the payouts? I have 87% Ranger, should I run back out into space to get that last 5.3 million for Pioneer? Or would I be better off spending that time grinding now that we have a looming deadline? my explorer rank is still at ranger and once I got up to allied w/local factions I regularly get pioneer and even elite scan missions when board scumming ninja edit: yeah just get on ur grind and the spacebuxx will follow
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I went from like Mostly Aimless to Surveyor and I went from seeing up to 200k missions to now seeing 500k missions. Not sure how much it matters at the top levels.
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Sweet, thanks. Do the scan missions give any rank progress, or are they just gated by it? This brave new world of talking control towers and functional mission boards is baffling and utterly alien to me. 
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:Sweet, thanks. Do the scan missions give any rank progress, or are they just gated by it? I think it may be a tiny tiny progress on your explorer rank but it's p worthless even compared to selling your nav data at stations
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coupedeville posted:I think it may be a tiny tiny progress on your explorer rank but it's p worthless even compared to selling your nav data at stations You phrased that like there's a better way to use nav data, did I make a mistake dumping mine at Colonia?
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I don't think the planetary scans increase your Explorer rank, only gated by it. Selling nav data is all you can do with it, but with engineers like Farseer if you sell it at her station you increase your standing with her. I think you also increase your Explorer rank by doing (most) passenger missions or by gathering mats on planets with your SRV. I'm still new to this game, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:You phrased that like there's a better way to use nav data, did I make a mistake dumping mine at Colonia? some of the engineers will take your nav data for unlocking higher gates on upgrades and also I think you can earn some system permits by selling nav data to certain people?? i'm still a megascrub compared to some of the goons in this thread and that question would be better answered by someone else
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KakerMix posted:Might as well share this finally. A while ago Frontier didn't have all the loops closed off for ways to do some uh, things, that they most certainly didn't want people to do. Since I wanted to do these things I bought a whole new account just in case I was caught (You'll notice when I look right my exploration rank is at zero). I was careful to not sell data or claim things or mess up anything while out exploring, just did it for the experience and rad pictures. I'm pretty sure I hold the record for longest single jump in Elite history. If there was a single player portion of the game I could gently caress around in I wouldn't have had to do this but ~o well~ check out the FSD on this Hauler. This is pretty cool.
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coupedeville posted:some of the engineers will take your nav data for unlocking higher gates on upgrades and also I think you can earn some system permits by selling nav data to certain people?? i'm still a megascrub compared to some of the goons in this thread and that question would be better answered by someone else Fair enough. Thanks for the other answer, at least! Internet Explorer posted:I think you also increase your Explorer rank by doing (most) passenger missions or by gathering mats on planets with your SRV. I can confirm from my lurking that both of those are true, but don't know anything about passengers or how they compare yet. I do know that to get home, I had to do a lot of SRV gathering in a region that's just about as far as you can possibly get from Sol (in a pre-engineers ship, anyway)... and even with the supposed distance multiplier, literal days of Polonium hunting got me a little ways into Surveyor. I hope to all that is holy passengers aren't on that same grind scale  Kramjacks posted:This is pretty cool. Super cool, I missed the ninja edit so I'm glad you quoted it
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Well, I've lost a lot of good socks, but after less than 5 days in game I am in a cutter
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Doing 1 ~200 LY passenger mission bumped me quite a bit at the low level, so I'd do that if you've already tried the other routes.
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Roger. Does Quince have passengers you can ferry back into the bubble when it's rank-up time?
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I think pretty much every station has passengers. [Edit: But most passenger missions are actually round trip, which kind of sucks.]
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KakerMix posted:
Our real galaxy has tons of those weird clusters outside the galactic disc. There's a globular cluster 80k light years away, for example. Sadly, from what you experienced it looks like Frontier only included some of the closer ones of those clusters. Anyway, even outside of clusters there are some systems in the nearly empty void of the halo. The galactic halo gets really thin out there, with about one star every 1k light years on average. No idea how many of those oddities are included in Frontier's simulation, though. 
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:I parked in Quince and summoned an iggle before passing out last night. How much does explorer rank help the payouts? I have 87% Ranger, should I run back out into space to get that last 5.3 million for Pioneer? Or would I be better off spending that time grinding now that we have a looming deadline? Exploration helps out alot i normaly make 17-18 mil per run with elite exploration. Your Loyal Vizier posted:Roger. Does Quince have passengers you can ferry back into the bubble when it's rank-up time? it has some long range mission outside of the bubble and its how I got my elite exploration rank. Scum the hell out of passengers that all go to the same spot its possible to get them all to the same and just go there. But you need to scum hard but will be worth it. wargames fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Apr 3, 2017 |
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Your Loyal Vizier posted:Roger. Does Quince have passengers you can ferry back into the bubble when it's rank-up time? No, just the long range exploration kind unfortunately.
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Mimesweeper posted:so everyone's probably heard of r/place by now I have it on good authority that Elite: Dangerous actually released and is playable right now in a completed form
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Fojar38 posted:I have it on good authority that Elite: Dangerous actually released and is playable right now in a completed form look man, keep your jealousy to yourself, star citizen is going to completely blow Elite out of the water when it releases in 2237
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Mimesweeper posted:look man, keep your jealousy to yourself, star citizen is going to completely blow Elite out of the water when it releases in 2237 Yeah but that's just because the virtual spacecraft you can drive will be like the real spacecraft you could drive 20 years prior.
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Hey, what's the gimmick with Quince? I dumped a bunch of explodata for rep, and took a full load of planet scan missions and went down to the planet and found some base. Do I just scan the data point in my SRV? Wash rinse repeat? Also, I botched my arc bindings: anybody remember how to set it so the SRV can use a game pad LT/RT for back/forward? I can only make it so the throttle now, which is terrible for me!
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Hey, what's the gimmick with Quince? I dumped a bunch of explodata for rep, and took a full load of planet scan missions and went down to the planet and found some base. yeah you go into turret mode in your SRV, target the public data point then scan it until it beeps and all your missions update
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coupedeville posted:yeah you go into turret mode in your SRV, target the public data point then scan it until it beeps and all your missions update This is hugely helpful. I'm currently parked in an upside down SRV because my sleepy rear end was trying to fly the buggy up there and touch it
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