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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Most things that are involved in FSD 5 Range rolls don't require combat. Chemical Manipulators do in every way I've found them, but it's possible that there's some form of USS that could drop them if you hate yourself.
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Mercurius posted:Combat aftermath USS (which are in shipping lanes) will sometimes have them and I think they're one of the materials that can spawn at Dav’s Hope which is a persistent POI on planet A 5 in Hyades Sector DR-V c2-23 at 44.818/-31.389 (use http://hotdoy.ca/ed/bearing/ to find the site). The definitely spawn there, but it's rare. I was going for something else and in about 15 resets I saw them twice.
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  Now that I have this loving thing I don't even know what I want to do with it. year199X fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 1, 2017 |
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May 1, 2017 15:06
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Get it ridin' dirty.
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May 1, 2017 15:08
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Did an explo trip normal to the galactic plane. Only went about 1.5 KLY out and made a bit over a million but I got my name on a few water worlds! Also found some rare artwork drifting in a wreck out there. Suspicious! I hope eventually there's a slightly "harder" form of exploration. There's a lot of excitement and tension you could produce out there but as it stands almost all the danger feels like it lies in scooping. EDIT: is there a good ED news site out there like WoWhead? Some kinda curated news site for all the poo poo going down out there that isn't Reddit? Sixto Lezcano fucked around with this message at 15:12 on May 1, 2017 |
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Sixto Lezcano posted:Did an explo trip normal to the galactic plane. Only went about 1.5 KLY out and made a bit over a million but I got my name on a few water worlds! Also found some rare artwork drifting in a wreck out there. Suspicious! It would be cool if there was more reward for discovery that isn't focused around earth like planets. Such a bummer that finding like escape pods and weird stuff outside the bubble is worthless. It would give you potential reasons to check out landable planets or USSes, find lost stuff, and haul it back to civilization. I sometimes hike around in my SRV to break up the monotony of exploration. Finding a bunch of cryopods way out from the bubble felt cool and I wish the game rewarded that mechanically. In my head I was like "these people just got lucky enough for two lifetimes that I found them and hauled them back." The game actually said "you have less LY range for your return trip and here's 2000 credits."
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Is there really any reason whatsoever to play in open if you aren't explicitly looking for PVP? There should be some incentivization for noncombat types to play in open (exploration data collected while in open is worth more, trading missions pay out a % better when conducted entirely in open, etc.)
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Anime Store Adventure posted:It would be cool if there was more reward for discovery that isn't focused around earth like planets. Such a bummer that finding like escape pods and weird stuff outside the bubble is worthless. It would give you potential reasons to check out landable planets or USSes, find lost stuff, and haul it back to civilization. Yeah the first time I found a cryopod out there I got PUMPED. Where was this person from? Where were they going? What happened? Nope. Cargo. Sell it. RIP. Hell, even if that stuff just gave you a ping that said "Take this back to X location" it would be something. As it stands I'm hard-pressed to care about USS or even planetary landings out there unless I need to build FSD overcharges or AFM refills, which is pretty rare.
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I imagine this comes up a lot but help! I'm trying to get back into this game but I just can't figure out what to do, i've killed people at mining areas and got bounty and spent it on a better ship but beyond that I'm not sure what to do, i tried a combat zone and I get whacked pretty soon after shooting at people (i've got a Vulture with two lazer thingies) I went to the headquarters of the people i joined in powerplay (yellow utopian dude) and all i could get special was some flyers? thought they're might be some missions that would lead to something. I dunno I feel i'm missing something, any advice?
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Drone posted:Is there really any reason whatsoever to play in open if you aren't explicitly looking for PVP? While I'm a strong advocate for playing noted single player game Elite: Dangerous in a single player way, I'll admit there has been... one time in my entire time playing where I wished I was in a wing of cooperating fighters. Multi-crew is a thing too. I mean, it's still 99% a single-player game but Frontier is at least trying to add reasons to play Open.
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May 1, 2017 15:40
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I've actually been doing the bounty hunting community goals in open or (largish) private groups. Winging up is so effective now that bounties aren't split.
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The only time I play in open is when I'm in a "I'm not heavily grinding missions right now, so If I get interdicted by a player and get blown up I'm totally okay with that" kind of mood. Which is less than 1% of the time.
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Someone posted a video a while back of an engineered eagle boosting itself into orbit, anyone have the link?
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Pilchenstein posted:Someone posted a video a while back of an engineered eagle boosting itself into orbit, anyone have the link? I blasted several ships to orbit. But nothing beats eagle in speed not even iggle. Dark Off fucked around with this message at 17:41 on May 1, 2017 |
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May 1, 2017 17:38
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Dark Off posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxI9wtgEV44 
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Yeah how the gently caress were those speeds happening. Also I think cardiac death at a 700% heat level should be modeled.
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Aw man, they're patching Quince grinding in the next patch cycle  Some lame rear end swirly target made a thread on the brown sea narcing out the tourist beacon trick and eventually a developer commented and said they were aware of it, consider it an exploit, and have already written a fix for it but it needs to go out in the next patch and they don't currently have an ETA for it. Better make your easy credits now since FDev is crazy allergic to both fun and a non-brutal method of acquiring cash. I'd love to not abuse things like this to make money if there was any other kind of reasonable way to acquire ships that cost in the hundreds of millions of credits range to buy and outfit decently, but when it took me three months of trading (~6-7 hours per week and using tools to find routes) just to afford enough for a deep space exploration DBX, I'll be hosed if I know how it's possible to ever afford something like an Anaconda without becoming a full forumdad and playing for 7 hours per *day*.
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I thought the Quince exploit was planetary scans? What's the tourist beacon trick?
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Pilchenstein posted:I thought the Quince exploit was planetary scans? What's the tourist beacon trick? There's a station orbiting the same planet as a tourist beacon, and every tourist mission that's not a deep-space 20,000 LY voyage just goes to one of the two tourism beacons in Quince. It seems less efficient than doing the planetary scans, though, because every passenger for those that I've seen so far has been a VIP.
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Pilchenstein posted:I thought the Quince exploit was planetary scans? What's the tourist beacon trick?
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I'm pretty much a noob and flew to Quince this weekend, and now am making between 3-4.5m every 6-7 minutes.
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Do you need luxury cabins for tourist missions or can you just sling a load of economy class berths into a conda and make mad cash?
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deadly_pudding posted:There's a station orbiting the same planet as a tourist beacon, and every tourist mission that's not a deep-space 20,000 LY voyage just goes to one of the two tourism beacons in Quince. It seems less efficient than doing the planetary scans, though, because every passenger for those that I've seen so far has been a VIP. This is how I have been earning money recently. The issue is probably that you get 2 locations in Quince to take passengers to, but going to just 1 location gets you the quest done for all your passengers no matter where they want to go. The flight to the beacon to scan is like 2 minutes long from the station to the beacon, the other location is a fair bit further away but you never have to go there, even if the passengers want you to. So you can stack multiple missions and just nip to that one beacon peter gabriel fucked around with this message at 19:20 on May 1, 2017 |
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Pilchenstein posted:Do you need luxury cabins for tourist missions or can you just sling a load of economy class berths into a conda and make mad cash? Both. Some VIPs are happy to occupy an entire economy cabin. Others would rather occupy an entire first class cabin.
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So I'm hearing I should take my Beluga up to Quince?
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The station is Jeffries High in Quince and the beacon is Gaylen's Ascension, I was probably getting 20-30 mil an hour and I had to grind up from neutral status. Having a good mix of first and business class is key. Luxury isn't necessary and most of the passengers are VIPs of some sort so they won't settle for economy. Try to stay away from the criminal ones so you don't have to do silent running in and out of the station.
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Thanks and this builds exploration rep, correct?
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Everything you need is already in Quince if you have ~50 million. I had been out exploring in an ASP forever, used the ASP to grind up 50 million to get an Orca, and now I'm well over 250 million in not a lot of time. I'm running this: https://eddp.co/u/NBQL6Z6N I make approximately 7 mil a run. Have to keep grinding before they patch it I suppose. It will be nice to be able to just play after this, without grinding. The Orca is surprisingly agile, I haven't been scanned by station security once. Remember to use silent running.
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Laminar posted:Everything you need is already in Quince if you have ~50 million. I had been out exploring in an ASP forever, used the ASP to grind up 50 million to get an Orca, and now I'm well over 250 million in not a lot of time. The cops in Quince seem remarkably lazy. I haven't been scanned either, and I'm not particularly trying.
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That's funny, I've been scanned quite a few times. Maybe the popo didn't like the cut of my jib. Also, I bought an Orca in Quince for S&G's, but will probably sell it and just use my Python. One can squeeze more cabins into a Python than an Orca, which is weird since the Orca has greater internal volume. The Orca is surprisingly nimble, especially in super-cruise.
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deadly_pudding posted:The cops in Quince seem remarkably lazy. I haven't been scanned either, and I'm not particularly trying. Same here I just boost in the slot like a badass in an Dolphin ha ha
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Laminar posted:Everything you need is already in Quince if you have ~50 million. I had been out exploring in an ASP forever, used the ASP to grind up 50 million to get an Orca, and now I'm well over 250 million in not a lot of time. How would they patch it out anyway? They cant mission stack limit it because it defeats the purpose of the beluga liner. "Hey everyone, you can't take more than 3 passenger missions at a time! What's that, the Beluga is designed to have 7 or more cabins? Well gently caress you then." Actually that's exactly what braben will do.
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Eldragon posted:How would they patch it out anyway? They cant mission stack limit it because it defeats the purpose of the beluga liner.
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Eldragon posted:How would they patch it out anyway? They cant mission stack limit it because it defeats the purpose of the beluga liner. They could do a pass to see if they're all going to the same location? But that's ignoring the actual problem, which is that the mission generator should break its "distance cap" for weird outlier systems like Quince. Are there tourism missions outside of Quince that go to Quince at all? It just seems like an oversight on Quince specifically. Mission stacking isn't really a "problem" except in systems like Quince that are, effectively, glitched due to distance.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:It would be cool if there was more reward for discovery that isn't focused around earth like planets. Such a bummer that finding like escape pods and weird stuff outside the bubble is worthless. It would give you potential reasons to check out landable planets or USSes, find lost stuff, and haul it back to civilization. Speaking of which, has anyone got any good data on the updated rewards? All I have to go on is the EDDiscovery messages, which seem to suggest a ~5× increase for metal planets, and that's about it… which seems both weird and excessive.
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deadly_pudding posted:They could do a pass to see if they're all going to the same location? But that's ignoring the actual problem, which is that the mission generator should break its "distance cap" for weird outlier systems like Quince. Are there tourism missions outside of Quince that go to Quince at all? It just seems like an oversight on Quince specifically. Mission stacking isn't really a "problem" except in systems like Quince that are, effectively, glitched due to distance. Related, I'm bummed that there aren't long range, one way passenger missions. Considering the whole concept/history/etymology of a liner and Elite's weird universe which actually has a purpose for such a thing (border worlds like Quince, Colonia) that would be their first thing to recreate. Meanwhile I can only get one way missions 1 jump away that takes all of ten minutes. I'm sure they needed a 40 ton cabin for that.
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