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Black Griffon posted:Board-scumming sounded boring so I glued some cabins to my dbx and did my first ever passenger missions and now there's a married couple who won't get off my boat even though the mission description tells me to drop them off at the station I'm at. Is there a commodity mission reward? Do you have a cargo bay? efb
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May 12, 2017 22:33
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I could never get scans to spawn even with scumming, but there were TONS of passenger missions. Also, there's two beacons there, but regardless of which one your passengers want to go to, you can just scan one and they all complete. 
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May 12, 2017 22:34
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Take 2 high paying scan missions, then scum until you see a good group of them. It is not uncommon to see 10+ pop up at once. In open, you also get credit if someone near by completes the scan, which is especially hilarious. I've got a viper with 415m/a non boost and 30k rebuy for those. It's an absolute riot to fly around and slam into the ground with. Plus leaving the slot at 500+ is always fun. At this point, I'm pretty sure that Quince is just a joke put in by the devs, since they do not care about patching it out.
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May 12, 2017 22:35
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Glenn Quebec posted:You need cargo space to finish the mission Trustworthy posted:Is there a commodity mission reward? Do you have a cargo bay? Balls. Thanks. Edit: Okay actually this is the poo poo 
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May 12, 2017 22:35
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Dude, that commodity thing was messing me up until I figured it out...why can't their be a storage area in the dock that gets purged if I undock without putting it in a ship or selling it?  grimcreaper posted:Perhaps if you played something like freespace 2 you could get better. DIVE DIVE DIVE!!! AFTERBURNERS NOW PILOT!!!! NoneMoreNegative posted:Corvette drivers: Bright enough for ya? Good God! It's like Fleet Week and Gay Day got together and had a fabulously expensive boondoggle!  Trustworthy posted:Just throwing in the exception that it can be beneficial to A-rate your down-classed Power Plant. The smaller Power Plant will help with weight, and the A-rating will help with heat management (and typically won't cost you much jump distance over a down-classed D). For the DBX: always overcharge the A-rated powerplant under the one that works naturally for you. Heat will not be an issue...  Phuzun posted:Take 2 high paying scan missions, then scum until you see a good group of them. It is not uncommon to see 10+ pop up at once. In open, you also get credit if someone near by completes the scan, which is especially hilarious. They want people to make money but have to call it an exploit and promise to patch it out so the Brown Sea Grognards don't have a fit in their private forum...it's really the best of both worlds. 
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May 13, 2017 02:23
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I just finished the first leg of my first real exploration trip. Made it 2200 light years to the cave nebula and then made a 500 ly detour to check out the elephant trunk nebula, where i stopped at a cool asteroid base, repaired, and turned in over 20 million credits worth of exploration data (that recent exploration payout buff is the best). Also, i'm flying a multirole anaconda with a max jump range of just 32 light years, and with the exception of asteroid belts, i scanned literally everything on the way. Lol, just kidding i even scanned a few asteroid belts.  I may be space mad, but I did get my space name plastered on hundreds of things, and found a bunch of completely unexplored systems and a few waterworlds, and did a bunch of sweet jumps in my space go kart, and mined some rare space minerals. Was a nice change of pace from the trading and bounty hunting that i was previously burning myself out on. Also found a couple escape pods and smuggled them into the station, at my own risk, because i'm a good space samaritan. Suck it space cops and your stupid space laws that make it illegal to save stranded space people. Anyways, the next detour is the NGC something-something nebula, and then it's onto the final destination: the Zurara megaship, and whatever other interesting poo poo there is in the Formadine rift. Only 10,000 more light years to go...and then, the return trip.  And I still haven't been interdicted by the loving thargoids dammit you bastards i have all these guns and poo poo come at me space bros. You even ignored me when i was wandering around Maia/the pleiades looking for you 
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May 13, 2017 02:30
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Dude, that commodity thing was messing me up until I figured it out...why can't their be a storage area in the dock that gets purged if I undock without putting it in a ship or selling it? I want a freespace 3. I want to beat tge poo poo out of the Shivans. And tge thargoids just because they arent human.
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May 13, 2017 02:34
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Dude, that commodity thing was messing me up until I figured it out...why can't their be a storage area in the dock that gets purged if I undock without putting it in a ship or selling it? The station janitors must hate when I visit; claim mission rewards, cargo panel / discard all *clonk bonk*, claim mission rewards... A big pile of dented cargo cans left on the pad as I blast off into space again.
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May 13, 2017 02:41
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What's the consensus on the Clipper? I really want a Gutamaya, but the Cutter is a long way into the future. I made 50 mil in a few hours in Quince now, so the Python is pretty much within reach, and as such my only real reason to get a Clipper is that I want to fly an iSpaceship. Is it fun to fly?
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May 13, 2017 02:59
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The clipper is cool and good.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:The clipper is cool and good. Whats a clipper and how do i get one? I dont even know how to play because this game is too hard but i want a capital ship to touch people with. Like those ones you spawn from space clouds with the really cool mmmmmraawwwww mruhhhhhhhhhhh spfbfbbfbfbfbbfbb MMMRRRRROOWWWWWW sounds. How do i get one of those?
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May 13, 2017 04:18
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You can't pilot those (yet) Biggest ships you can get are the Anaconda, Federal Corvette, and Imperial Cutter which are basically small capital ships anyway (that you fly around without a crew)
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May 13, 2017 04:38
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I just wish the clipper could hit 30ly-35ly. If it could it would be a perfect ship. It's really fast outside of FSD. Like, fighting things the shields are a bit weak but you have such a stupid speed advantage it doesn't really matter.
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May 13, 2017 04:41
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grimcreaper may not be posting in earnest
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May 13, 2017 04:41
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Well after being a bit late on getting Horizons and a buddy basically explaining how to build proper ships (since somehow I borked my first real upgrade ship a Viper MKIV) I've gotten full blown space madness. From the core to Colonia to Sag A* and now the slow limp back to civilization.     A stripped down Asp Explorer with some light engineering on the FSD, I get about 40ly a jump. 19,000 light years to go back to civilization though...
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Blind Rasputin posted:I just wish the clipper could hit 30ly-35ly. If it could it would be a perfect ship. It's really fast outside of FSD. Like, fighting things the shields are a bit weak but you have such a stupid speed advantage it doesn't really matter. That should be possible with some engineering. Hell, I got my beast of a Cutter to 30+ly and I distinctly remember the Clipper starting with a higher jump range. That should give you a higher ceiling when engineering your Clipper. (Edit: Some testing in Coriolis showed me you can easily hit 35+ly per jump if you get lucky with your rolls.)
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I updated this game and went to check out one of the generation ships because why not, Generation Ship Thetis is appropriately creepy as gently caress. Go there and listen to the logs in a dark room with headphones for maximum effect. It's orbiting Nefertem 6A if youve not been there yet. Now I need to go and visit more and check random systems for listening posts. E: someone needs to do that spectrum analysis poo poo on the last log entry, it's just a broadcast of the signal the generation ship picked up, I kinda want to find the originating planet of the malicious signal. E2: tried to run it through a spectrum analyzer on my phone but it wont let me zoom in on the waveform  not gonna pay 5 bucks for the ability to do it either.
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May 13, 2017 12:59
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:
  yeah I made the same Sag A* trip in a pre engineers DBX. I'm on a scoreboard somewhere I'm pretty sure. Number 162, would have been like number 2 instead of 14th for the DBX class (got to within 2k ly of Sag A* with no breaks under 13 hours) but my PC poo poo the bed and I had to wait on Newegg to deliver a new power supply. orange juche fucked around with this message at 13:52 on May 13, 2017 |
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May 13, 2017 13:42
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Fun Fact: with the neutron highway, the Colonia trip was about a quarter the length of my original, pre-horizons Sag A* run in a 32ly DBX! 
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orange juche posted:...Generation Ship Thetis is ... Go there and listen... On your way there, why not drop in to LFT507? It's a lovely little system with two sets of twin suns - a Yellow orbiting a White Dwarf, and a Yellow orbiting a Brown Dwarf. It's also got a real pretty sunrise on its lone planet.  Decided I liked it enough that I's set down and see things from planetside. It's my first time landing on a multiple G world, and it's definitely more daunting than trying to land of some piddly little .3G moon.    Bye, planet!  Of course, that's just a detour on your trip to Thetis! come one everyone, there's so many sights to see and good news to hear! 
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May 13, 2017 14:27
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Dabir posted:grimcreaper may not be posting in earnest Im appalled at that notion. Sometimes i joke but i would seriously love to fly a massive capital ship. Their smoke jump sound effects are the best and i tried.
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May 13, 2017 14:32
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Elite Dangerous is a right good game
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peter gabriel posted:Elite Dangerous is a right good game --------------------------------8<--------------------------------
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May 13, 2017 17:56
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Anime Store Adventure posted:It's Turner. If you end up mining 500 things for Selene, you will probably end up getting some painite. Whatever you do don't sell that painite because you're gonna need to donate 10t of it to unlock Selene. I hosed up and sold everything (including my painite) as soon as I got 500 space rocks, so I had to go back out and mine some more. Painite is pretty rare, so I had to do a lot of prospecting to find some. Don't do what I did.
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What I really want to see are some superexpensive tools for miners and traders. Give us monstrous autominers and specialized trading software that costs whole shitloads of millions and replaces external tools, but if you automate your mining and trucking, you'll still be very open to pirates and interdiction. I mean, we're basically back to building appliances by hands 1300 years after we've nearly automated all of society. Black Griffon fucked around with this message at 18:40 on May 13, 2017 |
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May 13, 2017 18:36
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I liked how in Eve the top end of mining was basically deployment of a mining installation. That would be a way more fun form of mining too - deploy a harvester and then protect it while IT does the lovely boring part. You could even make them expensive and one-use so that launching one is a commitment and a big gamble.
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May 13, 2017 18:40
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What I want to see is station storage so I can keep commodities around for things.
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May 13, 2017 18:44
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Warrior Princess posted:What I want to see is station storage so I can keep commodities around for things. Or be per ship, so you can hop out of your mining/hauling rig and shoot some things in your no cargo fighter without messing around with transfers unless you want to carry something specific.
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May 13, 2017 19:43
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Wait there's a list of people who have made the trip to Sag A? Where is it? I wonder if I'm on it.
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May 13, 2017 20:50
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Fojar38 posted:Wait there's a list of people who have made the trip to Sag A? Where is it? I wonder if I'm on it. That looks like one of the buckyball lists. Buckyballers go for the fastest time possible: Elite's version of a speed run, if you will. There is an "official" Sag A* thread on the FDev forums, if you want to prove to everyone who comes after that you made it before them! This does, however, require posting on the Brown Sea.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:This does, however, require posting on the Brown Sea. 
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May 13, 2017 21:12
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 which goon is this?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVPOV-aSsg
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May 13, 2017 22:03
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Bought an Imperial Courier on a whim and I'd forgotten how gosh darn sexy the Gutamayas are. Everything from the sound to that ridiculous nose to the way the wing mounts open up. Just two more ranks until it's Clipper time.
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May 13, 2017 22:46
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RIP forums hero Ideas Man, forever posting in our hearts. 
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Pilchenstein posted:RIP forums hero Ideas Man, forever posting in our hearts. He burned too brightly for this world
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May 14, 2017 00:43
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Well this is hosed.   Hay guys am I doing this alien discovery thing right?  Kind of a cool thing to see. What do you do with all the unknown fragments?
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May 14, 2017 03:28
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Give them to Professor Palin, he'll tune up your thrusters. Save them, they don't take up cargo space.
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Fojar38 posted:Wait there's a list of people who have made the trip to Sag A? Where is it? I wonder if I'm on it. If you want to be on that list look up the a Sag a* challenge via google and follow the instructions in the post. If youre going for the buckyball classic list (what im on) you cant use engineered ship or the neutron boost highway. Its pretty grueling tbh you want to die but when you get there and submit the time it feels pretty cool
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Black Griffon posted:What I really want to see are some superexpensive tools for miners and traders. Give us monstrous autominers and specialized trading software that costs whole shitloads of millions and replaces external tools, but if you automate your mining and trucking, you'll still be very open to pirates and interdiction. Even in 3200 they had the MB4 mining machine. It would be cool to see them bring that back. You might still need a refinery to process what it mines, or you could get a larger one that has an on board refinery? In Frontier you could have up to 10 machines on the go at once. The only reason to do asteroid mining was to cheese the combat rating (blowing up asteroids with a mining laser counted as a kill, and you could time accelerate to go from harmless to elite in about 2 minutes) With the multiplayer aspect, defending your mining machines could be a fun mechanic, as could raiding other machines.
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Thanks to the community goal campaign I'm fairly deep into Anaconda range as far as my total credits are concerned. How much money should I have before I start to seriously consider buying one? My current rule is "double the cost of the hull for the sake of upgrades and insurance." Is that too much or too little?
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