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Tippis posted:But… any more knobs on a Type-9 and it won't fit through the mail slot. That's never stopped FD releasing a ship. See: Imperial Cutter, Beluga...
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Excellent, the Frogs can send Mother Goat to our current contract location, and bring the full power of the Diamond Frogs on our target.
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Sky Shadowing posted:Excellent, the Frogs can send Mother Goat to our current contract location, and bring the full power of the Diamond Frogs on our target. I think we're going to call it the DFS Get Outer Heaven 
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Type 10: Yo dawg I heard you liked thrusters.  The Chieftain 
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Wait a minute, am I going to have to haul my self back from jaque's? Edit: nope, have to study, can't get back in now.
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The Chieftain is going to be just big enough to require a large pad, isn't it?
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Xae posted:The Chieftain is going to be just big enough to require a large pad, isn't it? I am still extremely curious what the in-universe reason for making the Type-7 so tall was for. There are only 3 sized pads in the entire universe, all of human space is condensed into 3 size points that ships can land on. The type-7 is a 'new' ship too, so it was designed in modern times. Somehow, throughout what I can only assume is a massive, massive undertaking, Lakon went through the entire ship design process, testing, building and marketing, to come out with a ship who's sales are heavily impacted because it can only land on large sized pads. Not because it's too big, but because it is too tall to fit in the station when you slide down inside after landing. The whole entire ship is severely handicapped because they made it too tall for a very specific aspect of ship landing. Why in the gently caress wasn't that caught? Are there shareholders? Are they livid that Lakon made such a massive blunder? I don't know what the % is for stations that only have large pads but I have to assume they are in the minority vs. the rest of the stations throughout human space. The Chieftain doesn't look Lakon so it's probably ok 
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I gotta say, I'm pretty shocked at how thin on "exciting new features" Beyond looks. Exploration rework might be interesting, but it's over a loving year away  .Nostalgia4Infinity posted:The Chieftain More like Master Chieftain. Arach fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Oct 8, 2017 |
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Reminds me a little bit of the Raza from Dark Matter, albeit with far skinnier engine pods. Also yes it looks like something out of Halo.
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If the type-10 is at all good at anything I'll get it. I really like the big lumbering box that is a type 9 but gently caress if it's not useless.
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I'm in the Type-6 bracket, I love the lumbering thing.
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Groggy nard posted:What type of star was it, out of curiosity? It was an M (red dwarf)
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A. Beaverhausen posted:I'm in the Type-6 bracket, I love the lumbering thing. I really wish they'd make the Keelback a little better because it is my favorite "idea" of a ship, if that makes sense at all.
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Multicrew is definitely limited but I had a good time letting two people join my Anaconda. The game should let each Commander use a fighter. And I feel like I need more turrets on my ship now.
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So I am just returning, haven't dabbled since 2.2. Are there any decent money making holes at present that can accomodate a limited playtime? Have a conda fitted for passenger missions at present and I am based at Rhea. New CG's lucrative?
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Thats fab, new content just in time for new hmds
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From Sandro's descriptions, Squadrons will actually be guilds. Which would be amazing. The level of tears from the '84ers is already intense though it seems. Also I haven't played for loving ages. With all these things like colony ships and exploration sites (thargoid or whatever) that you can find, how do you actually go about finding them in-game?
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Squadrons are coming in Q4 (more like Q1-Q2 of 2019, based on the past), right? That's a long time. I wish game got guilds before adding new ships or graphics.
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clone on the phone posted:I hope they don't mess guilds up. Just wait for the constant cries from the official forum.
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KakerMix posted:I am still extremely curious what the in-universe reason for making the Type-7 so tall was for. There are only 3 sized pads in the entire universe, all of human space is condensed into 3 size points that ships can land on. The type-7 is a 'new' ship too, so it was designed in modern times. Somehow, throughout what I can only assume is a massive, massive undertaking, Lakon went through the entire ship design process, testing, building and marketing, to come out with a ship who's sales are heavily impacted because it can only land on large sized pads. Not because it's too big, but because it is too tall to fit in the station when you slide down inside after landing. The whole entire ship is severely handicapped because they made it too tall for a very specific aspect of ship landing. Keep in mind...This is a fictional reality where the powers that be not only put flimsy windshields at the front of every single ship in existence...but didn't design some sort self-healing system in the event that flimsy rear end windshield gets accidentally or purposefully cracked into shards. Not just one manufacturer, either...all of them.
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The AFMU Lobby pays a lot of money to stop ship manufacturers from putting their own windshield fixing solution in.
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DatonKallandor posted:The AFMU Lobby pays a lot of money to stop ship manufacturers from putting their own windshield fixing solution in. You'd think they'd try to do something about people making free AFMU fuel out of rocks
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haveblue posted:You'd think they'd try to do something about people making free AFMU fuel out of rocks The heat sink lobby was faster, and sadly the public outcry after that fiasco made it unfeasible to stop the synthesis-problem, so the AFMU-lobby could only settle for blocking cockpit-window manufacturers from implementing their own solutions. After that, their political capital was spend.
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Holy poo poo, is it seriously going to take them over a full year to add player guilds? How is this company so incompetent?
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128 ton life support system, supplies 15 minutes of O2 to one man.
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INTJ Mastermind posted:128 ton life support system, supplies 15 minutes of O2 to one man. Not even minding that even the smallest ships in this game are the size of enormous vehicles/sports venues in real life and there's absolutely no way to seal the rest of the ship off from the cockpit so maybe...I dunno...you could retreat to a separate area of the ship (with hours of breathable air).
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At least it's not the F35's oxygen system. 
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Semi conscious pilots seem like a natural stepping stone to fully AI controlled aircraft, so maybe it's just ahead of the curve?
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DatonKallandor posted:At least it's not the entire United States oxygen system. Fixed that for you.
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TyroneGoldstein posted:Keep in mind...This is a fictional reality where the powers that be not only put flimsy windshields at the front of every single ship in existence...but didn't design some sort self-healing system in the event that flimsy rear end windshield gets accidentally or purposefully cracked into shards. Not just one manufacturer, either...all of them. And I'm still convinced that LEDs don't exist in this universe either.
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:Holy poo poo, is it seriously going to take them over a full year to add player guilds? How is this company so incompetent? Because the game engine is still a single player engine with lovely P2P networking grafted on. TopHatGenius posted:Multicrew is definitely limited but I had a good time letting two people join my Anaconda. The game should let each Commander use a fighter. And I feel like I need more turrets on my ship now. The dumbest drat thing is that multi-crew doesn't support queuing. Also that 90% of your pay gets eaten for "reasons".
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Xae posted:The dumbest drat thing is that multi-crew doesn't support queuing.
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Hopefully the new chieftain fills the gap between the python and AspE. It is at least one of the best looking ships yet. Missions to unlock new weapons also sounds fun, and may be the first non-grind feature yet. So maybe in 12 months there will be enough content to make the game interesting again.
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How to Fix Multicrew: 1. Stop gimping payments. 2. Add worthwhile turrets. Make them non-functional without a gunner. But with a gunner they are brutal hellcannons that wreck things. I'm thinking Large Dual Railgun Turrets type things. 3. Add content balanced for multicrew with good rewards. Game after game has found that one of the biggest drivers of player retention is social interaction. If players group up with other players they are more likely to keep playing. You want group play to be rewarding.
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TyroneGoldstein posted:Not even minding that even the smallest ships in this game are the size of enormous vehicles/sports venues in real life and there's absolutely no way to seal the rest of the ship off from the cockpit so maybe...I dunno...you could retreat to a separate area of the ship (with hours of breathable air). And hope that someone saves you in those hours, since you can't pilot your ship to safety if you do this? Sounds like a rather nasty way to commit suicide. I think what actually happens here is pilots going "gently caress that noise" and throwing themselves into their escape pod when their emergency oxygen "runs out".
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So was that all from the expo? Two ships and guilds? Is there a summary/breakdown anywhere? Nm, https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/74xf77/new_features_and_qol_improvements_shown_frontier Mr. Crow fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Oct 8, 2017 |
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Mr. Crow posted:So was that all from the expo? Two ships and guilds? Yeah there's a lot of stuff. And the worst part is that it's all free.
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They said there'd be more reveals in the coming weeks/months. Off the top of my head from the expo: "lots" of new ships coming, not just two. engineer rolls will be changed so you never get a worse roll than one you already have equipped graphics and lighting overhaul planetary terrain overhaul (more variety) group/wing based missions squadrons and squadron carriers mining overhaul exploration overhaul with more interactive activities and new phenomena galnet audio (text to speech for galnet so you can get bulletins passively while you fly) free oral sex e: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/74wt9u/megathread_frontier_expo_2017_discussion/ e2: always the bridesmaid
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