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It's not the first time there's been a no-rank-needed faction ship sale, so it shouldn't be that much of a shock.Mercurius posted:You’ll be fine. We’ve got people who have sunk months into the game and have billions of credits who still mostly fly stuff like the Vulture (reasonably cheap mid size heavy fighter) because it’s fun as heck. Yeah, I'm no billionaire, but I have a tricked out Anaconda and Cutter. They're both sitting in mothballs at the moment, because it's way more fun to take my Type-6 on a spin around the galaxy. I almost took my exploration-fitted Hauler, but I wanted a chance to play around with the new repair limpets. Small/medium/budget ships are a blast.
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Blind Rasputin posted:So the general gist is that the type-10 is good for thargoid shooting, but has to Hull tank and is quite slow. It is not so good at all for regular combat due to the small power distributor, and maybe can eek out 30ly jumps for travels.
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Dec 21, 2017 23:11
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StuG Jeebus posted:Is there something unique about the T10 that makes it better against Thargoids? I feel like I'm missing something. massive tank and lots of dakka
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Dec 21, 2017 23:17
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Speaking of sales, you can get a chrome vulture now.
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Trustworthy posted:It's not the first time there's been a no-rank-needed faction ship sale, so it shouldn't be that much of a shock. I started playing in the summer but fair point. Just being salty. It's pretty much the first time the game has hosed me but I still got the gunship.
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Dec 21, 2017 23:39
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zooted heh posted:I'm pretty pissed at fdev with this new cg this week. It's a big slap in my face when I spent a good month and a half grinding fed rank and God knows how much I spent in credits on donation missions. Where is this? So you can pick up any federal ship without the required massive rank grind? On sale? That seems really nuts. drat maybe I should sell my clipper for an FAS for a change. Although the clipper is really fun to fly. I’ve done a bunch of tinkering with the type 10 and I actually think it’s a pretty good all around ship. I have an A ranked grade 4 FSD on it and with that, stripped down and D ranked it gets 35ly for passenger missions or exploring. Loaded completely for bear and bristling with guns while still hauling tons of cargo and passengers it gets 22-26ly. It’s fun as hell to fly with dirty drives and feels really big. I like it more than an anaconda honestly for the cockpit view. The only problem is it is so wide and big you get loitering warnings all the loving time.
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I got my Diamondback Explorer!  And I made enough from my Star of India trip to buy it with class A AMFUs and class A fuel scoop.
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iospace posted:I got my Diamondback Explorer! 
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iospace posted:I got my Diamondback Explorer! God my first DBX is so much fun!  Although the desire to make an exploration t10 is rising... 
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Dec 22, 2017 07:42
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DBX also has probably the best looking cockpit in VR. Sadly Iclipper was a VR dissapointment.
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Dec 22, 2017 09:00
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What about the Asp in VR? Doesn't it have the widest cockpit view?
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Dec 22, 2017 09:05
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Still kinda  that the general-purpose ships haul considerably more cargo than the largest ships that specialise in hauling cargo.
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Gort posted:Still kinda I kind of agree, but at the same time have you seen how loving massive they are? DreadLlama posted:Speaking of sales, you can get a chrome vulture now. I want a Chrome Anaconda but I've also decided not to spend any more money on this game. Blind Rasputin posted:Where is this? So you can pick up any federal ship without the required massive rank grind? On sale? Not any federal ship, or I'd get a Corvette just to try it. Might pick up a FAS though. But honestly, what would I use it for.
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John F Bennett posted:What about the Asp in VR? Doesn't it have the widest cockpit view? The view is nice but there is something about DBX how there is detailed elements all around you while most other ships have them mostly in front and kinda far away. Also, you've seen Asp's cockpit, its bare metal as gently caress which imo works in a space-psycho suicide bike Viper III but not so much in a comparatively huge and expensive Asp. I don't have the biggest ships such as Conda but Python is pretty awesome when you look to the right and realize that its huge, feels like you are driving a bus or some sort of huge road machinery.
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My brief stint in an anaconda cockpit was cool in VR, but if you’re an immersion sperg you’ll be bothered that they didn’t seem to mind replacing the regulation size soccer arena to build it.
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The best thing about anaconda in VR is how it feels like you're flying around sitting on a skyscraper, and just how goddamn agile it is, for a skyscraper. Can confirm that Asp is the best in VR though, mostly due to the window between the legs thing, which really helps with the feeling of speed when flying near things.
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I don't have VR but it's a amazing looking at the hauler and the DBX cockpits in terms of "what you can see". The hauler is a bit constrained in what you can view, but then again, the ship was designed from port to port hauls, not combat (or deep space exploration). The DBX is "holy crap I nearly have a full hemisphere of view". In other news, Lich is unaccessible unless you have a 98 LY jump drive. Guess you won't be able to see the first confirmed exoplanets then.
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Trustworthy posted:It's not the first time there's been a no-rank-needed faction ship sale, so it shouldn't be that much of a shock.
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You can get ~100 LY with a booster AFAIK.Anime Store Adventure posted:My brief stint in an anaconda cockpit was cool in VR, but if you’re an immersion sperg you’ll be bothered that they didn’t seem to mind replacing the regulation size soccer arena to build it. This means every team's pitch is a different size, hence the "home advantage" you get for playing on your own turf. 
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My DBXes (I've had three distinct ships. Yellowjacket, Dreamsicle, and The Green Machine) feel like favorite beat up old 4x4s that I knew could drive me to the north coast of Alaska tomorrow and my AspX, Chisu, was more like a pretty nice looking box truck that I didn't mind pulling up to jobs in, but I wasn't proud of it. I ripped out the FSD and stuck it into an Orca for a while, but I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. The T7 is the most space-truck ship in the game. The only good reason for a T9 is to take your less poopsock-tier Commanders out with fighters, otherwise it wasn't much worth the hassle. Maybe again with the mining revamp in the dev queue. I am enjoying easy-mode PvE in the Python, though. With the four beam turrets on top and a plasma accel under the nose... fire phasers and [photon/quantum/proton/quark-no-wait-we-used-that-for-a-bartender's-name] torpedoes. I would never take this ship out of Solo. I only Open in my T7, The Red Herring, or my Viper Mk3, Twist and Shout. Cyberpunkey Monkey fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Dec 22, 2017 |
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osirisisdead posted:My DBXes (I've had three distinct ships. Yellowjacket, Dreamsicle, and The Green Machine) feel like favorite beat up old 4x4s that I knew could drive me to the north coast of Alaska tomorrow and my AspX, Chisu, was more like a pretty nice looking box truck that I didn't mind pulling up to jobs in, but I wasn't proud of it. I ripped out the FSD and stuck it into an Orca for a while, but I didn't like it as much as I thought I would. I didn’t fly the T7 long and it fills an awkward hole because it can’t land at medium pads and is a brick, but drat if I don’t still have a soft spot for that ship. FDev please release obnoxious amounts of lights as a cosmetic but only for the space trucks.  How were the beams on the python? Any heat issues? I’m using a python to unlock the last few engineers I never bothered to do so I’m ready for the engineering changes in the next few months but I intend to turn it into my PVE/mission boat after that. As soon as I finish mining another 300 tons of crap and 50 of bromellite. 
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Is there any way in the route planner to see how long your fuel will last (for ships not scooping)?
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Less Fat Luke posted:Is there any way in the route planner to see how long your fuel will last (for ships not scooping)? Yep, the route line will turn stipled when you'll run out of fuel.
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Lima posted:Yep, the route line will turn stipled when you'll run out of fuel.  Also for people talking about Vulture builds can someone link one that you've had good PvE success with? I constantly have power issues with mine using an MC and pulse laser.
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Less Fat Luke posted:Ahhh perfect, almost ran out of fuel in a brand new Cutter Distro or powerplant? Engineering can help with both of them.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Distro or powerplant? Engineering can help with both of them.
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 SUPER URGENT MISSION IN THE THARGOID WAR Deliver a million tons of ... oh god frontier, stop  How do they not feel ridiculous doing it this for a millionth time and also pretending like its a new and exciting thing happening.
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Sekenr posted:DBX also has probably the best looking cockpit in VR. Sadly Iclipper was a VR dissapointment. The Python cockpit is pretty baller too.
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how many percent better would this game be if you could jump directly from any inhabited system to any other inhabited system
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Dec 22, 2017 17:04
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Considering buying this game because of the sale. Is the expension required? I know almost nothing about the game.
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Its not required but definitely recommended.
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Less Fat Luke posted:Ah alright, I was hoping there'd be a way without engineering as the road to G5 FSDs was pretty boring but I'll take a look.
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Has anyone suggested that Frontier should implement in system hyperjumps or hyperspace gates this month or this half of the year? Because the Guaras CG is one of those moments when Frontier should implement something like that.
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Dandywalken posted:Its not required but definitely recommended. Could I start without it and add it if I like the game or would I be missing out on too much?
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The only thing it adds is the ability to land on planets and drive around in a moon Rover thing. It's cool, and useful for gathering materials but it's fine to skip it until you get a feel for the game. All of the planets you can land on are pretty much the same, crater filled deserts.
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trapt posted:Could I start without it and add it if I like the game or would I be missing out on too much? I don't have it and I've had a ton of fun and sunk a bunch of time into the game, have a nice little fleet going, etc, but man it would be nice to get in on some of the ridiculously high paying transport jobs that require a landing module, or planetary scan missions that you can stack up (I don't know if that still works). E and I haven't yet figured out if engineering is part of the expansion so I haven't done anything with that
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