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If you have Horizons you can take scan base / destroy generator missions on day 1 that give over 500k credits each. I did a few of those to outfit an exploration ship, went to Sag A* and Colonia over the course of a month, and came back to 480 million credits in data and Elite in exploration.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Money makes money; take your hauler to the next trade CG and you should crack a couple mil - enough for a Type 6 for further trading, ~or~ Ratjaculation posted:Get an Asp Explorer asap, fit it with a fuel scoop, advanced disco scanner and a posh passenger bay and take gangsters on tours around space Oh man thanks for this, this is good stuff
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Basically, the level you're looking at is 2 million. With 2 mil (well, slightly over), you can fit a Hauler for long range exploration. It's a great starter ship for exploration, and it's cheap to replace.
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Dec 29, 2017 16:07
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Head's up, rank requirements for the Federal Dropship family have been dropped and a discount applied for the next week. Even if you can't quite fit one yet I'd recommend trying to get your hands on a FAS.
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Dec 29, 2017 17:01
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Would you get a FAS over a Gunship?
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Dec 29, 2017 17:31
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Would you get any of them over the Anaconda?
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Dec 29, 2017 17:33
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Jimbot posted:Would you get a FAS over a Gunship? FAS is like a straight upgrade from a Vulture so if you love the Vulture it's a great ship to grab. It does usually do a split tank though so like the Gunship it can feel a little more dangerous if you are used to stacking shields. Gunship is an interesting ship because it's a slow brick with a lot of tightly converging hardpoints which has led to people calling it "a helicopter in a game about planes." It also has the ability to launch fighters and have one person in multicrew, making it the smallest and cheapest ship capable of doing that. For a medium ship it packs a pretty strong punch though the split shield/armor tank can put people out of their comfort zone if they are used to straight shield tanking. I am a fan of it, it's a lot of fun to use and as the lowest rebuy of all multicrew+fighter ships it means you can throw them away with multicrew shenanigans more freely than something like an Anaconda.
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Dec 29, 2017 17:38
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I went ahead and bought a FAS and have been loving it. I had been using my Asp Explorer for too long as a explorer/shipping/fighting rig. Having a dedicated killship is awesome. I love being maneuverable enough to stay in someone's blindspot and dual frak cannons is great. I'm downing more ships than ever. My goal is to get enough money saved to buy the FGS before it goes off sale.
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Dec 29, 2017 18:03
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Jimbot posted:Would you get a FAS over a Gunship? It depends on a lot. Nice piece of fish posted:Would you get any of them over the Anaconda? Yes. Unless you can get a corvette then never don’t get that.
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Going to let you in on a secret: The Federal Corvette is not as good a warship as the Anaconda. 2 Huge Hardpoints & 1 Large Hardpoint is not as good as 1 Huge Hardpoint and 3 Large Hardpoints. The Anaconda does more damage and has a much better jump range. The only thing the vette can do slightly better than the conda is shield tanking. But unless you're doing ultra-hardmode cop killing, it won't matter at all.
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Dec 29, 2017 18:29
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:It depends on a lot. Yeah. But the thing is, of all the Core Dynamics ships, none of them are more interesting to my mind than the conda, with the notable exception of the Corvette. I already have an engineered conda that does everything. The Corvette, meanwhile, I can't make up my mind about. It's good looking, but I can't help but feel it looks somehow cheap and underdetailed compared to its size and role. It's a sidegrade to the conda, and for my use as a catchall boat the conda is arguably better. The biggest deal is really the grind, I have no rank and I'm pretty certain I would have to work for ages to get the needed rank to even buy one. It doesn't seem like a ship that's worth the effort.
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Dec 29, 2017 18:44
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Ratjaculation posted:This game needs to add huge ships you can buy for many many millions, that let you/other people dock and launch from it. I seem to remember the thread talking about a player fleet that got a custom big rear end carrier, that the fleet leadership could choose to jump 2000 ly every 2 weeks or so, on account of them puzzling out the game the way Frontier wants everyone to.
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Gort posted:
What? DVI and HDMI and DisplayPort are all the same signals through different plugs because the computer business is still basically an international IP shitstorm. You don't even need a signal converter, just a cheap and dumb wire-to-wire conversion cable.
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Dec 29, 2017 19:33
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Gort posted:I took the plunge and got an Oculus Rift, mostly for flight-sim-type games like this one. I've got it working in general (Robo Recall is excellent) but I'm having issues getting Elite to load. I've already downloaded the Oculus version of Elite, so it's not that. I have a 1060 and have three monitors and an Oculus Rift plugged in. Elite runs great in HMD Low for VR mode and Ultra when on one monitor. Rift is plugged into the HDMI Monitors are plugged into the DisplayPort and DVI sockets
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Dec 29, 2017 20:14
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Would you guys recommend a FAS or FGS over a clipper? My clipper with four beams, engineered shields and dirty drives is just so insanely good at killing. It’s fast as hell and can shoot for days. I’m not sure about switching.
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Dec 29, 2017 20:45
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Blind Rasputin posted:Would you guys recommend a FAS or FGS over a clipper? My clipper with four beams, engineered shields and dirty drives is just so insanely good at killing. It’s fast as hell and can shoot for days. I’m not sure about switching. An engineered FAS is an upgrade.
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I'd say gunship for variety. It's more of a brutish slugger as opposed to the flighty Clipper. Plus it gets a fighter which owns. And it sounds great.
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Dec 29, 2017 20:52
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Clipper is cool because it's the premier ramming ship due to the combination of the size, speed, and maneuverability but that's a very different playstyle from anything else.
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I might pick up the Gunship. I have Clipper and FDL, so I'm flying on money as it is (and boy, those are fun ships to fly). I want something completely different. If it doesn't work out I can just get the FAS. Any good loadouts on kitting it out for maximum dakka fun for PvE bounty hunting?
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Dec 29, 2017 21:01
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Double shot frags everywhere. No shields, hull tank. Constant chaff. Flight assist off at all times.
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The problem with one of these federal ships vs a clipper is the FSD. If there is a bounty CG somewhere I can just travel there at a 26ly/jump rate in the clipper, while an FAS/FGS it seems it would take waiting for the ship transport to get it there because the FSD is so tiny. That’s actually a big reason I’m thinking against it.
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Clipper is like jet boat with terrible hard points. Its fast but turns like poo poo and God help you if your target isn't dead center at 1.5km, otherwise you're using half (the poo poo half) of your guns. Add to that its restriction to L pads and you've got yourself an incredibly gimmicky ship. The federal alternatives are almost objectively better.
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Dec 30, 2017 00:26
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I changed the default language to French and Elite: Dangeraux is a much better game.
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osirisisdead posted:I changed the default language to French and Elite: Dangeraux is a much better game. relation amicale conduire charger
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:Going to let you in on a secret: The Federal Corvette is not as good a warship as the Anaconda. 2 Huge Hardpoints & 1 Large Hardpoint is not as good as 1 Huge Hardpoint and 3 Large Hardpoints. The Anaconda does more damage and has a much better jump range. The only thing the vette can do slightly better than the conda is shield tanking. But unless you're doing ultra-hardmode cop killing, it won't matter at all. fight me (in my corvette) 
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:fight me (in my corvette) Fight me, in my covfefe
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Dec 30, 2017 02:58
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Ok, the FGS is loving rad. The engine sounds made me sell my clipper.
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Ratjaculation posted:relation amicale conduire charger Il semble que ma réputation me précède dans l'espace impérial. J'ai besoin d'un SRV.
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osirisisdead posted:Il semble que ma réputation me précède dans l'espace impérial. J'ai besoin d'un SRV. Transporter des biodéchets au nom de la démocratie
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Voici mon nouveau Anaconda. Il est choette et super.... Ah calisse de tabernak d'osti de crisse de Goid.... Décrisse!
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I wish I could turn on my holiday lights without a certified outfitting engineer, I'm very very far away mapping piss planets
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Q: if you get close enough to another player who has them equipped can you see their Xmas lights on the dash?
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Q: if you get close enough to another player who has them equipped can you see their Xmas lights on the dash? It would be cool if you could. So I'm going to assume that you can't.
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 Merry Christmas to me, I sold my Python finally and upgraded to the DFS Majestic Spaceduck. This thing is remarkably agile for a ship that needs to land on a large pad. I was pretty impressed with how nimble it feels for its size. I haven't gotten around to engineering it up yet, as I just bought it yesterday and haven't had too much time to mess with it.
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:Going to let you in on a secret: The Federal Corvette is not as good a warship as the Anaconda. 2 Huge Hardpoints & 1 Large Hardpoint is not as good as 1 Huge Hardpoint and 3 Large Hardpoints. The Anaconda does more damage and has a much better jump range. The only thing the vette can do slightly better than the conda is shield tanking. But unless you're doing ultra-hardmode cop killing, it won't matter at all. Is that true even against larger ships? Thought the huge weapons did extra dps against those
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I just want to say, whoever told us about the Parutis-Medb Passenger Gold Rush Bonanza is a top notch gentleman. I've gone from 130 million in the bank to over a billion in the past week, usually only doing one or two runs a day at over a hundo mil a pop. Now I just need three more levels of Fed Rank for that Vette. 
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I got inter’d right as I was approaching a moon, I ended up zooming through the surface into the centre of the moon and then appearing meters above the surface. Odd
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People who tell you that dual huge hardpoints are bad are: A: Failing to use plasmas, and B: Flying the ship wrong.  
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Picked this up in the steam sale. I was a huge fan of Frontier in my teens and I'm super pumped about playing. Any tips for starting out? Is it a good idea to jump direct into online play?
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