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After running a bunch of passengers: QoL update: When turning in a mission [Accept Reward] [Accept Reward, Disregard Cargo] Does away with having to have a cargo rack for taking the majority of missions (greys out the first option if no rack fitted) + saves you having to dump the cargo out of your rack as its usually unwanted trash. (also saves the station janitors from having to come sweep multiple canisters out from under my cargo hatch) A man can dream 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:After running a bunch of passengers: Last I checked Frontier does have a bug report system.
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iospace posted:Last I checked Frontier does have a bug report system. I can see why it would be low priority, or even defended as a feature. It appears to have been that way forever so I don't think it would be changing anytime soon anyway An even greater improvement would be the ability to generate passenger missions based on where I'm going, like reverse space hitch hiking
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Dec 31, 2017 19:53
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Inspector Hound posted:I can see why it would be low priority, or even defended as a feature. It appears to have been that way forever so I don't think it would be changing anytime soon anyway Oh it definitely would be defined as a feature. What I was getting at is "whining about it on a 3rd party forum that Frontier probably doesn't even read is going about it the wrong way." Or, in other words, if you want a feature, tell them instead of posting here about it.
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How many of these goddamn internet message boards do I need to sign up for for my voice to be heard?? This is a free speech issueGuardianOfAsgaard posted:Hey so I've been running the Parutis-Medb passenger run a few times in my Asp making 7-8 million a trip which is nice, but is there any reason I can't load up my Type-6 with cabins and use that to take even more at a time? Can it take first-class cabins? Yes, absolutely do this. Inspector Hound fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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Dec 31, 2017 20:27
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Hey so I've been running the Parutis-Medb passenger run a few times in my Asp making 7-8 million a trip which is nice, but is there any reason I can't load up my Type-6 with cabins and use that to take even more at a time? Can it take first-class cabins?
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I've been doing the Parutis-Medb run taking 148 passengers per time in a Type-7 to the tune of ~100m. Just replace everything with Economy cabins and one size 3 cargo rack and an A ranked FSD. Total cost ~20m if you're worried about money to set up and ~45minutes of board flipping to fill. So conservative round trip time of 1,5hours which isn't too bad.
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Dec 31, 2017 21:18
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Rynoto posted:I've been doing the Parutis-Medb run taking 148 passengers per time in a Type-7 to the tune of ~100m. Just replace everything with Economy cabins and one size 3 cargo rack and an A ranked FSD. Total cost ~20m if you're worried about money to set up and ~45minutes of board flipping to fill. So conservative round trip time of 1,5hours which isn't too bad. It's all very «I paid money to play a bus driver in space» but people do that all the time so it's not exactly weird. Great means to an end, but the game still lacks for fun and objectives, unless you're with the frogs. I'd love a few billion credits extra though, just for funsies money. In case they ever introduce seriously big and expensive ships or things start costing money. Seriously, maintenance and fuel and such ought to be expensive enough to matter so you'd not be flooded with money all the time once you pass a certain point. Does rank progress still accrue even if you can't find rank up missions, or is it «wasted» once it hits 100%?
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How long are the Fed ships on sale without a permit? I'm flying a Python right now, but should probably grab something Fed and put it in long-term storage before the real requirements come back into play... Nice piece of fish posted:Does rank progress still accrue even if you can't find rank up missions, or is it «wasted» once it hits 100%? I've heard that it still accumulates, even if it doesn't show in the rank percentage.
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Dec 31, 2017 22:01
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Rank keeps piling up in the background even if you're at 100% on your current one, don't worry about it. You can just do several rank up missions later, it's another one of the many good design decisions they've made.
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Goredema posted:How long are the Fed ships on sale without a permit? Thursday.
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Mimesweeper posted:Rank keeps piling up in the background even if you're at 100% on your current one, don't worry about it. You can just do several rank up missions later, it's another one of the many good design decisions they've made. What's the other one?
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Mimesweeper posted:Rank keeps piling up in the background even if you're at 100% on your current one, don't worry about it. You can just do several rank up missions later, it's another one of the many good design decisions they've made. Thank gently caress. StuG Jeebus posted:What's the other one? 
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StuG Jeebus posted:What's the other one? 
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Goredema posted:How long are the Fed ships on sale without a permit? When you say without a permit does that mean there's no fed rank requirements for them right now? i.e. can I buy a Corvette as a midshipman? GuardianOfAsgaard fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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Dec 31, 2017 23:06
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:When you say without a permit does that mean there's no fed rank requirements for them right now? Yup: FAS and FGS are permit unlocked until Thursday (?) thanks to a CG! Get them while their hot!
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Yup: FAS and FGS are permit unlocked until Thursday (?) thanks to a CG! Get them while their hot! Aw no Corvette?
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No you have to “earn the right” to fly a corvette 
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:No you have to “earn the right” to fly a corvette My inner grognard stirred until I made sure it didn't appply to the corvette... 
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I thought it was only for those who participated in the community goal, is that wrong?
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jubjub64 posted:I thought it was only for those who participated in the community goal, is that wrong? Anyone can buy them.
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Thanks for the heads up on that, dudes. I socked the hulls away in my Jameson stash for later use.
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Behold my glorious chariot... Bonus cool spoiler because gently caress yeah.  And you thought the Beluga was hard to land, man this thing is a whole new level.
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It is 20 minutes from being happy new year in elite dangerous. FYI. 3304 here we come.
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Can confirm nothing happened at all.
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Yep I'm half way to Vela Dock right now and there was no fireworks or anything, rubbish. Happy 3304! It also happens to be my birthday so I think I'm gonna buy myself an Anaconda since this passenger running has been ridiculously profitable!
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Well while Diamond Frog space was relatively calm for the new year, it looks like those boys over in FS 34 were cutting one hell of a rug. I stacked all these to the same station on a single board lol. 
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Blind Rasputin posted:It is 20 minutes from being happy new year in elite dangerous. FYI. 3304 here we come. 
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So I got this game during the sales and am thinking of buying a logitech extreme 3D Pro joystick to use with my G27 set, essentially using the pedals for rudders and throttling. Is this sufficient enough or do I still need a keyboard by my side if I use the buttons provided with the G27, or is this just a really terrible idea in general.
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You know how in RPGs, when you level up, the experience required to reach the next level increases, but it's okay because the level you earned allows you to take on more challenging and rewarding content, keeping you on a steady progression curve? That's decent game design, right there. On a completely unrelated note, I've been grinding Ceos/Sothis for Fed Rank for three days now, and I want to die.
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Robert Red Rocket posted:So I got this game during the sales and am thinking of buying a logitech extreme 3D Pro joystick to use with my G27 set, essentially using the pedals for rudders and throttling. Is this sufficient enough or do I still need a keyboard by my side if I use the buttons provided with the G27, or is this just a really terrible idea in general. It's pretty unconventional, that and aviation rudder pedals are not like car gas/brake, they're more on a "slide" so to speak, and pushing in the right rudder pedal will push the left one out, and vice versa. I'd recommend at a minimum invest in a HOTAS if you're going for immersion, instead of using kb/m. Game is perfectly serviceable with keyboard and mouse, or gamepad, or single joystick or whatever, I just personally find it easier to control with a separate throttle unit with its additional buttons. For the price of a Logitech 3d Pro, you can buy a Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X, which will run you about 40 bucks before shipping. It's not excellent, but it gives you better control than what a Logitech 3d pro will give, due to the separate throttle and the ability to control your directional thrusters on the throttle using rocker switches. Also, on any joystick, there will be a twist to yaw built in usually, this is accurate enough for Elite just fine, using rudder pedals is something I've never needed to do, mainly because you won't find yourself yawing much in this game in a combat situation, mostly you roll and then pull or push on the stick because the ships are faster through the vertical axis than the horizontal one. Other comedy options for joysticks if you have a little bit more money (in order of price) Thrustmaster T16000M FCS (This one requires two USB ports, as they were designed as separate units!) Logitech X52 Flight Control System Logitech x52 Pro FCS Logitech Pro Flight X56 RHINO HOTAS Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog Flight Stick Personally I've put a shitload of hours on a 12 year old X52, and other than having to break it apart and put new grease on the internal plastic bits, never had a problem with the physical hardware. Saitek got bought out by Mad Catz a couple years back, their QC went to absolute poo poo, and then they got sold off to Logitech for loving pennies compared to their original value. Who knows if the "new" Logitech X52 stick has improved QC from the Mad Catz days, but I've never had real problems with Logitech's PC stuff, unlike Mad Catz which was unrepentant garbage every time I bought a peripheral from them. What I can say is the Logitech driver package for the X52 is much loving improved from the Mad Catz days, which bodes well for overall quality. There used to be a persistent bug, that they knew about and left in for years with the Mad Catz software that would cause your system to lock up within 10-15s after unplugging the HOTAS from your computer, the only way to prevent this was to force exit the HOTAS software from your task manager, and then force stop the Saitek services in your services tab. The Logitech software has shown no evidence of this bug, and it looks like they completely rewrote the entire driver package from the old Saitek/Mad Catz kit. orange juche fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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orange juche posted:For the price of a Logitech 3d Pro, you can buy a Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X, which will run you about 40 bucks before shipping. It's not excellent, but it gives you better control than what a Logitech 3d pro will give, due to the separate throttle and the ability to control your directional thrusters on the throttle using rocker switches. Not sure if it's because of the shipping or whatever, but the Hotas One (which I'm assuming is a more upgraded Hotas X; no one sells Hotas Xes here anymore) sold in local shops is four times the price of a Extreme 3D Pro. Amazon essentially charges double as well for it once shipping is included. The Saitek X52 is just 20% more expensive than the Hotas X. Appreciate the writeup, but Thrustmaster has literally no official presence in Asia so all their stuff are ripoffs, only Logitech bothers stocking locally and they don't have a HOTAS peripheral that is quite like the Hotas X in terms of cheapness, other than the Extreme 3D Pro. Am I better off just using a kb/m then, rather than half-assing it with the 3D Pro? Don't think I have the attention span to justify dropping money on an X52 just for one game really. EDIT: Also I was considering using the clutch and brake pedals as rudders given that they have about the same resistance, I'm aware it's not going to give the exact feel of actual rudder pedals but I might get used to it. The throttle pedal may be used for acceleration with the gear shift to indicate forwards or backwards, if that's even programmable in. Robert Red Rocket fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Katsuma posted:You know how in RPGs, when you level up, the experience required to reach the next level increases, but it's okay because the level you earned allows you to take on more challenging and rewarding content, keeping you on a steady progression curve? That's decent game design, right there. That's been my experience with Elite, but that's because I never blew out the curve by using degenerate exploit techniques.
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Robert Red Rocket posted:Am I better off just using a kb/m then, rather than half-assing it with the 3D Pro? Don't think I have the attention span to justify dropping money on an X52 just for one game really. 3D Pro + Keyboard is more than sufficient. You have perfect access to your up/down/left/right and throttle with one hand and yaw + rotations on the other with it.
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Robert Red Rocket posted:Not sure if it's because of the shipping or whatever... I started playing on the 29th and I'm doing fine with kb/m. I've played maybe three hours of flight sims before in my life and I'm grasping everything really well, the starter ship has so much agility that it helps learning a lot. It's probably wrong, but I mapped pitch/yaw to my mouse and roll is a/d. Like it was said earlier you're often rolling then moving vertically so this works well for me.
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Chakan posted:I started playing on the 29th and I'm doing fine with kb/m. I've played maybe three hours of flight sims before in my life and I'm grasping everything really well, the starter ship has so much agility that it helps learning a lot. It's probably wrong, but I mapped pitch/yaw to my mouse and roll is a/d. Like it was said earlier you're often rolling then moving vertically so this works well for me. Haha yeah I did that too, much easier for me for some reason, I'll just roll with this and see how it goes, or if it gets too unwieldy... DatonKallandor posted:3D Pro + Keyboard is more than sufficient. You have perfect access to your up/down/left/right and throttle with one hand and yaw + rotations on the other with it. Sounds good tbh, the game is surprisingly rather keyboard friendly so replacing the mouse with a joystick seems like a sensible move.
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I used to play with a mouse+keyboard, and yeah, I'm going to echo that it was very keyboard friendly. My recommendation, personally, is to get a head tracker, because it makes things a lot better from both an immersion perspective and a gameplay one. Unfortunately I got one of the Mad Catz X55s  I just wonder how long I have till that goes.
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Robert Red Rocket posted:Sounds good tbh, the game is surprisingly rather keyboard friendly so replacing the mouse with a joystick seems like a sensible move. To add to that, if you're going for joystick and keyboard I recommend setting up shortcuts for 0% and 50% throttle on something you can easily reach in combat (personally, I've got it on Y and X) and 75% on something not necessarily quick accessible (shift+ one of your other quick throttle settings). You need 0 and 50 in combat constantly to quickly stop and get to the maximum maneuverability points and 75 is really useful for the FSD sweet-spot. Getting to those precise points can be fiddly with just the increase and decrease throttle on keyboard.
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I’m nearing 200mil, thinking of a conda and working to max A most of its core systems. Any idea how that would cost roughly?
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