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LCL-Dead posted:Holy poo poo. There isn't an  big enough... boy
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I'm second guessing myself and don't go to planet surfaces that often, am I correct in thinking that they don't really have mountains implemented? Just canyons and "rolling hills"? Having trouble thinking of a place that had legit verticality and wasn't just a drop into the surface.
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Oct 13, 2016 00:29
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Just bought Horizons recently and jumping back into the game. I'm in desperate need of some credits and have an Asp Explorer - is this Sothis data trading/smuggling thing still viable?
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Oct 13, 2016 00:33
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Mr. Crow posted:I'm second guessing myself and don't go to planet surfaces that often, am I correct in thinking that they don't really have mountains implemented? Just canyons and "rolling hills"? I nearly exploded myself when trying to climb some mountains, so they're there.
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Oct 13, 2016 00:36
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Hmm, apparently Aditi is decent for Empire and I'm already allied but only Master. I might check that out.
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Oct 13, 2016 00:56
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Kaddish posted:Just bought Horizons recently and jumping back into the game. I'm in desperate need of some credits and have an Asp Explorer - is this Sothis data trading/smuggling thing still viable? Yup. Running data makes faction rank pretty quick, most of the way to my corvette and more spacemoney than I care what to do with. Fit your Asp with a 3A scoop, 3A shields, maybe an ADS, and the rest cargo. Slap an upgrade on the FSD to speed up the process. Head out to Sothis and either drop a bunch of exploration data for rep, or run data missions between the three stations. I usually head to Ceos, do the open/private/solo refresh picking up all data missions for the Fed faction and any others worth >100k (do them all if you need rep with the 4 factions around Sothis). Once I finish the board-refresh, I head to Newholm in Sothis: rinse, wash, repeat. Then on to Sothis Mining: rinse, wash, repeat. Pick up any cargo missions worth >200k per ton. When you fill up your hold (don't forget to sell all of the engineer-cargo you got from the data missions!), head into the bubble and drop it all off! Just keep doing that until you stop caring about money or your eyeballs fall out.  Mr. Crow posted:I'm second guessing myself and don't go to planet surfaces that often, am I correct in thinking that they don't really have mountains implemented? Just canyons and "rolling hills"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7kfjfnZZ3I Shows off the mountain at the beginning, jumps off around 4:00.
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Oct 13, 2016 01:56
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Cool, maybe Ill explore more in 2.2 when it's easier to find interesting things with the 3d maps.
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Oct 13, 2016 02:43
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Has there been a release date for 2.2 announced?
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Oct 13, 2016 02:53
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"Mid October" is the only date I've found thus far.
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Oct 13, 2016 05:50
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I can't wait for player avatars and walking around to come out around 2018 or so.
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Oct 13, 2016 07:09
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In the meantime someone get Alien dude a loving account. We should pay him some respect... boys.
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Strategic Tea posted:Has any game ever figured out what to do with multiple crew in a game where one person can fly the whole ship? Discounting that star trek commmand game because that was built around the idea... Guns of Icarus. It's on steam, and it's a really good game, if a bit lacking in player base. If you want an example of good multicrew, GoI is it.
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Yolomon Wayne posted:In the meantime someone get Alien dude a loving account. Speaking of him, I sent him a PM commending him for his absolute loss of composure and received this in reply. Alien posted:You pushed the wrong button. You're not the first to say to me that however long I've been on this forum makes no difference, and you are right, your opinion and my opinion have equal weight regardless of time on the forum. But I have been here a long time. I've seen this forum go from 12 people posting and it being quiet and fun to exploding to 100,000 users and a lot of drama. I am fed up of the drama. I'm not the only one.
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LCL-Dead posted:Speaking of him, I sent him a PM commending him for his absolute loss of composure and received this in reply. You forgot to add the  This is the best thing
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quote:"I did recently ask Michael Brookes if my post (linked to here) had a part to play in the reason Frontier launched the kickstarter, and he told me I did." Poor Carstairs. He and it quite broke the man; was never the same since. Space madness, you know? Of course, whenever he's in the club, we humour him. Wouldn't be right not to.
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WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME MOTHERFUCKERS AxeManiac quoted me in a post once, y'all can start sucking my dick around here if you want
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Strategic Tea posted:Has any game ever figured out what to do with multiple crew in a game where one person can fly the whole ship? Discounting that star trek commmand game because that was built around the idea...
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Didn't Pirates of the Burning Sea do something like that? There's a bailing minigame, a sailing minigame, a gunning minigame and a navigation minigame and how the 4 people running those minigames are doing determines how many resources the captain has to fight the other captain. Did I just make this up in my head?
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Oct 13, 2016 16:26
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Efexeye posted:Didn't Pirates of the Burning Sea do something like that? There's a bailing minigame, a sailing minigame, a gunning minigame and a navigation minigame and how the 4 people running those minigames are doing determines how many resources the captain has to fight the other captain. Did I just make this up in my head? You're thinking of Puzzle Pirates. Pirates of the Burning sea didn't have multicrew ships.
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IAmTheRad posted:You're thinking of Puzzle Pirates. Pirates of the Burning sea didn't have multicrew ships. THAT's the one.
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In a couple hours I shall begin my quest for rank 3 dirty drives. I have 21 chromium, 6 mechanical components and no specialized legacy firmware or microweave cooling hoses. Wish me luck because I want to get enough for at least ten rerolls.
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Oct 13, 2016 16:57
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TorakFade posted:In a couple hours I shall begin my quest for rank 3 dirty drives. I have 21 chromium, 6 mechanical components and no specialized legacy firmware or microweave cooling hoses. The hoses are no big deal, but firmware is a real bitch to find.
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LCL-Dead posted:Speaking of him, I sent him a PM commending him for his absolute loss of composure and received this in reply.
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Pilchenstein posted:The link doesn't work, now we'll never truly know if this guy actually invented the game. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/1566-Ask-the-Developers-a-question-or-two?p=18288&viewfull=1#post18288 The copy/pasta from my inbox didn't capture the actual link but still hyperlinked the broken one. e: Alien posted:To use that analogy ... Not the post I think he wanted to point out but one that follows it shortly thereafter. Dude is a melodramatic queen if I've ever seen one. LCL-Dead fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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I'm kinda confused about all the multi crew explorer talk. I must be missing something. Exploring is about the simplest activity known to man. You fly to something, you point at it, then you fly away. It's not like it needs multi crew to enhance the experience. Multi crew would only be for showing someone something cool. Something that can be just as easily done with a picture. If all you want is company, buy a six pack and invite someone over.
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Chrysophylax posted:I'm kinda confused about all the multi crew explorer talk. I must be missing something. Exploring is about the simplest activity known to man. You fly to something, you point at it, then you fly away. It's not like it needs multi crew to enhance the experience. Multi crew would only be for showing someone something cool. Something that can be just as easily done with a picture. One gets to honk, the other pilots the junk, ifyaknowwhatImean.
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Chrysophylax posted:I'm kinda confused about all the multi crew explorer talk. I must be missing something. Exploring is about the simplest activity known to man. You fly to something, you point at it, then you fly away. It's not like it needs multi crew to enhance the experience. Multi crew would only be for showing someone something cool. Something that can be just as easily done with a picture. Fundamentally, this holds true for all activities in Elite. None of them need multi crew, and it's doubtful that it would ever enhance the experience of anything. Indeed, as you point out, exploration being able to show something off live is probably one of the best use cases. The notion of using fighters as escort craft holds some romantic connotations, but in practice, it is either completely unnecessary because there is no threat to begin with, or it is an inferior option to just bringing more and more powerful ships.
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In my imagination, it would be cool to drop someone off in an SRV, then support them from the air as we assault a base or whatever. Will that be a possibility with multi crew? (edit: Yes, obviously this seems doable already, just with two ships instead of one.)
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Multicrew might not optimal but it could be really loving fun if it doesn't get neutered by immersionists. I have a friend who would totally just be my wingman in a fighter instead of buying/fitting/traveling in his own ships. It can be a gateway drug into the game.
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Mike the TV posted:The hoses are no big deal, but firmware is a real bitch to find. 3 hours of board scumming, uss checking, data link scanning at settlements and still only 1 specialised legacy firmware "very common" my space rear end you fuckers 
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TorakFade posted:3 hours of board scumming, uss checking, data link scanning at settlements and still only 1 specialised legacy firmware The USSes you want are the ones around inhabited planets, as they contain satellites that have a reasonable SLF drop rate. Try orbiting Earth for a bit. Although if you're going from small settlement to small settlement only scanning datalinks (you don't need to shoot anything to do this) you should get quite a few.
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Aethernet posted:The USSes you want are the ones around inhabited planets, as they contain satellites that have a reasonable SLF drop rate. Try orbiting Earth for a bit. I found a small settlement and scanned the datalinks, but got no SLF. Then went to a medium security settlement and got blown up by a security Anaconda. I'm in Deciat right now jumping from settlement to settlement, but not having any luck (either no data links, or plenty of security forces that might mess my poo poo up) gently caress this poo poo, I'll go check the nearest inhabited earthlike planet
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Yup. Running data makes faction rank pretty quick, most of the way to my corvette and more spacemoney than I care what to do with. Thanks for the tips - I'm in the middle of my second run back to the bubble and it's absolutely a good money maker. One thing I'm disappointed with is the Fed rank gain from the data missions. It's great for the local factions to unlock those higher tier hauls but a typical set of delivery maybe gives me a 1% increase in Fed. I'm not sure if this is anomaly or what - it's been awhile since I messed with superpower rank. Also, I see some smuggling missions pop up for like 6 million space bucks for a next system haul (Sothis to Ceos). Is it like the old days where I can blast through the gate to avoid scans? What's the penalty for something like 50t of illegal goods if I'm caught? Kaddish fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Oct 13, 2016 |
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Boogalo posted:Multicrew might not optimal but it could be really loving fun if it doesn't get neutered by immersionists. Having a "crew pass" version of the game acting as a demo or a discounted version of the game, like Arena, but not a waste of time would be cool. Earning money, rank, etc that would transfer over to the regular game would probably entice people to upgrade to the full version.
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GuyonthecoucH posted:Having a "crew pass" version of the game acting as a demo or a discounted version of the game, like Arena, but not a waste of time would be cool. That would be pretty sweet. Be a wingman for someone for 1/4 pay and don't cut into the host's profits. That's still a ton for a newbie or non-player.
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Kaddish posted:Also, I see some smuggling missions pop up for like 6 million space bucks for a next system haul (Sothis to Ceos). Is it like the old days where I can blast through the gate to avoid scans? What's the penalty for something like 50t of illegal goods if I'm caught? Nothing, if you don't pay.
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Managed to get rank 3 dirty drives, a Vulture that does 295 / 490 m/s is something beautiful  now I want a rank 5 multicannon, I think I only need some articulation motors.. Oh God this will never end, won't it? I will just keep upgrading and upgrading and never actually play the game again
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TorakFade posted:Managed to get rank 3 dirty drives, a Vulture that does 295 / 490 m/s is something beautiful Wait until you decide you need the rank 5 dirty drives 
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