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they should let players take missions hauling other players' ships and toons around
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story happened and people got trolled, sadly goons didn't do the trolling. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/elite-dangerous-community-plan-event-upended-by-masterful-troll/
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May 1, 2017 23:21
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wargames posted:story happened and people got trolled, sadly goons didn't do the trolling. holy crap how did we not hear about this sooner?!
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May 1, 2017 23:28
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quote:“Yes, I had anticipated her death,” wrote Wagar of Salomé in his blog. “Clearly that was a highly probable outcome. Personally I was hoping she would make it. She had a speech all ready to go—she liked speeches. That will never see the light of day now because you changed the story. But this wasn’t scripted, there was only preparation for as many eventualities as we could foresee.” tl;dr - you nerds ruined my event and killed my space-waifu so I will never let you read my awesome speech because YOURE NOT WORTHY 
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May 1, 2017 23:31
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:tl;dr - you nerds ruined my event and killed my space-waifu so I will never let you read my awesome speech because YOURE NOT WORTHY And she had to be in some arbitrary location in the middle of the Bubble to give her speech in a setting with instantaneous FTL communications. Let's not even talk about that fantastical invention of the sci-fi universe called the pre-recorded phone message.
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May 1, 2017 23:42
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 MAI WAIFU
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May 1, 2017 23:45
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Well I hope the Quince passenger miss keep working through the weekend, at least. Gonna get my anaconda A rated, get a bit of slush and work on engineering. Pretty happy with my 400m in assets (all but like 30m from Quince lol). Though if they take longer, I'll have to get a python, since it's all the rage. Maybe they fix it so you have to visit the appropriate beacons, which would mean that you just board scum harder. Or they flat out destroy in system passenger missions. Honestly don't understand the grind in this game. The PvP is decided by engineering and teaming up in wings. And they actively throw roadblocks at new players with limiting how money is acquired, even in multicrew. For all the people that just play solo, I imagine they will drop the game when X4 is released or Star Ci... Well X4. Hell, if X3 had VR, I'd be playing that and running my virtual space trucking fleet, building stations, and enjoy the spoils of my riches.
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May 1, 2017 23:46
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:holy crap how did we not hear about this sooner?! Like on event day, when we were all watching Potter's kill video and talking about it...? edit: oh wait  nvmedit2: Man I'm really not in the mood for Quince grinding, but in the process of turning my mining Cutter into a top tier warship I very quickly went from spacerich to spacepoor. Now I need like 30 million more spacebux for my last module upgrade. Ugggggggh. 
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May 2, 2017 00:05
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Phuzun posted:Well I hope the Quince passenger miss keep working through the weekend, at least. Gonna get my anaconda A rated, get a bit of slush and work on engineering. Pretty happy with my 400m in assets (all but like 30m from Quince lol). Though if they take longer, I'll have to get a python, since it's all the rage. They're just calling it an exploit to please the grogs, like every other time. It will stay in until the next major patch because they don't actually care and want new players to take advantage of the  exploit so they buy more ships and spend real money on paint jobs, purple lasers, and expansions.
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May 2, 2017 00:25
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Conskill posted:And she had to be in some arbitrary location in the middle of the Bubble to give her speech in a setting with instantaneous FTL communications. Why is everyone paying me to courier data around
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May 2, 2017 00:26
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That feeling when you swap into your battleship, fly to a res, drop in, go to launch your fighter and are reminded you didn't stop by the crew lounge in your haste to be underway 
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May 2, 2017 00:31
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:holy crap how did we not hear about this sooner?! We were aware of it, and we decided it was going to be an absolute poo poo show (and it was, oh it was), for a multitude of reasons, only one of which is that one of the people who claimed to be defending the waifu killed her instead. Other reasons it was a poo poo show include the defenders organisation treating everyone who didn't want to play exactly their way really bad, banning people who dissented, and banning Russian players because they may be spies. (No, really)
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May 2, 2017 00:46
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I think events like this would hugely benefit from controlled leadership next time. FDev makes and quasimanages a "main group" for either side that players can sign on with. Let people start splinters if they want but make sure there's a moderated way for people to team up. We had plenty of "insiders" playing the escortees. Next time lets get a few of them in the leadership.
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May 2, 2017 01:09
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:They're just calling it an exploit to please the grogs, like every other time. It will stay in until the next major patch because they don't actually care and want new players to take advantage of the Yeah, I mean I am really quite casual as a player and I made many millions in Quince tonight, enough to buy an Orca (I lost everything about a month ago, so from zero to this pretty much) and the only way I feel I might be exploiting is sometimes I log out and back in to refresh the mission board. I don't feel like it's an exploit that the beacon is a 30 second flight from the station, that's just the game environment. I'm just going to keep plugging away at it, boosting an Orca into the slot is awesome as well, it's a fun grind to me 
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May 2, 2017 01:08
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I hope we get a full fledged alien invasion next expansion
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May 2, 2017 01:09
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Fojar38 posted:Why is everyone paying me to courier data around Because some corporations and governments need to send sensitive data from one place to another, and they've decided that--although they're probably using advanced encryption--sending one physical copy still poses less risk than transmitting it to the entire galaxy...? I mean it's not rocket science (except for the parts with rocket ships).
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May 2, 2017 01:18
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Trustworthy posted:Because some corporations and governments need to send sensitive data from one place to another, and they've decided that--although they're probably using advanced encryption--sending one physical copy still poses less risk than transmitting it to the entire galaxy...? Confirm: you're basically space DHL or the equivalent to a legal firm's bike messenger.
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May 2, 2017 01:31
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Trustworthy posted:Because some corporations and governments need to send sensitive data from one place to another, and they've decided that--although they're probably using advanced encryption--sending one physical copy still poses less risk than transmitting it to the entire galaxy...? Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Confirm: you're basically space DHL or the equivalent to a legal firm's bike messenger. Beaten. Even with things like the internet, email, digital scans, conference calls, texting, smart phones, etc, some jobs still require a physical copy to be shipped like legal contracts that need to signed, witnessed, notarized and transported, often very quickly. This may also include physical items that are time sensitive or something else like organs. Plus data encryption can be beaten, or you have to worry about moles if it's dealing with stuff that is critical like classified information.
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May 2, 2017 01:50
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Fojar38 posted:Why is everyone paying me to courier data around Along with everything mentioned before, radio transmissions can only travel at the speed of light. A ship with a frameshift drive moves much faster.
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May 2, 2017 02:26
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Colonial Air Force posted:Along with everything mentioned before, radio transmissions can only travel at the speed of light. A ship with a frameshift drive moves much faster. I can chat with friends from thousands of lightyears away, in realtime. e: oh I should probably delete that before FDev implements another immersion timer
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May 2, 2017 02:32
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Warrant Scanners explicitly call into a galactic database at FTL speeds.
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May 2, 2017 03:08
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DatonKallandor posted:Warrant Scanners explicitly call into a galactic database at FTL speeds.
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May 2, 2017 03:16
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DatonKallandor posted:Warrant Scanners explicitly call into a galactic database at FTL speeds. I would assume that because fines and bounties are added automatically that there's some Pilots Federation Computer in every ship that you're actually scanning as opposed to calling into a database. OR Frontier has no cohesive idea about a lot of the rules of the world and just changes poo poo as is convenient. Just like they want to do Thargoids and are acting like it's all new even though it has happened in the game universe before and we're wiped out by a virus or whatever. Except now they're making "first contact" because Elite Dangerous is both a reboot and not a reboot. But seriously, if you scratch the paint off of any attempt at lore, history, or even consistency of the "natural laws" of the universe, you'll find its surface deep and inconsistent at best. I'm not sure they even have an official "lore."
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May 2, 2017 03:21
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Quantum entangled communications could explain it easily. I mean not why you can't see market prices one system over, but whatever.
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May 2, 2017 03:57
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Whelp I just spent the better part of an hour flying over a huge 2G planet trying to line my ship up with specific coordinates... to get a 132k data package. Thanks, a "tip off".
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May 2, 2017 04:17
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I have noticed that a bunch of these generation ships were wiped out by meteor-borne viruses which I would assume has something to do with Thargoids
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May 2, 2017 04:17
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here's William Gibson's take on the need for couriers in a connected world, from Virtual Light The offices the girl rode between were electronically conterminous-in effect, a single desktop, the map of distances obliterated by the seamless and instantaneous nature of communication. Yet this very seamlessness, which had rendered physical mail an expensive novelty, might as easily be viewed as porosity, and as such created the need for the service the girl provided. Physically transporting bits of information about a grid that consisted of little else, she provided a degree of absolute security in the fluid universe of data. With your memo in the girl's bag, you knew precisely where it was; otherwise, your memo was nowhere, perhaps everywhere, in that instant of transit.
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May 2, 2017 05:12
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I was cooping with a friend in Merope, killing federation ships via imperial expedition jobs and I'm very close to unlocking the imperial clipper. I'm flying an A class FDL, should I bother getting the clipper?
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May 2, 2017 05:39
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Maybe local market data is deliberately only available locally so as to prevent tremendous outside interference with local markets?
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May 2, 2017 05:48
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Glenn Quebec posted:I was cooping with a friend in Merope, killing federation ships via imperial expedition jobs and I'm very close to unlocking the imperial clipper. I'm flying an A class FDL, should I bother getting the clipper? Depends on what you want to use it for...? There was a time when I used my Clipper a lot, with extended fuel tanks that let me do hassle-free Sothis runs without a scoop. It's still my long-range freighter, although I rarely need one these days. It's also my go-to ship for running Powerplay MacGuffins, on that rare occasion I'm in the mood for that. So yeah, it's a nice, quick, light freighter. If you need one of those, buy it. You can turn it into a good miner, too (although I prefer my Python in that role). I can't imagine it could hold a candle to the FDL for combat ability, in any way, under any circumstances. Sometimes I fancy turning a Clipper into some kind of gimmicky glass cannon--a lightning quick, hit-and-run interceptor--but I doubt it could fit the firepower to make that kind of build viable. Trustworthy fucked around with this message at 06:35 on May 2, 2017 |
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Fojar38 posted:Why is everyone paying me to courier data around My take on this is the same as with random fetch quests in MMO's: everyone is sending you off to do busywork because they are terrified of you and it's a quick way to get rid of you. Let's say a dude comes to your station in a Mad-Max style battleship, pocked with bullet holes and loaded with every weapon imaginable. He rolls up to your office and he's basically The Rock if his biological father was a loving demon- 8 feet of ugly muscle, knives strapped to every conceivable surface and a couple that would be inconceivable to think about, if you weren't so busy thinking about the tattoos- one across his left arm saying "gently caress" and one on his right arm saying "YOUR poo poo." Over his shoulder in the back of his Anaconda, you can spot the smoking remnants of three of your neighbor's ships just kind of jammed in there. Over his other shoulder, oddly enough, you also see his Anaconda- appearing on the nightly news for what the bottom crawl says is some kind of "Legendary Massacre" near the vicinity of your local star. He stares down at you, and you silently pray to whatever gods you still believe in that you will survive this day. After about a minute of this, he says "Hey, uh, got any jobs?" ... "Oh yeah sure, absolutely, uh, just run at the nearest living thing and kill 10 of it. I'll give you 100 bucks when you get back." Thus was the MMO quest established. Sarsapariller fucked around with this message at 06:36 on May 2, 2017 |
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holy poo poo check out all this loving backstory for a character that was just killed off in lore by a member of a russian troll guild named Harry Potter https://www.drewwagar.com/progress-report/profile-senator-kahina-tijani-loren/
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May 2, 2017 06:44
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The Clipper is a cheaper, faster, more maneuverable, and longer ranged Python that is limited by it's large landing pad requirement. Makes a great long range light/medium trader and ideal miner. People like it as a pirate ship, but it's not for bounty hunting or CZ's. If it could fit on a medium pad it would be a great mission ship. I keep mine mainly because it's fun to fly in both super cruise and normal flight. You can run away from almost anything, and it's an easy ship to win that interdiction mini-game. So you can play the mini-game or submit and boost away. Give it a fuel tank and it has long range, and it needs a fuel tank. It has good jump range too. It's also easy to fit a large fuel scoop if the fuel tank is not enough. It can haul more cargo than an AspX, but less than a Python. It's large landing pad requirement kills it as a main mission ship, but it's great for the missions that it can do. It also overheats too easily on planets and is hard to land at times. The slot is dangerous so don't boost through it and be lined up for it. When you get access to other ships, it just becomes a trophy ship like the iCourier. Kilravock fucked around with this message at 06:51 on May 2, 2017 |
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May 2, 2017 06:45
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Nothing rams like the flipper.
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May 2, 2017 06:55
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The Faulcon DeLacy Python is the fighter that killed Salome. Its almost perfect balance of speed, maneuverability, and defensive shields make it the ship of choice for Diamond Frogs, except when the mission profile disallows it. In addition to 4 Utility Mounts, the Python can carry a number of Torpedo Pylons. It's powered by four Class 6 Thrusters, and requires an on-board goon for peak performance
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May 2, 2017 06:57
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Not saying the Clipper is better than the Python. Just cheaper and faster if you have the rank for one. But yeah the Python seems to be the fad ship for the DF right now.
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May 2, 2017 07:04
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Also a fair thing to remember is that the core chassis price for the iClipper is about 34M cheaper than the Python (~22M for the iClipper, ~56M for the Python) - for the prince of a fresh out-of-the-box Python, you can afford a Clipper, fit it, and still have enough left over for several rebuys. That said, the Clipper is an awesome ship - I'd say it shares its role with the Python, as in, a flexible multipurpose vessel with a distinct slant towards combat - with a distinctly Imperial flavor with the ginormous primary engine cell, a tendency to drift like hell, and powerful shields paired with a hull made out of pixie dust and unicorn farts. Very fun, very deadly ship to fly, I spent several months in one and I'm tempted to buy a new one to fart around in.
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Tippis posted:Speaking of which, has anyone got any good data on the updated rewards? All I have to go on is the EDDiscovery messages, which seem to suggest a ~5× increase for metal planets, and that's about it… which seems both weird and excessive.  This is the one that I've been using for system scan data estimations. My horde of data-scanning minions hasn't told me how far off the estimates are, but the number of data bombs and lack of complaints indicates that it's probably not super far off.
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May 2, 2017 08:13
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mrmcd posted:Whelp I just spent the better part of an hour flying over a huge 2G planet trying to line my ship up with specific coordinates... to get a 132k data package. You might find this site useful. Makes finding coordinates on the surface a whooole lot less annoying.
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I love everything about how the Keelback sounds. Boost: *HONK* and the engines just sound like constant explosions.
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