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One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf

Parkingtigers posted:

bonus gold Sidewinder skin

I want a gold sidey skin for my engineered, armored, ramming troll sidey

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Parkingtigers
Feb 23, 2008
TARGET CONSUMER
LOVES EVERY FUCKING GAME EVER MADE. EVER.
I've recently been watching a YouTube series called "Sidey vs the Galaxy" by Archon Fury where he's trying to take down one of every ship in pvp in a Sidewinder. It's kinda glorious to see that small ships can, when flown well, armed and engineered correctly, and choosing when to fight and when to run, can dominate much larger opponents. Looks hella fun too.

One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf

Parkingtigers posted:

I've recently been watching a YouTube series called "Sidey vs the Galaxy" by Archon Fury where he's trying to take down one of every ship in pvp in a Sidewinder. It's kinda glorious to see that small ships can, when flown well, armed and engineered correctly, and choosing when to fight and when to run, can dominate much larger opponents. Looks hella fun too.

Please tell me there's an episode where he takes down Kancro's conda. I know there isn't, otherwise it would be plastered all over the DF discord

illBilliam
Jan 8, 2006

Parkingtigers posted:

You and any other PS4 goons looking to get into space can add ParkingtigersX on PSN and we'll all be terrible in space together.

Sounds good. I'll be on later tonight to add you or you can beat me to it, PSN is illsense. Same goes for any other soon-to-be PS4 space goons.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Parkingtigers posted:

I've recently been watching a YouTube series called "Sidey vs the Galaxy" by Archon Fury where he's trying to take down one of every ship in pvp in a Sidewinder. It's kinda glorious to see that small ships can, when flown well, armed and engineered correctly, and choosing when to fight and when to run, can dominate much larger opponents. Looks hella fun too.

I watched the first few videos he has and the most entertaining one has been when he was fighting another Sidewinder. Lots of other ones were basically just ganks, like that Keelback that inexplicably did nothing when being attacked even though just a handful of turret mounts would have torn his unshielded Sidewinder to shreds.

I guess that it's possible the Keelback was unarmed (although I dunno why you wouldn't just buy a type 6 in that case) but that would still just be a gank.

Highblood
May 20, 2012

Let's talk about tactics.
Does system state affect the missions you get? I feel like Quince really sucks right now, takes me more than 15 minutes to find a usable board and even then it's usually just 10 scan missions tops but it's in lockdown so maybe that's why? I can usually get up to 20 missions (22 if I get 2 in a bad board) but that hasn't happened in like 2 days.

At this point I think doing passenger might be better.

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

Fojar38 posted:

I watched the first few videos he has and the most entertaining one has been when he was fighting another Sidewinder. Lots of other ones were basically just ganks, like that Keelback that inexplicably did nothing when being attacked even though just a handful of turret mounts would have torn his unshielded Sidewinder to shreds.

I guess that it's possible the Keelback was unarmed (although I dunno why you wouldn't just buy a type 6 in that case) but that would still just be a gank.

Please don't say the word gank it triggers children ~*~ Elite PvPers ~*~

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Highblood posted:

Does system state affect the missions you get?

Yes. Good luck finding any hard data on what is related to what in the background sim, though. :D

Reclaimer
Sep 3, 2011

Pierced through the heart
but never killed



Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Please don't say the word gank it triggers children ~*~ Elite PvPers ~*~

:smith:

Highblood
May 20, 2012

Let's talk about tactics.
Well, felt like taking a break from Quince anyways.
I know grinding engineers is probably literally the worst idea but I was wondering if someone could take a look at this python loadout I made for doing just that and tell me if it's all good or if I'm loving retarded

https://eddp.co/u/igTr93g8

Highblood fucked around with this message at 23:16 on May 16, 2017

Reclaimer
Sep 3, 2011

Pierced through the heart
but never killed



Highblood posted:

Well, felt like taking a break from Quince anyways.
I know grinding engineers is probably literally the worst idea but I was wondering if someone could take a look at this python loadout I made for doing just that and tell me if it's all good or if I'm loving retarded

https://eddp.co/u/igTr93g8

Probably don't need a KWS for engineering. I'd use a biweave with a second shield booster. Also, your undersized, D-rated power distributor is making me sad.

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

Highblood posted:

Well, felt like taking a break from Quince anyways.
I know grinding engineers is probably literally the worst idea but I was wondering if someone could take a look at this python loadout I made for doing just that and tell me if it's all good or if I'm loving retarded

https://eddp.co/u/igTr93g8

Get rid of the cargo space, outside of the minimum required for limpets.

Nothing an engineer wants requires anything that takes up cargo space except for some initial unlocks, and eventually you're going to have to go to an anarchy RES zone to kill cargo haulers for Chem Manipulators. You'll be hoovering stuff up with limpets, and eventually one of them will pick up something dumb like a single unit of bio waste and then every pirate in the zone will scan you and attack you in order to get that sweet 35 credit booty.

Breetai fucked around with this message at 00:07 on May 17, 2017

LostCosmonaut
Feb 15, 2014

Reclaimer posted:

Also, your undersized, D-rated power distributor is making me sad.

Not an emptyquote.

Charge-Enhanced 5 is seriously the best engineering upgrade out there, along with long range FSD5 and DD5.

Parkingtigers posted:

I've recently been watching a YouTube series called "Sidey vs the Galaxy" by Archon Fury where he's trying to take down one of every ship in pvp in a Sidewinder. It's kinda glorious to see that small ships can, when flown well, armed and engineered correctly, and choosing when to fight and when to run, can dominate much larger opponents. Looks hella fun too.


Doesn't seem that impressive, as well all know a Sidewinder is functionally identical to an Anaconda :shrug:

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
which one of you broke quince :argh:

3 Action Economist
May 22, 2002

Educate. Agitate. Liberate.
Decided to work on FSD engineering. Some very engaging gameplay, sitting at a famine distribution center, scanning high wakes for an hour with no results.

:frontear:

Reclaimer
Sep 3, 2011

Pierced through the heart
but never killed



Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

which one of you broke quince :argh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLV9MDYzM1c

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

idgi

Reclaimer
Sep 3, 2011

Pierced through the heart
but never killed




It's in lockdown on account of all the gankin', though I can't claim sole credit.

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

Reclaimer posted:

It's in lockdown on account of all the gankin', though I can't claim sole credit.

oh :rolleyes:

Reclaimer
Sep 3, 2011

Pierced through the heart
but never killed




Yeah. :nallears:

Plek
Jul 30, 2009
Uh, what's the song you used?

Ursine Catastrophe
Nov 9, 2009

It's a lovely morning in the void and you are a horrible lady-in-waiting.



don't ask how i know

Dinosaur Gum

to be fair, I think most of us were in the homefront since the weekend. there's at least one brown sea avenger there who's got an organization devoted to clubbing seals because quince making the grind easy delegitimizes the work he did to get his cash/rank, or something :jerkbag:

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

to be fair, I think most of us were in the homefront since the weekend. there's at least one brown sea avenger there who's got an organization devoted to clubbing seals because quince making the grind easy delegitimizes the work he did to get his cash/rank, or something :jerkbag:

the propensity towards seal-clubbing is why elite "PvP" is pretty lol

Reclaimer
Sep 3, 2011

Pierced through the heart
but never killed



Plek posted:

Uh, what's the song you used?

"Using You" by Mars Argo.

Plek
Jul 30, 2009
Thanks! It was a catchy tune and gives me an early 00s vibe.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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uhh guys



FronzelNeekburm
Jun 1, 2001

STOP, MORTTIME
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adamantium|wang
Sep 14, 2003

Missing you
It's a bit of a shock to find your landing pad already occupied by a Type 9





Docking control was yelling at me the whole time. Allocate me a different pad then, rear end in a top hat :argh:

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Fojar38 posted:

uhh guys





What are you trying to show us?

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Dabir posted:

What are you trying to show us?

Space-borne military outpost but iys on a planet for some reason? That's my guess.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

I can barely make anything out.

Rectus
Apr 27, 2008

Looks like he's underground looking up at an outpost.

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Looks like an invisible planet. Occasionally the game glitches out and planets are just totally invisible. I've seen it happen a few times myself. :frontear:

Trustworthy
Dec 28, 2004

with catte-like thread
upon our prey we steal

Breetai posted:

Chem Manipulators

I engineer a lot of gimmick ships and here are some other things I can never have too many of:

* Datamined Wake Exceptions
* Conductive Ceramics (used by a bunch of decent lightweight mods, and if you care about weight you'll be lightweighting like five things on a single ship)
* Conductive Components

LCL-Dead
Apr 22, 2014

Grimey Drawer

adamantium|wang posted:

It's a bit of a shock to find your landing pad already occupied by a Type 9





Docking control was yelling at me the whole time. Allocate me a different pad then, rear end in a top hat :argh:

If that were actually a ship I'd fly the gently caress out of it.

Trustworthy
Dec 28, 2004

with catte-like thread
upon our prey we steal

LCL-Dead posted:

If that were actually a ship I'd fly the gently caress out of it.

Federal Heavy Gunboat, jump range: 0.5ly

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
Cracked. Industrial. Firmware :argh:

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

mrmcd posted:

Looks like an invisible planet. Occasionally the game glitches out and planets are just totally invisible. I've seen it happen a few times myself. :frontear:

It's this.

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro
I just realized Didi wants 50 Shield Patterns... :rip:

adamantium|wang posted:

It's a bit of a shock to find your landing pad already occupied by a Type 9





Docking control was yelling at me the whole time. Allocate me a different pad then, rear end in a top hat :argh:

I would fly that hulking bulk over a t9/conda any day!

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Trustworthy
Dec 28, 2004

with catte-like thread
upon our prey we steal

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Cracked. Industrial. Firmware :argh:

Ugggggggggggh lemme just go-kart around this dumb base for another dumb hour

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