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Adult Sword Owner posted:I don't regret purchasing it at all even though I'm awful and am stuck at around 700k credits so I can't actually get out of my Viper Sell all the modules off your viper, buy a cobra chassis, fit it out and do smuggling missions (drugs, weapons, slaves) for 100-200k a pop, and you'll have enough to buy something bigger in no time.
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Siets posted:Haven't played E:D since 1.1 or so. Figured I would wait and see if the game introduced better income generation methods over a few patch cycles. Ignoring the 50 million weekly stipend, with the bounty bonuses it is super easy for you to get 10 mil an hour just bounty hunting with the rank 5 bonus. Or even more. I clocked in 15 million in less than an hour just farting around half-assedly resetting a HiRES.
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Adult Sword Owner posted:Also as I understand in the smuggling theory is request a dock, line up to the slot, boost up and hit silent running until you get inside? When I was doing it I didn't even bother with the running silent, I just rushed the slot at full boost while abusing lateral thrusters. Once you're through the slot you're generally OK. Smuggling will get your merchant rank up pretty quick, too. Edit: Also runs to outposts are ideal since there's no cops out there.
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Sep 14, 2015 19:47
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Siets posted:Cool, thanks for the info. From what I can gather, this method seems to be the highest form of income in the game currently, correct? Or are there still yet better methods that only those who are in with the Mumble Illuminati are privy to? This is probably the quickest way, yes. It takes some low to moderate poopsocking, but if you like flying around and blowing poo poo up it's not a big deal. Also we don't have a mumble illuminati, just an IRC autocracy.
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Sep 15, 2015 20:27
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Siets posted:Can you or someone explain this in more detail? Haven't played since 1.1. I'm working on my Rank 5 at the moment. When you hit rank 5, if you're with avril whoever (I can never tell these people apart -- the not anime princess one) her rank 5 bonus is a nice fat 100% added bonus to bounties. So you get rank 5, then you go to a resource extraction site and shoot pirates for their bounties, which get the multiplier when you go to turn them in. resource extraction sites are found at planets with metallic rings. I think also rocky rings. But definitely not icy rings. Hi/Low/Normal intensity doesn't seem to really matter, either way you'll end up doing a lot of quit to menu -> start game to reset the instance until you get one that has lots of good targets to kill. e:f,b
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Sep 17, 2015 19:21
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I've cashed in over 100 million in bounty vouchers in empire space, I'm considered an "ally" by empire systems, and yet no rank, no missions to even start on the path. poo poo seems broke.
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Sep 24, 2015 22:58
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Are we talking about Super Contra?
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Sep 25, 2015 21:37
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Going near a magnetar sounds like a really bad idea anyway. Seriously this is some baaad poo poo.
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Sep 29, 2015 16:30
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lee_ars posted:It's definitely among the influences, yep. The whole thing is supposed to have a hardboiled noir-ish feel to it. Anyway, not selling anything or pimping for an indiegogo publishing campaign, but I know past issues have popped up in this thread and past ED threads and wanted to share for those folks who are of a graphic novel bent. This is really cool thanks for sharing it! How did you put it together, screenshots + posterization filters?
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Leif. posted:Where do I find paint/livery schemes? I've never seen it available so far, though I haven't explored too much. They cost real money: https://www.frontierstore.net/
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Oct 6, 2015 20:49
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Chrysophylax posted:BTW guys, mining at a HazRES is amazing. The yields are spectacular, you can fill your ship in almost no time. We just had a session with a few of us providing cover while others mined. Great fun Playing mining escort is fun, and you even get a cut of the take in the form of trade dividends! HazRes guarding can get fairly intense, too, so bring a hefty ship that can slug it out.
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Paramemetic posted:This is not true, I was receiving dividends from Dils all last night whenever he was selling the things he mined. This is true, I made a couple hundred k from "Trade Dividends" whatever those are. Most of the money made last night came from good old fashioned honest space american space murder, though. I think I pulled in about 10 million or so? The Frantic nature of things prevented me from hitting the pirates with a KWS, but all things considered it was fun and good.
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Oct 8, 2015 14:46
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I think he got lost and is looking for the Star Citizen thread maybe???
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Oct 9, 2015 19:00
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When ramming, you need to switch your SYS pips to max right before impact.
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Oct 14, 2015 15:11
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 ATTENTION SMUGGLERS Here's one crazy trick to prevent your rear end from being scanned by the po-po: Pop a chaff You can't be scanned while chaff is active! Old Johnny Law Hates this trick!
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Oct 15, 2015 21:20
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We are gonna do sooooo much stupid fun poo poo in those rovers. Grand Prix on New Africa, demolition derbies, anaconda ramping. Oooooh maaaan. 
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Oct 16, 2015 15:31
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Voyager I posted:Guess I better hop on the Sothis train before it gets patched if I ever want to fly a ship bigger than a Vulture. I came into the game late 1.3. I started with the standard sidewinder and 1000 credits. That was approximately 6 weeks ago. Now I'm sitting on 595,890,122 CR in total assets, 387,324,402 Cr cash money. I farted around the first 2 weeks doing basic smuggling missions until I had enough to get into an Adder, then a Cobra, and then finally a Vulture. Then I found out about the Power Play/Undermining grind and started making a hundred million credits a week. Sadly that's not really a thing anymore, as interdicting is much harder now. I'll probably continue to make shitloads of cash doing the smuggling runs until they nerf the poo poo out of that, and hopefully by then I'll be a billionaire and just not care anymore.
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Adult Sword Owner posted:I mean I've done basically this path (though Eagle -> Cobra -> Vulture), but how the hell did you get that much that quickly It was a couple hours a week doing the undermining of enemy factions (10k merits to start, then 5k a week after) + an hour or two in a RES a week to make 100 million. Everyone moans about the grind, but coming from old school MUDs and WoW and poo poo, the grind is effortless to me. I actually kind of enjoyed it, because the combat/flight model is so good.
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SynthOrange posted:Okay what's with the Advanced Discovery Scanner? The range says inf, but I point it at a distant unexplored object and it doesnt scan? The discovery scanner only tells you that something is there, not what it is. To find out what it is, you have to target it and get fairly close. Once you see the swirling "SCANNING" thing in your lower left display, just wait.
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Oct 17, 2015 22:49
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This needs more love, Rykka did an amazing job:
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Oct 18, 2015 15:34
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Gonna pimp my rover out soooo hard.
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Oct 21, 2015 20:09
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Your ship actually has headlights. Press "L" to turn them on. Usually it's enough of a warning. Usually.
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Oct 29, 2015 01:05
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Thrustmaster HOTAS X is like 40-50 bucks and a very solid product. I recommend that.
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Oct 29, 2015 22:34
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I would pay a few thousand credits to hitch a ride to another station without having to drive there myself. That could be kind of cool. of course, if I took passengers on myself, we'd be taking a 1-way trip into a black hole as soon as everyone was belted in.
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Nov 5, 2015 22:30
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I really don't want to hear diatribes about how the docking system is broken and how he shouldn't be forced to get a docking computer but also at the same time, the game should compensate for his complete lack of situational awareness and oh my god he couldn't even pass proving grounds silver in wow pleease noooooo
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aleksendr posted:After making nearly a half million on trade and mission i decided to try my hand at combat. Armed with a brand new Cobra MKIII (i just love the engine sound on that bird) with mostly B and C class fitting i spotted a "low intensity" conflict zone and had the brillant idea of getting involved. Don't do conflict zones unless it's to help a faction. The pay is garbage, the ships are WAY tougher than anything you'll find in any RES, and you can very easily get your poo poo pushed in at a moment's notice if you don't know what you're doing. Seriously, CZ ships pack armor and hull reinforcements, while most pirate ships don't. Bounties also pay out a hell of a lot more. So go kill some rats!
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Reverend Jake posted:To get the full DF experience, I figured I'd give it a shot tonight on the 55" TV in the living room, via Steam streaming. I unplugged the HOTAS X from the PC in the studio, plugged it into the Macbook in the living room, plugged the Macbook into the TV, started up, marveled at the splash screen and menu in glorious hugeness... Try installing drivers for it on the mac? Does it need drivers?
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Einbauschrank posted:I have amassed 100K in fines and the stupid ship computer is only able to tell me that the offended party is the "Glory to the People Party". No starsystem, nothing. Any ideas how I can pay back the fines with this meagre information? Dont pay fines. That's for suckers.
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The funny thing is the clipper is kind of poo poo now. It used to be awesome, and it's still pretty decent, but it's nowhere near as good as it used to be. Ironically, I think it was a combination of the hull tank meta and the FAS that killed its popularity. I almost never see anyone flying them anymore. Why fly the clipper when you could be flying the FAS which is even more maneuverable, and a lot harder to hit?
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tooterfish posted:On the assumption they're lower power, so contribute less heat? There is absolutely no reason to use E class modules because D class modules are superior in every way except price. They're lighter, use less energy, and slightly more effective than E class modules in every way. It's a flat upgrade.
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Kavros posted:Is there literally any way to get the black friday paint job if you missed it by a short time? Nope. Sorry.
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Apr 22, 2016 16:43
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Pretty sure the run-away AI is already in place. I see it all the time on PP NPCs, specifically the ones hauling mcguffins for you to interdict/stop.
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May 6, 2016 18:35
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I still don't see how incentivizing open play in any way diminishes the experience of solo/private group players. Like, seriously? Why so against it? If you don't want to play open, you don't have to. There's no penalty. Not getting a bonus is NOT a penalty.
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May 11, 2016 02:38
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I'm not saying deny single/group players anything. Leave them exactly as they are, but throw on a 10% bonus to whatever for Open Players, as an incentive to play in open. How exactly is that diminishing the experience of single/group players?
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Main Paineframe posted:Don't. Powerplay is garbage, and conflict zones are pretty bad too. Nav beacons and resource extraction sites give you just as much fighting for a lot less trouble. The Python is another Can-Do-Everything ship. It's actually one of the best trading ships because it can hold the most while still fitting on a medium docking pad, which means it can still dock at outposts. It packs 3 Large hardpoints and 2 Mediums, giving it the most firepower you can get aside from the big 3C ships (Corvette, Cutter, and 'Conda). It's fairly maneuverable as well, but not terribly fast. It has decent range too. The only downside is that it's pretty expensive. You'll need around a hundred million credits just to fit it with A class thrusters, powerplant, shield, FSD and Distributor. So add on a few more million for weapons and internals.
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Knifegrab posted:It would seem the Vive UI scale fix, that is listed in the patch notes, did not actually make it to this release either. Thanks frontier! Are you loving serious?? That's the major thing I was looking forward to. 
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May 26, 2016 21:25
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Out of curiosity: what are people looking for, exactly, content-wise? Everyone always throws that line around, no content, mile wide, inch deep etc etc, but I never really got what people are expecting. There seems to be plenty of stuff to do in the game, especially now that there's this whole randomized loot/farming/grinding thing added in. Lots of interesting ways to customize your ship. Like at what point do you say "OK, there's an adequate amount of things to do"?
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Have they managed to make the Galaxy Map usable in VR yet? I'm wanting to get back into the game, but the unusable interface was just ruining it for me.
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black.lion posted:I will do this In your Galaxy Map, when plotting a route, there's 3 options: FSD Boost, Economical Routes, Fastest Routes -- Tick the Fastest Routes option.
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