Chrysophylax posted:

Galaga Galaxian posted:

Been thinking about giving the FDL a try, but man, that jump range...

Natsuumi posted:

It remembers all costs paid, ships and components, as that's how it determines your insurance rebut cost.

Cpt. Murphey posted:

I've had the same thing happen to me quite frequently while landing on planetary outposts.

Dongattack posted:

Is there a trick to understanding where the docking port is on those giant cube stations? I see there are some arrows, but i can't figure out how to read it.

Shine posted:

Python supremacy, then!

Shine posted:

Python was my go-to "bigger than the Vulture" RES stomper, but now that I'm using the FAS for that (one C3 beam, everything else frag cannons), I turned the Python back into a miner, which it also does very well.

Helter Skelter posted:

It's actually better in most respects, but falls short in one critically important aspect: It's slow as gently caress. The Mk3 is the fastest ship in the game in a straight line, the Mk4 is one of the slowest. Like, "has trouble catching up to bulk transport craft that aren't the Type 9" slow. There are several ships that would handily outrun it even without boosting.

The Type 6 isn't that much more expensive, and even that's way faster while holding more cargo (better jump range, too).

KakerMix posted:

Potentially, the basic one you have has a limited range, the target planet must be outside it.

EDIT
You also don't need to assign a hotkey to re-select your route, you can select it manually from the left hand menu, just select it normally (it will have the route icon next to it) and your route will resume when you jump into that system.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

So I have a hauling asp right now and it has like 116T of transport, I like it because I can land in outposts. Usually things like slaver missions have a big payout and they take you to outposts which are really easy to just drop off and find something new to do.

I have enough money to get a Type 7, would straight up hauling between stations provide more resources for me than losing access to outposts and their goods/ slaver missions? Would it be better to grind the rep and a few more millions to get a iClipper? Should I say gently caress the hauling life and get a combat vulture?

Main Paineframe posted:

With an empty cargo hold, zero mistakes, and no stopping to scan anything, it takes around eight hours to get to Jaques. By which I mean eight straight hours of active playtime in which you are heading straight there as fast as possible. Even longer if you load up your cargo hold with poo poo to carry out there. It is really far out! If you've never explored before, Jaques isn't a good first trip.

BMan posted:

But seriously dude, have you considered NOT spending a literal entire day doing nothing but pressing "engage hyperdrive" repeatedly?

BMan posted:

Personally I find that aggravating because you have to stop your ship from crashing into a star once per minute.

Shine posted:

Try mining, if you haven't. It's hella space chill mode. Basically Elite's fishing.

Rectus posted:

The outfitting at the engineers usually sell the same kind of modules the the engineer upgrades. The ones that upgrade your engines also sell special size 2 and 3 Racing Engines, and Palin sells size 1 corrosion resistant cargo racks.

Slashrat posted:

I'm pretty sure I read the xkcd "what if"-article on this place

e: found it

Tippis posted:

I don't know where it sits on the “realistic” scale, but the FSD I got on that one gives me ~25 Ly fully laden — I seem to recall that I got lucky with an added fuel use bonus, but I also have a few lightweight upgrades that help. The only combat fit I've ever used for one is that neo-classic mine setup.

But really, the main upside of the Python is that it's the undisputed king of multirole. There are other ships that will do more/better in a single aspect, but they will all have downsides elsewhere. It's not the smallest and nimblest ship ever, but it's not the beached whale you get with a Conda or above and it still carries a sizeable load of weapons or cargo and it only needs universally available medium landing pads. Also, its module slots don't suffer from the under-sizing you see in many other ships — your power plant and distributer will let you fit and use sensible things; your FSD is perhaps top-class, but you're far from a horrible <10Ly single-system-hopper.

hakimashou posted:

Ya i have been posting in their thread, i think some of them have the worst kind of austism.

Tippis posted:

Hopefully, it'll go down the same route as the Engineers: lots of talk and hype and discussion and then… absolutely pitiful usage because it turns out that artificial barriers are stupid and don't create good gameplay. So they'll scratch their heads as to why only 0.05 ships per player were transferred on average over the first few months in spite of it being such a heavily anticipated feature. And then they change it because maybe the initial implementation was a bit daft.ignore it forever like Powerplay and CQC.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

Also FD should tell us the whole story of E: D already; I don't have time to wait until they dole out "clues." It really affects my gameplay, not knowing what's going on.

Efexeye posted:

isn't the Blue Danube on the docking comp an homage to 2001?

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

have a thing for those long range exploration missions:
http://www.spansh.co.uk/

Propagandist posted:

One thing that I'd like to see is a set of pilot "skills" or "traits". Instead of the entirety of the game revolving around money, allow your pilot to have some kind of ability to fly or perform better after hundreds of hours of play.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

That they keep choosing stations >20kls from the landing point is so obviously a giant "gently caress you" to the casual fan base.

"Oh, you want to enjoy some of the limited content we created: have fun with 20 minutes to an hour in super cruise, ya know, just cause!"

jnnnnn posted:

but it's still pointless tedium

Elite: Dangerous - Tedium Is Perfection

Good Dumplings posted:

Agh, nobody hates traveling in a ship you dingus! Docking's good, mining's not bad at all because those loving rocks keep spinning and the limpets are dumb as balls, tooling around on planets is neat. Those things are traveling. It's all the waiting while your ship does nothing that people hate.

Mimesweeper posted:

Seriously? Landing and taking off at absurdly unsafe speeds is super fun, you're really missing out.

Libluini posted:

I'd say it's real, since it actually matches the organic looking alien crap we've been finding very well. I think it even looks like the non-crashed version of the crashed alien ships. If that's a fake, it's the best made fake ever and that guy should be employed by Frontier immediately.

Good Dumplings posted:

Calling it right now, the ship is invincible and the only interaction with aliens is a hauling CG

StarkRavingMad posted:

It turns out that Skimmers are distant relatives to Thargoids. Also Thargoids have time distortion powers, and the instant they see you, they rollback all money and assets you acquired from killing Skimmers, out of vengeance.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

And a very special thanks to our glorious benefactors in Diamond Frogs for making my long dream of a galcop sticker come true!