TipsyMcStagger posted:

You sound exactly like what I just did.. I got a good button set up now.. I'll share it later tonight.. hopefully I can find a way of dumping the binds but I think i'll have to edit that picture set up.

TipsyMcStagger posted:

Here's without my comments.


Here's with my comments.


http://www.mcdee.net/elite/configs/fznzdt.binds for the file.

Lastly, I'm not showing Galaxy map controls, fighter controls, multicrew controls because I haven't had enough experience with them to know what's important to bind, you'll have to try different configurations for the galaxy map controls. I currently hate mine and in the middle of rebinding.

CapnBry posted:

I just fired up E:D for the first time in a couple of months yesterday in VR and all the buttons on the base of the joystick are. the. loving. worst. For some reason all my bindings were reset so I had the default setup and I remembered how bad it is to have functions bound to them. Even if I could see them, I have to choose to let go of my stick or throttle to blow chaff, open the cargo scoop, or put the landing gear down? Let's just say that taking my hands off the controls does not synergize well with my full-throttle-drifting-flip landing style.

It is a good stick though and feels nice and precise without the sloppy center position my HOTAS X had. I'm not a big fan of the forward only throttle either. It does have nice threaded holes in the bottom for mounting which is a big plus not having to bungee cord the controllers to chair arms. The workaround for losing the 12 (twelve!) buttons at the base of the stick is to use one of the hats on the throttle as a shift key then making chord button combinations. I only remap heatsink, chaff, hardpoint retract, landing gear and scoop but leave galaxy map, system map, game menu, reset HMD and ship lights on the base buttons. That means I only use one of the hat's one direction as a shift so I only lose one button there.

haveblue posted:

Yeah, I sold a load between the goal maxing out and the completed status appearing and it didn't change anything. I did make a profit on the sale, though, so there's that.

Mike the TV posted:

You can no longer make player factions as of last month.

Zutaten posted:

Canonn is special. They're the group that basically devotes their entire lives to figuring out Elite and its mysteries. So they got rewarded with a faction in their name, and more recently, were the subject of a community goal to build a new megaship, which succeeded and brought us the Gnosis. Canonn leadership also apparently has the ability to move said ship anywhere they want to, up to 2500 light years at a time, every Thursday (when the servers update) by asking nicely. Tomorrow will be its maiden voyage, and it'll be leaving the Varati system for... Somewhere in Hyades? I think.

Eldragon posted:

Frontier will look at this unexpected result and conclude: "Clearly this game requires more grind"

Mike the TV posted:

The first INRA base has been found. GalCop is back.

KakerMix posted:

I read them instead but they own.

orange juche posted:

yeah i read them, they're pretty good.

Enos Cabell posted:

Between the Diamond Frogs CG and the Oculus update that lets me pull a Netflix window into my vr cockpit, it's a good week to come back!

Enos Cabell posted:

In the lower right corner of that window, there is a pushpin looking icon, that will make it stick. Took me a few tries to figure that out, they are kinda hard to see.

AzureSkys posted:

I started to head there and at the beginning of my 12 jump trip I encountered a dwarf star. I thought I'd see if I could try the FSD boost thing for the 1st time in my Asp X only to not have the yellow border not show up as I approached it. So just as I hit the jet I was forced out of supercruise. It took a fair while of bouncing around as all my modules failed until I finally blew up.

Needless to say I've not done any rescuing yet.

AzureSkys posted:

I did reboot twice while stuck and my hull was slowly being damaged. I couldn't maneuver well enough to get out of the jet before the module would fail again, sadly.

48 Hour Boner posted:

Looks like Frontier has you covered.

IcePheenix posted:

Every time I dare to start enjoying this game again, one of the ridiculously obtuse problems problems always surfaces and just kills any and all motivation I had to keep playing. I was super excited to go and evac some survivors of the damaged starports, but then I had to wait an hour and a half and pay 1.5 million credits for the lovely ship transfer. I could literally fly to Skvortsov and back (to the Pleiades) twice in that time, what a horribly implemented feature.

iospace posted:

One part:


With the correction that in supercruise it's the optimal position for hitting the dropout point with the correct speed. In sub-light mode it's the most maneuverable point, yes.

Basically what you can do is set your throttle at that point and you'd never have to touch it again until you drop out at your destination. You still have to steer.

vorebane posted:

Drake 263 posted a very nice comparision.


I can't personally speak to how they fare in a high rez, but my vulture is fun there when I remember to be cautious.

Dolemite posted:

I guess more and more people are finding out about the Parutis <-> Medb passenger run (thx for. I've racked up a few "reckless flying" fines due to people hauling rear end into the mail slot or just straight ramming everyone out of the way. And since my Anaconda takes up the whole mail slot, I can't avoid these people.

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Speaking of, I'm really regretting the purchase of the Anaconda. I was hoping to use it as a general purpose murder ship/cargo and passenger hauler. I know that huge ship = slow. But, after flying the Python for so long and getting used to how slow it flies and turns, I didn't expect such an insane downgrade in maneuvering! I would never choose to fly it in combat. It'll get eaten alive by anything fast enough to beat a minivan in a race.

My AspEx is my mining and exploration ship, I've been using my Python for combat and space trucking. Not sure what other uses there are for an Anaconda. Unless engineering turns the Anaconda into a beast? I've been grinding Fed rank, so I'm curious if the Corvette will be just as slow.

Kurr de la Cruz posted:

Being wanted doesn't really mean a whole hell of a lot. You can conduct all the business you want while wanted, just don't let the cops scan you. Be quick when docking, or drop heatsinks when you start to be scanned, and you can pass thru without issue.

Dwesa posted:

Go to Parutis, find passenger missions that go to Vela Dock in Medb, go to Medb and alt-tab while you fly to Vela Dock (it takes about 25 minutes, but pays a lot).
Also, you should probably equip a lot of economy class cabins beforehand.

Kurr de la Cruz posted:

do it if you need the money, but what I'm saying is don't let that be all you do. I've seen dozens of players come and go, they latch on to whatever money making gimmick is hot at the moment, make a ton of money, buy a cutter or corvette, and then lose interest because they reached their end goal and know nothing about the game beyond flipping boards and doing the one specific task that got them their money.

food court bailiff posted:

I just got this during the sale and it seems like it's entirely My Kind Of Thing because I love flying around in space doing random Space Stuff. But I've played through the first handful of tutorials and the combat one wrecked me three times before I finally scraped by. What am I missing there? I was basically trying to maneuver to keep the other guy in front of me enough for my gimbals to ping him, right? I'm honestly still trying to wrap my head around the best way to fly around in real 3D space based on what I see on the radar, but still - I'd blow up the first guy, his friend would show up, I'd lock on, switch weapon groups, and then promptly get shot all to hell and back. Meanwhile the tutorial voiceover lady is telling me poo poo like it's going to be so easy I should divert power away from shields into weapons, stuff like that. It's really jarring - I've got to be doing something horribly wrong.

Also, is there a PDF somewhere of a good setup for a Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X? It feels like more things could be bound (or things could be bound more efficiently) but I'm new enough to both the game and the gear that I'd rather play around with someone else's binding set up for a while. I played FPSes with the arrow keys until like 2003, I don't want to repeat that kind of nonsense.

ALSO also, is Horizons cool? It looks cool. I'd shell out $30 for something cool, but I'm worried that they're about to announce another "season pass" or something soon.

Blind Rasputin posted:

Oh, you guys at the CG we’re looking for the Gorilla Channel?

DreadLlama posted: