Gestalt Intellect posted:

What on earth is a "pubbie" in elite.

Met posted:

PvE fighty? You shouldn't really use B or C unless you're trying to be really economical at the expense of weight and power.

NEVER use E. D is lighter.

The Vulture doesn't need all the extra shield stuff, but I did upgrade your shield from a B to an A. The Vulture's defense is it's mobility. Lateral thrust around your targets while you laser them apart. Feel free to use whatever bulkheads you want. Lighter has more mobility.

Added Chaff.

Added a Advanced Discovery Scanner to your empty internal. If I'm doing missions I like to see the entire system that I'm in. It's not necessary though. Add more Cargo or something if you prefer.

Gave you a size 4 cargo container and put your interdictor in the size 1.

Toss a heat sink or two in one of those empty utilities if you want to smuggle or confuse missiles. Might have to turn off the cargo hatch module though.

This build is mainly for mission running. If that's not what you're looking for we can figure something else for you.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/14A5A4A3D5A4D3C1e1e0m00--4a032o662f.Iw19kA==.MwBhCYylgRigLEkQ

Rasmussen posted:

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Fast regen in supercruise would be an option.

tooterfish posted:

Kidnapping and assassination.

The Locator posted:

Ok, thanks. If you are caught smuggling, do they blow you up, or just fail your mission and take your stuff?

Helter Skelter posted:

Being wanted does not inherently prevent you from docking somewhere, however. If you're scanned by the cops on the way in, then sure, they'll revoke docking access and start shooting at you, but not getting scanned isn't exactly difficult most of the time.

Zaardvark posted:

Coincidentally, I was in a doctor's office today, with nothing to read but Hello! magazines and Reader's Digest 'sample copies', which are like condensed (!) versions of Reader's Digest. It occurs to me that the only time I even remember Reader's Digest exists is when I'm seeing a doctor, which is, like, once every couple of years. How do they stay in business?

LCL-Dead posted:

To each their own, of course, but some of those control schemes made me hurt.

Where are you guys who are M&KB binding things like boost, chaff, heat sync or SCBs?

Where are your binds for Next closest hostile, target front or next target?

Where's your contextual FSD button, or are you using separate SC and Hyper buttons?

Where's your bind to switch weapon groups?

I run a cheap Logitech joystick so all movement (pitch/roll/yaw + all strafing up/down/left/right) are bound to the stick, along with boost and targeting controls. Everything else is grouped up towards the left side of my keyboard.

RabidWeasel posted:

Viper IV is an acceptable rare trader and much better than an Adder.

Why they made the new model of a fighter ship into a worse fighter with tons of extra cargo space

slidebite posted:

Jesus, I just got my rear end kicked by an NPC. Went to a hazardous RES to try to do some hunting and spotted a Federal Gunship in a wing with 2 explorer Asps. Figure, hey, I'll take out that Gunship quickly and then kill the asps. Well, the Gunship took about 3x as long to kill as it should have and the asps just kept pounding on me. Finally turned on the Asps and realized they were almost through my shields again so popped another cell and they collapsed them just as it got online. Well poo poo, started taking a bit of damage but just thought I'd jump to the close by star base to repair up. Spooled up frame shift and just as it was about to jump, mass lock. I was going towards the belt (couldn't see it, it was in a system with a ring gap and it was dark). I start to hear the windscreen cracking and notice I'm down to 50%. poo poo, I'd better jump to a system. Panic, pic any system and JUST as the frame shift gets to the last bar to jump, killed.

$3,000,000 rebuy for my Python

Oh well, that's my story.

Hey, what's the trading route tool to use nowdays? Need to do some trucking.

Shine posted:

You don't need an interdicter for assassination missions, incidentally. If you just tail the target in supercruise long enough, they'll eventually drop out on their own, leaving a wake you can target and drop to. Also, those missions are dumb, don't take them.

H13 posted:

So I picked up 9.5 Million bucks worth of smuggling missions from Robigo.

I set out with a huge grin on my face...

...and got scanned after making 1 drop-off. I deployed chaff and was going as fast as I could, but I still got nabbed.

What do I do to not get buggered like this? I made 3 million so not all was lost but was still a bit poo poo.

Eldragon posted:

Holy poo poo that works? I'm writing a program to kill it by pressing a keyboard button.

UCS Hellmaker posted:

So hoping they don't nerf robigo and the rest giving so much money in the beta. It will make the late game grind disappear and bring alot of people back. Make it so the missions scale with rank but keep the 10 to 40 mill payout. But the loving brown sea will scream for a nerf ugh

DancingShade posted:

Unless engineers allow you to beef up your distributor a lot you're going to run out of power & generate too much heat.

Simple solution is to swap to two medium beams & 2 large cannons

(or 2 large frag cannons )

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

I ran a similar setup for months and months. My advice is to swap out the beams for pulses -- it'll save you headaches.

quote:

The good news is that when 2.1 drops c2 beams c3 multis are extremely viable.

hobbesmaster posted:

I kinda wish this was a single player/private server game so you could just create a mod that adjusts the value of npc bounties and other profits on a per server basis. Like, just a few changes would make this game a blast.

hobbesmaster posted:

I can kill Pythons pretty fast, in my vulture, if they don't have shields its goodbye fast. You need military hull or one of the enhanced hulls for the Python.
look at the video again.

DancingShade posted:

Python can still HazRez farm ok, you just need to work a lot harder for it. I feel it still needs tuning.

Basically if you're in a sluggish ship be wary as gently caress engaging agile ones. My first fight post engineers was an NPC Dangerous FAS flying my Python and that fucker would not get off my 6 until I pulled out every trick in the book. The only way I could even shoot back was alternating between reverse shooting and flight assist off.

Good fight.

I refused to engage a wing of 2 Diamondback Scouts and an iCourier though. Previously I'd have jumped in but with this AI? gently caress that noise.

MisterZimbu posted:

I'm an idiot who accepted a trading mission instead of blowing stuff up (though to be fair it sounds like you really can't blow stuff up right now).

I can tell what systems export an item I need, but is there a way in game to easily tell which stations actually sell the commodity, besides checking each one individually on the system map (which in peak requires 5 clicks per station plus loading times if it's on a surface)?

Also I got interdicted by a loving NPC anaconda that immediately opened fire on me. gently caress this piece of poo poo game

MisterZimbu posted:

Thanks for this.

Pretty dumb that there doesn't seem to be any way ingame to do this short of literally visiting every station in a system, but that's E:D for you I guess.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

cool meltdown

Knifegrab posted:

Your best bet is to ignore every single one of his posts, almost all of them devolve to:

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-Nice meltdown
-A meltdown

I believe he thinks he is being "meta" or something.

Literally Kermit posted:

PS I have gotten into my gold asp and am devising plans to get everyone in this here outfit into an iggle with advanced thrusters, or die in the attempt. Pray for me, folks.

ShadowMoo posted:

Seems like it might no longer be necessary to google where to pick up mats.

Blind Rasputin posted:

I don't understand conflict zones. I go to a low intensity one, side with a faction, about two seconds later a hundred NPCs are on me and blow me up. Like, what in hell kind of mechanic is that.

I've even tried to stay with the green pack and not shoot until they do, but that doesn't work either.

Luneshot posted:

What attracts me to exploring in Elite is the accuracy of it, and modeling our actual galaxy- that I can go fly around real objects that I can go look at through a telescope. Objects have realistic physical properties, are classified using real systems and are named according to real catalogues. E:D is the most complete and thorough model of our galaxy in any video game, excepting possibly Space Engine. As an astronomer, it means a lot to me to see my field being represented fairly accurately.

No Man's Sky has none of that, and that doesn't hold nearly the same appeal to me. I realize that 99.9% of players don't give a poo poo about that- but the ability to explore our own galaxy is what drew me to Elite in the first place, and NMS probably won't scratch that itch.

DancingShade posted:

Rocky airless planets aren't terribly flat and if they're low gravity you're going to go flying whenever you hit anything uneven at speed.

Einbauschrank posted:

I am perhaps doing it wrong, but how do I find these pirates I am supposed to hunt? I got 15/16 but now I can't find "mission targets". Neither in free space, nor at nav beacons nor at RES.

Also, are there BGS factors that determime whether a faction offers pirate hunting missions? It's not like war/civil war afaik.

Einbauschrank posted:

Ah, I have to hunt the "pirates of the xyz faction". So not any purate will do. Or is pirate simply another word for "our opponents"?

Morter posted:

I find 95% of those interdicting or being interdicted by them, rather than at zones where pirates spawn

Pilchenstein posted:

Not getting full cost back on modules probably wouldn't be an issue if they'd make any effort at all to balance the price of stuff versus (non-exploit) earnings. Also, I don't think the sky is falling, it's just another reminder that they still haven't worked out which bits of the game are fun yet.