AndroidHub posted:

As far as the actual game content goes, the most frustrating part is that they refuse to go back and do balance passes or any kind of polishing, powerplay is the best example of this, they put in this half finished "thing" about political intrigue and cool factions with unique goals then just left it as basically a framework with every faction having the same basic objectives and only a couple granting bonuses or modules worth fighting for unless you're a roleplaying maniac.

Libluini posted:

You know, this is kind of interesting. This observation makes it look like Frontier can only lose here: If they make more ships, people will complain about many of them not being the absolute best in whatever category. If they don't make more ships, people will complain about having not enough choice.

Sekenr posted:

Well, I also play since december but somehow explored my way into an Asp + Vulture + Courier + Clipper + 50 mil, I HAVE done some trading and RES hunting but no more than just a faw evenings. Clipper is a LONG way from being fitted properly. I think this money might be due to CG abuse?

Zaardvark posted:

Hey, are there any exploration-related events happening at the moment? I'll be returning from a multi-month exploration trip to the core and back, and I'm going to have a poo poo ton of explore data to sell.

OB_Juan posted:

It's better for dumb stuff like bobbleheads and paintjobs to be pricey, and not have anything that effects gameplay for sale than some other, worse models.

LCL-Dead posted:

I mean.. Anyone who back during the Beta is going to be into the larger and more expensive tier of ships by this point in the game unless they never play. So why the hell would you reward a single Viper when the original offer was for 'one of three ships'?

Gerbil_Pen posted:

Does E:D require a monthly sub?

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Also

Is this steam sale a good way to get in (~$27), or are there cheaper methods? http://store.steampowered.com/app/359320/?snr=1_4_4__112

LCL-Dead posted:

Requested complete refund of Star Citizen account..

Trying to decide what to do with it.

Crimson Harvest posted:

So the expansion is ~$45 if you already own the game. I have a feeling I should get it at that price rather than wait for it to go up when the loyalty discount ends.

Is there a comprehensive list of what content is going/expected to go in the xpac?

Dante80 posted:

A pretty nice voyage to the core and back.

Libluini posted:

gently caress. I made 47 jumps yesterday!

Aramoro posted:

Ah handy, I'm currently really bad at supercruising and coming out of supercruise at my destination, like it flashes up I should slow down but well after I should have started slowing down so I kinda obrit it trying to slow down to some reasonable speed nearby before cruising in.

Insert name here posted:

Two smuggle missions to the same outpost with a combined payout of one million? Sign me the gently caress up for easy money!

Xae posted:

I just ultra-cheesed the mission generator at Sothis and only picked up missions that ended at outposts.

Adult Sword Owner posted:

So why is Sothis the preferred smuggling station?

Kurr de la Cruz posted:

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.

Wee Tinkle Wand posted:

It is a bit random but in an Asp you should be doing about 20-30m a run.

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As you get more trader ranks you get more higher paying missions with fewer refreshes.

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?

PadreScout posted:

Yeah- Diamondback Explorer. I thought since it carries so much fuel and has a what? 35 LY max jump range it'd let me do my rare routes with fewer fuel stops, but in reality it just uses a shitton more gas and only seems to jump around 17 LY with cargo. My little hauler can do 24. Adds 4 or 5 freaking jumps to my route. I like the look of it, that's why I bought it, but drat man, it's not working out for me. Maybe I'll leave in the hangar until I can afford to really hop it up, that or just buy the loving Cobra. I got the drat Diamondback Explorer blues.

Adult Sword Owner posted:

PS loving witchspace is broken again

Maybe this is how they are addressing Sothis, by making long runs absolutely awful

Sard posted:

I have a Type 6 and a DBS, should I bother with this Sothis stuff at all or am I too space poor? I mean if I can do it viably, it'll be nice to have some bank built up for when the Federal Corvette comes out so I can get it and finally stop being nice to Federal ships and join up with goons maybe.

Adult Sword Owner posted:

OK he did have an Asp but gently caress this guy

Sekenr posted:

So - I have about a 100 mil in free assets, the question is trade Python or T9? 250 cargo space isn't a very big improvement over ~200 that my Clipper can carry. So - is outpost landing preferable over 500 loving tons, opinions goons?

3 posted:

I just whipped up a completely no-frills Exploraconda here. Season with additional modules to taste, but the enormous default jump range of the Anaconda lets you play with internal fittings with a minimal hit to LY covered; you can also remove the additional fuel tank to bump the single-jump range to 37.21 LY if you're careful about navigating with regard to scoopable stars.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I'm gonna laugh if headlights are the single variable that effects whether you're scanned while smuggling.

Dante80 posted:

From a design point of view, having something so precious as a ship be vulnerable when the Commander has little to no chance of rescuing it (if you parked your ship and drove off a long distance from it) seems undesirable to me. I guess I would see it as being akin to leaving your ship present in space when you left the game. My issue here is that there's no sensible player choice here, only a strong punishment and disincentive to using your SRV for any decent amount of ground travel time.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

Having your ship effectively disappear from the game when you're in the SRV just makes sense form a game design perspective.

Who are the people opposed to this?

Trustworthy posted:

http://imgur.com/a/2dkcd

It's my understanding that it has to do with how real life astronomical data is stitched together inside the game. Which is understandable and all; I just can't recall seeing anywhere near as many cubes in civilized space as have been jumping out at me over the last couple weeks.

Libluini posted:

During one of the recent streams they said there are actually both smaller and larger classes of the module, with the large one being able to carry multiple buggies. So it's actually made in a way to allow even the Sidewinder to carry a buggy.

Valatar posted:

The Clipper's length hosed with me for the first several times I docked. I'd get through the slot, rotate to align with the landing pad, then promptly smash a wing on something because the ship's rear end hadn't cleared the slot yet.

Literally Kermit posted:

It's more or less a placeholder, hopefully it will tie in the upcoming passenger service thing (take on the survivor, maybe get a mission from them! but that is me speculating. Something like that is definitely in the works tho, according to dev notes

Dante80 posted:

• Passengers? Planned, but can't remember exact timescale.
  

Dante80 posted:

Stanko-Prussian posted:

It beats them launching it and, i dunno, it crashing every five minutes and ships flying off into space from physics errors and none of the stations rotating correctly and everything shaking, something along those lines maybe.

Dante80 posted:

Its pretty sad that we have been playing for months with bad asteroids. Many people were thinking that the game was downgraded in graphics in some of the latest versions. So its either a bug, or they did downgrade the graphics and now in 1.5 beta you can get the old shadows back unintentionally. Hope they fix the bug soon.

Galaga Galaxian posted:

It'd be cool if they brought back the old one-shot wirmhole super-hyperdrives used to jump between different "Galaxies"* in the original Elite as a way to cross thousands of Lightyears in one go (but single use, of course).

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For the Beta 2 public test, Beagle 2 Landing in Asellus Primus star system also has all modules and ships available in stock

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

From what I can see, class impacts the number of SRV's you can carry -- class 4 can carry two, but there's also a G ahd H rating and the only difference between them is that the H rating weighs twice as much.

xyigx posted:

got this as a gift. Read the op. One question, do I just tool about single player till I make some credits or is there somewhere I should be heading in the poopcraft v1 in multiplayer. Seems like most all I can get around the starting area is mining missions that I can't do with my equipment or bounty hunter stuff that directs me to empty space. Occasionally I get a space trucker mission that pays a whopping 6-12k bit that's about it.

Oh and the bounty stuff seemed to work better in solo mode since there were actual ships to shoot in the places they sent me, pay was still poopy though.