/edg/ Elite: Dangerous general

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1st for Lewd Space Porn

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>sold my cobra for a dbs

Did I fuck up?

>>124249443
You took the high road.
Unlimited Cannonworks.

>>124250158
Yeah I'm liking this a lot better. More maneuverable and better hardpoint placement. Better ship all around.

Cobra's nice but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone wanting to truck or to hunt, only for someone who for some reason still hasn't figured out what they like.

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>choosing my name

So this is where I die.

>>124251869
Dugald Ainsley
Rembrant Shasofar
Tergin Farquad
Tillieant Favorae

>>124249443
This guy again

Why the fuck do I keep picking fights with Pythons?

These long range missions sure are fun

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>>124254709
>jump
>interdiction
>jump
>interdiction

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I wish this game had a good tutorial that set the buttons up as you go

yes im casual and shit at this game

>>124258220
this sounds devilishly delicious

>be exploring (uncharted space)
>about to go to hyperspace
>see a weak signal
>check it out
>canisters
>oh I wonder what those are
>hydrogen fuel
>
>NOPE
>Point to next star and book it
>see 3 ships come on radar just before I jump

Fuck that shit man. Fuck. That. Shit.

Should I come back? Haven't played in about 6 months.

Is it worth getting into the beta?

So with the recent sale on steam, I picked up ED for 14 bucks. Having a blast so far, got a Viper and a Cobra to my name.

Thinking of eventually working towards an FDL. Any advice?

>>124259953
Yes.

Devs gotta eat.

>>124260209
Wh-what about me?! Devs don't deserve to eat if I'm not having fun!

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I have a fully kitted smuggling ASP. What ship should I get next?

>>124261293
Python if you dont want to kill yourself farming ranks.

>>124249443

Nerf stealth DBS builds.

>>124252618

Because even a Hauler can stick to their blind spot like superglue?

>>124255332

Eluding a pursuer isn't part of the vision. You either stop and kill them, or get killed by them.

>>124261293
type 7 for maximum slave tradin

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>>124261356
I have about 80mil creds right now, it is going to be enough to make it at least decent?

>>124261614
I don't have weapons on my ASP. I just chaff and boost away

>>124258220
>>124258432
>the news coverage surrounding the origin of the chefs mirrors the selection and training process for the Spartan program
>Master Chef

>>124261714
enough to make it trade/mining capable

>>124251869
>not maining mister lister

>>124261714
>80 mil
>not doing big boy slave trading

the fuck?

>>124261714

Makes a decent outpost-capable trader with 80mil.

Most Battlepython builds run over 200mil

>>124261970
cool thx. Going to look up some builds

>>124262014
I just started 2days ago and desu I have no idea what I'm doing. Is slave trading like long haul missions? I really don't want to do 300+lr round trips anymore family

Finally getting back into Elite from when the powerplay update released.

My faction is at #4 now, I see new ships, etc. Anything I missed? New ships are some fed ones and imperial eagle?

>>124261653

Lakon Type-7 Transporter:

-Slow
-Bad jump range
-Terrible heat management
-Weak hull
-Pathetic shields
-Pointless weapon hardpoints
-Completely outclassed at trading by the Python and Clipper
-Barely squeezes through the letterbox
-Winglets don't even fold up to enable you to go through sideways
-Handles like a bathtub full of bricks on an ice skating rink

+Faster than the loyalty/preorder bonus Cobra MK IV

>>124262250
>I really don't want to do 300+lr round trips anymore family

Exploit them while you can. That sort of payout wasn't intended (It was supposed to take months to build up your first 100M) and those missions got nerfed to useless in the next patch that's being tested right now.

>>124262610
what long haul missions are you doing that makes cash money. i do a round route that goes back and forth between 2 posts that makes ~4500 per tonne.

i hear people talk about long haul smuggle but i dont know how to do it

>>124262320

The Imperial refit of the Eagle changes the roof HP to a medium and gives it the boost speed of a Cobra. It still has a class2 PD though so it can't chain boost. Also it has heat issues.

The Federal Assault Ship is like Vulture 2.0, only without the power issues and with added ramming.

>>124262924
Federal assault ship sounds pretty snazzy. I have an imp clipper and imp courier right now. Are they outdated now or what?

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>>124262610
fack guess I'm just going to keep grinding before I have fun. I want to buy the Python but Im going to save up till I can fully upgrade it

>>124262723
I go to FEHU. It has two stations and I travel between them. So go to first station look at bulletin take all the 900-1mil missions then log out and go to open and refresh the bulletin. Go back to solo and go to the station next to it repeat process

>>124262723

There are a handful of settled systems a considerable distance away from the bubble of inhabited space. Like 300+ LY away from the outermost system in the bubble.

Go there and visit the bulletin board. You may find missions to smuggle small amounts of goods those 300+ LY back to the bubble and at higher trade ranks they can pay over 1M per ton they give you to smuggle.

>>124263048
>I have an imp clipper and imp courier right now. Are they outdated now or what?

Nah. The Clipper is still the best ship with large HPs for pursuit in PVP, and the Courier still has the fastest acceleration for FA-Off shenanigans.

Don't ram a FAS in your Clipper, though. You'll be sad.

>just started
>barely reaching 80k creds
>get smuggling slaves mission 70k creds
>get to destination, get overheated trying to scan the sun
>rip slaves
>no fuel

:^)

>>124263332
Also I cant FUCKING DOCK on those rotating stations

>>124262723
there's also 4mil smuggling missions I guess they are pretty rare but I've been getting 2 a run so far.

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My friend is pretty mad about dieing

>>124263054
is fehu the system?

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>>124263547
top kek

>>124263442

Just match rotation during approach to the airlock and slide on in. EZPZ.

>>124263606

Yes. See also: Robigo

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>>124263682
he just sent me this picture now

>>124263745
whats good about robigo and fehu?

>>124263547
>>124263682
>>124263796

Sounds like your friend chose to fly...

...without rebuy.

>>124263804

Those choice hauling and smuggling missions pay out more the farther you have to travel.

Those systems are way outside the local bubble of inhabited space, ensuring that any such missions you find are going to be lucratively long distance.

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>>124263796
Now he's actually playing bad rats

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>>124263606
yeah just alternate between these 2 stations for missions. You can even do this with a trade cobra
But i saved up for an asp for the jump range and 80t cargo

>>124263804
you can stack 1mil missions and sometimes 4mil

>>124263925
do you go from fehu to robigo or are those the systems that give the good black market things?

>>124263796

Was he flying an Asp?

So many "I lost my Asp" threads on the dev's forums in the first few months the game was out...

>>124264026
Vulture. I boosted him to it in like a day of bounty hunting which I offered to do again. Also warned him multiple times to never fly without rebuy.

>>124263547

>you lose everything if you die

no you dont. you keep your money and can rebuy your ship if you have the credits.
if you cant rebuy you get a free sidewinder and still keep your money.

Or did he spend all his money on a nice ship and ram it into a star?

>>124264026
whats wrong with asp, i just bought one

>>124264023

They just give the good missions. The missions themselves will take you to any number of systems along the nearest edge of the local bubble. A lot of available missions will require landing at outposts, so don't fly anything that won't fit on a medium pad.

Also a fuel scoop is highly recommended for obvious reasons.

>>124264128

Similar price range, then. If the Vulture had been available back then you can be sure it would have been the topic of half those threads.

>>124264217

Nothing wrong with the Asp. It's just that it used to be the first big step into expensive ships and took a while to reach.

And then idiots would get it shot to pieces or crash it without enough money for insurance and end up back in a Sidewinder.

>>124264128

how the hell do you even fly without the ability to buy back your ship?

>>124264023
I just go to Fehu. I heard 17 Draconis and Ceo are also good. I like Fehu cause it gives Empire rank? Also the higher your trade rank the better money you get from these missions. I think you can't even get the 1mil missions until you are a broker but there still decent money like 700k you can get. Hopefully you can get to Elite rank before they fix this

>>124264217

Progression used to be Cobra (380K) -> Asp Explorer (6.7M)

It was a big gap that could take weeks of trading rare goods in your Cobra to cover. Bulletin board missions and bounties paid peanuts at the time so they were useless for making dosh.

Insurance loans also weren't a thing, so whatever you had in the bank was all you get towards buying your ship back.

So then fags get cocky and fly it without enough cr in the bank to cover the rebuy and can't buy it back. All they can do is take the free Sidewinder and rage on the forums.

>>124263745
I tried matching the rotation but fuck me it aint easy..

>>124265145
theres an auto dock module

>>124265145

The letterbox is a lot bigger than it looks. You can fly a goddamn Cobra through that thing sideways.

Just don't get stuck on the toast rack because fuck me if that isn't the final boss of the game.

>>124264383
I'm curious as well. I panicked when I got my shiny new kitted out Cobra fucked by accidentally attacking a wing of 3, and I knew I had no money of pay for the insurance. But then I saw I could get a loan, and pay it off after about an hour of waiting for wanted ships by the nav beacon, 10% at a time.

>>124264383
>>124266000
Because when you grind so hard that you welcome any ship change you forget the tiny little things like having enough credits left to do some basic upgrades since the initial loadout will be shit.

Then of course you need some cash to buy some cargo/ammo. Rebuy then goes up so you're looking at saving minimum 150% the cost of the ship before you consider actually buying it.

Past a certain point FDev's insurance won't cover the larger ships and you'll cry.

Oh yes, you'll cry.

>>124266565

The Cutter loadout I've got picked out for when 1.5 goes live is going to have a rebuy of 40mil.

Even at Elite rank the maximum insurance loan caps out at 5.4mil.

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H-help!

>>124259953
It's not worth it, period. This is a joke of an expansion.

>>124259953
it's like they want you to pay for bug fixes

>>124267032
>1.5 beta drops with first pass at shield cell nerfing
>get Corvette
>SCB goes in every field
>activate silent running
>fire every cell simultaneously
>heat goes over 15,000%, ship reduced to slag immediately

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>>124267668
>shield cell nerfs
Again? What are they doing to them now?

>>124259953
It took FD $60 to develop it, why would you pay less?

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>not even Elite in combat
>not even 1bil in asset value
>not even enough rank to a Fed Gunship

I want the Corvette one day ;_;

>>124268247
But, are you dangerous?

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>>124268445
Somewhat

Is there anything that beats long range missions right now in terms of money making for newish players?

Cobra Mk III still the best cheap ship for pirating?

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>>124263909
fucking kek the salt mines are open

>>124268913

A Diamondback Scout would work well if it could carry both pirate gear and cargo at the same time, but it can't.

Viper MK IV may be a contender when 1.5 goes live. Same firepower, similar internal layout and a bit slower but better armor, shields and weapons convergence.

A T-6 just barely outruns it on paper, yet not while laden in practice.

>>124270593
I think what makes the cobra so good at pirating is the fact that traders KNOW they have no chance at outrunning it. Cobra can catch up to it and destroy its drives faster than anything in the game.

>>124270726
Tested the viper mk4 in beta and its firing reticles are tight. It laughs at chaff. At rest with nothing targeted the 2 meds still overlap the mouse widget and the 2 smalls almost touch the med reticles diagonally in a neat little ^

You fire fixed and all 4 HPs are going to hit the same subsystem nearly every time. It makes blowing out drives and sniping hatches stupid easy.

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>>124263547
>>124263682
>>124263796
Go back to Bad Rats is the new canon for casual tears.

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Is Rare trading better than straight trading with a Type 6? I have 96 slots and like 15ly jump fully loaded

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>>124251869
Galactic Skeleton
Space Dandy
Alabama Redline
Ban Nasa
Truck Simulator

I'm gonna think about it at work. Stuck on the same shit. see you guys in 9.

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>>124261871

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who horizons here

>>124273480
Got baited to get the prepurchase but fucked if I'm paying for a betatest.

trailing or leading?

>>124273480
Paying for a beta should be punishable by law.

Bought this game during the steam sale, been playing for a bit and I already have the Viper. What's the easiest way to make loadsamoney?

>>124275096
Trading. Always trading.

Except for the painite exploit

>>124275249
>painite exploit
Are you still meming this up senpai?

>>124275310
Have to keep the thread and conversation alive somehow.

Just me or does the Imperial Cutter feel like the most useless spacecraft in the game right now?
So big, shit hardpoints really, not fast and turns like a turd

>>124275727
>700 something cargo
Nah.

>>124275727
If you define useful in the sense that it is usable in PvP then most of the ships in the game are useless. It can be good for trading.
The Corvette on the other hand only works for fucking around.

>>124272891
Rubber Duck

>>124251869
>>124272891

(CMDR) Cobblecoque
Venerable Vanity
Roquart Oxburg
Willhelm Von Neumann
Lukeson Riverwell
Tarty Titwank
Deckard Coulthard
Ferocious Fixed Beams
Contoured Cuntard

>>124273480
No thanks

Goddamn. I love this game but I suck at it SO hard.
7 hours into the game, and I only just completed my first mission for a mere 1500 credits. Also, I suck at dogfighting. Can't even beat the tutorial battle of me alone vs. the Cobra. But like hell, I'm not going to quit.

>>124280258
Oh those feelings of love will change.

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>>124280258
Don't worry anon, soon it will be too easy.

Any expoits right now I hear smuggling in Robigo at a decent trade rank is ok.

anyone interested in a stream of Horizons ?

>>124282296
I guess I could watch it for a while.

>>124282836
gimme a few minutes and it's going to be up

How bad is my pirate asp?

[Asp Explorer]
U: 0I Chaff Launcher
U: 0I Chaff Launcher
U: 0I Heat Sink Launcher
U: 0A Shield Booster
S: 1F/F Pulse Laser
S: 1F/F Pulse Laser
S: 1F/F Pulse Laser
S: 1F/F Pulse Laser
M: 2E/F Multi-cannon
M: 2E/F Multi-cannon

BH: 1I Military Grade Composite
RB: 5A Power Plant
TM: 5A Thrusters
FH: 5A Frame Shift Drive
EC: 4D Life Support
PC: 4A Power Distributor
SS: 5D Sensors
FS: 5C Fuel Tank (Capacity: 32)

6: 6C Bi-Weave Shield Generator
5: 5E Cargo Rack (Capacity: 32)
3: 3B Collector Limpet Controller
3: 3B Hatch Breaker Limpet Controller
3: 3A Shield Cell Bank
2: 1C Advanced Discovery Scanner
2: 2D Hull Reinforcement Package

>>124283089
asp is a bad pirate ship choice

>>124280258
I'm the same way. Hang in there , space cowboy. Maybe we can meet up and fly lopsided circles until we both strafe into a a star.

>>124283064
also would be nice if someone with Horizons would join in

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>>12428316
Different poster here. What's a good choice?

>>124283164
>>124283348

>>124283435
>>124283348
anything with better shields
i don't want to say Python and FDL since i assume you don't have the credits or those

http://www.twitch tv/hanna_rudel
sorry for the delay

>>124284294
did i see cobra?

>>124284559
yes, a cobra mk4 since the beta bugged once for me and ive lost my Corvette, that respawned under the planet surface

>>124284294
>weeb avatar

AAAND DROPPED

>>124284634
have u noticed a dip in frames? what card u use?

>>124284698
a 660 GTX, the only shit i get is from the bases on planetes, i'll get there shortly

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>>124284670
love you too

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>>124285083

What do you guys listen to whilst cruising?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PQh4AZ7uBE

>>124284634

Looks like the devs have confirmed on the forums that the Mk4 Cobra the way it's supposed to be to fill its role and won't be changed.

Except nobody seems to know what that role is.

>>124285361
Atrium Carceri, podcasts or nothing.

>>124286351
looks like a normal upgraded multirole ship to me

>>124286384

I don't know about upgraded. It's slower than a Type 7 and turns like a dropship, yet it has an extra gun and a tighter grouping for combat that it can't take advantage of as a result.

when the FUCK does horizons come out? i'm about to pour bleach into my asshole through a funnel

>>124267796
does turreting still work?

>>124287872
Hasn't worked for a solid 8 months or something...
>>124287752
Sure as fuck hope it comes when I have my xmas holiday so I'd actually get to play and try it out.

Diamondback Scout, or Explorer?

Which is better for bounty hunting?

>>124287752
You can start doing it right now cos Horizons is boring shite.

>>124288932
explorer

whats better between these two?
running small pulse lasers and medium miniguns
or small miniguns and medium cannons

>>124287752
boxing day.

you're not missing much.

Just switched from T.Flight HOTAS to an X52 Pro. Trying to find some decent bindings. Are there any that are generally agreed on to be pretty good? Can't really find anything decent via google.

>>124251869
Negro

>>124289428
small pulse/med miniguns

What is a safe range for power usage?

I'm currently using 94% power, and coming from a mechwarrior background I'm conditioned that thats bad.

Will I be overheating prematurely whenever I fire off my big bad cannons or what?

>>124292508
Thanks, I was having trouble deciding since I've seen a lot of better pilots than I who completely forgo thermal and was thinking that there was some reason behind that.

Is the kind of wanted npc ships that appear in RES locations based on the ship you're flying?

I tested it out with a viper and with a diamondback explorer, and was yielding bigger enemies with the explorer.

>>124294182
Cannons don't generate almost any heat.
Railguns and Plasma Accelerators you have to watch out (and only if you are firing more than one at a time, which you probably won't be doing in a while).
The only true heat generators will be the new nerfed shield cells that shoot your heat from 30% to 150%.

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who /bestshipinthegame/ here?

where my senpai at?

>>124296043
It should randomise a spawn table with certain ships and then spawns those. You can reset the instance by exiting to menu and going back to get a different spawn table.

The intensity of the RES is supposed to affect it, but even at high intensity and hazardous it can occasionally be really empty if the rng is against you. For reference I've been ressing with an Eagle, Vulture, Python, FDL and a Conda.

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How can I make this Vulture stronger? Assassination missions with 2+ ships against me are practically impossible.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/04A5A4A3D5A4D3C0v2b0l00--37456b0000.Iw19kA==.IwBhrStCg===

Fuel Scoop is absolutely necessary. I'm not taking 30+ minutes every time I want to make 10+ jumps.

>>124298491
Here you go. Problem solved.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/vulture/04A5A4A3D5A4D3C0v2b0n00--3745536666.Iw19kA==.IwBhrStCg===

>>124298491
Get some shield cells, or get better shields and fixed pulses. Anyways fix your shields.

Or the more obvious: stop using the Vulture for assassination missions.

>>124299175
>stop using the Vulture for assassination missions
What's better?

>>124299260
Python
Anaconda
(Or FDL if you want to nuke the target with 5 railguns and run away from the escorts)

>>124260148
uninstall

>>124299402
I have an FDL.

Would this build work? (It's going to have an A6 power supply when 1.5 hits the live servers. Don't worry about the power.)

http://coriolis.io/outfit/fer_de_lance/05A5A4A4D6A4D3C2c0s0s272700020l0404-4a5e326b00.Iw18aQ==.Aw18aQ==

How to make money via exploration? Any guides?

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>>124299921
>money via exploration
>mfw
You don't. The only way to make money is trading. And if you want ANY excitement you can try grinding RES but that shit gets boring pretty fast as well.

>>124299912
I suppose it could work, you might want to swap out those gimballed beams for fixed for more damage and just pip out engines when you need to do tighter turns (FDL is the ultimate micromanagement anyways)

>>124299921
see that planet over there?

you can scan it

>>124299921
Find Nutron/White-Dwarf stars, Black Holes, and Earth-like/Water/Ammonia worlds. Skip scanning everything else.

White Dwarf stars are worth 10,000Cr

Neutron Stars are worth 19,000Cr

Black Holes are worth 20,000Cr

Earth Like worlds are worth up to 30,000Cr

Water worlds are worth up to 20,000Cr

Ammonia worlds are worth up to 10,000Cr

Metallic worlds are worth a lot if they're terraformable, so if you want to you can scan those.

If there's no name attached to the system yet, scan literally everything to get the 50% bonus reward.

>Played 6 hours
>Already got Viper MK3 with fully upgraded hull and shield
>all for an hour in HRES and RES, sniping wanted Anancondas and let them gangbanged to near death then lands the killing blow
This is so much fun.

>>124302049
You don't even have to land the killing blow. As long as you "Tag" them, you get the reward. Pretty much just make sure you at least do 1% damage to them, and then move on if you know they'll get killed without you.

>>124302049

>tag wanted with laser one time
>3 cops show up and instantly kill him
>receive bounty

Whoever has been balancing these ships is on meth or something. None of these numbers make sense in comparison to each other.

>undock
>boost towards station exit port
>some faggot is coming in sideways
>crash into him full speed
>explode
ffs

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>>124305991
Have you heard of... The Vision™?
The balancing isn't done from a logical gameplay point of view, or what would seem intuitive. It's been done based on what the forumdads and reddit shitter cry about the loudest mixed with the total incompetence in design by the actual developers.

Have you seen the missiles and rockets? You can carry like 5 and they do almost no damage. All because they were actually viable for nuking before but since you aren't allowed to be able to destroy a ship quickly they had to go. Now nobody is able to use them as they are worthless.

The Anaconda can be destroyed by a sidewinder if the sidey just shoots the shields long enough. Not like a huge ass ship with insane shields would be able to tank a couple of lasers with recharging shields. Sure, I understand the argument that success in combat is more determined by individual skill than ship size, but a well outfitted Conda literally costs 1000 times more.

I'm too tired to list more, but the list of goes on.

>>124307385
>forumdads

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>>124307586
Oh boy do you even know

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>>124307586
This is the grave you chose

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>>124307586

Are mines viable?

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>>124307586

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>>124307586

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I left the game almost one year ago, early feb 15
this is my ship, but i also have a type 6 somewhere out there
what do i do to make money now? i wanna mine-explore but i'll fight or trade if it makes me that much more dash

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>>124307586

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>>124308348
Can it compete with the profits of resgrind and trading? No
Can it viably make you money? More than before the update.
Get your hold full of rare metals, then use to log-in trick to stack missions where you have to bring those metals to the station.

>>124309984
Mining and exploring are comfy, but net you pretty much no money compared to trading.

>>124307586
Forumdads cont.

>>124310638
thank you m8

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>fly a hauler
>get supercruise interdicted in every system
>every time

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>>124310890

>>124310638
>but net you pretty much no money compared to trading

Fuck it. You're right.

I'm going to load up a Type 7 with as much cargo space as it can get without dropping the shield generator, and then I'm going to go do some trading.

You want to know what's going to happen?

TWO

TWO FUCKING TRIPS

Two goddamn trips before I'm so bored with trading that I want to shoot myself in the fucking foot.

How the fuck to people trade for hours on end? HOW!?

I actually want to fucking make money, but I can't stand the boredom of trading

>>124311036
And then you crash the shieldless T7 to the station wall when you are zoning out in the boredom and lose ~10 million in rebuy and hold full of slaves.

That fucking shit almost made me quit, but for some reason I persevered with this shit. I have no idea how I managed, I watched the complete Star Trek TNG and I had around 400million in trade profit, then anaconda and outfits.

I sincerely hope they look into improving Wings. Right now, the current system is pretty garbage and unrewarding for playing together. Attempting to follow someone while jumping systems can be kind of infuriating, too.

Bounties are split a little too harshly and trade dividends are too low.

>>124310994
spooky

I miss the glory days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h7UPVOz6MU

>tobacco
>illegal
How progressive

>try trading
>first 5 routes I try are out of date, no profit

welp back to HAZRES

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I want to fuck Aisling in the butt!!

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>>124315842

>>124297282

102%

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>>124316328
Do you even heat?

Bought this game two days ago and have 2.5m cr
what should I do to make good money?

So I've been farming high intensity resource sites in my Viper for the past hour or so and I've made 2 mil so far.

Where do I go from here? Should I upgrade to a different ship or grind a bit more? I wanna engage in space piracy against other players; is there any way sure fire way to find people running trade routes? So far I've mostly just seen Sidewinders, other Vipers, and Cobras. Also, are there any upgrades to make scooping up cargo less tedious?

>>124316920
be a gay and do some long range missions before they fix it

holy shit, this game is still being played. thought it was kill when I didn't find /edg/ on the catalog or archive a week ago

>>124317584
I promised to bring it back once 1.5 or when Horizons drops but someone else did it for me, before they launch but whatever.

But the truth is that the game is dead as fuck.

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>>124315842
>empire_keks.jpg

Next thing youll tell me is that slavery is wrong

>>124318093
nigga i never said anything about their beliefs and traditions. I just want to buttfuck the princess

How would I go about finding my own trade route without using any external tool?

>>124317424
Just looked this up and apparently they were nerfed? Are they still good?

>>124317424
I thought they were already nerfed?

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>>124318093
>>124318506

You know why he has mouse in the left hand :^)

>>124318614
you don't...why wouldn't you use a trade tool though? It makes everything easier when plotting routes

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>>124318630
I'm sitting at Fehu right now stacking 1-4mil missions while grinding rep

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>>124319050
Man I have to get back to smuggling.

>>124319050
okay
do I need a certain trade rank and would a cobra be okay for it or can 2.5M buy a ship good for it?

>>124319298
prob help if you have broker rank. The higher your rank the bigger the payout

>>124283553
You'd assume right.

Python is my goal though.

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>>124302049
>already living my dream
I WANT TO PLAY
POWER SUPPLY PLS HURRY.

>>124319732
when is it suppose to come anon?

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>>124319732
Next monday :c

How to kill jaggies because this shit has no AA and doesn't support incremental super sampling:

Go to Nvidia control panel
Manage 3D settings
Global Settings
DSR - Factors
Enable all options
Change in game resolution

>>124320662
what if i have toaster trays

>>124320662
cant you just use the resolution scale within the graphics options? 1.5x seem to work

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why arent you exploring and getting 1.2 billion payouts /edg/

>>124321279
As much as I hate to admit but I have shit to do and can't play this to my hearts content ;_;

>>124318738
What's the best trade tool to use?

>>124321279
because i cant afford a nice ship for it

>>124321279
Elite: Dangerous

>>124321279
Because pressing X to explore and dangling through another loading sequence for 100th time is NOT FUN.

python or FDL?

>>124322893
Are you cool?

>>124322893
fighter: fdl
multipurpose/all dat money: python

>>124323068
>pvp fighter:fdl
fixed

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Oh wow, there's finally a general! I got this game in the BF sale and had been hoping to see a thread about it on /vg/. It'd be great to have bros to play/chat with.

I'm CMDR Tenpei Sato. I'll look at the Steam group, too.

>>124323960
I'm Dangerous

>>124323960
I'm CMDR Ross, hiya!

>>124323960
I'm CMDR FMSU, always happy to welcome new faces!

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>>124323960
I'm CMDR FUCKOFFSALESHITTER, howdy pardner :)

I joined the group. No one's in the chat room though!

I've had people give me their CMDR names before, but as far as I know there's no way to look people up by commander name, and the odds of happening to bump into someone whose name I recognize are hilariously small.

Do we do things together ever?

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>>124324674
Lad...
Get that refund while you still can

>>124324798
I don't mind being alone, m8; I cut my teeth on this sort of game by playing X3TC.

>>124324674
There's another chat where we plan all the jolly good times together.

r/EliteDangerous

>>124324967
It's more on the fact that the way this fucking game handles multiplayer is just one of the worst I've seen, for an MMO that is. I mean, this was supposed to be an MMO? Right guys?

32 player instances, no guarantee you'll end up in the same instance with your friend even if you are winged. I mean what the fuck. Also, there's jack shit to do with someone other than gank newbies.

>>124324967
>this sort of game
>X3TC
It's not the same sort of game, you poor-poor goy.

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>>124325231
Oops, I meant "this sort of thing", that is, long lonely flights through the cold, empty blackness.

>>124325162
Solo play with a side of bringing up the Steam browser and posting in the thread it is, then!

I'd edit this image so that the Facebook thing was replaced with a screencap of the thread but meh. Maybe later.

what are some good sites to farm bounties to rank up ALD

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got my windows open to let the cold in.
its comfy time

>>124326068
That's a nice setup except for the huge green spash in the back. Ruins everything. I hope you turn that off when you play.

Is that a Monster on the left of your keyboard?

>>124326315
It says lager you dip

>>124326315
i change the lights to orange to match the cockpit, but yes i keep them on, without them i cant see my desk and i hate the bright ass light in this room.
The can is a delicious Yuengling

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>>124326857
Do you make streaming games?

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>>124273480
Popping wheelies here.

>>124327051
you mean like twitch? naw, im too boring

As I understand it, Powerplay works like this (at least for Aisling, whom I'm pledged to):

>get media materials from Aisling-controlled system
>take materials to non-Aisling system
>drop them off at whatever station I feel like
>Profit?

>devise trade route, pick system and station
>jump into system
>station I wanted is 10K+ Ls from the star

One day I'll learn to double-check that shit.

Can one get banned for holocausting newbie sidewinders?

>>124328598
You think that's bad? When I first started playing, it put me in LHS 3447. Fuck that shit.

>>124328598
i watched my roommate fly 1.6 million LS to a station that he took a mission for.
Literally took 45 mins

>>124328939
Hey, that's where I started too! Fuck that place. Once I got a grasp of hyperspace/FSD I left that system as far away as I could.

I even left my newbie Sidewinder there so that I'd have a ship marker over the system on my map, making it easier to determine how far away it was and to prevent me from accidentally looping back.

>>124328995
Who's more boring, your roommate for doing it or you for watching him?

First ship I should aim for? All purpose.

>>124329980
cobra mk3 of course

What's the fastest way to hit rank 5 with ALD? I did the math and it would only take me two weeks at rank five to get my dream ship:

http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_clipper/06A6A5A5D6A5D4C1f1f27270l0004044k5o320302026b2h.Iw18aQ==.IwBhrSqjxI==?bn=Dream%20ship

>>124329980
Adder, then cobra

>>124329980
do some high resource extraction bounties and go for the asp and smuggle slaves

Buy Elite Dangerous.

>>124330726
>Asp
>First ship to aim for
Nigga that's how you get burnt out of the game the first day you play it.

>>124330784
he meant buy a viper

>>124330302
Undermining is how I did it. Just camp out in a hostile area and keep undermining everything until you get 20,000 PowerPlay. After that, you're good for two weeks.

It'll take you a while. I'm talking weeks.

What ships do you all fly?

I'm in a Type-6

Fuck it. I'm fucking sick of my No-Jump-Range Vulture, and I can't fight worth a shit without shield cells (Which means I can't just drop everything for an A4/5 Fuel scoop to travel with.)

How long would it take me to make 100,000,000Cr through trading? Can I do it in one night?

I have a Type 7 with 212 Cargo space.

>>124331929
I thought you were going to make a witty parallel at first.

You know there's a delete post option, right?

>>124332175
There's no way you make 100,000,000 Credits in one night. No fucking way, man.

>>124332247
I did not. Thanks.

>>124330302
The Clipper can handle two large beam lasers. Change the pulse lasers to beams.

>>124332581
>>124332175
For the last maybe 3nhalf hours, I went to Robigo and switched from open to solo and just picked up smuggling that's worth 700k+ and have made maybe 35,000,000. It's possibly but pretty soul crushing. That's smuggling though, trading could be faster.

>>124294372

It's a lot harder to bring shields down without thermal, but once you do the target just disintegrates under your kinetic.

>>124329980
Uninstalrius mk1 or Refundus mk 2

anyone have a good trade python builds?

>>124305991

The devs seem to have no concept of how different attributes synergize with each other. eg: a ship having good weapons placement and good maneuverability has greater benefits than just the sum of the two characteristics.

Or for a more topical example, when Power Play first came out you had faction bonuses to trade under some powers. Like Imperial Slaves were 10% cheaper to buy in Zemina Torval's domain, while selling contraband on the black market in Archon Delaine's territory netted a bonus 15%.

So a 25% bonus in profit by shuttling slaves between the two territories, right?

Wrong.

Pre-Powerplay a decent slaving route would involve buying at 14.5K and selling at 16K for 1.5K profit per ton.

Apply both bonuses and now you're buying at 13K and selling at 18.5K for 5.5K profit per ton. Rather than a modest bonus you instead almost quadruple your profits because the devs have all the foresight of a blind goldfish.

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>>124308346
>Flying a Cobra
>Worried about Pythons

>>124330302

I'm going to assume you have around 50Mill already.

You can afford it now, man. Just downgrade some shit.

http://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_clipper/06C6C5A5D6A5D4C1f1f27270l0004044m5o340302026b01.Iw18aQ==.IwBhrSqjxI==?bn=Dream%20ship

>>124335915
Can you still do that... or was it nerfed?

Honestly, I don't see a problem with that. You're basically transporting a full cargo load of slaves 100+ Ly away.

>>124314323

'baccy is mostly only illegal in Fed space.

Also Corporate systems because no smoke breaks.

>>124308346
the entitlment and the need of gitting gud in this post is blinding

>>124317409
>Also, are there any upgrades to make scooping up cargo less tedious?

Collector limpet controller. You buy disposable limpets for 100cr each and they take up cargo space until used, but you only need one to hoover up 30+ tons of cargo.

Honest question:

What is the best combat ship in the game

>Viper
Outclassed by any combat ship bigger than itself.

>Vulture
Only two hardpoints, power management is a bitch

>FDL
Only one huge hard point, no large hard points. The four medium don't cut it with the larger ships. Getting buffed in 1.5 so power management is a thing of the past.

>>124331748

Federal Assault Ship. I call it the Cow Catcher.

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>>124337765
Python!

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>>124323960
Add the steam IDs that are posted. Any of them play with anyone.

>>124336746

Yes.

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>grinding some combat zones with my adder, made 3mil in one hour
>still 3mil to go for an ASP
can you suggest a better ship? i want to explore some but want also remain combat capable in case i'm about to get ganked by some random pirates, or to farm some credits on a RES or combat zone.

>>124338731
a cobra

>>124337765

For PVP? The FDL.

Speed is life in PVP and shields the only defense. Also a decent fixed weapon grouping is neccessary if you don't want to be a bitch to chaff.

If 4xMed isn't cutting it you're doing something wrong. Those can all be rails, or even multicannons will shred any ship's drives in seconds.

>>124338731

Cobra Mk III, or Diamondback Scout.

Cobra = survives by having the highest boost speed in the game and outrunning everything
Diamondback = survives by being stealthy and still very fast

The DBS has higher jump range, while the Cobra has more internal compartment space for equipment.

If you lose shields in a Diamondback, turn the shield generator off in the right panel (greatly reduces your heat signature) and abuse silent running to break targeting locks.

The DBS has such a low heat signature that you practically have to get into point blank range to lock on to one running cold and silent.

>>124340116
Does dropping heat sinks break targeting? If far away enough?

>>124340265

It can. If your heat falls below the threshold someone needs to lock on to you at a given distance, their existing lock breaks.

Lock-on distance is pretty far even at low heat if your shields are online, though. They're like a beacon to other ship's sensors.

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>>124324653

How shit are forumdads?

What would be better on a Python, 2 medium Cannons, or 2 medium multis?

I'm also running 3 large pulse.

>>124343606
Cannons for HEAT

>>124340613
>>124340265
>>124340116

What the shit?! This game has a stealth system that somehow works?

>>124345581
Ships have raders. Hidden things pass through them.

Stealth.

>>124338504
I looked through the cmdr names from the search option of the main menu but didn't turn up anyone.

does /edg/ have a private group?

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>>124348410
Then was a group a while back who flew around the galaxy killing everyone.

Then they realized NOTHING you do in this game has any real effect. Afterwards the group disbanded.

Such VISION!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdH6kgLajQ

>>124348824
I thought trade routes effected the economy or something like that?

>>124348824
Damn that pic. I used to do Robin Williams' voice in my head whenever Cid talked. That's like the only thing I remember from that game besides those floating high schools.

>>124345581

Nothing hokey like cloaking devices or anything, and you can still be seen visually if someone is looking right at you and can pick you out against the background.

Careful management of your thermal signature makes you harder to detect by ship's sensors. Some ships are better at this than others. Especially the Diamondbacks.

Silent running cuts external emissions by shutting down shields and closing your radiators. Heat builds internally and will damage your ship if you get too hot.

Sensor contacts can be in three states.
Detected and resolved: Solid contact. You can target, scan and lock weapons on the contact as well as detect when they take actions like deploying weapons or charging their frameshift drive.
Detected but unresolved: You know something is there but you can't target it and you only vaguely know where it is.
Undetected: Doesn't show up on scanner at all. Hard to achieve. Has to be very cold and/or far away.

>>124350906

Note that silent running rarely makes you go completely undetected since you aren't actually cold. Even with your heat vents closed you're still leaking some heat through your hull.

What silent running is normally used for is to make you an unresolved contact to anyone that isn't right on top of you. People use this to break turret/gimballed weapon locks and disrupt police scans.

>>124349213
Nope. Welcome to the Vision.

There's no background simulation. All it does is supply and demand resets every 15 mins or so with some variation to make you think you're affecting it but in reality like the whole game it's just copy/pasta of a limited number of variables.

Just like their missions. Just like their stations. Just like this whole POS game.

w-what's wrong with cobras

>>124355264

Fags want to gank the shit out of you and they can't do that if you boost away at 450m/s.

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>>124355504

lmao losers

>>124355504
>cobra
>gank
a-alright

Honest question here:

Why does trading make the most money?

Seriously. Why?

It's the least dangerous of all things to do in the game.

>Bounty Hunting

Should pay the most. You're going to get killed eventually. No way to avoid it. It's the most dangerous thing to do in the game. Combat Zones are slightly more dangerous.

>Exploration

It's kinda being made easy with Horizons, but it should still pay more than trading. You can be stuck out in space, light years away from any station, and you're just supposed to be ok with making shit money?

>Trading

Go to station A, buy
Go to Station B, sell
Repeat

No. Fucking. Danger.

>>124357909
They don't have anyone balancing the game. All missions, ships and weapons have random numbers thrown on them.

>>124358104
Well, that would explain why the Empire battleship is armed with nothing but class 1 weapons

>>124357909
just play to have fun

bulletins and wanted are enough for me

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>>124359075

>>124357909
you can make millions of credits exploring with that li yong rui perk. Some dude had a single 1.2billion payout. It just takes awhile and as soon as you get back and get that rank 5, you can afford anything in game

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>>124359192

>>124357909
That's pretty much the main issue with the game. (Seems like all games now have to have some problem.)

Rewards are shit. Trading is the only way to make money.

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>>124359298

>>124359274
You realize that was him doing nothing else but scanning neutron stars and black holes for a full month, right?

He scanned over 5,800 systems.

>>124359446
yeah i know that is pretty much the point of taking the explorer role in this game. You just don't go 500lyrs and expect to make money...

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>>124359440
>Achenar 3
>Type-9 Heavy

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>>124359440

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>>124359768

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>>124359868

>>124359656
>>124359440
What's significant about achenar 3?

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>>124359986

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>>124359868
>>124360043
>6.72G

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favorite cockpit so /edg/?

>>124361039
adder

>>124361039
Imperial Courier

>>124361039
Clipper and Vulture cockpits are kind of nice

>>124361039
Hauler

I know, but it's the truth.

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>>124361039
FDL

>>124362210
How the hell do you stand not being in the center of the ship? It's the one thing I absolutely hate about a lot of the ships in Elite.

I'm normally a combat player, but I just can't stand where you sit in the FDL.

>>124362352
i was just flying with some dudes and the cockpit didn't bother me in the slightest, just as it hasn't for the last few weeks i've been using this kitted out puppy.

you get used to it real quick. kills shit faster than any other hunk of shit out there. you're hardly off center, anyhow and it's barely noticeable in firing from most distances.

Why is the Clipper large category? It's not geared like a large category ship, it should be medium. If they wanted to make it large, they should have added a huge weapon slot somewhere, probably underslung the hull like a giant raging dick of Imperial might.

Also its shields are ass.

>>124362712
>the Clipper's engine pods don't rotate for maximum thrust vectoring shenanigans

>>124362712
the clipper has no need to lower itself to docking at anything short of a full starport.

it is an exceedingly regal vessel.

>>124361039
Python, so comfy.
FDL the close second.

>>124361039
The inside of the Type 6 is nice as hell. Feels like your own safe little bubble.

is getting a conda worth it or nah? I pretty much do combat. I trade whjen i need creds or just bounty hunt

>>124364527

Most Lakon cockpits have that aesthetic.

Ever fly a T9 in VR? Really puts things into perspective when you can actually get a sense of the scale.

The T9 cockpit is TWO FUCKING STOREYS tall.

i wanna get into smuggling. can anyone offer guides? i have 30mil.
what ship should i get?
what are some good systems to smuggle in?
what are some examples of stations i should look for?

>>124364927
>Spanking it to anime princess porn
>Cum hard and it arcs over your control console onto the windshield
>slowly drips down until your co-pilot below notices