/edg/ - Elite Dangerous General

Empire is SHIT! SHIIIIIIIIIT!

second for i don't even play this game

from old thread
>>127211906

>>127211964
always go fixed if you're in a fighter

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>>127211612
>The Cobra part removed from the OP
ULTRA DAD

>>127212494
I just copy pasted the previous thread

Would an auto field maintenance unit be good for something on a large/expensive ship, since it costs so much to get them repaired at a station?

was watching the show Ftroop this morning. The episode was about con men. One stranger had conned one of the soilders out of a bunch of money gambling.

So basically the show Ftroop really is a mirror of the studio Fdev. would explain how they come up with content and pass it off as a 60 buy in.

>>127211612
salefag here
whats a good place to grind donations for empire rank at?

>>127213171
Tamar.

>tfw just realised a Python is only 46mil with the Li-Yon Rui 15% off.
>sheeeeet

>>127213367
All ships and modules are 15% off in Chinaman space, does that mean they're chinese knock-offs?

>>127213254
thank you, m'cmdr

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>people actually refresh donation missions rather than have fun assassinating the enemies of the Empire

What weapons should I go for on my DBS bounty hunter?

>>127216095
>2016
>having fun

>>127216238
same question here

current meta seems to be small hardpoint pulse medium hardpoint cannon (or multi-cannon, depends)

>>127216238
I ran 2 med pulses and 2 small multicannons when I was in a Cobra. Should work the same in a DBS, though you should be able to get beams instead of pulses on it. 2 med railguns and 2 small beams would be fun as well, if you don't mind the low ammo pool and stuff.

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>Being followed by NPC pirate
>Decide to try and lose him on a planet
>Drop down to the surface and he follows me perfectly, teleporting right next to me once I get out of glide
>Boost off into the distance since he can't keep up
>Continue boosting for a good 3 minutes, making sure to go in a different direction
>Activate silent running for good measure and land in a crater
>Sit there for a moment whilst messing with my transactions deciding where to go next
>Look over my shoulder
>Can just see him slowly approaching from over the horizon

>>127216238
2 small fixed pulse is a must

About medium slot you can go
>dual multi cannon
>dual cannon
>multi cannon/cannon+PA

>>127216719
What's even the point then?

>>127216653
I'd switch those around. Hardpoint size is extremely important for things used for shooting the hull. Your small multicannons probably aren't doing jack shit compared to the medium pulses.

>>127216775
Depends on what you're hunting. If you're going to be going against medium ships, you should either put med multies or change the small multies to cannons or rails since they have less of a size penalty. If going against large ships, use med cannons or rails.

What are the best guns to fit on the Python for RES?

suggested weapons for Python?

>>127216951
Not really.

Even if you're slapping down eagles, a medium multi would chew him up three times as fast as a small multi. Vulture with large beams can down an eagle in about 8 seconds of sustained fire.

>>127217246
Of course the larger class hardpoints are going to do more damage than their smaller counterparts, but there isn't a damage bonus for hitting smaller ships.

>>127213171

Actually, Cubeo is a better option.

Go to Roskam Enterprise on 3 A. Take all the SRV missions (to attack the same base).

Rinse. Wash. Repeat.

Obvi you need Horizons to do this.

- LCN

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>>127217003
Gimballed pulse or burst. I prefer burst though.

>>127217049
pvp all rails, pve all gimballed burst.

Refitting weapons is free, you know you could just try weapons out for yourself.

>>127217464
i'm maybe using them wrong but in my case, rails deal almost no damage to the hull and it's a pain to aim it precisly if it's something smaller then a fucking Python

>>127217464
>Refitting weapons is free
Don't have the ship yet, kek.

So full bursts work? No multicannons needed?

How well is she at taking on smaller ships that are really quick and manoeuvrable ?

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>Recently bought Vulture
>Got the best PP I could afford and a B5 Shield
>Outputting 15 MW and using 14
>Got some 500k each burst lasers
>Spent 250k on better thrusters
>Another half mil on FSD
>Top it off with chaff, point defense and K-Scanner
>Murdering literally everything
>Only ever died in it once because I was dumb and got my canopy smashed
>Clippers, Anacondas, Pythons
>Every federal ship outside the Corvette (ain't had a chance to fight one yet)
>Bounties, bounties everywhere

This little shit is phenomenal. I can engage ships several times my size PLUS their escorts and kill them all
I can't believe some nuggets have a hard time using her.
It's got great thrusters, use them to maneuver around your target and blast the power plant
I fucking love this ship

>>127217705
My favorite part about the Vulture is you don't need any engine pips unless you're boosting constantly. You drop maybe 10-20m/s going from four to zero.

>>127217445
I'm pretty sure planetary missions don't increase your standing atm

>>127217539
That's true, gotta pick your targets with your weapons in mind.

>>127217654
Yeah it wrecks eagles in seconds. Against small ships just reverse and hold vertical thrust,

>>127217843
I usually only keep a half pip in Engines so I can boost on the rare occasion that I need to.
3 1/2 in weapons and 2 in shields. That way I can actually keep my beams firing alternately even when they're drained. I don't do that often, because it loses a lot of penetration power. Ramming is also very fun in the Vulture.

I think I one shotted an Eagle like that once.

>>127218167
How do the full bursts go against larger ships?

Aren't you supposed to gain rank when you drop bounty vouchers at an aligned station? They're increasing my rep, up to Allied now with the Feds, but missions seem to be the only way to affect my rank. Is this a bug, or an intended change?

>>127218313
It's good enough, idk man. It's fun.

>>127218523
this whole game is about slowing you down as much as possible from seeing the hidden curtain which contains fuck all behind it

How did you do the speed glitch? I want to try it.

does putting pips in SYS just improve shield regen when its dead or does it also strengthen the active shield?

>>127219913
it doesn't improve shield regen beyond what the shield can draw from the capacitor

it strengthens it a fuckton though

0 pips = shield goes down in 2 seconds

4 pips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c5xZFUq04w

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>>127219172
A fitted courier, assist on, ahead full with 4 pips engines, hold vertical thrust up, Aim -15 to -30. It varies but you'll know when your speed is rising past max to hold it.

Tried it w/ cobra and didn't work.

>>127211717
>Aisling Duval
>pure
>hates slavery
>Felicia Winters
>wants to topple Hudson's Patriarchy
>possibly a dyke or worse a tranny
Federation a SHIT

>>127220145
oh I thought it was just in general but it's only with the courier eh?

too bad, I guess I'll have to grind rank for aisling

>>127220256
It might work with other ships but I haven't tried any besides cobra and Courier.

>What will happen in 2016
Good question. Does they communicate about those things ? Do they tell us what they have planned for the future ?

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been away since before horizons, didn't buy horizons, have missions or anything else changed in the base game?

>>127220442
>4 player multicrew, can't wing if in multicrew.
>Launch ships from big ships
>Avatar creator

>>127220653
Nope not really, if anything they are more difficult and worth less. Robigo still has smuggling missions that you can stack, mode flipping doesn't work as well as it used to.

>>127212770
I was also curious about this. Along with the crafting stuff I wondered if it was viable to get a python or something then become self reliant without the need for station services. No idea though, I guess I'll have to test it some time.

>getting interdicted by NPC
>blue circle teleports
>I point at it
>it teleports again
>UI starts spazzing out
>instantly interdicted
killing this process
with no survivors

>>127220764
Same shit happened to me earlier, worse because i'd just stripped down a hauler, put an A-rank FSD so I could hop over to chinatown and buy a cheap Asp Explorer.

Random fucking interdiction and the circle just DISAPPEARS ON ME.

>>127220749
I could never keep up mode flipping anyways. Did anons ever figure out PAINITE? That guy was always mysterious about it because of snitches.

I'll check out robigo.

>>127220953
Oh and 1.5 has the cutter and corvette, which need duke and rear admiral.

>>127217853

They do. You are wrong.

>>127220145

This was patched out. Interesting if it still works on courier... must have been an oversight.

>>127221391
Yeah nah. rank grind dislocates my soul.

>>127221391
>cutter
I pray to Braben that Robigo isn't patched before I can buy one

>>127221898
How is Robigo going to catapult you to Duke?

>>127222117
It's not going to. He wants the money.

FDL or Python for HAZREZ? Got enough Money and I'm tired of my FDL.

>>127221430
They don't it's been reported numerous times.

>>127222378
Python turns like shit

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>accept multiple delivery jobs at the same time
>Don't panic! I've been sent here to find you!
>Good job I've found you. You're hard one to track down
>Ah there you are. I have important information for you.
>Don't panic! I've been sent here to find you!
>Good job I've found you. You're hard one to track down
>Ah there you are. I have important information for you.
>Don't panic! I've been sent here to find you!
>Good job I've found you. You're hard one to track down
>Ah there you are. I have important information for you.

>>127222378
I'd suggest the Vulture. I already went on about it in an earlier post, but it's a genuinely good ship and can give you an advantage over most ships in the game. Pythons and Anacondas don't stand a chance. Even Clippers fucking melt beneath it. Just get good pulse lasers and watch your heat. Make sure they're Class 3.

>>127222378
Courier or Vulture.

>>127222468
At least those fuckers don't try to interdict your ass.

>>127222507
Courier? Thought that would be shit.

>>127222378
Vulture or FAS.

>>127222510
wait till they add voicelines into the game

>>127222468
I had one that actually came for me after I completed a mission. That was weird, and the thing he wanted me to do didn't give any money.

I did it anyway.

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What the fuck did I find? A realistic simulation of Aspie dad congregations?

R8 my dakka
http://coriolis.io/outfit/federal_gunship/46A6A5A5D7A5D4C0u27272727242404020a004f5n042o6b.AwRj4yrI.CwBjCZzBGW+ykEgMwqA=?bn=DAKKA%20DAKKA

http://coriolis.io/outfit/python/07D5D5A4D6D6D5C1515157i7i00020l0405054i3a5l0q6j2f2i.Iw18eQ==.Aw18eQ==

I don't even really know what i'm doing with this build anymore.

More I think about it I should just stick with the Asp and keep grinding Robigo.

Few questions; Is Field Auto-Maintenance Unit good for big ships? Does it cut down on the insane big ship repairs?

Shield Boosters worth it? And what Shield Cells are typically the allround good ones?

Multicannons, railguns, missiles etc in larger classes when?

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What's the minimum scooping range before emergency drop down from hyperdrive?

I'm about to smuggle slaves into a Coriolis port, any tips to avoid being exploded?

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>>127220764
>>127220832
similar story here

>go to high tech system because my system apparently ran out of fixed pulse 1+2
>interdiction
>perfect aim at circle
>suddenly ship's nose drops
>can't pull up
>ship is now flying in vertical thrust up towards circle while I pull on the stick as hard as I can
>see red interdiction indicator is already at max, give up all hope
>SOMETHING INTERDICTION SOMETHING all happened to fast
>shit
>get ready to fight, start targeting ships
>still in supercruise
>apparently interdiction was avoided

>>127223279
Not sure I understand the question, just use the green orbital line as a guide? There's no point to going closer/faster if you're scooping at the maximum rate anyway

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>getting bored with Vulture because of 2 walleyed hardpoints
>find out that FDL and Python turn like molasses
>don't want to rely on gimbals/turrets because muh dogfighting
>too low in the Feddie ladder to get any of their ships.

Am I done with this game?

>>127222619
It's like a fighter jet. Has tough shields. It's fun. I use 3 gimballed burst and was surprised with how capable it was. Idk give it a try if your bored.

>>127223460
Fly a Viper or Eagle or something.

>>127223384
Stay 10km out until you're lined up with the slot, request permission at 7.5km, boost until 4 or 5km, heat sinks and chaff. Use silent running if you have heat sinks but activate it from 8km.

>>127223448
>green

are you color blind by any chance?

>>127223460
17 Draconis. Took me an hour of charity grinding to go from nothing to FAS. Took others 8 hours to get to admiral from nothing.

>>127223819
No. Are you?

>>127223819
but anon, you're the colourblind one

>>127223767
Ty lad, a Federal Corvette took a bit of an interest but I was inside before it managed to scan.

>>127223979
if you're in a heavy ship with poor deceleration you can still zip through the mailslot, just have a decent shield and bounce off the back of the station

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>>127223894
>>127223926

>go to RES
>attack wanted guy
>dont get last hit (great game mechanics)
>wait
>wait some more
>still no targets
>switch to solo play
>make my first 500k

such vision

>>127223279
Depends on the star. Usually I like to keep it so that the horizon of the star is just visible below my feet when I press the UI look button. If you have orbit lines on that should tell you. If not I think there is also a red light that flashes in your cockpit just beofre you reach the point where you get thrown out of cruise. The whispering voices and fuel rate can be an indicator too.

>>127224194
Apparently i'm farverblind.

>>127224194
I, uh...what? Goldy olive?

>>127223551
Thank you I will give it a shot.

Maybe I'm autistic but I've never noticed any difference in how burst and pulse shoot. Anyone willing to explain the difference?

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>>127224194

>>127224423
it's close to pure yellow so it might appear greener next to all that orange and red in the hud and red stars

>>127224480
burst shoots three pulses at a time

>>127223852
How many mio for FAS rank requirement?

Would it be a good idea to sell my Python and buy a FAS(or Dropship)for combat and get a T7/earn a bit more money for a T9 to trade?

>>127224814
there's nothing you can do in a dropship/t7 that you can't do in a python

>>127224814
Python has more cargo space than T7

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>>127224487

>>127224861
The maneuverability of the Python kills me.
I think I'll get a FAS and a T9.

>>127223852
what is charity grinding?

>>127224685
Cost me about 1 million to go from nothing to FAS rank. Other people have said 10 million for nothing to Admiral.

I'm new to this game fampais
Is interdiction marker supposed to fly off the screen all the time when I'm getting interdicted?

>>127225385
slowly? yes, that's to make it difficult to evade

instantly? no, that is lag

Is it possible for 2 minor factions allied with the same major faction to go into civil war?

>>127225775
Yes.

>>127225385
yes

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>>127225825
It must really suck then when an "allied" capital ship shows up and starts killing your friends and senpaitachi.

how the fuck do you get rep with minor factions? I've done so many "high" rep missions and it's all hurr durr blue arrow neutral, it never moves fucking past neutral

Assasination targets can only appear at Unidentified Signal Sources right?

>>127226301
they can be flying around in supercruise, in res sites, and at nav beacons now too

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yee

>>127226478
>no sys pips
Nigga what

>>127226814
>getting hit

>127180964
and how am I supposed to uninstall 32bit?
or install the 64bit for that matter
googling says to delete some folders but that doesn't sound right

>>127227116
is your play button not working?

>>127227336
no i just want to find a way to remove the 32bit launch option from being defaulted every time I start up

How can a fully gunned Anaconda be classed as mostly harmless?

>>127227439
oh ok then i have no idea soz

>>127227439
just deal with it you big baby

>>127227439
Are you by any chance own horizon?

Try moving any folder inside Elite Dangerous\Products that isn't 64

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The shit people are willing to steal.

>at robigo
>barely any decent smuggle missions on offer
>switching between open and solo
>finally get enough missions that fill my cargo hold, will net me a cool 12mil
>lock in coords and jump to the next system
>sys auth are waiting for me
>start interdicktion at one blip, sys auth already at almost max
>drop out of supercruise
>scanned and all my missions fail
FUCKING THANKS VISION

>>127228372
>not ending process
you live you learn

>>127228372
Be glad it happened on the first jump not the last.

Is it possible to dock in a starport where the controlling faction has a bounty on you?

>>127228620
yeah, just try not to get scanned

>>127228431
when?

like as soon as you get interdicted you alt+tab and end the process in the task manager?

>>127228559
pretty much wasted the amount of time it took to do a run by waiting and trying to get the good missions to do

and then I lose all this rep with them because I failed the missions now

pros and cons of the imperial courier?

>>127229163
Cons: Empire iShip

>>127229163
Well I can tell you a con IMPERIAL

>>127229045
>end the process in the task manager
Some anon in a previous thread posted his macro and batch file to kill the game with a single button press.

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>>127228004
assasination jobs barely pay 50k
but out there somewhere, someone is willing to pay over 200k to smuggle human shit

>>127229510
Someones gotta empty those old people homes anon

>>127229395
it's just a couple of lines
autohotkey macro: !F4::run ekill.bat
batch file: tskill EliteDangerous64

>>127229045
windows mode if you want it faster

I have recently acquired this game On Xbox and I like it

So why don't you

>>127229716
>recently
There's your problem. Give it a week and the buyer's remorse will set in.

>>127229395
>>127229660
I don't really know about this shit

I love stations that are a light year away from the system entry point and require 20 minutes of sitting there accelerating.

>>127229660
How do I make this?

>>127229930
What, you mean like in moral sense? The games waves middle finger at you all the time, why won't you wave it back?
I got enough money for a well equipped Conda with 5 Robigo trips starting with >Asp
Forfeit the grind

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>>127230573
Download AHK
Create two textfiles
Write things
Change one to .ahk
Change second to ekill.bat

get fucked pacalite system

>>127230621
>I got enough money for a well equipped Conda with 5 Robigo trips starting with >Asp
wow really?

I was making around 10 mil a trip, taking around an hour to do, usually longer because i'm lazy.

>>127230873
Thanks but i'm dumb, i've done that, do the files need to be saved somewhere specific? It's not working.

Whoever has been balancing this game needs to be taken out to tower bridge and hanged.

>>127231817
doesn't matter where the files are so long as they are both in the same place
run the script and use alt+f4 to kill the game
might need to change EliteDangerous64 to EliteDangerous32

>>127231817
Same folder
Don't forget to run .ahk

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Well that was officially the most nightmarish run so far. System authority spawning in literally every system to track me down, at least 2 pirates interdicting me over and over for a total of at least 20 interdictions. At one point, 2 different pirates, and the system authority Anaconda all dropped in to the same interdiction.
I can't believe I managed it but I was a hair's breadth away from uninstalling. I swear to god if I could add anything to this game it would be persistent NPCs so I could hunt every one of these fuckers down and kill them repeatedly until they couldn't afford so much as a sidewinder.

>>127232204
thanks so much for your help, finally got it just as >>127233026 posted, kek

so at what times would you end the process to get out of trouble?

like if I get interdicted and the sys auth starts scanning me, ending the process right then and there will save my butt?

>>127233430
it's all done client side, so as long as you kill the game before it can tell frontiers server you've been scanned, you're safe

>>127229163
pros: Eagle maneuverability, viper speed, strong shields for its size, small size + target to hit, looks cool, good canopy view, fun mission runner.
cons: kind of short jump range, 3 med hard points is good but not the best at doing dps, underwhelming power distributor.

And no the viper mkIV is not good at anything I couldn't find a use for it.

>>127234036
>And no the viper mkIV is not good at anything I couldn't find a use for it.
I ended up buying the Cobra mk3 instead.

>>127234036
yeah the DBS or Cobra are just better. The DBS can even hold its own in HiRES, even when shields go down

>>127234578
do you upgrade plating? for DBS?

>>127211717
Why does empire have shit ship designs?

>>127235120
because the queen seriously thinks that ships should look pretty and made it a law

>>127233591
cool, as soon as I get interdicted by sys auth and drop out of supercruise i'm just gonna bail and retry

thanks for your help and spoonfeeding me, much appreciated

>>127235002
yeah

with C-class thrusters, C-class power plant, A-class distributor, double beams and double gimball medium MC you can run an inexpensive mid range build that can hold its own even in HiRES

shit for PVP though

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Whats a good PVP build for an anaconda?

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WE 80 MILL NOW SENPAI
>or close to it

Is it Python time yet? I plan to keep doing Robigo runs as much as I can and the extra cargo space of the Python will come in handy

>>127235404
I'll have to try that sometime.

>>127235583
>ppl using a python for robigo

is this the newest meme? wouldn't that make robigo runs like 3 times as long?

>>127213171
Cemeiss if you don't have horizons. Assassination mission give high rep and they only one jump over

>>127235704
I dunno, I just want a new ship, i'll be able to hold 3x more than what I currently have in my Asp and i'll have enough room for a decent fuel scoop which will also cut minutes down from each jump.

Plus when i'm bored I can shoot some stuff if I want. Not selling the Asp though so if it does truly suck I can go back to that and grind more money for maybe a 'Conda.

>>127236015
by all means the python is a great ship

but i would keep the asp just for robigo, otherwise enjoy your 4-6 hour long runs with the python

>>127236183
It's only going to be around 6-7 extra jumps, will add only 10-15 minutes to the trip each way.

I can live with that if I can make an extra 10mil+ per run.

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>>127235120
because ALD is a slut

>>127222897
Why gunship tho? Fed ass has more maneuverability and 2 large hardpoints, you lose a large for some mediums and smalls. Although gunships do look awesome with all kinetic weapons

Is piloting capital ships part of the final Vision?

>>127236624
her blue-haired daughter is worse desu
>"Why did you paint your hair blue?! Are you in that period now?"
>"It's not a period mom! It's who I am! I want to be a power!"

Any tips for a keyboard mouse babby? I've been having a lot of trouble with fighting. I'm new so maybe my Sidewinder just blows ass all day, but I've tried updating the guns to gimballed lasers and that doesn't really seem to help too much.

>>127236950
I want to put my fer de lance inside the Princess's hangar

why is it an anaconda can turn so much better than a python ?

>>127224226
Then why don't you try get last hit, shitter?

>>127236924
at some point its supposed to happen

probably not until years down the road though

thats if the vision can survive that long

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>>127236798
Because I'm not doing it for minmaxing, I'm doing it for full dakka.

>>127237125
cause vision dictates it so

>>127236924
Are you high? Ofc not. VISION!

>>127237037
Are you in an e class sidewinder?

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> /edg/ doesn't even play together, they game but just does Robigo grind runs over and over again.

>>127237992
How do you play this game together?

>>127237992
Meet me up in Gende for RES farming.

>>127237992
three days I haven't moved from the system I'm in because there's 4 HiRES there

>>127237992
Why would we play with each other? So we can split profits on bounties? So that we could deal with the horrific instancing? Or maybe we could start our own private group and circle jerk about how great we are for not being able to play with people outside our group.

This games multiplayer aspects are complete garbage ( so are the singleplayer aspects for that matter), there's no point playing with one another.

>>127236950
This post was sponsored by Felicia Winters

>>127237125
Python is a trading ship :^)

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>Albert Hitchcock - Dads

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>>127238747
>mfw I see it

>>127238609
h-how did you know

>>127238945
oh fuck that wasn't intentional

>smuggling mission
>leaving origin system
>no scan prompt
>no npc dialogue
>mission failed

really?

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Newbie player here.

Is there a good way to find a contact in a system, or do I just supercruise around/check every unidentified signal source until they show up?

>interdicted by mostly harmless cobra
>has 100% perfect turnfighting and ramming skills

nigga what the fuck

is a auto field maintenance unit a good idea on more expensive ships like python/fdl/anaconda that have high repair costs??

>>127239735
>npc
>ramming skills
>skills
Umm... I wouldn't call them skilled, I'd call them retarded. I have random civilian, authority and hostile npcs just bump on my ship when flying around RES.

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>interdicting target
>the interdiction does SOLID 180 DEGREE TURN AND PUMMELS BOTH INTO THE FUCKING SUN
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>127239282
buckle up buckaroo its the vision

>Talking to someone from /edg/ in chat at Res site.
>Pirates keep scanning me and ramming me.
>FDL shields go down.

The AI seems much more rammy than usual.

>>127239556
If its a bounty/assanisation supercruise about and check USS, if its a contact just wait in supercruise for him to message you

>>127239832
They're pretty good at it, I had an Anaconda with only 1 laser on it just instagibb me with its hull

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>>127240215
>Chilling at a NAV beacon in my anaconda
>A shield less Vulture full throttle kamikazes into me
>literally bounces off my nose and explodes in front of my windshield
>8000 cr bounty for doing absolutely nothing

>>127237947
yeah I think so, it's the one you start out with. But I've upgraded the Power, Thrusters, FSD and Distributor

why are empire ships so pretty

>bounty hunting in HiRES
>shooting an iShip clipper
>*frameshift charge detected*
>motherfucker jumps away
>in the middle of an asteroid belt
>while mass locked

W H A T
H
A
T

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>>127240861
oh, also
>FDL keeps outrunning and out turning my DBS

>>127240861
the iShip vision

>>127240731
Well, hopefully you have an A distributor.
Then its just keeping throttle at 50% to turn (I have a key bound for that) and using the appropriate up thrust down thrust while your turning.

Then you can hotkey Flight assist off so you can turn even faster.

Also the sidewinder is pretty bad and you shouldn't judge yourself to harsh for being shit in it.

I also assume you manage power settings. When your getting shot 4 into sys etc.

>>127241016
VISION

What does a bounty hunter do after mastering the RESs? I'm netting about 1 mil every 2 hours on average, and that's at hazardous sites with not going back to port unless my ammo is dry or my hull is <25%. Do you have to just stop bounty hunting at some point or is there a next step?

>>127241629
> up thrust down thrust
up thrust OR down thrust. So like when your turning upwards you downthrust and vicaversa.

Then later you can add FAssist off.

BUT serious, just go to a normal resource extraction site and last hit some wanted guys the cops are stomping. Then buy an eagle or viper and learn in that.

/r/ing the most up to date ship progress chart people have.

>>127220256
>>127220363

Works with an Eagle.

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>decide to go mining again
>visit a dozen systems
>not even a metal rich that isn't depleted or low

well that was a productive use of my day

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>>127242030

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We Python now.

RIP jump range.

>>127220764
>>127220832

How in the fuck does this shit even happen? NPC ships are handled client-side. It's not like you're sharing netcode with another player across the world.

>>127242486
>hauler
hahaha

>>127222867

There are kill missions for explorers. That's the only reason those spawns exist.

>>127242475
That's why having some exploration is nice BEFORE trying mining.

Mining takes a LOT of know-how and research into where to go for them Pristine Reserves.

It's also why I quit mining as soon as I could afford a Vulture

What is the new best way to RANK up with EMPIRE ?

>>127241981
> So like when your turning upwards you downthrust and vicaversa.
I usually upthrust while turning upwards to keep the enemy in my crosshair. I only downthrust if I'm at risk of getting rammed.

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>>127243041
Cumming on ALD's titties.

Or doing IMPOSSIBLE assassination missions where the target has a wing of 3 to jump on your dick as soon as you cough.

I'm not bitter.

>>127225759
>NPC
>lag

>>127243312
you should get some friends to help :^)

>>127228004
>>127229510
>"I knew I'd find you eventually. All that tasty cargo!"

>>127211612
OPs pic happening in 2016?

>>127243445
Actually, I am working on that.

Although I think one of the 2 friends I enlisted is pinched by the cops right now, kek.

>>127234036

All the new small ships are worthless. They were only added as filler and so Ftroop could finish off season 1 with minimal effort while they worked on season 2.

>>127243650
maybe

it would make sense since supposedly multi crew and avatar creation is coming this year, but then again

>VISION

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lolwhat

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You have complete creative control.

How do you make trading fun?

>>127238725
>ftroop calls it a trading ship so they can nerf it
>it's on the combat zone spawn table as a military combat ship
>description even says navies use it as a patrol cruiser

The best part is that the fanbase eats up Ftroop's constant baldfaced lies anyway.

>>127244257
rock music

more income

everything is better with rock music and money

>>127243879
VISION

>>127244257
Less acceleration and deceleration to stations, more pirates

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>>127244348
Now someone who doesn't have autism.

>>127244257
Create the ability to refine metals into alloys, buy raw ore and turn into profit.

Add station renting where you can plant le happy merchant to do transactions for you/you can sell stolen and smuggled goods more easily for more probits.

Add more diversity to economy.

Add a way to increase the population of system with effort.

Add a way to set up your own "Seeking Luxury Goods" station in a system so you can be a le happy merchant yourself.

There a ton of ways to make trading/ commerce more engaging.

>>127244257
Make players able to hire hauler teams and establish mining outposts and extraction companies.

>>127243879

If you think that's bullshit you should have been around when they could jump while still inside a starport.

>>127244257
>add a trading module, that allows you to bookmark systems and profitable routes.
>make those counter offers that npc's chase you all over the galaxy actually worth your time, if you wish to do them.

>>127244402

I was thinking more along the lines of figuring out where to trade. Right now you just use that metagaming tool.

>>127244603
>>127244662
>X

>>127244709
best part of it is that the guy jumped LITERALLY INTO A BOULDER

as in, his trail goes into a rock before interrupting

>>127244754
You don't have to use the metagaming tool, you can use "exports to" and the system map to figure it out :^)

>>127244257
Just copy eve and add a player market.

But actually I'd rather nerf trading straight into the ground. Make it worse than combat missions. And make it so all the fat tugs can be viable pvp missile boats.

Whats the point in assasination missions when they pay worse than standard cargo haul missions, take longer and potentially get you a bounty

>>127245296
>potentially get you a bounty
on your head*

>occupied escape pods are illegal salvage
>cant pick them up and drop them off at the closest station
>can only leave him to die or sell him to the black market

>>127243312

what is the % rank up for doing those missions?

>drop out of supercruise at Coriolis station
>instantly attacked by pirates
>barely make it inside before dying
Aren't the stations and guards supposed to shoot at people firing inside the no fire zone? No active bounty in that system either

>>127245747
I'm guessing from a lore standpoint its illegal to pick up escape pods without the proper training, when a government ship arrives they'll generally pick them all up.

I doubt a few hours longer in the pod matters

>>127246637

Pods put you into cryo. They're good for literally hundreds of years.

Come to gende if you want an asskicking. Or farm some shit.

>you can't buy fuel and put it in your cargo
>you can suck fuel out of space with magic

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>imperial slaves
>exported to displays a democratic federation system with no black market

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>>127244257
Return it to how it was in early beta, where you could buy stuff for a bad price and it was actually possible to lose money. Increase the stakes and also potential payout. Implement a way to bookmark systems and routes so they are permanently highlighted. The amount you trade with a station improves the prices you can buy for. Bulk discounts, random special deals on commodities that have a higher chance of generating if it's a station you visit regularly over a long period of time (not simply number of visits)
Also more trading missions that involve travelling out into unsettled space. And procedurally generated events that are positive eg. finding a destroyed pirate vessel and being asked by the authorities to clean up the stolen cargo, in exange being allowed to keep it. The frequency of such events being greater depending on how heavily you lean towards trading, your ship type and your cargo.

I picked up ed on holiday
spent two hours learning what the hell I was doing/how to do things
now I'm at work and all I can do is think about all the bounty hunting I'm going to get done tonight

I'm almost at the point that I want to buy Horizons even though I don't know anything about it or even care about it. I just want more of whatever this is.

related note:
I'm on a Viper MKIII right now
Hazardous RES has been really hit or miss for me. Either I get lucky and team up with other NPCs to take down a VIP or I get obliterated in a minute after those NPCs die.
Should I just stick to High RES until I can get a Python?

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>>127246849
>Imperial slaves
> Jettason them into space and they somehow survive when picked up again

>On what grounds are you scanning this vessel, officer?

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>>127247131
Epic honeymoon tales, brah!

is the vulture really that good?
2 hardpoints doesnt seem much

>>127247097
>Return it to how it was in early beta, where you could buy stuff for a bad price and it was actually possible to lose money.

You can do that right now.

eg: Stations in Shapsugabus sell gold for over 10k. This is such a high price that you will never make money buying gold from them to sell elsewhere, yet you can turn a profit by selling it to them despite there being absolutely zero demand for it in the entire system.

>>127247371
No, people just messing with you, it's shit. What do you fucking expect, someone to go to great lengths to convince you that it's good?

>>127247315
>I am a Sovereign Citizen of humanity officer!
>Under section 18 of the Articles of confederation, you MUST let me go!

>>127247708
I knew it, thanks

>>127247308

There's no atmo in your hold either. They're popsicles in sealed units inside each cargo canister.

>>127247371

They're 2 LARGE hardpoints. They do more base damage than med or small and bigger ships have innate hull damage resistance to smaller weapons. Meds do 2/3 damage and smalls 1/3 to large ships.

>>127247371
Get a Vulture dad :^)

Why are military outpost stations so comfy dads?

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You need sunglasses to dock this white ass

>>127248582
>ILLICIT CARGO
COMMANDER THIS IS THE AUTHORITIES, THROTTLE DOWN NOW

>>127248690
My equipment is been acting funny lately. I have no cargo at all he he

>>127248582
Why are you facing the rear if you're leaving?

>>127249553
What do you mean? How else would you exit the station?

>600,000ls to station
They should really bundle netflix subscriptions

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>Wow, you fight a good fight!
>Initiates rotating in place while being fired upon by four police Eagles and a CMDR python

>>127249842
You're facing the inside of the station, not the exit, unless its so white I can't make out the airlock

>Need to find military plans for a mission from a wreck
>All the military plans I have found so far have just been "generic" military plans

This game is an asshole.

>>127249553
Backing out like a BAWS

>>127249997
I just assumed it was because of the power distritubion module fucking up just as it would with player except the A.I doesn't know what the fuck to do

>>127250005
Well yeah I back out of the station, I don't want to spin my ship around too much. It's not that big of a deal

>>127250086
Mission-specific loot doesn't spawn ATM

>>127250124
>>127250370
Is backing out better or something, I always just go straight up and boost out

>>127250005
well, yeah. how else is he supposed to leave the station?
you have to exit the same way you go in or else you get fined. it takes a while but you get used to flying backwards when leaving this kind of station

>>127250401
Well fuck me. Glad to know I've been wasting my time.

>>127216238
I used 2 C1 Pulses and 2 C2 Multicannons. Pulses for killing shields and Mulitcannons for shredding hull.

>>127250519
ai glitch means ships dont scan you. god knows how FD managed to fuck it up but useful for multi drop smuggling missions

I don't know if people that made this game finished high school or not but this is not how ftl travel works

>>127251508
It's a game not real life :^)

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>>127251508
>ftl travel
>works

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>>127251508
>implying any form of ftl travel is realistic

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>>127251508
>That's not how ftl travel works

>>127251776
m8 it's possible. There are particles that do that. When you travel at the speeds very close to the speed of light you literally travel in time. Everything that is moving at normal speed would age faster for you

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>>127238747
These fucks confirmed for not actual explorers. I'm making my way to the core, barely out of the Orion arm, and I'm sick of this shit already.

>>127251508
>I don't know if people that made this game finished high school
>but this is not how ftl travel works
This can't be a intentional shitpost because the amount of effort required to come up with this kind of paradox in two sentences is too much.

You're actually fucking stupid.

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>tfw ed is alive again

>>127252176
please get your science from somewhere other than ifls on facebook

I fucking hope the goddamn AI will be fixed some day. I'm tired of seeing Anacondas pulling maneuvers even my vulture can't do.

>>127253096
I don't have facebook

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>>127244257
How about this...

A simple supply and demand system. Mining stations aren't going to pay a lot for resources mined in their own system. If you continually trade manure with one station it's slowly but surely going to decrease the price it pays, because its stocks are filling up. Stations that are fucking far away from the sun are going to pay a metric shitton of money for food, because they need to entice traders to make that journey. A processing plant would buy the resources it requires at a slightly increased price, and would sell the product it produces at a slightly decreased price.

A very basic and rudimentary economy that'd make sense. Players might actually want to travel to Hutton Orbital because that station pays like 500k per ton of food.

>>127252176
relativistic travel=/= ftl travel

FTL travel is impossible with our current understanding of physics, in Elite the fictional ftl drive isn't effected by time dilation because its a fucking fictional ftl drive that uses fictional physics to make the game remotely interesting

>>127245751
Shit son, I have no idea. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ok, bought the game a long ass time ago and dropped it because it was boring as all fuck. Now I heard about E:D Horizons and it was said to add planetary landings, which sounds cool as fuck.

What is there to do when you land? Are there caves and shit? Have they fixed previously boring tasks, like the rest of the game?

Basically, is the $45 dollars worth it?

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>>127253781
>What is there to do when you land?
pic related

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>>127253781
>What is there to do when you land? Are there caves and shit? Have they fixed previously boring tasks, like the rest of the game?

On the note of horizons can you land on anything but barren planets?

>>127254257
NO

>>127254296
will that ever be part of the Vision?

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>>127254460
For another $60? Sure.

>FDLs consistently outrunning and out turning my DBS

this shit is annoying me to no end

>passenger liner has no purpose
good game, would a "ferry to system" mission that required an Orca really be that hard to code

>In Robigo doing the Open/Solo dance to appease the secret mission gods.
>Suddenly, bam, I've been magically teleported 150ly away.

Did I anger Braben?

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sheeeeeit

>>127255157
Wait, did the older versions of Elite have taxi missions in, or was that an Oolite addition? Because if taxi missions were in the original games then the only reason I can think of that they aren't in dangerous is because they forgot and due to being shit programmers they can't add them to their shitty code.

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>>127247097
Anon steps up. These seem like good ideas.

Has anyone else been getting stuck exiting super cruise or hyperspace? I've been stuck in hyperspace for about a minute now.

>>127255453
Took me awhile to notice what was wrong there. Are you actually at 0% or is it some rounding error?

>>127255517
It shouldn't matter, they have a ship thats description goes on about it being for taxiing passengers and 2 more ships modelled with passenger liner description and designs yet theres no taxi/passenger liner missions.

I can't see how hard it would be without seeing their code but they should be able to literally copy and paste the code for regular transport missions and just add a check for a passenger ship.

>>127255641

Probably Fdev servers being laggy, I think that's what happened to me here >>127255169

>>127255719
well the little icon showed 1%

possibly a rounding error, but I was REAL low

firing on FDLs, never again

>>127255842
Well if it is easy to add taxi missions then they're just lazy I guess, can't decide if that's better or worse than being shitty coders.

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>mfw smuggling fish into a vegetarian system

>>127256408
would make more sense if reversed
gotta avoid those scans CMDR :^)

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>>127256597

>>127256689
it even has a better thumbnail
we did it

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>wanted FDL scans me
>"let's see what you have."
>deploy my KWS in return
>"IMMA BOIL YO ASS UP!!!"

>>127256124
>if it is easy to add

Hauling missions already exist. Change whatever files are associated with those missions to display them as passengers instead. Maybe make some shitty generic models inside the ship itself. Make it show up exclusively and consistently for the Orca or any other similar ship. It wouldn't be that difficult.

Did they fix the AMD supercruise bug last night?

>>127253889
>>127253974
I assume Horizons is garbage. Can someone tell me why? If it adds nothing, why are they charging people $45 for essentially vaporware?

>>127258891
Because its being sold as an expansion pass

does chaff work on NPCs?

>>127258891
its basically a season pass for the coming updates

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>>127258891
Because they need money to continue development. Funding they've raised from early backers, steam and xbone is not enough!

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>inna Imperial Eagle
>grab assassination mission
>target is in a conda
>with a vulture escort

so this is the vision I've heard so much about

>>127260339
I really can't complain, more money into Britain is always a good thing you filthy colonials

>>127259067
>>127259312
Oh, so you pay 45 dollars now for all future updates. That's kind f stupid. Wasn't this stuff planned for the base game anyway? From this I'm getting the feeling that they cut it to sell later.
Whatever happened to multiplayer ships with interiors, planetary cities, scavenging (assuming that isn't in the game yet), among other stuff they said they will have? Those are covered under the same $45 season pass as well? What's the development status on those things?

>>127260339
>xbone
what the fuck are you talking about?

>>127260919
No, you pay $45 for 2016s updates

>>127260919
https://store.xbox.com/en-GB/Xbox-One/Games/Elite-Dangerous-Game-Preview/5d1a6afe-0a59-4121-b23d-aefa0915c90c