/edg/ Elite: Dangerous General / Icy Torpor Edition

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Approximately how long would it take to mine 500 tons for the engineer in an Asp or Conda?

>ded at 300 replies

I think it's time to stop.
It's fitting, really. /edg/ goes to sleep on Father's Day.

See you fags in 8 months.

>>146004239
>orca
>multi-purpose
nice meme. I just sold my orca because of it's shitty jumprange and manouvrability

ONE(1)[Uno]{Oднa}<Ett> FUCKING JOB /edg/ all you had to do. Keep the thread alive

Rate my Battle Cutter

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So, what is yor opinion on engineers, edgelords?

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>>146005408

A

>>146005408
I love it

I'm not even kidding I love being a space scavenger. Hate the bugs though. hope they fix those soon

>>146005408
2.1 was the final straw for me.
I didn't mind 2.0 and had thought Engineers plus the updated mission system would end up with you being given specialized missions with the payoffs being engineer upgrades and with the stories Braben kept telling, that maybe some upgrades might be illegal.

NOPE! It's all grinding for a turn at the gambling table and maybe a spin of the wheel.

Personally, I blame Sandro. This is so far out there from being fun that only a braindamaged alien like him could come up with it. Braben is some kind of idiot child that has a vision but no idea how to implement it and Sandro is always the one that figures out how but always in a way that makes no sense to human thought.

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Forum dads out in full force

>>146007283
>get better internet
OH MY SIDES ARE FLYING TO ALPHA CENTAURI

>>146007283
Holy shit that guy's a dumbass

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>>146007283
That's it. I'm fucking done.

I wonder if I can still get a refund

>>146007714
He is free!!! Watch with me brothers! Praise be to he who is unshackled!

>>146007714
you'll be back

>>146007714
>stupidity of player base influences my opinion on the game
You're not any better than they are honestly

>>146008405
Frontier caters to the dads who suck their dick at every opportunity
Dads may as well be devs

>>146007283

>SC is fine

I will never fucking understand this. SC is fine for the most part for destinations 500ls or less but after that it just takes for fucking ever getting anywhere. It's so soul crushingly depressing because it's such an easy fix. All they need to do is increase the acceleration and deceleration. But of course this won't ever happen because dads love staring at starfield screensavers.

oh shidd boys it habbening :-DDD

thargoids NAO

>>146012118
>asp in front of a star
literally LITERALLY never seen it before

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4ou23c/happy_fathers_day_to_all_the_elite_dangerous/

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>>146011189
https://twitter.com/drewwagar/status/744423971026837504

1200ly is what, 3-6 hours for an armada of alien invaders bent on revenge?

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>>146012353

how about an anaconda?

>>146013591
>>146012732
Please explain. I don't understand what is he talking about

>>146013591
thargoid JDs can hit 500LY. and it said he's running AWAY from the core

prepare to get assfucked in tionisla, boys, welcome to the Rift

>>146013591
RIP Chekov

>>146014043

MUH THARGOIDS!!!

The mystery update at the end of the year is probably Thargoids. I hope you enjoy getting pulled out of witchspace every other jump.

>>146014732
>We only have interdictions every millisecond so how about we also interdict you every millisecond in hyperspace

>https://twitter.com/CMDR_Canthor
>https://twitter.com/CmdrKhelder

people like this exist. these are real people.

>>146014245
I hope we'll be able to loot thargoid shit
>Corvette with 300LY jump range

>>146016964

Don't be so demanding you entitled milennial, don't you see how this would make the game too gamey?

>>146017071
t.cobramacdaddy

>>146010142
Shame supercruise will never be scrapped. It's not enjoyable playing a game in which all of the content is some invisible signal floating in space.

This Sothis thing is shit with my Type 7, any other ways to exploit the game for fast bucks? I don't have enough for a Python yet.

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>>146014880

After thinking about it a little bit, this reminds me a lot of playing on an old SS13 RP server.

It was pretty fun playing there at first. Everyone was great, the atmosphere was comfy, and it was just generally enjoyable to play on that server. But then we started getting a lot of players that would felate the admins whenever they could. Then the admins started making events and forcing the lore of the server to revolve around these players that they liked, essentially pandering to them. They kept forcing the entire server to go through events where the whole crew was killed, or ruining entire characters because they didn't like them. It was pissing off a good portion of the playerbase, but whenever someone complained, the circlejerk would come a-running and basically tell us to fuck off or that everything was great and that we were just not enjoying the server right, the server had never been better! And so a lot of the players, myself included, left. About two months later, the server shut down because they bled players quickly, and couldn't hold on to any newer players because of their shitty events that ALWAYS revolved around their circlejerk.

I feel as if Elite is going the same way. The story and updates only go the way forumdads want it to. Engineers that required you to grind for hours? PowerPlay being a broken mess? Thargoids making the game unplayable by killing you and making jumps between systems nigh impossible? Go play EVE! This is the way Elite is meant to be played. It's Elite DANGEROUS, remember?

>mfw realizing some forumdads write their posts almost exactly like a few of the faggots that ruined my favorite server

>>146010142
>SC is fine for the most part for destinations 500ls or less but after that it just takes for fucking ever getting anywhere.
- Up the max speed and acceleration (yes the Clarke reference will be gone) to make long-distance travel less painful.
- Tweak numbers (I'm not sure how exactly) so that fun stuff like gravity braking is more powerful.
- Give us a proper system map and possibly tweak stuff so that avoiding planets in the path gives you much faster trips.
Make it interactive is what I'm asking for I guess.

>>146020763
>slingshot yourself around the sun you arrive at
>instant 200c velocity
>use nearby planet to gravity brake
>from 200 to 2c in 10s

>>146020717
The fact that the newsletter is so obsessed with what the reddit faggots are doing every week is an indication that it's going the same way as your thing .

>>146020763

Gravity breaking actually works but it's highly dependent on the orbit of the station and where exactly it is in that orbit. I think the gravity and mass of the planet itself might also play a role in it but who knows. I have successfully sped myself up and used a planet's gravity to break before but it only really works if the station is on the other side of the planet relative to you, otherwise you'll just slingshot yourself around and the drag of the planet will reduce your speed to sub 1Mm/s speeds for the rest of the journey, which at that point you may as well just set your speed to the blue zone and let the nav computer control your speed.

Your changes look great, and I'd love to see stuff like that.

If EG Pilots win, will their faction literally have that name? That would break the fourth wall.

>>146021403

Have you seen some of the system descriptions where player groups have had themselves inserted as the controlling faction?

It's way too late to worry about the 4th wall. Or good writing for that matter.

>>146021671
Why don't we make our own group and system?

>>146021671
give me an example

>>146021272
I use gravity braking just cause it's fun, I have no idea if it's actually faster than the standard method.

I think supercruise as an idea is fine the implementation is just bad (though I guess that pretty much sums up ED in general).

Tweaking a few numbers could make it a lot more interesting.

For example make it quicker and easier to drop in and out of signal sources. In other open-world games you're walking or driving so stopping to look at something interesting by the roadside doesn't massively eat into your travel time, but Elite's slow acceleration, instancing pauses etc. make it a pain to check these things out. At least they added some info to the signal sources though, that's a step forward.

Maybe make it so fuel scooping depends on speed, so high-speed orbits of a star could fill your tank much faster than dropping to minimum speed. Make the refuel speed continue to scale right up to the SC limit so you have people skimming the drop-out line to maximise refueling speed.

>>146021730

Because that's faggotry, anon.

>>146020514

Asp is much better for Sothis.

>>146021864
Chinaman space is a good place to start looking for awful writing. Lots of player factions got themselves placed there because of the convenient discounts and ended up getting stations UA bombed because of their presence.
eg: Ising Dock in 109 Piscium used to have one of the best selections of ships and modules. Now it's shut down.

>>146022238
Ok thanks, now to find a place that sells the fucker.

>>146021891
>Maybe make it so fuel scooping depends on speed
I'm pretty sure it already does depend on speed.

It's always looked to me like the fuel scoop and heat generation rates are functions of your distance from the star and your speed. Where moving faster will let you maximize your harvesting rate at a higher altitude, while you need to dive lower to cap it out at a lower speed.

I know a friend of mine likes to refuel his ship with his shitty fuel scoop by dropping down to minimum SC speed, getting enough close to the star to max out his fuel capture rate, and going AFK for a few minutes.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I routinely max-out the harvest rate with my conda's 7A fuel scoop as I make a high speed pass by the star with the throttle wide open, hit the frameshift drive button the moment it goes off cooldown, and jumping away with my heat meter in the high 90's

>>146022693

Any system with a high-tech rating will have it, in all likelihood.

I use the following build for doing long range smuggling:
http://coriolis.io/outfit/asp/05C5A5A4C4A5D5C----------f604422t020101.Iw18WQ==.Aw18WQ==?bn=longbus

This will take you around the area of 450LY without needing to refuel, which saves time but costs you cargo space. If you skip the extra fuel for more space you'll need to watch your fuel and remember to scoop. You'll also spend more time with cargo, due to having to stop for scooping, which adds up to more interdictions. You will probably earn more money per run though.

>>146021891

Personally I would love if they implemented something as another anon said, where gravity could be used to slingshot yourself to achieve higher speeds and faster travel, and making gravity breaking more profound so you could actually use it to slow yourself down enough to make it to a station.

I think a huge problem that people don't bring up is the "safe drop" speed. I don't know what's going on with it because sometimes it's 8Mm/s but usually it's 1Mm/s which is fucking ridiculous. I wish it was set to something like 10Mm/s, I think a lot of problems would go away since you wouldn't have to decelerate as much.

>>146022321
Any 4th wall breaking group descriptions?

>>146022945
Fuel scooping is distance. Literally stick your dick in a star and you'll reach the maximum rate you can take in fuel.

>>146022945
>I'm pretty sure it already does depend on speed.

It has nothing to do with speed, just proximity and facing. You can literally park at minimum speed and scoop at full rate if you're close enough to the star and facing it.

>>146023045
Thanks a lot dude.

>>146023045
Personally I go full cargo and fuel scoop. Sometimes I sell my shields if it allows me to take that one extra mission.

I have two bounties on my ass and still always make it in one piece, thank fuck for mines and dumbfire missiles

>>146023052
I'm just not sure how gravity slingshot and braking would work with SC. How would the game know when you are slingshotting and when you are braking?

I think they changed safe drop speed for signals. They should just make it higher in general to make hitting it at the right time at full speed a bit more of a reflex challenge.

>>146023045
what are good systems for smuggling? I can't seem to find any in the 300/500LY belt around the bubble

Anybody want to share IGNs?

>>146023475

Safe drop speed for signal sources is now related to the speed you were going when ti spawned. Like if you're going at 11C now it'll have a safe drop range of 11Mm and speed tolerance of 11Mm/sec.

Why can't we make our own group/player faction? Surely someone is autistic enough here to see it trough

>>146023573

Sothis or Ceos comes to mind.

Robigo if the station(s) ever get fixed.

What's the best way to grind money these days? I have about 20m

So I just picked this up.

How do I play?

I have a logitech extreme 3d pro that i just finished fiddling with so flying feels ok now.

Do i just do missions till my eyes bleed or wat?

Anyonoe know of a decent place to grind imp rank?

ceci n'est pas un bump

>>146025694
Blaze your own trail, CMDR :^)
Don't let other people tell you what to do and just do it o7

>>146025694
buy as many cargo racks as you can for your starting sidewinder
find a hauling mission or a data courier mission to a nearby system
upgrade your FSD ASAP or some places will be literally unattainable
upgrade your ship and save up until you can buy a bigger ship and upgrade it outright

>>146025694
>Do i just do missions till my eyes bleed or wat?

Yep. Enjoy the VISION.

Bulk trading is the easiest way to earn money consistently, but earnings scale with your cargo space, so it might not be the best for someone new. It's also boring as hell unless you like work or use it as an opportunity to catch up on podcasts.

My advice would be to start out with some trade/courier-related missions until you've made enough money and flying experience to decide what your next move is. Missions don't scale well income-wise when you get to the more expensive ships (unless you're doing long range smuggling), so it's useful to find an activity that suits you so you can plan ahead for ship purchases and the like. I can post a ship buying guide in a moment.

No one here? Am I alone in spehs?

>>146028093
in spess no-one can hear you scream "there's nothing to fucking do"

>>146028093

I am giving cloth to the slavbros, so that dads don't get their favorite jewtuber his own powerplay faction.

>>146026369
What activities are there besides missions?

>>146025694
Do courier/hauling missions for a bit to familiarize yourself with the controls, learn how to take off and land and all that shit, then refer to the chart

>>146004239

Upgrade according to whether you want to go exploring, hauling, combat, etc.

>>146028968
Bounty hunting, which consists of either interdicting wanted people in supercruise or farming pirates in resource extraction sites (ranked blank, low, high, hazardous in terms of danger/rewards). There's bulk trading (buy shit here and sell it there). There's exploration (go out into the universe and scan shit). There's lots of little activities to do that are the same no matter where you go.

>>146029261
is bounty hunting in a sidewinder advisable?

>>146029406
Should be easy enough, just pick on targets the system security is already hammering and you'll pick-up credits pretty quick. (System security doesn't kill steal).

>>146029406

You CAN do it, but don't just pick fights with any old ship at Resource Extraction Sites or Nav Beacons, follow system security around and whoever they shoot at, target and try to get one shot in before they die.

And I might as well say this, you might as well get any stupid shit out of your system while you are in the sidewinder, as the penalties for dying in that aren't really a thing.

>>146029406
I'd say do a bunch of missions until you have about 150k-200k in credits, which shouldn't take too long, then upgrade to a Viper Mk III. Start off with gimballed (auto-tracking) weapons, but start teaching yourself how to shoot without the tracking as eventually you'll want to learn how to do fixed. That Cobra duel in the training missions can help you get started with fixed weapons, as you'll have to use the railguns to take down the other guy, and those only come in fixed. Start with some pulse lasers on the small hardpoints to take down shields and some multi-cannons on the mediums for hull.

>>146029406
Oh, one more thing:

Never, EVER fly without insurance money. You can see what the current cost to rebuy is on your stats menu (when you look right in the cockpit). If you don't have enough when you die, you just lose your ship forever, unless you complain on the forums that you died because you had to take care of your wife's son or whatever

>>146029869
lol, sounds good.

Also, lets say I was gunning for a system that was super far away and im now floating in space with no fuel.

Do i just pack it up and give up or?

>>146030150
>No fuel

Just kill yourself. You're starting ship isn't worth much.

>>146023475
>slingshotting = on a "slingshot trajectory" (closer to the edges of the yellow circle than the centre, or maybe even outside the circle)
>braking = when centered (ie on impact trajectory)
not sure if it'd work but it's possible

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>>146029406

If you want to start bounty hunting right away, what >>146029745 said about the Viper is correct.

If not, I'd get a Cobra as my second ship. It's not the second coming of jesus as the dads on the ed forum think, but it's not shit like /edg/ memes it out to be.

>Arrive in system
>FAS interdicks me
>Escape
>Arrive at station
>FAS arrives at station
>Why hello there
>Fire railguns and heavy plasma at me
>Plasmas miss and impact the station
>Station flips its shit and kills the FAS

>>146030404

done similar things

>robigo smuggle run pre nerf
>drop down into realspace to station
>elite python drops down with me, hardpoints deployed
>demands cargo
>go into no fire zone
>he starts leaving
>back out
>he comes back
>continue getting him ever closer to no fire zone
>stay outside long enough to get shot, boost into zone
>he follows and is fried immediately

I wonder if the AI still does this...

Thanks for the help bro bros, got another question, why is private play a thing? Thought this was like an mmo type deal?

>>146030953
Kickstarter backers who wanted a pure singleplayer game, just ignore it and play open.

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>friendly with anarchy pirate faction
>pirates still fucking interdict me and attack me because VISION
>always run because actually trying to get this faction's influence up and killing them lowers their influence
>flying in system, NPC says he wants my tasty cargo
>what
>check cargo
>apparently i picked up some engineer commodities from a mission or something
>cant escape interdiction, whatever, submit
>boost boost wake
>go check out a USS
>he immediately pops up in front of me despite him not even appearing in SC again
>hes in a DBE
>can out maneuver my fucking A rated Vulture, takes down my shields with one pass
>fuck it, run away again
>interdicts me AGAIN
>submit and say fuck it, this shit is worthless on the market and i dont even fucking have horizons anyways, dump it all for him
>YOU HAVE MADE A WISE CHOICE
>god fuck you, jump back to SC so i can get back to station
>hes back again asking for my cargo
>check cargo, yup, i gave it all to him
>mfw task manager, kill elite process

I fucking hate this game. I love playing it and just dicking around but it's almost as if the fucking game WANTS me to hate it so it does everything it can to make my session miserable.

>>146030953
Oh, poor sweet naive anon. You have much to learn about the VISION.

>>146030953

I don't even know, probably so the forum dads had some eternal bogeyman to bitch about constantly therefore keeping the pace of the game similar to molasses in January.

I want a Federal Assault Ship but I don't know where to go to grind rank. Is any system better than any other?

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>>146030953

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4owltk/i_just_uninstalled_elite_heres_why/

How fucked am I when the forum dads see this?

>>146023103
>>146023297
It's both. Go fly tangent to a star and fuck around with your throttle. You'll see the fuel rate increase as you boost throttle and decrease as you cut throttle. Distance to the star is just more influential than speed.

>>146031786
>doesn't like supercruise

F

>>146032508
New dude here, but I just experienced the interdiction minigame and that shit was cancer

>>146032665
just remember that the sidewinder is one of the most agile ships in the game

>>146032738
is that an /edg/ meme or?

because holy shit...

>>146032912
yes it is

IIRC it's Eagle=AspS>Vulture>Sidewinder=FAS in terms of agility

the federal gunship is the most agile ship in supercruise but I suspect it's a bug

>>146032912

It's true.

I was gonna tell you to check the OP for links to the wiki, but there are none. Here:

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous_Wiki

>>146031180
>been exploring since 2.1 hit
>return to the bubble yesterday, do a couple missions to check out the new board
>boost away from interdictions because im still in an unarmed explorer >ASP
>go get my FAS to try out C3 multis
>interdicted by an asp scout for my cargo worth 400cr
>shields drop, get hit on the top by a missile
>all the weapons on my underside instantly break or malfunction
>wut

>>146033070
>yes it is
wait my bad no it isn't fuck

>>146031180
>doing a mission
>transport 4 units of biowaste for 800k
>two pirates spawn, both in FAS
>Get interdicted. submit, escape
>Immediately get interdicted by the second, boost, escape
>Immediately get interdicted by the first
>etc etc

>>146032170
Welp, fuck me. I just realized that my approach wasn't completely tangent. More of a shallow dive.

Fuck.

>>146032508
Supercruise is lame though.

I mean, I like the concept of it, but I don't think it should be gotten rid of entirely to fix it. Just double the acceleration and deceleration rate. Make it increase exponentially the further away you are from a gravity well. Something, anything, just make it not take so fucking long. Make putting pips to engines give me a boost. Or give me an automatic disengage option, so I can go jerk off or something while I supercruise through boringspace.

>>146033379
>give me an automatic disengage option

This. Combine it with your other suggestion, so you can choose between two supercruise modes:

>Boring old SC as we know and love.
>Autocruise: Steer ship towards target, engage. you will cruise to and drop in to the target automatically. This can be balanced by you being unable to fight interdictions, submitting instantly. Also, once locked you cannot steer or unlock unless you shut down your cruise fully. It effectively hinders you from dropping down into signal sources.

THIS FUCKING GALAXY MAP SHIT WHAT THE FUCK

Using a map should not make me ANGRY

>>146034653
and this is even the improved version, it used to be worse

>>146034653

what seems to be the issue?

>all these pirates and bounty hunter AIs in Cobra and Viper IVs

I feel like I'm skeet shooting here.

>>146035226
Sounds good commander, i've just about nudged the 5th anaconda out of my butthole now

>>146033995
An autocruise like this would bug the fuck out if the destination is behind anything.

>>146034859
>Look at the system map concepts
>This is somehow the result
It's like you have a recipe and all the ingredients for a wonderful pasta dish, but you ignore the recipe and just microwave some spaghettios instead. Then when people complain you sprinkle some Parmesan over the spaghettios.

>>146037426

>Autocruise cannot be engaged: Target obscured.

Fixed. Why handle it any different than with longjumps?

>>146037918
Why is that shit red and neon green?

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>>146037705
The worst thing is that fucking F:E2 and F:FE had a proper orrery map.

>>146033379
Supercruise is the reason that you'll never feel like you're actually in space. It's the reason why any stellar bodies/debris/stations will feel like they were placed there for the purpose of a video game instead of part of a real universe.

I remember when I first played the game (a year ago or so) and didn't know how to actually disengage supercruise, or that I was in it. Every time I got close to the station I wanted to reach it wouldn't show manifest. I couldn't figure out why the station wouldn't actually show up. Eventually I figured out how supercruise worked, the speed you need to be going to actually disengage it and how to. Suffice to say it was a terrible first experience of the game, a mechanic that puts you into a magical "out of universe" place that can't physically interact with anything was a horrible idea.

>>146038661

Whenever I'm in supercruise, I feel like my ship becomes huge and I'm traveling across a room. It's awful and I can't stop thinking about it every time I go into SC.

My first time that I went into SC, I figured out how to get out of SC, but I didnt know about the disengage speed. This led me to hopelessly mashing J to try to emergency drop myself at a station. It was pretty awful.

>>146033183
>do long range runs RP as pacifist smuggler-hauler
>cargo isn't worth lives after all
>also too stubborn to jettison a single tonne
>get careless and unlucky one time
>and another time to a fast imp courier with impulse lasers
>fit mine launchers on all 4 small hardpoints
>figure I try them out on a pirate, just to slow them down
>it's surprisingly effective, accidentally lay one pair of mines too many and he blows up
>figure I better get good at this to make runs a bit less painful
>oops
>am no longer a pacifist smuggler-hauler
not as effective as a gunship, but for some low-weight/power insurance mines sure are efficient af for hauling

>>146038964
This is effectively the problem with the scale of the game.
Yes it puts you in awe the first few times, but once the novelty wears off you don't actually feel the impact of this scale. And a big part of it is just how slowly you accelerate and decelerate. You never get that jump to lightspeed oomph because it's taken up by a shitty instance shift into the SC instance from the normal space instance.

>>146039608
>You never get that jump to lightspeed oomph because it's taken up by a shitty instance shift into the SC instance from the normal space instance.
Something they did recently has made my normal space to SC shift really smooth, like in the trailer smooth. The SC to normal space shift is still fucking awful though.

>>146039608

My biggest problem with SC is the sound effects. I don't know what the hell it is about it but it's just grating on my ears and doesn't sound like what a ship going many times the speed of light should sound like, atleast from a sci-fi point of view.

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>randomly chance across someone I added as a friend from a previous incarnation of /edg/ a long-ass time ago
>say "what's up, long time no see"
>he unfriends me without responding

rude

>>146041569
reeee social interaction

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Holy shit how is this alive?

>>146041862
the Vision sustains us

it flows through us, replacing what's left of our souls

>>146041862
necromancy

How long until the game doesn't suck?

>>146042668
10 year plan anon. Another 8 left until the vision is complete.

>>146042729
I know it won't be done for a while, but when is it actually going to be playable for those of us not blessed with severe autism?

>>146042826
Never.

Frontier have no reason to change because people with severe autism are their #1 customers.

>>146042916
Fuck.

I just want to space.

>>146043145
Are there even any other good space games coming out?

>>146043145
Wait for dual universe :^)

>>146043223
Not anytime soon.

>>146043223
No, but plenty of good old ones if you haven't played them

>>146043929
Playing FS2 and I-War at the moment.

>NMS comes out
>Can explore planets and fly around without having to deal with """"fun"""" """"""""immersive"""""""" bullshit.
>Don't have to wait 5 years just to be able to walk around on not barren planets
Can't wait desu fampai
based on videos it looks like combat is even better.

>>146044595
Yeah unlike the rest of this thread I'm actually looking forward to NMS.

It's going to be superior comfy that's fer sure.

>>146043223
Dreadnaught looks pretty fun

>accept elite rated gold delivery mission
>3 jumps away
>get chased by ai during all my jumps
>drop down into target system, station 50ls away
>we need the cargo elsewhere CMDR :^)
>"only 45LY away, that's like two jumps, not bad"
>Station distance: 11,526LS

I still had a mission marker for the original system, so I tried delivering the gold there, but it seems like they didn't give me a chance. Now I've got a 950k bounty and 90t of stolen gold. Fuck this shit, never accepting a trade mission besides smuggling again. 11k LS of interdicking is more effort than I can muster.

>>146045987

I had one of those bait-and-switch missions for a station 300K+ LS away. That was delightful, let me tell you.

>>146045754
What game is that?

>>146046591
Round-based PvP space game build around you piloting huge ass ships in a large arena.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFD5QjEwiXw

It's class based, so you'll have fast fighters and heal tanks.

>>146046946
Looks cool

>>146047143
It'll be free when it comes out, but you can buy into the beta with $10.

Alternatively, just hop on the game's subreddit and use the sticky to ask for a beta key.

>>146047476
>just hop on the game's subreddit and use the sticky to ask for a beta key

I'll give that a shot. I want to play before I give them any money.

>>146047476
>Alternatively, just hop on the game's subreddit and use the sticky to ask for a beta key.
Cheers, I was interested in this game but wasn't sure where to get access to it.

Do you know if it will be grindy like Fractured Space?

Do you guys think Chris-chan would play Elite Dangerous?
Would he like it?

>>146047785
>Do you know if it will be grindy like Fractured Space?

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure the main grind is going to be getting new ships. Gear is going to just be side-grades. So, a gun that has higher rate of fire will have lower damage to balance the change.

>>146047785
It's fun but really, really grindy currently.

Been playing a bit but stopped after my fourth time getting killed by pirates while on missions. What guns to get on my ship and what ship to get to make some money?

>>146048381

If you're in your Sidewinder, it's almost not worth bothering. It's too cheap to care about getting killed in it, and it's too fragile to fight in.

>>146048381
What's your budget?
If you want neetbux you could try turretfarming. Still enough time to get 10k. Then you'd be getting 50mil next week's Thursday. Would help you 'get started'.

Otherwise you should probably try stealing kills at a RES.

The best ships to make money: Anaconda and Cutter.

>>146048381

The first entrance to start earning money will be the Cobra. It's versatile enough to fit for some light fighting, exploring or trading.

If you keep getting killed by pirates this early you're probably trying too hard to fight back. You won't be good enough, and the sidey just isn't powerful enough.

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Does anyone know a good system(s) to grind some Fed rank?
I desperately need pic related.

>>146050023
No you don't.
You want it, but you don't need it.

Does 17 Draconis donation grind still work?
Ceos/Sothis has a Federation aligned faction who provides donation missions. Not a lot, but a fair bit, at least for me.

>>146050023
I have it and i feel pretty meh

>>146050113
17 Drac is in a civil war, no donation missions there. Tun is but a shadow of its former glory since 2.1 hit.

I know some spots where farming Imp rank is a thing, with many data courier missions betwee parallel systems. But I do not know of similar Fed systems.

>>146050114
I want to feel meh like you.

>>146050871
It feels great the moment you get it. It feels great while you are outfitting it. Then you take it for a spin to a RES or interdict some shitters. Then it hits you.

This is what you get for grinding for a long period. The ship ain't that overpowered or awesome. It's not even that fast. You've reached the end and what's there in store for you? The adventures and stories you make up in your head. So get that >visionary >imuhgination going and start rolepalying.

>>146051849
I've already got a fully A-rated battleconda. I know what the grind is. I just want two C4 Multicannons on my ship 's all. That and scare the shit out of thats, and expand my Wing's minor faction into other systems.

>>146051957
*out of dads.

why do you guys still play the game?

>>146052593
It's not like there is anything better to do. I've got 300 hours invested into the game. Fuck Overwatchm fuck Total War: Warhams. I only want to play Elite. It's shit, but it's less shit than other shit games.

>>146052593
I've made a series of poor choices which have culminated with me having no money for other games. Elite is all I got.

>>146052593

Because I played through Doom three times already.

>>146052593
Because I still like it.
I have adopted the Dad philosophy I suffer from severe Stockholm syndrome and have completely embraced the VISION.

I can fly around with the ship of my choice, shoot ships and not care about anything else. I can immerse myself in a world that's an inch deep with my own imagination.

Essentially I could replace my Elite experience with a pen and paper but I couldn't FLY anything or enjoy the impressive sound design. Also, my expensive HOTAS and Rift setup has to be used for something.

>>146051849
In any case none of the big ships really give you access to any new gameplay. It's just the same shit but slower and with more guns. Or more cargo space.

I tried. I tried to get into a community but literally everyone that plays this game is a full blown RP fag who will get triggered to a temper tantrum should anyone voice an opinion he doesn't like.
I don't give a fuck about 99% of the community as long I have 1% that has a "git gud or die trying" mindset.

>>146053246
Just look for the right groups, Anon. I am in a group called The 9th Legion. We DO NOT do any silly RP. We just fly together from time to time and do some powerplay for the minor faction we have in the game. That, and we have some friendly banter on the Wing's forums. That and we have zero pleb forumdads and redditors in the group. We just play for fun.

>>146053632
... Minor faction you have in game?
How do you get that?
Find a system with a minor faction and choose that as yours and then do missions for that faction?

>>146051849
That's what the vette did to me, it's done, i've reached the apex, nothing more to do. Now i fly a multipurpose conda that has basically every function a ship can have and salvage/meddle in all sorts of shit

>>146053884
I fly a Federal Dropship and pretend I'm deploying troops to planets and assault bases..

I also fly a Federal Gunship and destroy everything imperial I see with my full dakka dakka.

also equipping everything with just railguns is fun as all hell

>>146053632
>Important - please be pledged to the Emperor when you apply to join the 9th Legion
>We will not be able to process your application until this is complete.

:^)

>>146053632
>The Empire
for what reason?

>>146053818
You ask Frontier to have your faction inserted into game, complete with dery description, You can then do missions for your faction in order for it to gain influence or even expand and go to war with other minor factions.

>>146054068
Bask in her fucking glory, scrub. Fuck the feds.

>>146054461
>We DO NOT do any silly RP
>Bask in her fucking glory, scrub. Fuck the feds.

You're shit and your group is shit.

o7

>>146054461
The empire should be exterminated from existence desu

>>146054874
But muh space milf and space Idolmaster

>>146054841
lel get rekt
That's not RP, Why the fuck wouldn't you pledge?
> M-muh indepentend, plediging is uhrpee..

>>146055314
Pledging is not RP
Forcing someone to pledge to your specific selection in order to join your group, that is RP

>>146055314

Pledging is not RP, and no one has stated otherwise.

>Bask in her fucking glory, scrub. Fuck the feds
is most definitely RP, however. Enjoy your cuckshed, your wife is expecting. Dad safely, CMDR o7

>>146055314
Holy shit you are cringy as fuck. I bet your homo friends in your legion are even worse

>>146054461
I suppose you need to have several people sign to to do that? Or can I write my own fiction and ask ftroop to insert it to a remote anarchy station?

Also why no /edg/ faction???

>>146056256
I wish we had our faction but it doesn't look like anyone here is autistic enough to bother with that

>>146056256
There could be an /edg/ faction. One of us just needs to infiltrate into the gulag and apply for a faction. Too bad the waiting list is 6 months...
It would be glorious though. We could all help the faction becoming fuckhueg and expanding.

>>146058539
I down with someone doing this.

>>146014732
>>146012732
Reminder that Thargoids formed an Alliance with humans at around 100 years before Elite:Dangerous

>>146058850

VISION retconned that.

>>146059072

Or perhaps I am reading everything wrong from all of the random ass posting that Ian Brookes made recently on their forums. But even then his post leaves a lot to be desired.

>>146058539
Would also make the general puposeful, plus it'd be fun fucking with the game like that.

>>146059754
Well, feel free to go request your group at the gulag and set up an Inara wing to solidify your request.

>>146058539
>>146058803
>>146059754
Essentially we need to agree on certain things.
- What type of faction it is pirate, obviously.
- Where is the home system
- What would the backstory be, so that it isn't full of memery that it gets accepted.

I can be the one who does the contacting and writing if we actually agree on things that once it is done someone says fuck that shit and leaves.

Technically what we need is Archon Delaine but better?

How do I rank in empire?

>>146061112
You don't anymore.
If you want ranks build a time machine to go back before the vision claimed them.

>>146060756
Delaine is kill.
Best thing to go for is independent.

If we are willing to do this seriously, I am prepared to go into the gulag and apply for the faction in a stately fashion.

We'd have:
- A faction to play the game for and to expand.
- A friggin purpose instead of grind to grind
- An official backstory
- Nothing, really.

Still, if /edg/ can put in some effort, I'm willing to help out.

>>146060756
Faction: Pirate - Agreed
Home System - Don't mind but should be somewhere Neutral to the War
Backstory - Has to be so crammed full of dank memery not even Braben notices.

>>146061764
Donation missions don't exist anymore?

>>146062025
>somewhere Neutral to the War

Basically an independent pirate planet who's influence we can expand and control the course of.

>>146062081
They give shit for rank points because dads got mad people who valued their time were progressing through fictional navy ranks too quickly.

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>>146060756
I don't think factions can be pirate.If I understood correctly you have to go by this table. Can we be independent prison colony, anarchy or dictatorship?

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/177719-Establish-your-own-Minor-Faction-and-FAQ

>>146062225
I thought Anarchy was piracy

looks like we need pol to start a good edg faction

>>146062225
Independent theocracy
Covenant of the vision.

>>146062209
Thy complained so much that nothing gives out ranks anymore?

Dunno how they consider themselves adults.

>>146062283
you can put it that way.

>>146062402
I'm just giving the dads shit because god knows they didn't raise a stink about rank changes to potentially get the rates fixed. I think the only one to blame for this one is Ftroop

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FYI
The Gulag on player created factions

>>>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/177719-Establish-your-own-Minor-Faction-and-FAQ

Some reason I can't connect to the game or the website?

>>146062941
Its over
We are freed from the vision

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>>146062010
a. Offffficial™ player factions are plebbit tier cancer attracting the most retarded faggots and weebs ever as that 9th Subleddit fagtron aptly demostrated above.

b. Why the fuck we even need an offffffficial™ registered faction. Just choose a system and use your IMAGINATION.

I'm already in a /edg/ player group called The Foruchin Raiders. It consists of ME.

>>146063506
>IMAGINATION.
You're starting to sound a lot like a vision quest anon

>>146063571
This whole name an enpeecee faction and imagine you're part of it is already vision quest to the max tbqh.

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is pic related a gamer girl? Think she's hwt?

>>146063506
top kek.
/edg/ should get shit done once in a while.
And, why the fuck not.

Let's make a fucking Theocracy faction, Covenant of the Vision like anon stated above.
They praise the Prophet Brabo (Grind be upon Him) in a religion called the Vision.

>B-but that's arpee, anon..

See it as an in-game alternative to that fucking Steam group no one uses. It's not going to attract cancer, because no one save a few on /edg/ would give a shit.

>>146064052
I'm down with this where do I sign up?

>>146064052
sounds good. but if you're going for it don't mention "barbo" in description and it would be cool to implement dads in to lore as well

>>>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/241826-Player-Groups-and-Minor-Factions-Submission-Form-and-Information

It's as easy as filling in a form. We need to establish some stuff here, /edg/

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>>146064052
Seriously tho, dial down that excessive memery.

>>146064052
To commune with their Deity, The Great Visionary, one must pray to be "blinded by Vision". Elderly men with great experience that have been "blinded by Vision", akin to achieving Nirwana in Buddhism, may sit in a great theocratic council called "The Forum"
These wise seers and sages are henceforth called" Fathers of the Forum" or "They who been Blinded by Vision"

The goal of the Covenant of the Vision is to spread this great faith to all reaches in space and are willing to aggressively push this agenda.

http://www.strawpoll.me/10534392

Quick count for numbers

>>146064316
>filling in a form
can't be that easy right? will they give pieces of space literally to anyone don't they have to at least confirm that you have x amount of players with you. Some games won't even let you start clans if you don't have enough people let alone influence the game

>>146064530
>3 votes
ded

>>146064523
cringe af pham

>>146064523
This could be going somewhere. Let's get it going.

>>146064523
Were going to have to have agents infiltrate other factions, give us their locations so we can perform hyperspace assaults and incursions into their territory then jump out before they know what hit them.

>>146064523
Can we somehow paint these Fathers of the Forum our enemies?

>>146064530
Whichever nigger voted out, I'm coming for you.

>>146064874
Either we are a super edgy anarchy faction
OR
We are a devouted religious covenant praising the one true visionary. The praising will be done ironically as a joke that goes over ftroops and the forum's head.

I prefer the latter, although I love being /edg/y.

>>146065178
Sorry m8, don't want anything to do with your dinkledongers friendship club of epic memes and upboats.

Y'all gay persons.

>>146065245
>Either we are a super edgy anarchy faction
This please, keep your amazing brabomemes contained here.

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Covenant of the Vision

A theocracy ruling the system of X that is based around the fanatical cult of worship called the Vision. It's members follow the Prophet of the Vision. Instead living soberly to have a good afterlife, The members of the Covenant hope to achieve a "Blinding" during their lifetime.

Being Blinded by the Vision is a great boon, for it shows a devoted member of great things that already are, and great things to come.

Some experienced members that have achieved Enlightenment, called the Blinding form a relgious council called the Forum of the Vision. In this Forum, religious and cult matters are discussed by great seers and sages, collectively called Fathers of the Forum. These Fathers are a minority, but a very vocal one. The Covenant usually listens to them before taking action.

The monotheistic deity of the Vision is called the Grand Visionary. He is a deified prophet of old that laid out the structure of the Faith and a ritual called the Visionary Decennium, or Grand 10 Year Plan. The Plan is a way of life that every new devotee of the Vision needs to follow before having the possibility of becoming Blinded. Many aspire this, but the 10 Year Plan is harsh and unforgiving.

The main force of arms of the Covenant of the Vision is the EDG, the Episcopal Defence Group. They are the weaponised arm of the faith. A fanatical defence force aiming to spread the word of Faith through all known reaches of space.

>>146065749
literally vomit inducing

>>146065952
Looks like we have our first dad on board

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>>146065749

>Episcopal Defence Group

>>146065952
It's supposed to do just that. If we took it any more seriously, we would be dadly roleplayers.

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>>146066827
Are you fags invading from this>>146013181
thread?

If so, can you stop stealing our dankerous memes and running them into the ground?

You have to go back.

How are the community goals for getting money?
Are they worth?

>>146067398

I am making decent money selling Conductive Fabrics for one of them.

>>146067504
Which one is the Russian one
I want to cuck Armada

>>146067556

EG Pilots

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Can't wait to play with meme-spouting reddchan children. LE TOP KEK XD as they say!

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>>146067607
>>146067556
>foreign devils supporting us
Хopoшo.

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>>146067607
thanks anon.

>>146067773
I'm kinda slav myself. Seing Armada (which shouts the most) get fucked sideways will keep me entertained.

>>146068042
>Seing Armada (which shouts the most) get fucked sideways will keep me entertained
Honestly, that's the only good reason to help them.

In reality they are nothing more trhan a russian breed of forumdads and have some autistic rules to follow and rituals to perform if you want to join their group.

Seeing them cucking plebbit crusader groups is priceless tho.

>>146068328
>EG wins
>Armada and leddit screams to delet this powerplay feature

>>146068512

Probably for the best, considering how buggy it gets, that or when people "forget" to update the standings for a week.

*sniggers*

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>>146070245

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>all this talk of a faction

What about the SIRA? Can someone learn me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCnGD6xv5ik

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>>146070413
that fucking image

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>>146071171

is it worth getting a python for bulk trading?

The community of this game, I swear

>Someone bitches about the AI (catch all term for the NPC behaviors)
>T-technically it's not the AI at all, they're fine!

>>146072143
That's all it's good for now. You can land on outposts with it and can somehow defend yourself.

I went with Type 7, don't do that mistake.

>>146072971
We could achieve everything we ever wanted this game to be if we just shit post on the frontier forums under the guise of angry dads

Are the generated faces of the NPCs/Engineers supposed to be placeholder? They're so goddamn fucking ugly. The only uglier character I've ever seen was that elf from Dragon Age.

>http://www.strawpoll.me/10534392/r
>11 yes
So did anyone fill the form already? 11 is more than enough

>>146073709

I'd love to, but I have no willpower to try to form this myself. If I have to go say something on the forums though to show FD that we do indeed have enough people that want to form a faction, I'd be willing to do that.

>>146073709
We still don't have the results for the americans

>>146073709
I'd consider it, as long as it doesn't degenerate into memes and circle jerking like some other /vg/ oriented things do.

>>146073709
for what exactly? is there a hidden corporation feature i am missing

>>146074059
wheredoyouthinkyouare.jpg

>>146075182
/edg/ is surprisingly a lot better than the rest of this board.

>No circle jerks over tripfags or named posters
>No constant shitposts about trannies

>>146073498
some one never played Xrebirth

>>146075809
I have it installed and tried to. I don't recall any of the NPCs you can hire for your crew to be as ugly as the ones that Fdev have generated.

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>>146075442

>>146075442
Because we don't have waifus, waifus literally keep other generals alive with that shit. Here were either forced to stay on topic or meme about dads.
I have only been with 3 other generals and "dads" is an amazing phenomena here

>>146076029

I wonder how that person feels about the pilot gender selection?

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>>146076029
>>146076329

>>146076329
Surely they're okay with it? Noone wants to be no gender, right? They either want to be a man or a woman, whichever fits their current delusion.

>>146076452

Well yeah that's the only surefire way of making someone "visibly" trans.

Also, if you make a visibly trans character you're bound to have other people complain about how it's "problematic" to "out" someone.

>>146076582

>Noone wants to be no gender, right?

I wish I knew as little as you do...

>>146073148
Cool thanks, will it work ok if i D reank everything apart from the FSD and stuff it full of cargo racks and a fuel scoop?
i was looking at getting a clipper but have fuck all rank with empire

>>146077930
clipper is top shit

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>>146071071
>>146065749

>>146078132
I dont have any imp ships and want a new trading ship so the clipper was my first choice. But im at Outsider and need to be Baron to get one. Made me really regret not grinding ranks when it was possible

Is the Python shit now or is it gud?

>>146078907
It's good for smuggling cause its size.
It's not the legendary combat ship it once was.

Have Thargoids been spotted yet?

>>146081761
nah, but drew wagar just absolutely fucking bailed out of the bubble, feds just invaded merope (where the UA's align to) and rifters are pursuing leads

thargoids very soon anon

>>146081761

Nah Mr. VISION is still folding graph paper to decide how he wants to model the new ships we will never get.

>>146081761
I for one don't want any unbalanced super NPCs in my Elite anymore.

>>146031786
Looks like everyone is mostly disagreeing with you but "Respecting your opinion" kek

>>146083652

I don't look forwards to being snatched out of hypercruise every second jump to play some damn minigame and possibly a rousing round of "kick the autustic".

>>146031786
I agree with the supercruise aspect of your argument, I hate how every system is an instance, yet we are then forced into multiple instances within that instance, be it supercruise or signal sources etc.

They are working on interiors, walking around your ship and shit is planned for Horizons. Or at least it was, sure they'll find a way to fuck it up.

>>146086705
Can't find the announcement but no, walking around ships won't be in Horizons. Sorry to tell you. They fucked it up.
Horizons will have CMDR o7 creator still and that's it.

>>146087182
I mean, I don't have horizons so I don't even give a shit, but I guess I ain't surprised. At this point I'm doubting their 10 year plan can hold up. At least in 10 years time when Star Citizen finally releases we might get a decent space game. I very much doubt it though, SC looks worse than ED in most ways at this point.

>>146088904
Certainly not holding any expectations on SC. It looks pretty wonky.

And fuck no will Elite last for 10 years. For reference WoW is 10 years old.

Yeah, Elite will probably last three more years and then shut down.

>>146091542
HAWKEN is still running, so i doubt it

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This doesn't look very safe

>>146091542
It does if the expansion doesn't sell.
But it generates hype that everyone buys into.
Regardless of how mad people are all the time and how supposedly dead the game is, at the end of the day it sold well and that is all that matters when it comes to shutting the game down

>>146092530
It's perfectly safe

>>146092530
Probably one of the most legit black holes out there. So many of them tell no story of what happened to the star that produced the black hole. This one does.

>>146092826
>>146093069
Worth going there I presume?

>>146093213
Well its a black hole, of course it's worth giving it a honk. Unless you plan to fly 20k LY just to get there.

>>146093356
Well it's only 3.2k Ly away from me

>>146093561
Nothing grand about it, having a colorful backdrop is cool but that's about it.

>>146088904
>SC looks worse

If we're comparing an unfinished tiny portion of a product versus a released one, SC looks no worse than ED does. The two stations you can explore is more than the entirety of exploration that the ED galaxy offers.

>>146092729

How many units has it shipped, anyway? Do we know?

>>146094297
Yeah but are the stations still feature devoid and completely pointless/barren? I played the free weekend a few months ago and not only did the game run like shit, there is also practically no content worth playing the game for. Less than E:D in fact, and that's fucking saying something seeing as what E:D offers, isn't much overall.

Saying that there is content, just no depth whatsoever to said content.

>>146094797
One station has voiced journals you can listen to (ala Bioshock 1) that is part of a quest. Once you complete it you get paid for that quest. Further searching the station allows you to find a shotgun. The other station has two weapons you can find while exploring and also (I don't know how, but someone had video of it) the ability to log into their system and become a security guard. There are asteroid fields which you can visit to collect salvage and weapons also, and another station offers missions to investigate SOS signals in some asteroid fields that also have voiced diaries/logs of the last thing to have been recorded. It's pretty neat. To me, these two tiny aspects of the alpha is a lot more than the infinitely same systems that there are in ED.

>There is also practically no content worth playing the game for

Shit is still in development. And yeah, it runs like shit in the portion that requires their servers. When I was doing the horde mode gameplay and races it ran flawlessly.

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>>146091861
mf gamersfirst will probably take better care of ED's future than FD

So I'm looking at this powerplay shit and I'm not sure how it works. I want to pledge Duval for the shields, but how do I earn merits to rank up?

>>146096492
Quick guide to powerplay: Don't.

>>146096557
If I'm going to be grinding anyway I may as well gain rank at the same time

>>146096676
Except with powerplay you choose to either grind to gain pp rank or grind to gain anything else

>>146096492
Just avoid power play. None of the shit is worth it.

>>146095471
The voice log shit sounds cool, I wish E:D had some sort of life inserted into it like that. Supercruise kind of takes away any way to have a system that feels alive, especially if you have to drop out into instances. How are Star Citizen doing system travel? I know their systems are going to be smaller than E:D.

I dunno though, it's like DayZ, multiple years of development and no real substantial meat on the bones annoys me, at least E:D is a bedrock that COULD (doubt it will) be a platform for future greatness. Star Citizen just seems the same as E:D back in it's beta. Sure, you're enjoying that shit now, I enjoyed the fuck out of E:D beta, but eventually it'll be the same shit we complain about in here. No real depth.

Will say I am looking forward to the Star Citizen multi crew shit. Have at least three friends to do that shit with. Are they planning to do any spaceship carrier stuff, do you know?

did anyone know that point defence shoots incoming plasma accelerator rounds?

>>146096492
Do not do it. The ONLY way we can show braben to fucking rework its mechanics and rewards is by not doing it at all.

Elite Dangerous makes me want to play X: Rebirth, but I don't have Home of Light and can't justify shelling out for it since I'm a poorfag. And I like my mods so I can't just pirate it.

Fuck.

>>146097526
>How are Star Citizen doing system travel

In system travel has quantum drive. Point at a target, engage and you "slip-space" to your destination after a couple seconds. I read talk of jump gates between systems.

>it's like DayZ

It's only like Dayz in that you can play it. They purposely only give you a tiny section of game to test out everything available so far. It's what an alpha should be. It's the only reason why I can forgive the state some content is in. I'm sure ED's alpha was similar.

>Spaceship carrier stuff

Such as what? I was testing out the multicrew stuff and that actually works. Such as a copilot focusing on where to focus shields and others manning turrets. Shit still needs work though. The turrets especially. And also there is a video of players staging a mock raid on one of the larger ships introduced. It worked but was buggy, which is what I expect for the stage of development. If shit is still in the state it is later on is when you'll start seeing the real complaints going on.

>>146098284
>Pirate GOG version
>Profit

>>146097676
Judging from what I've been reading regarding Winters players quitting, PP is not going to be reworked any time in the near future.

>>146098690
Can't use mods then. Gotta have my butter ranges. Station scanning is just hell without it.

Elite: Dangerous is boring, repetitive, garbage.

Star Citizen, so far, also looks like boring, repetitive, garbage. Maybe it will be good, but probably not.

Maybe http://www.dualthegame.com/ will save us?

>>146098690
>Spaceship carrier stuff
I mean like an aircraft carrier but in space. So your friends can all hop in fighters while you sit on the edge of the battle so they can rearm and repair if they need to. I really like the idea, just appeals to me. I like the idea of supporting my friends rather than joining them in battle, if that makes sense/doesn't sound dumb.

>>146098840
Will mods not work with the GOG version or something?

>>146098690
Of course it isn't. They're not devoting a full patch to reworking powerplay. If anything it'll be something they put on 'the list'. So good luck waiting for that.

>>146098926
It seems nice, but so did E:D and SC.

Also muh voxels.

>>146098969
They are only on the steam workshop.

I'm not sure if it has a page on Nexus but its possible.

>>146099187
I don't know about Rebirth, but there are plenty of X3 mods available on the official Egosoft forums. Maybe Rebirth mods are there as well

>>146098959
No, I get you. You mean essentially the ship launched fighters that ED is supposedly going to introduce soon. I've read they plan on introducing it eventually. So far people have sorta forced some smaller ships into the big refueling/tanker ship's cargo bay. I've read that their VISION also wants to include that.

>>146098926
Dual is 100% cashing in on the Star Citizen/Elite Dangerous hype. We also only have a teaser for it and have no idea if it's even releasing in the next 2-3 years.

There's another fucking game, Pulsar: Lost Colony that is early access shit on steam. I think I saw another game but I forgot its title.

>>146099325
You can call me a pleb if you want but I never played an X game before Rebirth.

>>146099429
egosoft.com
Go buy X3 and forget you ever heard about Rebirth

>>146098959
>>146099387
Combination of fighter launches and multi crew crew has so much potential for FUN. Supposedly having a 2 man multicrew anaconda will be as good as having 2 single crewed anacondas. Think about that.

To dampen your vision hype, heres some situations that are likely to occur:

>Multicrew is complete trash, people that don't pilot are essentially doing nothing at all and just sitting there. It's nothing like 'double the power!' either.

>Multicrew is good, heres a dad post in the forums "I dont WANT to play with other people. It's unfair that they punish the solo players WAH WAH WAH", multicrew effects dumbed down 5 days later

I just had a mission in Sothis to transport 9 units of combat stabilizers to Ceos

5M payout

Easiest 5M I've ever made

>>146099728
Well the problem with that is that I'm a MASSIVE sucker for walking around ships and in stations. I understand that a lot of the X game fans don't really care about it, but for a spaceship game, I like it. Even though its not in Elite.

>>146099823
>will be as good as having 2 single crewed anacondas

I honestly don't know how that would work. I don't know what the other players would be doing other than controlling turrets possibly, or diverting where shields are powered, which could contribute a lot to gameplay.

>To dampen your hype

Yeah, I know. I can already imagine how it's most likely going to be

>Players that aren't the pilot get bored as fuck and want to leave because they have nothing to do other than combat roles

They won't even have the ability to walk around and explore the ship while the pilot is dicking around, because space legs isn't until the next 60 dollar expansion.