/edg/ - Elite Dangerous and friends

Imperial cobra when?

>>148184096

The dads would go nuts.

>>148184217
>Requires the king rank
>Dads cry about having to grind for their dadship
>petition Fdev to increase their ranks so they can buy the ship
>Spend all their money
>Fly it
>Get killed
>MUH GRIEFERS
>Petition Fdev to restore their ship

It would be beautiful

I can't find any goddamn missions to rank up
I've got the % but the board just won't give me any

>>148184836

Too many people with this issue. Try switching instances or go to other stations where your local rep with a suitable minor faction is high. That, and stop getting shitty rng :^)

>>148184836

Just play the game. Whats the rush?

>>148184962
Dads OUT

>>148183817
I'm a lazy piece of shit who hasn't played for about 8 months, what have I missed?

>>148185092
Engineers was almost as bad as powerplay

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/273105-My-open-letter-to-Fdev/page17?p=4219685&viewfull=1#post4219685
the absolute madman

>>148185092

Planetary landings that expand the honeymoon phase with a few hours. More grinding that's mandatory to do if you want to stay competitive in PvP or survive if you're not used to the new AI and their OP weapons.

that added alot of weapons in the huge slot. how is the huge beam and pulse laser?

>>148185430
>>148185430
#SHOTSFIRED

>>148185430
>>148185640

Go to bed, Raisa.

>>148184836

>>148184962
He is kinda right. You can still grind rank even though you don't have the rank up mission. Do enough missions before ranking up and you might be at 100% for the next rank after it.

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>>148185791
don't forget to praise the vision

>>148185485
sheeeit...I hope my old Python gunboat ain't obsolete now. Good thing I made bank in Robigo's glory days.

>>148185817
Yeah I know
Related to this
When I do complete a rank up mission I keep getting messages congratulating me on the promotion but the ranks are wrong
For example, I'm a petty officer and do a rank up mission there by getting promoted to chief petty officer but at 100% req rank for the next promotion, but I get a message saying I've been promoted to lieutenant.
What causes this? Is it just fdev bullshit?

>>148186901
Same desu

It is.

>>148186901

bug, its on the known bugs list on the forums

Building a warship to wreck NPCs. What weapon/engineer mods would be best? I know thermal shock only applies to players so I cant use that

>>148187761
And here I was hoping I had enough rep to reach Lieutenant and that I just needed to do mission to get there

Is there a limit to how many times you can rank up via navy missions in a day/hour/whatever?
I've been refreshing the board for 40 minutes now and I've yet to see a single mission even though I have 100% towards the next rank
I ask because I've ranked up 5 times today and once in the last hour

>>148187881
Funship with overcharged multicannons and corrosive and incendiary side effects.

>>148188873
Never mind I finally got one exactly 1h 3m after I completed the last one, so if there is one a limit it's only once every hour.

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>>148187881

There's no simple answer to this question.
If you've got dem skillz, Plasma Accelerators, Railguns, and various fixed weapons are all excellent. The better you are at flying, the more you can sacrifice burst damage for DPS.

If you're not so hot and rely on gimbals, you will want to prioritize burst damage. The sweetspot for gimbals depends on what you are flying, what you are fighting, and various other factors.

Weapon balance is, oddly enough, almost the only thing Frontier hasn't fucked up. Which is pretty weird now that I think about it.

If I have two rank advancement missions will I advance two ranks, or will one of the missions just like, not do anything?

>>148189981
it's going to be just one rank
i you have the 2 ways to get the rank - missions

>>148190072
Ok, thanks.

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Is it just me or war-state Sothis and Ceos trick us over single jump missions turned into 400 Ly quite much more often now? Do you discard them after the change or do you still do them?

Pic related was legit and easy.

>>148190843
Yeah I've noticed a hell of a lot more sothis>ceos/ceos>sothis smuggling missions that pay out multiple millions for minimal cargo lately

>>148190843

Tip: Read the mission description closely. If it defines both the target system and station, they're "legit". If it doesn't say which station you're headed to, just the system, you're gonna get a different destination.

What's Triton in the sol system and why do I need a permit to go there?

>>148192320
It's one of Neptune's moons. Do you have a permit for the Sol system itself or does Triton require another permit?

>>148192593
I have the Sol permit, I'm currently at the nav beacon in fact
Triton its self requires a permit. Why and where to get said permit I don't know

>>148192746

Maybe it's part of the narrative VISION?

>driving SRV around
>see shadows of ships in the distance

>>148193287

Spoopy boopy daddykins

Watch out for their c-rated cobrah

Dadders in adders emptying their bladders cause wifey getting madder...s.

Am I alone here? Must I do this myself? So be it. Face me, and repent.

>>148197592
>>148195731
You don't need to shitpost this often to keep the VISION alive

>>148197773

We were on page 9 CMDR. Do you not care about the thread, CMDR.

You're not a griefer... are you, CMDR?

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>delayed sleep because otherwise the thread dies

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Now that I'm flying one of these big motherfuckers... it kind of feels empty.

>>148200015

That's the way this game works.

At least the Python is one of the better looking ships

>>148200204
Corvettefag here and I couldn't be happier.
The DAKKA -- DAKKA -- DAKKA of the twin huge multicannons makes me fully erect.

Or the simple nuke damage of the twin huge PAs that rips everything.

It just feels so great to be able to kill everything and do everything.

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>interdict sidey in my python
>message the guy "boo", and then jump out.

I'm so devious.

>>148200862

>tfw didn't rank up beyond sol permission before the nerf

At least it's better than my Imperial rank.

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I NEED HEEELP....

I go to the mission board but theres no one to turn the mission in at, i looked through all the dudes but nothing.

wat do/

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Help us Braben, you're our only hope...

>>148203440
Swap modes
If that doesn't work you just got VISION'D

>>148203440
If your target is in a different system you have to go back to the faction that gave it to you instead of the system where the target is.

>>148203790
Switching modes didnt dick. I guess this is my punishment for leaving this one till the end and doing all the other shit around first.

>>148203923
The mission said to return to that terminal in order to turn it in and i did so, but it still didn't give me shit.

o well.

idolmaster ship skins when?

>Had Elite Dangerous been entirely Open I wouldn't have bought it as I don't like MMOs. I guess in my mind I didn't buy an MMO so there is nothing illogical to me about playing an 'online' game alone.

Nothing can sum up why this game is such a clusterfuck better than this. No one can agree on what this game is.

>>148203440
It's a bug, either give the mission up, get a fine and lose rep or open a ticket so FDev will tell you to abandon the mission, get a fine and lose rep.

>>148208746
I don't understand why people won't play a game that's X genre
Sure I don't like some genres, but when an interesting looking one within that genre comes along I try it.

This is especially true for MMO's as MMO is just being used to denote a game with a primarily online play component.

It's like they see "MMO" and have flashbacks to that one time they were griefed in ultima online.

>>148209568
When you grow older you get more narrow minded and less likely to try new things.

>>148208746
What happened between 2004 and 2013 that made Braben forget he wanted an MMO Elite?

>>148210268
Dads and easy money.

>Those are some nice engineer materials you have commander
>Let me interdict you in my anaconda
STOP IT
THIS MAKES NO SENSE
NO ONE WOULD USE AN ANACONDA TO PIRATE FOR 1K WORTH OF SHITTY ENGINEER MATERIALS

>>148211349
But you can't even scan or hatch break engineer materials? Or can you?

>>148211859
the cargo bits you can

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>>148191982
Right! I looked through my other screenshots and it wasn't.

Is there more ways to refresh a mission board aside from mode-switching? Would redocking or low-waking and returning work?

>>148212125
Mode switching is literally the fastest way

>>148212125
No. And relogging is faster than low wake + redocking.

Where do I find any pirate factions? I have a mighty need to yarr.

>>148214512
Anything that isn't hauling/exploring is actively suppressed by FD

>>148214563
>used to do a variety of missions to grind ranks
>now only courier missions between certain systems are viable
>massacre missions arent worth it because of RNGineers

Sad but true

>>148214563
Are you saying that there are none? Im pretty shure I saw a screenshot of one in previous thread. Was full of stealing missions.

>>148214830
Yes there are, almost every system with a RES has a pirate faction, for example.

>>148212202
>>148212232
Sometimes the board would be devoid of GET RICH QUICK missions in all three modes which means heading back only with a few courier missions, so I was wondering if there is a way to reset the board again.

>>148214912
Keep resetting it, they aren't guaranteed to pop

>>148214875
How do you know that its a pirate faction? Theres one station that looks pirate, but all I get are haul/data delivery missions with rare salvaging ones.

>tfw there are people who still didn't bother with the engineers
>tfw having all of them maxed will be mandatory to hope to survive "random" thargoid encounters in 2.2

how the fuck is anyone still playing this game

I couldn't last longer than a week with it and deeply regret spending $150

>>148217329
I love it. I don't know why, but I love it.

If only I could get your preorder bonuses....

>>148217329
It's not your casual game for kids, but rather a hardcore spacecraft simulation for, like it's name implies, Elites.

>>148217382
I don't know about preorder bonuses but all I know I have is all the dlc content since I paid for the expansion pass or whatever the fuck

although I'm absolutely positive they have or will dick me over on that somehow (but it's not like I even play this game anyways)

>>148217449
And dads, dads too.

>>148217449
kek, kerbal space program is put together by vastly more incompetent devs and it still manages to be a more fun spacecraft simulator than this garbage.

I don't know how frontier did it. They successfully made one of the most boring videogames I have ever had the misfortune of buying in my entire life and singlehandedly convinced me to never back another early access or kickstarter game ever again

>>148216056
>thargoids in 2.2
i predict that we will see the early prototypes of alien ships when 2.4 will be out

>corrupt federation about to fail it's CG due to imperial effort using legal means
>ftroops manually remove the lockdown so they make sure carebears and dad can keep winning with no effort whatsoever while grinding safely in solo mode
fuck this game seriously

>>148217329
Regret
And the satisfaction from knowing that some dads consider my method of grinding cheating.

>>148217598
What's up with KSP? I wasn't following the development itself.

>tfw no decent mission in Sothis/Ceos to make the grind for money tolerable
Did they nerf the missions or is it due to war status?

>>148220572
System status affects missions and commodity prices now (according to ftroop)

>>148217329
>>148220326
I regret NOTHING.

>>148218006
Yeah, that's gut-wrenching. Two things they should make: solo/private has a restricted effect on BGS, but players experience its effects in full (i.e. lockdown is a lockdown, get to open if you want to change it); community goals should be open-only.

If you want to fuck around distant worlds, do rare trades or w/e in a safe bubble—go ahead and play solo or with your fellow enthusiasts. If you want to impact the factions and powers or participate in major community events that shape the future—come out and play with everyone.

My condolences to every Empire supporter.

>>148220687
I believe it.
I was spamming quince contribution missions then a civil war kicked off and they were replaced by massacre missions.

>>148220946
>>148220687
Welp, I guess I'll waste time on another autism simulator until the war status changes...

Or do you think it would be worth it to submit a ticket to FDev to ask them to have the war status manually lifted? :^)

>>148220873
I gave up on the game long ago, but ftroop handholding the dads basically killed any remaining hope of the game having any future event based faction vs faction.

>>148220572
Yes, as it was noted in the previous thread, due to war missions changed quite a bit. 1 jump smuggling are more common, albeit many are without a destination station which change to 400 Ly away on h-jump (>>148190843
>>148191982).

>>148221042
Overall, long range smuggling or poop delivery is still there just like before the war. It's that data delivery that was a good filler (plus built local and fed rank up) are much less common.

>>148221634
Thanks for the clarification. I guess I'm just being unlucky with the missions list.

I'll be better off taking a break playing something that doesn't require me to grind like a korean on meth to just do stuff in it anyways.

Holy shit the thread lived while I slept

Truly, we are blessed by the VISION.

>>148222205
I feel you. What are you going to play then?

>>148224890
I reinstalled Evochron Mercenary, I'm thinking about buying Legacy.

I'm still amazed to see what one dude is able to do with fucking dark basic.

>enters binary star system
>starport is located around Star B
>300,000LS away
>it's going to be a wild boring ride of 15mn

is it possible to bypass this shit by directly entering a binary system at Star B ?

>>148225216

That would be way too convenient and gamey we wouldn't want to turn this game into grindy gamey Eve, would we you entitled little shit head milennial please cuck me

Fly safe, CMDR o7

>>148220873
>>148218006

>people literally unironically care about the fed v empire conflict and not just about grinding space dosh

wew

>>148225216
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/116121-First-and-only-Post-JUMPGATE-EVOLOTION-Supercruise-solution/page7?p=1810764#post1810764
It would be possible with micro jumps. No ETA :^)

>>148225482
It's post-irony with me, lad.

>>148225602
Also: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/227909-Now-that-micro-jumps-are-coming-(-)-who-is-in-for-macro-jumps-in-inhabited-space-(Witchspace-gates-poll!)/page3

>I don't get what it is, but I don't want it because reddit.
>Oh no no no muh scale
Spess dads vs Greasepit neckbeards

>>148225157
>evochron aka "pay the full price for the same game every year"
right into the trash it goes

>>148226772

Unlike ED?

>>148225350
is CMDR o7 a meme ?

>>148228676
Kill yourself.

>>148228676
It's a mark of respect among dads.

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Can you imagine a game without forumdads?

>>148229083
>complains about muh griefers
>always play offline
>tell online players how they should play
god I hate dads

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>>148229083
Dads have worked tirelessly to keep this game as mediocre as possible since the dawn of the kickstarter. Granted, I'm pretty sure FD is also just out of touch with modern games and generally incompetent, but dads certainly didn't help.

>>148228721
I don't understand. Are /edg/ pro or con dads ?

>>148229760
Pro

So I hopped into the Star Citizen alpha and did a little vanduul swarm. Did they update the flight model? It feels better than it did last time I played. Before the ships just felt like floating turrets, but when I played today the ship felt weighty, like it had some actual presence in the game world. I hope SC turns out to be good. All I want is first person, skill based EVE Onlnie.

>>148229760
Pro of course. Thanks to them, Elite remains an hardcore space simulation for adults and hasn't turned into a casual arcade-fest yet.

>>148229968
Shitpost harder

>>148230347
So why are they constantly mentionned in hateposts ? Make up your mind /edg/.

>>148189512

That and flight mechanics. Probably the core reason why people keep playing. Makes you wonder if everything else is intentional

>>148200015

Do PP, the BGS unintentionally gave purpose to all the RNG missions in the game

>>148228676
It's a sign of the greatest respect between CMDRs, commando o5

>>148210268

Nostalgia and saving money by using P2P instead of server based architecture.

They saved 30% on costs by using AWS! https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/frontier-games/

>>148230471

It's just a prank bro!

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>>148231276
>saving up to 30 percent compared to using a traditional technology infrastructure, allowing it to focus financial resources on game development instead of on IT hardware.

"game development"

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>>148229760
If it's dads or neckbeards, I choose dads. I've been taught to respect the elders. They care for us and shape up the game which we would want to play when we get old, wrinkly and ready to tell our grandchildren of our spectacular interstellar adventures.

>>148231276
Interesting. Could you explain - briefly - the pratical differences between AWS and server-client architecture ?

>>148231424
I'd punch you through the Internet if game updates weren't so far apart and then delayed even more.

Instead I'll curl up and cry.

Damn whatever happened to rollercoaster planet where you load up an orca with passengers and go fuck a spaceport so you could make less dosh on this passenger mission than you could on any other boring ass haul?

>>148231629
Scaling. When sales come, they rent more power. When they fuck up or delay the updates again, they rent less.

Versus some company that buys lotsa servers, builds up their own architecture. Then their game quickly goes "past its prime" and leaves them trying to pawn their rapidly deprecating hardware.

>>148232178
I dunno, I load up my orca with "passengers" and make a few million over a single jump trip.

>people that call this game a sim

When the fuck will this meme stop. They don't get paid by Frontier for this level of shilling, why do they do this?

>>148233293
>le ebin shill boogeyman maymay
What would you call this game then? An arcade shooter?

https://youtu.be/n5ZsahLvWfo

Realistic space stations when?

>>148233569
realistic space physics when?

Cobra Mk3 or Viper Mk4 ?

>>148233342

>An arcade shooter?

It's closer to that than a fucking sim.

>>148233626
Diamondback Scout

>>148233626
A Cobra MKIII is all you ever want. It's the best end-game ship!

>>148234543
I know you're being sarcastic but fucking hell the Cobra is such a piece of dogshit. Whoever came up with that hardpoint placement needs to be strangled.

Is it just me or are C3 multicannons piss weak? I have a couple of gimballed ones on my Python and they barely scratch a Cobra, each hit does maybe 1% of hull damage. Did they nerf multicannons?

>>148229375
Why would they not want guilds? What. I don't get it, if they don't want something more than ELITE, why are they not just playing ELITE?

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http://techraptor.net/content/frontier-cancels-its-one-hundred-thousand-dollar-tournament

for what purpose

>>148236139
Cool, gives me more time to practice.

What's the fastest way to rank up in Federation these days?

It looks like all the old charity mission spots have been nerfed into the ground.

>>148235980
All kinds of bullshit reasons:
>If there are guilds, this game will literally become E-EVE!
>I don't want to get g-ganked by p-player group wings!
>If player group names are in the game, it'll break m-m-muh immershun!
>This game is about b-being a lone p-pilot!
>Instant FTL communication isn't a p-part of muh lore!
>Not having player groups is a deliberate design decision, it's part of the VISION

>>148236620
Sothis and Ceos data runs or 17 Drac

>>148236139

They were trying to turn CQC into some shitty esport with its own tournament line but then quickly realized nobody gives a flying fuck about CQC and not even 100k could entice people to play it.

I'm sure we'll get the tournament somewhere in the 10 year plan though. I mean, this game will clearly and easily last 10 years, right?

Can Frontier like not fuck something up for at least few weeks?

How's the X52 Pro vs the regular X52? I had the standard X52 and it felt cheap as hell.

>>148237147
It's more professional. I don't know what it means but I really enjoy my X52 Pro HOTAS and I wouldn't be able to pilot my Cobra Mk3 and destroy all those pirate NPCs without it!

See the X52 Pro as the genuine aicraft commands while the normal X52 is the chinese ripoff!

Fly safe, CMDR o7

>>148237050
I'm fine as long as they only fuck empire shit up.

>>148234543
>>148234665
I just realized i got the viper from my backer status. It's 100LY away but I consider switching, cause the cobra is most of the time a struggle in dogfight

>>148233626
Listen to this man, he speaks truth: >>148234273

>>148239263
Anon this game is not about dogfighting, but blazing your own trail in a space sim of endless possibilities and this is why the Cobra Mk3 is the best of all ships: it allows you to outrun the griefers, players or NPC!

>>148239405
>Diamondback Scout
>564,320 CR
I can afford it. Ok then I'll switch for this one.

>>148239568
Fuck you VISION

>>148239624
You won't be disappointed. I have an A-Rated Python and I still have a DBS. Such a great little ship, laughs at anything smaller than a Vulture and kills shit up to an iClipper with ease, and can even kill Condas if you're careful

Is it true that Sothis runs are fucked for the time being due to civil war?
I'd go check myself but I'm lazy 2bh

>>148240417
Yeah, I don't know why fdev doesn't step in and manually make the federation win the war so the missions bug gets fixed.

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>>148239624

I think the DBS is the best small combat ship after the Vulture, it has perfect hardpoint placement and dat yaw rate.

>>148240682
Nigga isn't that a Raptor from BSG?

>>148236708
Sothis and Ceos are at war against feds.

OH SHIT 17 DRAC JUST WENT CIVIL WAR TOO
It's like fdev are targeting the best grinding spots

>>148240417
Not quite. If you have the rep, smuggling is still there.

>>148240682
The dbs is a good ship so is the raptor.

Has anyone noticed medium multi cannons doing less damage or has the ai started adding armor?

>>148241296

It's been that way for quite a while.

It comes from us not keeping one faction in power over the others by doing missions for them all, which causes their system influence to change in the background sim.

The same thing was happening with Wu Guinagi from time to time. Because random people were spamming donations onto the random pirate factions, the simulation would put some of the empire factions into a state of war with said pirate factions.

>>148241654
I've noticed larges doing fuckall against pretty easy targets, either they got nerfed or the AI has started to bulk up.

>>148240579
How long do you think it will take to resolve this war?
I hope it will be quicker than most civil wars due to more players getting involved

>>148241723
>It's been that way for quite a while.
Actually it's been in lockdown for a while now. Well, was in lockdown.
Donations we're up until just a few minutes ago until it went back into a civil war

>>148241759
Damn. I just refitted my fdl last night to huge beam and 4 mcs.

Maybe ill just turn it into a disco ball

>>148242167
He's not wrong.
Lazy """"gamer"""" """"""""journalists"""""""" and """"""""""""media""""""""""""" just call online games MMO's because they lack the capacity to distinguish it any other way in one easy to use buzzword.

The true meaning of MMO really slipped around the time of PoE and WoT.

Paenis cupcake o7

>>148245171
That's a meme I haven't heard in a while.

>>148225216

Really wish they'd do something about that.
I mean, some of the planets are still pretty far away, regardless. You can still have muh travel times.

Hutton Orbital is the reason Fdev wont do anything. They should just exclude that station if the run is so damn important.

Fun fact: you see ships make a low powered jump in the game's trailer.

>>148245315

Some of us still play tf2.

>>148243020
And I was on Sothis half a rank away from the Funship which I wanted to outfit with 7 MCs, when news of both war against feds and MCs becoming weak broke out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElitePirates/comments/4pamhr/i_have_little_desire_and_patience_to_play_left/
Grease release

>>148246945
Mcs being weak is a rumor at this point. It could be bad coding. In my case(fdl disco ball) its from being gone for a year.....could be armored npcs. Only thing i noticed was my viper with medium mcs wasnt exactly chewing targets up like i remember. The shitty delay definately wasnt there when i was playing before horizons dropped.

>>148247307
>Pirates
Griefers won't be missed
fly safe CMDRs o7

>>148246945
Do eeet. Dakka it up you weedy grot.

The FAS is great
It's like a better vulture

>>148239568
say that to my iCourier

444m/s bitch

>>148249926
Still too slow, CMDR o7

>>148250573
jesus I just checked, the Cobra goes easily over that speed with a lightweight build

but let's face it, dads will either always have a SRV bay and /or cargo in their racks and their speed plummets then

I guess the only option is the iEagle, which makes no sense because the iEagle is heavier than the iCourier

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>Check in on the open letter thread
>More dad delusion
They're getting desperate.

>>148251090
>Why doesn't this game have anything to do besides grind credits? It says it's an MMO in their own advertising, but doesn't even have basic player group support, what's up with that?

>STOP FUCKING MY GAME YOU SICK GRIEFER MILLENIAL SHIT IT'S A REMAKE OF 1984 ELITE IT DOESN'T NEED ANY NEW OR FUN GAME MECHANICS GOD DAMMIT MY WIFE'S SON NEEDS THE COMPUTER BRB FLY SAFE O7 CMDRS

Why are all the ships so expensive?

>>148254967
Ships beyond the cobra are expensive to lengthen gameplay and force griefers to think twice about using more powerful ships.

Cobra is the only ship an honest pilot needs though.
Fly safe CMDR o7

>>148221634
I just smuggle 400 ly in my conda. It pays better than hauling shit 400ly.

>>148251090

>elite will die within a few years
>all of the dads crying for days about millenials
>all of the funposting as /edg/lords collect tears of dads who thought this was the savior of spess games

It'll be glorious.

>>148256985
Why would you fly a cobra when the superior diamondback flatbed(dbe) truck exists? More jump range and drives like a towtruck? Its the best ship ever! Plus its the prefered ship of the fuel rats and thier towing/guzeline fleet

anyone has troubles finding "rebel transmissions" from USS ? i've been around for 2h and the only thing I find is wrecks

>>148256985
>>148234543
samefagging hard

>>148259759
>Ironic dadposting
>S-SAMEFAG!
is this your first day?

>>148259863
y-yes sir

>>148259863
Never drink and dadpost

>>148259587
it's not a random USS, you need to either use a discovery scanner or just drop in and scan the nav beacon to find out where it is

it tells you right in the mission description

>>148192746
I thought Europa was the one we weren't supposed to land on

>>148261373

Blaze your own trail! o7

dadgame is dedgame

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Old CMDRs never die. And they don't fade away.

>>148242167
>The entire CQC feature seemed like a horrific imposition by Microsoft on the developers, because that sounds like something Microsoft would do.
Actually, I think microsoft are actually responsible of some stuff about that. the fact elite dangerous was released on the xbone and that microsoft sponsored a tournament is a good hint.
The fact that our lord and savior Braben promised a linux port and that we no longer have news about it is another good hint.

>>148263224

Dadthred is dedthred

Daddykins~~~

>>148264018
So then, Elite is here forever, just like Microsoft? Despite of all the hatred, we will just keep returning to it and laugh at those who play but other spess games, won't we?

Is there an alternative to 17 Drac for fed donation grinding?

>>148267050

Imagine if ED had become to spess games what AoE 2 became to RTS...

Fly safe CMDRs o7

I want to know as well.

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>>148268472
No can do Dad, I like to fly dangerously.

>>148268886
Know what?

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>>148270018
Obviously, he wants to know about the magic and the mystery of potato knishes.

I'm wondering how's that anon who went on a 5000 Ly journey doing?

And where did pics of furry commandos in the last thread go?

And when 6A enhanced thrusters for Orca will be made?

>>148271682

You just made me want to play feed the beast with that image

Anon why

>>148231629

They are using AWS to keep track of stats and missions. Playing with other players is limited to the connections between each other. Because of this, they cant make a persistent world. Areas only load when you are in them.
Too many players in a single place will force instancing. You can see it when you can't land at a station on Open, so you join Solo, land and relog into Open

>>148236896

100k? They don't even have that many people play the game. SteamSpy says somewhere around 60k at most over a 2 week period

>>148274419

nvm, thought you said they couldnt get 100k people to play it

How could fdev think the required time it takes to rank up is remotely plausible?
I mean shit son I'm a neet pos and even I'm struggling now that 17 Drac is down

>>148275061
Empire ranks in hip 10716 and wu guinagi aren't bad.
Board flip to fill your log with courier missions, and each way gets you about 10% of your next rank.

I wouldn't doubt if even these get nerfed though.

>>148216056
>tfw there are people who still play this shit game

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>1458 in game

To those who already have Grade 5 FSD or multi-cannons or whatever else:
HOW?

>>148268972
haha right on cmdr o7

+rep

>>148279351

I think you can grind rep with lower grade upgrades.

Actually getting the mats for grade 5 though...

2.1 killed this game for me

>Engineer mods are straight upgrades instead of customization-themed sidegrades
>Stronger AI makes non-Engineer ships irrelevant fodder
>Can't skip the Engineer grind, and it's the worst grind in the grindiest game ever
>RNG grinding for RNG rewards, can potentially be worse than what you already had
>Forced to participate in specific activities that I don't like
>No longer free to swap back and forth between ships as you please because of no commodity/module storage, you're stuck flying whatever ship has the most mods and all your shitty cargo
>Powerplay broken
>RES farming dead
>Bulk trading dead
>Exploring still shit
>Literally nothing to do except grind Sothis or swallow the bitter pill of grinding Engineers

At least before you could just screw around with whatever ship you wanted. I really liked this game up until 2.1, now I can't even log in without groaning in bored agony.

Even the dads were complaining and leaving in droves.

How the fuck can a game company be this incompetent?

>get 4 useless commodities as a reward
>dump them on the pad then leave

>>148280020
You can still screw around with whatever ship you want just sell the worthless engineer cargo.

>>148279893
>Actually getting the mats for grade 5 though...
I feel like lower grade isn't worth the hassle, especially since quite a few of them require stuff like surface prospecting only mats. Though they usually have those secondary ways of hitting on them, like I'm going around with a honker to then sell the stuff to Elvira Martuuk I'm dating atm. But that's pretty slow too, I think I only got 20% towards grade 4 for 300k spacebux worth of exploration data?

>>148280368
Combat against the new AI in a unmodded ship is a complete chore. It's not impossible, it's just not fun AT ALL. Gotta grind those mods first to "re-earn" the right to screw around in whatever ship you want, Didn't I already grind out all this money and all these ranks? Why do I have to do a new, even worse grind to make the ships I've already earned relevant again?

The Engineers were a trash concept from the start. It should have been sidegrades to make your ship different, rather than directly better than unmodded ships.

>mission to mine 16 Bauxite
>look at market
>the station I'm at has Bauxite
>buy 16 and finish mission without even leaving the pad
>reward is 3 Platinum

This game is dumb.

>>148280619

Grade 2 certainly isnt worth shit for FSD.
>have to mine
>negative effects

I skipped to grade 3.
Also I CANT FIND MODULAR TERMINALS REEEEEEEEEEE

>>148280927
Hahaha, had 16 of them at Sothis and sold them to carry more sla-...tourists.

Later, popped up at Elvira's, doubted myself in a hindsight but then YTTRIUM 0 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Mining isn't that bad though. Certainly more comfy than driving in circles and—suddenly—lots of basic mats for synthesis (that I don't really need in the bubble).

Well I can safely say that after 46 pages that open letter thread entertained me far more than Elite has.

>>148281773
That's because you're a misanthropic bastard who hates himself and everyone around him.

The Universe is open, commodore o8

I have an explorer-ready Asp, an A-ranked Python and a Tradeaconda with enough dosh to A-rank the latter. I'm hesitant to grind engineers. What do I do?

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GIRUGAMESH!!!

>>148283436
Welcome to 2.1 - the final death blow to an already dying game.

>>148283489

>that was seven years ago

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>2006 was literally ten years ago

I've wasted my.... everything.

>mission gets redirected to the system that I took the mission in

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>>148211349
>flying 540m/s errand Cobra
>"Big haul like that, I'm surprised you got this far..."
>get interdicked for 4 HN shock mounts
>escape vector instantly teleports behind the ship
>start supercruising backwards because vision
>fuck it, submit
>it's an Anaconda that can barely pull 260m/s at full boost

>>148290147

I wonder if some newbie got suckered into going to Hutton a couple times like that.

>>148267289

It's a shame because we all know its on the edge of being something great, but throws out conventional gaming logic in favor of nostalgia.

There are people that play the game like they would with the 1984 version. But this isn't just a single player game anymore(debatable?) and it should reflect that.

>>148183817

They need to rename the game Elite: Novice. Fdev certainly ain't Competent

>>148283851
It's only a framework for the awesome things to come.

>>148291062

>he still has hope

>>148215138
>Hutton Orbital is the reason Fdev wont do anything. They should just exclude that station if the run is so damn important.

The best part is that there are separate stars you can jump between out there (esp. near the core) that are closer to one another than Proxima is to Alpha Centauri A+B.

>>148290384
>Flying an Orca full of "holiday-makers"
>"You're mine now, commando"
>It's a fucking eagle
>Leave the controls and go for a drink at the mini-bar
>Escape vector instantly teleports behind the raft
>That ass is too fat, my bar instantly reaches the top
>Eagle loses the interdiction :^)

>>148290819
>But this isn't just a single player game anymore(debatable?) and it should reflect that.

Not only that, but it's literally (the current year)

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>fur dad's face when I kill the process after submitting to interdiction

>>148293397

>muh KoS list

How many people even look at that shit?

>Hello CMDR, you have been issued with the Ross 128 system permit
>can't plot a route there
Boy I'm sure seeing the VISION right now

>>148294187

It's not even practical. Unless it's so short as to be worthless, no one will be able to remember all the names on the list at the top of their heads.

Do they check every single name in their instance? By the time they're done the target will be gone anyway.

Empty threats.

So how fun is the funship?
I just got ensign and I'm thinking of trying it out

>>148296829
It's kind of shit until you get Engineer mods on it.

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>tfw found a new fed donation pit
Corvette soon.

star citizen when?

>>148302841
Share please
I've been pulling my fucking hair out doing it the way the VISION intends since Drac went down again

>>148280718
Dude, if you have a Corvette for example you don't need mods to shit on the AI. I messed around a HazRes yesterday and had to put in a little more effort than just letting my turreted lasers do all my work for me but it isn't a chore really.
I'm not gonna do any engineer shit before they make that grind less tedious.

>>148280927
You only go Grade 5. There's no fucking point in anything else.

>>148302841
It would be greatly appreciated if you shared your secret.

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GIVE ME YTTRIUM NOW

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>>148302841
SHARE OR I'LL KILL MYSELF
I CAN'T TAKE THE GRIND ANYMORE

All ships with of center cockpits are literal trash

>>148309389
>All ships are literal trash
fix'd

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>mfw firing huge beamlaser on my FDL

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>>148280927
>mfw I have FSD grade 5 modded conda and viper mk III and 4 more polonium in supply.

>>148311896
Wait until you get the Corvette. Those two huge hardpoints get me hard.

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>>148313131
I can't find a rank grind pit that's legit anymore. Grinding Imp rank worked for me at Shy Babassi, but 17 Drac has gone to shit, and the anon above is all but willing to share his secrets.

Pic related. My dream.

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>no capitals
>no isk
>no fun

>>148313827
Are those Imp rank systems stll viable? I have an A-fitted conda with mods but Cutter is calling me.

I am master atm, how much grind/dosh/autism will I have to invest into duke rank?

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>>148313827
You just go between two systems with 20 stacked data missions. It takes a while and it's soul crushing, but at least it's not as bad as donation missions and actually gives dosh instead of costing it.

>>148314669
Was meant in reply to
>>148314516

>>148313827

try sol, m. gorbachev station for example.

>Mission board updates shitting out
Jesus christ Fdev you can't even get this part right.

>>148313827
>>148314516
For imp ranks board flip courier missions between wu guinagi and hip 10716

Repetitive as fuck but you'll gain ranks pretty quick.

>>148314892
Do you have first-hand experience that this works? I don't want to go there for jack shiet.

what are some good weapons for my new Asp explorer? I can't aim for shit so gimballed is required.

I was thinking on 2 medium multi-cannon and 4 pulse laser.

>>148316164
Not >>148314892
BUT:
Yes. There's a Fed aligned faction in Sothis/Ceos and when I grinded the faction ranks to allied I also got 30% navy rank. I am a Rear Admiral now so it is a considerable amount. So you can get Fed rank from data hauling.

>>148316647
Railguns. Always.

>>148316647
>beams in all the smalls
>seekers in all the mediums
>pledge to LYR
>wait 2 weeks
>during week 3 haul 750 tons of powerplay bullshit
>rank 3 by week 4
>replace seekers with macross launchers

>>148316695
I've done quite some Sothis runs, but there's only one Fed faction there, that's not enough to do a proper rank grind. Sure I grew some ranks while doing the Sothis runs, but I'm still nowhere near Rear Admiral.

>>148302841
Share or you're the biggest liar trying to bait fair people of this board!

Be considerate and share its location or at least its properties, the pattern you used to find such a system, if you believe that we don't do our lesson or that we aren't exploring enough on our own—just grinding it and complaining about the grind.

>>148312796
But HOW

>>148316863
I said it to prove a point that doing data haul missions does increase your rank and if you find a place with several federation factions it will be quicker.

why cobraMk3 is such a shit for dogfight ?

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>>148318139
Find the right planets for farming. I got 3 from prospecting (2-3 hours).

Another 5 from mission board I browsed while travelling doing other stuff

Glide peacefully Commando!

>>148320447
Try the MkIV :^)

>>148320447
Because dads can't have it all.

Seriously, try DBS instead.

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>>148320457
Will follow in your pawprints, o7 Dogmando

>>148290819
Honestly I think those people should go fuck themselves and play Oolite instead

>>148322548
>dat cockpit
VR has given me weird cravings.

>>148320457
>tfw I open Increased FSD Range V requirement list and find out I have 0 everything for it whilst mat and data storages are almost full

>Hit Duke
Jesus fucking christ it's over, it's finally over. Now I don't have to grind empire again unless they release some ship that requires king.

>>148325341
It's over Anon. Go buy that Cutter.

[/spoiler]And sell it again, because it's shit for anything but trading, and trading is shit[/spoiler]

>>148325479
Rekt. There goes the surprise effect. Work at the office makes me push extra buttons.

>>148325564
Well, you could have deleted it and posted again, and we would all pretend that we didn't see it the first time.

>>148327053
ED is as much Pretend as I can handle.

So I'm lifting now, but I don't want it to turn into a grind so I'm just going to lift and not worry about it. Sure I can only lift 2 hours a week between my business and taking care of my wife's son, but to me lifting is about the experience rather than the gains. I don't understand why people make lifting a grind. It's not like muscles get you anything. I feel like people who lift more than me just aren't doing it right. And those who use high strength gain plans are just cheating.

Lift safe cmdrs o7

>>148328979
topkek

Dads are the thargoids...

>>148331625
But anon, how dads could be something they define as 'griefers'?

>>148331782
they are certainly griefing the majority of the community

>>148332046
Yeah dads are objectively griefing the community, but they certainly don't define themselves as griefers.

Dads officiel griefers list:
- Pirates (player or npc)
- People who are not, at the very least, in their 40s
- People playing online
- People roleplaying (even though they always emphasize using imagination)
- People who are not supporting the Federation
- People wanting a fun game

Where do I find a class-4 shield generator for my Viper mkIV ?

i've been following advices from

http://roguey.co.uk/elite-dangerous/equipment/internal/shield-generator/4c

Visited two recommanded starports (so call updated 15min ago), and there's fucking nothing there; wat do?

I'm around Sol.

I'm thinking torpedoes on every single hardpoint on my Anaconda. Any reasons why I shouldn't?

>>148333485
get to the closest high tech system

>>148333752
Nope. Shoot them all at once for maximum effect

>>148333485

What

>>148333775

said. Galaxy map -> Filters -> Show high tech systems only -> Pick one -> Check stations

>>148334319

Will it actually work, or will it be shit, though?

I mean, if it works it will probably only be good for one target, but that's all I need.

>>148334646
It will work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWSlgIGfeHo

>>148334646
With all hardpoints firing at once it should be enough to wreck pretty much any fully shielded ship except maybe an 8 booster prismatic fuckboat, but if I remember right you get 2 shots so the follow up should probably be enough even then. Please video sending some player corvette to the debut screen, for all us /edg/elords

>>148332328
flaweye sef cmdr o7

>>148335009
>reason why dads don't play open

>>148332328
>People who are not supporting the Federation
Do you mean all dads are libcucks ?

>>148335351
ftroop is at least

>>148335009
It'll work even better now with the recent changes to torps.

So I've reoutfitted my Sothis Python for piracy, what's some of the higher value cargo to watch for? I hear it used to be scientific samples before ftroop dadized it. Also, any good systems for consistent high paying pirate missions?

>>148333775
That's what I've done... came accross 4 high tech systems now, and still nothing. All I got is 2 to 3-class shield generators, but no 4.

>>148335958
Did you try increasing minimum population?

>>148335958
https://eddb.io/station is usually pretty reliable

>>148335958
check for a higher populated one.
>2016
>can call to a dealership in any country you might think of and ask what cars/motorcycles they have for sale and what discounts the dealership might offer
>3xxx, the age of interstellar travel
>have to go everywhere yourself and check every station for something they might or might not have

>>148335351
the feds aren't a libcuck faction and the dads don't support them anyway because they're all factionless lone wolves

>>148336075
>usually
Just landed to the first result : NOTHING.

>>148336849

Jesus christ dude I know I sound like a dad now but stop your whining o7

>>148336849
Try Jameson Memorial then ;)

>>148336849

Try Hutt Orbital :)

Lozenge?

Just head to alliance space. Its your density

>>148336849
Are you sure you have a size 4 internal slot?

>>148337561
>>148337481
making fun of the elders uh? i have wife and kids you know, I can't play as much as you kiddo.

>was browsing the open letter forum thread, reading all the salt
>saw some dad's with one of those Inara sig pics
>slightly curious
>it's literally an external site for wings and guilds and shit that should be in the fucking game already
>dad's literally would rather have an external website for their groups, rather than have these tools in game

What the fuck?

I still signed up tho

>>148338476
yep. I just found a station with 4A and 4B, still not 4C... I'll go on.

>>148338708
Are you aware that Braben wants to set up an inara clone himself when multicrew arrives? Literally the head honcho of this shitshow will rather make a fucking dating site then to add ez grouping functionality into the fucking game.

Let that sink in.

>>148338815
http://ed-td.space/en/30/Find+Outfitting
Try this

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>>148339137
That's fucked up

>>148338708

Inara is great but yeah, it shouldn't be a necessity. The worst fucking dads are the ones that have the Inara sigs and then argue against shit like player corps and shit like that.

>>148339283
While having their own minor faction in game. Cognitive dissonance is great.

>>148339146
Found it ! Thank you anon.

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like talking to a wall

>>148303584
>dude bruh if you have a corvette...

You ever consider not everyone has a corvette? Not everyone wants to fly around in a lumbering dadbox, idly letting turrets do all the work. Some people want to actually have fun dogfights in eagles and shit.

If this game was more fun....turning as many systems to anarchy would be a laff

>>148341075
>idly letting turrets do all the work
Confirmed for never having flown a corvette

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>>148341363
>guy I replied to says he let the turrets do all the work
>you decide to argue the one part of my post that had nothing to do with my own arguments because you can't be bothered to read the fucking reply chain

Moron.

>>148341787
just like a dad on the forums

>>148340718
Dadwhining at its best.

>>148340718
>>148332328
At some point E:D is going to be so low on players buying shit that they're going to stop listening to the dads in favor of a broader audience, I can only imagine the anal devastation. I just hope they don't go too far in the other direction and, in making it actually properly fun/MMO-y, make it too casual.

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>>148342753
>mfw dads keep linking to this https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/216887-The-Open-v-Solo-v-Groups-thread-IV-Hotel-California
>claim that Fdev is against PvP and any changes
>Fdev in that thread are FOR changes and more player vs player interaction

Braebeioun

Has anyone gotten grade 5 dirty drives on a Corvette yet? Does it make it worthwhile to fly one?

>>148345996
I have dirty tier 3 on D class thrusters and they're better than stock A ones. I imagine you could go really fast with tier 5 modded A.

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please post the ship buying guide

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>>148347060
Here you go.

So I'm going to dive into the engineers grind
What's the best ship for gathering mats and shit?
Money isn't a issue so recommend anything but the imperial ships.