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Salesbabby Edition

>Where do I buy x module/weapon for my ship?
High-tech systems have the best inventory, look there. The higher population the better.

>What's this RES you guys talk about?
Resource Extraction site. Spawns pirates and space cops that shoot each other. HAZRES is best left alone until you have a Vulture or better.

>Pilots Guide:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34437&p=664610&viewfull=1#post664610

>Steam Group (post your commander info in the announcement so we can add you)
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/dangerousgeneral

>Change HUD color:
http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-change-the-colour-of-your-ships-hud-in-elite-dangerous/
http://arkku.com/elite/hud_editor/

>Markets Tools:
http://eddb.io/trade/loops
http://www.elitetradingtool.co.uk/

>Ship & module discounts
Go to https://eddb.io/station
Set power to Li-Yon Rui
Set reference system to your current location
Set Station sells ship/module to what you need
Find Stations
Enjoy 15% discount

>Test your ships before you buy:
http://www.edshipyard.com/
http://coriolis.io/

>I have a question!
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous_Wiki

>My game is not working!
https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/

>Where to grind fed/empire rep?
17Draconis/Tamar.

>Is Horizon worth buying?
No, ask again in 6 months


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Obligatory grind chart which is fucking useless and doesn't account for modules/upgrade costs[/spoilers]
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I finally did it, edgelords. I grinded my way to an A-rated battleconda and yesterday I bought it. How can I still feel this empty? It's as if Robigo grinding is all I have fun with in ED.
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reposting for brabos glory!
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>>128630735
The only thing you can do with A-rated conda is grind even harder, possibly powerplay.
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>>128630735
Vision claims another soul!
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>>128630457

>asp scout

>add fins to a regular >ASP
>look! a new ship!

>keelback

>take a type-6 and give it some more bulky pieces of shit to make it even uglier
>ha, well done cmdr, you made a wise purchase! those pirates wont think to mess with you now ;)

The only saving grace for the Keelback is that the flavor text for it says that it can carry a fighter on it, so atleast if they ever release the update to allow big ships to carry small ships, you can use the Keelback as a budget taxi or hobo carrier.

Why the fuck does the Asp Scout even exist. As if the fucking Explorer wasn't a piece of shit enough as it is.
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>>128631619

>have a-rated anaconda
>bored just trading
>decide to join hudson to try powerplay, i never really gave it much of a chance
>go to hudson space
>all i can do is pick up shit from the HQ and take it to other systems
>for only 10 merits because i can only take 10 at a time
>nothing else to do but haul this shit across over and over
>keep getting interdicked by random faggot agents from other factions when im in the middle of hudson space where the FUCK is his security?
>all i can fucking do in powerplay is basically more monotonous and soul-crushing trading to expand my blob a little more or so we don't lose whatever arbitrary unit of currency is used to measure power
>immediately stop, unpledge, go back to comfy trading with my space playlist

I don't understand how people deal with PowerPlay. I really, really don't understand how people can devote their entire game time to working powerplay and grinding merits for the piss poor rewards. Even from a fucking RP perspective, you get no feedback from what you're doing other than your blob will MAYBE expand or stay the same next week.
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>>128632723
If you want to do powerplay even remotely serious you need to sign up for reddit, join dad groups, join their RP groups after enough harassment, do soul-crushing trade routes timed perfectly to the merit regen, stare at spreadsheets, spend 10 hours MINIMUM on the game, and generally just sell your soul to braben.
But at that point, maybe, just maybe you'll have contributed 10-20% to conquering a system and you can feel a little bit better about yourself, maybe.
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>>128632723
>>all i can do is pick up shit from the HQ and take it to other systems
Tried undermining yet? It's not great but at least there's usually combat involved. Looks like Hudson is undermining a bunch of ALD systems right now.
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>>128630457
>DBS as multirole

It doesn't really have the cargo space to be multirole, has a good weapon placement and it's agile enough not to need gimballed weapons.
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>>128635614
>combat
>exploration
Here you go.
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>>128636058
Ok I can see the meaning now, in my mind multiroles=cargospace.
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>>128632723
but anon! stop grinding! the game is meant to be played slow so you can enjoy looking at warp loading screens all day! just use your imagination™
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>>128637576
The thing that grinds my gears most about Dads is that a lot of them simply play the game "for the pretty sights." As you are looking at the stars themselves instead of procedurally generated background and heightmaps.
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>>128632723
Because I made 10billion in assets joining a group for faction pvp like undermining and ambush crime sweeps. I seriously don't know why /edg/ has such a hard on for Robigo when it was needed to shit after sothis. You can make 40mil in an hour doing bounty hunting or 20mil with buddies and mixing in pvp while you bounty hunt.
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>>128637975
>The thing that grinds my gears most about Dads is that a lot of them simply play the game "for the pretty sights."

I have trouble putting my disgust for the forums into words.
100% of the time, if anyone offers even the slightest criticism, the thread gets flooded with "not for me" and "you need to make your own adventure"
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>>128639071
I agree. The sole reason I joined the ED facebook group is to downplay the dads there. I like ED, but I sure as hell don't praise it as the bestest game evahhh!!11. God fucking damnit.
I get called shit on facebook, but I don't care. I am the black knight lol.
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Okay niggers, now that I got my A-rated fat dragon, how do I arm it? Currently I run 3 class3/G pulse, one C4 Plasma and the rest turreted multicannons. but I'm not sure on what loadout is better.
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>>128638024
Tell me how this works please?

I've never looked at Powerplay before, what do I need to do to rank up and get that super bounty hunting dosh?
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>>128639817
I'm running

>1x fat ass plasma blaster
>3x large pulse lasers, gimballed for extra easy mode
>2x medium pulse lasers + 2x small pulse lasers, all turreted to compliment my casual attitude
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>>128639817
How do you get a white conda?
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>>128641076
Replace gamefile skins
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>>128642917
Can work with the default one?
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>>128640152
Thanks for the reply, all thermal weapons, especially that many will burn through bulkheads just as easily?
Doesn't that overcapacitate your power?
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Just got the Viper MkIV for my bounty hunting obsession. Now bounty hunting isn't satisfying my upgrade greed. What do? I'm not good enough to move up to high risk RES, so I've been going after high value targets in the lows. Killed two pythons in the same dogfight in a Sidewinder with burst laser and a cannon, both gimballed.
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>>128644171
I thought you said you had all A grade, you should have plenty of power for the weapons.

Your plasma and large lasers will crush hopes and dreams, you don't really need much else tbqh, the turrets will mainly be used for the cheeky cunts trying to fly around you.
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>>128644208
>Now bounty hunting isn't satisfying my upgrade greed
U r playin this gaem wrong. Get t6 and trade rare goods then go to robigo.
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>>128644414
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=706,A725TP5TP5TP5Rs5Rs5QS5QS0_g0_g0_g0_g0_g01Q0Wg0mI,2-CgB69Y8SCgD88I,7Vs7jw5H_7jw08c08c16y4_w15O2Uc2UI

Yes, you are right. The reason my conda was over capacity was due to the burst lasers. I might try this loadout.
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How's this for an Eagle loadout?

http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=70L,5QG5QG4ws01Q,323I4s4s2C3I3m3c,7Py12G5AA10i

After flying a vette for so long, I want to die fast be nimble again and pew pew.
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>>128644096
yes it works
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Forums say that the latest dev update will save the game.

Is this true?
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>>128648515
>delusion
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>>128648515
What's the update??

Also is it true the Anaconda has a damage model??
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>>128648642
This

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=224025
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>>128648515
Not if they keep nerfing income every fucking patch

i dont want to trade for 50+ hours just to be able to afford a fucking FDL (with no fit)
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>>128648686
So the big update is xbox will be up to date with PC and a whole load of broken promises who-ha?

Sounds about right.
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>>128648642
i crashed it on achenar and got out with 10% hull, yes it has a damage model
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HOW THE FUCK TO NAVIGATE ON PLANET?
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>>128646649
Mine
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=70L,5QG5QG5QG3wo,2-3I4s4s1k3I3m3c,7Pc
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>>128648515
Ftroop will save the game from exploiters :^)
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I have a bounty on myself, how do I pay it off?

I'm at the space station and I can't do anything
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The jump range is nice, but could you elaborate not taking a bi-weave shield or any armoured bulkheads? I'm curious.
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>>128650992
Buy sidewinder
Get scanned by police
Die
Pay insurance and sell sidewinder
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>>128651134
Oh really?

That's fucking dumb.
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>>128650992
Buy a shitwinder, fly out of the station, attack station and get blow up.
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>>128651115
>>128650707
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>>128651134
>>128651414
Just did it now.

>buy new sidewinder for 27k
>go crazy shooting shit in the station after I get scanned
>die in a blaze of glory
>pay 7k in fines + insurance
>get into my old ship
>sell sidewinder for 42k
Wat.

Somehow made a profit?
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>>128651115
I try not to get hit as much as possible and I want to be as manouverable as possible hence the the weight reduction. I never tried bi-weave and the a grade fsd is an error.
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>>128651134
>>128651203
>>128651414
>Have two accounts
>First account get scanned while carrying hold full of imperial slaves
>Switch the ship, turn massive fine into bounty
>Have second account kill the first and get paid
Sounds like a plan.
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>>128651581
VISION
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>>128651667
Bi-weave takes less time to recharge. If shields drop, outmanouver like hell and the shields come back on. Does weight reduction really influence agility? Didn't know that.
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>>128651581
Wait what exactly did you do? How can you sell your ship for more than you bought it for?
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ERAVATE HERE I GO
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>>128652345
lol, how is that even remotely as profitable as, say, robigo? It's a hassle.
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>>128646684
I've been trying but it doesn't work

tried multiple different paintjobs but it doesn't change the default
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>>128652951
I did exactly that.

The only thing I can think of is that I was in China Man Land, bought the sidewinder at a discount, then when I was selling it, it forgot to count the discount?
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>>128653198
Ftroop made sure that can't happen any more.
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>>128653198
Anyone going to try this with a large ship with big rebuy costs
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>>128653034
It only works with the black friday skin.
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>>128630837
isn't that mr "10 year plan"?
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>>128653459
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNwPJcYWdlY&feature=youtu.be
V I S I O N OF M I R A C L E
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>>128653459
All these pirate/white anaconda tutorials are replacing the default skin, but they are like 6 months old.

You're telling me FD restricted the slightest bit of modability behind some shitty black friday pre order shit?

VISION
I
S
I
O
N
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>>128653832
that singer needs to get some breath training holy shit
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>>128653401
>Anyone going to try this with a large ship with big rebuy costs

this is literally considered to be an exploit
read some dev post about how they did rollbacks on anyone who actually bought a ship at the discount price and then selling it

but yeah, I was wanted and let a friend kill me while I sat in a sidewinder without upgrade. selling the sidewinder after respawn brought me 42k credits, buying it was only 30k.
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>>128654193
She died cuz of drugs ebin
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>>128648686

>Your relationship with the minor faction will determine who within that organisation you will deal with, so the better your relationship with them, the higher level character you will deal with. So maintaining a decent reputation with that minor faction is a wise policy!

So unless I kiss the ass of every minor faction, am I going to be getting FAT PAYDAYS of 200cr?

Boy I can't fucking wait for the bulletin board to be even more broken than it already is.
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>>128654624
>need to gain reputation to get missions
>can't gain reputation without doing missions

I love it already
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I get the feeling that Fdev don't understand gaming as a medium.

They're making such rookie mistakes as if it's some damn indie studio.
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>>128654730

I have hope that they will drop some LSD or something and have a moment of enlightenment and realize that they need to drop the PilotsFed rank requirements and that each minor faction needs to have their own individual set of 4-10 missions so that you have quite a bit to choose from, depending on what is going on in the system. But of course this is Ftroop we're talking about so they'll probably keep everything the way it is, just add some pretty randomly generated faces to go with the bugged missions.
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I just ran into anime Duval Elite white knight in FDL. My hulltank FAS brought his hull down to 66% but then Valhalla called me.

It was so close...
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>>128654963
I think the rank requirement is alright but they need to have more rank appropriate difficulty and payouts
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Anybody try those Distress Signals?

I jumped in and there was a DBE screaming for help while a 7 eagle wing warped in and started shooting at him. As soon as I blasted one they all focused my ass. Pretty hectic.

Shit part though as soon as I blasted the eagles, another squad of 7 vipers/cobras warped in, just barely killed them when I saw 7 condas warp in after I just fucking high waked the fuck out of that.
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>>128656196
if you defeat 12 waves he might give you 100cr, or just run off without giving you anything

in more peaceful systems there might be a ship without fuel and if you give it some they might give you money, or might not

it's a VISION trap
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>>128656196
>>128656340
Sounds immersive
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Any good Res system in Imperial territory? Aside from Baldur
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>>128631810

The scoot is nimble and is the only 2med/2sml ship with a class 4 PD.
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>>128656340
I wasn't even really there for money, I just wanted to see what the fuck it was. No way in fuck im taking on 7 NPC condas though.
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What kind of content do you need?
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So I ran into that white knight again.
>FDL in Eravate hunting noobs
>Umm this a ARRPEE mmk? Totally justified ;^^^)
>Bullshit. That's like SIRA minus agenda plus excuses
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>>128659334
HEY WHERE U GOIN MAN
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>>128659504
>Missiles
Really?
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>>128659504
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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>>128659563
Supposed to be an element of surprise. I have no idea what I was thinking back then.
>>128659675
As I get back to the station I see this.
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>>128659675
>get owned twice

you are a sucker
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>>128659334
>>128659504
>>128659675
>>128659943

>missiles
>look at me pwning de whoite knoights xD

you must have been the coolest kid in your middle school, anon
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>>128659943
>Fearing that brigand will spread the word to town of Le Ditt, Sir Anime tried to conclude the scandal with friendly handshake.
>The brigand did not answer.
>Sir Anime panicked- What if this brigand do spread the word? That FDL railboat got away from FAS with missiles out of everything?
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>>128659943
>Supposed to be an element of surprise.

That's supposed to be torpedo pylons, not missiles. A salvo of 4x torps deals 600 hull damage instantly.
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How many fighters can the big ships carry? I imagine if Braben actually implemented it properly, a wing of people on a corvette or Cutter could all chill on the bridge before launching from the main ship.
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>>128660879
Think cargo space tonnage, i'd imagine.
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>>128660879

It'll be maybe 1 or 2 with big sacrifices to internals, and it'll only deploy imp. Fighter or Condor which blow up from a mean glance.
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>i want craft
It will be in 2.1 update
>i want exploration rewards
You just don't know how explore. I made almost 200mil on exploring. ANd it was only one expedition.
>scenario missions
Just check galnet
>I WANT NPC FOR STATIONS AND SHIPS
Why? What do you want to do with them?
>I WANT BIG INSTANCES
But you have no friends
>I want more stations types
I know that you will complain about grind even if there will be thousands of unique station models
>i want fleet instead of wings
But you fly alone, why do you want it?
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>>128661436
>station models

is not station types, you're thinking of station skins
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>>128660661
That guy's baiting hard.
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>wanted player sidewinder
>20k bounty
>sure why not
>hes going in to Cleve, follow him in right on his ass
>going to zap him before we enter the no fire zone
>enter Cleve
>instance is empty
>dock
>suddenly instance fills up
>hes still not there

great game you have here brabo
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>>128661712
There's 4 minute gap between "Good fight tho" and "ah, the silent type". The insecurity is real.
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Took the new Conda for a run in a High Res tonight.

Python's and FDL's are ez mode, they don't even get a hit in.

Not sure about the Plasma Acc tho, feels a bit too unreliable and then when it maybe looks like i've potentially got a good shot I've already spent power shooting with the pulse lasers.
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>>128662827

imo the pacc is much better for PVP when youre fighting against other condas or corvettes. take down their shields and sucker punch them with the pacc a few times and theyll go crying back to kawaii blue hair cunt
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>>128661436
>You just don't know how explore. I made almost 200mil on exploring. ANd it was only one expedition.

And how long did that expedition take you?
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>>128663095
You shouoldn't talk about the princess like that she didn't do nothin to you and she's trying to help the average person in the Empire, not like that fucking catlady twisted titty torval
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>>128663095
leave aisling out of this you bully, those are fed and indie ships
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>>128663221
Week of gameplay maybe. The galaxy is big.
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>>128663251
I don't give two credit about mediocre anime cardboard but 'her' followers are just painful to watch.
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>>128663686
>A week
>200m
Nigga robigo runs pay 50m for a couple of hours.
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>>128663095
Yeah, they're definitely much better when you're facing bigger ships like Conda, Vette, Python, FDL, T9 at least.
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>>128663531
>>128663251

you can say whatever you want. i personally hate ganking newbies. gankers basically destroyed eve and made it the shitpile it is today, and elite basically has the same thing

but i aislingfags make me cry. so many times ive seen you faggots shitting up local in cleve and interdicting newbies in eravate repeatedly to force them either into solo or to join the anime club

i dont give a fuck about ganking anymore because this game is beyond saving but aislingfags are too autistic to be allowed to live
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Been testing out random ships for the hell of it. With the limited amount of ships this game has, FD need to seriously flesh out the advantages and drawbacks of each one. For example, the ASPE felt clearly better than the DBE whereas instead they should feel like ships with different capabilities. Not something that is outright better.
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>>128663686
>A week of gameplay for 200 mil
Any other profession will net you that in a few hours. You don't see the problem here?
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>>128664293
But anon, he used his imagination to get that 200 mil. He's clearly better than all of us.
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>>128664293
>>128663821

shhh, he has seen the vision, don't break it for him
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Do the donation missions still frequently spawn at 17 Draconis?

I grinded my way to 100% Rep with the Feds last week, but it has been slowly decaying since i've stopped doing missions.
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>>128664293
No
>>128663821
So what's the problem? Do robigo runs if you want cr. Why do you think that exploration should be so profitable as smuggling?
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>>128664616
>Rep

Rep is irrelevant.
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>>128665043
High rep for a major faction allows me to be automatically allied with all systems under their control.
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>>128664870
>Why do you think that exploration should be so profitable as smuggling?
It has to do with incentivization. In game design, you have to figure out how to properly motivate a player into participating in, or accomplishing a task you set in front of them, they way you usually do this is by offering either ingame rewards or fun. The problem with exploration is that the incentives don't make it worthwhile versus other tasks in the game on a reward/time spent basis. Exploration is a huge time investment, but the reward you get for that investment is paltry compared to other tasks available in game, especially considering that those tasks take considerably less time.That's not to say that Exploration should make as much as other professions, given it's relative safety, but it's rewards should be much higher than for the investment it takes.

TL;DR: Exploration isn't worth the time, and if you explore, you're basically shooting yourself in the foot.
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>>128664870
“One of the things we want to do … is to ensure that no one role is a massive generator of cash.”
“What I don’t want ... is to be forced to forever asteroid mine or whatever it is.” - Dev Diary 3, 2:30
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>>128667127
Well, that's ironic.
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>>128666957
tl;dr of game design rant

Exploration is low risk ergo low reward

Smuggling is high risk high reward
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>>128669267
Except that's an oversimplification. We're not dealing with just risk and reward, there's also time investment, there's a reason why the viability of a task in ED is often measured in Cr/H. The problem with Exploration is that it's low risk/low reward/ high time investment, similar to mining, while you have things like trading, which is low risk/high reward/low time investment. ED's amount of risk is also entirely fucked up which exacerbates the problem, Smuggling is only high risk because the game arbitrarily send goon squad of magic authority vessels out to hunt you, which is easily countered by just killing you're game process or pointing your ass toward the sun, Smuggling is also only high reward if you're doing something like the Robigo Run, which obviously wasn't intended by the devs, so as intended, smuggling is intended high risk but actually low risk/ low reward/ low time investment, which sounds pretty fucked up to me.
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>>128669267
>high risk
>quit to menu each jump

No braben, it is not I who will be cucked this day.
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>>128670828
I disagree with you a lot but I'm going to try to not write a novella as a response. Forgib if I do, fampai.

>Exploration is that it's low risk/low reward/ high time investment

Yes, because in a given second your chances of being fucked up are very low. So of course it takes a long time to get paid reasonably. You're not doing anything illegal, you're far from players and NPC spawns, etc.


> low risk/high reward/low time investment

Yes, it takes less time because in a given second your odds of being fucked up are a lot higher. You're fighting players or NPCs for loot, or illegally salvaging, and it only takes a couple seconds for a fed to scan you or a player to bump you outside the station and the whole run was for nothing.

I agree about the Robigo run but I disagree that smuggling is low risk/low reward, I think it's pretty high risk wherever you choose to do it and the reward is reasonable because it doesn't take much to git gud at hitting the mail slot quickly and coldly. Why do you think it's currently low/low?
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>>128669267
>>128671446

dad please go, exploration is worthless and there is nothing to see
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>>128671547
Holy shit I have never been confused for a dad and I am quite offended. I put urban camo on my Cobra and skulls and I fly around all day near the starting systems and fuck up other players in decidedly less agile ships. I am by no means defending exploration. It sucks cock. I think we totally misunderstood each other anon.
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>>128671446
>Yes, because in a given second your chances of being fucked up are very low. So of course it takes a long time to get paid reasonably. You're not doing anything illegal, you're far from players and NPC spawns, etc.
My point was is that the amount of reward you get for the amount time you invest isn't proportional. If you're going to have a low risk task in a game that takes a long time, you need to make sure that the rewards you give for that task are proportional to the amount of time it takes. Exploration is worth fuck all right now as pointing out by mister "I made 200 million in a week exploring" where he could have just done the similarly low risk task of trading and made the same amount in a quarter of the time.

> low risk/high reward/low time investment
This was referring to trading. Smuggling right now is obviously not how the devs intend it to work, though the way they want it to work is actually much worse, and honestly I think the rewards you get for regular smuggling are basically garbage considering the risk unless you're doing bulk illegal trading.
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>>128671775
No, you're a dad now. It's all over!

Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad!
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>>128672617
I see what you're saying now and I think you're right.
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>>128672861
Fuck.
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How long will it take me to grind the credits for a Diamondback Explorer?

Keep in mind I know nothing of the game and only own an Eagle.
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>>128674068
One robigo run
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>>128674197
What is a Robigo Run

Can I do it in my Eagle
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>>128674490
no


get a DBS
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>>128630457
At least post the corrected one.
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>>128674603
I don't have the credits for one, which is why I asked how long it will take me to get the credits for a DBE.

Now I ask again, what is a Robigo Run? I assume I need some stupid ranking to do it too?
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>>128674068
to get easy early game dosh get some cargo space and salvage shit illegaly
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>>128674783
Here's how it's done. You go to Robigo (Or Fehu if you're Empire) and run one mission. Now you'll have enough to A fit a Cobra if you use the Oriental discount. Now go back and load up on missions. Complete then without spazzing out and you'll have enough to A fit your DBS.

Keep doing this. By the end of the day, you'll have an A grade long jump Asp to make the runs easier plus two of whatever your favorite mid tier ships are
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>>128664202
> blue haired slut is a bigger threat to the galaxy than that nigger pirate.
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>>128648642
No it's not. No ship in this game has a damage model. The ships do have damage visuals though, in that the ship will look different once it's damaged enough, but this has no gameplay bearing, only visual.

Space Engineers has a damage model; when a missile hits or a ship rams another ship a big, gaping hole gets torn. You can't target the pylon on an Imperial Clipper and blow the nacelle off in that manner.
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>>128675498
you're mom is a slut
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Hey newbie in the Eagle

Ignore the robigo stuff for now.

Find a system with ringed planets, go there and look for "Resource Extraction Sites" or RES, go into any one of them that doesn't say "Hazardous"

Follow the local space police around while they fly around shooting at wanted NPCs and get the last few hits off on the wanted NPC before it explodes and you'll collect the full bounty.

Once you work up enough money from that then you can buy something to haul slaves from Robigo once you're comfortable with quitting to system menu or force killing the game process to avoid the bullshit NPC spawns to stop you from smuggling slaves.
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>>128675498

sadly, yes considering that every faction is the exact same. the only difference is that anime club class president girl has more members, so obviously she will be a bigger threat.

just use your imagination anon and imagine that those clippers flying around spouting reddit memes and MUH PRINCESS are actually hardened, iron-skinned pirates that are out to destroy the peaceful ecosystem of eravate.
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>>128663686

please tell me how you did it. I don't know how to explore :'(
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Is there any reason I cannot accept this? I wouldn't mind getting a quick 400k after my 20 mil smuggling run.
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>>128676021
Ah, I've actually seen people do that. I'll try it out tomorrow then. Thanks for the advice.

I really wish I had a joystick though, flying with a mouse is a bit shit.
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>>128676498
Landmines aren't in the game yet
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SHOOT ME
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>>128676715
Wait, seriously?
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>>128676783
I'm pretty sure that's a form of child abuse.

>>128677248
Yeah, there's several items that aren't in the game but missions require. It's weird.
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>>128664202
>. gankers basically destroyed eve and made it the shitpile it is today
you mean it made it better, git gud dad
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>>128677556

>ganking
>making eve better

hardcore 1337 g4m3rs only amirite?
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>>128677968
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>>128674068
>>128674197

Wait, I have a Cobra and I want a Diamondback. How do I do a Robigo run?

>>128677968
Also just FYI creating scarcity in the market is a good thing for people who have manufacturing skills, eg; myself and other gankers
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>>128648642
No ships have damage models. The Anaconda has a damage MESH which means after the ship takes a certain amount of damage it will look different. This doesn't affect you as a player at all, and there is no way to damage one area aesthetically but not another, you get "hurt" the same no matter how or where you get hurt.
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>>128678456
Now, now anon. There's no need to point out things like that, especially after all that Lord Braben has done for you. Maybe you just need a little imagination, and maybe a little Vision to guide that imagination in ways we consider acceptable.
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>>128676569
Get a Hotas x
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Any good tips for fast rank exploring? somebody claimed to get 200M in one week only.

I want to know ;_;
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>>128679060
Or you can go farm Hi RES for half the time
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>>128679156

fuck you with your Hi RES, I want EXPLORER rank
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>>128679060
Pick a direction.
Lock onto star xx,xxxLy away.
Start jumping for 3 days.
Turn around and start jumping back.
Make sure you're aligned with whichever faction gives bonus money for cartography data.
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>>128679060
Two short exploration trips in my hauler took me from aimless to scout and scout to trailbazer.

Just go somewhere, get back alive, and sell the data.
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>>128679716
>>128679716


Trailbazer... 2M profit


dude, just fuck off seriously, Elite is 160 M , ranking is a log scale. you rank up fast in begining. seriously.

>>128679713
no tip. Dude made it in one week. had tips.
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>>128679713
Do explorers usually scan most of the systems on their trip or is the trick to simply scan a few systems an absurd distance away? I'm not sure how data pricing scales. Planetary scanners are dumb, right?
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>>128679898
Trailblazer with 87%, made 4m in one shortass trip, didn't even scan everything. How about you fuck off to Sag A* and start already? That's all there fucking is to it: go somewhere.
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>>128679713
too bad that you have to grind 10k merits for the cartographic data
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>>128679965
Data pricing doesn't scale. Surface scanners double the value but take a bit to scan. Advanced scanner scans the whole system, look at the system map and see if anything looks good. Scan what does with the detailed scanner.
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>>128680897
>Data pricing doesn't scale

WHAT THEFUUUUUUUUUUUCK

why would anybody do this ever
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>>128681218
It's a hobby more than a means of income. You have to be autistic enough to like it in the first place for it to be worth it, the money's just a bonus.

Also to take screenshots.
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>>128681553

Plus they increase the ELITE rank requirement with each major update.

Fuck them.

Before it was 140M to be elite, now it's going to be 162M

V I S I O N
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>>128681553
>You have to be autistic enough to like it in the first place
>tfw the exploration autism got me, at least when i come back ill turn this ship in a A rated pirate conda.
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>be me
>340h of grinding
>dangerous combat rank
>never PVP'd

how and where should I lose my virginity and spill some blood?
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>>128684958
eravate
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>>128676783
>Please forgive for the male-centered title
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>>128675185
> Or Fehu
Fehu was nerfed
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>>128686387
>that name
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Does anyone have their own playlist for space trucking?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFDj3shXvco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eKciJisnI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHQmDqlv5Rc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi94mMed6EQ
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>>128687000
Ofc dad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnP---KgDgg
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>fly to ross 342 in FAS
>sell FSD
>power management
>best FSD gives me 2.2 ly
>game over
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>>128688009
Stupid is as stupid does.
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>>128688009
Retard lol.
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>load up on narcotics
>100 police vipers every system (even anarchy???)

I guess robigo is pretty authentic after all
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>>128688009
You can buy it back faggot
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>>128688493
Not after relog, I fucked it up, no more ED for me I guess, 'twas a good game, pity.
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>INTERDICTION
call me dad, I'm not doing robigo runs anymore. fuck that shit
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so what's the newest VISION route?
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>>128689380
can't you buy a different ship, hyperspace out of there and buy your fas back?
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>>128689380


just SUICIDE and claim insurance you faggot
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>>128689380
what kind of fucked up train of thought got you to sell your fucking FSD and logoff the goddamned game before checking what was available in store?
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>>128689487
>stupid suggestion
he'll spawn back at the same station
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>>128689574
I'm a complete noob.
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>>128689736
I guess this is where you pray for the VISION gods that ship hauling/player taxi missions get put into the game
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>>128689718


don't claim insurance, you lose your ship, but you come back at BEGIN station.

If you have a shipyard, buy a sidewinter, suicide, don't claim, free, start station.

then consider hauler taxi to sell your ship back there;

on a sidenote, you are retarded.
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>>128690663
or he could sell the FAS, buy the sidewinder, and just use that to fly out of there?
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>>128690663
>don't claim insurance

you have autism. pic related.
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>>128690930

yep that's another solution.


but suicide and get a free sidey is the hard way


OR you can ticket to FD
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>>128690930
All you need to do is suicide and not claim the purchased fsd, so it gives you the default one.
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>>128691854
now this is a clever anon. good advice, faggot
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>>128688009
D rate everything you can, use the lowest class parts you can, sell everything in your internal compartments, utility mounts, and hardpoints.

See if that helps.
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>>128689380
You know you can just start a new character
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>>128692050
Wait, just tried this

http://coriolis.io/outfit/federal_assault_ship/02D5D3A5D5D4D1C--------------.Iw18cQ==.Aw18cQ==
https://eddb.io/station/outfitting/13834

>3A max
>2.99 LY

Ouch
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>>128675673
The Anaconda does have damage states for the model itself but they stopped at that ship. Also the parts that blow off are predetermined at various hull%s and not related to where they get hit.
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>>128693349
I'm pretty sure your cargo doesn't fly out if the cargo hold is torn open by damage states either.
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>>128677248
Also if you don't have Horizons you'll still see missions requiring surface-only goods you can't take.
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>>128693731
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>>128693349
It's just a visual thing though, right? Like the chunks or armor that are missing aren't weak spots or anything, the bits that are exposed aren't more vulnerable right? Just purely visual.
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>>128693731
I experienced that during the winter sale. Learning of missions and everything at the time and the first mission I see is one for 500k. Asked for some mineral that could only be gotten from the expansion. Fucking quality dev team right here.
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>>128688009
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>>128695009
Yea, purely visual. I'm pretty sure the only reason we even have a damage model is just so they can say that the game has it. Of course they leave out that it's only for one ship.

I'd love some reactive damage modeling. Like blowing off an Eagles wing with a pacc or having bullet holes from multicannons venting ship atmosphere. Maybe drilling a hole through a Cobra hull with beam lasers.
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Anyone want to kill some dads in Eravate?
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>>128696156
Heading there right now
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>every single mission for the faction is killing someone of said faction and ends in a bounty

Can somebody fucking explain this shit to me?
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V I S I O N
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Are there any good places left for Empire charity missions? Looks like Cubeo and Liabeze are dead.
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>make a spaceship/RPG game called "Elite"
>apparently spaceship and RPG is a terrible combo
>6.5/10
>game sells a couple million copies
>a little later
>this comes up

oh I am laffin
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Just killed my first Anaconda with the Viper Mk.III. Anyone else find a hardpoint combo that works well with their playstyle? I find that a burst laser with a multicannon on the mediums with the non-turret tracker and 2 cannons with manual aim works best for me.
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i dont know what to do :)
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Why doesn't this game have particle repeaters or something? MC costs ammo while lasers are hitscans.
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>new player
>aimlessly wandering from station to station hoping to find easy missions
>get a direct message from someone
>invites me to a wing
>we fly around and he picks off some bounties for me
>turn in 50k worth of bounties in Matlehi
>tells me to buy an Eagle
>we do more bounties
>he says "goodbye friend" and jumps away never to be seen again

ty my friend
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>>128692747
Just buy another ship if possible.
Then fly somewhere.
Come back with a BIG FSD.
Then put that on you ship.

I had the same problem with my Python.
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>>128717569
>lasers will never overheat the enemy instead of doing straight damage
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>>128717630
more people should do that

50k is nothing to a higher level player, might as well help newbies bet in the swing of things without going full dad
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>>128718072
>missiles will never be fun again
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>>128719002
I remember seeing one of the early missile builds you guys came up with

>it cost 400.000 credit to fire these weapons for 12 seconds

shit was expensive but also did a ton of damage, it seemed like an ok balance to me
>>
there is something oddly soothing about mining
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>>128721042

>autism speaks
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>>128721042
In EVE sure, in Elite nah. You cray cray.
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>>128719002
The Li Yong-Rui faction weapon is pretty fun, to bad its pretty shit though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TrhrqmvxCA
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>>128722624
Fuck, i've been wanting to get these but I hate faction grinding.

Now that i've seen this video I want them even more even if they suck.

I gotta get my Feddie gunship first for MORE HARDPOINTS for MORE MISSILE
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>>128721042
I love it in EVE but I fucking hate it in Elite. Scooping shit is so awful.
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>>128724273

Have you ever thought that maybe this game isn't for you? Go play EVE. You whiny gamerboys want to have everything done for you.
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>>128724645
I have time for both because I work from home
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>>128724942

tfw want to get into EVE but don't have the time for it or the will to link up with a bunch of different corps

I can't even shitpost about this. I tried being a trader/industrialist since I really enjoy doing that, but I felt like I was always at a severe handicap because I work in a hospital and have to pull some ridiculous hours a lot of the time. Maybe I should give it another go sometime.
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>>128725369
If you have the patience to let your skills sit for a long time, you can train up manufacturing skills and do that for your industrialist needs. It's basically

>buy mats
>stick them in a machine
>wait
>sell the thing that pops out

I used to do that a lot with a dude named Aerallo and he later became the single largest producer of supercapitals in the game. Nigga has got some serious autism.

I'm a logistics director and that takes its own special autism. People call me at 4AM and I have to log in and push a couple buttons to micromanage a team or whatever. Shit sucks, don't do it.
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>>128725369
>>128725951
EVE is still time consuming like nothing else. It's really not a pick up and play for a few hours every week sort of game.
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>>128716994

For assassinations? 1 med beam + three torpedo pylons.
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>>128722624
>entire salvo barely takes shieldless novice iCurry's wet tissue paper hull to half
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>>128728114
The only do slightly more damage than a regular class 1 missile, so of course its nothing special.

I still want to mount 9 of them and make some newbie sidewinder shit his pants
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>>128724273
>what is a collector drone
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>>128722624
I DON'T NEED IT
I DON'T NEED IT
I DON'T NEED IT
I DON'T NEED IT
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>>128724273
scooping is fun

scooping 500 fragments to get 1 resource isn't

as always they take something that could be fun and destroy it with grinding
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>>128729786
Collector limpets for life
These little babies will feed your boxfu
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>>128730237
Why do those asteroids look like turds?
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>>128730631
Because mining is shit
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Is there a way to increase the size of the stars on galaxy map (0 population ones)?

It is quite horrible to select only few type of stars in filters and struggle to see them as their 'radius' dot seems to be low.

Also, I noticed a "field of view" sphere on galaxy map, that no matter how much you zoom off, you won't be able to display the stars after that sphere. Is there a way to change that?

Also, can't colours be changed on filter map? it seems like a nightmare color choice for some filter selection.

Or, is there any 3rd party tools for a better galaxy map than what we have?
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>>128733183
All i need is the ability to consistently select something on the map and not have the menu disappear
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>>128733567


Nah, I want to see all the white dwarfs on the galaxy at the same time.
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>>128734310
Why white dwarfs and not neutron stars/black holes?
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>>128734492

okay,, all neutron stars/black holes too.
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Why the fuck do the "dogfighter" ships in this game control like a pile of wet cake? I wanted to pilot a fast little ship that could do everything the launch trailer shows. But there is just straight up no ships like that in game.

I really want to like this game, i really do. But fuck the combat is boring as hell.
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>>128735987
>I wanted to pilot a fast little ship that could do everything the launch trailer shows.

That's because the trailer lies. It lies blatantly. That is not how actual combat looks like in the game at all.

You were tricked.
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>>128648686
Good good.
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>>128736246
Which is a damn shame. Even with the current HUD, ships, weapons and such they could have fast paced combat but instead all the ships feel sluggish. Why can't we have just one modern awesome space combat sim? Just one.
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Anyone had a mission to deliver to "Wood Lab", it's in LPM 746 apparently but I can't find it anywhere and google brings up nothing.

Have I been rused?
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>>128736473
The genre is dead. Again.
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>>128736481

Do you have Horizons? Is it on a planet?
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I'm a bit new to this game. When do you see other players? Most of the time while I'm out doing quests and such and landing in ports, I can' find another singe player. I seriously doubt they put players in different instances. Chances are that its just because the world is so big.

Either way, I'm just curious. Is there a way to see/interact with players more? I mean the first time a bandit tried to rob me, I didn't realize it was a NPC. I tried talking to it and talking my way out of being robbed...
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>>128736661
>I seriously doubt they put players in different instances. Chances are that its just because the world is so big.

It's both.

Also the game is not really built to be multiplayer.
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