>Where do i buy x module/weapon for my ship?
High-tech systems have the best inventory, look there. The more population the better.
>What's this RES you guys talk about?
Resource Extraction site. spawns pirates and space cops that shoot each other. HAZRES in best left 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 discounts (report these as you find them)
All systems exploited by Li Yong-Rui have a discount on ships and outfits for example:
NU TAURI - Parmitano Terminal
BD+28 413 - Gunn Station
>Horizons? Engineers? What?
Horizons DLC added planetary landings, land on certain planets with the blue icon and gather materials for special boosts, ammunition or Engineer upgrades that modify your ship modules.
>List of Engineers & blueprints:
http://inara.cz/galaxy-blueprints
http://inara.cz/galaxy-engineers
>Test your ships before you buy:
http://www.edshipyard.com/
http://coriolis.io/
Don't you dare buy a Cobra, we'll know.
>praise the vision
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>>145824698
>>145824698
ded thred
Approximately how long would it take to mine 500 tons for the engineer in an Asp or Conda?
>ded at 300 replies
I think it's time to stop.
It's fitting, really. /edg/ goes to sleep on Father's Day.
See you fags in 8 months.
>>146004239
>orca
>multi-purpose
nice meme. I just sold my orca because of it's shitty jumprange and manouvrability
ONE(1)[Uno]{Oднa}<Ett> FUCKING JOB /edg/ all you had to do. Keep the thread alive
Rate my Battle Cutter
https://coriolis.io/outfit/imperial_cutter/2putuFplxdusCf62c1v1v2828282802020404030303034p072d5o3c2d2dv42f.Iw18ZZA=.Aw18ZZA=
So, what is yor opinion on engineers, edgelords?
>>146005408
A
>>146005408
I love it
I'm not even kidding I love being a space scavenger. Hate the bugs though. hope they fix those soon
>>146005408
2.1 was the final straw for me.
I didn't mind 2.0 and had thought Engineers plus the updated mission system would end up with you being given specialized missions with the payoffs being engineer upgrades and with the stories Braben kept telling, that maybe some upgrades might be illegal.
NOPE! It's all grinding for a turn at the gambling table and maybe a spin of the wheel.
Personally, I blame Sandro. This is so far out there from being fun that only a braindamaged alien like him could come up with it. Braben is some kind of idiot child that has a vision but no idea how to implement it and Sandro is always the one that figures out how but always in a way that makes no sense to human thought.
Forum dads out in full force
>>146007283
>get better internet
OH MY SIDES ARE FLYING TO ALPHA CENTAURI
>>146007283
Holy shit that guy's a dumbass
>>146007283
That's it. I'm fucking done.
I wonder if I can still get a refund
>>146007714
He is free!!! Watch with me brothers! Praise be to he who is unshackled!
>>146007714
you'll be back
>>146007714
>stupidity of player base influences my opinion on the game
You're not any better than they are honestly
>>146008405
Frontier caters to the dads who suck their dick at every opportunity
Dads may as well be devs
>>146007283
>SC is fine
I will never fucking understand this. SC is fine for the most part for destinations 500ls or less but after that it just takes for fucking ever getting anywhere. It's so soul crushingly depressing because it's such an easy fix. All they need to do is increase the acceleration and deceleration. But of course this won't ever happen because dads love staring at starfield screensavers.
oh shidd boys it habbening :-DDD
thargoids NAO
>>146012118
>asp in front of a star
literally LITERALLY never seen it before
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4ou23c/happy_fathers_day_to_all_the_elite_dangerous/
>>146011189
https://twitter.com/drewwagar/status/744423971026837504
1200ly is what, 3-6 hoursfor an armada of alien invaders bent on revenge?
>>146012353
how about an anaconda?
>>146013591
>>146012732
Please explain. I don't understand what is he talking about
>>146013591
thargoid JDs can hit 500LY. and it said he's running AWAY from the core
prepare to get assfucked in tionisla, boys, welcome to the Rift
>>146013591
RIP Chekov
>>146014043
MUH THARGOIDS!!!
The mystery update at the end of the year is probably Thargoids. I hope you enjoy getting pulled out of witchspace every other jump.
>>146014732
>We only have interdictions every millisecond so how about we also interdict you every millisecond in hyperspace
>https://twitter.com/CMDR_Canthor
>https://twitter.com/CmdrKhelder
people like this exist. these are real people.
>>146014245
I hope we'll be able to loot thargoid shit
>Corvette with 300LY jump range
>>146016964
Don't be so demanding you entitled milennial, don't you see how this would make the game too gamey?
>>146017071
t.cobramacdaddy
>>146010142
Shame supercruise will never be scrapped. It's not enjoyable playing a game in which all of the content is some invisible signal floating in space.
This Sothis thing is shit with my Type 7, any other ways to exploit the game for fast bucks? I don't have enough for a Python yet.
>>146014880
After thinking about it a little bit, this reminds me a lot of playing on an old SS13 RP server.
It was pretty fun playing there at first. Everyone was great, the atmosphere was comfy, and it was just generally enjoyable to play on that server. But then we started getting a lot of players that would felate the admins whenever they could. Then the admins started making events and forcing the lore of the server to revolve around these players that they liked, essentially pandering to them. They kept forcing the entire server to go through events where the whole crew was killed, or ruining entire characters because they didn't like them. It was pissing off a good portion of the playerbase, but whenever someone complained, the circlejerk would come a-running and basically tell us to fuck off or that everything was great and that we were just not enjoying the server right, the server had never been better! And so a lot of the players, myself included, left. About two months later, the server shut down because they bled players quickly, and couldn't hold on to any newer players because of their shitty events that ALWAYS revolved around their circlejerk.
I feel as if Elite is going the same way. The story and updates only go the way forumdads want it to. Engineers that required you to grind for hours? PowerPlay being a broken mess? Thargoids making the game unplayable by killing you and making jumps between systems nigh impossible? Go play EVE! This is the way Elite is meant to be played. It's Elite DANGEROUS, remember?
>mfw realizing some forumdads write their posts almost exactly like a few of the faggots that ruined my favorite server
>>146010142
>SC is fine for the most part for destinations 500ls or less but after that it just takes for fucking ever getting anywhere.
- Up the max speed and acceleration (yes the Clarke reference will be gone) to make long-distance travel less painful.
- Tweak numbers (I'm not sure how exactly) so that fun stuff like gravity braking is more powerful.
- Give us a proper system map and possibly tweak stuff so that avoiding planets in the path gives you much faster trips.
Make it interactive is what I'm asking for I guess.
>>146020763
>slingshot yourself around the sun you arrive at
>instant 200c velocity
>use nearby planet to gravity brake
>from 200 to 2c in 10s
>>146020717
The fact that the newsletter is so obsessed with what the reddit faggots are doing every week is an indication that it's going the same way as your thing .
>>146020763
Gravity breaking actually works but it's highly dependent on the orbit of the station and where exactly it is in that orbit. I think the gravity and mass of the planet itself might also play a role in it but who knows. I have successfully sped myself up and used a planet's gravity to break before but it only really works if the station is on the other side of the planet relative to you, otherwise you'll just slingshot yourself around and the drag of the planet will reduce your speed to sub 1Mm/s speeds for the rest of the journey, which at that point you may as well just set your speed to the blue zone and let the nav computer control your speed.
Your changes look great, and I'd love to see stuff like that.
If EG Pilots win, will their faction literally have that name? That would break the fourth wall.
>>146021403
Have you seen some of the system descriptions where player groups have had themselves inserted as the controlling faction?
It's way too late to worry about the 4th wall. Or good writing for that matter.
>>146021671
Why don't we make our own group and system?
>>146021671
give me an example
>>146021272
I use gravity braking just cause it's fun, I have no idea if it's actually faster than the standard method.
I think supercruise as an idea is fine the implementation is just bad (though I guess that pretty much sums up ED in general).
Tweaking a few numbers could make it a lot more interesting.
For example make it quicker and easier to drop in and out of signal sources. In other open-world games you're walking or driving so stopping to look at something interesting by the roadside doesn't massively eat into your travel time, but Elite's slow acceleration, instancing pauses etc. make it a pain to check these things out. At least they added some info to the signal sources though, that's a step forward.
Maybe make it so fuel scooping depends on speed, so high-speed orbits of a star could fill your tank much faster than dropping to minimum speed. Make the refuel speed continue to scale right up to the SC limit so you have people skimming the drop-out line to maximise refueling speed.
>>146021730
Because that's faggotry, anon.
>>146020514
Asp is much better for Sothis.
>>146021864
Chinaman space is a good place to start looking for awful writing. Lots of player factions got themselves placed there because of the convenient discounts and ended up getting stations UA bombed because of their presence.
eg: Ising Dock in 109 Piscium used to have one of the best selections of ships and modules. Now it's shut down.
>>146022238
Ok thanks, now to find a place that sells the fucker.
>>146021891
>Maybe make it so fuel scooping depends on speed
I'm pretty sure it already does depend on speed.
It's always looked to me like the fuel scoop and heat generation rates are functions of your distance from the star and your speed. Where moving faster will let you maximize your harvesting rate at a higher altitude, while you need to dive lower to cap it out at a lower speed.
I know a friend of mine likes to refuel his ship with his shitty fuel scoop by dropping down to minimum SC speed, getting enough close to the star to max out his fuel capture rate, and going AFK for a few minutes.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, I routinely max-out the harvest rate with my conda's 7A fuel scoop as I make a high speed pass by the star with the throttle wide open, hit the frameshift drive button the moment it goes off cooldown, and jumping away with my heat meter in the high 90's
>>146022693
Any system with a high-tech rating will have it, in all likelihood.
I use the following build for doing long range smuggling:
http://coriolis.io/outfit/asp/05C5A5A4C4A5D5C----------f604422t020101.Iw18WQ==.Aw18WQ==?bn=longbus
This will take you around the area of 450LY without needing to refuel, which saves time but costs you cargo space. If you skip the extra fuel for more space you'll need to watch your fuel and remember to scoop. You'll also spend more time with cargo, due to having to stop for scooping, which adds up to more interdictions. You will probably earn more money per run though.
>>146021891
Personally I would love if they implemented something as another anon said, where gravity could be used to slingshot yourself to achieve higher speeds and faster travel, and making gravity breaking more profound so you could actually use it to slow yourself down enough to make it to a station.
I think a huge problem that people don't bring up is the "safe drop" speed. I don't know what's going on with it because sometimes it's 8Mm/s but usually it's 1Mm/s which is fucking ridiculous. I wish it was set to something like 10Mm/s, I think a lot of problems would go away since you wouldn't have to decelerate as much.
>>146022321
Any 4th wall breaking group descriptions?
>>146022945
Fuel scooping is distance. Literally stick your dick in a star and you'll reach the maximum rate you can take in fuel.
>>146022945
>I'm pretty sure it already does depend on speed.
It has nothing to do with speed, just proximity and facing. You can literally park at minimum speed and scoop at full rate if you're close enough to the star and facing it.
>>146023045
Thanks a lot dude.
>>146023045
Personally I go full cargo and fuel scoop. Sometimes I sell my shields if it allows me to take that one extra mission.
I have two bounties on my ass and still always make it in one piece, thank fuck for mines and dumbfire missiles
>>146023052
I'm just not sure how gravity slingshot and braking would work with SC. How would the game know when you are slingshotting and when you are braking?
I think they changed safe drop speed for signals. They should just make it higher in general to make hitting it at the right time at full speed a bit more of a reflex challenge.
>>146023045
what are good systems for smuggling? I can't seem to find any in the 300/500LY belt around the bubble
Anybody want toshare IGNs?
>>146023475
Safe drop speed for signal sources is now related to the speed you were going when ti spawned. Like if you're going at 11C now it'll have a safe drop range of 11Mm and speed tolerance of 11Mm/sec.
Why can't we make our own group/player faction? Surely someone is autistic enough here to see it trough
>>146023573
Sothis or Ceos comes to mind.
Robigo if the station(s) ever get fixed.
What's the best way to grind money these days? I have about 20m
So I just picked this up.
How do I play?
I have a logitech extreme 3d pro that i just finished fiddling with so flying feels ok now.
Do i just do missions till my eyes bleed or wat?
Anyonoe know of a decent place to grind imp rank?
ceci n'est pas un bump
>>146025694
Blaze your own trail, CMDR :^)
Don't let other people tell you what to do and just do it o7
>>146025694
buy as many cargo racks as you can for your starting sidewinder
find a hauling mission or a data courier mission to a nearby system
upgrade your FSD ASAP or some places will be literally unattainable
upgrade your ship and save up until you can buy a bigger ship and upgrade it outright
>>146025694
>Do i just do missions till my eyes bleed or wat?
Yep. Enjoy the VISION.
Bulk trading is the easiest way to earn money consistently, but earnings scale with your cargo space, so it might not be the best for someone new. It's also boring as hell unless you like work or use it as an opportunity to catch up on podcasts.
My advice would be to start out with some trade/courier-related missions until you've made enough money and flying experience to decide what your next move is. Missions don't scale well income-wise when you get to the more expensive ships (unless you're doing long range smuggling), so it's useful to find an activity that suits you so you can plan ahead for ship purchases and the like. I can post a ship buying guide in a moment.
No one here? Am I alone in spehs?
>>146028093
in spess no-one can hear you scream "there's nothing to fucking do"
>>146028093
I am giving cloth to the slavbros, so that dads don't get their favorite jewtuber his own powerplay faction.
>>146026369
What activities are there besides missions?
>>146025694
Do courier/hauling missions for a bit to familiarize yourself with the controls, learn how to take off and land and all that shit, then refer to the chart
>>146004239
Upgrade according to whether you want to go exploring, hauling, combat, etc.
>>146028968
Bounty hunting, which consists of either interdicting wanted people in supercruise or farming pirates in resource extraction sites (ranked blank, low, high, hazardous in terms of danger/rewards). There's bulk trading (buy shit here and sell it there). There's exploration (go out into the universe and scan shit). There's lots of little activities to do that are the same no matter where you go.
>>146029261
is bounty hunting in a sidewinder advisable?
>>146029406
Should be easy enough, just pick on targets the system security is already hammering and you'll pick-up credits pretty quick. (System security doesn't kill steal).
>>146029406
You CAN do it, but don't just pick fights with any old ship at Resource Extraction Sites or Nav Beacons, follow system security around and whoever they shoot at, target and try to get one shot in before they die.
And I might as well say this, you might as well get any stupid shit out of your system while you are in the sidewinder, as the penalties for dying in that aren't really a thing.
>>146029406
I'd say do a bunch of missions until you have about 150k-200k in credits, which shouldn't take too long, then upgrade to a Viper Mk III. Start off with gimballed (auto-tracking) weapons, but start teaching yourself how to shoot without the tracking as eventually you'll want to learn how to do fixed. That Cobra duel in the training missions can help you get started with fixed weapons, as you'll have to use the railguns to take down the other guy, and those only come in fixed. Start with some pulse lasers on the small hardpoints to take down shields and some multi-cannons on the mediums for hull.
>>146029406
Oh, one more thing:
Never, EVER fly without insurance money. You can see what the current cost to rebuy is on your stats menu (when you look right in the cockpit). If you don't have enough when you die, you just lose your ship forever, unless you complain on the forums that you died because you had to take care of your wife's son or whatever
>>146029869
lol, sounds good.
Also, lets say I was gunning for a system that was super far away and im now floating in space with no fuel.
Do i just pack it up and give up or?
>>146030150
>No fuel
Just kill yourself. You're starting ship isn't worth much.
>>146023475
>slingshotting = on a "slingshot trajectory" (closer to the edges of the yellow circle than the centre, or maybe even outside the circle)
>braking = when centered (ie on impact trajectory)
not sure if it'd work but it's possible
>>146029406
If you want to start bounty hunting right away, what >>146029745 said about the Viper is correct.
If not, I'd get a Cobra as my second ship. It's not the second coming of jesus as the dads on the ed forum think, but it's not shit like /edg/ memes it out to be.
>Arrive in system
>FAS interdicks me
>Escape
>Arrive at station
>FAS arrives at station
>Why hello there
>Fire railguns and heavy plasma at me
>Plasmas miss and impact the station
>Station flips its shit and kills the FAS
>>146030404
done similar things
>robigo smuggle run pre nerf
>drop down into realspace to station
>elite python drops down with me, hardpoints deployed
>demands cargo
>go into no fire zone
>he starts leaving
>back out
>he comes back
>continue getting him ever closer to no fire zone
>stay outside long enough to get shot, boost into zone
>he follows and is fried immediately
I wonder if the AI still does this...
Thanks for the help bro bros, got another question, why is private play a thing? Thought this was like an mmo type deal?
>>146030953
Kickstarter backers who wanted a pure singleplayer game, just ignore it and play open.
>friendly with anarchy pirate faction
>pirates still fucking interdict me and attack me because VISION
>always run because actually trying to get this faction's influence up and killing them lowers their influence
>flying in system, NPC says he wants my tasty cargo
>what
>check cargo
>apparently i picked up some engineer commodities from a mission or something
>cant escape interdiction, whatever, submit
>boost boost wake
>go check out a USS
>he immediately pops up in front of me despite him not even appearing in SC again
>hes in a DBE
>can out maneuver my fucking A rated Vulture, takes down my shields with one pass
>fuck it, run away again
>interdicts me AGAIN
>submit and say fuck it, this shit is worthless on the market and i dont even fucking have horizons anyways, dump it all for him
>YOU HAVE MADE A WISE CHOICE
>god fuck you, jump back to SC so i can get back to station
>hes back again asking for my cargo
>check cargo, yup, i gave it all to him
>mfw task manager, kill elite process
I fucking hate this game. I love playing it and just dicking around but it's almost as if the fucking game WANTS me to hate it so it does everything it can to make my session miserable.
>>146030953
Oh, poor sweet naive anon. You have much to learn about the VISION.
>>146030953
I don't even know, probably so the forum dads had some eternal bogeyman to bitch about constantly therefore keeping the pace of the game similar to molasses in January.
I want a Federal Assault Ship but I don't know where to go to grind rank. Is any system better than any other?
>>146030953
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/4owltk/i_just_uninstalled_elite_heres_why/
How fucked am I when the forum dads see this?
>>146023103
>>146023297
It's both. Go fly tangent to a star and fuck around with your throttle. You'll see the fuel rate increase as you boost throttle and decrease as you cut throttle. Distance to the star is just more influential than speed.
>>146031786
>doesn't like supercruise
F
>>146032508
New dude here, but I just experienced the interdiction minigame and that shit was cancer
>>146032665
just remember that the sidewinder is one of the most agile ships in the game
>>146032738
is that an /edg/ meme or?
because holy shit...
>>146032912
yes it is
IIRC it's Eagle=AspS>Vulture>Sidewinder=FAS in terms of agility
the federal gunship is the most agile ship in supercruise but I suspect it's a bug
>>146032912
It's true.
I was gonna tell you to check the OP for links to the wiki, but there are none. Here:
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous_Wiki
>>146031180
>been exploring since 2.1 hit
>return to the bubble yesterday, do a couple missions to check out the new board
>boost away from interdictions because im still in an unarmed explorer >ASP
>go get my FAS to try out C3 multis
>interdicted by an asp scout for my cargo worth 400cr
>shields drop, get hit on the top by a missile
>all the weapons on my underside instantly break or malfunction
>wut
>>146033070
>yes it is
wait my bad no it isn't fuck
>>146031180
>doing a mission
>transport 4 units of biowaste for 800k
>two pirates spawn, both in FAS
>Get interdicted. submit, escape
>Immediately get interdicted by the second, boost, escape
>Immediately get interdicted by the first
>etc etc
>>146032170
Welp, fuck me. I just realized that my approach wasn't completely tangent. More of a shallow dive.
Fuck.
>>146032508
Supercruise is lame though.
I mean, I like the concept of it, but I don't think it should be gotten rid of entirely to fix it. Just double the acceleration and deceleration rate. Make it increase exponentially the further away you are from a gravity well. Something, anything, just make it not take so fucking long. Make putting pips to engines give me a boost. Or give me an automatic disengage option, so I can go jerk off or something while I supercruise through boringspace.
>>146033379
>give me an automatic disengage option
This. Combine it with your other suggestion, so you can choose between two supercruise modes:
>Boring old SC as we know and love.
>Autocruise: Steer ship towards target, engage. you will cruise to and drop in to the target automatically. This can be balanced by you being unable to fight interdictions, submitting instantly. Also, once locked you cannot steer or unlock unless you shut down your cruise fully. It effectively hinders you from dropping down into signal sources.
THIS FUCKING GALAXY MAP SHIT WHAT THE FUCK
Using a map should not make me ANGRY
>>146034653
and this is even the improved version, it used to be worse
>>146034653
what seems to be the issue?
>all these pirates and bounty hunter AIs in Cobra and Viper IVs
I feel like I'm skeet shooting here.
>>146035226
Sounds good commander, i've just about nudged the 5th anaconda out of my butthole now
>>146033995
An autocruise like this would bug the fuck out if the destination is behind anything.
>>146034859
>Look at the system map concepts
>This is somehow the result
It's like you have a recipe and all the ingredients for a wonderful pasta dish, but you ignore the recipe and just microwave some spaghettios instead. Then when people complain you sprinkle some Parmesan over the spaghettios.
>>146037426
>Autocruise cannot be engaged: Target obscured.
Fixed. Why handle it any different than with longjumps?
>>146037918
Why is that shit red and neon green?
>>146037705
The worst thing is that fucking F:E2 and F:FE had a proper orrery map.
>>146033379
Supercruise is the reason that you'll never feel like you're actually in space. It's the reason why any stellar bodies/debris/stations will feel like they were placed there for the purpose of a video game instead of part of a real universe.
I remember when I first played the game (a year ago or so) and didn't know how to actually disengage supercruise, or that I was in it. Every time I got close to the station I wanted to reach it wouldn't show manifest. I couldn't figure out why the station wouldn't actually show up. Eventually I figured out how supercruise worked, the speed you need to be going to actually disengage it and how to. Suffice to say it was a terrible first experience of the game, a mechanic that puts you into a magical "out of universe" place that can't physically interact with anything was a horrible idea.
>>146038661
Whenever I'm in supercruise, I feel like my ship becomes huge and I'm traveling across a room. It's awful and I can't stop thinking about it every time I go into SC.
My first time that I went into SC, I figured out how to get out of SC, but I didnt know about the disengage speed. This led me to hopelessly mashing J to try to emergency drop myself at a station. It was pretty awful.
>>146033183
>do long range runs RP as pacifist smuggler-hauler
>cargo isn't worth lives after all
>also too stubborn to jettison a single tonne
>get careless and unlucky one time
>and another time to a fast imp courier with impulse lasers
>fit mine launchers on all 4 small hardpoints
>figure I try them out on a pirate, just to slow them down
>it's surprisingly effective, accidentally lay one pair of mines too many and he blows up
>figure I better get good at this to make runs a bit less painful
>oops
>am no longer a pacifist smuggler-hauler
not as effective as a gunship, but for some low-weight/power insurance mines sure are efficient af for hauling
>>146038964
This is effectively the problem with the scale of the game.
Yes it puts you in awe the first few times, but once the novelty wears off you don't actually feel the impact of this scale. And a big part of it is just how slowly you accelerate and decelerate. You never get that jump to lightspeed oomph because it's taken up by a shitty instance shift into the SC instance from the normal space instance.
>>146039608
>You never get that jump to lightspeed oomph because it's taken up by a shitty instance shift into the SC instance from the normal space instance.
Something they did recently has made my normal space to SC shift really smooth, like in the trailer smooth. The SC to normal space shift is still fucking awful though.
>>146039608
My biggest problem with SC is the sound effects. I don't know what the hell it is about it but it's just grating on my ears and doesn't sound like what a ship going many times the speed of light should sound like, atleast from a sci-fi point of view.
>randomly chance across someone I added as a friend from a previous incarnation of /edg/ a long-ass time ago
>say "what's up, long time no see"
>he unfriends me without responding
rude
>>146041569
reeee social interaction
Holy shit how is this alive?
>>146041862
the Vision sustains us
it flows through us, replacing what's left of our souls
>>146041862
necromancy
How long until the game doesn't suck?
>>146042668
10 year plan anon. Another 8 left until the vision is complete.
>>146042729
I know it won't be done for a while, but when is it actually going to be playable for those of us not blessed with severe autism?
>>146042826
Never.
Frontier have no reason to change because people with severe autism are their #1 customers.
>>146042916
Fuck.
I just want to space.
>>146043145
Are there even any other good space games coming out?
>>146043145
Wait for dual universe :^)
>>146043223
Not anytime soon.
>>146043223
No, but plenty of good old ones if you haven't played them
>>146043929
Playing FS2 and I-War at the moment.
>NMS comes out
>Can explore planets and fly around without having to deal with """"fun"""" """"""""immersive"""""""" bullshit.
>Don't have to wait 5 years just to be able to walk around on not barren planets
Can't wait desu fampai
based on videos it looks like combat is even better.
>>146044595
Yeah unlike the rest of this thread I'm actually looking forward to NMS.
It's going to be superior comfy that's fer sure.
>>146043223
Dreadnaught looks pretty fun
>accept elite rated gold delivery mission
>3 jumps away
>get chased by ai during all my jumps
>drop down into target system, station 50ls away
>we need the cargo elsewhere CMDR :^)
>"only 45LY away, that's like two jumps, not bad"
>Station distance: 11,526LS
I still had a mission marker for the original system, so I tried delivering the gold there, but it seems like they didn't give me a chance. Now I've got a 950k bounty and 90t of stolen gold. Fuck this shit, never accepting a trade mission besides smuggling again. 11k LS of interdicking is more effort than I can muster.
>>146045987
I had one of those bait-and-switch missions for a station 300K+ LS away. That was delightful, let me tell you.
>>146045754
What game is that?
>>146046591
Round-based PvP space game build around you piloting huge ass ships in a large arena.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFD5QjEwiXw
It's class based, so you'll have fast fighters and heal tanks.
>>146046946
Looks cool
>>146047143
It'll be free when it comes out, but you can buy into the beta with $10.
Alternatively, just hop on the game's subreddit and use the sticky to ask for a beta key.
>>146047476
>just hop on the game's subreddit and use the sticky to ask for a beta key
I'll give that a shot. I want to play before I give them any money.
>>146047476
>Alternatively, just hop on the game's subreddit and use the sticky to ask for a beta key.
Cheers, I was interested in this game but wasn't sure where to get access to it.
Do you know if it will be grindy like Fractured Space?
Do you guys think Chris-chan would play Elite Dangerous?
Would he like it?
>>146047785
>Do you know if it will be grindy like Fractured Space?
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure the main grind is going to be getting new ships. Gear is going to just be side-grades. So, a gun that has higher rate of fire will have lower damage to balance the change.
>>146047785
It's fun but really, really grindy currently.
Been playing a bit but stopped after my fourth time getting killed by pirates while on missions. What guns to get on my ship and what ship to get to make some money?
>>146048381
If you're in your Sidewinder, it's almost not worth bothering. It's too cheap to care about getting killed in it, and it's too fragile to fight in.
>>146048381
What's your budget?
If you want neetbux you could try turretfarming. Still enough time to get 10k. Then you'd be getting 50mil next week's Thursday. Would help you 'get started'.
Otherwise you should probably try stealing kills at a RES.
The best ships to make money: Anaconda and Cutter.
>>146048381
The first entrance to start earning money will be the Cobra. It's versatile enough to fit for some light fighting, exploring or trading.
If you keep getting killed by pirates this early you're probably trying too hard to fight back. You won't be good enough, and the sidey just isn't powerful enough.
Does anyone know a good system(s) to grind some Fed rank?
I desperately need pic related.
>>146050023
No you don't.
You want it, but you don't need it.
Does 17 Draconis donation grind still work?
Ceos/Sothis has a Federation aligned faction who provides donation missions. Not a lot, but a fair bit, at least for me.
>>146050023
I have it and i feel pretty meh
>>146050113
17 Drac is in a civil war, no donation missions there. Tun is but a shadow of its former glory since 2.1 hit.
I know some spots where farming Imp rank is a thing, with many data courier missions betwee parallel systems. But I do not know of similar Fed systems.
>>146050114
I want to feel meh like you.
>>146050871
It feels great the moment you get it. It feels great while you are outfitting it. Then you take it for a spin to a RES or interdict some shitters. Then it hits you.
This is what you get for grinding for a long period. The ship ain't that overpowered or awesome. It's not even that fast. You've reached the end and what's there in store for you? The adventures and stories you make up in your head. So get that >visionary >imuhgination going and start rolepalying.
>>146051849
I've already got a fully A-rated battleconda. I know what the grind is. I just want two C4 Multicannons on my ship 's all. That and scare the shit out of thats, and expand my Wing's minor faction into other systems.
>>146051957
*out of dads.
why do you guys still play the game?
>>146052593
It's not like there is anything better to do. I've got 300 hours invested into the game. Fuck Overwatchm fuck Total War: Warhams. I only want to play Elite. It's shit, but it's less shit than other shit games.
>>146052593
I've made a series of poor choices which have culminated with me having no money for other games. Elite is all I got.
>>146052593
Because I played through Doom three times already.
>>146052593
Because I still like it.
I have adopted the Dad philosophy I suffer from severe Stockholm syndrome and have completely embraced the VISION.
I can fly around with the ship of my choice, shoot ships and not care about anything else. I can immerse myself in a world that's an inch deep with my own imagination.
Essentially I could replace my Elite experience with a pen and paper but I couldn't FLY anything or enjoy the impressive sound design. Also, my expensive HOTAS and Rift setup has to be used for something.
>>146051849
In any case none of the big ships really give you access to any new gameplay. It's just the same shit but slower and with more guns. Or more cargo space.
I tried. I tried to get into a community but literally everyone that plays this game is a full blown RP fag who will get triggered to a temper tantrum should anyone voice an opinion he doesn't like.
I don't give a fuck about 99% of the community as long I have 1% that has a "git gud or die trying" mindset.
>>146053246
Just look for the right groups, Anon. I am in a group called The 9th Legion. We DO NOT do any silly RP. We just fly together from time to time and do some powerplay for the minor faction we have in the game. That, and we have some friendly banter on the Wing's forums. That and we have zero pleb forumdads and redditors in the group. We just playfor fun.
>>146053632
... Minor faction you have in game?
How do you get that?
Find a system with a minor faction and choose that as yours and then do missions for that faction?
>>146051849
That's what the vette did to me, it's done, i've reached the apex, nothing more to do. Now i fly a multipurpose conda that has basically every function a ship can have and salvage/meddle in all sorts of shit
>>146053884
I fly a Federal Dropship and pretend I'm deploying troops to planets and assault bases..
I also fly a Federal Gunship and destroy everything imperial I see with my full dakka dakka.also equipping everything with just railguns is fun as all hell
>>146053632
>Important - please be pledged to the Emperor when you apply to join the 9th Legion
>We will not be able to process your application until this is complete.
:^)
>>146053632
>The Empire
for what reason?
>>146053818
You ask Frontier to have your faction inserted into game, complete with dery description, You can then do missions for your faction in order for it to gain influence or even expand and go to war with other minor factions.
>>146054068
Bask in her fucking glory, scrub. Fuck the feds.
>>146054461
>We DO NOT do any silly RP
>Bask in her fucking glory, scrub. Fuck the feds.
You're shit and your group is shit.
o7
>>146054461
The empire should be exterminated from existence desu
>>146054874
But muh space milf and space Idolmaster
>>146054841
lel get rekt
That's not RP, Why the fuck wouldn't you pledge?
> M-muh indepentend, plediging is uhrpee..
>>146055314
Pledging is not RP
Forcing someone to pledge to your specific selection in order to join your group, that is RP
>>146055314
Pledging is not RP, and no one has stated otherwise.
>Bask in her fucking glory, scrub. Fuck the feds
is most definitely RP, however. Enjoy your cuckshed, your wife is expecting. Dad safely, CMDR o7
>>146055314
Holy shit you are cringy as fuck. I bet your homo friends in your legion are even worse
>>146054461
I suppose you need to have several people sign to to do that? Or can I write my own fiction and ask ftroop to insert it to a remote anarchy station?
Also why no /edg/ faction???
>>146056256
I wish we had our faction but it doesn't look like anyone here is autistic enough to bother with that
>>146056256
There could be an /edg/ faction. One of us just needs to infiltrate into the gulag and apply for a faction.Too bad the waiting list is 6 months...
It would be glorious though. We could all help the faction becoming fuckhueg and expanding.
>>146058539
I down with someone doing this.
>>146014732
>>146012732
Reminder that Thargoids formed an Alliance with humans at around 100 years before Elite:Dangerous
>>146058850
VISION retconned that.
>>146059072
Or perhaps I am reading everything wrong from all of the random ass posting that Ian Brookes made recently on their forums. But even then his post leaves a lot to be desired.
>>146058539
Would also make the general puposeful, plus it'd be fun fucking with the game like that.
>>146059754
Well, feel free to go request your group at the gulag and set up an Inara wing to solidify your request.
>>146058539
>>146058803
>>146059754
Essentially we need to agree on certain things.
- What type of faction it ispirate, obviously.
- Where is the home system
- What would the backstory be, so that it isn't full of memery that it gets accepted.
I can be the one who does the contacting and writing if we actually agree on things that once it is done someone says fuck that shit and leaves.
Technically what we need is Archon Delaine but better?
How do I rank in empire?
>>146061112
You don't anymore.
If you want ranks build a time machine to go back before the vision claimed them.
>>146060756
Delaine is kill.
Best thing to go for is independent.
If we are willing to do this seriously, I am prepared to go into the gulag and apply for the faction in a stately fashion.
We'd have:
- A faction to play the game for and to expand.
- A friggin purpose instead of grind to grind
- An official backstory
- Nothing, really.
Still, if /edg/ can put in some effort, I'm willing to help out.
>>146060756
Faction: Pirate - Agreed
Home System - Don't mind but should be somewhere Neutral to the War
Backstory - Has to be so crammed full of dank memery not even Braben notices.
>>146061764
Donation missions don't exist anymore?
>>146062025
>somewhere Neutral to the War
Basically an independent pirate planet who's influence we can expand and control the course of.
>>146062081
They give shit for rank points because dads got mad people who valued their time were progressing through fictional navy ranks too quickly.
>>146060756
I don't think factions can be pirate.If I understood correctly you have to go by this table. Can we be independent prison colony, anarchy or dictatorship?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/177719-Establish-your-own-Minor-Faction-and-FAQ
>>146062225
I thought Anarchy was piracy
looks like we need pol to start a good edg faction
>>146062225
Independent theocracy
Covenant of the vision.
>>146062209
Thy complained so much that nothing gives out ranks anymore?
Dunno how they consider themselves adults.
>>146062283
you can put it that way.
>>146062402
I'm just giving the dads shit because god knows they didn't raise a stink about rank changes to potentially get the rates fixed. I think the only one to blame for this one is Ftroop
FYI
The Gulag on player created factions
>>>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/177719-Establish-your-own-Minor-Faction-and-FAQ
Some reason I can't connect to the game or the website?
>>146062941
Its over
We are freed from the vision
>>146062010
a. Offffficial™ player factions are plebbit tier cancer attracting the most retarded faggots and weebs ever as that 9th Subleddit fagtron aptly demostrated above.
b. Why the fuck we even need an offffffficial™ registered faction. Just choose a system and use your IMAGINATION.
I'm already in a /edg/ player group called The Foruchin Raiders. It consists of ME.
>>146063506
>IMAGINATION.
You're starting to sound a lot like a vision quest anon
>>146063571
This whole name an enpeecee faction and imagine you're part of it is already vision quest to the max tbqh.
is pic related a gamer girl? Think she's hwt?
>>146063506
top kek.
/edg/ should get shit done once in a while.
And, why the fuck not.
Let's make a fucking Theocracy faction, Covenant of the Vision like anon stated above.
They praise the Prophet Brabo (Grind be upon Him) in a religion called the Vision.
>B-but that's arpee, anon..
See it as an in-game alternative to that fucking Steam group no one uses. It's not going to attract cancer, because no one save a few on /edg/ would give a shit.
>>146064052
I'm down with this where do I sign up?
>>146064052
sounds good. but if you're going for it don't mention "barbo" in description and it would be cool to implement dads in to lore as well
>>>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/241826-Player-Groups-and-Minor-Factions-Submission-Form-and-Information
It's as easy as filling in a form. We need to establish some stuff here, /edg/
>>146064052
Seriously tho, dial down that excessive memery.
>>146064052
To commune with their Deity, The Great Visionary, one must pray to be "blinded by Vision". Elderly men with great experience that have been "blinded by Vision", akin to achieving Nirwana in Buddhism, may sit in a great theocratic council called "The Forum"
These wise seers and sages are henceforth called" Fathers of the Forum" or "They who been Blinded by Vision"
The goal of the Covenant of the Vision is to spread this great faith to all reaches in space and are willing to aggressively push this agenda.
http://www.strawpoll.me/10534392
Quick count for numbers
>>146064316
>filling in a form
can't be that easy right? will they give pieces of space literally to anyone don't they have to at least confirm that you have x amount of players with you. Some games won't even let you start clans if you don't have enough people let alone influence the game
>>146064530
>3 votes
ded
>>146064523
cringe af pham
>>146064523
This could be going somewhere. Let's get it going.
>>146064523
Were going to have to have agents infiltrate other factions, give us their locations so we can perform hyperspace assaults and incursions into their territory then jump out before they know what hit them.
>>146064523
Can we somehow paint these Fathers of the Forum our enemies?
>>146064530
Whichever nigger voted out, I'm coming for you.
>>146064874
Either we are a super edgy anarchy faction
OR
We are a devouted religious covenant praising the one true visionary. The praising will be done ironically as a joke that goes over ftroops and the forum's head.
I prefer the latter, although I love being /edg/y.
>>146065178
Sorry m8, don't want anything to do with your dinkledongers friendship club of epic memes and upboats.
Y'all gay persons.
>>146065245
>Either we are a super edgy anarchy faction
This please, keep your amazing brabomemes contained here.
Covenant of the Vision
A theocracy ruling the system of X that is based around the fanatical cult of worship called the Vision. It's members follow the Prophet of the Vision. Instead living soberly to have a good afterlife, The members of the Covenant hope to achieve a "Blinding" during their lifetime.
Being Blinded by the Vision is a great boon, for it shows a devoted member of great things that already are, and great things to come.
Some experienced members that have achieved Enlightenment, called the Blinding form a relgious council called the Forum of the Vision. In this Forum, religious and cult matters are discussed by great seers and sages, collectively called Fathers of the Forum. These Fathers are a minority, but a very vocal one. The Covenant usually listens to them before taking action.
The monotheistic deity of the Vision is called the Grand Visionary. He is a deified prophet of old that laid out the structure of the Faith and a ritual called the Visionary Decennium, or Grand 10 Year Plan. The Plan is a way of life that every new devotee of the Vision needs to follow before having the possibility of becoming Blinded. Many aspire this, but the 10 Year Plan is harsh and unforgiving.
The main force of arms of the Covenant of the Vision is the EDG, the Episcopal Defence Group. They are the weaponised arm of the faith. A fanatical defence force aiming to spread the word of Faith through all known reaches of space.
>>146065749
literally vomit inducing
>>146065952
Looks like we have our first dad on board
>>146065749
>Episcopal Defence Group
>>146065952
It's supposed to do just that. If we took it any more seriously, we would be dadly roleplayers.
>>146066827
Are you fags invading from this>>146013181
thread?
If so, can you stop stealing our dankerous memes and running them into the ground?
You have to go back.
How are the community goals for getting money?
Are they worth?
>>146067398
I am making decent money selling Conductive Fabrics for one of them.
>>146067504
Which one is the Russian one
I want to cuck Armada
>>146067556
EG Pilots
Can't wait to play with meme-spouting reddchan children. LE TOP KEK XD as they say!
