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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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Jesus. o7
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Basically, I have a basic HOTAS set-up that came with the Xbox 360 version of Ace Combat 6 which has been bugging out.
This one to be exact:
Holy Frack, that’s just a recolored version of my old Saitek X45 that I used for over ten years! I’ve never seen it in white and green before. This is my X45:
Mine broke many times but I kept on fixing it myself, until it broke so bad one day that I could not fix it. That’s when I bought my CH HOTAS and then proceeded to kick my own ass for not tossing that X45 to the curb many years previous. Mine regularly went out of calibration too, seems to be a “feature” of those HOTAS, lol.
wesleyshark
Banned
It drives me nuts that there still aren't any flight sticks for the Xbox One.
Winterblink
Member
So I decided to go on an extended exploration voyage, meandering my way to the core and eventually back. Every so often I'll find some planet/moon that might be interesting so I give a landing a go to scoot about on the surface and pick up the odd bit of resources, and to see the sights.
Well fuck me if this one isn't the most harsh looking one I've seen yet. Yes it's very dark/contrasty but you can thank the big ass white star for that.
The terrain generation in this game really blows my mind. This one had this weird two-tone dark red and grey thing going for it.
Well fuck me if this one isn't the most harsh looking one I've seen yet. Yes it's very dark/contrasty but you can thank the big ass white star for that.
The terrain generation in this game really blows my mind. This one had this weird two-tone dark red and grey thing going for it.
Haha
So I am enjoying exploring. Its hard for me to not want to land on every planet and look around. I keep thinking I will find some alien shit.. but i have no idea how rare that stuff is.. could be a total waste of time.
Some shots..
Winterblink
Member
That's the hardest part of exploring, I'm finding. I COULD be jumpjumpjumping around but I stop so often to take in the sights...
Reckheim
Member
That's the hardest part of exploring, I'm finding. I COULD be jumpjumpjumping around but I stop so often to take in the sights...
Its the best part of exploring, I usually decide to land on small moons that orbit really close to their planets, best sights and usually if the moon is small enough it looks like a beautiful potato.
Lack of demand I'd imagine.
Unrelated, can you switch over your save to the PC version, or is it stuck on console?
That's the hardest part of exploring, I'm finding. I COULD be jumpjumpjumping around but I stop so often to take in the sights...
I wish I could land or get up close to all these planets. I found a system that was almost all water worlds. One had some tiny islands on it..
So I've decided to take some of your suggestions to head to Sagittarius A*....it's so lonely out here lol
So far I've managed to fly around 6000lys from the bubble, but I really wish they'd let you plot out more than 1000lys at a time. I don't know if I'm getting lucky, but fuel hasn't been an issue at all so far. If a star says "unexplored" and the system map shows no player name having discovered it; will it be mine if I did the full detailed scan on it? On the system map it now shows the full detail of the star and the one planet orbiting it at 35,000ls (yeah I scanned the fucker), but it doesn't say that I discovered it like it does when I come across an already scanned system.
So far I've managed to fly around 6000lys from the bubble, but I really wish they'd let you plot out more than 1000lys at a time. I don't know if I'm getting lucky, but fuel hasn't been an issue at all so far. If a star says "unexplored" and the system map shows no player name having discovered it; will it be mine if I did the full detailed scan on it? On the system map it now shows the full detail of the star and the one planet orbiting it at 35,000ls (yeah I scanned the fucker), but it doesn't say that I discovered it like it does when I come across an already scanned system.
So I've decided to take some of your suggestions to head to Sagittarius A*....it's so lonely out here lol
So far I've managed to fly around 6000lys from the bubble, but I really wish they'd let you plot out more than 1000lys at a time. I don't know if I'm getting lucky, but fuel hasn't been an issue at all so far. If a star says "unexplored" and the system map shows no player name having discovered it; will it be mine if I did the full detailed scan on it? On the system map it now shows the full detail of the star and the one planet orbiting it at 35,000ls (yeah I scanned the fucker), but it doesn't say that I discovered it like it does when I come across an already scanned system.
Your name will be on it if you are the first to sell the data to Universal Cartographics, so it could be that someone else already scanned it and is on their way back to the bubble. But, you know, 400 billion star systems... chances are good that you'll have your name out there.
Right, that would make sense. I was planning on getting to and coming back from Sagittarius some time today, so I could be ready for any juicy CG events. Didn't realise how much time this is going to take.
Reckheim
Member
Official pool is up for the ship transfer issue.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/286967-IMPORTANT-OFFICIAL-SHIP-TRANSFER-POLL
Actual poll is below.
https://www.elitedangerous.com/en/shiptransfer-vote/
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/286967-IMPORTANT-OFFICIAL-SHIP-TRANSFER-POLL
Actual poll is below.
https://www.elitedangerous.com/en/shiptransfer-vote/
Pitiful.
Not that they're responding to the community, which is in itself excellent, but that they're actually even considering making the transfer anything but instant.
Game design isn't Frontier's forte where I'm concerned and I'm wondering when the poll for the rebuy screen to be delayed after ship destruction gets posted. After all, a tiny rescue capsule can't beam instantly across the galaxy after all.
Pitiful.
Not that they're responding to the community, which is in itself excellent, but that they're actually even considering making the transfer anything but instant.
Game design isn't Frontier's forte where I'm concerned and I'm wondering when the poll for the rebuy screen to be delayed after ship destruction gets posted. After all, a tiny rescue capsule can't beam instantly across the galaxy after all.
Clearly you go in to hypersleep and wake up when you reach a station. No time would pass from your perspective!
wesleyshark
Banned
Voted for instant transfers haha.
But I have a feeling that a delay option will win out. In the end, it's not really a big deal to me, as even a delay will be more appealing than flying over to switch ships and always having to leave a ship somewhere. I just want to have all of my ships in one location or at least a couple local systems without having to buy a beater ship to go make the change only to sell it haha.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
That's the hardest part of exploring, I'm finding. I COULD be jumpjumpjumping around but I stop so often to take in the sights...
That's why I go exploring in Elite in the first place: the sightseeing. I've long since hit Elite in rank, so I don't do it for credits anymore, I do it for the scenery.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Ive always thought the compromise to instant ship transfer would be that since im assuming you can only transfer ships between stations with a shipyard anyway they could just play an animation of your ship being broken down and rebuilt at the new station.
It isn't particularly immersion breaking and just makes for better gameplay.
It isn't particularly immersion breaking and just makes for better gameplay.
For all my issues with Elite in getting anything done I'm torn on this. Instant is really nice but something like a ship being transferred from very long distances I think it should take some time. Meanwhile you can do other things until it arrives. While I think the game should be more respectful of your time as a player something like this being instant would really be immersion and game breaking. Can't believe it but I'm actually voting for there to be a delay. There are many things that should be changed to make gameplay better. I'm not sure this is one of them. That being said I'm certainly not going to complain if instant wins but I do think there should be a delay of some kind. Maybe the cap should be 40 or 60 minutes instead of 100 though.
I didn't think about it like this, that makes the most sense from an immersion perspective. You're essentially selling your ship in one location, then transferring those credits to the new station, where they assemble the ship under the same specifications.
wesleyshark
Banned
A delay is definitely not the worst compromise. You could go do some res site combat or make some deliveries while you wait.
We're talking about a game where if your ship blows up, you are instantly transferred to your last station (regardless of distance and whether that station sells your particular ship). Also, waiting 100 minutes for a 200lys travel is ridiculous. On top of that, they probably want you to first travel to the station you want your ship to come to, and then wait for it to show up.
StonedRider
Member
Voted for instant transfers. I do not want to waste time to constantly buy and sell Fuel Scoops on my combat ships.
Reckheim
Member
I'm with you, voted for Delay as well (it would break the immersion for me). Seems to be the more unpopular opinion around here tho.
I have a feeling instant transfer will win out which I would be perfectly fine with as well.
Rothis?
Took a look at https://eddb.io/station and it seems that the closest might be Sirius Reach in Almagest. It should be 110 LY away from Sothis. They have a 1D and 2D Fixed Mining Lasers according to the site.
Speaking of Sothis. I made it out there last night. Such a long and boring trip but liked seeing the stations still under construction. Running intel missions between the systems and might do that a little more tonight before leaving my power play faction and then making my way back with some of the delivery missions. Want to see how many I can grab while filling up 88t worth. I'm likely going to ditch my weapons and drop down some modules to lesser ranks to get the jump range of the asp up to see if I can shorten the trip some what before even attempting to make the trip again. Took me 32 jumps to get out here from the engineer Farseer. Took a trip out there first before deciding to go to Sothis. I want to that number down as much as possible to make additional trips out here bearable.
Awesome. Thanks guys. I want to play around with some mining and take it easy so I don't get burned out in the next CGs.
FIREKNIGHT2029
Member
I voted for instant transfer.
Augustiner
Neo Member
Man, I just got destroyed by an NPC pirate in my Cobra Mark III in seconds. I was interdicted, and was immediately under fire. I didn't catch the ship, but the pilot rank was novice, so I didn't think that should have happened.
I'm a little annoyed since that set me back just under 400,000 credits with cargo. Do I need a better shield generator or something? I'm running default equipment except for the FSD which is a 4B. I'm trying to work up to a Type 6 transport, but if it is that easy to get destroyed in a non-combat ship, I'm not sure how anyone would survive being interdicted. Suggestions?
I'm a little annoyed since that set me back just under 400,000 credits with cargo. Do I need a better shield generator or something? I'm running default equipment except for the FSD which is a 4B. I'm trying to work up to a Type 6 transport, but if it is that easy to get destroyed in a non-combat ship, I'm not sure how anyone would survive being interdicted. Suggestions?
The Cowboy
Member
1st thing you do in a Cobra is submit to the interdiction (this way you get a shorter FSD cool down and you can easily place yourself strait towards your destination), this way the pursuer will drop out behind you and you'll already have a decent head start from them - then as soon as you drop out of supercruise hit max engines and boost, then jump to supercruise as soon as its available (very quickly).
The Cobra with half way decent thruster (even D class), max engines and boosting is near impossible for the NPC's keep up with, meaning if you do the above - you'll be jumping back into supercruise before they can even get a shot on you.
Since you get 100% of your purchase price back when you sell modules it's always recommended to upgrade your modules as needed. The assets are completely liquid and you still hold 100% of their value.
Check my Asp Explorer build a few posts up, I strip out all the weapons, and keep the shield generator/FSD at A level. Add in some chaff and shield boosters in your optional slots to wait out the interdictions.
Augustiner
Neo Member
I didn't realize you could submit to an interdiction. Is this a key function, or do you just drop out of supercruise manually?
Ya, I know that you get full refunds for modules. I think I was just surprised how bad the ships starting shield generator was, or perhaps the enemy ships weapons were just really good at taking shields down? I think I was being shot at with both energy and kinetic weapons at the same time.
Perhaps I'll try your suggesting and work towards an Asp instead of a transport.
The Cowboy
Member
As soon as the interdiction starts, drop to zero engines (X button is the default) - this will submit to it and give you the quicker cooldown and more control on your aiming towards your target destination.
Augustiner
Neo Member
Awesome, I'll give that a try next time. Also, it sounds like I would want to possibly upgrade my thrusters before my shield generator then?
Nah, you should be fine. My ASP has D thrusters and I'm already in super cruise before dumb pirate realises what happened. Sometimes though when I'm in friendly systems, I'd fly around waiting for the police to show up and I'll have the idiot pirate to chase me to them. Then I sit back and watch him get lit up. I take so much pleasure out of doing this, plus there is the added benefit of this idiot not coming after you constantly.
The Cowboy
Member
On my cargo fitted AspX (which is slower than even the base Cobra), and only D tier level 3 shield - nothing could catch me doing the above suggestion.
To be honest, with the Cobra having such a great default speed - even a D tier upgrade on them with basic shields should be enough to get away.
This is what you need to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woy8nmaVuVg
It depends on what you want to do with it.
If you want to go full trading, then higher level thrusters are heavier and more power hungry, which requires a heavier powerplant. If you want to do more trading, it's best to reduce the weight for the power plant and trusters as much as possible.
Strangely enough I couldn't find the station at Almagest. There's a nav beacon and loads of traffic, even a wedding barge, but for the life of me I couldn't find a station.
Does failing a source and retrieve mission hurt your relationship with the quest giver?
What's a good weapon load out for an aspX?
Does failing a source and retrieve mission hurt your relationship with the quest giver?
What's a good weapon load out for an aspX?
