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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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Mr. Bad Example
Neo Member
I tried mines for a while, but it's really just a lot easier to submit to interdiction, start boosting away, and then jump again. I sometimes get a few hits on my shields, but most of the time I'm gone before they do any real damage.
joecanada
Member
Anyone else tried stacking skimmer missions? checked out a youtube video from a guy who was doing 40 million per hour doing these at okaforar dock, but I went there last night and couldn't get them to spawn, it looks like the economy hit a boom and kind of changed the mission states....
but if we could find another system doing them it looked pretty good. what you do is basically take 20 skimmer missions all against the same few factions from all the factions at one station........ Then they actually satisfy each other.... so say you have a mission from faction 1, 2, 3, 4 against faction A, B. you will complete missions for all factions for destroying X number of skimmers of A, B.
but if we could find another system doing them it looked pretty good. what you do is basically take 20 skimmer missions all against the same few factions from all the factions at one station........ Then they actually satisfy each other.... so say you have a mission from faction 1, 2, 3, 4 against faction A, B. you will complete missions for all factions for destroying X number of skimmers of A, B.
That's where I started, just make sure to utilize the cargo hold effectively and you can stack 18-20 million per run in cargo alone.
Honestly, it's a relatively quick progression path between Asp > Python > Anaconda.
When people talk about sothis runs. Do they mean pickup missions at sothis and go straight to ceos? Or is this stopping in between to pickup missions and all that along the way.
Or am i doing data plus buying a certain material and trucking it to ceos?
I had a larger write up earlier, but basically you want to fly to Ceos stack data missions that take you to Sothis while simultaneously stacking cargo missions back to the bubble. These cargo missions are generally the most lucrative per weight around the 8-20 unit range.
After you've exhausted your options in Ceos, jump to Sothis and repeat.
Got it. Because im still new at 70 hours! The bubble is which systems? Around sol?
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Yep same, I could run my asp weaponless and gain like 2ly but having 6 multicannons is just something that keeps me feeling comfortable.
joecanada
Member
most are around the bottom part of the bubble so about 400 ly straight "northeast" of Sothis.... theres a decent amount of scoopable stars never run into a problem. For those of you just starting these I recommend thinking about taking a discovery scanner and banking exploration data to sell at engineers... one sothis run can net you about 200K in exploration data if you use the infinite one, its a pretty small price for what you get out of it.... although sadly it takes a while to make it's money back (because exploration is terrible money lol). however in this case I feel its free money or engineer rep because you are making the trip anyway.
yes that is okay for a nice asp but when you have a python and its laden jump range is under 15, you would do anything to even hit 17 lol.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
90% of my hundreds of hours playing Elite have been spent flying the Asp Explorer. I love the thing. Although the Courier is rapidly becoming a very strong second favorite, this little ship is great fun to fly.
Night.Ninja
Banned
Will the xbox preview be able to give me a good opinion of the game?
Felix Lighter
Member
Yep, no point in fighting when you have cargo. Just submit, boost, and frame shift away
Winterblink
Member
Found this burning lump of rock like 5 ls away from the local star:
Not landable, unfortunately.
Not landable, unfortunately.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
There will be planets with volcanism that have no atmosphere so we should be able to land on those.
Kind of a contradiction in terms but works for me!
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
I can only imagine the major complaints will be about the heat situation going on.
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Oh that's amazing news! I some how missed this lol, it was awful getting into an engagement with someone modded into full heat.
Well then I can only assume it will be a huge forum battle between the people with full level 5 engineer mods and those who have no mods.
joecanada
Member
This is the correct way to rng.... Just don't give a f##& . Lol .
You can view your modded modules in the right panel I believe.
Or even easier if you're at a station compare yours to a new one same model you'll notice yours is ...better hopefully
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Finally had a chance to map my PS4 controller for the SRV and take it out for spin on a salvage mission. Shit is really fun to jump around like a madman . Planet was low grav so I could get some legit flight time on the hills. Also it's pretty cool to see you ship depart the surface leaving you alone on the planet.
After 27 jumps in my asp explorer im finally at ceos. Holy crap people arent kidding about how many data missions there are especially if logging in and out. After 1 run back and forth i already got offered a 3.5 million credit missions to "snake" some illegal goods between sothis and ceos. Luckily i didnt get scanned. Quickest 3m i have ever made!
Joseph Merrick
Member
Just flew my 20 ly range Corvette through a White Dwarf energy jet to supercharge it... Took 3% FSD damage.
hehe. that's very nice
GroundCombo
Member
- Untargetted collector limpets will not target items owned by their player
If this means I can jettison crap to make room for valuable ore without having to fight my limpets, thank you Jesus Braben.
If this means I can jettison crap to make room for valuable ore without having to fight my limpets, thank you Jesus Braben.
Dreams-Visions
Member
thank you, braben!
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Just flew my 20 ly range Corvette through a White Dwarf energy jet to supercharge it... Took 3% FSD damage.
Okay, so what is your Corvette’s normal jump range? Or rather, how much of an increase is that over normal? It looks to be about 4 or 5 times more than a Corvette can normally jump, if that’s true then my 50+ly Asp would be able to jump something like 200 – 250 lys when supercharged?
EDIT: Oh, nevermind, it's a bug, the boost is currently much more than intended in beta.
Zac Antonaci said:
Okay, so what is your Corvettes normal jump range? Or rather, how much of an increase is that over normal? It looks to be about 4 or 5 times more than a Corvette can normally jump, if thats true then my 50+ly Asp would be able to jump something like 200 250 lys when supercharged?
EDIT: Oh, nevermind, it's a bug, the boost is currently much more than intended in beta.
Man I typed what my normal range was above the photo lol. Mengy pls.
Also, fuuuuck that nerf. 25%? Come on.
Felix Lighter
Member
So all those concerned that it would be too easy to ship transfer to Jaques Station, no worries it costs almost 8 billion and it will take a month. I guess based on that, transfer times are much longer than a player making the trip themselves.
From here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/53my06/ship_transfer_to_jaques_think_again/
From here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/53my06/ship_transfer_to_jaques_think_again/
The worst community lol.
Felix Lighter
Member
They are afraid adding that would have potential exploitable issues with the commodity market, but what they should do, which would be non-exploitable is allow banking commodities with engineers with no ability to withdraw. Problem solved.
Fuuuuuuuuuck that. I was hoping I could make the trip in my stripped down aspX and maybe call my conda when I get there.
Joseph Merrick
Member
oh my god that transfer time/money. lmao
edit: oh well, they'll definitely tweak these numbers. lol. really funny screenshot though
edit: oh well, they'll definitely tweak these numbers. lol. really funny screenshot though