joecanada
Member
oh sorry I meant engineering rolls, that was you right? if you have 8 rolls is there a target you go for? like did you just do the full 8 and then go "meh" or did you hit paydirt on roll 6? did you have a reference or guide?
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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oh sorry I meant engineering rolls, that was you right? if you have 8 rolls is there a target you go for? like did you just do the full 8 and then go "meh" or did you hit paydirt on roll 6? did you have a reference or guide?
Felix Lighter
Member
The FDL is pretty nimble especially for it's size, speed and fire power but if you're used to something like the Vulture it will feel step down in that department. The Vulture is a joy to fly, if only it had a bit more straight line speed.
VICTORY!!!!!!!!!
Nice!
Felix Lighter
Member
Oh I had 8 chemical manipulators. I still have some arsenic and datamined wake scans but I ran out of chemical manipulators. Every roll uses the resources required, once I ran out of rolls I kept the best I got.
http://inara.cz/galaxy-blueprint/2
One of my friends asked on Facebook what a "limbit" was, so I got my 6 year old to explain it. Video is cute, so figured I would share it with you guys.
https://youtu.be/9I9sTvJgXv8
https://youtu.be/9I9sTvJgXv8
THAT is way too cute. Man seeing those legos brought back some memories of me as a kid... all I built were spaceships!
Me too, it's hard to tell from the video, but there's a legit Eagle and T6 in his collection.
joecanada
Member
Oh wait so you can select from multiple rolls? How do you do that ?
No, you can't select the "best one". The only option to really do that is to apply every roll you get until it gets to the point where all the rolls are lower than what you already have.
What I've done so far is to roll a few times until I get one that's "decent" (upper-middle of what I want), apply it, and then continue to roll until the option I want goes up, then apply it, rinse, repeat until I run out of materials.
Right now I'm saving up for Dirty Drive Tuning, but I might go back to Farseer at some point before my next jaunt to see if I can get another half light year or something out of my FSD.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Lol what are you comparing your FdL to that makes you think it isn't agile? The FdL moves like a ship that it's half it's size.
I can out maneuver a lot more than I should in it.
Better keep that D rated for the jump range though.
Dreams-Visions
Member
alright, you greedy motherfuckers have forced me to buy a second Cutter so that i too get get it while the gettin is good.
Eh, I don't mind a few more jumps to be able to maneuver better.
Dreams-Visions
Member
A-grade only provides about 15% better pitch. If you're not using it for combat, keep D thrusters. In many cases, even combat big ship commanders prefer D's for the weight savings which counter the performance loss for the most part.
joecanada
Member
Ok so I'm back but still with the same problem. Want to clear bounty but I don't think theres actually a way. Can't dock in the hostile stations at all. They do not allow docking at all , request is denied and fire on sight. So no spawn from station means no bounty clear it just goes to dormant. So even if I were scanned in a hostile system it wouldn't turn to fine but I couldn't pay it off anyway because no docking. So I guess the system is dead to me lol.
You can just switch to a sidewinder and self destruct. Game is that broken when it comes to bounties.
Welp, I handed in about 5000 tons for the Colonia CG, and now in anticipation for 2.2 I've traded in my Anaconda for an Orca. I've been waiting for passenger missions for RP-ish reasons for so long, but for now I'll just haul bits of cargo and maybe do some engineer upgrades on it.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I play pretty much exclusively in private groups, either Mobius or Fleetcom. I played for over a year in open but after a few encounters with hackers, and upon finding out that Frontier doesn't really do anything to discourage it, well I now stay out of open.
I've always jumped in a sidey, gotten scanned, then blown up! Didn't know I could self destruct...
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Fleetcom was one of the groups for The Distant Worlds Expedition.
Anton Sugar
Member
Footage of geysers + SRV going through them at Elite Meet: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...ite_22_footage_of_geysers_srv_shown_at_elite/
joecanada
Member
Ive looked into that, but that wont work because you aren't spawning in the station that you owe the bounties to, or do you mean that self-destruct is different than being killed?
because I've been scanned, killed, shot by the stations, everything (except I haven't tried self - destruct) and nothing gets rid of these bounties (and wanted status) . they just cycle between active and dormant.
..... but I will try the self-destruct method tonight , thanks.
If you die they go dormant and stay dormant until you're caught breaking the law again, then they go active with your most recent crime added on. However, if you keep your nose clean for (I think) a week, the dormant bounty turns into a fine, you pay it, it goes away, and you get on with life. But I think every time you goof up and end up active again it resets the clock.
If you self destruct tonight, you'll just go dormant.
joecanada
Member
ah ok that's what I thought. So legacy fine it is then? alrighty then as long as I know, thanks!
There's probably a good chance your own face will be integrated into the UI here and there.
I remember when I spent like an hour creating my character in EVE with amazing detail like pores in the skin and stuff like that.....only to end up being a small png portrait on the top left portion of the screen. Such a dissapointment. I wonder if they ever expanded on that, haven't touched EVE in 2 or 3 years.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Hahah, that looks awesome! My new mission will be to just hunt geyser fields in 2.2!!!
Caesar III
Member
Man seeing those lego parts I want to rebuild those sets. Looks like they are from your collection - http://brickset.com/sets?query=BLACKTRON
<3 <3 I really need to check if those are complete in my collection
you're going to hate me a little.Man seeing those lego parts I want to rebuild those sets. Looks like they are from your collection - http://brickset.com/sets?query=BLACKTRON
<3 <3 I really need to check if those are complete in my collection
I got about 20,000 pieces, mostly from that era, for $10 at a garage sale.
I will have to look up those instructions so we can make some of those sets though! The only instructions that it came with was some kinda giant robot.
Joseph Merrick
Member
oh man. http://brickset.com/sets/year-1978/theme-Space
from 78 to 87 is what you want. :O~ had a fuck ton of these
from 78 to 87 is what you want. :O~ had a fuck ton of these
Winterblink
Member
Still making my way back home with 7% hull integrity thanks to my dog. Jumped into a system and my worst nightmare happens. I end up just barley grazing two of these bastards and barely made it away from the big bastard in time to avoid overheating.
Spun around and well... damn:
Spun around and well... damn:
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Aw yeah, Jon Pace from the UI team confirmed that we are getting a compass for planetary surface flight with 2.2! It will be in the next beta update.
It may seem like a small thing, but man have I been longing for this for a long time. Trying to find specific coordinates on surfaces right now is super tedious.
It may seem like a small thing, but man have I been longing for this for a long time. Trying to find specific coordinates on surfaces right now is super tedious.
Rhomega Beta
Member
It can be. When I'm heading to a destination, I'll scan most systems, but then I'll get tired, just scan for how many objects are in the system, then head to the next.
joecanada
Member
Is there like a fundamental difference in the way you land on planets with that fat walrus of an anaconda? It seemed to keep falling out of supercruise early and wouldn't glide worth shit ... Had to fly boosting from 100km out what a bore lol .
Cobra pulls out of orbital at 25 km but anaconda seemed to at about 35
Cobra pulls out of orbital at 25 km but anaconda seemed to at about 35
Lol
"I'm only 5000ly away from the bubble? Honk, scoop, and move on."
GroundCombo
Member
I made a quick exploration trip some 500ly away from the bubble in the middle of some boring nowhere region, mostly to get my dirty footprint on the galactic map. Got a couple of dozen first discoveries with three systems. It was kind of fun and got me to top 50% on the exploration CG, but I doubt I'll be making any longer trips without some added incentive or goal. Tourist trips look like a good addition, but exploration needs something more.
Dreams-Visions
Member
it damn sure is. good to hear.
Grade 5 FSD get! Not too bad for the Conda I think. It's mostly for Sothis runs so everything else is d-rated. I have nothing to compare it to so I don't know how decent it is.
I could use the other engineers to reduce the optimised mass in other components but nah, I think I'm good. Not gonna waste upgrade materials in d-stuff.
Grade 5 FSD get! Not too bad for the Conda I think. It's mostly for Sothis runs so everything else is d-rated. I have nothing to compare it to so I don't know how decent it is.
I could use the other engineers to reduce the optimised mass in other components but nah, I think I'm good. Not gonna waste upgrade materials in d-stuff.
Wow very nice. Whats best way to obtain upgrade materials? My conda needs better thsn 24 jump range...
I did this:
FRAME SHIFT DRIVE - INCREASED FSD RANGE (GRADE 4)
1x Chemical Distillery (dropped from hauler and type-7, nav beacons in anarchy system)
1x Eccentric Hyperspace Trajectories (use wake scanner outside a station and analize wake signals)
1x Manganese (Deciat - Planet Deciat 4. Use Scarab to gather)
1x Energy Grid Assembly (LSH 1228 - Cooper City Station. Buy in Commodities)
FRAME SHIFT DRIVE - INCREASED FSD RANGE (GRADE 5)
1x Arsenic (Deciat - Planet Deciat 4. Use Scarab to gather)
1x Chemical Manipulators (dropped from hauler and type-7, nav beacons in anarchy system)
1x Datamined Wake Exceptions (use wake scanner outside a station and analize wake signals)
1x Magnetic Emitter Coil (Aasgaa - Steiner Platform. Buy in Commodities)
It looks like a lot but it's not that bad really. Even though the FSD 4 and FSD 5 materials are different, they can be obtained doing the same thing. So kill type-7s, analize wake signals and gather minerals with the Scarab. The commodities you have to buy in different system, but they are not too far apart. Leave the commodities for last since you'll be killing in an anarchy system and if they scan you with cargo, they'll open fire on you.
Thanks for all that. That seems like a lot of work! My anaconda isnt really outfitted for combat right now so I guess Ill need to upgrade. Also I think I need an elite break. Ive been playing non stop in my grind for the anaconda. Now that I have it its almost anticlimatic!
MrFrankFontaine
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I'm always learning something when I come into this thread.