Yeah I went Hauler -> Type 7-> Anaconda. Type 9 is a junker.
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons |OT| Just scratching the surface
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Yeah I went Hauler -> Type 7-> Anaconda. Type 9 is a junker.
Sell the T-9. You only lose 10% of the purchase.
Yeah but I traded my t7 for it... I guess it's still worth it to rebuy and outfit the t7?
Or ride it out and go straight to the conda
Nah. Stick with it until you have enough for Conda, insurance and some cargo racks.
Both ships and modules.
I believe his discounts do apply to modules. One thing to consider is upgrades over time. Like for my Python I bought it and set it up as a hauler...fuck the t7 lol. Figured I'd ride it out as a hauler and outfit it as I could for fighting. Then I put some budget parts in to fight with and upgraded as I could. What I found was all A parts was very expensive and many times lesser parts have been fine. My philosophy is I'd rather cruise around in my Python than suffer in some shitty Asp or T7. Now, nothing wrong with those ships but I wanted my Python and wasnt happy with anything else. In fact I should buy a second and outfit one for battle and one for hauling. Swapping parts enmasse sucks balls. But that's beside the point. What I'm getting at is get the conda and upgrade as you can but keep insurance money lol...
Yeah good point... That's what I was going for with the T9 actually since I was short 10mil or so compared to what my trading guide was telling me it was gonna cost...
I ended up getting the T9, fully equipped with 30mil to spare in my bank account lol. Gotta love those discounts!
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Tempted to pick up an Imperial Eagle while I do missions for Imperial rep. Maybe do something silly like chuck a bunch of rocket launchers on it.
Kitting out an Eagle and then canyon flying is tons of fun.
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
I've not really done any surface missions up to this point, that sounds fun.
Just replaced one of the multicannons on my Killbork with a torpedo pylon. They're 15k a pop and slow, but they do a decent chunk of damage and more importantly, I can yell
Dreams-Visions
Member
Yup. I had buyers remorse for the T-9 as well, but tried to make the most of it before selling it. I absolutely love the look of the "space cow", and the stunning view from the bridge of the ship in VR. I've never felt more like a space trucker than when finding some good trade routes, loading her up, and piloting this beast to the destination.while playing music or podcasts. But you certainly don't have to take my word for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgfekhHTwvs (not my video)
With that being said, the benefits of the Anaconda completely outweigh the slightly higher cargo capacity of the T-9, that it makes no sense at all to use the T-9. If Frontier can patch in some "cargo only" module slots, to make it the real king of budget hauling, I would buy it again in a heartbeat.
I bought one... once. Wanted to try cargo running with a fighter bay for fun. I flew it two jumps, said "screw this" and sold that junk. Sucker turns slower than my grandmother.
Yeaaah, I keep thinking about getting one of these for combat. Always loved the Vipers in the original game. Bad-ass triangles of lasers.
Anton Sugar
Member
2.4 "The Return" beta starts 8/17:
Also check this sweet Sol planets bobblehead pack: https://www.frontierstore.net/usd//...s-game-extras/sol-planet-bobblehead-pack.html
Also check this sweet Sol planets bobblehead pack: https://www.frontierstore.net/usd//...s-game-extras/sol-planet-bobblehead-pack.html
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
OgTheClever
Member
It's nice to see all 8 planets there in their glory!Also check this sweet Sol planets bobblehead pack: https://www.frontierstore.net/usd//...s-game-extras/sol-planet-bobblehead-pack.html
*not to scale
2.4 "The Return" beta starts 8/17:
Also check this sweet Sol planets bobblehead pack: https://www.frontierstore.net/usd//...s-game-extras/sol-planet-bobblehead-pack.html
Those are nice bobbleheads.
Given how amazing the alien ruin site was, I'm going to give Fdev the benefit of the doubt regarding The Return. Hope its some good stuff.
Camp Freddie
Member
I finally finished engineering my Anaconda and took it to the CG conflict zone. It's far from perfect on the engineer rolls, but it's ludicrously powerful.
Thermal biweave shields and a mix of heavy and resistance boosters make it very tough. It could be a lot tougher if I wasn't trying to keep the weight down for a good jump range.
Of course, I'll probably get jumped by a capital ship tonight and die horribly.
Thermal biweave shields and a mix of heavy and resistance boosters make it very tough. It could be a lot tougher if I wasn't trying to keep the weight down for a good jump range.
Of course, I'll probably get jumped by a capital ship tonight and die horribly.
2.4 "The Return" beta starts 8/17:
Also check this sweet Sol planets bobblehead pack: https://www.frontierstore.net/usd//...s-game-extras/sol-planet-bobblehead-pack.html
Sounds good but I refuse to get hyped. Burned by every update so far. Those bobble heads are excellent though.
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Also check this sweet Sol planets bobblehead pack: https://www.frontierstore.net/usd//...s-game-extras/sol-planet-bobblehead-pack.html
FEDDIE BIAS
WHERE'S THE ACHENAR BOBBLEHEADS
Go bask in your lack of bobble heads, imperial scum!
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Once the Big Cutter is mass produced, we'll put an end to the Federation once and for all!
I've heard you guys need to stockpile materials found on ammonia moons to build those. I can direct you to some with coordinates for great mining sites.
The passenger tourism missions maybe.
Road to Riches. Great money and lots of Explorer rank.
What is that? Not the first time I hear that phrase but never knew what it was
Ok so I found http://edtools.ddns.net
This is cool... I'm outfiting my Cobra for exploration... Holy shit going from a Tier-9 to a Cobra MK3 is amazing hahaha
This is cool... I'm outfiting my Cobra for exploration... Holy shit going from a Tier-9 to a Cobra MK3 is amazing hahaha
This is the link you need: http://edtools.ddns.net/expl.php
Only scan the planets listed for each system. There shouldn't be more than 2 or 3 per system usually.
Each system is roughly 1 million credits.
The planets worth scanning are Earth-like worlds, Water worlds and metal worlds. The rest are not worth the time.
Right I had the right link but badly copy/pasted.
Ok cool I'll give that a try thanks!
Edit: Oh jeez... All those unexplored systems have long names... I should plug in a keyboard into my PS4 lol
Seth Enosh
Member
Got my steam controller set up and did some missions today. It feels easier to make money from missions than in the past.
Made 600k Cr and upgraded my sidewinder and bought a Cobra.
Just trying out the auto dock computer on the cobra now and it's pretty nice. I might keep it on my ship and be lazy.
Made 600k Cr and upgraded my sidewinder and bought a Cobra.
Just trying out the auto dock computer on the cobra now and it's pretty nice. I might keep it on my ship and be lazy.
Has anybody collected chemical manipulators recently? There's an abandoned mining outpost called "Dav's Hope", which is said to spawn them. But that's from post update 2.2, while I've now had no luck trying to find them there in 2.3.11.
What's the current go-to method to collect chemical manipulators?
What's the current go-to method to collect chemical manipulators?
Well at least you admit it.
I love my Cobra MkIII. My brother just recently upgraded to one and it's a blast flying together in a wing taking down Condas.
So I finally talked to my first engineer last night and I'm super confused right now lol.
I get that it's a RNG thing where you have to spend mats to get a new roll.
I get that blue + are good and red - are bad but all those stats don't seem to mean shit.
Why can't you just give me a before and after number on my FSD range?
I get that it's a RNG thing where you have to spend mats to get a new roll.
I get that blue + are good and red - are bad but all those stats don't seem to mean shit.
Why can't you just give me a before and after number on my FSD range?
Camp Freddie
Member
They spawned at Dav's for me, but that was probably 2.3.9. They are quite rare. Probably one drop from every 3 or 4 circuits of the base.
I found a few last week at an anarchy famine distribution centre. The Type 9s drop them on death. I got 3 drops from killing about 10 Type 9s.
Lone Dragon
Member
I picked this up during the Steam sale, because I wanted a new VR game. Haven't been able to dedicate a lot of time to it, but what I have played has been incredible. Wound up buying a HOTAS, which just took it to the next level. Currently have an upgraded Eagle, running assassination missions. Sitting on 5 million credits, and don't really know what I want to do. I enjoy the combat, but I enjoy system jumping and transport about the same. I just know I want an SRV to run some ground missions.
We're talking about Elite: Dangerous here. Nothing is as simple as it should be.
Thanks. It took between 10 and 15 re-logs until they appeared the first time for me.
Now, it appears that somewhere between 2.3 and the following updates, some horrendous micro stutter has been introduced with certain hardware setups. I'm using a GTX 970 and in irregular intervals the game simply does not render a number of frames. As a result, the ship/SRV appears to "teleport" around. *Ugh*
Is it only me or has Elite been prone to a lot of these types of issues? I remember after one of their vanilla updates, AMD cards experienced horrendous framerate drops in supercruise. Lasted for months and was seemingly fixed by means of a driver update by AMD. Still, the micro stutter is something I remember hearing about before, too... >.<
Try for better optimal mass. I just started tinkering with that recently too and from what I read on some forum that seems to get the best jump. You can also go to your right screen after each change and see what it did for jump range. Can also remove it all and start over. You do want to apply rolls to build rank or levels or whatever. I'm just messing around with it right now to get a feel for it.