flyinpiranha
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You and me both brother. The Luxury trade bug is just too good. 385k every 4 minutes.
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You and me both brother. The Luxury trade bug is just too good. 385k every 4 minutes.
Felix Lighter
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This game is dangerous. I just bought a flight stick about a week ago. Now I'm looking at the Track IR page on Amazon.
I did the same progression...I'm worried I'll be pricing ORs soon. Honestly, if you are just trucking cargo, the trackIR doesn't add much. Sure, it is pretty cool but the focus for trading is just to get from one place to the other as quickly as possible. If you are exploring or fighting then yeah...the trackIR is incredible.
smashballTaz
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Silent Running changed from how it worked in the early Alpha videos; it now means it turns your shields off, which generate a lot of heat (makes you more easily scanned) and closes the vents on your ship to attempt to minimise the heat it pumps out into space also. This means that internally the heat builds up petty fast; Generally the best thing to do is to toggle Silent Running off as your temperature gets to to 100 degrees, wait for your ship to cool down some, then switch on Silent Running again.
What I like to do to slow the build up of heat whilst Silent Running is go over to the right hand panel which lists my active modules, and manually switch off my guns, fsd, cargo scoop, and anything else that isn't essential to docking.
Hope that helps!
Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS X......
to buy or not buy.....
My second joystick in around 18 years.... hotas HOTAS....
Already using Crab's 360gamepad setup. I believe this is natural advancement?
I don't want to shelve more because I've heard that MadCatz Saitek quality isn't all that awesome, albeit the ingame joy in modeleded from X52 pro (if I'm not mistaken)
Anyone here that has HOTAS X? You might be the one to make me buy it.
to buy or not buy.....
My second joystick in around 18 years.... hotas HOTAS....
Already using Crab's 360gamepad setup. I believe this is natural advancement?
I don't want to shelve more because I've heard that MadCatz Saitek quality isn't all that awesome, albeit the ingame joy in modeleded from X52 pro (if I'm not mistaken)
Anyone here that has HOTAS X? You might be the one to make me buy it.
I know I'm not helping, but what you want might be this glorious thing.
Yes, I'm not helping... :-/ Especially considering you'd still have to get a throttle and probably pedals as well.
Only thing I can say to that is: If you buy cheap, you'll buy twice (if it "catches" you ^^). :-/
If you're unsure whether you'll get into flight sim stuff however, you're probably better of with the T-Flight HOTAS X. Should be able to handle all essential controls and you can still resell it if you want to upgrade to soften the blow a bit. While I could recommend the X52 Pro in terms of buttons/funcitonality, I can't deny that it feels too cheap for the 180-200$/€ you'll be asked for it.
Where? :O
Oh man, this is really good news! I do lot of bounty hunting in RES and while I've become better at not hitting other ships this issue with harsh retaliation has always been really annoying. Especially because I need to abort my hunting just to go all the way back to a station to pay the fine.
flyinpiranha
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Beta Sculptoris. Go to Fan Horizon station, buy Performance Enhancers and take them to luxury traders that are basically orbiting the station. Supply and demand hasn't changed in days. 1300+ c/t profit. Roundtrip is like 5 minutes max.
Just double check with a small batch first to make sure it's still going.
I posted a vid showing this on the previous page
2 pages back now I guess
mitchman
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System security would only interdict you unless you're wanted or unfriendly to their faction. Likely NPC pirate.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Gaaah and I'm 8,000 light years away, returning from an exploration trip. Will take me days to get there. Ah well.
Yeah that seems a bug. Has happened to me as well. Requesting for redocking was the only way to fix it.
flyinpiranha
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Just get close. When you jump in you'll be close to about 5 or 6 Type 9's, just fly close and you'll see a credit amount announced in your info screen (including a larger text pop up).
1) Go to station
2) Load up on Performance Enhancers
3) Exit station or Logout/login to save time
4) Set Nav to closest 'Seeking Luxuries' in your Nav
5) Fly there and drop in
6) Fly close to ships (if you're lucky it's automatic because it will drop you close enough to a ship to trigger the transaction)
7) boost away in any direction going away from the T9's so you don't get mass-locked
8) Engage Supercruise
9) Set Target to station, fly there and dock
Anton Sugar
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Is this already in-game? Astronomers Just Discovered the Most Ancient Solar System in Our Galaxy
Am I being dense or is that article title ridiculous? Isn't the reason we call it the Solar system because our star is named Sol? Meaning it's the only solar system...
Correct. Everything about the headline is wrong.
eyeball_kid
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How far away is the OS X build from being released at this point? It doesn't really make me want to invest in this game when the Mac already seen as a second-class citizen.
They said that it would take approx. 3 months after the release. So wait until March at least.
eyeball_kid
Member
Thanks; the long wait continues. Despite my gripes about inequality of platform support, I'm really looking forward to this. Is it holding up to expectations, generally speaking?
Felix Lighter
Member
Alright, tonight is really the night. That ASP is mine.
Totally.
I think that the people that complains is simply because they don't really enjoy the sandbox nature of the game (no end game), or cause they try to get the expensive ships (like that is their goal) by grinding a lot, and after 8-10 hours of grinding just to get an ASP, they realize that they really are not having fun with the game.
Also I think that a lot of people play it trying to maximize the amount of credits that they earn in every task that they do, and at some point they realize that instead of a game it looks like a job by playing it like that.
If you really enjoy sandbox games without end game (other than the one that you set for yourself), or space/flight sims. Then you will have assured fun. The amount of hours that you spend on it is up to you.
Oh and there is also the people that rants because Frontier is not adding tons of new content in the first month after the release... Not even MMOs do that. I'm my opinion the initial release is quite complete in content, at least to keep you entertained for a few months.
So far between betas and the released game I have spend probably around 60-80 hours with it, and I enjoy it as the first day. And knowing the future that they have planned (content), I guess that I will be playing this for a very long time, just like other classic PC games and sims with long term and healthy communities.
Surprised you didn't go for the Python, supposed to handle much better.
eyeball_kid
Member
Thanks, that's encouraging. Yeah, I have no desire to play it like an MMO and turn it into a grindfest. I'm more interested in the RP aspects...creating a narrative for my character through exploration, trading, and of course space battles.
Felix Lighter
Member
I just lost a ship full of rare cargo because I raced into a station forgetting to request permission. I was so deep into the station that I could get turned around in time. Damn it.
What the fuck? I paid my bounty and I don't have anything in my transactions but when I look at my reputation, it still says I'm Wanted with a 600 bounty.
Never mind. Save and quit and relaunched and the bounty was gone.
What the fuck? I paid my bounty and I don't have anything in my transactions but when I look at my reputation, it still says I'm Wanted with a 600 bounty.
Never mind. Save and quit and relaunched and the bounty was gone.
Anton Sugar
Member
I honestly do hope they ease back on penalties. They need SOMETHING between a 500-700 fine and murder.
rofl, I had the same thin happen to me when I was playing with a friend. He laughed his ass off when he saw me get blown up.
I'm having a lot of fun bounty hunting at resource extraction sites, but I wish there was a way to pay off small bounties without having to treck all the way back to a station. Can't seen to go more than 20 mins without a federation ship flying in front of one of my lasers.
A developer working on it (I can't remember her name) also recently said that this fix will not work with all weapons, so you'll still need to be careful with railguns and such.This will be fixed in the upcoming 1.1 update
mitchman
Gold Member
I sold my Python to get the anaconda as the anaconda can fit 456t cargo with shields. I expect to get a another Python or clipper later for that fun part (aka not trading).
cheezcake
Member
So would you guys recommend this game to someone who hasn't played Elite before? I like flight sim stuff, I love space based games, I'm more just worried about the amount of stuff to actually do in the game. I've heard for a sandbox type of game there's not actually much to keep you occupied with for long.
mitchman
Gold Member
Although I'm a bit skeptical about some of the balancing (murder/griefing is way too easy with too little penalty) and lack of deeper content and content for higher level ships, I will still recommend it.
With a proper joystick or controller, it's great to dogfight and fly around with, and there is plenty to do. There is a grind factor to it, but there are still ways to have fun without it if you want to settle with smaller ships.
Get the combat dogfight demo and see if you like the fight mechanics first, though. Note that you can play the game Solo (only with NPC) and in private groups (one PvE private group has more than 3000 members), if you don't want to go into Open Play for the pvp and other players that might kill you.
With a proper joystick or controller, it's great to dogfight and fly around with, and there is plenty to do. There is a grind factor to it, but there are still ways to have fun without it if you want to settle with smaller ships.
Get the combat dogfight demo and see if you like the fight mechanics first, though. Note that you can play the game Solo (only with NPC) and in private groups (one PvE private group has more than 3000 members), if you don't want to go into Open Play for the pvp and other players that might kill you.
Ok I'm there now and there aren't any seeking luxuries nav points :/
So is it gone?
mitchman
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Apparently they are still trading out of the high intensity conflict zone.
Some kind of penalty for big time sloppiness or sustained fire is ok with me.. But I hope that the dev is changing it so that at least for small fines you should be able to pay them without having to dock. And it's also stupid that security forces immediately try to kill you if you do a simple mistake.
http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteTrader...ntion_all_grinders_seeking_an_alternative_to/
Ok this is actually much better. Straight line to the nav point (10Mm away) and 1400CR/ton profit.
So with my Type7 I get 305.000CR profit/run. You can do 20 in 1 hour. So I make 6.1mio CR/hour right now. You could make 14.1mio CR/hour with a Type9 this way.
Ok this is actually much better. Straight line to the nav point (10Mm away) and 1400CR/ton profit.
So with my Type7 I get 305.000CR profit/run. You can do 20 in 1 hour. So I make 6.1mio CR/hour right now. You could make 14.1mio CR/hour with a Type9 this way.
Feel sorry for the people grinding money like it's a job.
I have my little Viper that's decked out and 300,000 CR in the bank and I am ranking up in the Federation and just doing whatever missions sound interesting and help the factions I choose. I've been in Sol for a few weeks and I'm about to switch back to my Adder and start doing some exploration of deep space.
Always fun things to do and new things to discover in this game. Grinding is something I'd never want to do. The money will come naturally with time. Slow down and enjoy yourself.
Also, this is awesome. Next update will show which CMDRs first scanned and sold data on systems! And no more selling system data one system at a time.
I have my little Viper that's decked out and 300,000 CR in the bank and I am ranking up in the Federation and just doing whatever missions sound interesting and help the factions I choose. I've been in Sol for a few weeks and I'm about to switch back to my Adder and start doing some exploration of deep space.
Always fun things to do and new things to discover in this game. Grinding is something I'd never want to do. The money will come naturally with time. Slow down and enjoy yourself.
Also, this is awesome. Next update will show which CMDRs first scanned and sold data on systems! And no more selling system data one system at a time.
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