So I am just starting off and want to progress to the point where I have the ship and equipment to just pick a direction and start exploring. Assuming I will need to do some trading to get my bankroll started, but what ship should I be aiming for? The Adder? Or should I do some creative upgrades on something else while saving for an Asp.
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Elite: Dangerous |OT| Every Man's Sky
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The ASP is good but you'll need to aim for a type 6 to make a good amount of money for one. The Adder is actually a nice little ship and you could get by with one if hours of grinding doesn't appeal
My progression was Sidewinder > Adder > Cobra > Type 6 > ASP
I went from:
Sidewinder (bulletin board missions) > Eagle (for bounty hunting, this is where I made a lot of easy money) > Hauler (I did trading runs for less than an hour and made enough money for the next ship) > Adder (more trading) > Cobra.
It was a bit hard at the beginning, I thought the Eagle was a waste of time. But then I upgraded the ship a bit by buying a better power generator and also a multi-cannon. I started bounty hunting after that and not only did I finally start making a lot credits very quickly it was also a lot fun. Just stay away from the Anaconda.
Sidewinder (bulletin board missions) > Eagle (for bounty hunting, this is where I made a lot of easy money) > Hauler (I did trading runs for less than an hour and made enough money for the next ship) > Adder (more trading) > Cobra.
It was a bit hard at the beginning, I thought the Eagle was a waste of time. But then I upgraded the ship a bit by buying a better power generator and also a multi-cannon. I started bounty hunting after that and not only did I finally start making a lot credits very quickly it was also a lot fun. Just stay away from the Anaconda.
Exploding8
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So I've been away for the past few weeks. I remember hearing something about the newest Nvidia drivers breaking the Rift for Elite. Has a new update been put out to fix that or should I avoid downloading the newest Nvidia drivers?
indigo-cyclops
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Beam lasers own, and aren't too expensive.
Beam lasers for shields, multicannons for hull
Nice write up, that route is a good bit faster than my current one too.
I've said it on the subreddit, I'll say it again: the fact that the Ho Hsi corp "fund the war effort" missions require you to pay up to 40 mil while Jet Comms gives the same for 40k might be a hint on how the war's going. Pure speculation based on anecdotal evidence, though.
ThreePiMatt
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So, I just kind of bought this on a whim last night and literally all I've done so far is like the first three tutorials. But I was just wondering, how does this stack up against the X series? I've played a ton of X3 and really loved the hell out of it, but X:Rebirth was a tremendous downer. I've gone back to it a couple times with their large updates but it still hasn't done anything for me.
Trade gold and Advanced Catalysers between Hu Jona (Crichton City) and HR 8170 (Fiennes Vision)
4.7ly trip, 2.2k/t profit on the round trip. Took 20 secs to look that up on Thrudds
Since I'm going in hard on bounty hunting, recently relocated to Empire space in 27 G. Caeli.
They have a large ringed planet with 3 extraction sites, and a space station that sits between the planet itself and the rings. Takes about 30 seconds to turn in a batch of bounties. I'm in heaven. It's a gorgeous planet/system, too.
Sun rising over the polar ice cap
I guess hurricane season is in full force out here.
They have a large ringed planet with 3 extraction sites, and a space station that sits between the planet itself and the rings. Takes about 30 seconds to turn in a batch of bounties. I'm in heaven. It's a gorgeous planet/system, too.
Sun rising over the polar ice cap
I guess hurricane season is in full force out here.
^^^ Nice!
Heh, I was about to go eat dinner and tried to do a delivery as the last part of a mission. Then, of course, it turned out that the station I was going to was a rather remote one.. It was something like ~300,000 ls away from the center of the system, and it literally took 7-8 minutes of supercruise to get there. I think I was just about to peak 1,000c speed when it started to go down again..
Anyway, talking about slowness; Slopey's BPC tool is a bitch to start up sometimes, I swear, it spent half an hour "parsing" today after an update..
Heh, I was about to go eat dinner and tried to do a delivery as the last part of a mission. Then, of course, it turned out that the station I was going to was a rather remote one.. It was something like ~300,000 ls away from the center of the system, and it literally took 7-8 minutes of supercruise to get there. I think I was just about to peak 1,000c speed when it started to go down again..
Anyway, talking about slowness; Slopey's BPC tool is a bitch to start up sometimes, I swear, it spent half an hour "parsing" today after an update..
^ oh wow, maybe that's why my Ho Hsi bounty turned dormant where I go to pay it.
Looks decent! Added to my list of sites to visit.
My goal is to find the perfect resource extraction site (by then I hopefully won't still be fighting mostly sidewinders!).
Something with icy meteors and a bright planet or two nearby. I checked out Qa'wakana as Raticus mentioned, and it's a step up for sure, sun on one side (quite close too), nice big white planet on the other.
Nothing new yet.
Looks decent! Added to my list of sites to visit.
My goal is to find the perfect resource extraction site (by then I hopefully won't still be fighting mostly sidewinders!).
Something with icy meteors and a bright planet or two nearby. I checked out Qa'wakana as Raticus mentioned, and it's a step up for sure, sun on one side (quite close too), nice big white planet on the other.
Nothing new yet.
indigo-cyclops
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Hmm you may have pushed me to finally relocate for a bit. I want to check out Empire space, as well as Alliance.
fuck this game.
I was hunting bounties, got up to 40k of bounty vouchers
killing the last wanted ship, I hit the feds
they shot me to shit before I could bail and had my thrusters at 0%
couldn't move, so had to self destruct
lose 40k of bounty vouchers
this fucking happens every time - I'm still in my starter ship with crap weapons & frankly I'm not having fun anymore.
Fuck.
This.
Game.
I was hunting bounties, got up to 40k of bounty vouchers
killing the last wanted ship, I hit the feds
they shot me to shit before I could bail and had my thrusters at 0%
couldn't move, so had to self destruct
lose 40k of bounty vouchers
this fucking happens every time - I'm still in my starter ship with crap weapons & frankly I'm not having fun anymore.
Fuck.
This.
Game.
I want to bounty hunt too!
They relaly shoudl have an interactive galaxy map on their website so we cna figure out locaitons without having to jump in game. Bonus points if you could plan out routes and they would be ready to navigate once in game.
Anton Sugar
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If I hit a fed ship:
Immediately boost away
Divert power to SYS and ENG
Start FSD (the farther from other ships, the better)
How did they manage to get your shields down and then bring your thrusters to 0%? Were your shields already down?
Well, the sidewinder is pretty fragile if it doesn't have at least the shield upgrade.
You just have to be careful when security is around, just don't shoot if there's a chance you could hit one of them. Though, I've just hit one myself and had to scram when I flew through my line of fire immediately in front of my ship.
You just have to be careful when security is around, just don't shoot if there's a chance you could hit one of them. Though, I've just hit one myself and had to scram when I flew through my line of fire immediately in front of my ship.
No, my shield was up, I hit him, aimed away from the asteroid belt and started charging my jump drive but it was inhibited by mass (or whatever the blurb is) - in the time it took to charge my shields were down, my hull at 8% and my thrusters were fucked.
The frustration is more because something like this happens every time I'm starting to make money & I'm getting sick of having a shitty ship and not being able to get off the bottom rung.
I'll give it another go tonight I guess
Anton Sugar
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Remember to divert all power to SYS/ENG and immediately boost away. Even in my Viper, if I'm not boosting away, yeah, they'll get some good hits on me.
Otherwise, yeah, I can see why that'd be frustrating :-\ I managed to luck out my first or second day of playing by finding Wanted ships with 40-60k bounties apiece. Bought a Viper immediately.
Actually, I forgot I also had an Eagle that I was using for a day, as a part of the preorder deal. You may want to try moving to an Eagle first (they're like 45k I think) and then using that to work towards a Viper or whatever.
Otherwise, yeah, I can see why that'd be frustrating :-\ I managed to luck out my first or second day of playing by finding Wanted ships with 40-60k bounties apiece. Bought a Viper immediately.
Actually, I forgot I also had an Eagle that I was using for a day, as a part of the preorder deal. You may want to try moving to an Eagle first (they're like 45k I think) and then using that to work towards a Viper or whatever.
Sucks man, but don't give up. Next time you hit a fed, you gotta bail right away. Divert all power to SYS and ENG (I do full power to ENG and 2 blips into SYS, may change depending on situation). Full throttle and boost when available, roll left or right. The AI has a hard time hitting you if you thrust up or down (R and F keys) as you're rolling. Retract weapons and charge super cruise. Do all this as soon as you're in trouble, and it's pretty tough to die to the AI.
I suggest doing missions in your sidewinder until you can get some the cheapo upgrades to reduce your mass and increase your jump range. If you wanna go all out on bounties, shoot for replacing the sidewinder with an Eagle, and then later a Viper. Once you get an Eagle, don't be afraid to get some upgrades for it, just make sure you have enough credits to pay insurance before you go hunting.
Once you get a little better, you'll be able to make $40k in like 20 minutes and laugh how you raged over losing so little. You can find a post from me earlier in the thread from when I accidentally boosted into the wall of a station and lost like $80k of cargo. After rebuying my shitty Hauler, I had a whopping 4k credits. I was about to quit the game, but I decided to make a challenge out of it, and kept at it. Little over a week later, I have a decked out Type 6 Transport and Viper, about 2 mil in total assets. Don't give up, you'll get better!
Why is your right speaker so much bigger than left one?
The Cowboy
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Does anyone think there will ever been a demo or free weekend?, i have zero money at the moment for games and really love the look of this game, but considering how i have to save up for it as i really need my birthday money for bills i would love to try it before buying it.
Has there ever been a word on a demo/free weekend???.
Has there ever been a word on a demo/free weekend???.
It's a desktop sub, there is another the same size as the small one to the right.
it might be a server bug or maybe Ho Hsi won the civil war?
My package showed up from Fed-Ex
Time to learn how to play this game all over again.
Sweet.
@Mikeside, yeah I kept coming back too
There's a bit to learn and the initial part can be frustrating in a sidewinder. I bought a hauler after some bounty hunting and nav becaons, did some trade routes from others on gaf for a while...quite a few hours Then was set to buy what ship I want and make the rest off of bounty hunting. Although atm it's slowed down a bit with low reward bounties. Hopefully will be better tonight.
I'm sort of stuck for what to do next. I have a comfortably upgraded Viper and get 50000 -100000 credits per hunting spree but it'll take ages to get the Asp and I have no desire to start learning trade routes.
What capital ship combat zones are close the starting system of LHS 3447?
What capital ship combat zones are close the starting system of LHS 3447?
Thanks.
Viper is only 142k? I thought it'd be more than that for what is seemingly a popular ship for bounty hunting.
A system starting Chun something-or-other (Chanuga? Chunara?) has a single space station with a large shipyard (9 ships) right next to LHS 3447. It also has a black market.
The Viper is pretty much a Cobra minus the cargo and some armor (I think?). I think the Viper has a slightly faster boost speed. Cobra costs more due to it's versatility. The Viper is a great ship for newer players, due to it's speed, you can get away from pretty much anything except another Viper.
flyinpiranha
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What kind of weapon loadout do you use? I run 4 gimbaled beam and 2 gumballed multi cannon but I just started so not sure what to run with the Asp. I make more money just killing while trading than bounty hunting
2 x Plasma, 4 x multicannon. All fixed
David Incorporated Esq.
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Sure it's pretty cheap to start but a well outfitted one will cost around 2 million. It's good enough from the get-go though.
onken
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Bah sick of hitting bystanders by accident in combat then getting chased down by authority vessels over a 150cr bounty. And then of course the one place you can go to pay off your miniscule bounty is a station which has a very high chance of being patrolled by said authority vessels making it a crap shoot to whether you can even survive to pay it. All over 150cr.
They desperately need to come up with a way to do this better.
They desperately need to come up with a way to do this better.
Caesar III
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Try not using ressource extraction but nav beacons. A lot less density and therefore fewer targets you can accidently hit.
Sothis Krieg
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Sure but a system where bounty under 1k could be paid on the fly would be nice me think.
Edit : On this subject, have i missed something ? Because when i started the game there was a fine system where you have to paid in the 24h before it was converted in bounty. Is it still the case ?
Caesar III
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contacting a security vessel nearby to transfer the payment would be ace.
Even bribing could be implemented: "Don't shoot me as long as I'm here" - pay 10% of wanted bounty
flyinpiranha
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Cool. Will be going fixed once I get a little better.
How do weapon grades work. Is there a 1A beam laser or do the grades only go up with type?
Also. When I get interdicted and win do I not get anything like a bounty or something?
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