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Even for the [Elite] it is a Dangerous galaxy.

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  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    So LHS 3447 is still having that 10% discount on all ships and parts.

  • FoomyFoomy Registered User regular
    So LHS 3447 is still having that 10% discount on all ships and parts.

    Hmm, I wonder if I could use that to make trades on ship parts, buy some guns, jump to neighbor system and sell, 10% profit.

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  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    Seeker missiles are almost unfair, as well.

  • General_ArmchairGeneral_Armchair Registered User regular
    It would be nice if I could tell which outposts can accommodate a Type-6 without, you know, going and staring at them in person.

    In my experience, they all can....however there is usually some NPC sleeping on the only medium pad.

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  • General_ArmchairGeneral_Armchair Registered User regular
    Foomy wrote: »
    So LHS 3447 is still having that 10% discount on all ships and parts.

    Hmm, I wonder if I could use that to make trades on ship parts, buy some guns, jump to neighbor system and sell, 10% profit.
    You can't.

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  • jinkumabutajinkumabuta Registered User regular
    Foomy wrote: »
    So LHS 3447 is still having that 10% discount on all ships and parts.

    Hmm, I wonder if I could use that to make trades on ship parts, buy some guns, jump to neighbor system and sell, 10% profit.
    You can't.

    On the bright side, it also means that the insurance rebuy cost is also lowered on the discount ships.

  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    I have a nicely kitted out Cobra I do everything in, and a Hauler and Sidewinder I ditched back in Ho Hsi. I'm sitting on a million credits and change. Anything I should consider heading down to 3447 and picking up before the 10% sale ends?

    edit: Considering a type-6, but I might want to have more of a bankroll to upgrade it, and saving 100k might not be worth investing all my liquid funds into a ship I won't be able to make the most of for awhile.

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  • mastmanmastman Registered User regular
    you can ditch your hauler and sidey, the cobra completely replaces both of them. Once you get a little cash, Sideys are only good for ramming ships for the lols. The T6 is only good for trading, so if you want to spend a good amount of time farming some cash, get one.

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  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    TOGSolid wrote: »
    Yeah, the contract betrayal stuff gets annoying. At the very least I wish there was some sort of loyalty reputation/pay bonus for killing those guys.

    I generally kill them if I have the chance when they give ridiculously low payout abandon mission alternates. That's insulting.

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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    TOGSolid wrote: »
    Yeah, the contract betrayal stuff gets annoying. At the very least I wish there was some sort of loyalty reputation/pay bonus for killing those guys.

    I generally kill them if I have the chance when they give ridiculously low payout abandon mission alternates. That's insulting.
    Oh yeah, I still space them from time to time, it'd just be nice to be rewarded for staying loyal via some rep at least.

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  • Two Headed BoyTwo Headed Boy Registered User regular
    There's a couple of things I can't figure out, maybe ya'll can help me.

    When I use my Kill Warrant Scanner, how can I tell if they have a warrant? Their scan never changes to Wanted, but much of the time I'll kill them and still get a bounty.

    Also, on bounty missions when you are offered an alternative solution (generally it's to abandon the mission), how do I decline? If I kill the guy that offered it, the mission update remains there and I can't track my progress for the original objective.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Hopefully I can hit 6.6 million credits before the 10% sale ends and pick up an asp. That'd set me up pretty well to start working on a better fsd. I'm starting to get antsy to begin my journey to the top of the galaxy.

    Though, I feel kinda like I should wait for them to extend the maximum route. Not sure how long of a wait that would be, though. It also seems like it'd be prudent to see if they ever decide to program in a "sell all" button for discoveries. Setting a macro to spend 10 actual real life hours to sell all the exploration data I acquired on my trip sounds... less than pleasant.

  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    There's a couple of things I can't figure out, maybe ya'll can help me.

    When I use my Kill Warrant Scanner, how can I tell if they have a warrant? Their scan never changes to Wanted, but much of the time I'll kill them and still get a bounty.

    Also, on bounty missions when you are offered an alternative solution (generally it's to abandon the mission), how do I decline? If I kill the guy that offered it, the mission update remains there and I can't track my progress for the original objective.

    First, you check the contacts frame after you scan them. That will tell you any bounties they have.

    Second, you just do the first condition and ignore that guy.

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  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    Was gonna upload vid of my killing an elite anaconda for you peeps having trouble but lol 410 minute estimated upload time. (my connection is poop)

    Time to see how low nvidia shadowplay's settings can go I guess.

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    wow

    all the shipyards and outfitting in lhs 3447 are super far away from the drop zone

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  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    wow

    all the shipyards and outfitting in lhs 3447 are super far away from the drop zone

    Hence the discounts? Otherwise no one would ever visit.

  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    Speaking of shields, how do you assess there quality? I see no numbers when I'm looking to buy.

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    yay, i am now the proud owner of an asp, 10% off.

    unfortunately, i'll need quite a bit more money to get it where I want it. gunna fit myself with a B6 scoop and an A5 fsd, which will take a solid chunk of change for sure. Additionally, I'd like an advanced scanner and a surface scanner as well. Probably going to want to end up with about 15 million for everything, which will also give me an insurance buffer if I happen to run across disaster during my trek to the galactic core roof.

    So, more rare good farming is in my future, unless I decide to cheese luxury good seekers, which actually sounds more boring.

  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    Also it'd be really great for Oculus play if there was an ingame noteook - or better a web browser you could render onto that nav computer.

  • PapillonPapillon Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    In my experience the surface scanner is great, but personally the only time I've missed having the advanced scanner is when hunting black holes. But I'm not a super-completionist, so I don't mind missing a few planets.

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  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    edited January 2015
    Got an anaconda assassination kill stolen by an npc :/

    edit: took another 7-8 USS to find it again. :(

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  • KisidanKisidan Registered User regular
    Bought myself a joystick ... and could not figure out for the life of me how to access the vertical and horizontal thrusters.

    Gonna have another play with it tonight because it was way easier to fight with but docking is impossible right now.

  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Been slow going heading out to R-Cra.

    Mostly do to real life issues.

    However I'm chugging along. Mostly running across brown drawfs with 10 or so ice planets and a belt.

  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    Woo hit Post Commander with the feds.

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  • Two Headed BoyTwo Headed Boy Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    There's a couple of things I can't figure out, maybe ya'll can help me.

    When I use my Kill Warrant Scanner, how can I tell if they have a warrant? Their scan never changes to Wanted, but much of the time I'll kill them and still get a bounty.

    Also, on bounty missions when you are offered an alternative solution (generally it's to abandon the mission), how do I decline? If I kill the guy that offered it, the mission update remains there and I can't track my progress for the original objective.

    First, you check the contacts frame after you scan them. That will tell you any bounties they have.

    Second, you just do the first condition and ignore that guy.

    Thank you, the first one seems obvious now that I know. I wish that information would be displayed in the target info for easier reference.

    That's what I figured (regarding the second one). It seems poorly implemented, as it hides the initial mission info including the number of targets eliminated and the mission location.

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  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    In sadder news my dual railgun sidewinder couldn't defeat an elite anaconda because it took too many rounds to get through its shields and I ran out of ammo.

  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    Looking back at my recording, railguns would need to have about 6 or 7 more rounds capacity for it to be possible.

  • PapillonPapillon Registered User regular
    That's what I figured (regarding the second one). It seems poorly implemented, as it hides the initial mission info including the number of targets eliminated and the mission location.

    In my experience the mission will be replaced with the new description, but it will still show the number of kills you need for the old objective & progress towards the old objective. Finding the dude who asks you to turn traitor will reset your kill count for the mission.

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  • Two Headed BoyTwo Headed Boy Registered User regular
    Papillon wrote: »
    That's what I figured (regarding the second one). It seems poorly implemented, as it hides the initial mission info including the number of targets eliminated and the mission location.

    In my experience the mission will be replaced with the new description, but it will still show the number of kills you need for the old objective & progress towards the old objective. Finding the dude who asks you to turn traitor will reset your kill count for the mission.

    So if I get, say, 2 of the required 3 kills and then run into the guy, it will reset me to 0 kills?

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  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    Yeah, it's an unfortunate bug that should be fixed in 1.1 if the dev postings on the official forum are to be believed.

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  • Two Headed BoyTwo Headed Boy Registered User regular
    Ah, ok thank you. I thought it just wasn't showing how many kills I'd gotten, and it seemed like once I'd encountered the guy I was unable to finish the mission.

    On an unrelated note, I spent an hour tracking down a 120k bounty (which was clearly out of my league). When I found the target, I came out of super cruise and they were literally 100 meters straight ahead, staring right at me. One shot, and I was toast.

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  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    That's an Anaconda's C4 plasma accelerator. Those things will take the cockpit off a cobra with a single grazing shot.

    Gotta get good at that vertical thrust.

  • Two Headed BoyTwo Headed Boy Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    Well I'm pretty sure I couldn't actually have won that fight regardless, but I also didn't realize that they would aggro immediately without so much as a courtesy scan.

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  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    Well, he was a wanted criminal.

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  • DrakeDrake Edgelord Trash Below the ecliptic plane.Registered User regular
    Community Goals are coming in 1.1, here's a bit from the PC Gamer article.
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    The first Community Goals will be based around supply and bounties. "For example," Brookes says, "a faction might task our pilots with racking up a number of kills in a particular system, effectively sending massive numbers of players to war for or against particular group." He explains that these massive player migrations will have a knock-on effect on galaxy-wide economy and power structures.

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  • CampyCampy Registered User regular
    I haven't played anywhere with significant numbers of CMDRs. It'll be really cool to see a bunch of actual people in one of the giant furballs. They'd better increase the winnings fighting in one of those places though. I can happily fights NPCs all day (supposing I don't bite off more than I can chew), but going up against another human is going to cause me to get spaced in pretty much every other engagement.

  • AvalonGuardAvalonGuard Registered User regular
    If you need a reason to buy an Asp, the canopy is incredible.

    http://imgur.com/a/45qkl

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  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    If you need a reason to buy an Asp, the canopy is incredible.

    http://imgur.com/a/45qkl

    SOLD!

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  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    God, the Asp is my dream ship. Just right for being punchy and multipurpose without being too bulky. And god transitioning to that cockpit after the Adder would be a dream come true.

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  • SyngyneSyngyne Registered User regular
    That's an Anaconda's C4 plasma accelerator. Those things will take the cockpit off a cobra with a single grazing shot.

    Gotta get good at that vertical thrust.

    Or, in my case, take out the thrusters on a Viper in one shot.

    I was so embarrassed.

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