Elite:Dangerous

[metalangel]

Shoot their drive out if you want to stop them running... I had my thrusters knackered by one of those super pirates and while I could still run it was only in a straight line, the only option was to self destruct.

Pretty much everyone in the game has now figured out that the area around Lave is the place to go for rares... four or five of the systems there produce rares and if you ship them to another system that produces rares that's a fair distance away you'll make a big wodge and then can make a big wodge on your return journey too.

I think it was one or two return journeys in the Freewinder and I had enough for my Adder, and then I could fill it up and trick it out and eventually afford my Viper and trick it out too. Then I got bored and stopped playing, a bit like Frontier where doing Luxury Goods to Barnard's Star same me go from Adder to Lion Transport in no time at all.

Zero Punctuation: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9991-Elite-Dangerous-Review

I think he's still in the 'wow this is all new and wonderful' phase and hasn't had time to see just how shallow it is.

All that's happened for me is I resubbed to EvE to see if I felt like playing that again instead.
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[MarJay]

[metalangel]

There's not really much point to doing that stuff yet anyway.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/15/elite-dangerous-review/

It is that shallow. There's a few cool but repetitive things to do and no reason to do them apart from making more money. The Wings update can't come soon enough.
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[iMark]

Combat pays out better now, but I've been doing a bit of exploring

https://i.imgur.com/U1lUmoS.png

Some bloody huge stars.
https://i.imgur.com/9jdAtZ3.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/uUpVK15.png
https://i.imgur.com/MSAEQcI.jpg
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[metalangel]

Yup... I refitted my Viper and went out last night after doing a rare run and made quite a bit of money!

I think I want a Vulture now.
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[iMark]

Vulture's are sick...

They have stupidly powerful shields and can destroy Condas with ease, love mine

Can easily make 1m per hour in RES bounty hunting

https://i.imgur.com/oWtAoWL.jpg

My current setup
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"G" : you got him to have a look at a forum which seems to have established a picture of an erect penis in a cat's mouth as it's mascot and thought he might consider it ok?

[nowhere.elysium]

The Vulture does look kinda tempting. Not sure I want to sell off the Cobra to get one, though - may have to grind for a while before I can afford one, then. Two hardpoints does rather limit the options, though.
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[iMark]

They are Large (Class 3) hard points though, all you need is 2 gimballed Pulse Lasers and your set to wreck everything, just aim for power plants on Condas and Pythons.
Clippers & Dropships hull are weak so they just get shredded by lasers, no need for kinetic damage on them.

You could run with 1 laser and 1 cannon but that'd mean going back to restock ammo which is pretty pointless when the Pulse Lasers can wreck everything

The only issue with Vulture is power management but if you know how to manage it you can get away with being over 100% power , maybe 106-107% Power used, as you can set stuff not needed for combat (Cargo Hatch, FSD & Fuel Scoop) to priority 2 which will disable those when your hard points deploy.
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"G" : you got him to have a look at a forum which seems to have established a picture of an erect penis in a cat's mouth as it's mascot and thought he might consider it ok?

[nowhere.elysium]

Interdasting. How's the thermal handling?
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[iMark]

2x Pulse Lasers with Grade A Power Distributor you can fire them for a good while on 4 pips before they need to recharge.

Burst Lasers are pretty bad on 4 pips, and I won't touch Beam Lasers, they are horrible.

All you need to run is 2/0/4 SYS/ENG/WEP in pips when in a RES, you can swap between WEP and ENG when moving between targets if you really want but the vulture has that good maneuverability you never need the extra speed from having pips in ENG



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I'll do a bit of bounty hunting in a RES later and get a video up on YT for it, gives me chance to try out the TrackIR in Combat , just got it on Friday but haven't played with it yet in Combat
https://i.imgur.com/UOdU7Xy.jpg
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K8 GSXR 1000
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[iMark]

4 minutes, 100k in Bounties plus what ever I got from other sectors from KWS...

Video rendering etc.
You can see me firing the pulse lasers for a good while before they need recharged, and it wrecks pretty much everything with ease, didn't have any "big" targets really apart from a Dropship, python I spotted was clean sadly,

100k in less than 5 minutes though, pretty easy money if you ask me!

Will edit post again when video is uploaded...

https://youtu.be/h1GHbRxylj8 - Currently as of 2057 it's still processing so it won't be in 1080p for a little while yet... but you get the idea
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[metalangel]

Flown iMark's Vulture fit (apart from the shield, which is 5 million on its own, so I got the next best one) in a conflict zone for most of the evening. Jolly good fun, lasers running dry only irritation, makes me wish for another hardpoint, even a small one, for something else to shoot while the lasers recharge.

Cracking fit, all said,
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[rideslikean00...]

[metalangel]

Good thread on the balancing issues when it comes to ships.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/30rw4z/elite_fdl_or_why_price_balancing_is_bad/

We'll never have as many ships as EvE, so FD should be trying even harder to avoid this situation.
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[Rogerborg]

[Sload]

[metalangel]

[CaNsA]

https://i.imgur.com/jUCV1C6.gif

Yup.

[metalangel]

Anyone still bothering?

I played for ages (enjoying the 50 tons of Diso Ma Corn) hoping for a T7, only to be told that a Clipper > T7. So I went for that, except 1.3 was getting close and trading was so tedious I wanted a change from that and combat so exploring could be fun, and the Diamondback is an exploration ship.

Except it's not as good as the Asp, and if I do buy and kit out an Asp, I will have spent so much it'll take me forever grinding rares to earn to back, so I should get a proper sized trading ship and do proper trading...

Meanwhile, pirates are whinging that to combat people spamming cargo drops, there can only be 20 cans of cargo per instance before the oldest one disappears. This makes robbing people unviable.

I don't have time to care, because on the second or third day of 1.3, I was clipped by an AI Cobra as I left a station. I immediately gained a 12,632cr bounty that had the maximum seven day timer on it before I could pay it off. I docked back up. I realize I could just fly someone else and rat around there for a while instead, but being turfed out of my home system because of Frontier's heavy-handed mismanagement of their multiplayer game (which they really wanted to be multiplayer, remember) grated so much I'm just taking a week's holiday instead.
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[Rogerborg]

Haven't bothered yet, still waiting for that £20 price point and dropping the quad core minimum spec. You don't need to use more than 2 cores for anything that the player sees.

The Steam review rating shilling seems to be tailing off, and a couple of informative negatives have bubbled to the top. The theme seems to be "Early access game asking AAA money. Soon everyone will be in end-game ships and then what?"

Fair assessment?
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[metalangel]

[nowhere.elysium]

Given the imminent release of Horizons (the planetary landing DLC), I figured I'd resurrect this thread.

I'm still playing, and enjoying myself immensely. Currently doing the whole exploration thing in a Diamondback, which was always the big draw of this game for me, and I'm most of the way to the core at the moment: 18K LY from Sol as I type this. Should have a metric shitload of first discovered tags when I cash in from this trip - I'm hoping that I should be able to bump my exploration rank significantly and buy a Python with the cash. I'll probably have a stab at the new and improved mining once I've done that.
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[CaNsA]

Elite: Dangerous is under a tenner in the Steam Sale.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/359320

[Rogerborg]

Price is right, still demanding a quad core. Poor show. Probably mining bitcoins in the background.
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[CaNsA]

MaBoughey let me have a bash at this using his account.

I want to like it, but it comes across as a mega time hole and a simplified EVE Online.

But for some reason, I'm still tempted to cough for it.