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Libluini posted:Also no, that first picture shows my exhaust, based on two facts: The Milkyway is not beige, and I moved my ship around a lot before making that screenshot, so I know how my loving exhaust looks like. …but… the Milky way often is beige, especially when lensed, and exhaust is grey if anything (not to mention not very visible at long range). Also, why would it lens your exhaust unless it's on the other side of the black hole. 
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Photex posted:Someone talk me out of buying this game, I've been looking at it forever and Read the few posts right above yours. Do you want a game that demands fifty hours of your life to advance a ship? This is a game you buy and then not touch until an exploit goes public.
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Jan 8, 2017 14:56
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To be fair it's really fun to bumble around in a Sidewinder doing odd jobs and finding the odd upgrade and being blown up for parking wrong until you get the hang of the game. If you try and sprint to the end game you'll have a bad time as the end game doesn't exist.
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Jan 8, 2017 15:00
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Zigmidge posted:Read the few posts right above yours. Do you want a game that demands fifty hours of your life to advance a ship? I really don't understand this kind of attitude, especially as the smaller ships are way more fun to fly than the bigguns. Anyone who has to get the biggest ship as quickly as possible is seriously compensating for something...
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Jan 8, 2017 15:10
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Okay so change "50 hours" to "complete stagnation"Mu77ley posted:Anyone who has to get the biggest ship as quickly as possible is seriously compensating for something... It's a video game, son. Zigmidge fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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Jan 8, 2017 15:24
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Tippis posted:…but… the Milky way often is beige, especially when lensed, and exhaust is grey if anything (not to mention not very visible at long range). Also, why would it lens your exhaust unless it's on the other side of the black hole. Well, I realize I kind of hosed over myself by only making one single (and not very good) picture of this phenomenon, so let's file this discussion until I stumble over another black hole and then I can hopefully remember to record this on video. Until then I guess this question has to remain unsolved! 
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Jan 8, 2017 15:25
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Zigmidge posted:Okay so change "50 hours" to "complete stagnation" Riiiiiight. I prefer to call it "having fun playing the game". Maybe you just don't like Elite games? That's fine though. Just play something else.
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Jan 8, 2017 15:26
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No I quite enjoy flying spaceships and I enjoy when there's an exploit to allow me to try new and different things in a reasonable amount of time such that my perspective doesn't get warped to the point where I'm throwing around car ownership idioms in defence of blistering grinds.
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Jan 8, 2017 15:35
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Libluini posted:Well, I realize I kind of hosed over myself by only making one single (and not very good) picture of this phenomenon, so let's file this discussion until I stumble over another black hole and then I can hopefully remember to record this on video. Until then I guess this question has to remain unsolved! Yeah, the location of the hole is a bit too obtuse in that picture to really show anything, but if you could find a good showing of exhaust seen through the effect, that would be neat.
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Jan 8, 2017 15:38
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Libluini posted:Well, I realize I kind of hosed over myself by only making one single (and not very good) picture of this phenomenon, so let's file this discussion until I stumble over another black hole and then I can hopefully remember to record this on video. Until then I guess this question has to remain unsolved! Tippis posted:Yeah, the location of the hole is a bit too obtuse in that picture to really show anything, but if you could find a good showing of exhaust seen through the effect, that would be neat. No question about it, that is the milky way in your picture. Exhaust is not lensed by black holes at this time. Asp exhaust trails visibly unaffected. Also visible in the last few seconds of the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USoXfHbY4zM&t=158s
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Jan 8, 2017 15:46
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Zigmidge posted:No I quite enjoy flying spaceships and I enjoy when there's an exploit to allow me to try new and different things in a reasonable amount of time such that my perspective doesn't get warped to the point where I'm throwing around car ownership idioms in defence of blistering grinds. Whatever floats your boat I suppose. Personally I find cheating at games cheapens the whole experience.
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Jan 8, 2017 15:57
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Mu77ley posted:Whatever floats your boat I suppose. Personally I find cheating at games cheapens the whole experience. we have a channel on the discord exclusively for moneymaking because people hate grinding that much, grumble about how it breaks your immersion there
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Jan 8, 2017 16:30
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Good Dumplings posted:we have a channel on the discord exclusively for moneymaking because people hate grinding that much, grumble about how it breaks your immersion there I don't recall ever mentioning the dreaded "immersion" word, and I especially don't give a poo poo about what other people do. I just personally don't cheat in games as I find it just them for me. So, I won't exploit in Elite in the same way I won't use a console command to give myself tons of money in Skyrim, or infinite ammo in Doom, etc.
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Jan 8, 2017 16:41
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They aren't exploits, they are gold rushes and should be treated as such.
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Jan 8, 2017 16:57
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TomR posted:They aren't exploits, they are gold rushes and should be treated as such. edit: I've been doing this poo poo since Unicorn runs and I agree. Groggy nard fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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Jan 8, 2017 17:12
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Natsuumi posted:No question about it, that is the milky way in your picture. Exhaust is not lensed by black holes at this time. Your exhaust trail is kind of hard to see. I watched the last few seconds multiple times and I couldn't see anything except some slight wavering behind the engine glow. Since this bothered me somewhat, I made a recording of my own engine glow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQTYNyroKg So, I think that trail can get bend by a black hole. Of course this video also in fact proves the galaxy is beige out here at Colonia. So my dumb picture looks to be really just the galaxy getting twirled up behind my exhaust, oops!  But really, the next time I visit a massive black hole like my last one, I'll make really goddamn sure I have documentation for every claim I make. (Also this way I can make sure I'm not just an idiot.)
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Jan 8, 2017 17:24
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Krycek posted:The game is good. Play with goons and make pubbies cry. Play with goons and try to make pubbies cry, but they'll just log out and back in to solo mode then happily fly off into space with no consequences. Then you cry. Dumb game is dumb.
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Jan 8, 2017 17:39
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TomR posted:They aren't exploits, they are gold rushes and should be treated as such. The actual missions that are triggered by the background sim are not exploits. The whole mode-switch to stack as many missions as possible and then suiciding to get back to the station bit is the exploit bit.
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Jan 8, 2017 17:50
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Mu77ley posted:The actual missions that are triggered by the background sim are not exploits. The whole mode-switch to stack as many missions as possible and then suiciding to get back to the station bit is the exploit bit. It's not an exploit, just really loving lazy programming. Believe me I hate it as much as you.
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Jan 8, 2017 17:52
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Mr. Crow posted:It's not an exploit, just really loving lazy programming. It's an exploit that comes from a weird design decision made from a broken promise when the game was in kickstarter, ergo, kickstarter ruins everything.
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Jan 8, 2017 17:54
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Meatsicle posted:Play with goons and try to make pubbies cry, but they'll just log out and back in to solo mode then happily fly off into space with no consequences. Then you cry. The ability to completely avoid and/or troll gankers if you want sounds like a great design to me.  The salt must flow...
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Jan 8, 2017 17:57
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Mr. Crow posted:It's not an exploit, just really loving lazy programming. You sound rather emotional. It's just a game.
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Jan 8, 2017 17:58
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Mu77ley posted:The ability to completely avoid and/or troll gankers if you want sounds like a great design to me. Yeah what the gently caress. Why would you be upset you don't have the ability to ruin other people's playing if they want to play singleplayer.
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Jan 8, 2017 18:05
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Bilal posted:Yeah what the gently caress. Why would you be upset you don't have the ability to ruin other people's playing if they want to play singleplayer. Elite is a great game because instead of pubby tears we get ganker tears.
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Jan 8, 2017 18:16
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Mu77ley posted:You sound rather emotional. It's just a game. 
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Jan 8, 2017 18:18
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I bought this game on a whim, what do I do?
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I bought this game on a whim, what do I do? Shoot poo poo at poo poo and blow poo poo up is one option to start with. Seriously, run through the tutorials (they're proper tutorials now) for the basics, and then for some fun early earnings you can head to a RES (resource extraction site) and follow the cops around and help them to kill bad guys for some bounties. This is a little dated now, but should give some ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLsHmTe-4MU&t=1s
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I bought this game on a whim, what do I do? This guy has a good channel on stuff to do in the early game and how to build a narrative in your head to care about any of it. They are pretty dated now, so there is a lot more content not covered and new mechanics, but for just general "flying my spaceship" stuff, he dabbles in a bit of everything. The tutorial missions are supposedly well done now, with scripting and voice acting and everything. Finish all of them except the combat tutorial (only Cmdr JamesTK ever beat it) and do whatever sounds fun. Try to have a couple of goals you can chip at so you don't pigeon hole yourself into a single grind. Maybe try to get rank for a Sol permit while saving up for a Diamondback Scout. Do smuggling missions around the starter systems while trying to gain rank with a certain faction. Get on Discord. Other people make the game much more fun, so find some goons and hop in a res to shoot stuff. They will also explain what all of that means! Do not take any missions to Hutton Orbital in Alpha Centauri.
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Meatsicle posted:Play with goons and try to make pubbies cry, but they'll just log out and back in to solo mode then happily fly off into space with no consequences. Then you cry. 
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Mr. Crow posted:It's not an exploit, just really loving lazy programming. such  today!
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Jan 8, 2017 19:14
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Mike the TV posted:Elite is a great game because instead of pubby tears we get ganker tears.
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Jan 8, 2017 19:23
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reminder that if you judge the value of a game by how much you can gently caress with "pubbies" you're probably a broken human being 
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:reminder that if you judge the value of a game by how much you can gently caress with "pubbies" you're probably a broken human being that's also the entire gimmick of ~the~ most successful SA game group, so
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Jan 8, 2017 19:31
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:that's also the entire gimmick of ~the~ most successful SA game group, so yes and my point still stands
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I've never understood "pubbie / ganker" talk becaus, playing online and generally flying around populated areas, I rarely see players at all. If I'm lucky I'll see a player docked at a station. I used to see a few players in RES back when that was the best way to make money, but I don't think I've ever seen a player outside of a station since then. I'd love to annoy pubbies, get interdicted by players, etc, but it never happens!
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DancingShade posted:The Marco Qwent invite will take 2-3 days of mission board scumming before it spawns. That's just bad luck. I got mine in less than 10 board refreshes.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:that's also the entire gimmick of ~the~ most successful SA game group, so It's not even a gimmick, people just play eve online within the rules of that game, like you know, normal people do. That just happens to make some people *extremely* angry because it goes against their own e-honour code. Also because teamwork is overpowered af, but they want to be some kind of good player and that doesn't really show as much when you're in a group. Krycek posted:That's just bad luck. I got mine in less than 10 board refreshes. 
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I bought this game on a whim, what do I do? Check out the diamond frogs thread in PGS. Jump into the discord and we'll get you started.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:reminder that if you judge the value of a game by how much you can gently caress with "pubbies" you're probably a broken human being The most fun I've ever had with online games was when rival player groups were at odds with each other to the point that loving with each other became THE game over the actual designed mechanics.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:reminder that if you judge the value of a game by how much you can gently caress with "pubbies" you're probably a broken human being Lol my e-morality reeeeeee
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