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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:My other question would be if you do get a payout for mapping, is that only landable worlds or do I get cash for mapping HMCs and Water Worlds and whatnot? If you're doing R2R, you should definitely map the planets too but don't do anything further out than like 10kls. There are hundreds of planets in the list-- there's no need to go to the out-of-the-way ones to make every possible credit. Also don't do it for more than an hour just to grind money unless that's your idea of fun. Everything in this game is best taken a little bit at a time to stave off that Space Madness. The game can be a real un-fun grind if you sit down and spend hours at a time to just max out your cash try to get 100x Pharmaceutical Isolators in one go for no reason. Is the Hauler your (not you specifically) second ship, that you bought just to do R2R, and you're grinding it for 20 hours to buy an Anaconda? Don't.
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Seconding that. I’ve had the most fun bouncing between small bits of things. I’ve quit for long periods every time I decided “I’m going to totally engineer this ship for <x>” where X required 20 hours of material hunting. If I had just played for those 20 hours, I probably would have gotten more than half the materials and left myself with a more reasonable goal, but structuring yourself for grinding is failure. That said, Elite is a great game to pick up and put down. It’s hard to become totally lost as to what you were doing.
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boar guy posted:get one of these: https://www.radiosidewinder.com/product/hotas-for-elite-dangerous/ oh noooo why did I read this post. I told myself I wouldn't buy a HOTAS just for Elite because all the ones I saw were like $150+, but $60 with some really good reviews sounds just right.
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Speaking of HOTAS; I gifted myself an X52 for christmas. Does anybody have a reference card or a good button layout for it? I know it'll come down to my preference, but it's always nice having a base to go from.
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Any suggested newb mining builds for a Keelback? Only ones I've found on Coriolis don't seem to be updated for 3.3.
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DonVincenzo posted:
Lmao. This is a good thread.
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DonVincenzo posted:
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If anyone is looking for a good starter HOTAS, Saitek X45 is drat near indestructible and can be found for ~30 shipped on ebay.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Speaking of HOTAS; I gifted myself an X52 for christmas. Does anybody have a reference card or a good button layout for it? There are sooooo many buttons. HMU on discord and I'll send you my profile, but honestly, just bind each button to whatever you panic-press when you think about doing a thing. Easy choices for me were primary fire on the trigger, secondary fire on the C-button. Pinky trigger is mode-switch. Lower hat is direction thrust. Boost is the I-button on the throttle. Don't forget to (carefully) take out the throttle detent! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrDCO-FMBI
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a mysterious cloak posted:Any suggested newb mining builds for a Keelback? Only ones I've found on Coriolis don't seem to be updated for 3.3. Depends if you want to do strip mining or only search for new stuff. Edit: to be helpful, I will throw a build together for you once I get home. Arcturas fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Edmond Dantes posted:Speaking of HOTAS; I gifted myself an X52 for christmas. Does anybody have a reference card or a good button layout for it? I use this setup it works well. You will have to bind the new features like FSS and such. X52: https://github.com/X52EliteSetup/X52 X52 Pro: https://github.com/X52EliteSetup/X52-Pro
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Keelback build. (Beware, though, that I have never flown a Keelback so don't trust these.) Fancy mining - crack the big rocks, surface ablate the tasty bits and collect the core, move on quickly. Featuring a pulse wave scanner, core cracking missiles, and surface ablator. Replace the shield booster with the scanner, the missile launcher with core crackers, and the frag cannon with the surface ablator. Places to cut if you need to save cash - downgrade the shield and/or thrusters and/or FSD. If you're comfortable with some power priority fussing, you can downgrade to a B-rated power plant. You can also drop the turrets or swap to multicannons to downgrade the power plant as well. Those changes will save you a bunch of cash. I wish I could give you a second size 3 limpet controller. You can swap the collector and prospector limpet's sizes depending on your needs. If you're finding you only use one prospector limpet at a time, having two collectors is probably better. For standard mining, just use one of the builds you found online, possibly swapping a laser for a seismic charge launcher, or adding one if the build doesn't use all the hardpoints. Arcturas fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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iospace posted:You only need to fly out to it if you want to do a detailed surface scan. The FSS scanning gets you the amount that Road to Riches says you get. The jury is still out though on how much the surface scanning with the probes gets you. surface scanning alone gets you a poo poo ton of money. I made over 9 million by doing surface scans in a discovered system with like a dozen planets.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Speaking of HOTAS; I gifted myself an X52 for christmas. Does anybody have a reference card or a good button layout for it? Use the default button layout and just switch things around one at a time until you have a binding you get behind.
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Edmond Dantes posted:Speaking of HOTAS; I gifted myself an X52 for christmas. Does anybody have a reference card or a good button layout for it? The one big downside of it is that it uses regular keybinds instead of Dick Trauma posted:"Do you have any Grey Poupon?" BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Elite is one of those games that I ended up spending a lot of money on! Like a HOTAS. Or cool skins. The loving LEP. Boy, that was totally worth the money. *insert extreme sarcasm*
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Dogeh posted:Elite is one of those games that I ended up spending a lot of money on! 
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Dogeh posted:Elite is one of those games that I ended up spending a lot of money on! Me too!!! I bought two different HOTASs, tons of skins, the Lifetime pass, and even an Oculus just for this game! And while it’s not the best “game” per se, it is one of the best virtual experiences you can have right now and I think, with no sarcasm, it was worth every penny!
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Looking back, I kinda wish I had backed back in the day instead of putting my money into Store Citizen (came out ahead, when I sold my original ship that ended up paying for the other ship also bought and still have). Having spent 12EUR for the game plus the season pass feels pretty great when money are extremely tight, though.
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D. Ebdrup posted:Store Citizen (came out ahead, when I sold my original ship that ended up paying for the other ship also bought and still have). no you didnt come out ahead in anything tbh
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I’ve talked two buddies into playing who are getting a HOTAS/VR for Christmas and I want to set up to hunt Thargoids with them. In all likelihood we will multicrew, since I don’t think one wants to risk his rebuy and another is very new. I’m thinking of kitting our a double-fighter Crusader. Thinking of going as much guardian stuff as possible: 3C Shard, 2B Gauss, 2B Remote Flak, 3x1D Gauss. 6D fighter hangar for them. Any suggestions or pitfalls?
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Trip Report: Drop in 200km from a hotspot and cruise at 180m/s so you can fire limpets and use the navpoint to keep you oriented so you dont double back. Cracked three Monzanite asteroids in 25 mins.
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Statutory Ape posted:no you didnt come out ahead in anything tbh When it's actually 3304 (in real life and not just in Elite) and Star Citizen finally drops we will see who has the last laugh.
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Dogeh posted:Elite is one of those games that I ended up spending a lot of money on!
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Now I really need to get good at remembering what the crackable asteroids look like. Spent an hour or so burning through 60 limpets in a pristine icy ring and I got real good at getting fooled by the subsurface/surface asteroids which glow pretty well...
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Arcturas posted:Now I really need to get good at remembering what the crackable asteroids look like. Spent an hour or so burning through 60 limpets in a pristine icy ring and I got real good at getting fooled by the subsurface/surface asteroids which glow pretty well... The glow is based on the proportion of subsurface deposits (including crackable ones) vs the size of the asteroid. You are being tricked by small rocks. You're better off chasing faint yellow asteroids.
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chaosapiant posted:Me too!!! I bought two different HOTASs, tons of skins, the Lifetime pass, and even an Oculus just for this game! And while it’s not the best “game” per se, it is one of the best virtual experiences you can have right now and I think, with no sarcasm, it was worth every penny! ED is still the "killer app" for VR in my opinion. The sense of scale you get in VR really has to be seen to be believed. I still remember the first time I fired up the game with my headset on and realized, holy poo poo, the Asp Explorer is HUGE. Anyway, yes, I've spent an embarrassing amount of money on this game, including a cool outfit for my CMDR and a Halloween bobble head. No regrets.
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mekyabetsu posted:ED is still the "killer app" for VR in my opinion. The sense of scale you get in VR really has to be seen to be believed. I still remember the first time I fired up the game with my headset on and realized, holy poo poo, the Asp Explorer is HUGE. Yep, the first ship I was flying when I first popped on my Oculus was a little ol' Vulture. I couldn't not believe just how enormous the windshield alone was in the cockpit. Or the first time I warped to a star and almost poo poo myself.
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I just finished the tutorials for the first time. They were good enough to get by but don't teach a whole lot besides how to kinda fly. Do you folks that use a gamepad use the default controls? I'm finding it to be kinda awkward but it might just be my lack of practice. And do all the ships turn so slowly...
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So after discovering it earlier today, I kinda want to see if I can't swing the money to pick up Voice Attack and one of those fancy voice packs you can get. I asked some frogs in the discord, but I figure it can't hurt to ask if anyone has experience using all of that? edit: if you're talking the flat out turning left and right, yes. it's like planes, you turn by making that side your 'up' and pulling back on the stick. ShootaBoy fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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oXDemosthenesXo posted:Do you folks that use a gamepad use the default controls? I'm finding it to be kinda awkward but it might just be my lack of practice. I found it tricky at first but after a bit of practice I don't have any real issues. Considering how many commands there are in the game, I think they've done a pretty drat good job mapping the DS4 in a way that isn't a giant mess.
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oXDemosthenesXo posted:I just finished the tutorials for the first time. They were good enough to get by but don't teach a whole lot besides how to kinda fly. Yes, for all of us old Tie Fighter/Freespace nerds the yaw is a difficult transition. Roll is your primary means of turning, then pitch up/down to align. Keep your throttle in the middle of the sweet spot (or hit the boost) in newtonian space for best maneuvering. In supercruise, set the throttle to 50% for the tightest turns.
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oXDemosthenesXo posted:I just finished the tutorials for the first time. They were good enough to get by but don't teach a whole lot besides how to kinda fly. More or less, but you'll add and drop bindings based on what you're doing. I recycle my shoulder buttons pretty regularly. Also note that there's a alternate control scheme that you can drop into and out of. As for turning speed, never yaw. Always roll and pitch.
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OK thanks for confirming what I was thinking. I figured out roll and pitch in the first 30 seconds so I guess the starting ship is just a pig. I'll have to check in that alternate scheme next session. The biggest problems I had were with low speed precision movements. With yaw and thrust up/down on the same stick I was constantly accidentally moving up or down when docking. And I never did find thrust left/right.
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Statutory Ape posted:no you didnt come out ahead in anything tbh
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oXDemosthenesXo posted:OK thanks for confirming what I was thinking. I figured out roll and pitch in the first 30 seconds so I guess the starting ship is just a pig.
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I jumped in to one of the unpopulated systems I'm visiting on my way home and almost immediately received an interdiction alert. Nothing was on the radar. Scared the crap out of me but I managed to escape, scoop and run to the next system. I thought there was no one else out here because the systems are unpopulated. 
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Soooo this is probably a bug, you might wanna get on it before Frontier discovers you're having Viktorenko Holdings in CD-33 8748 says it has 0 demand for all the deep core gems, but is buying them anyways for stupid amounts. Did I say stupid amounts? 1.6m per Opal is the craziest, Benitoite 1.1m. Serendibite 942k. Even pirated Low Temp Diamonds will sell for 550k in the Black Market. Delkar is 22ly away, has Pristine Reserves, and all 4 ring types just to save you the EDDB lookup. 24 Iota Crateris is the Independent/agricultural anarchy system from the piracy video a few pages back, population 13 billion, if piracy is your thing. Its 42ly away. Better 'get cracking' before Frontier fixes it.  edit: 
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