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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:gankers "Content delivery specialists"
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Moosepickle posted:Ever wondered what it's like to be a frog? You had me at [top tier]. Can I have dual citizenship?
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Apr 12, 2016 20:17
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Drake_263 posted:I was just about to post that. Exactly what we need. Even more unkillable ships.
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Apr 14, 2016 20:55
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:
More garbage for farming res sites is not my idea of "content" or "stuff and variety."
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Apr 15, 2016 01:34
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Mining is indeed very dope and relaxing. I've done over 100m in mining profit just from doing CGs. Make sure you mine within -30km of a hazres with the A prospectors to get the maximum payout. Helps to bring a mate along to dunk on enemy pirates while you mine, too!
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Apr 26, 2016 05:28
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Urthor posted:Sundae still plays Elite? I thought you quit after the coup I was rehired as an independent consultant at 3x my previous salary plus bonus.
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Apr 26, 2016 18:32
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LCL-Dead posted:9 tons of biowaste is incredibly cheap though, even with the 2 tons of sexbots that you get as a bonus. Yeah but with a 10t incentive of CD-75 Kitten Brand Coffee per pvp league win, vesting on the calendar year 3305.
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Apr 26, 2016 19:11
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Kavros posted:well, that's a shame. I knew about its pitch at release, but assumed they would have absolutely have had to changed that if they were advertising the ship as a warship that fills the same role as the corvette. For pvp it is superior to the corvette right now because it can carry class 8 scbs which are insanely powerful and the c4 hardpoints on the vette are not well utilized in the current meta. It is also much faster and can masslock vettes, and its hull is more suited for ramming. For pve, the vette and anaconda are both better ships as they have better distributor and are a bit more nimble. For pure pve i'd still stick with the anaconda if I had to choose a large ship.
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Apr 27, 2016 19:42
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Libluini posted:At least one of those things will change with those special snowflake weapons to blow up shields if you use SCBs. In that all large ships will be flying coffins, yeah. Will be genuinely shocked if that makes it to live.
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Apr 27, 2016 20:16
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The silent running module counter looks cool. I like the idea of modding one of each of your weapons and kind of having a swiss army knife loadout. I could see on my fdl having a couple of thermic multicannons, a rail that breaks shields, a multicannon that illuminates silent ships (just announced), and hopefully a huge PA that is significantly buffed in line with the c3. Might be fun. We'll see.
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Apr 28, 2016 22:05
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Mass lock missiles, scrammer mines, and railgun heat buff. I take back my whining about the update having too many pve modules. New module mods are going to own.
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May 3, 2016 20:14
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I really like them buffing the boost mechanic. Makes the combat a little more fast paced and feels more like star citizen combat, which is a model that I at first didnt favor compared to elite, but have come to appreciate more due to its faster pace and higher skill cap. The greatly increased mission payments for smuggling are good. Money should be more easily acquired as the game is already too grindy for the amount of content it has. The AI buffs are good and I wish they would stick with the human like behavior model. Buying a big ship does not entitle you to killing every small ship you engage, especially when that ship can be 400ms faster than you are. This makes intelligent module targetting more worthwhile, as well as burst damage. Its funny how much whining there is about AI behaving as humans do, which indicates there might be an issue with gameplay and not so much with npc/player behavior. That said, because of the more challenging AI they should really increase bounty payouts by 4 or 5 times. And get rid of the boring and easy RES farming mechanic of the past and turn it into more challenging bounty hunting.
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May 7, 2016 23:24
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Got the plasma ammo RNG affix for 3 imperial hammers (uses fuel as ammo in exchange for a 1% decrease in damage). Drained my entire fuel tank in one salvo 
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May 9, 2016 20:13
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LCL-Dead posted:Ship? Was a FDL. The affix drained a much more modest amount on a normal railgun and is pretty useable, so might be a bug. Could be a new pve meta to bring a conda chocked full of fuel tanks and railguns and just go ham.
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May 9, 2016 20:36
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Drake_263 posted:Do remember that the Ferdie has a tiny fuel tank for something its size - it has a 16-ton tank, equivalent to a Cobra's, while the ship itself is about the size of a Python. (The Asp-E, for reference, has a 32-ton tank, and I think the Python is 64-ton). Seems like a cool upgrade but you probably want to fit those on a ship with a bigger tank and space for aux tanks. Gotcha. So 1 shot using an fdl and 4 shots using a python. Thanks for the tip!
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May 9, 2016 21:32
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Drake_263 posted:8 shots with a python, then! Gotta have fuel to get home  That said I think it's a really cool module for the pve inclined. Should make rails and such useable in pve without too much of a sacrifice.
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May 9, 2016 22:35
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Interesting thing about the heal beam we realized while testing with Harry--4 pipping your shields makes them 2.4x stronger, and thus requires 2.4x more dps to break because of increased resistance, NOT increased capacity. The healing beam heals your shields at a rate that is as if they have 0 pips to shields (pips do not cause you to resist healing). This means that the amount of HPS required to maintain a shield is significantly less (potentially 2.4x less) than the DPS required to break it, making people running the healing mod to their beam laser super effective since it has no downsides and automatically switches between healing/damage depending on if you target a friendly!
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May 9, 2016 23:58
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Drake_263 posted:Automatically switches modes if you target a friendly, but if you target an enemy and your friend flies through your beam they still take damage, right? Nope! It will heal your wingmates even if you are attacking an enemy with it.
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May 10, 2016 00:15
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Okay so yesterday got c2 frags that pull ships towards you and limit your target's speed to as if they have 0 pips in engines. Ladies and gentlemen--they first gave us a warp scram, and have now given us a webifier. Eve-ification is nearing completion. And it is awesome. Braben has been good to us. No one survives.
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May 10, 2016 18:14
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Icedude posted:Oh boy, does this mean I'll get to build a tackler iggle to fly in wings with heavier ships? You're goddamn right. Fsd scram mines and webifier frags on an iggle gonna be super cute.
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May 10, 2016 18:37
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Elite was never meant to be, and will never be, an open world mmo built upon player actions and interactions. I've come to terms with that and feel fortunate that there are still plenty of those who freely log into open and allow me to torment them. SC will hopefully be that experience many of the pvp players were hoping for, but it is shocking how crybaby a huge amount of SC players are even in early alpha, which has shaken my confidence quite a bit--despite the fact the game probably won't launch this side of the decade.
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May 10, 2016 20:22
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LCL-Dead posted:These are the people who ran from EVE after getting ganked and losing everything a few times. With Agreed. Just a bizzare sentiment to have about internet spaceships and being unable to cope with them being blown up, generally. I'm not sure if any other genre attracts a comparable amount of whingers and people who are so against playing with others. As always, goons ruin everything, forever.
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May 10, 2016 20:49
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catering to their every fear about ganking/pirating and the development staff pretty much turning a blind eye to any and all questions about the same, what else did you expect? The goonfear is strong in SC and it's probably going to grow exponentially in ED as this competition pushes on.
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I actually wouldnt mind some mild p2w content in ED and most games. Most adults are short on free time and the desire to grind, but have plenty of disposable income. Granted, it's lovely to do it in games that aren't f2p. I guess the expansion which gives access to the enhanced modules is kind of p2w but still will require ungodly amounts of grinding.
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May 11, 2016 21:36
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As someone who is good at combat in the game and who has routinely thought to myself "heh, get good" when i've seen people bitch about the difficulty of the game, I admit that high ranked npcs seem overtuned relative to the reward you receive from destroying them. Aside from the blatant bugs, risk/reward seems way out of whack. High ranked npcs should be rare and worth millions of credits to kill, kind of like elite mobs in mmos.
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May 30, 2016 00:36
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The entire beta through roll out of this patch is just a microcosm of the legitimate criticism leveled at Frontier as a developer. It's just strange they continue to make the same mistakes despite every opportunity to avoid them.
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May 30, 2016 01:56
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DancingShade posted:At this point you really have to wonder why they even bothered with a test server. BECAUSE they sell beta PATCH access for MONEY. You get to "test" their broken af game for just a nominal fee of 15 dollars!
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May 31, 2016 21:06
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So she "designed" lovely, cheating AI to combat the non-existent problem of noobs getting ganked, then unleashed the cheating AI on the pve crybabies she was trying to protect? What am I missing here because this story doesn't seem to have a coherent point aside from "gently caress you."
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Jun 2, 2016 20:59
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hobbesmaster posted:To be fair to her, the bugs were not related to AI behavior but the parts of the code generating ship configurations. I actually think she is a good dev but posting garbage like this without a coherent or sympathetic argument is just petulant and does you no favors. You are right that the AI behavior and the module bugs are separate issues and she probably has very little if any blame for the one-shotting npcs. Her AI tuning, while a bit aggressive, does not seem to be much more challenging than before--aside from the use of special modules which can be troublesome in some situations. Aside from the one shotting do to certain bug interactions, shes done a good job.
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Jun 2, 2016 21:08
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I'm just going to leave this here: I halped make this :3
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Jun 8, 2016 22:30
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I would recommend that anyone looking for the eve-in-cockpits experience just play eve with us instead... it is much less frustrating than bitching about a game not being what we want because ED was never meant to be that game and never will. It is fundamentally not an mmo and will never be. Also, SC just pushed alpha 2.4 to stable and it is freaking awesome. I would also recommend anyone looking for that eve-in-cockpits experience to quit shitposting about ED and enjoy games that are designed to actually make sense.
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Jun 11, 2016 18:56
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Lol owned
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Jun 11, 2016 20:14
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I've had enough Wang after trying to get allied with Sirius Corp.
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Jun 11, 2016 22:33
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Oh, also if anyone has been paying attention the whole API thing.. FD are actually working on this (pretty slowly) but using what they've showcased so far for the new API, we've been able to produce some cool rudimentary kill-mail type stuff, similar to EVE. Finally us griefers are going to be able to have official records of our ~dank ganks~
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Jul 11, 2016 20:50
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Main Paineframe posted:Sure, but will it be able to do anything actually interesting? Not sure. I can't even pretend to begin to understand the mind of a carebear.
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Jul 11, 2016 21:24
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Main Paineframe posted:An API call to automatically post This is actually a great idea so it would surely be considered abusive by Frontier.
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Jul 11, 2016 22:50
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threads to the Reddit and/or official forums with the appropriate blanks filled in when specified things happen
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FDEV keep a number of shadowstats and you can request them like this: make a support ticket for ED under in game issue and ask nicely. Within 30 min to an hour support will usually reply:
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Jul 20, 2016 06:22
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Zac and the bunch actually came through on the API... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_9lIpcOxth3Uno5SldGa0szOWs/view
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Jul 21, 2016 01:44
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Yolomon Wayne posted:Lol, civil war in cubeo. CZs are notoriously unfun and not programmed very well. Dont ever go in one unless its to secure an ez pvp gank. If you really want to do those missions, though, CZs essentially require a wing of competent pilots now. Don't try and do them alone, it's multiplayer content.
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Jul 26, 2016 22:44
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Heat weapons still confirmed strong. Require a couple ships with them to be really effective tho.
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Section Z posted:Why does the fact they felt the need to do this amuse me so much? Has there been a sudden influx of kamikaze base dive player kills I'm unaware of? At least that would be a funny reason to need that particular change. Absolutely. Ive had friends banned for apparent "hacking" when tanking station defenses in cutters so that we could secure PKs.
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