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I took my stream exploring the other day, looking for a Black hole simply because I hadn't encountered one yet. Our destination was 40 Upsilon-2 Hydrae, choosen because it has both a black hole and a neutron star. It is also a very silly system in other ways. My ship is a Diamondback explorer kitted for exploring. Guns were left on because I wasn't going that far and you never know. We came across this lovely little binary system enroute.  And flew between the suns, a move that some of the stream thought might be suicidal, forgetting that Space Is Big.  Really Big.  Last jump lined up.  Arrival. And the discovery that we have a friend - see the pink dot above the sun? That's not an entity in the system, but a graphical artifact, cause we think by the black hole's special shader effects. Stream decided that it was my fairy spirit guide and called it Navi. HEY LISTEN!  Black hole on the scanner  A quick look at how ridiculous this system is - 73 entities, mostly stars. Rubbish stars, but still, stars.  Here's what we came for, the black hole, observable via the gravitational lensing. Sadly the lensing doesn't apply to in-system things, only the skybox, but still, pretty.   A last look back at the system before flying away to sell data.  The neutron star was both boring and dangerous.
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Tokyo Sexwhale posted:They've also added an Onionhead T-shirt. That's been out for a while. Their tshirts are really good quality btw.
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Stanko-Prussian posted:Greeble. Or Kibble.
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Dec 15, 2015 15:40
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I have a feeling that the DBE has been replaced in shipyard lists by one of the new ships post-Horizons. Could people let me know if they spot them for sale anywhere? They're not in Xihe or Nisgayo any more.
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Dec 16, 2015 13:20
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They really need to start adding tabs to the control configuration page
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Dec 16, 2015 15:53
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I had a mission to find 1 cannister of bootleg booze on a planet. Drove for hours. Found nothing except rocks. Checked some POIs, but none of them had cargo cannisters. 
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Dec 18, 2015 02:23
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Insert name here posted:Does scanning stuff with the wave scanner by holding down the button actually do anything? The wave scanner is on all the time. The button scanner is for data links.
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itsnice2bnice posted:Has anyone else noticed that the SRV is a little buggy? If it was a big buggy it wouldn't fit in your ship.
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Capn Beeb posted:Punched in LHS 20 into the galaxy map, only four hops away in my Type-6, hot dog Could you check for me if it stocks the DBE? The website says it does, but the data is old.
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Dec 21, 2015 23:27
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The sound design is so drat good in this game. I know for serious PvP you might want to use mumble for comms, but tooling around in a wing the inbuilt voice comms is fine and the way quality changes depending on the condition and heat of the ships involved is great.
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Falken posted:Kind of want in on this but the number of negative reviews on steam is disconcerting. The steam reviews seem to be from people who've invested heavily in Star Citizen? Issues with the game are mainly that you have to find your own fun - there's no plot and it does drop you in at the deep end, especially if you don't do the training missions. If you do get it, join the Diamond Frogs and we'll point you in the general direction of fun. (Fun may involve ramming or touching scoops).
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Libluini posted:Still, the best was when several Federal Corvettes decided they didn't want us there anymore and chased us off (well, mostly me). On our last run I literally escaped with 1% hull left on my Iggle. Total blast though with our various near escapes and coming back to station in various states of wreckage and broken canopies. Oh yes, the first time your canopy goes is one of the true 'WTF!' moments in gaming. The sound goes weird, you hear your pilot's breathing and you get a scary count down for the amount of time left on your life support and you lose your HUD on the broken section of canopy.
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For the person asking about streaming, I have my own channel at http://hitbox.tv/angrymog and Elite is one of the games in my usual rotation, and we have just started up the Diamond Frogs channel at http://www.twitch.tv/elitediamondfrogs which will be either showing hosted Goons or native streams.
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I'm kind of poo poo, but I couldn't imagine playing this without at least a single joystick and having a full HOTAS is just gravy. Though I was wondering if someone could give advice - the throttle on my X52-pro is bouncing back from something at full forward. It doesn't do it all the time, but mostly, and it's very annoying. I've tried fiddling with the force dial on the side but it doesn't do anything to adjust whatever its hitting inside. Is it time to take a screwdriver to the throttle and have a look inside? Angrymog fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Dec 27, 2015 |
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timn posted:The throttle purposely has detents built in at 25% and 75%. You're not talking about those are you? Nope, it's past 75%, it def. feels like it's hitting something then bouncing back. Mines out of warranty so I might have a look in the new year.
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Watching this makes me reallyl want an artificial horizon indicator inside the ship.
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LCL-Dead posted:I would like to get in on the DF streaming if at all possible. PM sent
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Cobra IV is a bit rubbish. Get a Cobra III or a Viper IV for multi - role goodness
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Kuvo posted:why cant i accept this mission? Best guess is that you don't have enough cargo space available.
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Zigmidge posted:Are the weapon outfitting conventions still the same as back in, say, July? Gimballed Pulses being a main staple, missiles are all poo poo, etc etc? What major changes have happened there? Yeah, if you want to help Frogs without Spacebook, go to 63 G. Capricorni and do Frog missions. Do Not bounty hunt or turn in bounties in Frog systems.
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3 posted:Weapon sizes carry with them damage penalties against larger sizes of ship. IIRC Class 1 weapons do 66% of their listed damage against medium hulls and 33% against large hulls, while Class 2 weapons do 66% of their damage against large hulls. It's not really a problem if you're not focusing on tacking larger targets, but it is something to consider. So basically if you have multiple sizes of weapon mount, stick your lasers on the smaller ones.
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HJE-Cobra posted:Overhearing the public announcements in space stations is the best, too. Different stations have different voices and accents too.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Minor crosspost from the Steam Holiday thread, but I'm debating grabbing Elite Dangerous while it remains on sale. Andn if you join up with the Diamond Frogs, we will give you a direction to fly in. (mainly towards explosions)
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Jan 4, 2016 18:14
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If the PP factions offered normal missions that generated PP via a separate section of the bulletin board that would go a long way to making it less grindy because you could then choose how to support a power.
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Jan 8, 2016 19:31
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Some dude on the official boards got to one of the edges in a sidey, but it had an upgraded FSD
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Jan 9, 2016 13:02
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Even if it took a couple of real days it would be nice to just be able to pay for our ships to be moved. Charge what you'd lose on selling the hull.
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I would have thought that at the least you need enough money to buy the bare hull back; at least then you can sell that and refit something smaller.
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I'm on a civillian killing mission atm and I noticed that the bounty has become 12k rather than 6k. Also, player ships count as civillians. On one hand I feel a bit guilty about shooting down what was probably a relative newbie in a cobra, on the other, I have 51 of the bastards to kill, so every little helps.
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Dabir posted:Seems to vary by system. Had a very similar mission the other day where the bounty was 12k for a murder, but then another one in a system where it was only 2k. Just realised it's probably due to power play. I'll see who Carmenta is owned by when I log in
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Helter Skelter posted:Parking enforcement at stations is very strict. Loitering is a crime punishable by death.
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Got a message today that my client is both too old and too new. (I assume it's just confused because they're in the process of doing a server patch atm)
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BRB pooping posted:Make it possible to sell materials you have, collected while exploring or mining or whatever, to other players. How about just making the engineers cost more if you can't provide materials? I don't like the idea of non-horizons players being locked out of this if it provides firepower upgrades.
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Sylink posted:Is there still a bug where if you contribute to a CG then never collect it until after the next update you get the max payout ? Those were the days. That one's long gone IIRC.
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Friendly Humour - best thing you can do is to join the frogs, come out to Frog Space and we'll set you up. If you don't want to join the frogs just find a nice system to work out of. An easy and safe way to make some starting money is to drop in on weak signal sources, pick up the most valuable stuff and sell it on the black market. Also, go to Low Res points, wait until you see the cops shooting at something and then join in when the target is nearly dead. P.S Canons are terrible. Go for two Pulse lasers or one Pulse/1 MC on your sidey.
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Also - don't let people know - but we do have a IFF (Identify Frog or Foe) system in the Frogs. Just requires you to be on Discord.
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Get out of the 'newbie' systems ASAP - they are not safe in open. If you don't want to play with Frogs just find a nice quiet system that you like the look of and call it home.
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..btt posted:I have no idea what you're doing wrong, my X52 pro has worked fine on Windows 10 since the day the disk images appeared on MSDN across 2 motherboards. Can you try older drivers or something? Maybe some incompatibility with some other hardware or software you're running? My X52 pro had a hiccup with the drivers, but I pointed it back at the local driver repository and it found the correct ones again.
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Mikojan posted:Apologies is this has been covered before but: will player factions be a thing? And will it eventually have an effect on the game world? Who knows. We have a faction that we put into the game and has our lore listed on the system description, but we ourselves aren't flagged as members of the faction by the game.
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Inverness posted:So apparently in the time that I took a break from the game I was given a free Viper Mk IV. IIRC the Viper IV is slightly fightier than the Cobra III, but not as fighty as the Viper III. It is a fine multirole ship.
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This all sounds like standard QoL stuff, but the engineers will be on planets, so you'll need Horizons to get to them.
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