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nominal posted:Bought Elite: Dangerous on sale. Did the tutorial missions up to the combat one, at which point the first aggressively hostile ship (the second ship in the first combat mission), smoked me thoroughly about 10 times in a row so I just said gently caress it and decided to skip the rest of the tutorial. Jumped in, took a mission to deliver some stuff to... somewhere. Farted around for a bout 30 minutes trying to figure out the UI and eventually managed to plot a course to the system I needed to deliver the shipment of t-shirt cannons or whatever to. I got halfway there and remembered that fuel was a thing and about 3 seconds after that the UI warned me that my "main tank" was empty so hey I guess there's reserve tanks or something. Fart around in the UI for another 10 minutes and find that I'm not far from a thing that might be a space station, maybe I can fuel there? So I fly there. Turns out it's an factory or something and either I can't fuel there or I don't know how. Did some googling and found out that a fuel scoop is a thing. I don't know if I have one and I don't know how to find out so I guess I'll just fly over to a star and see what happens. Apparently either I don't have one or I'm doing it wrong, so... plan B. Maybe I have enough fuel to make it to a proper port? I pull up the map and jump to the next system. Oooooh sweet there is a port here! I set course. I overjump like 3 times and eventually do it right and am slightly behind the docking entryway thingy on the startport. I get lined up and throttle up to enter and promptly run out of fuel and spend the next 3 minutes trying to figure out how to self destruct. The best tip for newbies is to bind a key to 75%(or was it 70%?) throttle and to press that key when you're about 7 seconds away from your destination. It will automatically reduce your speed so you can drop out of supercruise and never overshoot your destination again
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clone on the phone posted:I have the rank and cash for a corvette but there’s something about the brick shithouse look of the type 10 drawing me in. Yeah I'm super tempted to make an all-turret flying fortress type 10 miner right now
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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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Dick Trauma posted:I only play solo and it's a bit funny to run missions for the near-infinite collection of NPC organizations and their goofy names. I had to laugh that Darnielle's Progress is controlled by The Ant Hill Mob, which as far as I know is a callback to the old Wacky Races cartoon I loved when I was a kid. I run missions for mafias, commies, space hippies... you name it. It's too bad they can't flesh out the lore behind them because it would be hilarious. This is one of the organizations I came across  Apparently it was named by a human
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ex post facho posted:oh my god i flew all the way to maia and there are no meta alloys in the station? You have to go to Darnielle's Progress specifically. At least that's where I got the meta alloy
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Well I didn't make it and now I'm going to die Call the fuel rats! https://fuelrats.com/
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Dick Trauma posted:With the money I made from that run out to Maia would it be crazy to move up from my Viper 4 to an Asp Explorer? I do mostly hauling, passenger and surface exploration. Combat only when I have to. I jump around between the roles as the mood strikes me. I haven't done any engineering yet as I'm still collecting mats. The Viper is more of a combat ship so yeah ditch it if you're not that focused on it. The AspX has fantastic views from its cockpit for exploration
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orange juche posted:Going out in the black for a long time will also teach you to be a very good pilot because those little 1-2% bumps add up massively over an entire journey. They're also constructing an outpost one jump out from Sag A* when they get to the galactic core. Wait, you can construct outposts?
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dialhforhero posted:Do you guys use Joystick or Mouse/KB combo? I got that T16000M for Christmas and while the HOTAS is 100% superior for combat, I sometimes just stick to the KB/M for almost everything else, as it's easier to tab to my second screen if I'm already on the KB/M. Maybe it would be different if I had enough desk space to have the HOTAS and KB/M out at the same time though. If you want to make KB/M combat work, I'd recommend binding your lateral/vertical/forward/back thrusters, and a key to put your throttle to 0. I ended up unbinding yaw as well and left it on my mouse Away all Goats fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Jan 4, 2019 |
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