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Only 33% of my ships have upgraded shoot at other people weapons.
All but one of mine have. 😀
We're told never to sell ships, but I can't imagine why I'd ever use my Challenger now I have a Krait?
I'm 50:50 with weapons, neither my explorer (Asp X) or my mining ship (Python) have offensive weapons. My combat Vulture and my bubble jumper (Cobra mkIII) obviously have. The Cobra is mainly cos pirates keep pulling me out of supercruise to attack me (ship painted the wrong colour I guess).
I think it's another play it your way kind of thing. I have not sold any ships, cos with mining you don't need the money. Plus one day I know I'll have a niche role that it will fill perfectly, like my Sidewinder cargo hauler!
Matt
Parts bin ship!
Dunno why I never removed the lasers from my Cobra, I'll probably do it when I get back. Or buy an AspX (lol).
What's wrong with selling ships?
You get 90% of the value back I think. But make sure you sell upgraded modules separately as apparently you get less if you sell them with the ship.
Old ships have some use as storage For engineered modules that you don’t want to get rid of but may be useful in the future I think. Other than that it’s just sentimental value I think, as it actually makes quite good economical sense to flog then as the depreciation is so low. I’ll be flogging my Asp when I’ve got a nicer ship; don’t like it at all.
Cashing the challenger could allow me to kit out my Anaconda when I can find one for sale.
I can't think of a reason to keep it when I have a Krait. It was great to fly mind.
I keep mine for sentimental reasons. 🙂
I didn't have it for long. That may be a reason to.keep it but there are around 30 million reasons not to.
Yeah if you sell modules separately you get 100% value, basically swap them all out for the E rated version before selling.
Matt
With all the money sloshing around, why sell to get 90 mill or whatever back?
Because I don't reall ylike mining.
Heresy, burn the unbeliever!
Well. Purchased the Anaconda, it really feels like not much of a combat ship because it's sluggish, and it has more of a bridge than a cockpit. But then WTF am I going to do with all this weaponry? I feel rather daunted tbh. Pulse or turret? SLF or not?
I'm still Mostly Harmless.. I don't feel like it in this thing.
It's not for dancing round behind things, it's for standing toe to toe. You'll need to set it up to take a punch as well as deliver one.
Matt
I'm gonna have to do some more mining to build up this thing.
However, I can build it up with loads of limpets, loads of capacity, loads of cargo and still kick the shit out of any pirates who might show up, so it might work out easier.
Just think every ton is the next module you need to A rate it.
I am doing the second part of a mining comparison tonight. Last night I went surface mining at a local LTD hotspot. Tonight I'm off to Borann.
Matt
anyone used a Type9 for mining?
and found a new tactic for the Mamba when fighting small ships, Ram them and watch them bounce back right in front of your guns 🙂
How'd you get on at the local hotspot, matt?
I think ultimately my ship collection would extend to Asp Explorer, Krait, Anaconda and Beluga.
Any more vids ?.
And i take it Captain Pugwash/Haddock/Birdseye usernames are taken.
Commanders, not Captains.
"De Lacy Mike Oscar Lemur you are clear to dock landing pad zero eight"
The results are in for the surface mining challenge. At the local hot spot I used about 100 limpets for 8t of LTD in fairness not a bad return. Realising I wasn't going to fill the hold that way I moved onto deep core and ended up with 140M of LTD, Void Opals and Alexandrite, though it took me three different places to get the best price for each. From what i can see each surface fragment is about 3% of the bin, each core fragment is 50-60%.
Tonight in Borann I filled the hold (192t) surface mining in just over two hours, 144Ly to sell point and I make 210M. On average every third asteroid has more than 10% LTD at Borann, whereas at the single hotspot there were LTDs about every 10 roids and only two had more than 10% content (if only Bromellite were worth something).
The local spot Onyama 2, was good for cores, I found cores pretty frequently. But Borann is so easy, and they both give you the thrill of the run for the sell. That's me mined out for a bit, I'm off exploring for a bit.
Matt
In 500ly from sol in my srv and stuck on a rock...
Arse.
Can't you just blow up an respawn in your ship?
Have you tried boosting with your SRVs thruster? Hold down L3 and the SRV will fly for a short time. It works sometimes, other times you are somehow jammed and it does nothing. You can also try opening and closing the cargo scoop. If all else fails, self destruct your SRV and you will return to the ship. Bit of a PITA if you don't have a spare SRV but should save you being stuck.
Got my hands on Elite Dangerous with Horizons over the weekend. I've spent a few hours on it already much to the joy of my wife and have it now setup in the back bedroom rather than the living room.
Vast would be an understatement and I think I might not notice lockdown being lifted or my wife and kids leaving me.
All I can think about is what to do next, especially after browsing through this thread and other sources of info on the internet.
Vast would be an understatement and I think I might not notice lockdown being lifted or my wife and kids leaving me.
Yeah, there's no virus in space. Well there might be, I mean your CMDR never gets out of his chair never mind his ship, so I think transmission would be pretty low.
What platform are you on @Bushwhacked ?
I'm still pottering round the Pilots Playpen ( or whatever it's called )..... made a couple of million out of courier / delivery missions to try a few ships, done a bit of light cargo trading which isn't really my scene.
Currently learning how to fight by becoming the scourge of the pirates in the Sharur system in my Eagle. Killed one caled Ivor Biggun this morning.
I'm not very good at it. Maybe I should use my Cobra.
In 500ly from sol in my srv and stuck on a rock…
I read somewhere that if this happens, log out of the game and log back in through Elite without horizons, put the ship in orbit, log out and log back in with horizons. This only works for PC though, not console. (Can’t remember how you’re playing)
Otherwise, I think the only solution is self destruct
@Bushwacked that's the beauty of it. Be what you want to be, do what you want to do. There is loads out there and many ways to play.
Run missions, to gain reputation or rank up with the Feds or dirty Empire
Trade cargo (tea is popular!)
Hunt bounties
Explore the universe
Carry passengers etc, etc.
Go mining in Borann (more wealth than you can imagine)
You can have a ship for each or run a python for everything. Just have fun (and dodge the grind). If you need pointers, there's plenty of us now, all doing different things.
Matt
Eurgh!
I need to deal with the dirty Empire to unlock another engineer.
Am I willing to sell my principles for G5 engineered lasers or should I fly to Colonia to unlock the laser guy there?
Word is Empire's the easiest to grind as well, upping the temptation!
That engineer looks like a serial killer (not as bad as the power plant guy!) as well, gotta be Colonia!
Matt
im a billionaire!
Time go go and get that Federal Navy rank up so i can buy a Corvette.
Are the pirates/hijackers in this played in roles by real people or are they a computer element set to make things exciting ?.
Only other kind of role play game ive played was Arma altis life, where the bad guys were real people.
Are the pirates/hijackers in this played in roles by real people or are they a computer element set to make things exciting ?.
Both.
You can play in Solo, where all other ships in the universe are computer pilots or you can play in Open where the rest of the real people in the world can play too and be pirates if they want.
I’m not very good at it.
There are a few combat manoeuvres to learn which help but the trick is in getting the loadout right. It's not a game of agility and skillful flying really. Well, it might be if you were all evenly equipped but you're not - there are so many variations and levels of kit that it is literally an arms race not a skill race.
What platform are you on @Bushwhacked ?
I'm on Xbox - is it cross platform?
I'm definitely in the playpen still and imagine I will be for a while.
It’s not cross platform but the background simulation is.
Effectively anything you do within the background simulation such as helping factions, participating in community goals affects the game dynamics for all platforms, but you can’t link up and play with other platforms. A real shame I think.
Ended up self destructing the srv, but I now have a decent amount of arsenic for felicity.
And experience of exploring outside the bubble.
Got bugger all experience for the cartographic data?
And loads of arc for combat, despite only firing the weapons to mine.
Another trophy, combine harvester. Slowly getting closer to the SagA trip.
Now this was fun.
Just bought a Type-9, launched it and noticed i had no jump range, so docked again, got stuck in the docking port somehow and got blown up.
Now jumping back to where i want to be then have the Type-9 moved over to where i can get a better FSD fitted.
Fun last night. Put the mining kit away and bought some guns. Went out to test it out on a simple pirate mission and it was quite amusing when loads of pointy guns unfolded from my ship like something out of Dexter's Lab* and shredded some poor Cobra.
However, I got into a bit of bother through not reading and thinking properly.. I took another assassination job from some system, then I got a message from a shady character asking me if I would switch my target for another, for more money. Sure, I thought, they're all just pirate scum. Well, turns out that the system I was in was run by various gangster factions and they wanted me to kill an informant. I didn't realise this until after it was too late and I got a bounty on my head then I went back and read the chat. So I basically killed an innocent man who was being coerced. I think I got off pretty lightly with 5,100Cr bounty and they didn't even take my cargo from me in jail. No justice in the galaxy, really.
On the plus side, trading can be fun in the Anaconda with 384t cargo space. Made a few million taking polymers and membranes to high tech systems, easy and no pirate hassle. I also found there are a few systems with stations both buying and selling the same goods for about 1500Cr/t difference. With a big ship that's easy money.
* or, for younger readers, Victor's house in Despicable Me
I’m getting a bit bored grinding out the LTD at Borann. Won’t stop until I get my trading Elite though so I reckon I need another 300m out of it.
My Anaconda has 3 large beams and a huge multicannon which I’ve not even fired yet. Might have to take a break from mining and shoot so people up. There’s plenty of anarchy systems between Borann and the LTD markets
The hardpoint placement on the Anaconda is a bit tricky. The huge hardpoint is underneath near the back but infront of the deepest part of the ship, so it can't fire backwards (I don't think anyway). But one of the large ones is in front of it and only slightly above. So whilst the huge one might be able to see forward and up slightly, the large would probably obscure it even more when facing the target. But if you are slightly side-on, then it'd be fine.
I'd normally only put one medium beam on as a shield stripper, but the medium HPs are on either side so if you aren't facing the target then only one can fire - unless you roll so it's above you. But then you obscure the huge HP underneath! It's an interesting flying problem.
The two small HPs are right at the bottom near the back, which I think means they can fire backwards which is brilliant if you're being chased (reminds me of the rear facing military lasers in the original game which basically made you unstoppable because you could just fly away and the AI was too dumb to realise that chasing you put them right in your sights) but they are only small, unfortunately. A ship properly designed for turrets (like the Type 10.. I may get one of those too) would have all-round visibility for its turrets.
If you are fighting an Anaconda, whatever you do don't run, cos then they can see you with ALL their HPs and you are likely to be shredded before you can get out of range!
I've joined Mikkel and bought a flying brick (Type 9). Had to do a Borann run to pay for it mind.
I have kitted it out with just over 700t of cargo space and some passenger cabins. When I get back from my latest trip out in the black I'm going to do some serious space-truckin. It's fun to park, I put the autodock on and that scraped the mailslot.
Matt