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@matt_bl & @perchypanther - ah, thanks for the explanation. Makes sense I guess as inventory seems to come with you too. I am kinda tempted to use a few LTD's as a lure to get my kills up though, might do that for sh!ts & giggles. 🙂
Nice tactic matt.
Have all the mining things been snuffled around? Looking for painite and I found some reports on the internet but still not found anything there.
Found a painite hotspot - two in fact - no sodding painite. 24 prospector limpets and nothing. Not really a hotspot, is it?
No, I found exactly the same with single hotspots, absolute balls for surface mining.
Matt
Have it still got time for one more trip to Borann or it is it gone now?
Still time, I think the 9th is the patch.
Matt
This morning I will mostly be recommending wing mining. V8ninety and I teamed up to take on some rocks at Borann last night, a largely one-sided affair! The many benefits i found.
It was certainly quicker than my normal sedate pace as you would literally fly from one 20% rock to the next with no break.
Wing mining is great socially, you can watch your wingman get nerfed by rocks (well if you are V8ninety you can), and just chat away while the rocks hand over their LTDs
Cool pictures
An extra five percent credits at the end (I lost mine doing an elite massacre mission, easy come easy go).
All in all 10/10, will wing mine again!
Matt
Agreed. That’s the most enjoyable couple of hours killing defenceless rocks I have experienced. And lucrative, too!
Three mining lasers?
That's V8ninety, in that picture you can't really see his flashy green paintjob. I run 2 but my power never moves from full with 4 pips, so I am planning to try adding another.
If you get close enough, even two 5A collectors can more than handle the two lasers I have.
Matt
I always have to wait for my 6 limpets to catch up.
I try to get very close to the rocks, sometimes with more success. In the python, basically this means nose touching! The the journey for the limpets is very short.
One of the reasons that I don't have sheildless mining build.
Matt
Anyone heading over to Borann for a last blast at the rocks tonight? I'm hoping Frontier have a one night only 3M Cr/t blow out to celebrate! For any PS4 players, I will be heading over around 2130, for a run in the python.
Tried the three lasers (added a small), it works if you get close, though if when I am not so close I can maneuver towards the next rock while the limpets clear up.
Matt
I've not played for a wee while, but if this is the last night of the Borann triple hotspot then I think I might have to fire up the 'Conda and head over there
Yeah, servers going down at 0730 UTC on Tuesday. Approximately 7 hours, then Carriers everywhere!
I'm waiting for innovative uses for them, I think popular places are going to be littered with them for the first few weeks.
Matt
I might head over as much as I am bored with it.
Be interesting to see what happens with the Fleet Carriers.
The two uses the instantly spring to mind are exploration and mining.
Use them as a base for exploration or use them as waypoints for popular routes, there will be probably be so many fleet carriers between the bubble and Colonia that you won't need a fuel scoop.
Mining does seem like the other obvious use. Prospect a new double or triple hotspot outside the bubble then park yu fleet carrier there while you mine.
I enjoy mining but not enough to buy a fleet carrier to facilitate it!
The exploring thing is interesting, jump out to the middle of nowhere and explore/map your own bubble. Maybe as a prelude to a base in the future?
Matt
Finished my road to riches at the weekend using Road to riches
If anyone is interested, it earned me around 420 million credits, which took me from 5% on pioneer to elite ranking in exploration.
Have to say though, I’m glad I’ve finished it. I could only manage around 2-3 hours at a time without going a bit la-la, although listening to music helped immensely.
Be interesting to see what happens with the Fleet Carriers.
I'll give it a week before there some uber-gankers who organise an expedition for unsuspecting miners in search of riches to a previously unreachable system full of goodies.
Give them a lift there, wait until they're all off the Fleet carrier, revoke their landing permissions and jump away, leaving them stranded with no way to jump back to the Bubble.
The hour long spin up time for the FSD gives them plenty of time to gloat over the chat channel.
The problem with the Fleet Carriers are that they are only really affordable for the players who have no other challenges left to entertain them, other than griefing other players.
I have to say I had a little twinge of disappointment when I found out that they couldn't be killed!
I am looking forward to people using them for Squadron type events/roles. I see the code's fleet carrier as the 'fish-bait' Red Dwarf!
Matt
The problem with the Fleet Carriers are that they are only really affordable for the players who have no other challenges left to entertain them, other than griefing other players.
Sounds like something from a Culture novel.
Currently mining in Borann (solo play)
PSA: on Inara just now, LTD best sell at 1,505,511cr at CD-52 557 (Sewell Port), 132LY, 455Ls in system
Still waiting for my T10 and Corvette to arrive in Colonia so out gathering materials and running some missions in the Python i bought out there.
Just come across a a load of stolen goods, if i fly to station with this and gets scanned while docking, will i get blown up or allowed to dock?
if i fly to station with this and gets scanned while docking, will i get blown up or allowed to dock?
You get a fine, I think. I’ve never been blown up by a station but I have had to put up with ‘anonymous access’ a few times before I discovered the point of silent running.
Just line up for the slot, hit silent running until and cruise into station like a stealth bomber...
No worries!
never tried silent running or bothered look up what it does lol
Dock @ >200m/s easy they don't have time to scan you. Easiest if you line up the slot in supercruise first. Just a fine, my record is ~8M credits for about 30M of stolen LTDs.
The problem with CD-52 is the demand, even 200 with my python is ~40% which means the price gets severely nerfed.
Matt
there is no money in what i picked up, just thought i would get onto the black market as one of the engineers require you to have dealt with xx amount of different black markets
Well, I got lucky. Stopped mining at 52t, checked the price at CD-52 557 and it had dropped to 1.1Mcr, went for some dinner, checked afterwards and it had just gone back up to 1.67Mcr, hightailed it over there and got 1.62Mcr for them. Woop. Picked up some polymers en route to Federation space and sold those for 5k/T profit.
Nice, 1.6 is about the highest i have sold for, and normally been happy with 900k-1.1million
Dock @ >200m/s easy they don’t have time to scan you. Easiest if you line up the slot in supercruise first.
How do you line up in Supercruise??
Anyway, it's easy as anything (in a Cobra), I've been running in and out of Garay Terminal with various things. Outposts are a little trickier, you need to land with silent running on then get into the hanger to avoid additional scans. Also watch out for the feds on approach.
Managed to stuff up an entry tonight though, got so caught up with my crappy alignment I forget to ask for docking permission, took about 5 attempts after I managaed to J Turn and get back out before they would let me land!
Also discovered if you scan Orcas and Belugas as they are going towards the box they freak out and jam themselves.
How do you line up in Supercruise??
If you watch the hologram of the staton carefully you can work your way around to be approaching from the mail slot side before you drop out. It’s usually (always?) facing the body that it’s orbiting, so it needs a bit of thought. Worth doing though.
It's easier to see it working on the long stations. If you aim above or below as you are approaching for a while, when you aim directly again you will see that the angle of attack to the station has changed. Keep doing this until the station entrance lines up with your ship on the right of the HUD.
I got around 1.2M for 200t last night which was the best for a load that size. 200t was 5% of the demand for the station.
Matt
Huh, learn something every day in this game! Dunno if I'll be doing planetside approaches, had a few annoying brushes resulting in drops from supercruise (also **** that interdict you whilst flying by a body).
I'll bear it in mind though.
I occasionally browse PS4 Pros on FB market place as I had originally planned to buy one before getting a slim cos it was a good deal. Made a silly low offer on one, and now it's downstairs transferring data.. Hoping it gets rid of the occasional stutter and maybe looks a bit better...
What's the difference with the Pro? Always happy to try and get an advantage over the bad guys!
Matt
It's 4k and HDR support (which is useless to me currently) and graphics improvements - more detail and further draw distance in games etc. But I get a fair bit of stuttering in Elite which is kind of annoying at times so I'm hoping it'll fix that.
It's also a second PS4 so in theory I can wing-up with my kids and protect them from baddies like a good dad 🙂
i get stuttering all the time on PC, thought it was my video card but its still there even at lowest setting, i have come to think and accept that it is sadly not on my side the problem is.
******************* finish work, ready to have some fun with my Big Ships that arrived in Colonia over night to find the server is down for maintenance lol
It’s the BIG fleet carrier update. And loads of bug fixes and the like. Should be done by now though, it’s been down since 0830hrs and they estimated 7hrs.
News is that as expected, Borann A2 is dead. :-/
yea im back in, they have reset the missions.
glad i only had 4 out of the 40 kills i needed to finish it.
Although rumours of a quad 800LY from the Bubble, just mentioned in Exigeous's stream;
PRAEA EUQ SG-7 D10 AB 1 A Ring
Edit: typo, should be PRAEA EUQ SG-Y D10
Balls, I was halfway through a wing mining mission. I was enjoying beating the interdiction from some NPC in a 'Conda every time I jumped anywhere.
I'd heard there was a Quad, but didn't know whether it was 4xLTD. I'll have to check my planet with four doubles and see how they've re-rolled.
Matt
Rich hotspots should be along way from the bubble. Make it more dicey to get back in one piece.
PS4 Pro is definitely way way smoother and it appears now to be actually in full HD so I can see things like which way ships are facing when they are still a long way off.
In other news, whilst the server was down I did some playing on tutorials. The advanced ones are a great place to get practice with combat flying.
@matt_bl - apparently, latest update, it's not a quad. A double void opal. TBH, stuff is coming in so fast on the feed it's hard to keep up. Jameson's crash site and Dav's Hope are missing too, apparently.
I'm heading to a reported double painite hotspot - I'll see if it's still there - it might be that all mining stuff has been regenerated.
There's also some Galnet news too which I haven't seen for yonks.
I was hoping to go the Jameson's crash, for the lore, but I am not really bothered about Dav's Hope. Like you say I bet it will be fast moving for a good few weeks yet.
Matt
@matt_bl - don't panic, Exigeous has Frontier online, they said missing Jameson & Davs are a bug and they'll fix it. Phew.
Hope so. Davs Hope is great for materials
Davs Nope - at the moment 🙂
Latest gossip; Triple LTD was found in Col 285 Sector XN-D a28-2 A 10
So the reported double painite hotspot is gone - looks like all mining stuff is regenerated.
I'd filled the 1 terabyte hard drive without knowing and now I'm waiting for the 10gb install at the busiest time of the day because the update didn't auto install.
Because all the updates were lined up but waiting for space and I didn't realise. A simple - hard drive full message a week ago and this would have been sorted.
Curses.
Why does the PS4 make things so hard to know/find compared to the PS3? Trying to access a usb stick for games saves was a different location to the same usb for music files :mangled face:
When I'm back near the bubble I'll take a look at that triple I found, 1k ly away from the bubble though.
I’ve parked my AspX for the night on a fleet carrier at Borann. Went over to see for myself what had changed. FCs everywhere. Not sure what’s going to happen...will I wake up a 1000ly from home or will I end up floating in space ‘cause I didn’t pay my fare?
Found some painite at Hyades Sector DB-X D-112 2. I also noticed there's a 'transfer' button above the ship inventory. Was this there before? What does it do?
Gonna buy myself an AspX and get some mining done, mainly need materials but some extra income will be nice, might as well have money to spend when I get my rank up.
Latest gossip; Triple LTD was found in Col 285 Sector XN-D a28-2 A 10
Cheers, touring at the mo but that's what I wanted to hear. 🙂
I went to the Hyades sector because it was reported in the past that there had been a double painite hotspot and I went to see if it was still there. It wasn't, but there was a single overlapping with a platinum hotspot. However after prospecting about a dozen rocks I started finding painite up to 50% in about every third or fourth rock. Painite can be as expensive as LTDs but I reckon that in this spot it was even more plentiful than the LTDs at the triple in Borann.
Anyone else using reactive composite armour?
Is there some online tool that can be searched for planets with mineable rings close to whatever system you happen to be in?
What's the point of a galaxy wide cartographic organisation if they can't tell you that, eh?
*Not looking for the new Borann. Just need 10 tons of Painite for Selene Jean and don't want to spend days searching systems for it or travelling halfway across the bubble.
I find the presence of this thread very intimidating. Big fan of Elite on the BBC back in the day and I've had it on my PC for about 18 months and not had the patience to learn how to play. The fact that there are 1500 responses is either a sign it is worth my while or there is so much to it that as a very part time/idle gamer (as in one every month kind of idle) it's not worth my time.
Anyone else using reactive composite armour?
Yep I have it on my combat ships.
Reactive Armour with Thermal Resistance engineering gives the best balance of Hull Points and resistances.
I find the presence of this thread very intimidating
You shouldn't.
The beauty of the game is that it's exactly as deep or as shallow as you want it to be.
Just want to fly around and shoot stuff? You can do that from day one.
Want to invest half a lifetime tipping the balance of power in an entire galaxy? That's cool too.
It's the most open ended game i've ever played. There's no real goal and no real end game. Just do pretty much whatever you want.
Some people might be freaked out by that though.
I find the presence of this thread very intimidating. Big fan of Elite on the BBC back in the day and I’ve had it on my PC for about 18 months and not had the patience to learn how to play. The fact that there are 1500 responses is either a sign it is worth my while or there is so much to it that as a very part time/idle gamer (as in one every month kind of idle) it’s not worth my time.
Honestly - the initial learning curve is relatively steep in terms of working out what all the buttons are for, but for me that only lasted a few hours. Once up and running it was easy to make small amounts of cash and have fun. Sure I got killed a couple of times but that's not a big deal really.
The reason this thread seems intimidating is because we *can* do all this stuff, but you don't have to. You can play the game exactly as it was in the original version if you want.
As for being part-time - you can very easily just pick it up, do a few missions, then stop. The game doesn't actually require any commitment, the projects and goals we come up with ourselves do though! But even then sometimes I just jump in my ship and go shooting pirates for cash. Nothing more to it than that.
I'd say it's an ideal game for a part time gamer, you invest exactly as much time as you want. Initial training missions sort a lot of the confusion out and the training sector is a nice little sandbox to play in. Game it right and you can leave with enough cash for a decent ship.
As above, you can play however you want. It’s the only game I’ve ever bought that I’m still playing regularly 2 years down the line. I’ve got my elite status in exploring and trading, next one is combat. I’m in no rush though, so I’ll take a little time researching decent combat builds, maybe do a little engineering and take it from there. Quite looking forward to it.
Is there some online tool that can be searched for planets with mineable rings close to whatever system you happen to be in?
Then look for pristine metallic rings for painite, then ‘detailed surface scan’ the rings when you are there, looking for painite hotspots.
Thanks all. I'll give it go.....
So if starting afresh - keyboard and mouse, gamepad or joystick for minimum learning curve, maximum enjoyment if you were starting again? Don't currently own a joystick but if the way ahead not adverse to buying one.
Blinding! 10 metallic rings within a single jump of my current base.
I'll be scanning them all for riches tonight.
Edit: and one system with 7 different planete with pristine ice rings.
I never bothered setting up my joystick and play with mouse and keyboard.
If I was fighting other players or using fixed weapons I would go stick but have to much stuttering to even consider trying that at the moment.
Did not pay attention last night but need to see if update have maybe fixed that.
I getting by fine on keyboard and mouse, joystick is more something to consider if you feel invested in it.
I wish I were on PC for this game. Incredible in VR.
I wish I were on PC for this game. Incredible in VR.
Can’t help but agree. I’m having to surprise the urge to build a VR rig for this game alone 😏
It's definitely something that sells VR for me, it's just the cost that is putting me off.
Mol, how are you getting on with your PS4 pro? It’s what I run, so I have no comparison. I still got a little bit of stuttering in very busy game environments, but I’ve recently discovered ’boost mode’ (in the system settings) and it seems to have made a significant difference; I recommend trying it.
I’m having to surprise the urge to build a VR rig for this game alone
Me too. I bought PSVR thinking mistakenly that I could use it for Minecraft and Elite, but it was only £120 used. I don't own a PC gaming or otherwise, so that and Oculus Rift would set me back at least a grand. But still....!!!
Mol, how are you getting on with your PS4 pro?
It's better, I seem to have higher resolution and it's way the hell smoother, but I can't see a lot of extra detail except perhaps on planets. I've seen 'quality' and 'performance' mode in the settings but not sure about boost.
Boost is in the PS4 system settings. Give it a go. It’s kinda not obvious; I stumbled across it by accident and had to google what it does. 👍🏼
I don’t own a PC gaming or otherwise, so that and Oculus Rift would set me back at least a grand. But still….!!!
Lol, I’m in exactly the same situation 😂
@convert - just to echo what's been said up there, very open ended, play how/when you like. It's been an expensive thread for me as I decided to get back into gaming after 20 years so bought a new PC (already had an old MS Sidewinder joystick 🙂 ). I'd recommend a few YouTubers; Down To Earth Astronomy, CMDR Exigeous, Obsidian Ant, The Yamiks (a bit sweary). I saw the game described as a "second job simulator" - made me laugh, kinda feels that way.
I decided not to play last night with the updates going in. Just updating my E:D now, I'll hopefully unlock the permit to Sol so I can swing by Earth. One thing I saw last night that looked like fun was Exigeous taking a small, fast ship and racing down canyons on Pomeche 2C.
I wonder if anyone would fancy sparring? As in, fight for real, in our ships, until someone calls quits so we avoid destruction.
after a bad start i really like this ship now, it help having engineered the shield quite a lot (still a bit more to do) its quite nice being able to jump into these mission spots and take on a whole group of NPS pirates
https://flic.kr/p/2jaBid3
I wonder if anyone would fancy sparring? As in, fight for real, in our ships, until someone calls quits so we avoid destruction.
Up for that at some point Mol. Good practice.