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Beware stacking missions with the risk of hostile ships being sent against you. It multiplies the risk!
Wow amazing what a few diamonds does! The traffic in G 59-7 has jumped from practically nothing to 12% of the total (Shinrata is 16%) due to an LTD price of 1.6M Cr/t.
Soon be ganker's paradise.
Matt
I might have been to G 59-7 a couple of times today.
Strictly for sightseeing purposes, you understand. 😉
Okay STW1 commanders; shall we RVP tomorrow at 2000hrs? Someone name a system and station ahead of time and I’ll try to move my fleet there ready 👍🏼
What's the brief? Pew pew or wing missions or what?
Wing something; I’m cool with missions, CZs, even a bit of wing mining which is meant to be lucrative and would be a bit of a laugh I’m sure, or a mixture?
How about multi-crew? I've got two spare seats in the Annie.
I’m definitely up for that; do you have an SLF now? I know it can be done remotely but let me know where to meet up still so we can retain options 👍🏼
That sounds like a laugh. Let me know where you're going to be.
Matt
I have an SLF bay in the Anaconda that can take two fighters. I also have lots of turreted weapons for some gunner action. I think it's in Tsondama but it won't take long to transfer it.
Although I just realised - I may be exposing myself here - if we go to a CZ and the ship gets killed I'll have to be the one who rebuys 🙂 . We might have to buy in with a couple of tons of LTD 😀
do wings still a 4 person limit? and if you have a conda & 2 PC manned slf fighters, does that take up 3 of a wing or only 1?
been on a break from ED (DOOOOOOOOOOOM), was thinking about coming back soon, new hotas is still stashed in the cupboard, getting used to new keybindings probs not a good idea in a CZ.
I also have lots of turreted weapons for some gunner action.
You'd be Chewbacca in that scenario. He was doing all the flying and nobody cared.
He had to wait 40 years for a medal.
Lack of cross platform support is bloody annoying.
On an unrelated note, all my Arx have disappeared.
My balance ( about 10,000) disappeared on Thursday and I now have a zero balance and error messages.
Apparently it was XBox Live issues but these were resolved and now I can't access the livery part of the game at all even if I did have any Arx left to spend it on.
It's allegedly getting fixed
I was going to buy Norman Lovett with it.
Any other Xboxers having similar issues?
I think wings and multi-crew are separate? Do MC members take up wing slots?
You’d be Chewbacca in that scenario. He was doing all the flying and nobody cared.
He had to wait 40 years for a medal.
Well, there are I think 5 turreted weapons, but two gimballed weapons underneath so there's still something for the pilot to do. But maybe they should be turrets underneath too for a multi-crew spec so that there's always coverage? Dunno.
On an unrelated note, all my Arx have disappeared.
Yeah mine too, no idea when its going to be fixed.
Logging in is sometimes a bit hit and miss too
X-Box Arx and livery are back on my system now and the login seemed to be back to normal, so hopefully that's all fixed.
Yeah my ARX came back this afternoon (Xbox). Still got kicked out though. It’s very flaky at the moment.
Won't be on til about 8.30 tonight - been working hard and have a bike ride to squeeze in.
Got to be up at 0300 for work tomorrow so will have to give this a miss tonight gents
from reading through this thread from the Initial woopee, new game to now it appears most of you have embraced the life of the Space Pirate.
Morals out the window, space exploration is for the other guy, and its a fast dive in guns'a'blazin' steal yer cargo.
That's the beauty of Elite, no single way to play it. Even the same player can play it different ways on different days, or a different ship can be a different character.
At the minute I am trying to further the cause of a minor faction, who are present in a few systems and have a couple of stations. Trying to tweak the BGS scratches a nerdy itch, YM(Ly)MV
Matt
it appears most of you have embraced the life of the Space Pirate
No! I'm the hero of the galaxy, as straight as they come! I don't even sell my LTDs to the Empire.
and im scared of picking up illegal cargo from the pirates i have blown up!
Just been to visit the triple spot in Borann to load up on cash before it will be gone in next update.
Now for the fun part, the run to a station with 241 diamonds in the hold.
Well you all seem to be having a rare old time. I'll play the explorer I thought, and do 100 jumps en-route to the elephant's trunk nebula. Scan a few tasty planets on the way I thought. What do I get for my trouble? 99.9% Rocks and ice. Not even a single solitary interdiction to spice things up. Now it's a 50/50 between going back or just ploughing on.
No! I’m the hero of the galaxy, as straight as they come! I don’t even sell my LTDs to the Empire.
Whilst I, on the other hand, am busy building a super frosty blockade runner.
Also having fun flying intercept patterns in supercruise and watching other commanders veer about the place as if I actually care. It breaks the monotony.
Well you all seem to be having a rare old time. I’ll play the explorer I thought, and do 100 jumps en-route to the elephant’s trunk nebula. Scan a few tasty planets on the way I thought. What do I get for my trouble? 99.9% Rocks and ice.
I’m floating around the galaxy using the Road to Riches to finish off my explorer ranking. Very close to Elite. I listen to music while I fly, as it can be pretty tedious.
Not even a single solitary interdiction to spice things up.
Ain't gonna happen, out in the middle of nowhere. 🙂
Doing passenger/explorer combos, to aim for Explorer Elite. And being careful not to drunkly fly into any more stars.
Part two of my mining experiment has pushed me to my trading Elite and I think my work for the faction has pushed me up to the next federal rank, so lots of drama yesterday. Some of that work was heavily disrupted by Anacondas pulling me out of supercruise every five minutes.
Fortunately I had a FDL escort in the form of Cmdr V8ninety and all would-be mission wreckers were dealt with (the Security Services jumped in a couple of times as well, credit where it's due!).
Matt
Ain’t gonna happen, out in the middle of nowhere.
Try dropping into a ring to start mining.
It'll happen then.
Or stacking missions delivering poll data, to 'help' with an election.
It will definitely happen then!
Matt
I really must bag myself another few hundred mil from Borann before the update comes.
On my next exploration gig shall I take my Anaconda or Asp X? I read a post by some guy who puts a fighter or two on his exploration Anaconda so he can go flying around new planets for a laugh. If I did that and had SRVs too it might be a fun diversion. Squadron members could teleport in via multi-crew and drive or fly around distant planets.
Yeah, I'm gonna take a look at Borann in the next few days, just to put something by for a rainy day! From what I can see, based on a small number of data, overlaps increase the amount of LTD you can mine in the same time by about a factor of 2. I got ~50t in a single (though this might be high due to finding two cores), about 95t in a double, both in around 100 minutes. I know I can fill the python in Borann in that time 192t.
That sounds like a good tactic to avoid the space madness. Do you have a double SRV hangar as well? SRV racing seems cool.
Matt
Yeah I think you can get two in the bigger hangars. It's a shame you can't fit paintball cannons on your fighters.
Which reminds me we still need to try CQC 🙂
Or, if we can't get CQC to work we could get all us noveau-riche Borann miners at the same station in some anarchy system and dogfight using stock Sidewinders 🙂
Any SRV racing needs to be at Dav’s Hope.
It’s the law.
Wonder how much longer we can exploit Borann for? Might have to squeeze a bit more money out of it
Or, if we can’t get CQC to work we could get all us noveau-riche Borann miners at the same station in some anarchy system and dogfight using stock Sidewinders
Nah sod that. I want to melt everyone with my Cheiftain that I've spent about 1,000 hours gathering materials and unlocking engineers for.
I should have pack hound missiles unlocked tomorrow too!
I say game on. Wherever it is in the bubble, it's about 20 mins in the Phantom (which also gives me a spare SRV when I blow one up).
Speaking of which I want new SRVs in the new release, forget space legs.
Matt
@Kato, the release which will nerf Borann is due on the 9th of June.
As I understand, the triple overlap will remain, but the contents change, so it may be a bromelite/bromelite/grandiderite triple, which is neither use nor ornament. I have a planet with four good double overlaps, so I am hoping worst case one will be LTD. I reckon I can get 60t per hour out of a good double. Another triple LTD will be found on release. If the release is the same as the carrier beta, the word is that a triple is already known! Unless the price of LTDs gets nerfed then it will still be the money making meta.
@Richmtb let me know about the packhounds. I had seekers on the medium hardpoint on my Chieftain, but they are swapped currently for a corrosive multicannon. I quite like missiles and the packhounds have a certain 'shock and awe' factor.
Matt
I quite like missiles and the packhounds have a certain ‘shock and awe’ factor.
I'd be interested to see what a high strength seismic mining charge would do to an NPC pirate ship if you could get it to stick.
Programme a limpet to 'ahem' pop it in the cargo hatch!
Matt
Fun with Matt and V8ninety in multicrew. They got all the fighter fun but I had all the firepower. Killed lots of little ships in low intensity RES, so we went to a hazardous one. Was all fine at first then a quite serious wing turned up with an Imperial Cutter who shot out my canopy - I might've had him if it weren't for that as I was still on about 70% hull to his 40%. Fortunately I was shown how to synthesise life support which was enough to get us back to a station. It was pretty tense as my rebuy is huge.
Really enjoyed the last couple of evenings. First evening, playing the part of an actual wing man, escorting Matt on his mission and dropping in when he got repeatedly interdicted by grudge bearing Anacondas felt properly space cowboy like. Those ‘Condas were tough, too, worth a lot more than measly bounties they gave, the buzz from working together was priceless. I reckon we both saved each other’s asses on more than one occasion. Seeing your wing mate zoom in and attack the ship that’s zero’d in on you is brilliant.
Last night, flying the two fighters from Molgrip’s Anaconda was hilarious. The fighters are next level manoeuvrable, and give a real X-wing feel. Some highlights; my entertaining first docking experience (what happened in the ‘roids stays in the ‘roids Mol 😉), formation flying and pack hunting bounties (not the coconut kind) in Haz res asteroid fields, got my “Great kid, don’t get cocky’ turret kill trophy, Molgrips ‘Accidentally’ exploding me in about 10ms with his massive weapon 😂. A few entertaining mid space mishaps.
All in all, a highly entertaining experience.
Thanks both 😎👍🏼
Most welcome.
Did you view the multi-crew report? It told me I had 2 hours in the helm role and 20 kills, but it somehow didn't let me view your stats? Maybe cos you'd logged off already?