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Had my first go at CQC after reading Mol’s post. Ended up in a run of one to ones against another noob. When I quit he was on level 5 and I’d reached level 2. My combat skills need some work I think. Good fun and good practice though.
Talking of button mapping, how have you all got thrusters mapped, as default or some other combination? I’ve put pitch and roll on the L stick, lateral and vertical on the R and yaw on the L3 clicks (x-box)...not at all sure that’s the best way though.
P.P’s beetrix potter line 😂
If you want a laugh, look up the Kunti system on the Galaxy map and read the system description.
I was there yesterday to sell some LTDs.
Kunti is a rough neighbourhood. EDA Kunti League was founded when some tough Kuntis got together with some reckless Kuntis to spread their message: \"Oi Kunti, it's time to harden up!\"
It made me chortle anyhoo.
I use firegroups, but I find them a bit clumsy.
What do you have mapped for switching fire groups? IIRC there was a shoulder button combo mapped originally as well as the touchpad, but I'm now relying on top right and top left touchpad because I nicked the shoulder button combos for something else.
Talking of button mapping, how have you all got thrusters mapped, as default or some other combination? I’ve put pitch and roll on the L stick, lateral and vertical on the R and yaw on the L3 clicks (x-box)
Still on defaults. Not sure if this is the same on XBox but slight left and right on the left stick is yaw, and hard left and right is roll. Works well, since in combat yaw is too slow to be useful. Then on the right stick there are two modes - standard in which up and down is vertical thrust and l/r is yaw, but I find 'alternate' much more useful in which l/r is actual sideways thrust. In combat, when someone is coming at you use vertical thrust downwards to duck under their line of travel so as you pitch back you can keep your guns trained on them. Do about half your turn with down thrusters applied then boost to make the rest of the turn. In the Fer de Lance if you keep using down thrusters you end up facing them as they fly away but travelling backwards yourself, then you can hit boost and zoom off after them.
I couldn't believe Kunti had made it into the game, but obviously it makes me giggle every time. They are reputed to be super-strict about swearwords in cmdr names or ship names.
[Edit] So now Kunti is covered in diamonds!
The NPC names are ace, I love that they must have put time into some of them. So far I have seen:
Spaceman Spiff
Dent, Arthur Dent
Arch Stanton
Matt
I think for NPCs they have a random generator and they've enriched the database with silly stuff. It's genius.
Bloody hell thought i was about to lose my ship, just jumped to a new system and landed in between 2 twin suns, heat started going in the red instantly but managed to get out far enough just in time before i started taking damage.
Good to hear you're still out there. It's a hell of a shock sometimes when you come out of a jump!
Much left to go?
Matt
165 jumps to go, beginning to feel close
I wonder if on PC you could create your own autopilot for just jumping from star to star?
PSA Inara is showing 1.6M Cr for LTDs at UNA, 165Ly.
Good demand as well.
Matt
Ooh! Wing mining anyone?
In a private group, obvs 🙄
Typically I'm out of the bubble, but I'm going to be around tomorrow.
Matt
Awww, man. Safe trip 👍🏼
So now Kunti is covered in diamonds!
Vajazzle!
Got booted out of Deciat earlier after an aborted hack, that was a PITA. Moral of the story is never shit on your own doorstep. Got my first combat kill and bounty as well, taken on some massacares and bounties, that should be fun.
80 jumps to go i cant wait to see a station
80 jumps to go i cant wait to see a station
Have you stopped at any of the Asteroid bases on the Colonia highway?
According to Inara 3 murder attempts at UNA in the last hour...be careful out there!
I dont even know what the Colonia Highway is 🙂
Last chance for the gankers as well as the miners. Fly safe.
Matt
wish i had known about that Highway before i set off. Nearly there now but just going to stop at the last one to break up the last 70 junmps as only 14 junmps from Martyr's rest
im on a station! burned out my docking computer on a little incident involving a sun, felt quite good to manually dock after all those jumps.
@v8ninety - thanks for the tip about Inara and your stats. I didn't know that. I knew you could save and share your ship loadouts via EDSY and Coriolis.io but not about your CMDR profile on Inara. I'm off to check that out.
Yeah, Kunti system - PMSL. I never noticed the description while I was there dumping my load of LTDs to add to their vajazzle stockpile.
@mikkel - o7, excellent work! Send us a postcard from Colonia!
No gaming for me this weekend as I'm being CMDR Dad all weekend, I can't risk playing it in case my daughter wakes up looking for me while I'm in the middle of avoiding an interdiction with a hold full of LTDs.
im on a station!
Excellent! Those asteroid based are pretty cool.
Finished mining; made $317,571,408, which was a full hold (192t) and six in the bins. Brimmed!
Thanks for the tip off 😎👍🏼
It cost 600 millions to move my T10 out here…
Yeouch! That’s gonna take a few bounties to make back...
I can suddenly see how a fleet carrier could pay for itself!
Yeah, but that's not a cheap option. In the beta the fuel costs for your carrier would have been more than that, though at least you would have all your ships.
@V8ninety you around for mining tonight?
Matt
It cost 600 millions to move my T10 out here…
Couldn’t you just buy a new one?
Not all ships and modules are available in Colonia, so I understand.
Matt
I havent looked at what is available out here yet. might have the python send out and just go mine some random stuff. there is a station right inside the Ring in a next door system.
There might even be an LTD triple somewhere out there if Elite miners are to be believed. Prices may not be what you're used to.
Matt
Started mining for mats, realised how much I hate it and any movitation I had was strongly linked to the high price of the results...
Mat trading now I think, need to make my Anaconda as impregnable as I can. Just cos.
have just spend 1.5billion on moving 2 ships out, what use is all the credits id not using it.
Can then get both engineered out here.
Will be hanging out here for a while
https://flic.kr/p/2j9ixev
Colonia engineers are goooood; loads of options, mostly all grade 5 👍🏼
I can see that with fleet carriers, it’s going to be easier to get there and back soon as well. Hitch hiking for LTDs will be a thing I reckon.
Mining is more fun when you have to actually look for what you want, perversely. Trying to find painite.
Fleet carriers would be cool if you could transfer money between Cmdrs. Then you could charge people to take them to distant places.
Had an odd incident there, was assingned a landing pad only to find it already occupied. Flew over and turned then teabagged the occupant, hovered for a bit and it flew off, watched the landing pad retract into the hanger and turn then landed, was pretty cool.
7/15 bounties for Blaster and now Allied with the Fed. Got offered a courier mission to Colonia, sack that!
Right, I'm back - had 3 tough weeks at work and have just been frazzled when I get home (plus chasing a new job).
I see I have been overtaken in the distance stakes as I'm only 3/5th down the highway,
I'd better get a wriggle on!
i took one of those courier missions to Colonia by mistake, tried plotting the route and failed lol
A couple of questions for you to sus out an idea. If you store a ship with cargo in the hold will the cargo still be there when you return to use the ship?
And, if you have a ship stored in a location with a full hold of cargo and you ask to have it delivered to your new location will it transfer over with the cargo and avoid interdiction for the cargo en route?
I was thinking I could mine in my AspX, fill it, store it in Borann. Go and do missions locally in the Cobra and when I see LTD's hit 1.6Mcr then fly the Cobra to the Best Sell and call the AspX to join me, free from risk of interdiction. Anyone tried this?
Unfortunately everyone has tried this, usually as a means of storing LTDs until the price goes up. Your cargo goes with you when you swap ships.
The interdiction avoidance is a nice touch though!
Matt
What happens when you have more cargo than your new ship can take?
A better idea is to mine in your AspX the fly to a close high security system with a station right next to the star.
Swap to a heavily armed and shielded Python and fly your LTDs to sell them safe in the knowledge that you can run or fight if required.
That’s what I’ve been doing.
What happens when you have more cargo than your new ship can take?
Doesn’t let you do the swap unless the new ship has sufficient cargo space
Nah, just fly around in the AspX wih 5t of LTDs in the hold for an hour. You'll get so good at avoiding NPC interdiction you'll never need to worry again. If a cmdr is going to kill you no amount of fighting back will help.
Matt
Swap to a heavily armed and shielded Python and fly your LTDs to sell them safe in the knowledge that you can run or fight if required.
That’s what I’ve been doing.
I've just been holding my breath 🙂
Actually since giving up on the deep core stuff and the abrasion blaster, the Anaconda still has more than enough weapons to defend myself so I just drop out of cruise, get my gunz out and melt them with a big fat grin on my face.
Heads up, there are two gankers at the Borann mining spot. One in a FAS and one in a Krait Phantom. Pulled my straight out of cruise and started firing corrosive stuff.
I saw them on the scope and did a deliberate loop of shame, which meant they were on the wrong side of the rings and gave me time to select a new jump system.
Matt