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@V8ninety I had a deja vu moment yesterday, when an Elite wing mining mission prompted 9 deadly condas to come after me one by one. A wingman would have be so handy!
@Matt_bl Good times 👍🏼 I’m sure the stars will align and we’ll do it again soon 😎
@Molgrips Whaaaat? Half way to Colonia?!? Worst part of that is when you get there, you’ve still got to get back! Although maybe you can hitch a lift on a carrier...
The plan is to hang out for a while and maybe do some missions etc and use it as a base for more exploration. Might invest in bringing my other ships out there.
If you hitch a lift on a carrier do they expect anything in return? Are you at risk of a scam or piracy or what?
Can the carriers be used for nefarious purposes?
If you hitch a lift on a carrier do they expect anything in return?
Dunno; I guess that’s between you and the carrier owner. As for nefarious purpose, again, dunno, but probably.
What range and cargo capacity is your Anaconda at Mol?
There's someone on Reddit offering rides to Jacques station and back, they'll even stop off on the way to pick you up.
Can the carriers be used for nefarious purposes?
Of course they can. Griefers gonna grief.
The most obvious way would be to jump across a gap that smaller ships can’t cross and dump passengers there with no way to get back.
I painted my ship yellow yesterday and renamed it the Bananaconda.
What range and cargo capacity is your Anaconda at Mol?
Er about 45 I think? It's fully loaded atm. I'm exploring in the Asp Explorer now which is at max 52 but 48.something with the current loadout.
Did some calcualtions for fast travel. I've been looking at two methods.
1) The obvious one - skirt around the star in the fuel scoop zone and if you have a big enough scoop (6A in the Asp Explorer which can bring in 750/s) you can brim your tank and just keep going. But you have to keep an eye on the heat, and you can't start charging until you've finished scooping and got around the star. This method for me can be done in about 55s per jump.
2) As soon as you jump in, hit full throttle and turn 90 degrees away from the star. As soon as your FSD has cooled down charge it up again. Then when it's nearly charged start pointing towards your next jump destination. The jump can be done in about 45s so you'll drain your tank. Then when empty you will have to go and scoop a full tank.
So does the time saved per jump in option two compensate for having to actually stop and scoop a whole tank? For me, yes. I did 8 jumps on a whole tank in about 6 mins and scooping took a minute ish, I forget. But it averaged out about 50s per jump on the whole. So saved 5 seconds. Not a lot, but over 600 jumps this could save half an hour over the Colonia run.
Of course these numbers are minimum times - you have to be on the ball and not make any misalignments or premature button presses resulting in overheating etc.
After about jump 300 you start to make mistakes, fit a heat sink or two.
Nearly at Colonia - might get there this weekend and then I'm going to sprint to SagA just honking.
On the subject of mistakes, managed to make a bit of a heavy planet landing 2k+ly from the bubble (distracted on final approach, not even high G). Did quite a lot of hull damage but I didn't want to abort and head back so used EDDB to find the nearest station. Turned out to be a fleet carrier a few hundred ly away. I was allowed to dock and repair everything, but I don't see how to communicate with the ship's owner. If they're on a different platform I guess you can't. Anyway now fixed and back on my way to nowhere in particular 🙂
I haven't fitted heat sinks, and I'm not landing on planets on they way out there. Once I get there I'll fit out for some better exploring.
I switched off all unnecessary power drains Inc shields, that reduces the heat and gives you more margin of error
So I picked this up on steam sale yesterday - how playable is it on a keyboard and mouse? Would I be better off with a joystick or game pad with analogue inputs
I play PS4 so no idea, but from the comments i have seen on reddit, PC players use a mixture of keyboard and mouse, gamepad and HOTAS. Each seems to have their advocates, so i'm guessing it's personal preference.
Give us a shout if you have any questions. In the early days there seems to be hundreds of interesting ways to kill yourself.
Matt
there seems to be hundreds of interesting ways to kill yourself.
SimSheep?
SimLemming
I've just looked in the Codex (RH Panel) and I have died 26 times so far at a cost of 52M credits, with a further 4M in repairs!
My best (if you're that way inclined) was when I inadvertently turned on silent running and overheated into a ball of flame!
Good luck and o7 cmdr
Matt
Mol, will you join Inara so I can have a nosey at you ships please? Perchy, you too? 🙏🏼👍🏼
Ok.
I've died I think three or four times and two of those I was ganked.
Cheers!
I’ve never been killed by another human player. It’s always been my own overconfidence or incompetence that’s done for me 🙄
So I picked this up on steam sale yesterday – how playable is it on a keyboard and mouse? Would I be better off with a joystick or game pad with analogue inputs
As I said on the last page, keyboard and mouse is fine. No way would I even consider a gamepad but HOTAS is next level.
I can't get my profile to sync from Frontier to Inara - something wring with their OIDC config it seems.
I’ve never been killed by another human player.
If you want I can fix that >:)
I have rarely met any other human CMDRs - only the ganker who killed me twice, and then I found some other CMDR in a Keelback on a planet where Thargoid artefacts were reported. It was cool to watch him driving about collecting stuff for a while - then he vanished 🙂
Out of those 26 times, I've never been killed by a human cmdr, though I have had maybe 3 hostile interdictions. I play in open all the time.
Seriously, now there are fleet carriers you cannot move for humans. Best LTD sell price 20+, each Gaurdian site 2, etc, etc.
My biggest killer is overconfidence!
Matt
Inara profile has synced. Have a nose.
Serf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah not sure how that happened...
Think I've only died 3x, ran out of fuel and... Oh, quite a few times in the mission we did as a wing. Single figures I think.
On the INRA thing but don't know how to link.
#1600
15 insurance claims apparently!
Also five weeks playing time, bit surprised at that.
There is a sync button on the top right of the screen, it asks you to fill out your CMDR name and platform and what you want synched.
14 fleet carriers at the Guardian module site!
Matt
Spent most of this evening doing beer runs between Fuca Dock and Petit Ring.
That's still in Elite, right?
Matt
I did chuckle.
Made it. However I forgot to consider that I might need to meet requirements to discover the engineer here, which has annoyed me. That's what you get for doing spur of the moment stuff. I only suggested it because it'd give my wife something safe to play on whilst joining in the game.
What are the requirements? Hopefully something you can do out there.
Matt
It's gain sufficient rep with Martuk, who is back in the Bubble.
—STW Squadron PRIORITY Comms—
**LTD Price Alert***
1,731,578cr/tonne, system; Daesitiates
M and L pads available.
Message ends.
Oooo, nice!
More LTDs? You saving up for a fleet carrier or something?
Nope, not at the moment (although I’m actually starting to see the attraction now). Can’t even get online at the mo, between work and family commitments though. I’m Eliting vicariously through you lot and 5-10 mins of background research here and there.
How’s Colonia? Annoying about the engineer requirements 😫
Colinia's what you'd expect really. An outpost, not much stuff here, had been thinking about mining to get funds to bring my ships over but maybe I'll just use the AspX to explore a bit.
Is it worth mining outside the bubble?
Molgrips there was an LTD3 out in Colonia. If the surface mining has been nerfed then core mining is a steady trade at any hotspot.
There's two stations at Daesitiates, so if you have more than 100t go to the high demand (2000), if you have a mega load, then Walker Orbital at L 639-45 has a demand over 5000.
The last time prices were this high I was also out of the bubble, hmmmmmmmmmm
Matt
Just looked up the Daesitiates system on Inara. OK 14 fleet carriers, not surprising, not too bad.
Then noticed the show more button. There must be over a hundred, more Ishimuras, Nostromos and Prometheuses (Prometheii?) than you could poke sticks at.
Last post on the subject I promise! I'm just going to filter them out in the bubble.
Matt
If I get one I’m calling it the “Bag for Life”
A massive carrier that you pay over the odds for.
The second line stopped me typing......
Thanks!
A suitable exploration job would be looking for hotspots. Will have to get some mining kit for the Asp
I do think that a default ‘filter fleet carriers’ setting is going to be needed on the nav panel. It’s getting a bit daft and I don’t need to see them.