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He has thyroid cancer
Shouldn't crack jokes but I read that as Thargoid cancer.
@V8ninety I have a Vulture at the minute, great gunship. I run the big beam on one hardpoint for sheild stripping, but use a multicannon on the other for hull penetration and damage. The multicannon is gimballed for that 'hold the finger down and stay in behind' move that works so well in the Vulture.
The problem with the Vulture, is that it gives my ideas above my station, bigger ships, with higher rated pilots, until someone absolutely slaughters you! Fun though.
Matt
Still no ripe barnacles.
Did you get any mugs? These are rare commodity items which you can sell at a good profit. This profit level is greater the further away you sell them from point of purchase.
Don't forget the free Anaconda!
Don’t forget the free Anaconda!
Yeah, that as well
The problem with the Vulture, is that it gives my ideas above my station, bigger ships, with higher rated pilots, until someone absolutely slaughters you! Fun though.
That’s the truth! My first evening with it was very expensive. Having gotten more selective in who I pick a fight with I’ve become more successful.
In CQC can you bring your own ship? Anyone fancy a bit of death match?
Did you get any mugs? These are rare commodity items which you can sell at a good profit. This profit level is greater the further away you sell them from point of purchase.
I did not. 🙁 Maybe I'll go back - not short on time at the minute, and all profits will go towards the Vulture fund. 🙂
I bought some Az Cancri Formula 42 assuming I'd be able to sell it in terraforming sytems. Well, you can't, which I think is stupid - if you can't make an intelligent guess from the description as to where to sell the rare goods then what's the point? In the end I cheated and looked up where to sell it. There are like 3 systems, and only one has a decent price. It wasn't worth the effort to get it there in my Crusader scooping every 4 jumps, and I daren't take a valuable cargo in my AspX cos it's so lightly armed.
Oh and re barnacles - I used the discovery section in the codex and went to where barnacle barbs were reported, and eventually found some and a whole lot more. Massive Thargoid sort of building/base/hive thing, and I do mean massive like 20km across, with lots of doors I daren't go in and Scavengers apparently mining it for materials and not paying any attention to me as I rob the barbs. It was very sci-fi and tense, and incredibly beautiful as I flew off into the misty dawn having grabbed 2 meta alloys from about 6 barbs.
@molgrips that sounds pretty cool, what are you going to unlock as a result? I realised I needed Horizons for some things, so that should be added now.
Meanwhile I have been finding icy bodies and rocky bodies, out in the arse end of nowhere, well 'Coalsack' apparently. It's a bit of a grind, but I am topping up the materials at the same time so should be all good. Basically if there is nothing to DSS I look for materials.
I don't use 'road to riches' so my exploration is quite random and old school.
Matt
Meta alloys is used to unlock the first engineer, felicity farseer. She has several decent upgrades, the fsd is probably the best.
I'm back in the black and building reserves again.
Struggling to get on as it's a four day weekend and doing family stuff (camping last night).
See this all makes sense now I have Horizons, just logged on and got a message from Felicity.
Even out where I am!
Matt
So what’s a good next ship from the Sidewinder? Been steadily building up credits on nice safe courier trips and ready for something a bit roomier
I do rather like my Cobra MkIII, not expensive, loads more cargo space, but it's only my second ship, I'm not the best person to advise.
Cobra MkIII, good at everything, great at some things. Really easy to fly. Love mine.
Basically it has good hardpoints and stacks of internal room for modules. It can be rigged for any type of work, for example use it for deep core mining and you can make 4-5M credits per trip.
Matt
i like the Cobra Mk3 as well.
Suited me quite nicely for mining Diamonds in Borann.
I buy ships mostly based on whether i like the look or not 🙂
bought myself an Alliance Challenger for mining, perfect for my need, fill the cargo with diamonds without the session being to long and fitted turrets so i can easily blast the belt pirates wile playing with a mouse.
Just bought a Mamba on looks alone so time to get the joystick out and go zoom around a bit.
Basically if there is nothing to DSS I look for materials.
How do you find materials?
@molgrips look for degraded emissions on the DSS, they are all the way over the left on the scanner. They are usually wrecked ships so up to 5 bits of stuff.
They are time limited and some are a hell of a cruise, so I tend to swerve those ones.
Matt
I went Sidewinder - Cobra 3 - AspX - Fer De Lance - Python
I have,
For bounty hunting
Sidewinder - Viper MkIII - Vulture
For mining
Cobra MkIII - Asp X
For exploration
Asp X
Can't part with any of them!
Matt
Sidewinder
Cobra
AspX
Vulture
Python
Scattered all over about 400ly of Orion inner spur.
Do old ships just stay where you replaced them? You can't put them into "storage" to pick up from wherever?
Looking to get a Vulture as ship III but struggling to find a spaceport with a shipyard - when I started they were all over the shop, can't bloody find one now. 🙁 Is there a good port with missions, a shipyard and all the shiniest kit to base out of?
eddb will find any shipyard. You can look for ships or even individual modules. Very useful.
I haven't found a perfect base yet.
Matt
They stay where ever you left them, but you can get them shipped to you for a cost.
Cheers both - think I tried EDDB and it faked me out, sent me to a system promising a shipyard then nothing there when I arrived. 🙁 Like the idea of a ship postal process - just be nice to have them all in the same place. 🙂
Edit - don't know what site I was looking at but it wasn't EDDB! Will try its suggestions next time I'm aloft. 😉
"Like the idea of a ship postal process – just be nice to have them all in the same place. 🙂"
Can be expensive. The bigger the ship the higher the price. Think is was something like 500k to ship my Python 150ly
I agree, it's good to have them all together. It also takes real time to get them delivered so you can't just decide to move it on a whim.
I have my current three together, well I would have if I wasn't 300Ly away exploring. That's why a good base is useful.
Matt
Thanks, I'll try the degraded emissions. I just killed 4 pirates from some faction to get Strange Wake Echoes. It was good fun hunting tearing them apart with my Challenger, but a ball-ache finding them.
Having a base of operations is a good idea because you can gain rep whilst you are there and make loads more money - also, if you work one station you get to dock at others nearby, and this gives you access to their commodity prices so when a mission asks you to find some item you can just use the map to find it.
Sound, cheers - I've just been travelling about as missions occur, took a trip to Maia then trying to find somewhere with good kit and Vultures. Felicity's been in touch - if she's anywhere near somewhere that suits, maybe I'll call that home and get the Sidewinder posted. 🙂
I have all of my ships at Merbold Ring in EQ. Pegasi. When I was trading and building up fed rank this was my main base. It was originally picked because it has a decent shipyard, is a federation base and is fairly close to Sol, which at the time I was working to unlock.
Cheers, will see how far it is. 🙂
Is it possible to transfer stuff between ships? I'd like to go out doing missions and finding materials in one ship and use them on the other.
I haven’t tried that. A quick google suggests yes, but tomorrow I will be back at my home base, so I’ll give it a go then.
Yes you can, just select the ship you want to transfer out of, select the bits you want and instead of selling them transfer them to storage. Core modules will need replaced with defaults but optional ones can be flung out for nothing. Once you have stripped it you can then select the ship you want to put them into and they will be in your storage list. Or something close to that anyway, I gutted my Sidewinder to kit out my Cobra.
Just hopped into my Challenger and the materials I had collected automatically came with me.
Nice, thanks. My explorer ship is not built for defence.
Just hopped into my Challenger and the materials I had collected automatically came with me.
Oops, never read that properly!
You can also move stored modules between stations as well, same as you transfer ships and you can remote sell stored modules too.
Swapping modules between ships makes a lot of sense once you go down the engineering route.
Once you have a couple of G5 Overcharged Multicannon you will probably want to use them on any ship they fit.
I'm still looking for a good home station too. Jameson Memorial seems like the obvious choice, it has every ship and module available at a 10% discount.
But I'm not sure I want to take the obvious choice
squirrelking
MemberJust hopped into my Challenger and the materials I had collected automatically came with me.
Oops, never read that properly!
Ha, well I am enjoying collecting materials for Felicity Farseer, but not that much. After spending so long exploring, it’s nice to do something different. I even got the SRV out yesterday and had a mooch around some ice planets looking for phosphorus and manganese.
Had a go at mining last night.
Wow its a good way to make credits!
After various false starts (not taking limpets, then not taking a refinery) I spent about 40 minutes surface mining for low temperature diamonds.
I was a bit clumsy, bounced off the rocks a few times and generally wasn't too efficient. I only half filled my cargo space before I ran out of limpets. But I mined 40 tonnes of diamonds and made 45 million credits.
Realistically I think I could probably double my efficiency, so I could make close to 100 million credits a run
Did you get ambushed on the way back?
I got interdicted in the mining system and in the system I was selling the diamonds.
Managed to dodge both. I also got scanned while I was down at the rings but I hadn't collected any cargo yet so they left me alone.
I was in a Python, but had no weapons, just mining gear. I think I'm going to rethink that though. If I'm only surface mining for diamonds then I don't need to carry the seismic charge launcher or the ablation blaster.
Mining lasers only need medium hardpoints so I could free up at least two large hardpoints and fit a large beam and a large overcharged multicannon. That should make pirates rethink their life choices!
Maybe I'll try a bit of trade or mining.... I thought I'd be Combat Man now I've got the Vulture with bigger guns, got a bit ambitious and took on an Expert massacre mission to rap the knuckles of nine pirates, and I think I spent more time running away from batterings (Chieftans, Pythons, Fer De Lances) than killing bad guys - not lost the ship yet, but close shaves of particular note were a shattered canopy that I managed to escape, land and repair with literally about 20 seconds of oxygen left, and this lunchtime's "run away! Run away!" moment with a hull integrity of one percent. Still, mission complete - might try something else for a bit, save some cash and bling the Vulture before I go a-huntin' again... What surprised me is that I thought the Vulture was manoueverable but everything - everything - can turn inside me, no matter how quick or slow I'm going.
This game eats your life. 😀