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humbug · 30 Dec 2016 at 04:04

I love this humour with this music that plays when you use the Auto-Land Module.

Da-da-da--dum---dum----duuuummm....

Oh and some cheeky beggar was after my 2 fish cargo, after taunting me over comms he exited the jump just after me and took a shot at my peasant ship, i was ready to fight to death over 2 fish but the police intervened :eek:

PS: no idea if that was AI or real? i see a lot of ships but how do you tell what's real and what's AI?

Gregster · 30 Dec 2016 at 09:14

AI and get used to it. Anytime you are carrying cargo, AI ships interdict you and you can tell real players from NPC's by:

Real players name is - CMDR <insert name>
NPC's name is - John Smith (notice no CMDR)
Solid triangle/square on the HUD = NPC's
outlined triangle/square on the HUD = Real players

If you see a triangle that is outlined, that means they are behind you (real players) and you could possibly be getting interdicted (pulled out of supercruise) and have to fight or run.

humbug · 30 Dec 2016 at 13:57

Thanks ^^^

Trig · 31 Dec 2016 at 00:43

Have gone from 28mill to 75mill in a few hours, main reason its not higher is down to me being wanted by the time I get back to cash in and getting blown up...
Seems they dont like you hitting the other things around the skimmers lol

dlknight · 31 Dec 2016 at 11:56

Gregster said:
AI and get used to it. Anytime you are carrying cargo, AI ships interdict you and you can tell real players from NPC's by:

Real players name is - CMDR <insert name>
NPC's name is - John Smith (notice no CMDR)
Solid triangle/square on the HUD = NPC's
outlined triangle/square on the HUD = Real players

If you see a triangle that is outlined, that means they are behind you (real players) and you could possibly be getting interdicted (pulled out of supercruise) and have to fight or run.

Annoyingly you also now get NPCs called CMDR or Commander, I think maybe frontier recycle player names for the NPCs? anyone able to confirm this? And some real players have called the characters CMDR x or Commander x

Trig · 31 Dec 2016 at 18:34

Getting bored waiting for the missions to refresh...

Trig · 31 Dec 2016 at 19:17

And its over, station no longer on lock down..

BaDBoY_uK · 1 Jan 2017 at 00:29

Trig said:
And its over, station no longer on lock down..

So it's back or the is no civil war now?

Trig · 1 Jan 2017 at 01:40

Not had any missions since late morning, station no longer on lockdown..

Trig · 1 Jan 2017 at 16:10

Dropped back on, no missions from The Order anymore, however there are some from the Jet guys...

Gabbatek · 2 Jan 2017 at 13:34

now gonna fly on there to finish fed ranking hopefully before they patch nerf it

nalla · 2 Jan 2017 at 22:57

are there any good cash runs atm, sothis and ceos have dried up wu guinagi seems very poor atm, and draconis 17 is apparently no good anymore, where to go to make money.

Trig · 3 Jan 2017 at 00:08

17 Draconis is still on, missions have moved from The Order to the Jet Bridge Inc, but still pulling 1m> per mission, highest so far is 11m odd..

humbug · 3 Jan 2017 at 13:33

I've been collecting stuff from ship wrecks, now my cargo hold is full, what do i do with the stuff in it?

Stelly · 3 Jan 2017 at 13:36

So need to get back into ED but not really played it since they brought out the engineers updates... I just don't think I can get back into it... any pointers now with the engineers update?

Thanks,

Stelly

BaDBoY_uK · 3 Jan 2017 at 13:50

humbug said:
I've been collecting stuff from ship wrecks, now my cargo hold is full, what do i do with the stuff in it?

Quick question - is your cargo hold full or is your materials hold full? Or both?

Currently you need materials and commodities (cargo) for some engineers. Depends what you have

You also need data items

I used this website to understand what I needed and when

http://inara.cz/galaxy-engineers

Stelly said:
So need to get back into ED but not really played it since they brought out the engineers updates... I just don't think I can get back into it... any pointers now with the engineers update?

Thanks,

Stelly

I had the same feeling Stelly. It felt overwhelming. But I did it slowly and now I have an A-rated engineered Corvette that rapes PvE

http://inara.cz/galaxy-engineers

FSD range at Felicity Farseer or Elvira Martuuk

http://inara.cz/galaxy-blueprint/2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-shV0zQn6M

Buy a wake scanner for data. My ASP can now hit 45Ly and that was a std roll

humbug · 3 Jan 2017 at 14:18

BaDBoY_uK said:
Quick question - is your cargo hold full or is your materials hold full? Or both?

Currently you need materials and commodities (cargo) for some engineers. Depends what you have You also need data items

I used this website to understand what I needed and when

http://inara.cz/galaxy-engineers

Erm, wat? its all Greek to me

i just fly'n stuff.

How do i pass on what i have to those who need it?

Thanks for the link

BaDBoY_uK · 3 Jan 2017 at 15:08

humbug said:
Erm, wat? its all Greek to me i just fly'n stuff.

How do i pass on what i have to those who need it?

Thanks for the link

Right hand panel - 4th tab

There's cargo - for commodities that you pick up. You can eject this for others to pick up
There's materials - stuff you cannot eject to someone else. Max 1000
Data - which you also cannot eject for others
Synthesis - for more complicated stuff later

humbug · 3 Jan 2017 at 15:18

Why would i eject stuff?
What do i do with the stuff i can't eject?

BaDBoY_uK · 3 Jan 2017 at 17:43

humbug said:
How do i pass on what i have to those who need it?

Mainly because I thought you wanted to give stuff to other CMDRs?

Or you canne hold any more space?

I may have the wrong end of the stick

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