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kinger8938 said:
Had a little mess about on a 360 controller does work well i imagine after some configuration i could be happy with it!

Got a viper last night, can someone explain or point me to how to load out the ship properly? On the right hand screen, what do i do about the bounty scanner etc? Sorry if this makes no sense lol
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On the right-hand screen, add the bounty scanner to a separate fire group. So your main one will have your primary weapons on fire button 1, secondary on fire button 2. Then you move to the next column to create a new fire group, and you can put your scanner on that. It's generally good to have your scanner on its own so that you can't accidentally fire on a target until the scan is complete.

Loadout-wise, it's down to preference, but the most common loadout for a Viper seems to be a pair of class 1 fixed lasers (pulse or beam) and class 2 gimballed multi-cannons.
 
Some very nice chap interdicted me and mullered me in seconds but told me to log out as I couldn't do anything (engines shot to bits). Well done to Duanedibbly :D
 
Dup said:
Awesome, I'm just starting with the sidey as I never played post beta. Although for some reason I have an Eagle in one of the stations I don't know what to do with.

What did you set off with outfitting wise? What methods do you use for exploring? I really fancy going off on an adventure :)
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Ship wise I used a Lakon T6. It was stripped down as far as possible to reduce as much weight as possible to achieve the greatest jump range I could. The Frame Shift Drive was the best available, the Power Distro and Power Plant were selected on weight and heat management (the T6 gets hot!). I used the best Discovery Scanner available (no scan distance limits) and a Detailed Surface Scanner to scan any planets that looked interesting (rocky, water world, metal rich etc).

I had been doing a lot of RES point killing and community goals and felt it was a good time to get out and try exploring. Really I was just interested in how Nebula looked, how long it took to get places and how much it was worth in terms of credits. I wont lie I also wanted to get Cmdr Private Parts on some undiscovered places and if I stumbled across a Earth Like planet then that would have been super sweet too.

The method I used for exploring was very simple. Pick a point in space, which in this case was the Stem and Pipe Nebula (I think) then try and get there on the most unlikely path in a attempt to find some systems that had not been scanned. Initially I just travelled on a flat plane to my destination but quickly found that this was obviously a very common thing done by cmdrs (prolly just due to the way the Nav Map plots its course so instead I travelled "down" through the galaxy first and then back across at that level (if that makes sense) which worked alright for a first attempt.

On jumping into a system I would target the sun in front of me and allow the Surface Scanner to do its thing. I would also use the Discovery Scanner to show me what the system was made up of Sun/Planet and moon wise. If the system had already been "tagged" or "first discovered by" another Cmdr then I would asses what planets were in the system and if there were no Water Worlds/Earth Likes or Metal Rich jobbies then I was off onto the next system to rinse and repeat. When I did find a Planet or Sun or whatever that hadn't yet been "Tagged" it was simply then just a case of targeting the object and flying towards it until within range for the Surface Scanner to do its thing. The more you scan the greater your chances of credits.

I am not saying the above is the right way to do it, its just the way I did it :D

*Best fuel scoop you can afford. Missed that off, so so so important haha :D
 
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Gregster said:
Some very nice chap interdicted me and mullered me in seconds but told me to log out as I couldn't do anything (engines shot to bits). Well done to Duanedibbly :D
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Right-hand menu, functions tab, repair and reboot. ;)

Logging out during combat is considered to be an exploit by FD and they are (allegedly) looking at taking action against those who do it, so be careful about that one.
 
JHeaton said:
Right-hand menu, functions tab, repair and reboot. ;)

Logging out during combat is considered to be an exploit by FD and they are (allegedly) looking at taking action against those who do it, so be careful about that one.
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Yer and only right. I said to the guy to finish me off and I don't combat log (I have quite a few spare credits) but he said no and log out. I thought that was decent of him, as I was just a sitting duck.
 
Gregster said:
Yer and only right. I said to the guy to finish me off and I don't combat log (I have quite a few spare credits) but he said no and log out. I thought that was decent of him, as I was just a sitting duck.
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Logging off isn't the problem. It's alt-f4 ing and killing the game process.
If he killed your engines, logging out would mean you would log back in in exactly the same place with broken engines...
In the old days :) you would need to self destruct to carry on the game. Now a recent patch means you can reboot your system and limp home to fix things up properly.

The person who interdicted you was being a douche but hey, welcome to Open play :)
 
Oh well, just over 30,000 tonnes transported to the Diso community goal. Hopefully that will be enough to keep me in the top 5%.
 
melchy said:
Oh well, just over 30,000 tonnes transported to the Diso community goal. Hopefully that will be enough to keep me in the top 5%.
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Wow, that's some serious hauling! I just broke 15kt and I'm very confident that that'll keep me in the top 5%, so you should have no worries! :p
 
16,500LY from Sol... Not seen another explored system for weeks, not seen another SHIP for longer.

Stumbling acorss neutron stars, black holes, multiple T-Tauri and other proto-stars so often I permanently have the STOP (for the love of God STOP) key pressed permanently every time I jump into a new system.

There are so many terraformable worlds out here (wherever that is) I keep hoping to meet an Alien civilisation to have someone to talk to - the ship's cat just looks at me funny now, and the computer keeps saying "I can't do that Dave" whenever I ask it to bounce off a Class IV Gas giant.

I may be going a little strange.

Oh and Black Holes are a bugger when you jump into a system with multiple ones... you can't SEE the damn things. To quote Red Dwarf: "Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?"

Except I had 3. Talk about clenching buttocks.
 
Kieran_Burns said:
There are so many terraformable worlds out here (wherever that is) I keep hoping to meet an Alien civilisation to have someone to talk to.
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Nope... Unfortunately, all you're going to find are more of the same coloured balls you've found over and over during the past 16,500LY. ie: You will not see or find anything else.

The only risk you face is forgetting to set your thrust back to zero when arriving in a system, or if you happen to jump between binary stars.

The only thing planting your "discovered by" flag in a system shows, is not how inventive, risk taking or logical you were, but simply how many times you were willing to press H over and over and over.

I know this sounds cynical, but IMHO it's very sadly true...
 
That's brilliant as I gave up a while ago, it's jut not in depth enough. Maybe when other stuff gets added. But been spoilt by the likes of x3 didn't realise how important business was in such games.
But at least unlike other games that can't be added to steam I won't lose it and forgt login details and everything else.
 
NeilFawcett said:
Nope... Unfortunately, all you're going to find are more of the same coloured balls you've found over and over during the past 16,500LY. ie: You will not see or find anything else.

The only risk you face is forgetting to set your thrust back to zero when arriving in a system, or if you happen to jump between binary stars.

The only thing planting your "discovered by" flag in a system shows, is not how inventive, risk taking or logical you were, but simply how many times you were willing to press H over and over and over.

I know this sounds cynical, but IMHO it's very sadly true...
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We get it, you don't like the game..... :cool:
 
Well, there's a turn up for the books...

Earth-like planet with a big ring system with a Neutron star as its Sun :D

and it's so purdy:
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Talk about a perfect storm for earning exploration money!

(I have noted the system for the Earth-like thread over on the Frontier forums.)
 
IvanDobskey said:
Where is the nearest RES to lave for some decent bounty hunting action? I have a well kitted out cobra now, so thought I'd give it a go.
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Leesti, Zaonce, Quator (I think).

Kieran_Burns said:
Well, there's a turn up for the books...

Earth-like planet with a big ring system with a Neutron star as its Sun :D

and it's so purdy:
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Talk about a perfect storm for earning exploration money!

(I have noted the system for the Earth-like thread over on the Frontier forums.)
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Nice find. :)

I love Earth-likes with rings. There is one in 70 Virginis with a RES around it and it's one of my favourite places in populated space.
 
NeilFawcett said:
Nope... Unfortunately, all you're going to find are more of the same coloured balls you've found over and over during the past 16,500LY. ie: You will not see or find anything else.
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Wrong, according to Braben there is stuff out there to be found, it's a big galaxy.
 
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