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Cheers for the reply's.

I've been working on "can I be arsed" to go check them out.

I've not found as many undiscovered as I though I might to be honest but I am putting that down to the areas I have been visiting being in and around nebula. 3500ly out now heading for Thors Helmet where I expect to find more discovered stuff but hopefully have a lovely view.
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Move up or down laterally from the Galactic plane and then head towards your destination. Most people pick the short path to somewhere, so just moving a short distance up or down can put you into the undiscovereds very quickly.

I stumbled on a patch of Black Holes by clicking on the wrong bit of the Galaxy map, so I went there (6KLY) - a very fortunate happenstance as I ended up in areas no one else has been. When I left SagA* I dropped straight down into the NS region (to farm for a bit) and have not seen another explored system in weeks.
 
From what I've seen of the Powerplay stuff I can hardly contain my indifference. Factions, Reputation Grind.... Meh. :rolleyes:
 
Faction screen is VERY complicated... got bored of it quickly. Quite like the Diamondback though :) Also gettin lots of disconnects in "open". Sound effects seem to have been tweaked too.
 
Basically you can pledge for a clan. If you do well and meet it's missions you get rewards.

All clan members get votes on what the clan should do. Votes carry different weights depending on your standing.

You can leave a clan, keep the rewards (modules etc) but not your standing.

That is my understanding anyway.

I really like the concept.
 
Had a seriously close call last night!

Was heading back to George Lucas for repairs and ammo with only 45% hull integrity after a titanic battle with an anaconda when a cmdr interdicted me.

I put all pips to engine and tried to run but he took out my shields and shredded my hull down to 4%. My thrusters and flight assist went down and I spun helplessly out of control. As multi cannon fire rained around me with my canopy gone and oxygen failing I was just waiting for the killer blow and my 200k in bounties to go up in smoke.

But for some reason he couldn't quite finish me off. Maybe it was my ship spinning out of control, I don't know. But then my engines came back online, I put all pips to thrusters and managed to put some distance between us.

Finally my frame shift drive kicked in and I escaped intact! Managed to dock and repair with a huge sigh of relief.

It's moments like this that really make this game great :)
 
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Wow,

What a bad change, 10% reduction price on modules when you sell them back. Ok this is not so bad if your flapping around in anything less than a Cobra, but Switching rolls for example in a Anoconda will no longer happen. eg

150 mill for a powerplant, swap that out for trade setup for example and bang 15million lost instantly. A backward step big time.
 
I disagree, I think it's a great move and should have been in from the start, being able to swap modules at no cost at any time was daft. You do know that you have a ten minute window to play with stuff before the 10% loss kicks in though right?
 
IvanDobskey said:
Had a seriously close call last night!

Was heading back to George Lucas for repairs and ammo with only 45% hull integrity after a titanic battle with an anaconda when a cmdr interdicted me.

I put all pips to engine and tried to run but he took out my shields and shredded my hull down to 4%. My thrusters and flight assist went down and I spun helplessly out of control. As multi cannon fire rained around me with my canopy gone and oxygen failing I was just waiting for the killer blow and my 200k in bounties to go up in smoke.

But for some reason he couldn't quite finish me off. Maybe it was my ship spinning out of control, I don't know. But then my engines came back online, I put all pips to thrusters and managed to put some distance between us.

Finally my frame shift drive kicked in and I escaped intact! Managed to dock and repair with a huge sigh of relief.

It's moments like this that really make this game great :)
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Love it when the game throws up stories like this !


Anyone else having really poor turnouts in RES's in the Empire CG ?

Jumping from RES to RES and just keep seeing low level ships to take out.....turned in about 5 mill but its hard work with these tiddlers.....
 
Dano said:
I disagree, I think it's a great move and should have been in from the start, being able to swap modules at no cost at any time was daft. You do know that you have a ten minute window to play with stuff before the 10% loss kicks in though right?
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No it should not, it takes away all individual experimentation and EVERYONE will be running cookie cutter loadouts. Unless profits are significantly increased to offset it then people will leave the game in droves.

10 min window is pathetic in its own right i wont even go into how ludicrous this even is.
 
SPG said:
No it should not, it takes away all individual experimentation and EVERYONE will be running cookie cutter loadouts. Unless profits are significantly increased to offset it then people will leave the game in droves.

10 min window is pathetic in its own right i wont even go into how ludicrous this even is.
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Hahah, if you really think so, laters :p
 
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