Nice. I usually have an A6 fuel scoop
I find 6-7 is the max to get otherwise you get harassed too often. I have around 250Mil now but getting bored of those runs
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Nice. I usually have an A6 fuel scoop
I find 6-7 is the max to get otherwise you get harassed too often. I have around 250Mil now but getting bored of those runs
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Did my first Robigo missions tonight. I pulled in around 15M in just over an hour and a half as a try-out (didn't do the solo-open-solo shuffle when picking up missions), should be better when I can pick up the Broker tier missions which will take one more run.
A lot easier than I expected, other than a couple of interdictions by over-keen pirates in Eagles and dodging a Viper scan it was pretty uneventful.
A lot easier than I expected, other than a couple of interdictions by over-keen pirates in Eagles and dodging a Viper scan it was pretty uneventful.
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Motivation and Content in Elite: Dangerous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOsK8gZ1vc
Nail on head imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOsK8gZ1vc
Nail on head imo.
I had my first experience last night of a pillock flying through my lasers when I was taking on a pirate. This resulted in basically everyone at the Nav Beacon chasing me down. That was fun!
Also, one pirate dropped some cargo, and I failed to control my acquisitive nature. Picked it up, and was instantly scanned and became wanted. I knew it would happen, but just couldn't stop myself.
I've made a good million credits from just an hour or so of Nav Beacon bounty hunting though over the last couple of nights. Given I'm only in a Cobra MkIII, that's pretty good money. Generally I'm not really into making money as quick as possible, I prefer to potter about, pick up missions, explore, trade, check out signal sources. But I've had the Cobra for a while, and I'm starting to get puppy eyes about an Asp Scout. And combat is always fun anyway. Despite my approach to dogfighting being largely to contantly chase the other guy in circles.
Also, one pirate dropped some cargo, and I failed to control my acquisitive nature. Picked it up, and was instantly scanned and became wanted. I knew it would happen, but just couldn't stop myself.
I've made a good million credits from just an hour or so of Nav Beacon bounty hunting though over the last couple of nights. Given I'm only in a Cobra MkIII, that's pretty good money. Generally I'm not really into making money as quick as possible, I prefer to potter about, pick up missions, explore, trade, check out signal sources. But I've had the Cobra for a while, and I'm starting to get puppy eyes about an Asp Scout. And combat is always fun anyway. Despite my approach to dogfighting being largely to contantly chase the other guy in circles.
lol I wrecked my SRV so now i,m really stuck....did try the fuel rats but it turns out you can not transfer the parts needed. What a great bunch of guys though, they were quite willing to come all the way out here mining as they went
I'm going to try leaving my game running over night to see if i can close the distance enough in SC to make a jump, if not 3...2...1.....boom
I know quoting yourself is bad form but its relevant in this case
So after chatting to the FuelRats turned out there was a way to help me out. you can not transfer ores but in theory someone in an SRV can find them and break them up and then a ship can actually scoop them from the planets surface.
Its a long way to come and a PITA to actually traverse this part of space due to the large distance between systems so I told them not to bother and I would just self destruct.
Two guys in the chat room really did not want me to do it and were really keen to give the rescue ago so they started making there way to me.
We finally made contact last night and tried out the transfer system and it worked! although it was a bit tricky on hilly terrain. So now we have to find some Vanadium and Niobium to get me back to habitated space.
Times are a bit difficult as they don't get on until quite late when i need to sleep but hopefully once the weekends here we can get it sorted.
I'm pretty sure this is the first rescue of this kind (for the Rats anyway) and although it was my idiocy in coming here unprepared I'm glad i did now as its led to quite the adventure.
If I get out I guess it will go on the RATs epic rescue board and I'll be famous! (albeit for being an idiot
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I know quoting yourself is bad form but its relevant in this case
So after chatting to the FuelRats turned out there was a way to help me out. you can not transfer ores but in theory someone in an SRV can find them and break them up and then a ship can actually scoop them from the planets surface.
Its a long way to come and a PITA to actually traverse this part of space due to the large distance between systems so I told them not to bother and I would just self destruct.
Two guys in the chat room really did not want me to do it and were really keen to give the rescue ago so they started making there way to me.
We finally made contact last night and tried out the transfer system and it worked! although it was a bit tricky on hilly terrain. So now we have to find some Vanadium and Niobium to get me back to habitated space.
Times are a bit difficult as they don't get on until quite late when i need to sleep but hopefully once the weekends here we can get it sorted.
I'm pretty sure this is the first rescue of this kind (for the Rats anyway) and although it was my idiocy in coming here unprepared I'm glad i did now as its led to quite the adventure.
If I get out I guess it will go on the RATs epic rescue board and I'll be famous! (albeit for being an idiot
That really is awesome. Just amazing how different player interactivity is within FD when compared to most other games I've tried.
Soldato
Soldato
So i fired this up last night, i have been working a hell of a lot lately so had no time to play much of anything but i thought i would run through a couple of the tuts, managed to do the basics, landing, takeoff and navigation and thought i would jump in to see what it was like.
It's a bit overwhelming to say the least. lots to take in and it looks amazing, wading through the immense amount to do is a task of itself, working out what places to trade at etc is a little confusing, flew straight in to a settlement and got tagged as trespassing/wanted and blown out of the sky. that was bed time
Either way it was great fun, ordered a delanclip to enable headtracking so looking forward to trying that also!
It's a bit overwhelming to say the least. lots to take in and it looks amazing, wading through the immense amount to do is a task of itself, working out what places to trade at etc is a little confusing, flew straight in to a settlement and got tagged as trespassing/wanted and blown out of the sky. that was bed time
Either way it was great fun, ordered a delanclip to enable headtracking so looking forward to trying that also!
went to see a barnacle last night, and duly blasted it's tentacles for the meta alloys...
good likc Kanifee, back when i started i went down the trading route, taking missions first, before getting enough money to kit out a hauler and running the rares loop untill i got enough credits to all the other stuff!
good likc Kanifee, back when i started i went down the trading route, taking missions first, before getting enough money to kit out a hauler and running the rares loop untill i got enough credits to all the other stuff!
Dont bother with a Conda pal. Get a Python and kit it out. I recommend Pule Lasers (Large and Medium) and two plasma accelerators for up close
Soldato
Servers have been down for a good 8 hours now with no real updates or ETA from FD. Pretty poor showing tbh
Soldato
Servers have been down for a good 8 hours now with no real updates or ETA from FD. Pretty poor showing tbh
thanks for the heads up, not good at all.
Soldato
Back up now, everything seems as I've left it. Bit gutted I lost a few hours of peaceful game time while the wife was at work and my daughter was still asleep but nevermind
Server downtime - bonus credit weekend
From Zac Antonaci on the Frontier Forums:
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Greetings Commanders.
As many of you will know, last night we suffered unexpected server downtime which lasted for a considerable number of hours.
By way of a thank you for your patience and to cover any unexpected small fines due to the time delay, we will be running a 48 hour bonus credit period for all Commanders in the galaxy.
All mission reward credits, bounties and combat bonds will receive a 20% uplift when cashing them in.
Missions will show as the same reward but should add 20% as a bonus when cashing in. Bounties will also say the same amount has been claimed but will then increase in your transactions. As will combat bonds.
The bonus period will be available from 14:00 GMT (30 minutes time) today until 14:00 GMT Monday 1st Feb.
This will be applied to all platforms (PC, Mac & Xbox One)
Once again thank you so much for your patience while the servers were fixed. We truly appreciate your fantastic ongoing support.
Fly safe Commanders!
From Zac Antonaci on the Frontier Forums:
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Greetings Commanders.
As many of you will know, last night we suffered unexpected server downtime which lasted for a considerable number of hours.
By way of a thank you for your patience and to cover any unexpected small fines due to the time delay, we will be running a 48 hour bonus credit period for all Commanders in the galaxy.
All mission reward credits, bounties and combat bonds will receive a 20% uplift when cashing them in.
Missions will show as the same reward but should add 20% as a bonus when cashing in. Bounties will also say the same amount has been claimed but will then increase in your transactions. As will combat bonds.
The bonus period will be available from 14:00 GMT (30 minutes time) today until 14:00 GMT Monday 1st Feb.
This will be applied to all platforms (PC, Mac & Xbox One)
Once again thank you so much for your patience while the servers were fixed. We truly appreciate your fantastic ongoing support.
Fly safe Commanders!
Soldato
I've been trading rarea but might load up on guns and shields and go out bounty hunting for a bit of fun and take advantage of the 20% boost
Soldato
Loaded up my Cobra for combat and just racked up ~1.7mil in an hour zipping around a RES. About the same as I'd make from running rares but soooooo much more fun!