You spawn back on your ship minus your SRV, which is a bit of a problem if your stupid enough to go bumbling around areas that you need FSD boosts to get in and out of with only one SRV
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You spawn back on your ship minus your SRV, which is a bit of a problem if your stupid enough to go bumbling around areas that you need FSD boosts to get in and out of with only one SRV
I thought that might be the case since you can carry two of them. Just thought that I should check before I go assaulting bases with my srv!
On the note of those boosts, do certain types of planet yield certain materials or is it random?
On the note of those boosts, do certain types of planet yield certain materials or is it random?
Apologies for quoting myself, but can anyone offer any advice here, please?
I ground my way up to King mostly doing charity/courier missions at Tamar, as I understand it though the mission spawn rate there has been nerfed so this may no longer be viable.
There's a huge thread on this topic on the official forums, probably the best advice I can give is the read the posts from the last few days and see what other players currently ranking up are saying:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=164309
Even using that keyboard video, I just cannot get the controls right, shame nobody has a screenshot of their set up! Barely played this game for 30mins or so and it's nothing like the old Elites. Too many buttons, yaw, roll up, left, thrust, ui button etc
So I was reading over the posts on the previous page regarding hourly income from trading, and decided to see if I can put a figure on how much I'm making from exploration via grinding neutron stars and black holes here in the core.
Timed how long it takes between scans and it was almost exactly one minute (actually 58.25 seconds); let's factor in time for route planning and other distractions and 50 scans an hour seems reasonable if you're really concentrating on grinding NS/BH and ignoring planets and other objects.
Average value for a BH is ~50k and NS is ~36k, plus whatever is tagged on for honking (unscanned planets pay out only 1/6th of what a scanned one does, but those 1/6ths all add up) and plus 50% for first finders fee (which you should always get, haven't seen a scanned system in weeks). I'd say if you're in an area of space with a high BH count then averaging 75k per system is easily do-able (probably a low estimate, but lets stick with 75k).
Also need to factor in that I always grind up to rank 5 with Sirius corp before handing in my data, for the 200% bonus to exploration payout.
So taking the figure of 75k per system, multiplying by 50 for an hours work and then adding the 200% bonus gives a grand total of... *drumroll*
11.25M credits per hour
Which seems about right.
Admittedly you have to take into account time spent getting to the core, and then time spent grinding to rank 5 in PP but leaving that aside it's competitive with a decent trade route (although obviously still much lower than the best) and personally I find exploration much more interesting than the mind numbing tedium of space trucking (although I'm aware that there are many who find exploration every bit as tedious).
Timed how long it takes between scans and it was almost exactly one minute (actually 58.25 seconds); let's factor in time for route planning and other distractions and 50 scans an hour seems reasonable if you're really concentrating on grinding NS/BH and ignoring planets and other objects.
Average value for a BH is ~50k and NS is ~36k, plus whatever is tagged on for honking (unscanned planets pay out only 1/6th of what a scanned one does, but those 1/6ths all add up) and plus 50% for first finders fee (which you should always get, haven't seen a scanned system in weeks). I'd say if you're in an area of space with a high BH count then averaging 75k per system is easily do-able (probably a low estimate, but lets stick with 75k).
Also need to factor in that I always grind up to rank 5 with Sirius corp before handing in my data, for the 200% bonus to exploration payout.
So taking the figure of 75k per system, multiplying by 50 for an hours work and then adding the 200% bonus gives a grand total of... *drumroll*
11.25M credits per hour
Which seems about right.
Admittedly you have to take into account time spent getting to the core, and then time spent grinding to rank 5 in PP but leaving that aside it's competitive with a decent trade route (although obviously still much lower than the best) and personally I find exploration much more interesting than the mind numbing tedium of space trucking (although I'm aware that there are many who find exploration every bit as tedious).
Soldato
11.25m an hour, thats not bad going and without the hassle of being scanner/interdicted..
I posted my bindings directly under the video.
It's pretty much as described on the video, but with a few personal tweaks. Make sure you set the mouse sensitivity controls as he does near the beginning. Think of it as though it's an FPS.
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Soldato
i sunk 60 hours into the game in 4 days. Now I'm finding it very samey.
Soldato
I've had it with this game now. The slave grind is mindless tedium and I might as well be at work lol. But it doesn't seem as profitable to do other stuff, such as legal trading or taking on missions. I've had a couple of issues where the game has failed me, such as coming out of FSD inside the rear of a station and recently I clipped a planet's atmosphere and was dumped inside the planet's core. Both times I lost my very expensive Anaconda and around 20m in credits. I back playing the new Dying Light expansion.
Soldato
send a message to the devs on elite support and they would refund your assets ship etc from before the game bugs and restore parity again
Don't slave grind then.
Soldato
send a message to the devs on elite support and they would refund your assets ship etc from before the game bugs and restore parity again
I did and they restored my lost credits but since that happened, I have lost the inclination to play. I was playing about 5 hours a day and have racked up about 500 in total.
Edit: I just noticed that Steam has removed Horizons from my game list now so I can only see my ED history but it was about 500 hours.
Soldato
Just timed it, 7m58....
Soldato
Baaaaast, just popped over to Okinura to do some bounty hunting and got jumped by a pair of player killers in an FDL and an Anaconda, lasted about 30 seconds 
Thanks! Can you start multiple characters?
Thanks a lot, I'll definitely have to check out Mobius - I also like the sound of checking out an "Earth-like" planet
This evening I landed at another planet dock and drove around the SRV for a bit which was a bit of fun - Then I took a planet mission "Mission for Mercy" where I had to find a lost pilot who has left a distress signal. Spent the best part of an hour looking for it, found one defense target settlement, and nothing else
Waste of time Any advice when doing these planet missions?Ok so not played for a couple of months due to new house
WTF.
My fave Hires site nr Kremainn. What happened to the local police. I used to attack however they attacked and then split for a while and come back for the kill shots. (I know I didn't have to for the bounty but bro points)
Anyhow. The Police have gone.....And no Conda's
WTF.
My fave Hires site nr Kremainn. What happened to the local police. I used to attack however they attacked and then split for a while and come back for the kill shots. (I know I didn't have to for the bounty but bro points)
Anyhow. The Police have gone.....And no Conda's
Thanks! Can you start multiple characters?
Thanks a lot, I'll definitely have to check out Mobius - I also like the sound of checking out an "Earth-like" planet
This evening I landed at another planet dock and drove around the SRV for a bit which was a bit of fun - Then I took a planet mission "Mission for Mercy" where I had to find a lost pilot who has left a distress signal. Spent the best part of an hour looking for it, found one defense target settlement, and nothing else
You can buy multiple ships, but don't think you can have multiple accounts.
With the SRV the scanner usually picks up objectives or metal to mine. Haven't done that mission though.