*** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

Gregster said:
The cutter is a sweet ship when fully kitted out. It handles surprisingly well as well and pretty nimble. I have mine A rated but dropped A8 shields for cargo, so running 720 cargo currently and it holds its own in a scrap against most ships.
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Which shields are you running? I assume class 6 I assume.
As mine's a sitting duck with it's inability to turn and lack of weapons, feels more comfortable to go with the BIG shields.

Just started on the CG delivering explosives. Interdicted by a Conda on the 2nd run. Couldn't possibly win the interdiction sub game, though I tried on the first time. Just laughed at the Conda's inabilty to hurt it's shields.

One thing I did do for the first time since playing ED is to try out a docking computer. Just couldn't dock it the Cutter to save my life. Nice to leave it to Google.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Which shields are you running? I assume class 6 I assume.
As mine's a sitting duck with it's inability to turn and lack of weapons, feels more comfortable to go with the BIG shields.

Just started on the CG delivering explosives. Interdicted by a Conda on the 2nd run. Couldn't possibly win the interdiction sub game, though I tried on the first time. Just laughed at the Conda's inabilty to hurt it's shields.

One thing I did do for the first time since playing ED is to try out a docking computer. Just couldn't dock it the Cutter to save my life. Nice to leave it to Google.
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Yer A6 shields. I am also doing the explosives run but working nights, so not much playtime at the mo. I don't bother to fight when getting interdicted in truth and just boost off and carry on my journey.
 
Saved up for an Adder ... And promptly jumped into a Star :/

Going to delete the game save and start again. Missions and trading on the side. Basically I accept a mission, then look on that website I can't remember the name of to see if there's anything worth taking with me.
 
Gregster said:
The cutter is a sweet ship when fully kitted out. It handles surprisingly well as well and pretty nimble. I have mine A rated but dropped A8 shields for cargo, so running 720 cargo currently and it holds its own in a scrap against most ships.
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That's the first time I've heard the cutter described as nimble!

Got started on the CG last night and stuck a 1000 tonnes of explosives in. Will probably need to top up at some point, but wanted to see which of the three was going to take off quickest before going all in.
 
Unfortunately a lot of people hung onto a pass away comment from Braben some time ago. He was quoted as saying he wants to support ED for 10 years or so. So now lots of people assume there is a 10 year roadmap etc, which in essence there isn't really.
 
Banging in cargo on the Thoreau CG. If the Imps and Feds are stupid enough to fight over everything and I can profit then great. Currently top 25% on both CGs :-)

Love how my 'conda can become all things - trade/combat etc. Got a 29ly jump so finding skimmer/robotics/explosives is easy....
 
I've just been doing explosives from yz fornicus. Did about 1k last night, which at the time put me in the top 25, but no doubt that will need some leg work to stay there. Are we in the first tier yet?
 
iamtheoneneo said:
its just speculation.....How can people even take this seriosuly.
Reddit is the last place to be linking for quality factual info

10 years aint going to happen unless they do another community cash drive, and until the community comes together to really figure out what is a priority.
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So untrue, Braben has always said its a 10 year plan and if you look at the list everything so far has been prety accurate. Even down to the thargoid incursions this winter.
The info below is from lavecon last year from Braben and samarco.


Lots of little bits of news. Bit tired so a quick summary:

Sandro has the same hat....
Zac is as enthusiastic and helpful in person as he appears to be on the forums.
SJA is an evil genius and gave a number of small groups of us an insight into AI behaviour, how the npc rankings are being tweaked and improved and exactly how to beat reverse flight combat.
They are liking the idea of ship variants... especially when they help bridge gaps in their internal ship 'backbone'. More on that later.
There is a 10 year plan.
The UA thing isn't a wild goose chase, we are apparently 'close' and there is more awaiting us as and when we work it out.
Imperial Eagle concept artwork shown... may well change over time.
More support for player groups 'Soon'. Watch the gamescom news.
There is a plan to use the upgraded missions system to give us more depth. The upgrade was 'under the hood' to extend capability to do missions conditional upon statuses of all sorts.... Longer range and more complex missions were a 'yes' and got a 'very soon'.
The PC release of cqc from what we could tell will be hot on the heels of the proper xbone release.

And much more. Will tap notes up properly after today but essentially we are having a cracking time, the devs have all been superb, the community drank the bar out of ale and are all bonkers and we have 1 day left.
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/165775-Lavecon-News?p=2529743#post2529743

This video was the original dev diary development plan

 
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Lowe said:
Wouldn't bother in an Adder. Mining best suits the bigger ships where you have plenty of spare hard points and internals. Unless you're in a real back water area you'll be bothered constantly by pirates and so probably spend more time fighting than mining.
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Disagree with this comment...

I was doing quite a lot of mining missions in my Asp Explorer to rank up with the Empire. They pay quite well too.

You don't get bothered constantly by pirates... unless of course you are trying to mine at a RES site...

Find a pristine ring but don't go to the RES sites instead find a clear patch well away from the RES sites and drop out of supercruise as close to the belt as possible.

A couple of times a pirate will show up so just depart into supercruise and return, eventually they will disappear or give up and you can mine all by yourself without interruption for an hour or more.

I was doing this in Decait sucessfully as well.
 
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