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darkgen said:
I've actually managed to really get back in to ED over the last few days, initially running passenger missions in a dolphin, which was highly relaxing coining it up to purchasing an Asp Explorer with modules to suit exploration / combat and before I know it I'm already now grinding out the Farseer engineering FSD requirements! I now need to delve in to the mining aspect in order to get hold of phosphorus. Although from a few threads it seems it is better to mine other raw materials and trade them in. I also have an eye in getting hold of the Guardian FSD stuff but I mustn't run before I can walk!

Playing this hybrid with sedate passenger missions in flat screen with a beer on the go versus VR for the combat stuff.
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Don't bother mining anything for lower mats, or even higher mats. You can gather high grade raw materials from some places in the game and then go to a Materials Trader (inara.cz is your friend) and then trade down for stupid amounts from the higher grade items. You can max out the low-grade mats by simply trading about 5 high-grade mats, and if you go to the crashed Anaconda over in Koli Discii C6A, you can do a few runs of shooting the cargo racks there and collect the mats and you're full up in about an hour. Way more productive than trying to mine just a few at a time.

Encoded materials can be found easily at Jameson's crashed ship in HIP 12099, body 1 B. Scan the terminals and you're maxing out G4 and G5 encoded mats quickly to then trade down for the other stuff you need.

Finally, Manufactured materials are a bit tricker, you need High Grade Emissions and you need collector limpets on your ship with some cargo capacity for the limpets, but the HGEs aren't too difficult to find with a bit of help from the Internet! I use https://edgalaxy.net/hge to tell me where the mats have been found more recently. Drop into the system, visit the nav beacon, scan it (you have to target the actual beacon from your contacts tab rather than using the marker you drop in on, and then face it with your ship so your sensors scan it, it's not a D scan etc) and then you'll get info from the signal sources. Go back into supercruise and then check your nav tab, filter for signals and then look for any that say High Grade Emissions. Drop into that and then gather up what you find with collector limpets.
 
Dano said:
Actually logged in tonight, bought a Type 8 and Python MKII, gave them a little fly with default modules and logged out lol, my controls are a state so I need to play more to get used to them again and make adjustments as needed, is everybody in their own private groups or do we have an OCUK one going? Is there a discord server where we can all drop into for some company at all?
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I have my own private group that me and a few friends used to play in, but it's just me and my 11 year old son in it now. I'm happy to join up other groups as well to meet up with others sometime for sure. Ingame name is CMDR CHokKA.
 
CHokKA said:
Don't bother mining anything for lower mats, or even higher mats. You can gather high grade raw materials from some places in the game and then go to a Materials Trader (inara.cz is your friend) and then trade down for stupid amounts from the higher grade items. You can max out the low-grade mats by simply trading about 5 high-grade mats, and if you go to the crashed Anaconda over in Koli Discii C6A, you can do a few runs of shooting the cargo racks there and collect the mats and you're full up in about an hour. Way more productive than trying to mine just a few at a time.

Encoded materials can be found easily at Jameson's crashed ship in HIP 12099, body 1 B. Scan the terminals and you're maxing out G4 and G5 encoded mats quickly to then trade down for the other stuff you need.

Finally, Manufactured materials are a bit tricker, you need High Grade Emissions and you need collector limpets on your ship with some cargo capacity for the limpets, but the HGEs aren't too difficult to find with a bit of help from the Internet! I use https://edgalaxy.net/hge to tell me where the mats have been found more recently. Drop into the system, visit the nav beacon, scan it (you have to target the actual beacon from your contacts tab rather than using the marker you drop in on, and then face it with your ship so your sensors scan it, it's not a D scan etc) and then you'll get info from the signal sources. Go back into supercruise and then check your nav tab, filter for signals and then look for any that say High Grade Emissions. Drop into that and then gather up what you find with collector limpets.
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OK, thanks for this. I confess I prefer these methods to the randomness of anything else. I gathered the first lot of stuff from Dav's Hope to get the first few levels of FSD engineered upgrades. Looks like I need to work out how the limpet collectors work and head off to the Anaconda (:
 
darkgen said:
Looks like I need to work out how the limpet collectors work and head off to the Anaconda (:
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You don't need a collector limpet controller and limpets you can simply lower your cargo scoop and after targeting the material carefully slowly manoeuvre and scoop it up. Note This can be challenging in some large ships.


DONT FORGET YOUR LIMPETS
 
Right. New years resolution: Get back into Elite properly. I keep doing the 'relearn the controls, fly my expensive ship ship to the nearest station, dock, breathe a sigh of relief that I made it and log off'

  • Must reactivate voice attack - is that an email? I seem to remember having to email the creator to get it unlocked. I might be thinking about the voice packs.
  • Have a laptop or tablet nearby for useful websites.
  • List all the controls that I map to my HOTAS
  • Possibly do this all in VR again but then I can't see my laptop/control list
 
MostlyHuman said:
You don't need a collector limpet controller and limpets you can simply lower your cargo scoop and after targeting the material carefully slowly manoeuvre and scoop it up. Note This can be challenging in some large ships.


DONT FORGET YOUR LIMPETS
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You really do when you load in and there are about 50 resources scattered about. I'd rather press a button and watch stuff collect it for me than me painstakingly trying to manoeuvre my ship around a debris field whilst trying to pick up something the size of a small stone over 50 times! That's just far too time-consuming.
 
darkgen said:
OK, thanks for this. I confess I prefer these methods to the randomness of anything else. I gathered the first lot of stuff from Dav's Hope to get the first few levels of FSD engineered upgrades. Looks like I need to work out how the limpet collectors work and head off to the Anaconda (:
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Collectors are simple, add one into your ship slot, then bind a key for collection. Then you just get in range (A rated is usually 1500km range from the items to collect), deploy your limpet using the firing group key, and open your cargo hatch. They'll do the rest :)

Oh, there's this annoying bug at the moment where if you target something for collection and then deploy your limpet, it'll collect the item and then expire, so make sure you just deploy two limpets before targeting anything, and then leave them to detect the materials and collect them.
 
MostlyHuman said:
You don't need a collector limpet controller and limpets you can simply lower your cargo scoop and after targeting the material carefully slowly manoeuvre and scoop it up. Note This can be challenging in some large ships.


DONT FORGET YOUR LIMPETS
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Umm let me try and clarify what you mean here as I think I've already balls'd up! I just purchased a 3A collector limpet controller but the above suggests I done goofed?! I'm not seeing an option just to buy "limpets", only controllers?!

Previously with Dav's Hope, I just landed and scooted around in the SRV collecting the materials. But I guess if I hover close enough in the AspX, I can then fire off the limpets once materials are targeted?!
 
CHokKA said:
You really do when you load in and there are about 50 resources scattered about. I'd rather press a button and watch stuff collect it for me than me painstakingly trying to manoeuvre my ship around a debris field whilst trying to pick up something the size of a small stone over 50 times! That's just far too time-consuming.
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Its about the flying the spaceship not being a drone watcher ;)
 
darkgen said:
Umm let me try and clarify what you mean here as I think I've already balls'd up! I just purchased a 3A collector limpet controller but the above suggests I done goofed?! I'm not seeing an option just to buy "limpets", only controllers?!

Previously with Dav's Hope, I just landed and scooted around in the SRV collecting the materials. But I guess if I hover close enough in the AspX, I can then fire off the limpets once materials are targeted?!
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to go with a limpet controller you need a cargo hold into which you also have to buy limpets for your controller to ... well... control. You buy them from one of the repair tabs, give me a moment and I'll screenshot it

 
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CHokKA said:
Oh, there's this annoying bug at the moment where if you target something for collection and then deploy your limpet, it'll collect the item and then expire, so make sure you just deploy two limpets before targeting anything, and then leave them to detect the materials and collect them.
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If you target something and launch a limpet it'll collect that item, all being well and good, then self destruct. If you launch a limpet with nothing targeted then the limpet will just collect the closest items (not on your ignore list I think) until it expires.

There is a bug currently in game where a limpeet will get to your cargo scoop and stop, try closing/ reopening scoop and manouvering a bit
 
darkgen said:
Umm let me try and clarify what you mean here as I think I've already balls'd up! I just purchased a 3A collector limpet controller but the above suggests I done goofed?! I'm not seeing an option just to buy "limpets", only controllers?!

Previously with Dav's Hope, I just landed and scooted around in the SRV collecting the materials. But I guess if I hover close enough in the AspX, I can then fire off the limpets once materials are targeted?!
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You've then got to restock your limpets from the ship restocking tab, where you buy fuel and ammo etc. It's second or third icon from the bottom on the left.
 
MostlyHuman said:
If you target something and launch a limpet it'll collect that item, all being well and good, then self destruct. If you launch a limpet with nothing targeted then the limpet will just collect the closest items (not on your ignore list I think) until it expires.

There is a bug currently in game where a limpeet will get to your cargo scoop and stop, try closing/ reopening scoop and manouvering a bit
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I'm sure that's a bug though. When I played years ago they didn't used to self-destruct after one item even when you had materials selected.
 
GBRusty said:
It's one of the websites, you posted before, that I saved. :)
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Other apps I use for ED

EDHM-UI get rid of the orange display pick and choose your HUD colours

EDMC with the Landing plug in. Shows your land pad on the big stations

EliteChroma Razor keyboards only light up your keybinds

EDDiscovery big powererful app for ED

All have threads on the official frontier ED forum
 
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My old X-52 is playing up, so need to get an upgrade. Been looking at the VKB' gladiator range, also the Virpil Constellation ALPHAs
Why are all the sites I goto on back order :(
 
mingeroonie said:
My old X-52 is playing up, so need to get an upgrade. Been looking at the VKB' gladiator range, also the Virpil Constellation ALPHAs
Why are all the sites I goto on back order :(
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Let me guess it's the same x52 problem that seems to plague all of them sooner or later?

A lot of these companies don't hold much stock I guess because it's dead money and it's all expensive. Virpil will usually see you getting your stuff in about 4 weeks from ordering when on backorder.

I actually talked myself back out of bothering with it because I remembered there isn't a solution that enables me quick, easy or comfortable access to my keyboard and mouse and I need that a lot in other games I play.
The only thing that might work is some kind of chair mount that pivots out the way, but again that is just hassle and I can't be bothered with it
 
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