This was painful! Thought I'd restocked all and then "out of limpets" at the crash site. Managed to work out (I think) you a) need cargo space to store the limpets (assuming the collected cargo replaces that limpets cargo space) and b) you restock via the Advanced Maintenance sub-menus!
Thats correct 1 limpet takes up 1 ton of cargo space
I'vee always farmed crash sites with an srv
That's exactly what I ended up doing! Managed to upgrade FSD to 46ly now. May have to give that a rest for now.
It's been that way forever as far as I can recall.
How many limpets did you take with you? They shouldn't be expiring for at least 5 - 10 minutes depending on the grade of controller you picked up.
Collecting raw materials from crash sites (or brain trees / crystalline shards) with limpets involves a specific technique, you can't just fire the limpets and have them bring back the goodies.
That link was helpful. I was hovering over the crash site and I could see the materials canisters on the ground and without targeting (not for lack of trying) anything I fired off a limpet. I could see it fire and then a few seconds it died or expired or whatever the phrase was. Reading that link suggests i was far too close to the ground. Even though I opened the cargo scoop prior to firing any limpets, firing them seemed to open and close it automatically?!
When you launch a limpet while your cargo scoop is open, it looks for a moment like your cargo scoop closes, but it should then show as open again once the limpet's finished launching. Sometimes I mistakenly try to open it again in that situation, which actually ends up closing it!
Yeah you were too close I'd say. I find it easier to land on the planet and gather the resources manually from the SRV. I usually do that whilst watching a YouTube video or something!
It's pretty annoying only having 4 cargo space in the SRV and playing finding the magical spot to allow transfer between ship! I'm going to endure to get the FSD completely to engineered level 4 and then see about upgrading shields and weapons but first I'll go sit on some RES sites to pinch some bounties!
Dont forget your Kill Warrant Scanner
I pledged to LYR after the end of the war, so far it's been a pretty good experience. Finding a good discord for whatever faction you end up pledging to is I think essential. PP2 is like a lot of ED difficult/obscure to the uninitiated. Having people to ask "how to do xyz" will be essential. Especially as some of the mission terminology is still in PP1 terms and some of thaty has changed in PP2
i am almost at that point as well.... currently at just under 7 billion.... which should be enough to get the fleet carrier i want along with 12months worth of upkeep so long as i suspend all the services (i want to have them just in case but the reality is i am unlikely to use them).Just hit 8 Billion, time to head back and get a FC
PP isnt something i am going to get into in terms of working for expanding my power i doubt BUT it gives a really nice bonus to the things you already do in game.... so basically what ever you like doing most, pick a power that rewards that thing!.
You did all that in a monthWow, okay. Since "considering" rejoining back at the beginning of Decemember, I've:
Made it back from Beagle Point to Colonia in my Anaconda.
Joined the [CLB] Squadron (cheers @Adam-r !).
Bought a Mandalay with Arx, outfitted and engineererd it at Colonia, and experimented with a little exo bio and exploration nearby.
Heard the last Titan was heading to Sol, so hot footed it back to the bubble. Read up/researched the Anti-Xeno initiative, resurrected my old anti-xeno Anaconda and re-outfitted it appropriately (including hitting up Guardian sites for more blueprints). Built a Python Mk2 and a Krait Mk2 to their combat specs too, the Anaconda with modified shard cannons just feels the most fun of the lot.
Murdered 3.5 billion credit's worth of Thargoids while systems were recaptured (including doing the Hutton rescue run), got in on the Titan bombing and subsequent freebie SCO engineered drives.
Bought a Cobra MkV that I later realised I had no purpose for.
Found out about merit farming via platinum laser mining, bought, engineered and outfitted a Cutter and made it to #4 on my power's leaderboard, maxing out PP 2.0 and unlocking all the modules.
Heard about the Pilots Trade Network and the incredible work those guys are doing, and made another 4 billion or so credits doing carrier restocking and wing missions. I now have three or four Type-9s scattered in various systems these guys use to help with loading their Carriers up. I hear the crazy-credit-farm Booze Cruise to Rackham's Point is in the works, but unfortunately I'm not going to be around for the next couple of weeks so will miss out
And this is all without even touching Odyssey ground content yet.
It's a great time to return to Elite Dangerous. Is it perfect? No, there's still plenty for Frontier Developments to work on (CQB needs fixing badly, amongst other things), but is it great fun, absorbing and addicting? Hell yes!
