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NeoWave · 14 Dec 2017 at 18:03

No commentary, no one can understand a word I say anyway

& whilst at the Flight Operations Carrier I did have to afk for a minute to summarily execute a door to door salesman, but if you are curious, here is the Oracle after the Thargoid attack… (skip ahead to 4m43s, the OcUK forum removes the time code)

Surfer · 14 Dec 2017 at 23:57

Dano said:
Thargoids have attacked several stations in the Pleiades, evacuation operations are ongoing, you'll need heat sinks and bulk passenger cabins, looks like things are escalating...

That looks pretty cool and certainly ramps up the tension.

however...

why they hell do they have to be damn flowers?

What was wrong with the sharp angular designs? I mooted the possibility that there were 2 thargoid factions and the flower dudes were the relatively peaceful ones and the angular classic thargoid design ships were the warrior race....but no...sod it says david we all get soddin flowers.

Fishbait · 15 Dec 2017 at 00:15

Dano · 15 Dec 2017 at 10:40

Surfer said:
That looks pretty cool and certainly ramps up the tension.

however...

why they hell do they have to be damn flowers? What was wrong with the sharp angular designs? I mooted the possibility that there were 2 thargoid factions and the flower dudes were the relatively peaceful ones and the angular classic thargoid design ships were the warrior race....but no...sod it says david we all get soddin flowers.

You've not seen the images of the crashed scout then?

Surfer · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:48

wow ^^

back on awesomenesss!

Dano · 15 Dec 2017 at 20:54

Not sure if that's sarcasm or not, this thread makes me question everything I know and thought I understood lmao

Mr.Cookie · 15 Dec 2017 at 22:28

IvanDobskey · 16 Dec 2017 at 10:55

Finally got rear admiral rank and purchased a Corvette. Seems a little bit cumbersome at the moment and the jump range is shocking. Going to need some serious engineering I think. More grinding

Gregster · 16 Dec 2017 at 15:08

Type 10 defender coming next week apparently... Also cost is 1 billion credits :eek:

Dano · 16 Dec 2017 at 17:44

And that's off my shopping list then :eek:

Cavallino · 16 Dec 2017 at 18:02

IvanDobskey said:
Finally got rear admiral rank and purchased a Corvette. Seems a little bit cumbersome at the moment and the jump range is shocking. Going to need some serious engineering I think. More grinding

Did you whack on the best thrusters or is that stock?
I'm at Lt Commander at the moment, slowly grinding.

Gregster said:
Type 10 defender coming next week apparently... Also cost is 1 billion credits

Ah good thing I got 1.2bn credits at the moment

But I don't think its 1 bn credits surely?

Fishbait · 16 Dec 2017 at 18:05

Be amazed if it really had been 1billion.
Reddit would've blown up by now

Gregster · 16 Dec 2017 at 20:12

Cavallino said:
Did you whack on the best thrusters or is that stock?
I'm at Lt Commander at the moment, slowly grinding.

Ah good thing I got 1.2bn credits at the moment
But I don't think its 1 bn credits surely?

Just what I read on Facebook (must be true) but I would also be surprised inn truth.

IvanDobskey · 16 Dec 2017 at 21:15

Cavallino said:
Did you whack on the best thrusters or is that stock?
I'm at Lt Commander at the moment, slowly grinding.

Yes, I have pretty much A rated it. Not taken it into combat yet. Parked up at Deciat for some engineering at the moment.

The grind to get rear admiral gets a little tiresome doesn't it

Cavallino · 16 Dec 2017 at 21:29

IvanDobskey said:
Yes, I have pretty much A rated it. Not taken it into combat yet. Parked up at Deciat for some engineering at the moment.

The grind to get rear admiral gets a little tiresome doesn't it

Yep :\
Incidentally where did you grind?

IvanDobskey · 17 Dec 2017 at 07:07

Cavallino said:
Yep :\
Incidentally where did you grind?

The old favourite, between ceos and Sothis mining in my python. It dropped out of boom near the end and it was a slog to get the final rank.

Fishbait · 17 Dec 2017 at 09:35

When SM mentioned the faction problem on patch release, did a "Psht, typical Fdev..."

NeoWave · 17 Dec 2017 at 10:32

Christmas Tree & Santa Bobbleheads now available from Frontier Store. Also Sandro has said it will take about 3 crafts to go up a Grade under the new Engineering system which sounds more than fine by me - that's just 15 rolls in total to go from zip to a better than current 'god rolled' module.

As for the T-10, it won't cost 1 billion & I wouldn't be surprised if its only advantage over other ships is that it doesn't suffer from the limit of 4 xeno weapons.

famas · 17 Dec 2017 at 12:27

Picked this up a few weeks ago to play on my Vive and enjoying it so far.
Am finding the long travel times a bit of a bore though, just seems I spend most of my time travelling in a straight line doing nothing.
I'm liking the bounty hunting though.

I'm totally new to the whole franchise though, never played any thing like it before.

Is there a OcUK group I can join and get some pointers for what I'm actually meant to be doing

Cavallino · 17 Dec 2017 at 12:43

Cavallino said:
Yep :\
Incidentally where did you grind?

Yea I was there but thought... meh I'm sure there is a better place...

Soooo *I think* I found somewhere which yields me around 80-130m credits/+14% fed rep an hour and Rep+++ fed skimmer missions....
Slow grind but making money too!

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