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Panos said:
Do you play from a new start or an old one? I had my 0 star pilots getting 1 star per explored sector. (by using the Explore command not set them routes to move to the system). While the miners got 2 stars in 3 hours.
Also you can always buy trained pilots. Order a ship with multiple crew (eg a haulier) and only select the Pilot. If he isn't what you like, demote him to service crew and buy another pilot from the station upgrade functions. I found almost always on the 2nd-3rd try what I wanted. But usually I get 2 useless pilots (aka cannot do autotrade from start) per 10 haulier orders. Which is not bad.

Also did you observe that the Pilot skill is irrelevant now? The orders are based on average combined skilled. You can have a 2 star pilot with 4 star managment and 3 star morale and will be able to execute 3 star average skill commands. eg Autotrade.

Again, if you play an old save things might be bit off.
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New start. My miners haven't levelled up from the basic mining option in hours.

Oh, I didn't realise that about the average skill.
 
Im in a Falcon Sentinal atm, its fast but id like faster but then id like more guns and more shields and hull hehe. Ive somehow got a new rep at argon cos of mining so went there, now i can buy them military ships, the s heavy fighter the one that looks like from the last starfighter film, that kinda looks cool, cost a bit tho about near 4 mill for a maxed out one. Would i like it, i dont think it has much speed vs the nova tho but has 4 weapons and tempted to do 2 beams and 2 decent rapid fire cannons (not sure whats the best ones). There was the option of the other one but looks naff. Then there is the m ships for argon in ap, one thats long looks naff but the other looks like it could do some dmg, thing is tho that there slow and i like my s class manoeuvrability. :/

What is a good option i wonder for something better as a personal ship to fly with after the nova. I am currently setting up miners in silent witness and 18B for silicon 3 in SW and 2 in 18b for now. Should get up a rank soonish in a hour or so. Do they have any good options if i get a military licence from them?

Duno if shall bother with paranid even tho they should have faster ships i just dont like the looks of em. Split, hmm might take awhile to get the rep and i dunno even where their sectors are yet tbh. I think in time i will end up with a split s or m ship as a personal ship depends how the hull and shields are as im sure their firepower and speed is top notch.

Not really lookin for a war machine to fly just somit where if i was caught out of travel drive and a small group of khaak or whatever was chasing me id be able to speed away or put up a good fight. I cant in a nova i dont think.

Said nova but it was a falcon sentinal i got and im flying atm as personal ship.
 
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SkeeterUK said:
Im in a Falcon Sentinal atm, its fast but id like faster but then id like more guns and more shields and hull hehe. Ive somehow got a new rep at argon cos of mining so went there, now i can buy them military ships, the s heavy fighter the one that looks like from the last starfighter film, that kinda looks cool, cost a bit tho about near 4 mill for a maxed out one. Would i like it, i dont think it has much speed vs the nova tho but has 4 weapons and tempted to do 2 beams and 2 decent rapid fire cannons (not sure whats the best ones). There was the option of the other one but looks naff. Then there is the m ships for argon in ap, one thats long looks naff but the other looks like it could do some dmg, thing is tho that there slow and i like my s class manoeuvrability. :/

What is a good option i wonder for something better as a personal ship to fly with after the nova. I am currently setting up miners in silent witness and 18B for silicon 3 in SW and 2 in 18b for now. Should get up a rank soonish in a hour or so. Do they have any good options if i get a military licence from them?

Duno if shall bother with paranid even tho they should have faster ships i just dont like the looks of em. Split, hmm might take awhile to get the rep and i dunno even where their sectors are yet tbh. I think in time i will end up with a split s or m ship as a personal ship depends how the hull and shields are as im sure their firepower and speed is top notch.

Not really lookin for a war machine to fly just somit where if i was caught out of travel drive and a small group of khaak or whatever was chasing me id be able to speed away or put up a good fight. I cant in a nova i dont think.

Said nova but it was a falcon sentinal i got and im flying atm as personal ship.
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Buzzard had always been my favourite S-size ship until I put my hands on a Chimera. :D

Is robust beast with 3 bolt repeaters MK2, dual TEL shields and 5000hp hull to weather off anything. Is my go to S ship for the destoyer carried ships.
Don't look at it looking slow and heavy, is an absolute blast and a beauty.

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It's the Quasar heavy fighter the one you are on about earlier (one that looks a bit like it's from the last Starfighter) it's what I'm currently flying around in, it's fun.

So far it's the best looking ship (IMO) I've found until the Split Dragon Cruiser, although being a medium sized ship I have no idea what it would be like to fly around in, I don't have the standing with ZYA yet.... But as per some above advice I shot criminals until -9 then could run missions etc I think I'm already +8 now it really didn't take long at all.

Gonna give that Dragon a go next anyway, then think about setting up my first station, I think I'm going to setup a mining business first, with auto miners, refinery and some stuff for defence.
 
SkeeterUK said:
Are you running reshade or something as your screenshots look darker than when i play. Will have a check out of that ship, cheers. :)
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No, this screenshot is also taken months ago before reshade was possible to work with Vulkan. Is dark because is taken from the docking area of my destroyer in dead space not on a station :D
This screenshot is taken few seconds before the Buzzard landed. The star is on the other side of the station, so the ship is on the shadow. (see the light source on the habitat module)

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BUDFORCE said:
It's the Quasar heavy fighter the one you are on about earlier (one that looks a bit like it's from the last Starfighter) it's what I'm currently flying around in, it's fun.

So far it's the best looking ship (IMO) I've found until the Split Dragon Cruiser, although being a medium sized ship I have no idea what it would be like to fly around in, I don't have the standing with ZYA yet.... But as per some above advice I shot criminals until -9 then could run missions etc I think I'm already +8 now it really didn't take long at all.

Gonna give that Dragon a go next anyway, then think about setting up my first station, I think I'm going to setup a mining business first, with auto miners, refinery and some stuff for defence.
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Captured a Dragon with my Jaquar :D That pic is before sending it to refit and the newly recruited pilot can be seen walking towards it. (sorry for the quality this is taken with HF1 where SSAA is removed, so no AA applied, I will take a better screenshot when near the ship next time).

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I’m still trying to understand the reasons behind the ware shortages. Compared to my old save there seem to be fewer traders shifting goods and fewer factories making them. In theory the AI would populate the sectors, but there are no wares available to do it. I think it is only a split problem.

I’ve got some stations built, whereas I used to build in grids the split connections are arranged differently, but I’m determined to stick with the split.

Nvidium and silicon are bringing in enough to get 2-3 stations continually built now.
 
So apparently the devs are looking into pilots levelling slowly. It is a bit strange, they are barely levelling at all. I assume there is a bug in the system somewhere.

Meanwhile, the Xenon have captured a Free Family sector in my game and they don’t seem to be doing much about it. I guess that will be one for me to capture later.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
So apparently the devs are looking into pilots levelling slowly. It is a bit strange, they are barely levelling at all. I assume there is a bug in the system somewhere.

Meanwhile, the Xenon have captured a Free Family sector in my game and they don’t seem to be doing much about it. I guess that will be one for me to capture later.
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Do you play a new game started with 3.0 or an Old game pre-3.0? Asking because my 0 star pilots are not 2-3 star by just doing 2 sectors exploration each.

I am kinda annoyed for a completely different reason. Suddenly got Righterous Fury achievement without knowing how. The campaign mission is gone also :/

While my only vulture is stuck, even deleting it's commands from the save file didn't help, and cannot transfer the goods to PHQ to start research.
 
Panos said:
Do you play a new game started with 3.0 or an Old game pre-3.0? Asking because my 0 star pilots are not 2-3 star by just doing 2 sectors exploration each.

I am kinda annoyed for a completely different reason. Suddenly got Righterous Fury achievement without knowing how. The campaign mission is gone also :/

While my only vulture is stuck, even deleting it's commands from the save file didn't help, and cannot transfer the goods to PHQ to start research.
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I’ve tried both new and previous save games. Miners for example have been running for a good 20 hours or more and are still only 2 star. They then seem to get stuck at that. No way is that intended.

Oh, those bugs sound annoying.

Ive just found the trading post in the free families sector that could have been much more useful to me when starting out! I knew it was there somewhere. Shame I didn’t try the ZYA start, it seems a lot easier, at least initially.
 
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