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Elite: Dangerous
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little P
Super Mod
I am absolutely loving this. Just done some missions from the bulletin board to transport food canisters to a starving workforce stuck at a metalworks. I love how there is so many different ways to earn credits now, and the graphics are absolutely stunningWoohoooo, i'm flying! Must admit in solo mode to get the hang of things, but traded my first comodities and made a profit. This is fun
Brilliant
little P
Super Mod
2.04 out in an hour Shilka
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=45723
How are you finding it so far?
Just in case you didn't know there is an intentional lack of cargo available at the moment around the systems where you start to simulate the ongoing civil war. I haven't ventured out too far yet, planning on doing that this evening.
I just got enough money to buy an Eagle, and I bought heat sinks and a missile launcher along with ammo. I haven't tried an Eagle yet (the long range fighter). So I'm off to go and try a bit of contract killing soon :icon_twisted: Then buy a cargo upgrade so I can at least pick up some loot from whoever is unlucky enough to be in my sights. Going to try and make enough for a Cobra MK III
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=45723
How are you finding it so far?
Just in case you didn't know there is an intentional lack of cargo available at the moment around the systems where you start to simulate the ongoing civil war. I haven't ventured out too far yet, planning on doing that this evening.
I just got enough money to buy an Eagle, and I bought heat sinks and a missile launcher along with ammo. I haven't tried an Eagle yet (the long range fighter). So I'm off to go and try a bit of contract killing soon :icon_twisted: Then buy a cargo upgrade so I can at least pick up some loot from whoever is unlucky enough to be in my sights. Going to try and make enough for a Cobra MK III
Shilka
Hardcore
The game itself is running fairly decent. Yesterday evening I played for 5 hours without a single hickup (solo mode), but today whenever I tried the full MP it crashes within the hour, usually when doing nothing special, so did more playing in solo mode.
I don't mind the low sales tbh, at least you need to make an effort to find profitable routes, and ended up finding some. Also started doing some of the message board missions (deliveries), and some of them pay fairly well, but I still do trading mostly. Bought myself a hauler, and currently working on making more trades to upgrade it. Already bought the heat sink ejector, and the chaff dispenser is next as I got rid of all my weapons to increase jumprange a bit, and allow for some future cargo upgrades so I can go 16 Tonnes of cargo on the hauler.
Got attacked a few times when curiousity got the better of me, sometimes with lasers and one time with missiles, but I always managed to outmanouvre the (A.I.) attackers and escape into hyperspace with zero damage so far. Not doing to bad for an unarmed vessle...
Once I get a bit more upgraded I want to become a bit more explorative, perhaps even sacrifice some cargospace for an extra scanner.
I don't mind the low sales tbh, at least you need to make an effort to find profitable routes, and ended up finding some. Also started doing some of the message board missions (deliveries), and some of them pay fairly well, but I still do trading mostly. Bought myself a hauler, and currently working on making more trades to upgrade it. Already bought the heat sink ejector, and the chaff dispenser is next as I got rid of all my weapons to increase jumprange a bit, and allow for some future cargo upgrades so I can go 16 Tonnes of cargo on the hauler.
Got attacked a few times when curiousity got the better of me, sometimes with lasers and one time with missiles, but I always managed to outmanouvre the (A.I.) attackers and escape into hyperspace with zero damage so far. Not doing to bad for an unarmed vessle...
Once I get a bit more upgraded I want to become a bit more explorative, perhaps even sacrifice some cargospace for an extra scanner.
little P
Super Mod
Nice! Sounds like you are doing really well
I have sent you a friend request in-game (to SHILKA, hopefully that's you), sounds like I could escort you on a few of your trade runs... Unarmed Hauler + Armed to the teeth Eagle sounds like a good combo...
Shilka
Hardcore
Nice! Sounds like you are doing really well
I have sent you a friend request in-game (to SHILKA, hopefully that's you), sounds like I could escort you on a few of your trade runs... Unarmed Hauler + Armed to the teeth Eagle sounds like a good combo...
Kinda interested how that would work, can you actually make some formation and stay together during jumps etc? Must admit I never played past the 'travel' tutorial and skipped the what I think was fighting with an entire team... :S
little P
Super Mod
Nice! Love the rustic look of the Hauler, that ship really reminds me of the out of commission U.S. space shuttles, especially in white.
Here's a pic of my Eagle (with custom paint, I couldn't resist), it's building up nicely to be a long range death dealing ship, with a nice cargo hold for the odd courier/trade mission (really for picking up cargo from pirated ships harr harr yarrrrr but that's what I tell the Federation)
Here's some I took, the first two reminded me of the famous "blue marble" pictures and the last was a stunning sight in the middle of an attack on an unsuspecting trade ship. I got distracted by this and he got away by jumping, you can see his exhaust trail if you look closely... I forgot how to pirate. :icon_lol:
Here's a pic of my Eagle (with custom paint, I couldn't resist), it's building up nicely to be a long range death dealing ship, with a nice cargo hold for the odd courier/trade mission (really for picking up cargo from pirated ships harr harr yarrrrr but that's what I tell the Federation
)Here's some I took, the first two reminded me of the famous "blue marble" pictures and the last was a stunning sight in the middle of an attack on an unsuspecting trade ship. I got distracted by this and he got away by jumping, you can see his exhaust trail if you look closely... I forgot how to pirate. :icon_lol:
Shilka
Hardcore
Sorry, but can not help to make a huge pic dump here XD
Did a whole bunch of trading yesterday evening, and finally gathered enough money to upgrade to a Cobra Mk. III at the end off the evening, which I'll be upgrading to a full class trader with 40 tonnes cargo space with a very decent self defence system with chaff dispenser, anti missile turret and a set of decent gimballs.
Then it's trading my butt off till I have the million needed for the Lakon type 6, and eventually the type 9. With the Cobra, you already start noticing that it is a lot larger then the starter ship, eventhough it can be pretty fast. Yesterday I had to squeeze inbetween the wall of the space station entrance and a large incoming vessle, and I got jammed inbetween pushing the other ship out of my way, makes lots of noise and upsets the holodashboard quite a bit too as the orange light shifts into red and yellow and takes a while to resettle. Luckily I always transfer all power to systems when docking and undocking, so the shields held up nicely lol.
But here's pics, ending with the Cobra Mk. III I managed to obtain. Love how the cockpit is a twoseater!
Did a whole bunch of trading yesterday evening, and finally gathered enough money to upgrade to a Cobra Mk. III at the end off the evening, which I'll be upgrading to a full class trader with 40 tonnes cargo space with a very decent self defence system with chaff dispenser, anti missile turret and a set of decent gimballs.
Then it's trading my butt off till I have the million needed for the Lakon type 6, and eventually the type 9. With the Cobra, you already start noticing that it is a lot larger then the starter ship, eventhough it can be pretty fast. Yesterday I had to squeeze inbetween the wall of the space station entrance and a large incoming vessle, and I got jammed inbetween pushing the other ship out of my way, makes lots of noise and upsets the holodashboard quite a bit too as the orange light shifts into red and yellow and takes a while to resettle. Luckily I always transfer all power to systems when docking and undocking, so the shields held up nicely lol.
But here's pics, ending with the Cobra Mk. III I managed to obtain. Love how the cockpit is a twoseater!
little P
Super Mod
Nice Shilka, looks like you've got it all planned out. I'm impressed you managed to trade in 2.04 as they wanted people to test the missions etc. so intentionally nerfed the trading (lack of supply everywhere). I did have a Cobra briefly, but I learnt my lesson re: insurance as I hit the boost button inside a station and flew straight into a wall. Not enough money for insurance, back to a Sidewinder lol. I do remember looking aorund for the first time and the sense of space inside with the spare seat is pretty cool
I can only imagine what a Lakon 9 or Anaconda looks like, but something to aim for definitely
I can only imagine what a Lakon 9 or Anaconda looks like, but something to aim for definitely
Shilka
Hardcore
Well, haven't been playing prior to 2.04, so got no clue what I'm missing lol. Might be easier with less goods even as it's easier to figure out what is most profitable. Finally got the Cobra up to 40 tonnes, as the ugrade parts are very sparcely available, they finally came avalable in a place I checked like 10 times before.
I absolutely love how dynamic the game is, parts that were available when I didn't have the money for 'm are gone by the time I saved up the money, profitable routes have stations run out of stock or demand filled and become non profitable or even non existent at a sudden, small profits get big when demand doesn't get (re-) filled quick enough, it's downright awesome.
My best profit in a single run was over 40K running performance enhancers, but after that trip they ran out of stock, and even started requesting them instead of producing them, so that was a short one. Still some good profits on some fixed spots, I did a lot of medicine runs where the station has like 250.000 of m in stock, and hauling 40 at a time does a nice 24K profit in one (return) trip. Doing 40 of those should get me a Lakon 6, just don't know if I ca bear doing that many trips between the same 2 stations all the time XD Think I might go on a trade/explore run this evening instead (and do profitable missions at the same time).
I absolutely love how dynamic the game is, parts that were available when I didn't have the money for 'm are gone by the time I saved up the money, profitable routes have stations run out of stock or demand filled and become non profitable or even non existent at a sudden, small profits get big when demand doesn't get (re-) filled quick enough, it's downright awesome.
My best profit in a single run was over 40K running performance enhancers, but after that trip they ran out of stock, and even started requesting them instead of producing them, so that was a short one. Still some good profits on some fixed spots, I did a lot of medicine runs where the station has like 250.000 of m in stock, and hauling 40 at a time does a nice 24K profit in one (return) trip. Doing 40 of those should get me a Lakon 6, just don't know if I ca bear doing that many trips between the same 2 stations all the time XD Think I might go on a trade/explore run this evening instead (and do profitable missions at the same time).
little P
Super Mod
It is very dynamic yeah. It sounds like you have got a real handle on trading though, I must admit I haven't done too much trading for a while now, and it looks like you are going to be the Jedi of trading when we are able to link up.
When I asked about it, one of the devs said there will be a feature where you can link up your Frameshift Drives between ships so you can jump around together... awesome. Supercruise will be the same, as you can see other ships in Supercruise now, it's just they haven't implemented the player controlled interdictions yet. But apparently if you get interdicted for example, I will drop out of Supercruise too and can defend you. That sounds perfect Can't wait for the full release, it's this good now, imagine what it's going to be like upon release. I'm looking forward to seeing what Beta 3.0 will bring for sure
When I asked about it, one of the devs said there will be a feature where you can link up your Frameshift Drives between ships so you can jump around together... awesome. Supercruise will be the same, as you can see other ships in Supercruise now, it's just they haven't implemented the player controlled interdictions yet. But apparently if you get interdicted for example, I will drop out of Supercruise too and can defend you. That sounds perfect
Can't wait for the full release, it's this good now, imagine what it's going to be like upon release. I'm looking forward to seeing what Beta 3.0 will bring for sure
Shilka
Hardcore
Yeah, also been reading up to traveling together, shame it's a no go at the moment yet, currently if you do a group connect it doesn't even put you in the same server unless you fancy doing a dozen tries to get lucky and hit the same ip... Looking forward to when that will be possible
little P
Super Mod
Shilka
Hardcore
Done some exploring lately..
Here's when I accidentally flew into an asteroid ring around a planet, actually had to navigate inbetween these ice boulders for quite a bit untill I reached the edge of it. Took a couple of hits as most of them rotate as well...
Later on I arrived at a wealthy agricultural system. I already noticed some differences in the stations of the same model. Some have different colors and lighting, some poor systems show a lor more rust and dirt on the station etc., but this one was very noticable different. Appearently a very rich outpost, as the station was spotless, light, luxureous, and it had these awesome greenhouses on the inside;
I can tell you this one was quite a sight when I entered it, and after touching down on the landing pad I fisrt spent a couple of minutes gazing around in awe. There were even palms decorating the sides of the landing pad. Even the blast protector looked so clean and crisp you could eat dinner on it. It's called the Vonaburg co-operation in the Wyrd system if you feel like checking it out, very nice place, made me feel like I just had a shower, lol.
Here's when I accidentally flew into an asteroid ring around a planet, actually had to navigate inbetween these ice boulders for quite a bit untill I reached the edge of it. Took a couple of hits as most of them rotate as well...
Later on I arrived at a wealthy agricultural system. I already noticed some differences in the stations of the same model. Some have different colors and lighting, some poor systems show a lor more rust and dirt on the station etc., but this one was very noticable different. Appearently a very rich outpost, as the station was spotless, light, luxureous, and it had these awesome greenhouses on the inside;
I can tell you this one was quite a sight when I entered it, and after touching down on the landing pad I fisrt spent a couple of minutes gazing around in awe. There were even palms decorating the sides of the landing pad. Even the blast protector looked so clean and crisp you could eat dinner on it. It's called the Vonaburg co-operation in the Wyrd system if you feel like checking it out, very nice place, made me feel like I just had a shower, lol.
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