Elite: General talk

Alex Hoffmann
10 Dec 2022, 9:03am
Yuna Sakashiro
Tomciopalecmissions menu looks like its loading but after 30 sec or so it goes back to the main screen


This just happened to me, too, back in Eurybia.

Tarach Tor rescue ship also hanging in a loading loop at mission board.. fdev support site is full of tickets.. another great job from fdevs.. btw the targoid invading time at systems (check system map and than the status) counting weeks down instead of days, also reported..
Mitxel
10 Dec 2022, 10:29am
Alex Hoffmann
Yuna Sakashiro
Tomciopalecmissions menu looks like its loading but after 30 sec or so it goes back to the main screen



This just happened to me, too, back in Eurybia.


Tarach Tor rescue ship also hanging in a loading loop at mission board.. fdev support site is full of tickets.. another great job from fdevs.. btw the targoid invading time at systems (check system map and than the status) counting weeks down instead of days, also reported..


Yep, we need a 14.02 NOW!!
Episparh
10 Dec 2022, 9:17pm
Yuna SakashiroIt's funny how my activities often end up outside the "current thing". Last year when everyone was checking out on-foot combat, I flew to Beagle Point. Now the Thargoid war is raging and I'm chilling out with exo-biology.

1.5M risk-free credits for scanning a bacterial strain three times. That's almost like printing money! Makes it a lot easier to pay for carrier upkeep while out in the black, I guess. Which may soon become important after the bugs have swallowed the bubble and turned us into carrier-dwelling nomads.

I was very excited about the current thing until FDev pulled the reset button. I guess I will hang around for week or two to see how this BS will continue.

And BTW, exobiology is a very "current thing" now - easy money and screenshot
Sakashiro
10 Dec 2022, 10:47pm
Evacuation missions are easy money, too. The Cutter seems just right for the job. Not a scratch so far. I beefed up its hull anyway, just in case.

I also tried hauling occupied escape pods, but that's a pain. Too many clicks required to fill the cargo hold, and the payment is lousy.
Alex Hoffmann
10 Dec 2022, 11:24pm
cutter is doing the job fine, i also use it for evacuation missions.. 160 passengers at once the materials payouts are great.. easy to fill up your stocks or just trade to the needed materials..

Last edit: 11 Dec 2022, 2:31am
Sakashiro
11 Dec 2022, 9:31am
23M per run. Not too bad.
Alex Hoffmann
11 Dec 2022, 9:37am
with a shieldless cutter u can take 192 passengers at once.. or better said: a low class shield could be possible with full fit of passengers cabs, but the low classes are not made for the mass of the cutter.
Episparh
11 Dec 2022, 10:00am
Damn, the meme material of this Thargoid invasion is epic.



Yuna Sakashiro23M per run. Not too bad.

I tried the exo-biology this morning - 110 mil couldn't give me a Collector rank

Last edit: 11 Dec 2022, 10:13am
Kurakil
11 Dec 2022, 10:37am
EpisparhI tried the exo-biology this morning - 110 mil couldn't give me a Collector rank

I made a point to grind the Exobio like crazy right after u14 since I figured they would make some adjustments. Even if you started at 0 rank it was possible to max out in less than a week. Not sure what it's like now but I know it was painfully slow before.
Episparh
11 Dec 2022, 3:40pm
I guess that the rank grind is same just the CR earned is different.
Episparh
11 Dec 2022, 8:36pm
I have a wild theory.

We will see the Thargoid megaship before update 15.
One shot killing players around Jameson Memorial

Sakashiro
12 Dec 2022, 6:55am
I am enjoying the Thargoid war, even if we're losing it. The game feels alive like never before. Basically a permanent CG across a multitude of systems. Credits keep rolling in. Good times!
User167261
12 Dec 2022, 11:53am
The Free-ARX Christmas giveaway doesn't apply to 3.8 anymore apparently. Nice.

https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/discovery-scanner-12122022

Given how they're trying everything in their arsenal to hush people towards 4.0, I wonder if 3.8's shelf life is a lot shorter than we might think. I played a bit over the weekend and while it was pretty much devoid of human life, it was such a pleasant experience from a technical and visual perspective - none of the jank, lag and stutter of 4.0 - while at the same time wondering whether anything I spend time preparing for whatever medium term goals I have (planning to move to Colonia but taking the Colonia Bridge slow route) is doomed to fail prematurely.
Sakashiro
12 Dec 2022, 12:14pm
Now that 3.8 no longer causes concerns about compatibility with the narrative, I think the chances of it staying around a bit longer have increased.
User167261
12 Dec 2022, 12:38pm
I just find the withholding of the Arx bonus a somewhat prickish decision which to me looks it's done to further discourage players to use the 3.8 client. The rationale being that the more they succeed in that, the quicker they can say 'only a tiny minority plays 3.8 so it's no longer economically viable to keep it running', that's kinda the angle I'm going for.

Of course, another reason could be they want to shove people to 4.0 in the hope of selling more Odyssey copies - though it would probably help if Odyssey USPs would feature in any shape or form at all in the current Thargoid war narrative.

Somewhat unrelated, but it's also interesting that they haven't updated their min/rec spec on Steam since making 3.8 'legacy'.

PS - part of me would almost prefer if they just axed 3.8 altogether, either right now or at least provide a specific timeline for it - this neither here nor there situation creates a certain amount of FOMO (at least for me), as if it's not bad enough with this game already... even though I can and am playing 4.0, I certainly will miss 3.8's aesthetics and general smoothness.

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