Elite: Game talk

Goff
yesterday, 12:29pm
Thou shall be grateful to Influencers for delivering the discourse from Holy FD to all poor folks who don't know how to play and enjoy ED - buy ARX and spend on snake oil..oh no blasphemy term - divine pre-builts which will change the game and make you feel enriched and happy...
Thinder
yesterday, 4:30pm
I finally put my hand on 4 X Guardian Gauss Cannon, I chose the Standard variant, but also 4 X Rail Guns I will engineer, this way I'll have a better idea which is more efficient for CZ Combat.

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I find the Modified Guardian Plasma Charger a lot easier to use then the Gauss Cannon...

Last edit: 01 Nov 2024, 6:28pm
William J. Stryker
yesterday, 8:03pm
Earning merits with ship scans and trade deliveries is a nice "passive" incentive with this new powerplay. Running a Type 8 and buying about $1M worth of goods and selling at $16M & 300+ merits in a one jump system delivery.
Kasumi Goto
yesterday, 8:52pm
RawnuSooo, no Carrier jumps under an hour and a half or so? Anyway, got my Mandalay, the "Gallifrey" (Callsign N3-WHO) and without minmaxing and only mild engineering it jumps already around 72 LY. Noice! I also got myself a second one (yeah, I know, I'm FDev's bitch... but so are we all!) and this lady is going to become an AX machine, called the "Eye of Harmony".

Apparently the servers are even more flooded now, the game literally refuses to even set a carrier jump timer (which is a load of horse dump, I don't care how many hours it is as long as I know it's underway for at least the next day).
Indy
yesterday, 9:03pm
Kasumi Goto Apparently the servers are even more flooded now, the game literally refuses to even set a carrier jump timer (which is a load of horse dump, I don't care how many hours it is as long as I know it's underway for at least the next day).


It was super smooth for me earlier today, but that was in the wee hours of the morning for me local time before most of the USA is awake and while much of Europe is in their workday/schoolday/mid-day.
Meowers
yesterday, 9:26pm
Honestly, surprised to see Mandalay being smaller than FDL, had a chance to see one landed next to my ship today. I thought it's even a bit chonkier. But yeah, it looks good, I gladly admit.

(perhaps, a compensation for Frontier Brand Suffering with setting up a multicrew session)

Last edit: 01 Nov 2024, 9:38pm
Kasumi Goto
yesterday, 9:28pm
Indy


It was super smooth for me earlier today, but that was in the wee hours of the morning for me local time before most of the USA is awake and while much of Europe is in their workday/schoolday/mid-day.

I can say the same thing, being that I was also active in morning times.

Nor am I surprised about the higher jump timers (I got an hour for my carrier when it did queue one successfully), it’s more the “Will not allocate a jump at all” thing that got/gets on my nerves.
Rawnu
yesterday, 10:35pm
MeowersHonestly, surprised to see Mandalay being smaller than FDL, had a chance to see one landed next to my ship today. I thought it's even a bit chonkier. But yeah, it looks good, I gladly admit.

(perhaps, a compensation for Frontier Brand Suffering with setting up a multicrew session)


It flies really well, very snappy reactions, turns on a spot both in and out of SC. It handles heat extremely well, was starting to charge my FSD while still scooping and it didn't go over 64% (that's almost as good as the Dolphin). The distro is a bit small but hey, I'm going to equip one for AX combat anyway
Thinder
today, 12:33am
First flight with mine, just engineered the FSD Increased range ︎︎︎︎︎ from the Carrier, been jumping near by to Material Traders for Synthesis for the Krait MK II MODIFIED GUARDIAN PLASMA CHARGERS.

I'm not impressed with the cockpit view from the side but I suppose one can get used to it.
Indy
today, 4:35am
Rawnu Whoa, not bad! I just don’t want to make it too paper thin as regards shields, but have to mass manager the FSD and strip down one or two things. It handles very well though. And I‘d be curious about its thermal values. Sadly, EDSY doesn’t seem to update anymore, at least an hour ago there was no Mandalay.


I've been checking EDSY for the addition of the Mandalay too. It sounds like the person running it intends to add the Mandalay "soon", but is pretty busy these past few months and perhaps the next couple months too. I just hope it can be added sooner than that.

In the meantime, I'd recommend the Ship Builder in the Elite Dangerous Odyssey Materials Helper (EDOMH). It's not the same as the browser based fun of EDSY -- which I would argue is far better than Coriolis -- but it will let you do some tinkering and testing of various engineering mods before you do them in-game.
Meowers
today, 4:54am
RawnuI'm going to equip one for AX combat anyway
Should be an interesting thing at least to try perhaps. If it's manoeuvrable and handles heat well, then it's a good start, and those four tier-2 hardpoints can carry some good firepower for any kind of AX combat. Speed... Being able to outrun a Basilisk would've been great, but if not, then 'any Interceptor except Basilisk' is okay too.

p.s. Lol, I stand corrected. Mandalay isn't 'smaller than FDL'. Looking at screenshots at the moment. Something only made me think like that, maybe the general 'slim' shape of the ship, opposite to the more 'solid' FDL.

Last edit: 02 Nov 2024, 5:17am
Kasumi Goto
today, 6:57am
Meowers
RawnuI'm going to equip one for AX combat anyway

Should be an interesting thing at least to try perhaps. If it's manoeuvrable and handles heat well, then it's a good start, and those four tier-2 hardpoints can carry some good firepower for any kind of AX combat. Speed... Being able to outrun a Basilisk would've been great, but if not, then 'any Interceptor except Basilisk' is okay too.

p.s. Lol, I stand corrected. Mandalay isn't 'smaller than FDL'. Looking at screenshots at the moment. Something only made me think like that, maybe the general 'slim' shape of the ship, opposite to the more 'solid' FDL.

Throwing together a pretend build you could use in CZs and ‘standard’ solo attempts seems to say that it would have speeds similar to the FDL. Can’t say how the distributor would perform though. And no thermal spread on that powerplant either (while you’d need to keep the AFMU off in combat, but that’s not an issue).
AH
today, 8:09am
Have fun https://beta.coriolis.io/outfit/mandalay
Atusia Duval
today, 8:12am
The problem with the Mandalay at the moment is that it only has light alloy armor. There is no military alloy or reactive alloy yet. Therefore, good armor is not yet possible. Good armor is a prerequisite for AX combat.
Kasumi Goto
today, 8:18am
You can still get 2,000-ish hitpoints out of the Mandalay with lightweight armor in my above link, providing said stats are accurate. Considering that Meowers here wrecks Hydras with an FDL that has less hull durability (though only by about 300), I don’t think it’s going to be an issue…

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