Elite: Game talk

Episparh
07 Jan 2022, 11:43pm
It gets time to get used with the handling and the drift, you just need practice. A regular trade loop is better than short supercruise trips.
My travel time between the station and FC is roughly 5 sec in supercruise and I use the FC support ship, just I do always keep an eye on the bloody ADC.
Burstar
08 Jan 2022, 12:06am
You know, the cutter gets 2 Military Class 5 slots. Just Military Grade Armour+HD+DP and add 2 HRP +HD+DP. She'll take the dings on the way in and out np. Adds character.
Sakashiro
08 Jan 2022, 12:15am
I have the HRPs already, but not yet engineered.
Quillmonkey
08 Jan 2022, 1:09am
Yuna SakashiroFull Disclosure: Jensen Gateway in 64 Ceti has a seemingly endless supply of thermal cooling units at a price of 3,112.

Wilhelm Terminal in Bugas is similar. Park the FC 20Mm away and fill her up - really quick. then zap over to any star within jump range of alcor. Unloading takes the time. But all told, a lot quicker than jumping 68LY each way.
Cupco
08 Jan 2022, 2:08am
Kurakil Let's be honest. A station with only interior docking and a single access point for all traffic is a very poor design, even for sci-fi.

And yet it is the model for many parking lots for apartment complexes and hotels.
Kurakil
08 Jan 2022, 2:12am
Cupco
Kurakil Let's be honest. A station with only interior docking and a single access point for all traffic is a very poor design, even for sci-fi.

And yet it is the model for many parking lots for apartment complexes and hotels.

That doesn't make it any less true.
Cupco
08 Jan 2022, 2:17am
It's supposedly a security feature.
Gatimũ Kamau
08 Jan 2022, 3:40am
So I guess that somewhere along the way (likely with the Odyssey update) Dav's Hope got removed from the game. I KNOW that it got moved to the opposite side of the planet on PC...but for those of us on console without access to Odyssey, it's COMPLETELY gone.

So much for mat grinding there for me.

Is there any other location that has easily grindable materials?
Smaloo
08 Jan 2022, 4:03am
Gatimũ KamauSo I guess that somewhere along the way (likely with the Odyssey update) Dav's Hope got removed from the game. I KNOW that it got moved to the opposite side of the planet on PC...but for those of us on console without access to Odyssey, it's COMPLETELY gone.

So much for mat grinding there for me.

Is there any other location that has easily grindable materials?


Alts to Dav's
Gatimũ Kamau
08 Jan 2022, 4:19am
Smaloo
Gatimũ KamauSo I guess that somewhere along the way (likely with the Odyssey update) Dav's Hope got removed from the game. I KNOW that it got moved to the opposite side of the planet on PC...but for those of us on console without access to Odyssey, it's COMPLETELY gone.

So much for mat grinding there for me.

Is there any other location that has easily grindable materials?



Alts to Dav's

Thanks CMDR! Hopefully they haven't been changed as well!
Cupco
08 Jan 2022, 4:54am
Wouldn't it be nice if we could dock a Sidewinder or Adder inside an Anaconda for exploration purposes? But I wonder if the added weight would be prohibitive.
Light-Hawk
08 Jan 2022, 5:33am
CupcoWouldn't it be nice if we could dock a Sidewinder or Adder inside an Anaconda for exploration purposes? But I wonder if the added weight would be prohibitive.


I wish I could engineer an Imperial Eagle and have it stored inside my Cutter and have available for an SLF AI pilot to use instead of the normal fighters. Maybe make it a size 8 hanger. Can only hold 1 ship but it has to be a very small ship.
Gatimũ Kamau
08 Jan 2022, 5:44am
Is it just me, or did FD make it harder to find traders for manufactured, data and raw materials? I could have sworn that the last time I was grinding for mats (about a year ago) that there were individually labeled. Now apparently they are ALL simply labeled "material trader" and you have to physically land and interact with them to see which they'll take. Please correct me if I'm misremembering.

It was honestly shortsighted enough that they didn't deign to include an independent filter in the in-game galaxy map for these locations and EDDB had to do it for them (thank the Goddess for 3rd party support), but now they want to make the grind even MORE of a chore for no real reason?

Honestly, if I wanted to play "Grinding: The Game", I'd pop in No Man's Sky. I play Elite when I want to actively DO SOMETHING other than gather and build. It would be nice if hurdles to maxing out my engineering weren't randomly thrown into my path for no real reason.

Last edit: 08 Jan 2022, 5:53am
Gatimũ Kamau
08 Jan 2022, 5:51am
Kurakil Let's be honest. A station with only interior docking and a single access point for all traffic is a very poor design, even for sci-fi.

THIS. I agree with this 100,000%. Even if the devs didn't want to include exterior docking on their stations for whatever reason (which is utterly ridiculous in an MMO where there are tens of thousands of players online at any given moment), they could have kept the same outer visual appeal of the stations by having two mail slots stacked on top of each other. One for incoming and one for outgoing traffic; identified by the same green and red flashing lights that they currently have on either side of the existing mail slots in the game now.

It's such a SIMPLE idea that the fact that it wasn't updated YEARS ago shows a distinct lack of focus by FD on smaller (but no less important) quality of life fixes for the game. Or maybe its a lack of caring...
Kurakil
08 Jan 2022, 6:15am
Gatimũ Kamau(thank the Goddess for 3rd party support)

If it weren't for 3rd party tools, I wouldn't/couldn't even play this game at all.

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