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o7 cmdrs,
Do you know what would be good weapons against glaives? I was flying relatively easy to maelstrom to collect corrosive and caustics until recently when I was interdicted twice by the glaives. The first encounter there were 2 of them outside of maelstrom system and I managed to high wake from them with 25% hull lost. The second time it was just a single glaive but inside of maelstrom system and I was not able to low or high wake from it. When I released that there was no escape since it was faster than my chief and it was repeatedly disabling my fsd, I started fighting it with beams and ax multies I had. I managed to kill it but the chief was hardly holding together and it was killed by a cyclops which appeared right after I finished the glaive. The hindsight tells me that I should have started to fight it right away but I failed it due to trying to escape based on my previous experiences dealing with thargoids. It seems that 3 1E gimbal beams worked acceptably against glaive shields but multies were very slow in shredding its hull. So if I would want to continue flying to maelstrom I need more powerful weapons against glaive’s hull. Could anybody share their successful weapons loadout against so called thargoid hunter ship? Thanks

Kasumi Goto

19 May 2023, 5:31pm

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I don’t have much in the way of weapon advice, but I was interdicted by a Glaive in Maelstrom Oya’s system earlier. As soon as I dropped out, hit silent running and boosted away. I don’t think it shot at me or bothered giving chase - I was out of mass lock within seconds, no module or hull damage taken.

Oh, and general Maelstrom advice : Don’t use collector limpets in the center unless no enemies are even remotely close by. If an interceptor happens to notice them, it will launch Thargons and they immediately start to kamikaze at the limpets to try destroying them. Which means they’ll hit your ship.

I know from firsthand experience. Luckily, it was just a Cyclops, so once I got rid of them by disabling the controller, I carried on with my material gathering.

Goff

19 May 2023, 5:52pm

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Kira Goto Oh, and general Maelstrom advice : Don’t use collector limpets in the center unless no enemies are even remotely close by. If an interceptor happens to notice them, it will launch Thargons and they immediately start to kamikaze at the limpets to try destroying them. Which means they’ll hit your ship.

I will keep it in mind, Thank you

Lickyboomboom

20 May 2023, 1:52am

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question, does frags work on ground based npcs and players?

Silver Taffer Inara supporter

20 May 2023, 7:09am

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Lickyboomboomquestion, does frags work on ground based npcs and players?

I once tried Multicannons on ground NPCs and they didn't have any effect. I would assume Frags to be the same? Missiles and mines are super effective.

Lickyboomboom

20 May 2023, 2:49pm

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Silver Taffer
Lickyboomboomquestion, does frags work on ground based npcs and players?

I once tried Multicannons on ground NPCs and they didn't have any effect. I would assume Frags to be the same? Missiles and mines are super effective.

will have to try them out and report my findings

Odion Khons

21 May 2023, 2:37pm

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Baliwasan
Odion KhonsSo, my ship can retrieve me in flight, if there is no room to land - can it drop me in the same way?

Hot pick up

NOPE

But I wannaaaa!!!!

Other topic: at the ED wiki there is a list (Sample Values & Details) of all the exobio payouts, Vista grants. But it seems outdated. My google-fu is sometimes weak... does anyone know a site where I can find the actual data?

Last edit: 21 May 2023, 2:50pm

Heilrider

21 May 2023, 4:12pm

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Are they outdated? Min value- bacterias are at 1m.
Max values are at 19m.

Somewhere on forum I seen link to google sheet with all values, but I don't remember, which thread...
Nvm, I found
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nV_UD_0kIxkWAHhAqvf62ILHpbYzdZpJ53CqPHn3qlA/edit#gid=344475511

Odion Khons

21 May 2023, 4:41pm

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Ah great! Yes, your sheet is correct, the fandom wiki divers a bit. Cact.Cortex, Osseus Corni., Tubus Compa. are the ones I found are different. Thanks alot!

Drifter MaCraken

23 May 2023, 10:58am

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I am in the Empyrean Straits. I have been to 8 systems and every Platinum hot spot I have mined has no platinum. Is this occurring in the bubble, or have I discovered a huge bug? Tritium has been low yield, but it can be found. I have visited several systems within a 200 ly bubble, with no platinum. I am heading to a system with multiple large pristine platinum hot spots to confirm the issue.

Post edited/moved by: Artie, 25 May 2023, 5:15pm

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