Elite: Game talk
23 Mar 2024, 2:12am
24 Mar 2024, 8:51am
It's a murder machine that has no business being nearly as good as it is at this and yet it does it anyway. Low-ish hull seems to be less of an issue than I expected it to be and I was very happy to have taken a caustic sink. Partly because the way I play, the first trigger pull momentarily (and barely) sends the ship above 20% to annoy me with caustic missile spam. Or at least one which could otherwise have been avoided, thanks NPCs.
Hydras also still have no business being as ridiculously tough as they are. I think I am just going to avoid trying to beat them again now that I've done an AXCZ solo a second time around a planetary port.
(I might have felt slightly sorry for the poor two Cyclops which were left behind to try dealing with the mess that their big brothers failed to get rid of.)
24 Mar 2024, 3:22pm
It just becomes more obvious with Interceptors(it isn't just the Hydras which do it). Scouts also exhibit that same behavior... if less frequently. This was a bug reported I don't know when, exactly, maybe around the time the spires appeared with U16. Clearly, nobody saw much of a need to get it fixed.
(Even though it leads to situations of the goids not firing when your ship is at over 100 heat.)
25 Mar 2024, 9:00pm
Sunday in Bormuninus... where, apparently, a Scout was either really confused about where to actually land, or the Titan thought to try a sneaky infiltration maneuver with this particular Thargoid. I don't think it quite worked... no thanks to the pilot's ineptitude at finding the correct spot despite lining up properly with the center line.
26 Mar 2024, 8:10pm
Please note I have made over 400 jumps and have not gotten even 1 metal alloy.
26 Mar 2024, 8:18pm
If it is of use, you can go to the Taranis debris field in Hyades Sector FB-N b7-6 and pick up a meta-alloy there without too much hassle - just buy a caustic sink launcher or two from a rescue megaship prior to going there(if you need one - go to Hutner in the Telin system), and don't approach the center of the wreck, so patrolling Thargoids don't bother you. Maybe also a heatsink if you want to keep your heat level low.
26 Mar 2024, 9:46pm
User442363For the last 3 days of looking for metal alloys, I have traveled to at least 6 fleet carriers and 3 in game bases all of which are being updated with quantities of 1-127. I get there and there's none and in some cases I get denied access to dock. WTH is going on? I just need 1 metal alloy. Can individual not dock on private fleet carries? IF this is the case INARA.cz needs to have a notification saying not public. Any answer is a good answer.
Please note I have made over 400 jumps and have not gotten even 1 metal alloy.
In the commodity search, etc. Inara lists only fleet carriers that are known to have the docked access set to "All" and were updated more or less recently. But as it's a player driven market, things may change very fast, so there is no guarantee as any commodity may be sold out any minute and the FC's docking privileges may change that fast as well. If the docking privileges are your major problem, you can increase your chances by setting "Include fleet carriers" option to "Yes (with docking access updated recently)" in the commodity search, as it will use even more strict limit on the time of the update.
27 Mar 2024, 9:57am
User442363For the last 3 days of looking for metal alloys, I have traveled to at least 6 fleet carriers and 3 in game bases all of which are being updated with quantities of 1-127. I get there and there's none and in some cases I get denied access to dock. WTH is going on? I just need 1 metal alloy. Can individual not dock on private fleet carries? IF this is the case INARA.cz needs to have a notification saying not public. Any answer is a good answer.
Please note I have made over 400 jumps and have not gotten even 1 metal alloy.
I have a carrier within a few jumps of your current location with meta alloys aboard. If you would like to grab one send me a PM and we can arrange a time, I can set my carrier permissions and make the MA's available 07
27 Mar 2024, 2:40pm
you can't depend on carriers for trade unless you contact the owner
not to mention they are also used as bait to kill and/or hijack newbies
tbh as a multiple carrier owner, I am never aware of cmdrs nearby other than ship to ship
there is no way for any carrier owner to know about you unless you contact them directly somehow
that said
Darnielle's Progress in maia sells them
for newbies, always buy 2...chances are very high you will get robbed on your way.
and there are currently very many locations you can pick them yourself from a barnacle or free floating in space
31 Mar 2024, 5:32pm
User442363For the last 3 days of looking for metal alloys, I have traveled to at least 6 fleet carriers and 3 in game bases all of which are being updated with quantities of 1-127. I get there and there's none and in some cases I get denied access to dock. WTH is going on? I just need 1 metal alloy. Can individual not dock on private fleet carries? IF this is the case INARA.cz needs to have a notification saying not public. Any answer is a good answer.
Please note I have made over 400 jumps and have not gotten even 1 metal alloy.
If you go to either of the destroyed Titans you'll find quite a bit of the Meta Alloys. They were every-flipping-where.
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