Elite: Game talk

User1355
28 Sep 2017, 8:45am
Giyari
That said, running is certainly better than fighting, hence the turret and mines to fight while fleeing
I also plan on transferring G5 dirty drives over from another ship for extra fleeing potential and to cut down on normal space travel time, lol.


Fight or flee - don't try to do both!

The weapons might as well be for decoration - just ditch them
FrontButt
28 Sep 2017, 8:54am
Well, the issue it's rarely a one destination deal... the first one may be 100ly+ out, then the next will be 150 away from that, and the third 175 from that, becoming quite the little time consumer. Even wanted passengers will not bring forth an enemy you can't evade while in super cruise. No HPs allows a smaller PP, smaller PD, lighter shield, all for the sake of a few more lys in jump. We have the same FSD (down to the same tuning) and I get about 33ly out of mine, even with a pass suite and srv.

But you can't put a price of feeling secure, so I see where you are coming from.

Otherwise, hope you have a second monitor and a Hulu/Netflix account. They will be your company while you make that dough.
Van R Flyheight
28 Sep 2017, 9:06am
This might be useless advice if your working on exploration rank but if it's just for the money then I'd actually recommend point to point passenger transport in a larger ship like an orca. I made my money on passenger missions and whilst the profit margin on one sightseeing trip makes sense in something like an Asp. Once you can fit 100+ passengers onboard, you actually make more money running a bunch of lower paying missions. Towards the end of it I was making 10-20mil an hour on average.
Giyari
28 Sep 2017, 9:27am
Van R FlyheightThis might be useless advice if your working on exploration rank but if it's just for the money then I'd actually recommend point to point passenger transport in a larger ship like an orca. I made my money on passenger missions and whilst the profit margin on one sightseeing trip makes sense in something like an Asp. Once you can fit 100+ passengers onboard, you actually make more money running a bunch of lower paying missions. Towards the end of it I was making 10-20mil an hour on average.


Ohh its definitely for the money, im at Pathfinder for exploration by more or less just scanning around the bubble, not worried about ranks in the slightest.

Ill think about that too though, see how much money i can make from the sightseeings. Ive got a friendly rank with 3 of the factions out at Inara so there's plenty of high paying contracts.

And ill consider dropping the weapons tbh. Im just so so used to carrying them all the time lol
FrontButt
28 Sep 2017, 9:59am
Here we go. Despite what my song said, I have 51 jumps (using jet-cone) to reach the closest outpost and only 12 or 13 charges to replenish my 4E (that's 5 min worth) oxygen. Synthesis takes 20 seconds, so I have about 4.5 min between them to use as effectively as possible. In about 4min, I can average about 5 jumps, taking into account charging my FSD, Scooping, and supercharging. If it were only that, I wouldn't sweat it. Biggest issue is, my FSD is down to about 46%, so every couple of jumps, it will randomly malfx, and take precious seconds I don't have to reboot. The way I see it:

I get to close to a sun, even once... I'm dead.
Get to a close to a neutron.... Super dead.
Did my maths too wrong... Dead.
Ineffectively pace travel and scooping... Pushing it, but probs dead.
If the station is too far from dropping in... deaders.

So any tips from the crowd who love living life on the edge, I will take them now.
Giyari
28 Sep 2017, 10:02am
Are the hull repair drones available yet? Could get a "fuel rat" out to you maybe if they are
FrontButt
28 Sep 2017, 10:14am
GiyariAre the hull repair drones available yet? Could get a "fuel rat" out to you maybe if they are


Quick research says they are not out. I won't be broken hearted if blow up, just disappointed. I didn't even know about supercharging until my return from Black In Green anyway. It's what got me into this mess in the first place, and it is now the only way I can survive lol.
Giyari
28 Sep 2017, 10:22am
Lol! Ive never really used neutron stars myself either, used to be too much hassle to plot a route jump by jump. Might give it a go with this new 2.4 galaxy map though
FrontButt
28 Sep 2017, 10:58am
Well, it was short lived. I have encountered a bug. I got back on, my route replotted just fine. Nature called and I do not have the oxygen to waste, so I logged out, logged back in. Now my route is failing to replot. Anywhere. I can't get it select a route at all. Now I definarly do not have enough time to make it back. Incredibly disappointing. I would have been less upset if I brought this on myself. Made a thread though on the Frontier Forums. Hopefully they will fix it, and allow me to explain my situation in the hopes they can reset me, at least to where I had 51 jumps and 12 chances to up my oxygen.
Draxxa Kireth
28 Sep 2017, 1:07pm
so sorry to hear that ......
Giyari
28 Sep 2017, 1:36pm
Awww boo
I was really rooting for you as well! Would have been one hell of a story
Circilion
28 Sep 2017, 1:37pm
FrontButtHere we go. Despite what my song said, I have 51 jumps (using jet-cone) to reach the closest outpost and only 12 or 13 charges to replenish my 4E (that's 5 min worth) oxygen. Synthesis takes 20 seconds, so I have about 4.5 min between them to use as effectively as possible. In about 4min, I can average about 5 jumps, taking into account charging my FSD, Scooping, and supercharging. If it were only that, I wouldn't sweat it. Biggest issue is, my FSD is down to about 46%, so every couple of jumps, it will randomly malfx, and take precious seconds I don't have to reboot. The way I see it:

I get to close to a sun, even once... I'm dead.
Get to a close to a neutron.... Super dead.
Did my maths too wrong... Dead.
Ineffectively pace travel and scooping... Pushing it, but probs dead.
If the station is too far from dropping in... deaders.

So any tips from the crowd who love living life on the edge, I will take them now.


Reboot and repair in your functions menus. It will cannibalize healthy modules to repair damaged modules. And Bring an AFMU next time you head into the black. I was 40k LY from the bubble when I realized I should have one. Now that sucks. Haha
Circilion
28 Sep 2017, 1:38pm
To clarify, reboot and repair is independent of an AFMU
Giyari
28 Sep 2017, 1:39pm
Reboot/repair and amfu's wont repair a popped canopy though
Circilion
28 Sep 2017, 1:43pm
No they won't. Was his canopy popped? I missed that. Wow that really really sucks!

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