Elite: Game talk

Phelbore
06 Nov 2017, 5:45pm
Draxxa Kireth Don't forget that to outfit a ship you need to spend about 200-300% the cost of the ship with modules...

This, this can't be said enough. My 83m stock Beluga ballooned to 270m. My Viper MkIV (stock price of 400k) jumped to a whopping 13m, but it's an anomaly... An FDL? 50m went up to 150m. A stock Conda will be treated like it's down range on a shooting range, and react to fire about the same.
Ryan Murdoc
06 Nov 2017, 6:22pm
(Wettoast) Wanda FersegiGrab a python, A rate it, engi it. Have a trader that can land on any station, and that can fight toe to toe with a conda in some cases. Also, it has a class 7 plant and it's a medium ship. Python is where it's at.


Indeed. Also it's great for Passenger hauling. No fancy panoramic windows though, but considering who I sometimes fly around that's probably better.
Draxxa Kireth
06 Nov 2017, 6:46pm
Personally i consider it a great ship for mining, salvaging in 1 go and medium-distance haul
Whiplash 1983
06 Nov 2017, 11:15pm
Question.

How exactly are the INARA / STAR SYSTEM / MINOR FACTIONS / Influence levels currently updated?
Leading to the question of accuracy?

They used to be done by hand, occasionally, and by any player logged in to Inara and looking at them..
Draxxa Kireth
06 Nov 2017, 11:16pm
Through the eddn network
Whiplash 1983
06 Nov 2017, 11:20pm
... which gets it's data as pilots pass through [stations] and not at all if there is no traffic?
User78245
07 Nov 2017, 12:08am
I won't consider buying a ship until I have enough to buy A-rated equipment for it and 5 rebuys.
Ryan Murdoc
07 Nov 2017, 12:27am
Whiplash 1983... which gets it's data as pilots pass through [stations] and not at all if there is no traffic?


Reason why I rely on the System map itself instead of trusting Inara or EDDN. Way more accurate when you want to check something.
Whiplash 1983
07 Nov 2017, 1:04am
Thanks for the answers all.

- darn... there goes the last piece of my Halloween candy. Bring on the Christmas goodies -
Draxxa Kireth
07 Nov 2017, 1:29am
you can only check system map somewhere between 30 minutes and 1 hour after BGS-tick...it's even faster to check faction status via the GalNet news once docked..but that's exactly the drawback...to be docked at that system
Whiplash 1983
07 Nov 2017, 3:56am
GalNet gives great reports on current and upcoming states and does require you be in-port and in one of the systems the faction under scrutiny presents in, to read the report on them. But the picture I am trying to focus on is the trajectory's of all the factions in a particular system with the point being on the critical three-days around the cause and effect where manipulating influences has the biggest effect on outcome. All the presenting system faction influence trajectories. And is there any charting other than Inara's system graphs.
Ryan Murdoc
07 Nov 2017, 5:02am
Draxxa Kirethyou can only check system map somewhere between 30 minutes and 1 hour after BGS-tick...it's even faster to check faction status via the GalNet news once docked..but that's exactly the drawback...to be docked at that system


First thing that gets updated after the BGS tick has happened is the System map, then a while afterwards the GalNet articles follow. Assuming that the SysMap isn't frozen to kingdom come which might very well happen more often then one thinks. In that case changes will be seen on the articles rather then the map.
Desertwag
07 Nov 2017, 11:30am
How do I research a Thargoid or even kill it?

Post edited/moved by: Artie, 07 Nov 2017, 11:51am
Isaiah Evanson
07 Nov 2017, 1:47pm
Need a xeno scanner for the research part, and AX weapons for the killing.
Biliskner
07 Nov 2017, 3:01pm
KevGeeHi guys... Im new here & still feeling my way around!!

Ive been pure trading with the aim of buying an Anaconda & then changing to a Trader/Fighter.


Ive got £250M creds saved up so can now get a 'conda!

What would be the best combination of weapons/Hardpoints etc with that amount of money for a Trader/Fighter?

Thanks in advance!


https://eddp.co/u/qdjrm1qh

Scroll it down and u will see what it costs to build a Conda

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