Elite: Game talk

Thinder
yesterday, 8:07pm
Aunty Sledge
Ahh, you have grade 3 beams, I was quoting grade 5 stats. I can see the value in only upgrading them to a range where you want to work at.

ThinderI'm using FIXED Lasers, just saying.



That's another important factor, I use gimbled. Closer is better for fixed, and that being the situation I can see why you'd want to work with Short Range mod. It's not my preference but I can see the logic you are going with.


No, I went for range rather than ultimate DMG, it's already well superior to Long Range, I have little problem using Fixed Beams, one get used to it.

My 4A MULTI-CANNON and 2F MULTI-CANNON [GIMBALLED] Damage Falloff starts at 2000m, that of the Beam Lasers 600m, and MULTI-CANNON accuracy also goes down although nothing is said about it, I can see the hits, this build is design for scrap at medium to short range.
Btw have a very small amount of gimbal, they'll find the target at Max range.

Last edit: 08 Oct 2024, 9:00pm
Luke Williams
today, 4:54am
Just wondering about modshards, after i have unlocked from the broker can i purchase for credits?
Kasumi Goto
today, 4:57am
No. Modshards are a “purchase” item which goes directly to your inventory and you have to provide the same materials again to get another.

Why, ask Frontier. I guess they thought it would have been too easy to get Guardian weapons other than gauss which are actually usable the standard way of unlocking.
Luke Williams
today, 5:53am
So Plasma chargers are the same as modshards?
Glial2
today, 9:01am
Luke WilliamsSo Plasma chargers are the same as modshards?


You get the standard gauss, plasma charger, shard cannon which you unlock once, and then you buy as many as you like for credits only (similar to guardian module and shield reinforcements)

Then you have the modified versions of these weapons, modified gauss (small & medium), modified plasma chargers (small & medium), modshards (sml & med)
There is not modified large version of these weapons but modified medium can be more powerful than standard large
Unlocking the modified weapons is similar to getting the pre-engineered FSD or pre-engineered heatsink, it costs the full list of the materials to get one.
So if you want to get 2 med modshard cannons, you'll need 2x guardian weapon blueprint fragments, 10 Guardian Wreckage Components, etc
AH
today, 9:14am
Someone mentioned something called "power play". How do you "enter" it? I can only see it as one option on the map.
Open play, private group, solo, arena, train. This is it.

Edit: here it is https://inara.cz/elite/board-thread/2/477593/#477593

Last edit: 09 Oct 2024, 9:47am
Sakashiro
today, 9:43am
AHSomeone mentioned something called "power play". How do you "enter" it? I can only see it as one option on the map.
Open play, private group, solo, arena, train. This is it.

Powerplay isn't a game mode but an in-game activity. In a nutshell, you pledge to support one of the galactic powers and then do missions for them to help them expand their sphere of influence. Each powerplay faction offers certain rewards in the form of ship modules. For example, to be able to buy prismatic shield generators, you have to support Aisling Duval for a while. There's a powerplay page accessible from the panel on the right side in your cockpit.

Btw, that part of the game will get an overhaul soon, so any info you're looking up now may soon be obsolete.
AH
today, 9:48am
Thanks. I knew I have seen it mentioned somewhere but did not recall where. I'll take a look.

Looks like the bug is still not fixed - cant take 2 ore more "scan data link" missions. Only one will work, the rest need to be abandoned.

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