Bainsey7That's fantastic feedback thank you so much. I'll check it out later and see how I get on.
It'll be like Elite Dangerous 2 for me... o7

UramakiI tell them if there is mass between the ship and our target point, it's best to stay away from that mass as much as possible, therefore "entering the minor orbit" (planet\station) from the outer and closes point from the station, in a sort of reverse fibonacci-shape.
This is obvious I think in the large scale = we need to travel 20k but there's a star in between us, say at 10k, we definitely "circumnavigate" it, staying away from its mass.

Bainsey7

Sakashiro

Bainsey7I don't have Odyssey because my system can't run it

FYI, there's no difference between Horizons 4 and Odyssey. If you can run one, you can run the other too.

Really? I'd assumed all the surface stuff would require much more in terms of graphics capability. My laptop has 16gb of RAM but a bog standard graphics card. I have to have the graphics set to very low or it just constantly crashes. Are you sure it'd work? I don't wanna blow it up

Glen van Ross

Bainsey7That's fantastic feedback thank you so much. I'll check it out later and see how I get on.
It'll be like Elite Dangerous 2 for me... o7

Something I forgot to really drive home is that the suit engineering is permanent and can not be changed after they are applied, unlike ship module engineering.

And that's why I have a zillion suits.

You may want to spend some time experimenting with the various weapons and what not before you zero in on a particular build. There's no real "right answer", as mentioned above it's got to suit your playstyle, and one guy's recommendations are going to be garbage for somebody else that doesn't play the same way.

Sakashiro

Bainsey7

Sakashiro


FYI, there's no difference between Horizons 4 and Odyssey. If you can run one, you can run the other too.

Really? I'd assumed all the surface stuff would require much more in terms of graphics capability. My laptop has 16gb of RAM but a bog standard graphics card. I have to have the graphics set to very low or it just constantly crashes. Are you sure it'd work? I don't wanna blow it up

You can already visit Odyssey surface settlements on planets without atmosphere. Except there won't be any NPCs walking around, and you can't leave your SRV. Take a look!

If your laptop gets too hot, set a frame rate limit.

Bainsey7Now that is REALLY good to know I would not have realised that at all perhaps until way too late. Is that the same for weapons too?

Bainsey7So, any tips for a seasoned Elite pilot beginner on-foot player?

• Fit an SCO-capable FSD to your ship — it can reduce travel times a lot. Best combined with a Guardian FSD booster for a better jump range (if you have them unlocked already).
• On-foot missions related to settlements do not require you to dock at the destination — you can just land nearby.
• In terms of mission payouts, IMHO only the materials are important — credits are easy to make in other ways.
  
  • Better faction reputation tends to mean more materials per mission. If you have a lot of credits you can donate to factions (via in-ship mission board) to improve your rep.
• Collection/delivery missions are a good start to get familiar with how on-foot stuff works, but don’t expect them to pay well.
• Salvage missions tend to be easy and can be used for relog-farming certain types of materials (see below). Don’t worry about legality — I don’t know if it is even possible to get fined for doing an illegal salvage mission.
  
  • You may encounter scavengers (not to be confused with Thargoid Scavengers) at the destination. Some may be already present, other may arrive via a dropship. They will attack you on sight. The easiest way to deal with them is to equip your ship with two advanced missile racks and kill them from the air.
• Reactivation missions (including AX Reactivation) are best for gathering materials quickly, as well as familiarising oneself with various settlement layouts. You get (as part of the mission) free access to all facilities in a settlement and can loot everything without getting on the wrong side of the law.
  
  • There are 2 types of missions called “AX Reactivation”. This is about those in the Support category. (The other type is in the Operations category and involves going into Thargoid-occupied territory.)
  • AX Reactivation (Support) missions generate in systems in Post-Thargoid Recovery state that have abandoned settlements (as well as in neighbouring systems). Unlike most on-foot missions, they can be obtained without disembarking, from the station services.
    
    • Incidentally, the Inara system should have a lot of them right now
  • Like salvage missions, you may encounter scavengers at the destination.
    
    • Deploying an SRV is a good way to check if you are alone — its sensors will detect anyone within 1 km. Keep in mind that a Scarab SRV will not last long against armed people.
  • Once clear of hostiles, your priority is to power up the settlement. As long as the power is down, there’s a risk of (more) scavengers arriving. [Edit: Also, you cannot download data from data ports if the power is down.]
• Finally, a good way to get the hang of on-foot combat is to sign for a combat zone via Frontline Solutions.

• As Meowers said, try to find & buy grade 3 stuff to save on the upgrades. If you’re lucky you may even get a modification you want. (If you find gear with a modification you do not want, do not buy it! As others said, you cannot change modifications later.) There’s this Frontier Forums thread Meowers mentioned, but it’s still a hit and miss. [Edit: Glen ninja’d me about it ⁠]
  
  • Pioneer Supplies stock comes in 4 varieties. Each variety includes all 3 suit types as well as TK Zenith and Karma P-15 pistols, plus one of the following:
    
    • “Long-range weapons”: TK Aphelion, Karma AR-50, Karma L-6;
    • “Short-range weapons”: TK Eclipse, Karma C-44;
    • “Plasma weapons”: all Manticore weapons;
    • All of the above (AFAIK only 4 starports, plus all fleet carriers that have Pioneer Supplies active — but FCs never sell premium (pre-upgraded) stuff).
  As far as I can tell (having visited well over a hundred starports) a starport will never sell a premium item if they do not also sell a non-premium item of the same type. Unfortunately there is no automated way to tell which port sells which variety of stock, so all Inara knows is a partial history of purchases at a particular port; and there is (as yet) no way to search for a particular stock variety without doing multiple searches.
• Some materials can be farmed via a relog exploit. However, this only applies to mission-related POIs (salvage & larceny missions, as well as some types of non-on-foot missions, generate such POIs). Do not relog while at a random (non-mission) POI, or at a settlement — it will wipe all materials, possibly at every settlement & POI in the system, until you jump elsewhere & back.
  Materials that can be farmed in this way include:
  
  • All assets in the Circuits sub-category
  • Atmospheric Data, Manufacturing Instructions, Mineral Survey, NOC Data, Operational Manual, Radioactivity Data, Stellar Activity Logs, Surveillance Logs, Topographical Surveys
  • Health Monitor, Push (but there’s really not much point in farming these — they are available in copious amounts)
  • Power Regulator (not very efficiently, but much better than the alternatives)
  • Settlement Defence Plans (very inefficiently, but still much better than the alternatives)
  • Weapon Schematic
  I can give the details if you ask (this post is too long already!).
• Ionised Gas and Suit Schematic are two single non-farmable items that are needed in largest quantities. Do not sell or discard them by accident!
  
  • Ionised Gas is most easily found at industrial settlements.
  • Suit Schematic is most easily found at any settlement that has a large Command (CMD) building, in a large locker in the Operations room. (Alas, settlement layout is another piece of information not available to Inara.)
• If you run out of asset space, trade less valuable assets for more valuable ones at the bartender.
• If you have a fleet carrier, you can store some of the materials there. Alas, the FC on-foot material storage space is a laughable 1000 items total (whereas your Commander’s personal ship storage is 1000 per category).