Elite: Game talk

Sakashiro
13 Aug 2021, 8:48pm
EpisparhI almost had you twice.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I did the same dance with a FDL a few minutes ago.
Ryan Murdoc
13 Aug 2021, 8:50pm
EpisparhMy theme song:


Getting strong Transformers vibes from that Track.

I don't have a Theme song but go with whatever fits best for the moment. Currently I'm into Drums and these two in particular:



Kurakil
13 Aug 2021, 8:59pm
Episparh
BTW, do anyone know if there is difference between speed with rifles (Karma R-50/Aphelion) and SMGs (Karma R-44/ Eclipse) both running and jogging.

In my experience, you can run faster (and therefore jump longer) with smaller weapons and the fastest/longest without a weapon drawn. It may be tethered to the "handling" value of the weapon. Maybe there really is no difference but it feels like there is when I try different weapons.

Last edit: 13 Aug 2021, 10:19pm
Sakashiro
13 Aug 2021, 9:08pm
Gank evasion theme song:



 
Sakashiro
13 Aug 2021, 9:36pm
Ryan MurdocCurrently I'm into Drums and these two in particular:

Holy ****!

The first one wasn't bad, but the second one... With just the audio, I would have thought it's coming from a computer! The guy was playing like he had four arms, lol.

I guess the selling point of the first one is the girl's clothing (or lack thereof).
Sakashiro
13 Aug 2021, 10:20pm
I saw Dangerous.com!
Burstar
13 Aug 2021, 10:22pm
Paul Glynno7

What do you think about this bulid:

https://edsy.org/s/vekOawg


Hmm, consider this.

Last edit: 13 Aug 2021, 10:27pm
Gryphnn
13 Aug 2021, 10:26pm
KurakilIn my experience, you can run faster (and therefore jump longer) with smaller weapons and the fastest/longest without a weapon drawn. It may be tethered to the "handling" value of the weapon.


Yep, or you just holster and draw again when you need it
Episparh
13 Aug 2021, 10:28pm
SakashiroI saw Dangerous.com!

You meant MindlyInconvenient.com ?
Episparh
13 Aug 2021, 10:32pm
Gryphnn
KurakilIn my experience, you can run faster (and therefore jump longer) with smaller weapons and the fastest/longest without a weapon drawn. It may be tethered to the "handling" value of the weapon.



Yep, or you just holster and draw again when you need it


I need to move with drawn weapon - aiming even briefly makes you sitting duck. So I will go then for SMGs with hip firing accuracy and stability + combat speed instead of battery or ammo.
Gryphnn
13 Aug 2021, 10:35pm
Remove the hip firing if you have combat speed to remove the movement penalty while aiming down sights. Keep the ammo instead
Gryphnn
13 Aug 2021, 10:38pm
Burstar
Paul Glynno7

What do you think about this bulid:

https://edsy.org/s/vekOawg



Hmm, consider this.


If you are using fragment cannons just go all in
Sakashiro
13 Aug 2021, 10:53pm
EpisparhYou meant MindlyInconvenient.com ?

He has a crazy gank kill count. Like 15,000 or so. I'd rather not mess with him.

Btw, something interesting just happened. A NPC "military courier vessel" (in the form of a Type-9, I kid you not) trailed me for several minutes. I expected an interdiction, even slowed down, but nothing happened. It just buzzed around me like a fly all the time, for no apparent reason or purpose. So I dropped out of SC to see if it would follow me. But instead a deadly Cobra dropped into my instance, scanned me, then low-waked.
Sakashiro
13 Aug 2021, 11:15pm
It seems FDev is doing everything they can to make gank evasion more difficult. Bad scanner visibility in the Courier, "select highest threat" doesn't work, and now I found that even "target next system in route" stopped working reliably because the damn galmap just forgets the route I plotted minutes earlier.
Co'hen MacBain
14 Aug 2021, 12:00am
Burstar Hmm, consider this.

I've seen a couple of suggested builds like this recently, which go for all resistance augmented shield boosters, and no heavy duty. The other one which comes to mind was the fully-engineered Krait MkII at https://sites.google.com/view/ed-pve-combat/builds/recommended-progression (posted by Episparh a while back).

I'm starting to wonder if I'm misreading the stats on EDSY or Coriolis, because whenever I see a build like that, based on my own experience tinkering with builds I swap out one Resistance booster for a Heavy Duty, and all the stats improve (apart from mass). When I say "all the stats" I mean the effective shield strength rather than the actual resist %, because I assume those are the numbers we should care about?

Usually, if I disagree with more experienced players, it means I'm wrong Am I missing some other downside of Heavy Duty, or just plain misreading the numbers? Or is the extra 10T mass a much bigger deal than I think it should be?

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