Elite: Game talk

Isabella Levine
16 Sep 2021, 5:24am
-Knight-
Isabella LevineNote to self: Don't ever walk away while trying to use the least amount of fuel in your tank to get better distance. lol. It gets you a friendly visit from the Fuel Rats.



I like your new avatar. ^_^

And at least you got help.



Thanks Yeah, Fuel Rats are the greatest. Just sucks that I actually messed up this bad that I needed to call them. It's been a long time since I last asked for their help. haha!
Episparh
16 Sep 2021, 8:57am
Oh boy, Cornsar was attacked by green pest. Salvation was right.

We are going to stomp some bugs, boiz!
Sakashiro
16 Sep 2021, 9:38am
Independent system, no Fed or Imp rank gain by running evac missions. I'll pass.
Burstar
16 Sep 2021, 10:29am
-Knight-
SakashiroSupercruise assist speeding is great for harvesting signal sources. I regret not trying this earlier.



Never heard of supercruise assist speeding when it comes to signal sources. How is this accomplished?


You can do it with any non-planetary lockable destination:

1) Lock on destination, point towards target and engage autopilot
2) Throttle to 100%
3) Throttle to 75% when timer says 7 seconds
4) When range gets to ~35 ls quickly throttle up to 100% and back to 75% so that the timer reads 5s
5) Ignore the FSD howling in pain as you come in too fast but the autopilot drops you out anyways.

Edit: ED:O has made this less reliable than it used to be, particularly around asteroid belts. Quite often the autopilot just forgets to drop regardless of speed.

Last edit: 16 Sep 2021, 12:36pm
Episparh
16 Sep 2021, 11:01am
SakashiroIndependent system, no Fed or Imp rank gain by running evac missions. I'll pass.

There is another option - collect Thargoid hearts
Sakashiro
16 Sep 2021, 11:04am
My squadron would not approve.
Episparh
16 Sep 2021, 11:06am
SakashiroMy squadron would not approve.

You are missing then. AX combat is the PvE end game and the closest thing to a boss fights in RPGs.
Burstar
16 Sep 2021, 11:18am
Episparh
SakashiroMy squadron would not approve.


You are missing then. AX combat is the PvE end game and the closest thing to a boss fights in RPGs.


Also Saka, you want gameplay that is challenging and, erm, 'unique'? AX combat is it. Take what you know about Elite and throw it out because your going back to basics here.
Episparh
16 Sep 2021, 11:31am
Main reason I am not in a squadron is squadron limitations:
"We Gank/do not carebear" , "We do not Gank/we carebear" , "We do AX", "We do not do AX" , "We kill players", "We do not kill players", "We mine" , "We do not mine" , "We use ADC" , "We kill anyone with ADC on sight", "We do crimes!" , "We do bounty hunting", .

... and so on ,you got the idea


Understandably, that is my excuse to hide the main reason of being sociopath
Sakashiro
16 Sep 2021, 1:13pm
I might try AX combat, but I can't be bothered to engineer a ship for it. Also, I won't get into FA/off until there is an in-game toggle for absolute/relative mouse.
Episparh
16 Sep 2021, 1:20pm
Sakashiro[yada yada] but I can't be bothered to engineer a ship for it. [more yada yada]

But then you want to waste effort to engineer an useless type-9 designed to suffer. I get it

It is sad that Frontier didn't actually gave the multicrew ability to give a helm position to not-owner. It would be hell of an awesome experience to walk in someone's else shoes.

Although I wouldn't try heels or flip flops


My Type-9 requires 166mil while the AX chieftain is just 54mil. And on the material side chieftain is just half the materials needed on the common one. And definitely costs no materials related to shields.

Last edit: 16 Sep 2021, 1:46pm
Mr Sloppy
16 Sep 2021, 2:14pm
SakashiroIndependent system, no Fed or Imp rank gain by running evac missions. I'll pass.


There are fed factions so I'm grinding rank, but participating more there for the novelty, haven't done emergency extraction before.
Episparh
16 Sep 2021, 2:38pm
Mr Sloppy
There are fed factions so I'm grinding rank, but participating more there for the novelty, haven't done emergency extraction before.

Is concourse available? Probably not, but it would be interesting.
Burstar
16 Sep 2021, 2:56pm
Episparh
Mr Sloppy
There are fed factions so I'm grinding rank, but participating more there for the novelty, haven't done emergency extraction before.


Is concourse available?


Sorry, "burning Concourse would not provide enough value to the gameplay loops". It being totally cool and immersive doesn't matter at all ofc.
-Knight-
16 Sep 2021, 3:27pm
Burstar
-Knight-
SakashiroSupercruise assist speeding is great for harvesting signal sources. I regret not trying this earlier.




Never heard of supercruise assist speeding when it comes to signal sources. How is this accomplished?



You can do it with any non-planetary lockable destination:

1) Lock on destination, point towards target and engage autopilot
2) Throttle to 100%
3) Throttle to 75% when timer says 7 seconds
4) When range gets to ~35 ls quickly throttle up to 100% and back to 75% so that the timer reads 5s
5) Ignore the FSD howling in pain as you come in too fast but the autopilot drops you out anyways.

Edit: ED:O has made this less reliable than it used to be, particularly around asteroid belts. Quite often the autopilot just forgets to drop regardless of speed.


Ahhh, that's a nice trick. Too bad most of my ships don't have supercruise assist since I need an extra slot for something more important.

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