Elite: Game talk
yesterday, 10:24pm
today, 5:14am
SakashiroWell, you can get exploration Elite in pretty much any ship. I once used a Sidewinder. Went to Colonia, scanned a few systems along the way, done.
But if you enter a Thargoid-controlled system by accident as AH did and get interdicted, it won't matter if your AspX is engineered or not. A fast ship such as a Courier or even an Adder will simply shrug it off. And shrug off gankers too by the way.
Certainly. :-) I just wanted to be silly by feigning offense. I'm proud of my pudgy path-seeker. (I need to start being nostalgic about it now because I know I'm going to drop it as my "flagship" so fast when that Mandalay comes out. LOL)
If I'm being honest, I really only use my AspX for errand runs these days. No, not missions. Errands as in, "Hey, I should fly over to that one engineer and put an exp effect on such-and-such weapon. Looks like the AspX can slot it, so that'll work." Other than that, I've been spending more time in my purpose-built ships like my courier (ground stuff), FDL (assassination), Mamba (hanging out at Nav Beacons bounty hunting), etc.
today, 5:17am
*mail ding* [Reads: something about ShinDez being freed from invasion]
"Hey, looks the Thargoids have been pushed back in ShinDez.... yay... we won..." :-(
I want more AX! Guess I'm hooked! That was a fun appetizer and it was great to have it "right in my backyard"
today, 5:51am
IndySakashiroTo be fair, the AspX is garbage even when fully engineered.
You take that back!
I quite like my AspX. Sure it's a bit plump and not as fast, fierce, or freight-ready, but it's versatile and I've got it fully engineered to easily make multiple 72+ Ly jumps. It got me from nothing to Elite in exploration and helped me start the real gameplay of credit grinding. So, there!
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It is a slow garbage with a joke of a shield still. AKA garbage.
Reference: Jinn
today, 7:01am
today, 8:00am
because I never bothered to read about it or how to recognise the attack. Screen went crazy, everything was starting to fail, acid torpedoes on may tail and that was about it. 5 planets + several systems worth of data gone.
So, if I was "rescued", my ship was "rescued", why was the black box "left behind" (while knowing exactly what was on it). Millions of funny money gone...puff.
today, 8:01am
A quick look at the galaxy map shows ports under attack in 12 systems. I doubt FDev will let you AX guys run out of things to blow up any time soon.
I had fun flying rescue missions from Jameson, but that's because there were gankers and the station was basically a trap. Rescue missions in remote systems aren't that interesting. And the payment is lousy anyway.
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