Elite: Game talk

Sakashiro
09 Dec 2022, 7:17am
Sir-Duke
Yuna SakashiroProbably a stupid question for all you exobiology experts out there, but outposts don't have Vista Genomics counters, do they?


Never seen an outpost with Vista, no.
I don't even think it exists in the game files.

But you usually have Vista Genomics on the bigger planetary ports (the one with shipyrads).

I thought so.

It's funny because when the system map showed VG for that outpost, I actually disembarked and checked if the concourse layout was any different. Of course it wasn't. Just a glitch in the data I guess.
Kurakil
09 Dec 2022, 10:58am
Yuna SakashiroProbably a stupid question for all you exobiology experts out there, but outposts don't have Vista Genomics counters, do they?

I'm confused because I'm currently docked at Poisson Mine in HR 1621 which, according to in-game info and Inara, does have Vista Genomics although it's an outpost. What gives?

The game thinks they do but only the orbital stations and surface ports have them. And those who put them on their FCs.
Kurakil
09 Dec 2022, 11:15am
Meowers
Sampi OgonekUnlikely, I think; AFAIR David Braben once said he was opposed to the idea of pay-to-win.
More likely, FDev will be tweaking numbers so that Thargoids’ progress is neither too fast nor too slow. Bruce G said something to that effect on the official forums on Wednesday.

Just started my second Mass Effect Trilogy playthrough. There's a line right at the beginning of ME1 that fits so right.

"That's the official story. But only an idiot believes the official story."

It must be telling that I know the exact when/where/who/why of that quote. Of course it happens to be my most favorite game/trilogy ever and I can practically play through the entire trilogy in my mind. I always play from the start of 1 to the end of 3 and by the time I am finished, the first game feels fresh again. Rinse and repeat.
Cephy Cyclops Devine
09 Dec 2022, 4:02pm
Mass effect will be a classic for ages to come, Just like elite dangerous, the game this forum is about

NOW SERIOUSLY, im missing Hydra kills in inara, i assume FDEV is to blames as inara just pulls from their database. How would i go about fixing this issue of missing kills?
Cephy Cyclops Devine
09 Dec 2022, 4:40pm
FACT OF LIFE: I've never seen a software developer have so much trouble for a whole 8 years with a chat window, its either incompetence of plain disregard.
Meowers
09 Dec 2022, 6:25pm
KurakilIt must be telling that I know the exact when/where/who/why of that quote.
Of course. It's the very beginning, when Joker, Kaidan and Shepard talk about Nihlus. Since I won't be enjoying much of a playtime until xmas break, lol.

By the way. My memories of my first playthrough are probably blurred enough by now, but I remember I've been playing in on a potato laptop. Now, launching this 2007 game, on a more-or-less-modern machine with a 28'' monitor, I'm quite surprised... Some parts of it look much better than a certain '13 game with '22 renderer slapped onto it. Like, terrain and atmospheric effects.

Elite's character creation menu certainly beats ME1, but I think I should compare it to ME3 when I get to it.

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Kurakil
09 Dec 2022, 10:49pm
Meowers
KurakilIt must be telling that I know the exact when/where/who/why of that quote.

Of course. It's the very beginning, when Joker, Kaidan and Shepard talk about Nihlus. Since I won't be enjoying much of a playtime until xmas break, lol.

By the way. My memories of my first playthrough are probably blurred enough by now, but I remember I've been playing in on a potato laptop. Now, launching this 2007 game, on a more-or-less-modern machine with a 28'' monitor, I'm quite surprised... Some parts of it look much better than a certain '13 game with '22 renderer slapped onto it. Like, terrain and atmospheric effects.

Elite's character creation menu certainly beats ME1, but I think I should compare it to ME3 when I get to it.

ED character creator is actually pretty good. As with most character creators I wish they would add sliders for colors and whatnot rather than just having a number of presets. Maybe I want green hair but not bright neon green hair.
Sakashiro
10 Dec 2022, 2:52am
KurakilED character creator is actually pretty good. As with most character creators I wish they would add sliders for colors and whatnot rather than just having a number of presets. Maybe I want green hair but not bright neon green hair.

I still remember how surprised I was to find a feature-rich character creator like that in a game where players would hardly see each other's avatar. Seemed like such a waste of developer time. Well, last year we found out why they did it.

I still hardly see other players though, even at popular places like ShinDez. The concourse bars didn't turn into social hubs after all.
Cephy Cyclops Devine
10 Dec 2022, 5:58am
and yet more medusa kills that don't register INARA says i have killed a single medusa, manually updating profile and still nothing. It has to be on FDEV side
Watch Your Back
10 Dec 2022, 9:27am
How do I see how much I have mined in Inara and also how much this year I have earnt
Tiffany Yür
10 Dec 2022, 11:24am
Illustrious-jokerHow do I see how much I have mined in Inara and also how much this year I have earnt

At least the total amount can be seen in the miner badge, I don't know if there is a yearly subdivision of earnings anywhere.
Artie
10 Dec 2022, 11:46am
Cephy Cyclops Devineand yet more medusa kills that don't register INARA says i have killed a single medusa, manually updating profile and still nothing. It has to be on FDEV side

Yes, in cases of player being winged or with somebody else in the instance, the journal may not contain all the kills and thus it's not also counted on Inara. The bug has been reported to Frontier, but not idea when and if it will be fixed.
Meowers
10 Dec 2022, 2:35pm
Yuna SakashiroThe concourse bars didn't turn into social hubs after all.
Glad it didn't happen. Imagine a populated city in some WoW, full of morons.
Sakashiro
10 Dec 2022, 2:59pm
Meowers
Yuna SakashiroThe concourse bars didn't turn into social hubs after all.

Glad it didn't happen. Imagine a populated city in some WoW, full of morons.

Hell is other people.
Suopis
10 Dec 2022, 6:43pm

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