Elite: Game talk
07 Nov 2024, 10:07pm
The only time I use FSD injection is for single jumps when I am far above or below the galactic plane and there is a star I want to investigate that is outside of my normal jump range. Other than that, I consider FSD injections a waste of resources and do not see it as a useful for normal travel, only emergency travel. The time it takes to top off the tanks while fuel scooping is negligible for non-emergency travel.
07 Nov 2024, 10:33pm
Vasil VasilescuFor someone needing to get somewhere fast, like a fuel rat, the FSD injections can come in handy, but otherwise I do not consider it viable for regular travel.
That's one way to use it.
Vasil VasilescuI consider FSD injections a waste of resources and do not see it as a useful for normal travel, only emergency travel. The time it takes to top off the tanks while fuel scooping is negligible for non-emergency travel.
To me, Raw Materials have been a commodity for a long time, in fact since I started doing Bounty Hunting seriously, since I use to reload my 4A MULTI-CANNON with Premium ammunition, even loading them before departure as part of my check list, that's when I don't need to engineer a ship and I just done 3 of them in a row and there's another one in the pipeline.
On the other hand it seems that I have been unable to make it work, do you need to select Fuel Boost in the Galaxy Map Option? My rescue ship (Krait Phantom). has a 72.30 Ly Max Jump Range, doubling that could be useful.
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I tested it over a two jump distance (Robigo Run), it seems to be working over a distance not superior to twice your Jump Range, after that you need to reselect your waypoints. Fuel consumptions also seems to be lowered by <> 1/5 to 1/4.
Last edit: 07 Nov 2024, 11:00pm
07 Nov 2024, 10:35pm
Atusia Duvalalcyone7Just managed to sneak in before the servers went offline (again) to find that player #1 in the PowerPlay 2.0 leadboard managed to acrue more than 1,000,000 merits in a week. So basically if they played 24/7, that equates to just under 100 merits per minute. How the hell is that possible?
These were the players who had to submit exobiology data on a large scale. FDEV actually wanted to reset the ranks.
The top player (top agent) in my power is level 128. I also see it this way, that it is actually impossible to level up that quickly.
Well they were sitting on a hell of a lot of exo-data... clearly waiting for the payday!
08 Nov 2024, 2:46am
08 Nov 2024, 7:59am
Luke Williamswould the Mandalay make a good materiel farmer?
Yes! It has the best SC agility of all ships, besting even the Clipper. It also has good internal for collection limpets if you think about farming manufactured materials. Here's a build for that: https://edsy.org/s/vWVWlb8 .
If you want to also do encoded mat farming and maybe check out your favorite HIP system for raw mats farming AND probably sneak to a Guardian site as well, here's the build for that: the MAT ALLROUNDER !!!
Seriously, this is *the* multi-role meta ship in the game without calling it that.
08 Nov 2024, 8:16am
RawnuSeriously, this is *the* multi-role meta ship in the game without calling it that....and it doesn't seem to be a mediocre boring piece of sucks a.k.a. Python.
08 Nov 2024, 8:26am
I am lost and looking for an answer. How can I deliver sealed contracts from Lambda-1 Tucanae and deliver them to the same system?!... I loaded the amount at Jones Dock and landed on Riess Hub and could not unload/deliver. My next attempt was to pick up at Riess and deliver to Jones -- same thing, I cannot unload. When I picked up the sealed contracts in Cubeo/Medupe and delivered to Riess, I could unload them and got some merits, but (!!) the weekly assignment is still not complete and shows zero progress.
Please help! What am I supposed to do in this assignment?
Last edit: 08 Nov 2024, 8:48am
08 Nov 2024, 8:36am
RawnuLuke Williamswould the Mandalay make a good materiel farmer?
Yes! It has the best SC agility of all ships, besting even the Clipper. It also has good internal for collection limpets if you think about farming manufactured materials. Here's a build for that: https://edsy.org/s/vWVWlb8 .
If you want to also do encoded mat farming and maybe check out your favorite HIP system for raw mats farming AND probably sneak to a Guardian site as well, here's the build for that: the MAT ALLROUNDER !!!
Seriously, this is *the* multi-role meta ship in the game without calling it that.
Sounds like i should pick one up...
08 Nov 2024, 9:31am
08 Nov 2024, 9:44am
MeowersRawnuSeriously, this is *the* multi-role meta ship in the game without calling it that.
...and it doesn't seem to be a mediocre boring piece of sucks a.k.a. Python.
Haha, yes! (re the Python, always gives me US station wagon feels when I'm in it, super boring)
The Mandalay looks hot, flies ace, gives you lots of opportunities what to do with it. I'm having a blast grilling my Hydras
Just wondering what to do with the distributor. Charge enhanced super conduits is the usual way go to, but it drains fast. Maybe I try super capacitators and see how that goes. Slower recharge but higher top? Or go weapon focused for the AX build? Who needs SYS anyway, and ENG power is great without pips in that ship.
08 Nov 2024, 10:09am
RawnuMeowersRawnuSeriously, this is *the* multi-role meta ship in the game without calling it that.
...and it doesn't seem to be a mediocre boring piece of sucks a.k.a. Python.
Haha, yes! (re the Python, always gives me US station wagon feels when I'm in it, super boring)
The Mandalay looks hot, flies ace, gives you lots of opportunities what to do with it. I'm having a blast grilling my Hydras
Just wondering what to do with the distributor. Charge enhanced super conduits is the usual way go to, but it drains fast. Maybe I try super capacitators and see how that goes. Slower recharge but higher top? Or go weapon focused for the AX build? Who needs SYS anyway, and ENG power is great without pips in that ship.
I think u need go for weapon focused, u want to keep shooting with beam lasers and shot as many guardian weapons as possible, right?
08 Nov 2024, 10:20am
Rayman.
I think u need go for weapon focused, u want to keep shooting with beam lasers and shot as many guardian weapons as possible, right?
Yup, checked the stats in EDSY and weapon focused is the way for my AX Mandalay. Will do this over the weekend and test it. Given how strongly the stats change, this would make the Mandalay even more of an AX fighter.
08 Nov 2024, 12:14pm
Nedistaor
I am lost and looking for an answer. How can I deliver sealed contracts from Lambda-1 Tucanae and deliver them to the same system?!... I loaded the amount at Jones Dock and landed on Riess Hub and could not unload/deliver. My next attempt was to pick up at Riess and deliver to Jones -- same thing, I cannot unload. When I picked up the sealed contracts in Cubeo/Medupe and delivered to Riess, I could unload them and got some merits, but (!!) the weekly assignment is still not complete and shows zero progress.
Please help! What am I supposed to do in this assignment?
Fairly sure in the feint miniscule writing it explicitly states you cannot collect/deliver power commodities to/from the same system. That seems definitely borked and impossible to complete.
Probably won't work, but have you tried collecting from Cubeo and delivering to Lamba-1 Tucanae?
08 Nov 2024, 12:15pm
That of the Mandalay is a class 5, meaning you can count on <> 29.58 Mw maximum, while 4 X Class 2 Modified Plasma Charger are gonna draw 11.28 Mw, leaving 18.3 Mw for the rest, that's 38%+ of the total available power.
From my PoV, this restrain the ship to AX is you use Hull/Armor tank only, in a CZ you'll run out of shield fast, even if it's only a Class 4 SHIELD GENERATOR.
This ship is not designed for combat all other ships of this class have a Class 6 or 7 Power Plant and even with a class 7, 4 X Class 2 Modified Plasma Charger + ONE Class 3 3C BEAM LASER [GIMBALLED] Long range ︎︎︎︎︎ Thermal Vent leaves me with -0.83 Mw.
When it comes to BASE SHIELD and BASE ARMOUR, the two ships are roughly equivalent, the Krait is short in combat persistence (shield) even with a 6A Prismatic, two Shield Cell Banks and two 5D GUARDIAN SHIELD REINFORCEMENT, I wouldn't waste my time trying to make the Mandalay better in a CZ.
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