Elite: Game talk

Indy
today, 3:49pm
Jean NortonHello! Wanted to ask: what is the purpose of small ships? Can I farm something with it more efficiently?


I most often use small ships for quick courier work (to rank up Fed and Empire) or, better still, ExoBio. For ExoBio, you could outfit a small ship for (reasonably) decent Ly jump range, then fly to an Exo-Bio planet, land next to the plant, get out, scan, get back in, fly quick to the next plant, repeat. (Take a look at my "BioFlyer" build for an idea of what I mean for ship outfitting.)
KensaiVG
today, 4:17pm
Freely admit I may ask something dumb, but is there any indication at all those of us stuck in the non-odyssey group may ever have a swipe at the T8?
Aurora Adair-Levine
today, 4:28pm
KensaiVGFreely admit I may ask something dumb, but is there any indication at all those of us stuck in the non-odyssey group may ever have a swipe at the T8?

no iirc the T-8 can only ever be obtained in Horizons 4.0 by paying for it with Arx. it won't come for Legacy 3.8 ever sadly. if you're already on horizons 4.0 it may be worth getting odyssey when it goes on sale, since if they share the same engine upgrades and galaxy so you probably can run both
KensaiVG
today, 4:41pm
Aurora Adair-Levine
no iirc the T-8 can only ever be obtained in Horizons 4.0 by paying for it with Arx. it won't come for Legacy 3.8 ever sadly. if you're already on horizons 4.0 it may be worth getting odyssey when it goes on sale, since if they share the same engine upgrades and galaxy so you probably can run both



I am in 4.0! Mainly the reason I don't own Odyssey is mostly a... Logistics issue with USD prices and the purchases themselves in my area, so it's in the backburner but not entirely expedient
AH
today, 4:59pm
WOW! My Combat rank was upgraded to "Competent"!
RRRRRR... be afraid!
Thinder
today, 5:01pm
Something my Mandalay is not gonna replace my Krait Phantom for: Carrying Class 5 Modules and Class 3 weapons to engineers, I just finished the AX Corvette HULL REINFORCEMENT PACKAGES, 4 of them, I had to transfer two out of four but at least the Krait can carry them, same for weapons, Class 3 vs class 2.

When one of the heavies doesn't have the range, the Krait takes over, if I need to engineer higher classes I move the Carrier.

About the Cobra Mk V, I saw pictures of it without the wings, it was a good looking ship, what bothers me is that we can't take them off...
AH
today, 5:49pm
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Rawnu
today, 6:05pm
Anyone having experience with taking the standard Shards with Guardian Anti-Zone Resistance to a Titan? They should give the highest oomph of all weapons against its exposed thermal core = highest payout. I'm going to test this later.

Also: the CG is insane, everyone gets six pre-engineered FSD. That's really newcomer friendly! Any idea what's up with faster boot lore-wise? Is that a hint towards more Thargoid encounters? Otherwise it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Rayman.
today, 6:14pm
RawnuAnyone having experience with taking the standard Shards with Guardian Anti-Zone Resistance to a Titan? They should give the highest oomph of all weapons against its exposed thermal core = highest payout. I'm going to test this later.

Also: the CG is insane, everyone gets six pre-engineered FSD. That's really newcomer friendly! Any idea what's up with faster boot lore-wise? Is that a hint towards more Thargoid encounters? Otherwise it doesn't make a lot of sense.


yes, i make a lot of money with em. They're best for titan stuff. Four 3c shard cannons on python mk2 makes good profit

With premium synths u can earn 32 million per run
Kasumi Goto
today, 8:46pm
Rawnu
Also: the CG is insane, everyone gets six pre-engineered FSD. That's really newcomer friendly! Any idea what's up with faster boot lore-wise? Is that a hint towards more Thargoid encounters? Otherwise it doesn't make a lot of sense.

As far as I know… it doesn’t have particular significance to lore. It’s just the one other modification which provides additional jump range, so their range is better than a default A rated which gets engineered.

Fast boot also affects reboot times I guess but from my experience taking the Thargoid FSD reboot missiles, does not actually affect the time it takes to cycle when hit by those. Or still takes an awfully long time, anyway.

Frontier probably might also need to up Titan hitpoints again to stop it blowing up before the weekend has a chance to get started proper. Despite getting pushed to 2 billion it/the CG - which seems to use Titan HP as progress - is still predicted to go on early Saturday morning (by local times, anyway).

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