Thread 1981432

Help liberate Kamitra today so that future pilots can enjoy a nice cigar and top rate power plant engineering!

Elite Dangerous is a massive online space sim where you haul in order to haul in order to haul and organize with other people to haul together, and maybe sometimes you shoot at people who are hauling or shoot at things which at first glance are unrelated to hauling so that you can eventually haul better.

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>Trading and market tools
https://inara.cz/elite/market-traderoutes/
https://inara.cz/elite/commodities/

>High Grade Emissions for engineers
https://edgalaxy.net/hge


>Current Community Goals (You don't need to tryhard, lowest rank still gets good rewards)
https://www.elitedangerous.com/community/goals

>Theorycraft your spacecraft:
https://edsy.org/ (should be your general go-to shipbuilder)
https://coriolis.io/ (arguably better UI though some say it's inaccurate. slightly better for combat stats too)

>What the fugs is engineering?
https://inara.cz/elite/engineers/
https://inara.cz/elite/components/

>Elite: Dangerous wiki
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite_Dangerous_Wiki

>Where's all the xeno?
https://dcoh.watch/

EXOBIOLOGY GETS YOU UP TO 100 MILLION AN HOUR
https://cmdrs-toolbox.com/billionaires-boulevard

>>1981432 (OP)
Someone just copied everything wholesale, eh?
Actual last thread >>1895499

OP is a fucking retard.

>>1981432 (OP)
based retard

Gas giant exploration never...

>>1982694
Correct.
End of life game.

i applied to join mobius and sent them the request 12 days ago and still havent been let in
problem is my username has Os or 0s and i cant tell which is which but they say to only contact them about it if im 100% sure the problem isnt on my end and i cant figure out how my fucking name is spelled even though fdevs website in my account info or anything

>>1982820
its on sale for $2. Is it gonna shut down this year? can you play it when the servers are down?

>>1986363
They've recently started developing more stuff for it. It does look like it's going down the route of selling it cheap and making money from (mostly) cosmetics, a model that has proved successful elsewhere. They appear to be getting enough profit from it to keep it going for the foreseeable future. Who knows what will happen in a decade though.
Any really big game changing features are probably off the table unless they start making a lot more from it though. It's probably going to be a few new improved features a year, plus the usual story progression. Nothing that would require a radical change in the code.

>>1986363
They may as well make the game free at this point. They make their money on cosmetics and early access for new ships.

>>1987848
The early access for ships thing basically killed my interest. I haven't played in months.

>>1988746
NTA but I really don't mind it, if it means we get new content and updates as we have this year compared to the last several, then it's necessary. Just have to wait a couple months to get it after its out for credits. I'll keep working on my colonization in the meantime.

>finally got a fully engineered corvette
>literally isnt possible to make money anywhere near as quickly or easily as doing a "trade route" that consists of jumping 1 or 2 times for 30 million credits
why are the stupid nigger monkey devs refusing to make this game ever be anything but a chore
literally what was the fucking point of grinding all this time just to have the most powerful combat ship possible and it be utterly fucking useless for the only practical thing in this game, making money

>>1988986
also
literally all crime: complete waste of time. smuggling? worthless. illegal assassination type missions? worthless.
all bait you into wasting time and realizing its fucking pointless
its bad enough that they turned the multiplayer in this game into nothing but a gankfest, where you'd be a fucking retard to join open play without a PVP build ship which is going to be useless for anything else, so its literally nothing but faggots spazzing out trying to club seals and retarded new players getting raped for no reason
but these stupid niggers made every single other aspect of the game that involves risk a complete waste of time. theres no high risk high reward anywhere. theres high risk low reward, because fuck you idiot nigger.
its alll just boring shit for retarded faggot pussies because the devs didnt want anyone to have fun and get ahead of the faggots who want to do the low risk low reward gameplay
and now they milk their dying boring pointless as fuck game with early access ships and endless retarded cosmetics
stupid fucking bobble heads
holy fuck i hate modern game developers

>>1988997
I mostly agree that every mission you take is nearly worthless with only a few niche exceptions or squadron loopholes.

But there is one thing you can gear your combat ship for to make credits: thargoid hunting.
I find thargoid combat boring, myself, but your mileage may vary.

>>1988986
>>1988997
Honestly this is the best summary of Elite that I think I've ever read. It really is a shame; the game could've been so good.

>>1989076
kek
>>1989041
yeah ill admit that is a form of combat that apparently makes more money than pretty much anything else in the game i hear but i never really gave it a chance because its a whole bunch of other shit where you need special weapons and shit that arent good at anything else and at this rate ill just go down that rabbit hole just to be disappointed somehow again
i tried it during december of last year and couldnt do shit with the guns that were available to me there, they were fucking pea shooters and it was a joke. at first i was making crazy money plinking thargoids while people with actual AX builds were killing them since id get the bounty as well just for doing minuscule damage, then a few days later the whole community flooded in and got their AX pea shooters and so many were plinking thargoids with those shit guns that you were lucky to find an instance where anyone had any real AX guns capable of killing them and not just fly around wasting your time not getting any kills. it was so retarded and put a bad taste in my mouth for the whole thing i guess

Thinking of getting this since its so cheap right now, dont really care about combat or mining i just want to explore planets and such. Also is there a thread on /vg/ about space games? This board doesnt seem to be very active

I can not get this stupid fucking game to recognize my controllers, they don't even show up in game and I only see keyboard options in settings.

>>1989384
If a general is made for space games it'd just be taken over with NMS slop probably. On /v/ whenever elite gets a thread everyone just piles in to recommend that or X4 as better alternatives.

>>1988986
>>1988997
I find specialized combat ships to be more endgame content. It's pretty easy to get billions of credits while barely trying if you're doing powerplay or bgs. I use my corvette to manipulate faction security levels and influence mostly. When you have tens of billions sitting around you just do whatever you want. There are so many things you can do instead of chasing more useless credits.
If you're measuring activities by how many credits they bring in, you're doing it wrong.

>>1989613
Because they are better. The only reason to play Elite is if you're a sim autist.

>>1989384
>i just want to explore planets and such.
get space engine

>>1989701
wait how do you make money doing powerplay. thats a thing? good money? wtf
and BGS? background simulation? huh
>If you're measuring activities by how many credits they bring in, you're doing it wrong.
well i currently only have about 10 times the rebuy cost of my corvette
and id like to buy other ships and outfit them with the best stuff for fun and i dont have enough to comfortably do that

>>1989709
>NMS better than elite
if you're stoned out of your mind maybe. and it will still get old pretty fast

>Planet exploration
Space Engine
>Empire building/Economy shenanigans
X4
>Space combat sim
Elite after soullessly grinding all engineering and having hundreds of millions of credits
>Story/Narrative
Mass Effect
>Immersive Simulation
Star Citizen
>PvP Shenanigans
Eve Online

>>1989974
>>Immersive Simulation
>Star Citizen
for me that would be elite dangerous still
star citizen is still so full of fucking bugs and crashes and so far from being done, its criminal
they know its a ponzi scheme and that they will never complete 1% of the promised shit because in order to get money to continue fixing shit they have to invent ships with more kinds of gameplay, then they put a small fraction of that shit in the game causing way more bugs that they have to invent more ships and gameplay ideas to get the funds to keep bug fixing

such a blatant shitty scam

>>1990144
When I tried it last a couple years ago it seemed "fine", just kind of dry and needing content. It did come across as way more immersive than Elite though, just somehow less compelling than the background simulation.

Admittedly I didn't try it for very long so maybe some major jank would've come up.

>>1990156
every server always crashes anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 hours of playing. its been this way for like 8 years
i miss just dogfighting before they added the heavy fighters that outcompeted everything else while being slow and boring

>>1990144
Agreed with this Anon, sorry I don't need advanced 6 animation-step process to eat a fucking burrito, give me something worthwhile like Elite

>>1989076
old 80s Elite player here, i'm not surprised
elite dangerous is made by only one of the pair of guys who made the OG
the business guy
Elite was godly
btw eve online was built upon it, but chickenshit halfassed: no real physics, autobraking

>>1989974
>>Planet exploration
>Space Engine
But I NEED to be able to scan things on the planet itself and build shit.

>>1990182
Eve online started as a submarine game

>>1990260
>scan things on the planet itself and build shit.
Starfield then

>been waiting for the panther to release for credits
>forgot it's basically an inter-system transport and has a dogshit jump range
>don't own a carrier yet for transporting it for colonization
Aw fuck

I just got the game, how do I get started getting my first custom ship. I think you can build custom ships right. Also do you like my OC

>>1991097
>pic
You ever notice how a lot of trans-coded art has those weird mouth lines to either side of the actual mouth? Like its trying to depict an unnatural mouth parting or duck-face.

>>1991146
How is she trans coded

>>1989886
I meant while doing powerplay/bgs, because I pick up a lot of high value missions at the same station while doing pp/bgs activities and then do a single trip in my cutter to fill them, which can net up to 200m-400m a go. It adds up pretty quickly.
You do need to have the factions allied though, for max payout. But pp increases the speed faction rep increases, plus donation missions give you pp merits as a bonus. You also probably need high trade rank, but you make money so fast that this goes to elite V quickly too. I think I went from elite to elite V in a couple of weekends. Maybe just one.

>>1991097
I would sex
>>1991097
You customize the modules and some of them can be upgraded via engineering. There's some cosmetic ship kits that add additional stuff to the outside of the ship to make it look different but that's MTX. There's also like ship dash bobble heads and stuff like MWO.

>>1990629
Huh. Really? is the range significantly worse than the cutter? Even with the guardian booster? I haven't looked at the engineered specs yet, but it would make sense since it's carrying so much cargo. But the fsd booster is a flat boost so I figured it shouldn't be too bad.
It's not hard to make lots of credits from trading or trade missions anyway. A carrier is pretty cheap. Also, with the new squadron perks, you can get something like a 7.5% boost to mission rewards, which ends up being maybe 10% more profit on trade missions.
>>1991097
Go to outfitting. Finding places to buy good ships/parts can be annoying without using a site like Inara, so that's recommended if you want to save time. Engineering is a bit of a chore but will make your ships a lot more effective. It's not really necessary to use engineered ships to make a lot of money via trading though.
Just remember, never fly without rebuy. (Rebuy cost is listed somewhere on the right screen, first page, I believe.)
>>1991146
I think your brain has already been fully rotted away...

>>1991214
Hips unusually narrow, that mouth thing, nose and eye spacing. Furry appearance is a wild card and not necessarily that by itself but can be a contributing element. Upper torso is also mildly off with the shoulder width and breast size.

If its not trans coded it seems to be mildly androgynous.

This isn't a criticism, but if you drew this all this way I'm curious if you intended all these elements consciously.

>>1981432 (OP)
I just got this game it seems pretty neato but I did almost rage quit when first landing at a settlement on a planet's surface... I kept overshooting the supercruise and orbiting stages, eventually getting close but dropping into atmosphere too far away from my destination. Think I'm getting the hang but maybe I need to watch a video to see how to do it all smoothly.

I shuttled to a new spaceport to buy a new ship but when I go to take missions I can't see them all. For example it will say combat 12/12 but then when I go to that tab there is nothing there even if I clear filters. Sup with that?

>>1991804
You'll want to enter at a nearly 60 degree angle if you do it the way the devs intended.
Are they greyed out? Otherwise, there seems to be a bug where the mission count is higher than the actual missions, but it should only be a few...

>>1991450
>>1991451
Thanks
>>1991502
Yes ive been drawing her for years
She is just very tall at 6'4" because she is the personification of a large caliber anti-materiel rifle thats why she is huge

>Spend 2 weeks chilling at the Pleiades killing Interceptors
>Switch to (remarkably flimsier) exploration ship to move back to the Bubble
>Immediately get stop and frisked by a Hydra

Yes, hello, good day officer, no, those are not the freshly harvested guts of your little brothers on my cargo hold. Have a good day.

>>1991955
GIVE THEM BACK

>>1991804
A quick and dirty example for reference:

https://streamable.com/dz5kjx

Drop under 200 km/s before entering orbital cruise (i.e. touching the blue circle) and then try to angle yourself so you can drop into glide (i.e. entering the yellow circle) close enough (<100 km) to bring you right on top of your target. If you descend at too-steep an angle (the red stuff in the angle indicator) you forcibly drop out and take damage. You get used to it, it's chiefly a matter of trying to optimize the drop so you don't have to hoof the last few kilometers in normal cruise.

>>1991804
>>1991986
Oh, I forgot, very important, drop speed to <10 km/s before touching the yellow circle. Hitting either the blue or yellow circles too fast will also forcibly drop you to normal cruise, so you gotta manage your speed.

>>1991986
>Drop under 200 km/s
I personally aim for under 100 km/s. If it's a smaller body, going that fast will absolutely slam you into the surface and yank you out of cruise.

I distinctly remember a colonial bridge chain going out about 2k lys from the bubble several months ago, but I've been looking for it today and couldn't find it. Was it another cheater doing it and got his ass banished to the shadow realm by fdev or something?

>>1991986
>>1992248
Personally I just try to keep the eta as close to 6s as I can without dropping under, and enter at 55 degrees. If it's a small body and my ship is fast enough, I often just max throttle after passing the blue line then slam into the yellow line at 90 degrees instead of taking the time to get into position. The last 20km goes quickly.
>>1992273
It's still there but it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Inara can probably help you pick up the trail. Pick a point 4kly towards colonia and search for stations, maybe. I remember there being a couple of branches from the main line headed towards other points of interest, so the main push might have slowed a bit?

What the fuck is happening in the Wregoe TA-E d12-25 system, I randomly jumped into it and there's a million fleet and squadron carriers.

>>1993603
It's a famous mining spot, and there's a mining CG going on.

>>1993812
Oh shit I had no idea lmao. Seems kinda crazy to just stumble across a famous system accidentally.

>>1981432 (OP)
I know you guys must have dealt with this a billion times but you'll have to deal with it once more. Is this game ONLY good if you're going to no-life it and play it as a main game? It wont ever be my main game but I've seen some videos of mining asteroids and it's kind of enticing especially with the little drones.
I'm ok with it being hard to pick up.
I'm not ok with it being high up-keep. I don't want to lose progress. I don't want to get ganked/blown up like EVE. I just want to mine some rocks when I want to mine some rocks.

>>1994865
The only up-keep whatsoever in the game is if you ever get a fleet carrier (mobile garage) and even then the amount of credits you can earn won't make that a problem anyways.

Where do I go after starting and grinded a bit?

>>1994865
You will never have to deal with another player unless you deliberately go into Open, and you should never deliberately go into Open for any reason other than to intentionally deal with gankers. You can play Solo or in Private groups.

The only thing that has upkeep is Fleet Carriers, which are the sort of endgame thing you only have access to once you have the ability to story way more money than you'll ever need to pay for them years in advance.

I suppose the weekly ARX quota is supposed to entice you to play every week if you want to get aesthetic customizations that only you will ever care about, but you could just... not do that.

So no, Elite is slow and grindy as balls, but it is very much an ideal "jump in and put on a podcast" game that you can drop and pick up again any time you want.

>>1994889
If you're starting up, I'd suggest you make it your medium/long-term aim to be able to afford a Corsair. It's the best do-anything ship right now, so you can use it as a platform for whatever you feel like doing until you can get specialized ships. If you're still in the small-ship affordability range, aim for a Cobra Mk.V for the moment. It's basically a straight upgrade on the Cobra Mk.III, the franchise's Pikachu.

Threads colonies status? You guys are colonizing right?

>>1995651
Working on making credits still. I have bad autism where I reset my account between breaks. But I plan on expanding either Eternal Requiem, Neo-Marlinist Order of Mudhrid (for RP larp, if it gets big enough then maybe it has lore implications in the game), Shambhala Empire Group, Ultima Thule, or Tir Na Nog Dominion. Haven't decided yet.

>>1995651
I'm waiting for the Panther Clipper. No sense doing it at half speed on my Cutter right now. I claimed my system ages ago, and I'm also just kinda waiting to see if FDev throws another curveball on the whole system with another update,

>>1995675
Same. I actually did a lot of colonizing with a T9, definitely not doing any more until I get a Panther. Plus I need to get a fleet carrier still.

>>1995651
I’ve zero interest in colonies because of the distance limitation leading to a string of useless systems until you finally reach the one you want. It’s also just a shitload of boring ass back and forth hauling.
More interested in fucking around with the BGS of existing systems and trolling archon delaine powerplay members. Love seeing their schizo rants on the forums accusing afk farmers; they have no idea what the truth is.

is there an EDG squadron? tired of feeling alone as i go about my exploration or my mining, but the other squadrons are all either closed or have 8 billion side squadrons that makes applying difficult

Newbie here, I have a mission that says kill civilians of x faction but x faction has 1 settlement and ive never seen civilians spawn there. What do I do.

>>1996107
Are you sure that's an on-foot mission? That sounds like one of those shitty mission where you need to find a signal source where a bunch of ships are hanging out, or basically just murder any ship that isn't Wanted nor Authority, which counts as civilians.

I honestly don't bother with crime missions. Cleaning up your bounty is too much of an added hassle.

>>1996107
Pro-tip, accepting missions from your ship will give you either missions for space content or special non-Odyssey settlements where its big buildings and drones/skimmers only. Taking missions on-foot from a terminal will give you missions for Odyssey content, like killing regular people or hacking stuff.

>>1989974
>Space combat sim
Star Citizen and Infinity: Battlescape are better. Shame about Battlescape. Honest physics with different ship types like in X4 stuck in dead multiplayer game.

>>1989974
Out of all of these, which one can I park my ship anywhere in space, look at my ship in first person and shit, like its an animal crossing room, and fight people in space like cod

>>1997152
Probably Warframe but that's not on the list and I didn't play far enough to try the free roam space stuff, but supposedly there's something like that and it applies since you can customize your ship interior.

You usually don't have those cod-type encounters in any of those games in the middle of nowhere space while also having the other stuff you list.

>tfw back to the galactic ceiling retracing all my jumps from two years ago that I lost all the data on when I died
I'm feeling echoes of the intense irritation from way back then.

>>1990182
>btw eve online was built upon it, but chickenshit halfassed: no real physics, autobraking
Eve isn't really different from Elite Dangerous and 99% of other space games with autobraking desu. Similar how you can break speed limit in Elite Dangerous with speed bowling ( because Elite Dangerous engine supports full Newtonian flight) you can do that in EVE. Obviously it was limited because of hard calculations (no MMO can support massive eve battles even in 2025) and gameplay purpose. Ships in eve have momentum. Relative speed, size (signature) and vector matter. The tracking system (missiles use explosion velocity and explosion size for damage calculation cause they never miss/can't crit) is pretty clever. Manual piloting (clicking in space) exist and have it's application in MLG prp pvp/hard pve content. If you think about it eve is just X4 + homeworld in space and has more "realistic" space combat than in Elite. Even speeds are much higher (the combat speed for cruiser size ship is 1-5 km/s). Speedbowling in ED capped around 40km/s in eve you can fly at 100+ km/s.

ive been doing a lot of czs lately, because the money is good. the majority of my kills are deadly rank, master rank, or competent (which is what mine currently is). yet, my combat xp pool hasnt moved an iota. why is that? am i too overpowered for the CZ? am i meant to be moving onto the more intense ones?

>>1998996
lol. And furthermore, lmao

https://inara.cz/elite/logbook/83005/

Combat ranks are a slooooooog to grind, and they get exponentially slower the higher you climb. At around Competent, your xp gain begins to level, and the last two ranks in particular take forever to fill out.

According to Inara, I've killed 10,227 ships in CZs, 2,816 wanted ships outside of CZs, 285 Thargoid Scouts, 270 Cyclops, 68 Basilisks, 5 Medusas and 11 Hydras, and all this got me to the base Combat Elite rank with ONLY 19% of the way to Elite I.

>>1999090
anon...
>the Combat rank indicates the ability of one CMDR to defeat their opponents, both in space and on-foot
thats not how it works...
>but also much harder than the traditional ship-based approach
lol, fucking lmao. this fuckin guy

I have spent all day long doing nothing but scan alien labias.

fuuuck I missed the sale.
Wanted to try this a long time with DLC since I have base game on epic and never played it.
Is it worth getting into without DLC or will that spoil the impression of the game?

>>2000078
No DLC will lock you out of all on foot content.

>Spend all my money on a ship. Crash into a starport at full speed and fucking die
>15k off of redeploying barebones
Umm guess I have to go in a sidewinder now oops
Nobody plays the cqc mode right?

>>2000078
Just buy a key on instant gaming or any key shop

>>2000154
>Nobody plays the cqc mode right?
No and it's a shame. It's way more fun than the actual "game." I had a blast playing it when it first came out, but everyone stopped because you don't get anything significant in the open world for doing it.

>>2000356
it was cheaper on steam store during sale

What in the fuck is this shit about not being able to return to the stater systems after leaving them???? What the fuck is this?????????

Youre fucking telling me im locked out of ever going back to fucking sol or anything near earth because of some retarded arbitrary nonsense bullshit? I cant access any of these fucking engineers again? Cant play with my fucking friend or go to the most populated systems to find other players, I cant go to Jameson memorial, because fucking what???? WHY

AND WHY WASNT THERE A FUCKING WARNING
Holy shit this game was a complete fucking waste of 800 hours ot my life

>>2000898
You do get multiple warnings about leaving the starter zone. Easily skipped/ignored maybe.
However
Sol isn't a starter system and you didn't get locked out of it. It's under a Federation permit so you need to ingratiate yourself with the feds first.
Shinny is only for elites so you'll be allowed in when you stop being a shitter.

>>2000898
There is, in fact, a warning. There's nothing in the Pilot's Federation District you might ever want to return to though. Sol isn't even close to it, much less part of it.

Shinrarta Dehzra is also not part of the district. It's locked to everyone until they reach Elite rank.

>>2000154
Sadly, no. I really liked Team Deathmatch back when you could get a match, but sadly the mode's fucking dead, horrendously newbie-unfriendly, and I'm forever stuck halfway through Champion rank.

>>2001116
I was totally misreading lol nvm I thought the entire fucking bubble locks you out forever if you leave after having high enough rank because I forgot i changed my route settings in the galaxy map

still waiting for panther credits release

I'm making 1.15 million per week from my colonized systems. How much are you guys making?

>The economy of an entire star system populated by millions
>Owner receives revenue less than ferrying a single shipment of products 2 or 3 jumps between stations.

>>1991097
are you gay or tranny? furfag possibly, if so kill yourself
if female, still kill yourself

>>2003183
Yeah the "reward" is pretty non-existent. All you get is a name only visible in architect mode attached to a system and the satisfaction of being able to place stations and settlements wherever you want.

>>2003233
I do it to expand my chosen minor faction, the BGS is fun when you sit in a local system helping it out instead of jumping around and not feeling attached

>>2003152
I'm making 30,000 a week from my mothballed waiting-for-the-Panther system and 8 million a pop from murdering Cyclopses.

>>2003243
Not collecting any more systems? I went kinda crazy at release and grabbed seven systems for future work. Waiting for Panther, not doing that in a T9 ever again.

>>2003225
I am a cis straight male and sometimes I like to crossdress. I am not a furry

>>2003183
>owner
The faction(s) owns and populates the system. You're just the guy they're paying royalties to for finding the optimal locations (abstracted) and hauling the materials. Perhaps if they're doing better economically...

>>2004204
That's dumb and also doesn't match fdev's marketing of the content

Mining is fun with the new ship but I can't shake the feeling that I'd make more credits per hour doing trade runs in my panther. Even the 6x price multiplier from the CG doesn't cut it, they should really increase mining commodity prices to make it worth it

Stop letting the thread die, post what you're doing RIGHT NOW.

>>2006224
I'm playing Morrowind.

I just keep the thread up for passive updates and occasional shitposts until the itch to return is strong enough. Assuming I don't play X4 instead.

>>2005535
Usually if you're having trouble laser mining for credits its because you have too few collector limpets, waiting on those really drags down the credit/hr cycle. Mining runs should take 10-20 minutes.

>>2006274
For me the biggest time sink is really finding the right asteroids in the first place. For some reason I mostly find poor ones even in platinum overlaps, I must be doing something wrong

>>2006327
With how fast you can mine stuff you can just set the bad ores to ignore on your contact list and just strip mine nearly anything that has the ones you're looking for.

>>2006224
I'm murdering Interceptors to fill my weekly ARX quota and kinda seething at them for releasing that cool-looking limited red paintjob right around the time I can't afford it.

>>2006392
alr thx I'll try that

>>2006680
I forget too if you add say, Gallite to ignore, if there's a can with 2 ores and it doesn't grab it because it has Gallite. So, you could either just vent the refinery, which takes longer, or just abandon the bad ores in bulk so collectors don't grab them.

>>2006242
I'm working my way down from the galactic ceiling back to civilization.

>>2004347
It's exactly what the game says. You're the "system architect". You don't own Jack Schitt.
>>2005535
Might be hard to balance because it's one of the main ways to grind PP control points. Credits are nearly irrelevant for end game players anyway. At least until they come up with another credit sink.
>>2006694
Last time I remember mining, if there's a fragment with two ores and one is ignored, it will still grab it and the refinery will ignore the ignored ore.

>>2006804
I might make such an expedition when I play again. Are there specific locations for the best view or can you reach the high points from anywhere?

>>2006962
I was able to reach a point high enough to basically see the galactic disk in its entirety. It's pretty cool to see all that light below you, with everything above being complete darkness.

WHY does EDSM keep chocking to fucking death under heavy server loads? What is even happening to cause this? Every damn day man.

Wew, finally back at a station with 140 million in explo data and over a billion in exo data. Sure is a son of a BITCH finding a station where you can actually sell data to among all the colonized garbage people have left behind.

>>2003607
kill yourself crossdresser

>>2003607
CMDR name? I wanna wing with you

>>2007100
probably some pajeet spamming API requests

Panther+colonisation broke the game, you can make a billion credits in less than 2 hours with the new ultra-lucrative trade routes that pop up on inara. Shit's crazy, a brand new player who buys the panther for arx can buy a carrier from scratch in a single weekend now, reminds me of the good old HIP 22460 collective hydra bonking days

>>2008848
forgot pic. with the right loop it takes no more than 5-10 minutes to rack up 80+ mil. supply doesn't dry up in player-made ports and palladium sells for a crazy margin these days for some reason. exploit this while you can

>>2008855
Elite's on its way out if they stopped caring about their game economy

>>2008848
>>2008855
kinda nuts. people have caught on since yesterday, supply was at 15k then but it keeps getting replenished

>>2008858
I don't know if they outright stopped caring but this almost feels like an exploit. I can hardly recall such an easy and accessible cash grab especially now with the premade ship kits. Maybe just an unintended consequence, I don't think Fdev wants to pull the plug now that they started turning a profit again

>>2008858
>>2008863
Yeah with the amount of updates and new things we've been getting it would be weird if they pulled the plug, considering we had several years of essentially nothing at all and consoles versions in maint mode during that time

>>2008868
They're just milking it dry is all

I mean I'm pretty sure they're working on new credit sinks like >>2006959 said because currently most end-game players are sitting on 10+ billion credit piles that new ship outfitting and other expenses are barely making a dent on. I've done the math and I would need to step out of the game for 37 years for my fc to completely bleed me dry with maintenance costs lmao

>>2008878
You could argue that was the case when Arx was initially implemented alongside zero content updates

>>2008848
Still waiting for Panther credits release.

At last, it has happened.

>>2008848
I've been out of the loop for awhile, what's so great about the panther?

>>2009927
Metric fuckload of cargo space.

>>2010204
Only a couple hundred tonnes higher than what you could already get actually. Its nice but it isn't a metric fuckload by comparison.

>>2010490
What's the max you can get out of a cutter? Because you can get to around 1200 in the panther.

>>2010665
>1200
794, I was off by half if its actually 1200 on the panther, yeah I guess its pretty good then.

>Doing powerplay mission
>Threat level 2 power wreckage
>Roll on up and send out my limpet to collect the bodies
>2 minutes later 3 anacondas warp in and jump me like a nigger in an alley

I managed to get a way but holy fuck man.

I am now allied with every single minor faction along the bridge to Colonia.

>>2010970
Wow what a great use of your time, anon.

>>2011088
>he says in the extreme timewaster general
But yeah, now they'll all be allies when I do colonizing.

>>2011239
True that's why I don't play it anymore.

>>2011245
I take months long breaks away from this game yet still end up coming back to it.

>finally come back from my exploration trip
>have six separate samples of stratum to turn in
>turns out only one of them was the right type worth anything
What the fuck man, what a ripoff.

>>2012371
https://spansh.co.uk/exobiology

Thank me later, 'kay?

>>2012376
CHEATER

>>2008882
The obvious credit grind would be "pay a quintrifucktillion credits to automatically supply stuff for colonization to this one post". No idea why they haven't done that, seems obvious to me.

>>2010817
At higher levels you can get jumped by like a dozen combat ships led by an Elite FDL like you just walked into the ghetto.

>>2013365
fdev does everything in their power to make sure the grind stays a grind.

can I walk around in my ship yet?

>>2013598
Ofcourse not, this is Elite: Dangerous.

You guys participating in the CG?

>>2012371
The planet's environment matters. Once you know what to look for you can single out the most likely candidates.
eg, for stratum tectonicas:
High metal content planets only
Temp: 62-447K, preferred 165-200K
Gravity: Max 0.61g, preferred 0.3-0.4g
Pressure: Any, preferred below 0.02atm
Atmo: Any, but only Ammonia, CO2 and SO2 have significant numbers

Finally broke through 20k ARX just by playing the game.

System sniping fixed? Is it true? Or next patch or something?

>>2016020
We'll see, I'm sure a way to abuse the new system will be found pretty quickly.

>>2016020
>>2016034
Wait... is system sniping really a thing? Do people do that? I thought I was just being paranoid by rushing to claim my intended system. What do these snipers do, deliver the last load and rush to the station?

>>2016263
Yeah, there were complaints a thread or two ago, I don't think its super common but the rarer the star or the more unique the system, the higher the chance someone else has noticed it and would just wait til you finished all the work to get it.

Since most play this game in solo its not like there's some social element where they could be shunned by the community.

The Colonia bridge has nearly reached the Lagoon nebula, which is 4,500ly away from the bubble.

>>2016020
>claim sniping prevention
Yes. Today's patch. Fucking finally.

>>2016289
Ohhh... yeah, makes sense. Just saw the update post. 24hrs seems fair. I guess solo colonizers had better make their own squadrons just in case, so they get 24hrs instead of just 30min.

>>2016263
I'm not interested in competition, is that placing a lot of pressure on me if I just want to fly solo and do things?
Taking a system sounds fun but if it has this much pressure then I don't know whether I want to engage in it.

>>2016702
If you're just claiming some random red dwarf with a bunch of rocky planetoids you probably won't see any kind of rush to try to snipe your barren wastelands.

Usually its just high prize systems like multiple earthlikes or ones with interesting orbits.

thank fucking christ the Panther Clipper exists so I never ever have to fly a Cutter again

>>2017243
Cutter is the only good ship in the game. Yes, I DO use Prismatic Shields. Yes, I DO use shield boosters. Yes, I DO have engineered thrusters. Yes, I DO NOT shoot my guns. Yes, you WILL get rammed to death.

>>2017264
i just despise flying it bc the only thrusters that do anything are the rear ones

>>2017243
Still waiting for credits release. Not paying real cash for a ship png.

>>2017268
I actually love this part about it. It actually feels its size, and playing around the driftiness of it is fun to master. I’ve always used it as a combat/powerplay ship. Tried the corvette but it’s a boring point and click ship that requires meme setups to be fun. Plipper is amazing if your gameplay preference boils down to getting from menu a to menu b to see a number on the screen.

>>2017243
Once I start playing again I look forward to turning my Cutter into a laser-show and using the clipper for all my hauling going forward.

>>2017268
You don't so much fly the Cutter as launch it at a given direction. It's one of the things that makes it cool once you get the hang of it, it's always moving, and you brake by flipping 180 and boosting in the opposite direction.

It's my favorite anti-Interceptor ship, and one of my favorite moves is seeing the yellow lightning turning on and then fizzling because I just drifted out of range before the asshole could fire.

>tfw gave in and colonized another system I now have to supply with a Type-9
Dammit. Another eight hours of mind numbing hauling.

>>2017784
Don't forget to pay fdev for the privilege of custom naming your stations you grinded hours of your life to build.

>>2017786
I won't even give them money for ships, like hell I'm giving them money to slap a name on a random station out of millions nobody will give a fuck about.

>>2017784
It's been some time, but I think an outpost took me about 3h in a T9 with a carrier. A carrier is a pretty good investment if you want to colonize. I imagine it'd be maybe 2h with the pclipper.

>>2017795
>random station out of millions nobody will give a fuck about.
Then why are you building them?

>>2017970
I've been waiting to invest in a carrier for when I get my hands on the clipper. I probably should just get one already.

>>2018231
I like to see big population number go up. Also the more built up systems the more weekly cash which I plan on using to basically negate my carrier upkeep.

When the fuck is the panther clipper going to be available for credits?

>>2018735
We'd hit the 3 month mark next Wednesday. If it's not next week, nobody knows.

>this far along into the colonization update and people still don't know how the fuck the mechanics behind it work fully
Bravo fdev, another amazingly opaque piece of shit that's also filled with bugs, seven months later.

why does this thread always completely die over the weekend

>>2020042
Office hours are Mon-Friday

>>2020042
People actually playing the game instead of complaining about it while working.

Does colonization make this game worth playing again?

>>2008848
Oh. Nevermind

Such a shame they went for the gay MMO-lite shit. This game could've been great with mods.

>>2021475
Only if you have a squadron or are really autistic

>>2021633
>colonized nine separate systems by myself now
Oh shit... am I autistic

>>2021664
Throwing away that many hours on mindless hauling? Yeah.

>get interdicted by a pirate
>looking at radar in real space, there's no one there
>no one shows up even as I jump back into supercruise
>make it all the way to my destination without ever seeing the pirate again
...ok

>>2022477
Whenever I try to stop to purposefully be interdicted they overshoot me and get lost.

The point requirements for the prestige Elites have got to be pretty screwed, because I've been murdering Interceptors by the dozen for months and gotten like 20% of the way to Elite I. Meanwhile, I only ever haul a dozen thousand tons during CGs, and yet, this.

>>2015974
Can't wait for them to move the goal post and double or quadruple all the cosmetics prices again.

>>2023405
It's exactly the same number of points as going from deadly to elite again, except lower rank kills are worth even less now because you're above deadly.

>>2023405
There's an elite 2?

>>2024156
They go up to Elite V now.

Are there any step-by-step colonization guides for AFTER you finish your first outpost? Like, "here's what you should build to get X type of port"? Every interchangeable view-chasing cocksucker in youtube seems to just call it quits after the basic bitch stuff.

>>2025107
Yeah

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1toXyDQglwVACFKx8umXhP8QcMSAUYPcP6k3STIV2-hE/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ee8o0yu3m5fy

>>2025107
Use a spreadsheet or one of the available web apps to figure out what you need to build what and what structures may or may not still be bugged.

haven't played in a while, has frontier fixed AA?

>>2025992
lol
lmao

You guys got 75% in the cg yet for that pre-engineered cargo?