Elite: Dangerous
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I have barely played this and I feel like I should.
I think I'm flying an Eagle right now.
I WANT to go exploring and fly to Sagittarius A but I feel the Eagle will be the wrong ship to get me there. All I do to make money is sit at Nav Beacons and shoot wanted's. Is there a better way??
I think I'm flying an Eagle right now.
I WANT to go exploring and fly to Sagittarius A but I feel the Eagle will be the wrong ship to get me there. All I do to make money is sit at Nav Beacons and shoot wanted's. Is there a better way??
Seeing people when docked now makes it appear a little busier around stations which is nice. So I'm back around Alioth if anyone wants to join up for some bounty hunting sometime. I decided I'm not that bothered about grinding up to a Python now (though it'd be nice to have) and gone back to an Asp for trading in between combat.
FLK said:
Seeing people when docked now makes it appear a little busier around stations which is nice. So I'm back around Alioth if anyone wants to join up for some bounty hunting sometime. I decided I'm not that bothered about grinding up to a Python now (though it'd be nice to have) and gone back to an Asp for trading in between combat.
Try the clipper it's a great ship! FLK said:
I decided I'm not that bothered about grinding up to a Python now (though it'd be nice to have) and gone back to an Asp for trading in between combat.
I've enjoyed flying the Asp most of all so far. Really nicely balanced ship - though I gather its cargo capacity has been reduced in recent versions. The Python is a great weapons platform but useless in close combat, it just doesn't have the maneouvrability. But with the capability to haul up to 280t of cargo, and be heavily (frontal) armed, it's the most capable all rounder in the game. Before the 1.1 nerf it was probably worth going for, now not so much. At least with 1.2 they've addressed the repair costs - down by a factor of 100! That's some "balancing" right there.Hmm been ambushed yet?
This must be new for the wings update. Cost me 600K, 300k gained in a RES and 300 re buy. So there I am off to cash my 300k in. We now have high and low strength signal sources, I spot a High so decide to have a look. Pop out of SC and find a tank load of gold floating about. Before my cargo scoop is out 4 Anacondas jump me. I was in anarchy space and dead before my I got my weapons out. 600k!
Happened again in Fed space, this time though, they didn't open up right away and I could scoop 7 crates of gold and 'quietly' retreat.
Not had a chance to try the wings with my mate yet, but looks like a decent update.
This must be new for the wings update. Cost me 600K, 300k gained in a RES and 300 re buy. So there I am off to cash my 300k in. We now have high and low strength signal sources, I spot a High so decide to have a look. Pop out of SC and find a tank load of gold floating about. Before my cargo scoop is out 4 Anacondas jump me. I was in anarchy space and dead before my I got my weapons out. 600k!
Happened again in Fed space, this time though, they didn't open up right away and I could scoop 7 crates of gold and 'quietly' retreat.
Not had a chance to try the wings with my mate yet, but looks like a decent update.
nosuchuser said:
1.2 now available. Wings allegedly, 2 new ships. Usual piss slow download though.
That's enormously frustrating for me. I have a young baby/toddler at home so free time is at a premium. Biggish updates seem to come up almost as often as I get opportunities to spend some time on the game. To log on and discover it's going to have to spend several hours updating (and I have 18.5Mbps download bandwidth) is infuriating.Seb.F said:
I have barely played this and I feel like I should.
I think I'm flying an Eagle right now.
I WANT to go exploring and fly to Sagittarius A but I feel the Eagle will be the wrong ship to get me there. All I do to make money is sit at Nav Beacons and shoot wanted's. Is there a better way??
Yeah you'll want something with a longer jump range. I've got a cobra but it's not ideal at around 21LY range, about the minimum I'd say.I think I'm flying an Eagle right now.
I WANT to go exploring and fly to Sagittarius A but I feel the Eagle will be the wrong ship to get me there. All I do to make money is sit at Nav Beacons and shoot wanted's. Is there a better way??
Google for the elite ships wiki and you'll find a load of information about which ones can be outfitted with what. You'll need to earn a few million, probably, to buy a ship and decent FSD drive. I bounty hunted, mined, then did a bit of trading, all in a not-particularly efficient manner. Quickest way is just trading but it gets a bit dull.
CrutyRammers said:
Yeah you'll want something with a longer jump range. I've got a cobra but it's not ideal at around 21LY range, about the minimum I'd say.
Google for the elite ships wiki and you'll find a load of information about which ones can be outfitted with what. You'll need to earn a few million, probably, to buy a ship and decent FSD drive. I bounty hunted, mined, then did a bit of trading, all in a not-particularly efficient manner. Quickest way is just trading but it gets a bit dull.
You can get an eagle up to about 19LY range with the best drive, if you did that and set off you'd be well on the way there in the time it took to grind up to a bigger ship.Google for the elite ships wiki and you'll find a load of information about which ones can be outfitted with what. You'll need to earn a few million, probably, to buy a ship and decent FSD drive. I bounty hunted, mined, then did a bit of trading, all in a not-particularly efficient manner. Quickest way is just trading but it gets a bit dull.
Going towards the core isn't so bad, as stars get closer together, heading outwards where they get further apart really does need big range though.
anonymous said:
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102M according to this: http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Fer-de-Lance... No idea where to buy one, sorry.However, I wouldn't rush to buy one because FD are reducing the price of non-trade ships very soon according to this: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=124... I wouldn't be surprised if they nerfed trading at some point too. EDIT https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=124... says they will rebate the difference so you could take a punt now.
Edited by Berz on Wednesday 11th March 16:33
Oilchange said:
Nice when I've downloaded the update, start flying and end up with my controls all re-gigged so fly into the Coriolis and explode! Basically because I can't get out of transmit and all the buttons I press are letters on the screen!! Arse!
Hit the Escape key - pressing 2 now puts you in "local Comms" Cheers for that but I had crashed spectacularly before I'd had a chance to figure it out!
I have re configured my keys back but I suppose I should be prepared if they do it again...
eta, I wonder if they can implement this into the updates ie, stored key configs are retained instead of being interfered with?
I have re configured my keys back but I suppose I should be prepared if they do it again...
eta, I wonder if they can implement this into the updates ie, stored key configs are retained instead of being interfered with?
anonymous said:
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Price after today's update is Cr.51M (was double that before!)I can't find one either, been hunting a few Wealthy, Huge population High Tech places. Lots of Vultures but no FdL. Sounds like power management on a FdL is tricky to balance. With the buff given to bounty hunting I thought that I'd do some more RES camping in a FdL, just can't find one
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