Elite: Dangerous

[Oilchange]

Wayoftheflower said:

Yes, in game credits can't get you cosmetics and Arx can't get you anything else. They've been pretty good about avoiding any pay-to-win so far, touch wood.

With the new found profitability of combat are there enough PH Pilots to gather a wing sometime?

I'm in

[Wayoftheflower]

Cool, well one thing I've not yet witnessed is a Farragut Vs Majestic capital ship fight. Apparently its rare and you first need to find a system with both Federal and Imperial factions at war.

I'm going to search eddb.io for a while to see if I can find one in the bubble this evening.

Happy to wing-up for any other shenanigans from about 8 tomorrow or Saturday evening. Fire me an in game friend request. My commander is RobYobSon.

[Sophisticated Sarah]

Wayoftheflower said:

Cool, well one thing I've not yet witnessed is a Farragut Vs Majestic capital ship fight. Apparently its rare and you first need to find a system with both Federal and Imperial factions at war.

I'm going to search eddb.io for a while to see if I can find one in the bubble this evening.

Happy to wing-up for any other shenanigans from about 8 tomorrow or Saturday evening. Fire me an in game friend request. My commander is RobYobSon.

Filter your galactic map by system state and select only "war" as the filter. This will help to narrow your search, then find Fed vs Imp in the resulting systems.

[Mattygooner]

What’s the daddy for PVP and combat bounties?

I went on a mining mission to go from my lowly Viper to a fully mining kitted Anaconda but fancy first doing some engineering then Tear-assing round the galaxy looking for the st so to speak.

Have enough for most things but zero federal rep sadly.

[FourWheelDrift]

I use a Fer-de-Lance for those (bounties, conflict zone fighting etc) or just sitting in mining rings knocking off anything that tries it on.

I think this is it's fighting setup (I move modules around) - https://s.orbis.zone/bdjf

I don't PVP with it though.

[Wayoftheflower]

Dongasa system looks promising for a Fed v Imperial showdown. I don't mind either side but if anyone has ranks left to get on either side?
https://eddb.io/system/factions/4340

Anyone else use discord?

[Oilchange]

Discord?

I was working up my Federal rank to get access to a Corvette so would rather hammer those Imperial scum...

[Wayoftheflower]

Discord voice comms program. A bit more reliable and flexible than the in game chat.
https://discord.com/

I've parked at Dawson Enterprise in my PVE Conda and it looks good. You can take massacre missions from the Federal faction Retro Faction Of Voltrigones and there's a high intensity conflict zone in the system.
https://eddb.io/faction/76361

If I get time I might bring my scout hunting equiped Vette from the bug systems and do some tinkering.

[Oilchange]

Funnily enough my brother started up recently and our preferred mode of comms was by mobile phone as he had a squillion minutes!

[MBBlat]

Bit late but just added myself to the WIKI

Just got Guardian FSD booster unlocked, going to unlock prismatic shields next.
600 mil credits in the bank - do I go for a nice shiny Anaconda? Got a 60+ly jump range DBX for exploration, Krait mkII for general stuff, Type 9 for heavy hauling, Python for mining, and a Chieftan for pew-pew.

[Oilchange]

Just looked into this and have now pledged myself to Aisling Duval (Imperial) for that very purpose.

I shall mostly be wearing black from now on...

[Wayoftheflower]

I found the Prismatic faction's powerplay merits really annoying. I haven't yet summoned to the energy to go for any of the other modules although is like to get Packhounds and Grom's missiles.

How many takers for Dongasa combat zones at 20:00?

[Oilchange]

Im parked at Dawson at the mo.

spent last night visiting Broo to upgrade some stuff and am trying to find a happy medium with heat management!

[FourWheelDrift]

Pre-order page for Odyssey is up - https://www.frontierstore.net/elite-dangerous-odys...

But we all know about pre-orders.

(OK I pre-ordered Horizons, but.....planets 'n stuff)

[Oilchange]

Well that was a lesson!

If you’ve got no mic for comms, be careful what you ‘type’ when you’re in a space station !

Kaboom!

[Wayoftheflower]

Right before the unfortunate incident with station security...

Great fun tearing up a conflict zone though and I finally got to see two capital ships go toe to toe.

[Oilchange]

Never seen a Capital ship pitch up at a conflict zone let alone two go at each other like that.

Next time I’ll get a mic or stay silent as there’s just too much going on on my keyboard!!!!

Went back out and finished the job, got my cash back anyway.
Live and learn ...

[Wayoftheflower]

Nice one, I'd have wanted a bit of a lie down and maybe a few days away from Elite after that.

I do hate how the game is sometimes indecisive about whether keyboard inputs are going to the Comms panel or to commands.

I've another 36 ships to knock off to complete my mission, although I may just go to the low intensity CZ and fry minnows quickly.

I think compromised Nav beacons and Haz Rez are paying a better than CZ with the latest patches. Squadron Mates of mine have been sharing 50million credit pirate massacre missions.

[Oilchange]

Did feel a bit of a tit to be honest but hey. Maybe I need to invest in a good mic for Christmas... mmm.


Definitely worth sweeping up the minnows to get the cash but I do like to grab a few high ranking ships if I can.
I was more careful when attacking the Spec Ops guys too as they can gang up on you really quickly. Best to sit back and pick them off when they venture further/get behind them when they are busy etc. They are mostly Elite ranked too, I went from about 88% to 95% on my way to Deadly because of this.

Today's the day to get Deadly!

[Wayoftheflower]

Oilchange said:

Today's the day to get Deadly!

Here here! Although now I feel like I was showing granny how to suck eggs seeing as I'm still trying to get to Dangerous rank..

Headset is invaluable, calling focus targets can melt them so quickly.