Elite Dangerous

[Martimus]

Kidding.

I wouldn't mind assisting a bit either. Once you have a big enough ship, like you suggested bbhaag, a hundred thousand or 2 is pocket change. I'm sure some people consider a couple million to be pocket change already. It's simply a product of time spent making money, so you guys will get there once you've put in enough time. But a couple hundred K makes a huge difference when you're still in the starting stages.

In my asp, I average over 150k profit for each half of my bidirectional trade run. That's approx 10 mins for 150k. That's why we wouldn't mind helping. A few other ppl on this thread have offered in the past as well.

I remember in Eve, I would hunt down people in low sec, and if they were good sports about it, I would buy them a new ship and maybe even an extra ten million isk. For them it was a lot, but to me that was nothing. I just enjoyed the hunt, and they provided that for me, so the least I could do was cover their losses plus some.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

That triple elite challenge? Done by CMDR %ONEPERCENT%
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76535&page=48&p=1836583&viewfull=1#post1836583
Scroll down a bit to see the wear and tear on his HOTAS.

 

[Red Storm]

That triple elite challenge? Done by CMDR %ONEPERCENT%
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76535&page=48&p=1836583&viewfull=1#post1836583
Scroll down a bit to see the wear and tear on his HOTAS.

Hopefully in the future we get some contests and events that are catered to people who have families and jobs lol.

Congrats to that dude, but I can't imagine how much time he spent in-game to achieve that. I honestly don't even know if it's worth the $10k.

 

[tedrodai]

So, don't take any missions heading towards one of the stations in the Baal system's 2nd star, Baal B. That sucker is 6 light years away from the Nav point.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

6 ly?! Are you sure? Even going the max speed of 2001c that's still one entire day of travel. (By my horrible math.)

 

[tedrodai]

You're right. I had googled seconds in a year and read it wrong. Anyways it was 180k ls which is plenty far.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Yeah, that's still not fun.
Recently found a one-jump trade that I can probably do in 10 minutes with a profit of 2080cr/t. Not bad, and easily the best one I've found by myself. (Mostly )

EDIT: Might have found a 2865cr/t route

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Someone made a radio to listen to in ED. Fits the theme perfectly. http://www.radiosidewinder.com/listen-now/

 

[tedrodai]

That's pretty cool. They even put in galnet news bulletins like "there was an assassination" and other flavorful stuff. I listened to it while I tried to finish up the missions I had active this evening. I was worried the power would go out and set me back quite a bit cause the timers would lapse. Anywho, I had just enough to make the Baron rank mission pop up. Clipper here I come!

I might grind out the rest of the available ranks though, just on the off-chance they change how progression is handled down the road. It's relatively simple to do, so I might as well do it now as do it later. Then back to trading to make up for the goofs I had today lol. I crashed my Asp into the side of an outpost while taking off and zipping around towards my targeted destination system. Lost the ship and a couple hauling missions I had active. There shouldn't have been a big metal fin there .

Also finally tried out some combat today--didn't go to work, Alabama shuts down for the snow. I was relatively successful in some NPC-only combat zones. The hardest fight for me was an elite anaconda. I ran out of multicannon rounds and had to finish off the last 7% with my beam lazers lol...I can't remember if that was the kill that was stolen from me or another. The fight took a while for me even before that, though. I was surprised how well the anaconda could maneuver. I'm guessing he took advantage of Flight Assist off at times to swing that hull around. I didn't do so well with reputation in the combat zones though...I grabbed 3 warzone missions, and even though they were all for the local empire-aligned factions, they must have been in serious competition with each other? Not directly fighting with each other in combat zones (at least the ones I hopped in to), but when I turned in the missions, I'd gain rep in 1 faction and lose rep in another. My empire rep actually seemed to decrease doing that. Maybe some underlying alliances that I didn't know about, or do you think that was simply direct competition between the empire factions?

Fun stuff. I'm loving the game, despite the "shallowness" of current content. There's just something awesome about piloting ships around space doing all this stuff.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Yeah, with the shutdowns I got out of school. Spent 4 hours flying around updating the BPC with eliteOCR. Makes me feel like a good person.

I have no idea how to kill the anaconda's for the assassination missions though. I just can't stay behind them. I've gotten a bit better by using lateral and vertical thrust but my FAoff skills aren't as good I guess. I've tried two fixed class one beams with 4 torpedoes, plasma accelerators, pretty much everything and never even gotten past shields without dropping mine. Doesn't help that cells aren't instant.

 

[Nograts]

EDIT: Might have found a 2865cr/t route

PM ME THIS ROUTE NAOO!

 

[tedrodai]

Yeah I imagine the assassination missions are a good deal harder since there's no distractions for the AI.

 

[bbhaag]

Yeah, that's still not fun.
Recently found a one-jump trade that I can probably do in 10 minutes with a profit of 2080cr/t. Not bad, and easily the best one I've found by myself. (Mostly )

EDIT: Might have found a 2865cr/t route

Nice man. We found a similar route hauling indite from a refinery to a mega system(2+billion people). We make 2994 credits on the run then on way back haul either grain or explosives for around 450-600 credits.

Round trip it takes about 25-30 mins so not bad. It's around 4 jumps in the little Sidewinder though.
What are you hauling gold or something else?

 

[Bubbleawsome]

That route was performance enhancers and palladium. I found another one with imperial slaves and gold, but it dried up. Going to bounty hunt while I wait for it to refill. I goofed off for a while but ended up with about 1.2m in profits. Not bad.

 

[bbhaag]

Oh man you space dog. Haulin and trading slaves. For shame. We've found a couple ports that trade slaves but my son has a moral objective to it so we had to pass. We could have made some decent credits though.

I'm kinda getting the itch to play now. We haven't signed on since Monday night so I hope our trade route hasn't dried up.:'(

 

[ThinClient]

Just got the new Elite Dangerous news letter, Issue 64!


Winging It

This week Executive Producer Michael Brookes announced a number of new features you'll find in March's Wings content update.

Wings is all about giving you ways to play with a tight group of friends and share in the galaxy’s rewards together. Cooperative wings are flexible and adaptable, giving you faster comms and constant status updates between ships, and allowing you to easily follow friends into Super Cruise and Frame Shift. Whether you’re protecting your friends on a risky trade run, spreading out to hunt prey, or scouring an asteroid field for valuable mining opportunities, you’ll be able to form up and do it together.

You might have heard about that already, but this week we're announcing more of the things we’re squeezing into Wings. We’re overhauling communications, with new commands like /T to talk to your target, /R to respond to the last pilot who hailed you, and /W to talk to your wingmen. Docked commanders also remain on your comms list so you can chat while docked, and players can now send an open broadcast to all ships nearby.

We’re also excited to unlock our debug camera for player use. We use the debug camera in-house to take beautiful screenshots that show off the ships and liveries, and we’ve had countless requests from players to open the functionality up to everyone.

Of course, a true third-person camera would give players increased spatial awareness and advantages in combat, so we had to be sure players can't use the debug camera to cheat. The solution you’ll find in Wings offers limited control of the camera outside your ship and confers no advantage to gameplay; it’s there for you to admire your beautiful spacecraft and take shots like the one below.

Wings will enter beta testing for Alpha and Beta backers next Tuesday, and will go live – all being well, this time – the following week.

Newsletter Peek Of The Week



Wings’ new co-op HUD gives you at-a-glance data on your wingmen’s shields, hull, position and current target. Click for a closer look.

Best of the Best
This week we’ve had two commanders make a claim for the £10,0000 prize in our Race To Elite competition. Back when Elite: Dangerous launched in December, we promised a £10,000 cash bounty to the first player to achieve Triple Elite status with the highest possible rank in Trading, Exploration and Combat.

To choose a winner, we have to go over their save with a fine-toothed comb, crossing the Ts and dotting the lower-case Js to be sure all three ranks were achieved legitimately and without any cheating or exploitation.

While we’re checking, we’re putting a call out to the very few Triple Elite pilots to stake a claim for the cash prize. If you’ve made it to Triple Elite legitimately, mail community@frontier.co.uk and give us your commander name so we can examine your Elite credentials. For everybody else: keep your eyes peeled for the very small handful of Elite pilots currently trading, exploring and blasting their way across the galaxy.

There's more to the newsletter, but this is all I felt like sharing.

 

[SLU Aequitas]

Saw the email this morning. Wings feature is nice, and the camera is definitely a nice feature, but I'm hoping they're going to start adding more depth/content soon.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

GUI-less screenshots! :awe:

 

[tedrodai]

My wife has been talking for a while about getting me a new, nice computer desk. I'm currently using a 3rd dinner table we didn't have a use for, and nothing has pointed out how non-ergonomic my current setup is than this game--my joystick (and kb/mouse) sits way too high. I ran across the Obutto R3volution desk today while I was looking around, and pointed it out to her. Her response was "omg...maybe one day...like when our kids are done with college..." lol. I have a 3yr old and we're expecting a new baby in June/July.

I'll talk her into it though . I've set my sights on it. It'll probably be a while cause we have a big move planned and new jobs to adjust to later this year.

 

[ThinClient]

My wife has been talking for a while about getting me a new, nice computer desk. I'm currently using a 3rd dinner table we didn't have a use for, and nothing has pointed out how non-ergonomic my current setup is than this game--my joystick (and kb/mouse) sits way too high. I ran across the Obutto R3volution desk today while I was looking around, and pointed it out to her. Her response was "omg...maybe one day...like when our kids are done with college..." lol. I have a 3yr old and we're expecting a new baby in June/July.

I'll talk her into it though . I've set my sights on it. It'll probably be a while cause we have a big move planned and new jobs to adjust to later this year.

That's nothing a little sawing and a few cheap pieces of wood and a few screws can't fix

 

[ZGR]

I'm bummed out that creating a new character doesn't spawn you in a random federal system. I wanted to start fresh, but was really disappointed to see that the random federal system is a 1 time thing. So if I want to spawn in a different system, I need to buy the game again with a different account.

Oh well, at least I got a cooler commander name out of it...

Location ^ is always the same spawn point... I mean, if Minecraft always started you at the same seed, wouldn't that get kind of old? Creating a new character on E : D isn't something players will be doing often at least.

 

[ThinClient]

How many times did you delete and recreate? There are specific systems that are spawn points. You DO have a chance to spawn somewhere else. Why would they lock your specific account into spawning at one single station every time you create a new game? That doesn't even make sense LOL :awe:

 

[ZGR]

How many times did you delete and recreate? There are specific systems that are spawn points. You DO have a chance to spawn somewhere else. Why would they lock your specific account into spawning at one single station every time you create a new game? That doesn't even make sense LOL :awe:

In total, I deleted and created a new character over 20 times. I did 3 times in a row before I started googling around...
I will spawn at Trevithick Dock 100% of the time. Its not a big deal for me, I'm just kind of annoyed by this. I tried a few different available CMDR names as well.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=75050

http://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDanger...om_starting_systems_not_really_random_at_all/


I also tried deleting my character, exiting the game, and then creating a new one. My guess is that the spawn point is tied in with your purchase date? It seems like players who bought Elite: Dangerous around the time I did, will spawn in the same place? Idk...

 

[ThinClient]

Holy smokes!

 

[tedrodai]

Whew. I made it to Empire rank of Count. Funny, it was the same mission as the one to reach Squire for me: take out a Gen. Jaroszewicz in a clipper. This time, though, she was Elite instead of Novice or whatever she was the 1st time, and it was quite a bit more challenging. I had to run from our first engagement after she managed to ram me while I was boosting away. It hadn't been easy, but before getting badly rammed I'd taken her down to 37% hull before she'd broken my shields. The next time I found her, I attacked first...which gave me a Empire bounty of all things, despite the fact the Empire is offering me a promotion for hunting her down and assassinating her. Got a bounty for murder when it was all done, too, as would be expected in that situation I guess. It was worth it though to get the mission done.

I only lack 1 promotion in the Empire now, but I think it's time to give myself a break from missions. I can handle trading over and over and over, but I've about hit my limit for the number of missions I can do in a month.