/edg/ - Elite Dangerous and friends

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the absolute madman

Planetary landings that expand the honeymoon phase with a few hours. More grinding that's mandatory to do if you want to stay competitive in PvP or survive if you're not used to the new AI and their OP weapons.

that added alot of weapons in the huge slot. how is the huge beam and pulse laser?

#SHOTSFIRED

Go to bed, Raisa.

He is kinda right. You can still grind rank even though you don't have the rank up mission. Do enough missions before ranking up and you might be at 100% for the next rank after it.

don't forget to praise the vision

sheeeit...I hope my old Python gunboat ain't obsolete now. Good thing I made bank in Robigo's glory days.

Yeah I know
Related to this
When I do complete a rank up mission I keep getting messages congratulating me on the promotion but the ranks are wrong
For example, I'm a petty officer and do a rank up mission there by getting promoted to chief petty officer but at 100% req rank for the next promotion, but I get a message saying I've been promoted to lieutenant.
What causes this? Is it just fdev bullshit?

Same desu

It is.

bug, its on the known bugs list on the forums

Building a warship to wreck NPCs. What weapon/engineer mods would be best? I know thermal shock only applies to players so I cant use that

And here I was hoping I had enough rep to reach Lieutenant and that I just needed to do mission to get there

Is there a limit to how many times you can rank up via navy missions in a day/hour/whatever?
I've been refreshing the board for 40 minutes now and I've yet to see a single mission even though I have 100% towards the next rank
I ask because I've ranked up 5 times today and once in the last hour

Funship with overcharged multicannons and corrosive and incendiary side effects.

Never mind I finally got one exactly 1h 3m after I completed the last one, so if there is one a limit it's only once every hour.

There's no simple answer to this question.
If you've got dem skillz, Plasma Accelerators, Railguns, and various fixed weapons are all excellent. The better you are at flying, the more you can sacrifice burst damage for DPS.

If you're not so hot and rely on gimbals, you will want to prioritize burst damage. The sweetspot for gimbals depends on what you are flying, what you are fighting, and various other factors.

Weapon balance is, oddly enough, almost the only thing Frontier hasn't fucked up. Which is pretty weird now that I think about it.

If I have two rank advancement missions will I advance two ranks, or will one of the missions just like, not do anything?

it's going to be just one rank
i you have the 2 ways to get the rank - missions

Ok, thanks.

Is it just me or war-state Sothis and Ceos trick us over single jump missions turned into 400 Ly quite much more often now? Do you discard them after the change or do you still do them?

Pic related was legit and easy.

Yeah I've noticed a hell of a lot more sothis>ceos/ceos>sothis smuggling missions that pay out multiple millions for minimal cargo lately

Tip: Read the mission description closely. If it defines both the target system and station, they're "legit". If it doesn't say which station you're headed to, just the system, you're gonna get a different destination.

What's Triton in the sol system and why do I need a permit to go there?

It's one of Neptune's moons. Do you have a permit for the Sol system itself or does Triton require another permit?

I have the Sol permit, I'm currently at the nav beacon in fact
Triton its self requires a permit. Why and where to get said permit I don't know

Maybe it's part of the narrative VISION?

>driving SRV around
>see shadows of ships in the distance

Spoopy boopy daddykins

Watch out for their c-rated cobrah

Dadders in adders emptying their bladders cause wifey getting madder...s.

Am I alone here? Must I do this myself? So be it. Face me, and repent.

You don't need to shitpost this often to keep the VISION alive

We were on page 9 CMDR. Do you not care about the thread, CMDR.

You're not a griefer... are you, CMDR?

...

>delayed sleep because otherwise the thread dies

Now that I'm flying one of these big motherfuckers... it kind of feels empty.

That's the way this game works.

At least the Python is one of the better looking ships

Corvettefag here and I couldn't be happier.
The DAKKA -- DAKKA -- DAKKA of the twin huge multicannons makes me fully erect.

Or the simple nuke damage of the twin huge PAs that rips everything.

It just feels so great to be able to kill everything and do everything.

>interdict sidey in my python
>message the guy "boo", and then jump out.

I'm so devious.

>tfw didn't rank up beyond sol permission before the nerf

At least it's better than my Imperial rank.

I NEED HEEELP....

I go to the mission board but theres no one to turn the mission in at, i looked through all the dudes but nothing.

wat do/

Help us Braben, you're our only hope...

Swap modes
If that doesn't work you just got VISION'D

If your target is in a different system you have to go back to the faction that gave it to you instead of the system where the target is.

Switching modes didnt dick. I guess this is my punishment for leaving this one till the end and doing all the other shit around first.

The mission said to return to that terminal in order to turn it in and i did so, but it still didn't give me shit.

o well.

idolmaster ship skins when?

>Had Elite Dangerous been entirely Open I wouldn't have bought it as I don't like MMOs. I guess in my mind I didn't buy an MMO so there is nothing illogical to me about playing an 'online' game alone.

Nothing can sum up why this game is such a clusterfuck better than this. No one can agree on what this game is.

It's a bug, either give the mission up, get a fine and lose rep or open a ticket so FDev will tell you to abandon the mission, get a fine and lose rep.

I don't understand why people won't play a game that's X genre
Sure I don't like some genres, but when an interesting looking one within that genre comes along I try it.

This is especially true for MMO's as MMO is just being used to denote a game with a primarily online play component.

It's like they see "MMO" and have flashbacks to that one time they were griefed in ultima online.

When you grow older you get more narrow minded and less likely to try new things.

What happened between 2004 and 2013 that made Braben forget he wanted an MMO Elite?

Dads and easy money.

>Those are some nice engineer materials you have commander
>Let me interdict you in my anaconda
STOP IT
THIS MAKES NO SENSE
NO ONE WOULD USE AN ANACONDA TO PIRATE FOR 1K WORTH OF SHITTY ENGINEER MATERIALS

But you can't even scan or hatch break engineer materials? Or can you?

the cargo bits you can

Right! I looked through my other screenshots and it wasn't.

Is there more ways to refresh a mission board aside from mode-switching? Would redocking or low-waking and returning work?

Mode switching is literally the fastest way

No. And relogging is faster than low wake + redocking.

Where do I find any pirate factions? I have a mighty need to yarr.

Anything that isn't hauling/exploring is actively suppressed by FD

>used to do a variety of missions to grind ranks
>now only courier missions between certain systems are viable
>massacre missions arent worth it because of RNGineers

Sad but true

Are you saying that there are none? Im pretty shure I saw a screenshot of one in previous thread. Was full of stealing missions.

Yes there are, almost every system with a RES has a pirate faction, for example.

Sometimes the board would be devoid of GET RICH QUICK missions in all three modes which means heading back only with a few courier missions, so I was wondering if there is a way to reset the board again.

Keep resetting it, they aren't guaranteed to pop

How do you know that its a pirate faction? Theres one station that looks pirate, but all I get are haul/data delivery missions with rare salvaging ones.

>tfw there are people who still didn't bother with the engineers
>tfw having all of them maxed will be mandatory to hope to survive "random" thargoid encounters in 2.2

how the fuck is anyone still playing this game

I couldn't last longer than a week with it and deeply regret spending $150

I love it. I don't know why, but I love it.

If only I could get your preorder bonuses....

It's not your casual game for kids, but rather a hardcore spacecraft simulation for, like it's name implies, Elites.

I don't know about preorder bonuses but all I know I have is all the dlc content since I paid for the expansion pass or whatever the fuck

although I'm absolutely positive they have or will dick me over on that somehow (but it's not like I even play this game anyways)

And dads, dads too.

kek, kerbal space program is put together by vastly more incompetent devs and it still manages to be a more fun spacecraft simulator than this garbage.

I don't know how frontier did it. They successfully made one of the most boring videogames I have ever had the misfortune of buying in my entire life and singlehandedly convinced me to never back another early access or kickstarter game ever again

>thargoids in 2.2
i predict that we will see the early prototypes of alien ships when 2.4 will be out

>corrupt federation about to fail it's CG due to imperial effort using legal means
>ftroops manually remove the lockdown so they make sure carebears and dad can keep winning with no effort whatsoever while grinding safely in solo mode
fuck this game seriously

Regret
And the satisfaction from knowing that some dads consider my method of grinding cheating.

What's up with KSP? I wasn't following the development itself.

>tfw no decent mission in Sothis/Ceos to make the grind for money tolerable
Did they nerf the missions or is it due to war status?

System status affects missions and commodity prices now (according to ftroop)

I regret NOTHING.

Yeah, that's gut-wrenching. Two things they should make: solo/private has a restricted effect on BGS, but players experience its effects in full (i.e. lockdown is a lockdown, get to open if you want to change it); community goals should be open-only.

If you want to fuck around distant worlds, do rare trades or w/e in a safe bubble—go ahead and play solo or with your fellow enthusiasts. If you want to impact the factions and powers or participate in major community events that shape the future—come out and play with everyone.

My condolences to every Empire supporter.

I believe it.
I was spamming quince contribution missions then a civil war kicked off and they were replaced by massacre missions.

Welp, I guess I'll waste time on another autism simulator until the war status changes...

Or do you think it would be worth it to submit a ticket to FDev to ask them to have the war status manually lifted? :^)

I gave up on the game long ago, but ftroop handholding the dads basically killed any remaining hope of the game having any future event based faction vs faction.

Yes, as it was noted in the previous thread, due to war missions changed quite a bit. 1 jump smuggling are more common, albeit many are without a destination station which change to 400 Ly away on h-jump ().

Overall, long range smuggling or poop delivery is still there just like before the war. It's that data delivery that was a good filler (plus built local and fed rank up) are much less common.

Thanks for the clarification. I guess I'm just being unlucky with the missions list.

I'll be better off taking a break playing something that doesn't require me to grind like a korean on meth to just do stuff in it anyways.

Holy shit the thread lived while I slept

Truly, we are blessed by the VISION.

I feel you. What are you going to play then?

I reinstalled Evochron Mercenary, I'm thinking about buying Legacy.

I'm still amazed to see what one dude is able to do with fucking dark basic.

>enters binary star system
>starport is located around Star B
>300,000LS away
>it's going to be a wild boring ride of 15mn

is it possible to bypass this shit by directly entering a binary system at Star B ?

That would be way too convenient and gamey we wouldn't want to turn this game into grindy gamey Eve, would we you entitled little shit head milennial please cuck me

Fly safe, CMDR o7