4961

I was kicked out last night with ‘unrecoverable error on transaction server’ when scooping minerals. About 8 hours ago.

edit: This is from the Elite community site

Speaking of minerals, does asteroid mineral content exist in the world, or is it generated when you first shoot one?

4962

Yep it just tanked a little bit ago.

4963

Yeah, I had my fill of those the last few days. I’m waiting for the devs to sort it out before I go back to mining.

Speaking of minerals, does asteroid mineral content exist in the world, or is it generated when you first shoot one?

I strongly suspect that it’s the latter. Supposedly, star systems work that way, in that they’re generated the first time someone jumps into one, and then the game servers use that info from then on.

4964

Hmm I’m wondering if it works with a loot table of sorts, to make sure you get something good every ‘x’ attempts.

4965

This is going off of memory from 10 months ago, but I recall discovering that asteroid content was instanced to the player. I was mining with a friend and we were both getting different resources from the same asteroids.

4966

Ah yeah, I recall some past ‘exploit’ where you could continuously milk a quality asteroid, by re-logging and finding/mining the same one over again. Indicates that asteroid content type was persistent between sessions for any given player, not sure if that got changed.

4967

Discovered these twin water worlds today, one with an ammonia atmosphere. They made for a pretty shot looking back.

4968

I managed to grind almost 7m yesterday in bounties while trying to save for an Imperial Clipper or some similar ship. It must have somehow slipped my mind that you need…gasp…ranks within a faction to be able to use their ships.

So now here I am looking up at the giant mountain that is the grind to Baron rank from nothing. Suggestions?

I’m also now considering dropping my Viper for an Asp. Thoughts?

4969

If you like shooting things in your viper, then the vulture is a natural step up, cheaper than the asp and no rank requirement IIRC. The asp is so-so for combat, mostly because you’ll feel it’s a bit more sluggish to maneuver. What the asp excels at is exploration, and rares/long distance trading, since it has an excellent jump range and good cargo space. If you think you’d like to do that, then give the asp a shot. (Also the asp’s engine noise sounds like a WWII-era bomber, which can be either a big plus or a big minus for some folk.)

4970

Hmm, I definitely like combat the most, but the Vulture’s speed is a big turn off.

4971

Consider the Diamondback Scout then. It’s also an upgrade from the Viper, and much more flexible if you want to dabble in things other than fighting.

4972

Really like the look of it, thanks for the tip. The real question is how does its engine sound compared to the Viper…

4973

It’s not as throaty as the Viper, but I can assure you that the DBS more than makes up for that in handling characteristics. Also quite cheap to A-spec (about 8m credits). This is mine.

4974

Was just about to ask for a spec, thanks again for the help!

4975

So I’ve got a moderately spec’d out Viper I’ve been using for bounty hunting quests (mostly B and C class stuff) and I’m wondering if I should be saving up to fully upgrade all my equipment to the best possible, or keep what I’ve got and push for a Cobra/DBS. If I was going to get a new ship, roughly how much should I have in the bank before I buy to get a reasonably outfitted ship?

Also can someone explain the difference between a conflict zone and a high intensity resource zone? I jumped into a conflict zone the other night and it was all fed ships fighting one another it looked like, who are you supposed to attack in that situation? Also the res sites are now low, normal, and high does that mean high is only for top of the line ships or wings? I jumped into a high as well thinking there would be more targets to choose from, got into a scrap with a wing of pirates and was quickly destroyed.

4976

CZs: Low intensity = no capitol ships. Have fun when that fully-specced Elite Python latches on to your ass! High intensity = see low intensity, but have fun when that undestroyable capitol ship latches on to your ass!

RES: Low, med, high = dice roll as to what kind of enemies show up. Difficulty determines the pilot rating of who shows up. So you might get a res high with lots of elite Sideys and Eagles :( The highest end RES supposedly have the pythons and condas all the time, but I’ve heard conflicting reports.

PRO TIP: Don’t solo high intensity CZs.

4977

I tried a 3C Shield Cell Bank on my DBS and when I tried it out in combat it didn’t seem to boost anything at all. Is there a certain grade it needs to be to have an effect?

4978

Don’t shield cells have to be actively triggered by the pilot? I’ve never used them, so I don’t know, but that’s what I’ve gathered from reading others’ posts.

4979

Yes you have to trigger them, and I think your shields need to not be completely depleted. Also, they don’t completely recharge your shields, necessarily.

For example, just throwing numbers around, say you have 500 MJ of shields, and get them knocked down to 50 MJ in a fight. You see you’re down to one ring, trigger your SCB, and get another 150 MJ back. If you’re still taking fire when that happens, you might end up with 175 MJ, which still looks like one ring, and understandably come to the conclusion that SCBs are junk!

4980

Okay so i traded in my Viper for a DBS but I must have done something wrong because i can’t seem to outfit this so that I can take it anywhere. The station I’m at only has a class 3B FSD which only gets my jump range up to 5.3LY. I feel like this class of FSD should get me farther than that right? I think my Viper had a worse one and I could get around 11LY in that. Now I can’t even leave the system I’m in, at least not to anywhere with a High Tech orbital. Am I missing something with the FSD, is there another component that increases jump range?

Also I cant seem to upgrade the stock shield generator, every other generator says “hull to heavy” or “exceeds mass of hull” something like that. What the heck is going on here? Should I just sell it back and grab a Cobra instead?