5241

waitaminute, you can buy it from Steam??!
/runs to check Steam NOWWW!

edit… hmm, I don’t see how you can buy skins in steam, @conVurt, unless Frontier’s website uses Steam wallet.

edit edit: google is my friend. There is INDEED a ED steam store https://steam.elitedangerous.com

5242

Well, it seems my first run at mining was beginner’s luck. The run I made this morning netted me about 790,000 in about an hour. I picked up a quest for Painite, and couldn’t find a single rock with it today. I spent a lot of time looking and eventually filled up with some Platinum and Palladium to make some money. I may go back later and try again.

Still, I like the system and how it works overall and that is still decent money for me for the time spent. I just wish I would hit the sites when there was light out. This morning it was really dark and that cut down on my time to find the nearest asteroids by quite a bit. Next CG for mining and I may go make a run at it, but it doesn’t appear there were any active as of yesterday.

5243

Did you notice if going to higher RES sites gives you better yield or better roids even? I thought that would be the point of them.

5244

Not yet. I will try a Haz Res next, but it isn’t a pristine metallic field so not sure how well it will compare. Perhaps it is the % total available per asteroid or something. Adding up the total % in the normal type seems to be about 45-55%. I will try out the Haz Res in Orcus and see what is there, although probably not metals.

5245

You can turn your ship’s light on, it helps a little. Only when you’re closer to a rock though.

5246

I think the ‘pristine’ status will affect yields more than the site rating will, or at least frequency of locating the better stuff. This is purely a guess based on memories of prior readings though! :)

5247

The Horizons beta 2.0 changelog is up, for those who’d like something to read while the beta downloads.

5248

From some googling it does give some bonus to yield depending on the intensity of the resource site, but i dont know how much.

5249

Boo!

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Am I recalling right that, if you’re on Steam, you need to download a separate installer for the Horizons beta?

5250

Found this!

So you get around 50 shards in hazardous sites against 35 in a non res site.

5251

Interesting. Good find.

I was concentrating on the value of the fragments between the two and it seems that the Haz Res may also have better overall value to the fragments, although I don’t have nearly enough data to draw that conclusion yet.

I shot rocks in a normal res and a haz res and throwing out the top and bottom value asteroid per site, the haz res asteroid had a makeup based on % and material and calculating value per market rate that was about 30% better than the normal area. It consistently had a higher percentage of the better minerals, although both had lots of Bauxite and Uranite. The Normal one also seemed to have Lepidolite while the Haz Res had Colton. This could have just been random and not enough data yet, though and was in a rocky planetary ring at Orcus 2.

5252

Yes, that’s been my experience as well as outlined earlier (being in a site vs. being outside). I also seemed to find nice rocks more regularly inside a site compared to out, in a totally non-scientific study based on some hours mining in each in the same pristine metallic ring.

But it doesn’t answer the question of whether or not the site hazard rating makes a difference. Though of course intuitively you would hope it does.

5253

I believe that is correct, but I can’t tell you where I first read it. Of course, if you somehow got me beta access, I’m sure I could verify that for you! ;)

5254

Standalone launcher is here:

http://hosting.zaonce.net/elite/dx/Client-Installer.exe

Lots of folks still reporting the same issue I’m having. Wheee.

5255

Starter package Sidewinders (and bought) now come with low powered gimballed pulse lasers

LOL45

5256

The eagle has landed.

It’s a pretty amazing feeling. I’m sitting here watching that sunset from the cockpit.

I really like how they’ve handled the various flight modes down to the planet. You can fly super-fast over the terrain heading for the base or just looking for interesting features, and as you hit a certain altitude it drops you into normal flight. It’s all seamless, except for a half-second server handshake thing like when dropping out of frame shift.

Planets in full daylight seem a bit flat to me, and I understand some of the textures are still in progress, but when everything comes together it’s pretty magical.

5257

AWESOME!

Question, do they have exploration rewards in yet for planetary surfaces?

5258

My trick vs the “server refused to cough it up” error was to install the 1.5 64bit beta. that automagically turned into the 2.0 beta.

5259

Well this is my base standard feature in terms of where Frontier (Elite II) and FFE had taken Elite to allow me to start ED proper. I’ll give it a few more weeks to allow the wheels falling off to reduce, and the likely fixes. I’m very excited about finally being able to land on some of the planetary bodies as we could in 1993 :)

5260

I deployed my SRV to check this out and I actually found some stuff -basically rocks that yield resources when you shoot them- using its sensor that looks like a sonar. In another instance I saw some lights a few klicks out after landing in a large crater and drove towards there with my SRV and spotted a small outpost with some defences but lost that progress after a connection issue.

There also seemed to be a number of planetary missions on the boards but I didn’t really check what those entail.