schurem
6061
Funny how the star wars quote on fear just tells the subject not to fear because fear is bad. Dune also tells us fear is bad, but the way to get rid of it is through the fear. Instead of surpressing ones’ fear or avoiding that which causes it as Yoda would advise, Dune tells us to face it, accept it and remain standing while the wave of fear passes.
I remember muttering that litany time after time while waiting to enter the ring for my first fight. It worked. I won.
My countertop espresso machine, at $60, costs less than a fancy drip machine, and it makes espresso. Pretty much a no-brainer for a coffee guy like me. :P
I keep hopping in this thread hoping for 2.2 impressions, but you keep bumping it for coffee and obscure Dune references:)
Father! The sleeper has awakened!
Is there a good guide to catching up on Engineers/2.2 changes and how best to progress in the new system? I finally jumped back in this weekend (god I love Elite in VR), but I mainly spent it flying to Maia Point for the community goal and then back to the bubble. I’m still tootling around in my Cobra, so I’d like to get into a Vulture as quickly as possible.
conVurt
6066
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Is there a good guide to catching up on Engineers/2.2 changes and how best to progress in the new system? I finally jumped back in this weekend (god I love Elite in VR), but I mainly spent it flying to Maia Point for the community goal and then back to the bubble. I’m still tootling around in my Cobra, so I’d like to get into a Vulture as quickly as possible.[/quote]
The biggest changes recently have been using engineers to mod your ship and the fighters, which, if you’re tooling around in a cobra, you won’t have access to. (The smallest ship that will fit a fighter bay is a keelback, IIRC.) The engineers themselves have a set of requirements before they’ll send you an invite, and then it’s just a case of jumping through the hoops to get a better rep with them to earn access to their better mods. They are in no way essential to playing the game, but there are some quality of life improvements that are hard to live without once you get used to them, like better jump-range and more juice in your power-plant. So it’s worth looking into at some point, especially once you get to your vulture (which will probably require some power management on your part otherwise.)
In terms of earning cash quickly, I think mission payouts are currently a little bugged, but recent community goals have featured some really nice payouts as folks have been hitting the higher tiers, which trickle down into the lower participation brackets, so I’d recommend you keep your eyes on them. Even if space trucking isn’t your thing, it will probably be worthwhile to deliver a couple of trips worth of commodities to a community goal and then just go do something more fun until it finishes.
That all said, if you’re dying for a vulture pronto, pm me and I’ll see if we can’t organize and I can either help you with some bounty hunting, or simply make a donation of palladium to get you on your space-feet.
Oh, it’s not that urgent. I did a bit of RES hunting when I first jumped back in and was getting bounties at about 1m an hour, so it shouldn’t take too long even if I just do that. I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t some obvious thing I should be doing now (other than CGs, which definitely seem to be lucrative) that would save me some grind or set me up better for engineer upgrades.
schurem
6068
inara.cz is your one stop shop for information on the engineers and what they need.
The mini-series was better, imo.
Quick tip – avoid VIP passenger missions for the moment. If you lose/sell the items requested by a VIP before you can turn in the mission you can create a situation where you can no longer play the game. I encountered this on Saturday and have not been able to play since. Support turn around time for tickets is now listed at ‘over 5 days’
Bug thread:
Video of symptoms:
https://youtu.be/QNsLuxDRcpM
This is just great!
ObsidianAnt made a video letting folks know passengers missions are very lucrative right now.
schurem
6072
I made it back from a long trip to Colonia (jaques station) and then Sag A*, then back home. Taught my woman how to fly the ship and do basic exploration. She digs star trek, so looking for blue planets is right up her alley. She sounded almost sad the trip is done. I am happy to make with the pewpew again. I missed that. The hefty feel of a class three beam ripping into a hapless pirate in an eagle or viper. The desperate dance of death with a gunship or conda.
Yeah passengers can pay well. Hauled a ‘crime lord’ three jumps for four mil. Local rep counts for a LOT with the payouts. I took that 4m mission from a station I am allied with, in stations that read as neutral they pay like a tenth.
Friends, I just got this communique from a fellow commander:
“I’m a diplomat for the Patreus powerplay community. We discovered Veloxi’s Vixens in a system we exploit. It would help us tremendously to have your group in control of that system, Negasargun.”
Therefore, regardless of your powerplay affiliation, we’ve been asked to help in gaining control of Negasargun. Since this helps the Vixens above all else, I can’t help but recommend that, if you’re in the area, you please help the Vixens gain control of Negasargun.
Thank you.
AStott
6074
@BrianRubin I just sent a request to join Veloxi. I’m SaberSnail in game.
BTW Brian, I finally made my way to Orcus and started doing missions for Veloxi’s Vixens. Playing in Mobius PVE though. ;-)
Announced for PS4 Q2 of 2017. Here’s a trailer. Even if you’re not a PS4-er,there’s a couple of interesting bits. Asteroid station! Multicrew!
Tried Elite on the Vive last night. Holy cow. You hear people talk about the sense of scale in VR, but Elite really brings that home. Even the menu screen – with a parked Eagle – you’re thinking it’s as almost as big as a jetliner.
I was playing around with the 360 controller, and managed to nearly destroy my ship by hitting some button that had it start taking immediate heat damage (silent running, maybe?). Had to CTRL-ALT-DEL in a panic. I am now looking at options for a HOTAS-enabled couch. My wife is going to love that.
Things are a bit blurry in VR to be sure, especially with my crappy eyes and difficulty sorting out a functional glasses solution (I am bad at a distance and worse up close in the real world). I am ordering a 3D-printed do-it-yourself insert and some prescription lenses, so hopefully that does the trick. Despite the blur and halos and everything else, it’s just jaw-dropping. I can’t wait to get a control solution figured out and do some bounty hunting in planetary rings.
Welcome to the club! Also quite awesome is how different it feels sitting inside each cockpit, again thanks to the perception of scale using VR.
Totally. Seems like it will make ship collecting more satisfying. I bet the ship-launched fighters are a ton of fun in VR.
Papageno
6080
Someday, maybe a year from now, I’m going to get some VR gear to experience this game that way. I keep hearing it’s amazing.
