Multi Elite - Dangerous by David Braben

I promise nothing...!

 

Last night I did not have time to get in the cockpit for more than about an hour; doing a couple of trade runs. In that time I got pirated not once, not twice, but three times in the same bloody system! I lost a total of 400k credits worth of cargo and got slapped with a fine for 30k credits due to carrying a few tons of Wolf Fesh into a federation system (didn't know you could get fined unless station Security scanned you). Oh well, all part of the game - at least I managed to break even in the end, and the pirates were both polite and capable of stringing words into complete sentences. So there is that.

Anyway, enough of that. I thought you guys would be interested in reading this (it certainly gave me an erection): http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/04/evaluating-nasas-futuristic-em-drive/

 

..Which is a good job as I did exactly that last night whilst distracted by the family! Had the rebuy cost but miss the 120Cr cargo. Decided to go exploring- see if I can get to Sol!

 

Permit needed to visit Sol I'm afraid. Need federation rank to get it but can't remember what rank.

I hit allied with Feds yesterday when doing some more rare trading and though I might as well take a rank mission and maybe get a sol permit for a bucket list visit. Take 4 tonnes of this stuff 7LY away. Easy done. Until I arrive and find the destination is an outpost with no large pads. mission abandoned. Next station and I'm carrying illicit cargo. I know my rare route and shouldn't be at this point. Only noticed at the final approach - hit silent running and made the clumsiest docking since I was in a Sidey. Checked my cargo and the missions haulage was listing as stolen. Sold on black market okay though Maybe I'm not meant to go to sol....

Also made Expert yesterday, so now running expert, broker, pathfinder ranks, allied to empire at baron and feds at recruit, friendly with alliance. I see a lot less interdiction since I bought the clipper, but recently when it has happened its a big fish. Maybe I should upset some npc's a bit?

Has anyone ever seen an NPC Vulture or FDL? Just occurred to me that I dont think I have. I may have seen something in a CZ but havent seen one in the wild...

 

Bum! Oh well - gave me a place to aim for and got me away from Eravate which had taken far too much of my time! Might start running some rares or look for some missions.

 

Pm me an email address and I'll be happy to send over my rare circuit (excel spreadsheet. With the cobra cargo capacity, you'll need to jump sections to sale points but you'll make credits rapidly and if you invest profits back into good weapons, kws, advanced disco bomb, and detailed surface scanner you'll pick up tidy sums in bounty and carto data as well as rank along the way.

Rares are a great way to get around the galaxy a bit more, though you do start to think of any location in relation to rare sites.

 

I can highly recommend GMC's trade routes. I made a lot of cash, explored the galaxy and had a blast on them! Just a shame I have been time starved recently, Elite has lacked my attention for most of April! :/

 

You'll be back in the pilot's chair soon mate.
We still need to wing up for a little rares tour

BTW, anyone that hasn't seen todays crime update, take heed or find yourself unpleasantly surprised. I'll not be taking so many chances coming through the letterbox at high speed when this comes in...
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=141640

 

4 hours when I've spent 40+ doing nothing but jumps and scans won't be an issue.

The hull is ok, it takes damage over time down to 70% and so do the modules, I'm still the 80s so it's ok, the canopy remains cracked.

I had an e-stop this evening and very nearly hit the ceiling though.

 

That sounds awesome, although somewhat redundant.

The last person I encountered trying to lawn dart through the docking slot bounced off my shields, into the docking slot side and then exploded, no fine can match that level of ignominy.

 

Jeez, my dog fighting skills have become rusty during my exploration time.......

Logged into the cross-platform PC/MAC beta tonight for a change and was having trouble fighting and even flying in the vulture and the cobra....... First take off in a space station and I hit the walls, another ship, missed the exit and exploded all over the station....

Tried interdicting a couple of wanted ships, couldn't do that. Took an hour of re-practice before I could kill a NCP viper in a fully specced vulture........

I need to finish this latest exploration adventure and sharpen up my skills.... It was like the first time I had played the game all over again.

 

You make a solid point sir. With the new mechanic he may have been spared the embarrassment by the stations lasers

More impressed with their solution to bounty farming and persistent consequence. Should do well to discourage station campers and daft territorial blockade attempts that have nothing to do with the background sim.


@thirtyquidkid
I will be making my wife aware of this problem to help her understand why I must play at every opportunity

 

Thanks - will do. Made it to Leesti and Lave since I couldn't go to Sol I thought I'd check out some systems I remember from the original game and look up George Lucas and Ridley Scott!

 

I dont know if I will manage to wait for the courier and diamondback before I go exploring. May have to check the distance to VY Canis Major is next time I'm online... Some sights to be seen...
https://youtu.be/hSxDM4g-QTU



Edit:linked twice as not sure if embedding youtube worked right and plugin not supported on phone

 

I'm a little behind - did they find those TITAN cards?

 

I think some were found before it ended. That whole affair was a bit of a damp squib really. New crime rules should make life interesting and provide incentive for people to spread out a bit more. Dont understand why, with a whole galaxy to play in, the lave systems are chock full of players but travel 20LY in any direction and it's empty again.

Still saying hello to cmdrs in open and most times, within 10 seconds "1 contact lost"...

 

They were all found in a couple of weeks, the people that got them mostly waited until 2-3AM after they found them and jumped in unmolested by the TrollArmy. The expected chaos never really ensued.

 

Quivira CG has only 1 CZ. High intensity. Not been in one before but much more action than low intensity.
Played with large beams on the clipper and not impressed. Large burst seems more effective. Large cannon however... BOOM!!!
Now running large and med cannons on one side, and a large burst and med beam on the other.

 

And Quivira CGs are borked. Hard to gain combat bonds when there are no combat zones.

 

11'000 LY from Sol, I'm 4/5th of the way home!

This is starting to do my head in now, just limp, limp, limp from 55'000LY out. On the plus side I found a spinning star today and 5'000LY off the central Sol/Saggitarius A* route it's all first discoveries.

Nearly there though, sometime next week and it's back to blowing stuff up!