Multi Elite - Dangerous by David Braben

Those of us who didn't hit the kick starter all started same position bud.

Best ship depends on your goals. For shooting folks, an Eagle, otherwise Adder all the way, but save to 120k at least so you have covering cash for insurance and to fill the hold. You can downgrade the adder's shields into a class 2 bay, they'll still be fine, and it gives you a class 3 bay to put a cargo rack in. More you carry, more you make.

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Sidewinder, seriously keep it, very capable combat ship or you can mod it to get 10T of cargo space.

Forget trading, it's boring and just becomes a chore, but seriously I found when trading, the money you have is never enough and then you think I'll just go for the next ship and then the next ship and so on.

Do missions and build your rep with the factions. Build up to the viper or Cobra for a mulitpurpose ship...

If you really want to trade you can get the Adder for just under 90K (I think) and mod it to carry 26T

Have a look HERE to give you an idea of different ship capabilities.

Good luck

 

Is there a background story?

 

Ruthless pirate. Already destroyed one of my Type-6 ships loaded with rare goods!

Don't want him destroyed, just a little rattled. Say EL Viento sends his regards!

 

Where does he loiter?
Edit, sorry orrere in your original post. Might take a look next time I'm around but does he hang around at nav point or do you think you were followed from another system?

 

Cool. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm planning - need to find one more station with something to trade between. Those two I have are ok, but one brings 100K second only 30K. I need to find one with another 100K and then grind it like there's no tomorrow
6.6M for ASP but then at least same amount for some A class equip. and insurance...
I think I will trade in my space cow for it too. No point keeping lakon6 if have Cobra and ASP.
ASP for me sounds like a good cover of lakon6+Cobra - lots of weapons and over 100T of cargo, so basically best ship for all the bits. Only freaking expensive...

 

Got an Eagle now and starting to outfit it to fight wanted people (Not commanders yet). Making up to 20k Credits a bounty though, and it's much more fun in my eyes.

How do you buy insurance? I got this Eagle for free somehow and was wondering if you buy insurance from somewhere?

 

If you look on the right hand panel in your cockpit, on the first screen there's a "Buy Back" value, I believe this is the insurance you have to pay to get the ship back as it is if you get destroyed.

 

Insurance is automatically provided.
You just need to ensure you have 10% (I think) of the purchase value of the ship should it get turned into debris, then you can buy it back for the insured value.

 

upgrade to 1.1 going live

 

Not sure yet if I'll keep the T6, want to get in the asp before deciding if a lower maintenance cost hauler is worth keeping. Means more grind. Use thrudd tool to see what you can trade instead from your 30k system to somewhere else. And to see what's good to bring 'home'. Then find a way to make decent money firing the 2 ends together. Sometimes an in system jump can earn you another 30-40k and let you leave to system with a better margin cargo.

Anyone know if this gives better range to the route planner? 100ly is cramping my style

 

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=112197&p=1743689&viewfull=1#post1743689

has links to the beta changelogs at the end of the post.

or just yes 1000ly

 

Got my T-16000M so gonna give it a go later and see how I do!

 

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Have a play with the settings and create a 'Custom Profile' for the joystick. It's well worth spending some time getting all the buttons configured just the way you want it. Good idea to map lateral thrust to the hat for starters then take it from there.

 

Anyone else think the npc aggression level has been upped tonight. Saw a lot of interdiction attempts off tonight. 10-12 on my trade runs when I'd normally expect 2-3!

 

Oops, double post, sorry.

 

I only got interdicted once, by a clean guy who nearly destroyed me. Also interdicted an eagle who almost screwed me over before I could even get sights on him, but then I got away, let my shields recharge then destroyed him for a 400 coin bounty, joy.

 

Yeah I've been doing that. Went for Z axis for Yaw and did lateral thrust with the hat. Configured some buttons to the joystick, but may remap to the keyboard as it makes it a bit easier. (Like boost, and jump)

 

I'll let you know if the patch ever completes on my machine.

Dammit, 8ms ping at 80mbit and this game still gives me net timeouts.