Multi Elite - Dangerous by David Braben

Has anyone been over to Cemiess for the community event?
Doesn't at all seem worth it, you'll at best break even running 60 ly round trips. The maximum reward (top 5%) is 2 million at this stage.

 

Not yet, was going to do the slaves to be trained one.

 

So the type 7.... it's not the benefit the type 6 is when you first get it.

The type 7 flies like a brick. The cargo space is nice, about 212 tons with shields but all that weight come with a harsh penalty to jump range. I could not afford a 5a and even na 5b, means my 17.04 ly trade route which was previously a 1 jump hop is now 3 or 5 jumps with a 5c drive. this drastically slows down the process and almost completely nullifies the extra capacity.

On paper the extra capacity should more than double the profit on my beryllium/slaves rout but I don't think it's viable until your packing light weight a class components.

Was worth trying.

 

Shame, you online now?

 

Sadly not. But I'll be on evenings this weekend. I'll add your commander name so we can organise a wing adhoc as needed.

 

While debating on the Adder and Viper for so long, I've been continuing to earn money and now I'm only 100k off from the Cobra.
I might hold off and jump right to that one.

If they did it so that people with existing games had to login on their store account to unlock the Steam code with a simple code to determine whether they have a purchased copy already, then it should be able to instantly link together to prevent free secondary accounts that people can either abuse or sell.

Though I'd love for them to stick to their guns and say no to the free keys.
I'm sure Valve are going to charge them to generate keys for customers who aren't buying through their platform, so they'll likely be losing a chunk of profits thanks to the bunch who want free stuff.

 

Sounds like a plan. Sent a request in game. From GMac.

I just dont get the keys thing.

Remember for the price of a cobra you could buy a tricked out adder. Components can be sold without a loss, whilst selling a ship you take a 10% loss. You may as well get the adder for now, if you strip components before selling it, you'll only lose about 8k and you get to try out another ship along the way. The last 100k will likely come quicker too. Trading the adder carries 20-24, fighting, you have an extra hardpoint...

 

Lol,

Just got a direct comm in game that reads "U WANT TO GET BLAZED??"

I replied "Nope" and got the reply "kk" which was nice, but can anyone translate the original invitation for me?

 

Just took the plunge - realised I may have to read some tutorials since it's changed a bit since I played on the BBC B+

 

Welcome CMDR. Do the tutorials and ask questions, there isnt much of a manual.

 

I'm wondering if the reward is only 2 mil atm because it's only on Tier 2. I think the bonus rewards go up as the Tier achieved goes up.

 

Well, I'm a long, long way from anything now.


That's BYUA-AIM AA-A H16, Nebulas are for the most part very thoroughly mapped out by now, but this one is huge, that's the view from 750LY away, it's where I'm going tomorrow.

There's only 1500-ish systems in it, if anyone's in the area, feel free to drop by and say hi tomorrow evening...

 

You made good time on your run. I'm about 11000ish LY behind you at the moment. Better divert all power to engines

Good luck.

 

Last one at Saggitarius A* is a used heat sink!

As for rapid progress, 6A fuel scoop, half to full in less than a minute, still no traces of Thargoids.

I'm making slightly better pace than planned for, but that just means I'm thinking about going even further. 75'000LY seems achievable, so I'm thinking about aiming for the Galactic Rim now.

Only very, very interesting systems are getting scanned now. I found a super massive star at PRU AIN RD-A D1-11 with five smaller stars in orbit, that was cool. Other than that only high value and a couple of earth like systems have been thoroughly scanned.

 

New CMDRs might want to look here before Sunday night

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=134459

 

What exactly are they doing? Giving away Palladium to sidewinders?

 

That was my reading of it.

 

I'm still very much a beginner but after the introduction phase (Sidewinder), mining phase (Adder) and early rare trading phase (Cobra) I have purchased a T6 to try and make money a little quicker.

I've worked out a three leg run that's doable with a minimum 84T cargo space and depending on stock levels at stations should net 4 million for the three legs (comes back full circle).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7hry_Q_Mc3iTTJtemNLNzlyTWM/view?usp=sharing

When building the run I didn't hang around for restocks (although I did detour to Lonchakov Orbital which I won't be doing again!) and weighed in 78T, 60T and 86T for a total of 3.2 million. Back of *** packet maths seems to suggest that no matter the rare type you average around 17k per tonne.

Next time I'm on I'm going to do a proper timed run with no detours and see what the earning potential per hour is.

That Asp is getting closer and closer......

 

Dropped into a strong signal source in trading Python (A4 shields)... Tradton? Got quite the surprise! it often seems to be super easy; wanted type 9 in convoy or crazy hard; 3 anacondas/ 7 vultures....

It's 3mill on tier 3, better, but I can't see it beating straight trading.

 

So I have 8 tonnes of the finest Tarach Spice in my hold, and I traveled to Steve Masters to acquire some Chi Eridani Marine Paste. The Fed authorities do not take kindly to Tarach Spice, allegedly it turned some of their eyes green. So I thought I would be clever and mask my heat signature once I hit full momentum with boost, and sneak my way in. I forget however, in my fiendish sneakiness, to ask permission to dock.

I immediately get hit with a 400cr fine and the obligatory lethal action countdown. Then, in my haste to reverse before I get any deeper into the station, I accidentally slam into the entrance grid - hull integrity down to 85%. THEN I get a heat level critical warning as my engines start to melt; so in a blind panic I go to full power. As my hull lights up like a ****ing Christmas tree: "SHIP SCAN DETECTED".

17,800cr fine for smuggling illegal goods.

Good night one and all. CMDR Hafiz is done for the evening.