What are you doing (ingame) now?

[thebs]

In game......Me....
Just about to throw the towel in.......
Pissed off with being interdicted every jump/2nd jump by ships normally Elite or deadly.....One rank above my arse....
Not on a mission or anything.....Just out going from A to B exploring along the way......

Yep, it's back as of recent server updates the past week or two, still only being "Expert" combat level. I've been getting DDE (Dangerous, Deadly and Elite), yet again -- although in my case, I did sign up for the Jaques CG. Don't know if that factors in. Might be that "engineers" counts as a "mission" too. Don't know.

They must be after the engineers shit I am FORCED to carry for upgrades......
And then them cheating.......
Chaffing like fook constantly and when I finally get their shields down after a pretty hefty battle......Like me no shields and part hull missing....
In a blink of an eye they are FULLY back up again.......Like all 3 rings......And yes they were completely down.......

I couldn't get a Deadly Python's shields down last week. He kept belching off cells every time I got him down to 1 bar. It was one of my longest battles. I was out of mines entirely, and the cannon was way down on ammo. The f'er just took everything I threw at him.

Luckily I was in an Anaconda, and even only Class 4A Shields (my max trading configuration, +48t over Size 6 Shielding) + 5x Class 0A Shield boosters (all level 1 engineered) meant I was 700MJ w/+7.5 resistance. So I was able to jump out just before he got my shields down.

Honestly don't know how I survived in a Python prior, with half the shielding of my Anaconda.

Fun is rapidly disappearing.......
Might give it a break for a while......
Logic in this game is rapidly disappearing........
Like travel 258,000ls to explore a planet......
Nothing......No other ships......Nothing.......
Till the scan starts and then interdicted........
Nah.........

Yeah, I had that happen to me when my cargo hold was empty last week. No idea, but they're f'ing with the backend ... again. Luckily it was just a Deadly FAS, and not a Deadly Python that time.

[Darr Valen]

16,979.52LY to Jaques.

This is slower than the last 500 million to Elite trader.

[Darr Valen]

16,082.82 LY left. With that, I'm calling it a night.

[*Al*]

16,082.82 LY left. With that, I'm calling it a night.

You guys are Epic

[Cometborne]

16,082.82 LY left. With that, I'm calling it a night.

Sounds like you are in the neighbourhood, 16,880.36 LY for me. Had more good training and exposure to explorer humour last night because the route of the "Jaunt to Jaques" convoy leads straight through the Aucoks Pocket, and even has at least one way point in the middle of it. Managed to bull my way through with half a dozen de-tours to gas stations, at least one of the others gave the fuel rats a work-out. Placing the recommended routing points on non-scoopable stars is at least a more gentle form of explorer humour than placing them on black holes and neutron stars.

Also learned of the first confirmed convoy loss due to "lithobreaking" or as the FAA would call it "controlled flight into terrain" The player decided to get right back onto the horse after switching ships and got killed again during that - this time by a docking computer malfunction. He was very much unamused, but has video evidence, and opened a ticket with FDev to get the money back.

[Darr Valen]

16,082.82 LY left. With that, I'm calling it a night.

You guys are Epic

Sheesh, I wish. I ended up gradually reducing my scanning at each system from full systems, to profitable planetoids, to stars, to nothing.. I feel like junk for doing it. Instead of scanning each star and scooping at each stop, I do 9 jumps, scoop, and scan only that one star I scoop. I geuinely loathe doing that, but the realities are that I am taking module damage. It's small, and I have an AFM, but I do not have an SRV to land, prospect, and make more AFM module ammo.

I feel slow in this endeavour, even though I have no frame of reference. Before this, the furthest I had gone was like 500Ly from start. I took CB's recommended route to the Witch Head Neb, and that was 1kLy from start.. so I'm not really an 'explorer'. I feel more like a long-haul trader now, which is really what I always was.

Anyway, hope to best that shitty progress yesterday. Only made 3,500LY or so in a day.. feels like I was so slow. Maybe I can hit 6,000LY today. My goal is 10,000LY to Jaques by bedtime.

I think I might come back to Jaques in my Corvette, or a Miner/Murder re-classed/outfitted Cutter, with heavy weapons, mining lasers, refineries, and the like, and just base from Jaques for the foreseeable future, if this CG goes well.

16,082.82 LY left. With that, I'm calling it a night.

Sounds like you are in the neighbourhood, 16,880.36 LY for me. Had more good training and exposure to explorer humour last night because the route of the "Jaunt to Jaques" convoy leads straight through the Aucoks Pocket, and even has at least one way point in the middle of it. Managed to bull my way through with half a dozen de-tours to gas stations, at least one of the others gave the fuel rats a work-out. Placing the recommended routing points on non-scoopable stars is at least a more gentle form of explorer humour than placing them on black holes and neutron stars.

Also learned of the first confirmed convoy loss due to "lithobreaking" or as the FAA would call it "controlled flight into terrain" The player decided to get right back onto the horse after switching ships and got killed again during that - this time by a docking computer malfunction. He was very much unamused, but has video evidence, and opened a ticket with FDev to get the money back.

I found my first Neutron primary system yesterday. I thought the game was being a bit broken, until I noticed the spinining globe icon. Sure enough, a Neutron star. I've seen a few offplane in systems, but never as the primary.

I probably won't be near the convoy, since I went up from the auto-route given by EDD< since it was just the worst for finding fuel. I was getting full legs with no scoopable stars. Going up 300LY or so cured that, and I can scoop at almost every stop, though I don't for speed.

[Jazzy]

Heading to Jaques in "SS Forest Gump" Type 9 currently averaging 1200 LY a day which equals about 82 jumps.... Big slow space-cow full of cargo to get Jaques back on its feet

[TorTorden]

Slightly out of game, But my ED custom print mug arrived today.

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This was titled as wingman icon 3 in the shop, if it doesn't correspong correctly with the game then so be it:



And of course my rank:

And what the A-Team often ask an interdicting NPC.

The jokes might be for such a small group that they simply aren't funny to anyone but myself.

[Darr Valen]

Heading to Jaques in "SS Forest Gump" Type 9 currently averaging 1200 LY a day which equals about 82 jumps.... Big slow space-cow full of cargo to get Jaques back on its feet

If named after the character, it should be "Forrest Gump", as he is named after the confederate general.


Elite tried to murder me again.. Sitting at the edge of a star scooping, heat at 65ish, and getting a solid 500/s, when all of the sudden, emergency ejected.. AGAIN. All modules take damage. I face away from the star when scooping to avoid this shit. This bug has made sure I am damaged in every system on my ship now. It's maddening..

15,102.51LY to jaques. Many more of these freakin' bugouts, and I'll never make it. Seriously, Frontier..

[thebs]

Elite tried to murder me again.. Sitting at the edge of a star scooping, heat at 65ish, and getting a solid 500/s, when all of the sudden, emergency ejected.. AGAIN. All modules take damage. I face away from the star when scooping to avoid this shit. This bug has made sure I am damaged in every system on my ship now. It's maddening..
15,102.51LY to jaques. Many more of these freakin' bugouts, and I'll never make it. Seriously, Frontier..

Thanx for confirming I should stay away from this CG.

I was going to level my FSD beyond it's current +22% (level 3) so my 300t+ Anaconda (explorer outfit, instead of 452t) could do maybe closer to 30ly (it's currently 21ly loaded with 452t, 33ly unloaded), but now I think I should wait for the next set of patches. I'd be really pissed off to get that far, only to be destroyed by heat.

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If named after the character, it should be "Forrest Gump", as he is named after the confederate general.

Indeed, as even most Americans (and then proliferated outside the US by Americans) don't know the first thing about both pre and during civil war banners.

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Including how Texas' lone star is, historically, one of the most racist flags (hint, look up Bonnie Blue and the original, pro-slavery Florida flag pushed by Americans, before the Spain gave up the territory), while Alabama and Florida, today, have the least racist, purposely so (hint, look up the Spannish flag for the Florida territory ... as well the obvious purpose of what the white background is (yes, it's that straight-forward, and every kid knows what it means).

Most Americans only know the history the US media teaches them ... which is almost always based on assumption, not any history.