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coming back after a year away

Postby robfm81 » Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:03 am

Hey guys - after becoming a father for the first time I have been away from the game for just over a year - what has happened and who is still online from that time?

getting back into the game and looking for help once again.

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Re: coming back after a year away

Postby de Carabas » Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:25 am

Thargoids. A few bugs fixed, a few introduced. That's all I can think of really.
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Postby LeDoyen » Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:14 am

c'mon ! 20000Ly plotting distance now :))
That's pretty much the only useful feature added

Otherwise yea, not much to add.. regarding thargoids and lore, just watch the youtube videos about Elite since there's no way normal humans can stumble upon them in game without prior knowledge stuff is sitting there, in this system, in this planet, at these coordinates etc...
Try Obsidianant channel

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Re: coming back after a year away

Postby robfm81 » Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:38 am

where good to hone my pew pew skills again?
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Postby TorTorden » Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:57 am

robfm81 wrote:where good to hone my pew pew skills again?


The same old places.

Mission stacking is gone btw so no point in kill missions.

As for things that are new I can do a quick recap.

Engineers, space morons, who like shiny baubles, a bit of a pain but can be worth it. 515ms fer-de-lance with 19ly jump range and 50% more dps, and no heating issues are possible.

SLF's, great fun and good combat tools.

Multicrew, utter pile of useless garbage, probably used as much as CQC, also with this patch. bounty payouts are no longer split amongst wing members, all members get the full amount.
Unless you are in MC where you get only get a percentage. *facepalm*

Thargoids big Meh, who cares (they only hang around the Pleiades)
And a giant nerf hammer to the mission system.
Missions = pointless, especially for credits.
If you want money now it's back to RES farming or A B A cargo hauling.
Unless you find the yet forgotten passenger route that FD hasn't nerfed to crap yet.
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Postby de Carabas » Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:59 am

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Re: coming back after a year away

Postby robfm81 » Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:24 pm

hey tor - good to see a familiar face

res farming it is - more pewpew
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Re: coming back after a year away

Postby LeDoyen » Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:59 pm

yesterday i tried passenger missions again, "stacking" 3 sightseeing missions at once. one hour of flight get me around 15 million creds and a good boost in exploration level.
Worth trying i'd say if your body goes out of adrenaline while res farming

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Re: coming back after a year away

Postby TorTorden » Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:30 pm

robfm81 wrote:hey tor - good to see a familiar face

res farming it is - more pewpew

Oh yea, I'm still here, and I suspect some bounties have been boosted a bit.

Atm I am currently doing missions from this Palin guy.
He still pays pretty much between 15-23 mil for a reasonably quick fetch mission that takes about 15-20 minutes to finish.

But you need access to him, and he is one of the worst engineer unlocks yet, well he is introduced by marco qwent and that was a nightmare, and you need to travel 5k ly from the bubble for him to take you seriously.
(his speciality is thruster mods, mostly used for combat manoeuvrability, go figure)
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Re: coming back after a year away

Postby LeDoyen » Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:47 pm

15 - 23 mil??
is that rank dependent? everytime i get his missions it's between 900000 and 1.1 mil


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