Purple Central Industries - Pand solar system group

[Barefoot Bandit]

Sorry folks, been doing the work thing..

No Pand activity for me today, my CH Pro throttle has been playing up for months, an dI finally got the warranty repair approved, so it is going back tomorrow - which mean sI'm making th emost of it tonight for some PvP in Lugh, once it's gone, there will be no pew pew for me, so I'm going to get it out of my system!

I'll be doing another 200T rares run once I am done in the Python, then switching to the Asp, doing some local exploration (<500lY) - I found a section of unexplored space a few weeks back (I was amazed that there is still something so close!), so I am going to go back and do some details scans. Sorry, no hints, I want my name on those systems!

I'll probably do a few more rares runs (especially if anyone wants to team up in wings - the bonus is very nice!), and will eventually do a 5k-10k Ly epxloration trip out that way (point sin a random direction), and will bring it all back and sell it to Pand. Hopefully, my throttle will be back by then, and I'll be able to go back to normal play!

Oh, for the record, I'm Zeeman on the Frontier Forum.

I have not been on it today, so no idea what the "cleanup" was, but I guess I'm about to find out...

Z..

[ollobrains]

Theres still been a small amount of influence change today. So some of us are still active, ive had a few ppl add me to their friends list who im seeing around pand, though the guy with 6 numbers in his name and it started with aj was only on for a few hours he was poking around, showed him the terraformable candidates he seemed to be having fun so hi ajxxxxxx

[ollobrains]

If im reading right then we are uptrending on influence again the sysem map is showing 97.8% so we have jumped 1%. Ive just done about 6 hours of play finally got some internet issues i had earlier in the day sorted out. Spotted a few people helping out in local i think the are from the offical forums as i havent seen the name here but got a hello.
Winged up with one of em but he logged and didnt come back so dunno if he had net issues. We are downtrending on the next boom and expansion is still sitting there in the queue. And the current boom continues. 1.2.05 has updated as well seems to fix a lot of issues and the game runs much quicker. 98% is the next target for us now and maybe expansion. But economic boom is helpful anyway as it upgrades both wealth and development and when it is finished we should see more npc traders, hopefully more system authority vessels and better ones as a show of higher factional military strength and security of system
1.3 remains something i think we will enjoy apparently theres a lot of new stuff going into all things background simulator and "powerplays" my guess is this should give us more things to do, see and interact with.
Oh the offical forum thread needs a little more attnetion a bump or just a little gentle push showing people influence has gone up

[Dielos]

I just made a small post in the official forum just to move it. I'm out exploring a bit, but will be back tomorrow or the next day with some data. I still see influence at 97.1 though...

[ollobrains]

small change in yesterdays patch erm trading doesnt have as much influence now, its been tweaked some combat actions and exploration data as well as missions probably has been bufed slightly

[Dielos]

Ok, then the data I will be bringing back now won't be that much worth in terms of influence? Where do you get all this info by the way? I don't recall seeing this in the patch notes...

[Barefoot Bandit]

Been working very long days, and I sent my throttle off to be fixed. I'm not too motivated to log into the game tonight, as I know I'll be rebinding 90% of my keys, which will take a while (I dearly love my CH throttle! shame it was wonky - hope I get it back soon!).

I also love the T16000 joystick, but, by goodness it's useless without a throttle with lot sof buttons. Whomever designed the button layout ont he T16000 needs to be shot (for not putting enough buttons near your fingers and thumb).

Anyway, once I do get motivated to spend an hour re-binding everything, I'll get my Python on a rares run, then take my Asp on a long range exploration mission. I figure I won't be too stressed about fast button finding if I'm exploring, as it's really just combat and docking where I use lots of inputs - an dhopefully I'll come back with a nice big list of data to sell.

Z...

[ollobrains]

About to pile in again so look me up in the next 12 hours if youre in local, ill say hi in local

[Smeagol_uk]

Been here for about a week now doing some BB missions and what not, question. All the missions are asking me to take out system security, these are from PCI. But as they are all green for me should I be doING them?
If so do I need a kws to find the one's that are wanted or just ignore them and do the merchant/mercenary hunting one instead?
Also where is the nearest high tech station?

[ollobrains]

Montet is closest high tech i think. U can search for the high tech goods on the map to check. With the latest round of patches USS killing of non pci ships ( friends of pand, pand inc etc) count towards influence but only when those bounties are claimed at a PCI station. KWS is useful i find when a wanted ( not system auth vessels) have a bounty - u can usually double that bounty by running the kws.

What i do is ignore those kill system auth vessel missions if PCI was the minor faction then sure but its just a bugged mission as it stands.
Get some bounties and do the odd mission probably to deliver food cartidges is the cheapest ( as well as personal weapons) donation misions those can be gotten from HR.

1.3 has a lot of promise for us in terms of new elements to the game play and hoping on new missions etc for fringe areas.
The other mission type u can take is goto another nearby system that wants the exports of pand ( minerals i believe) , HR is one. Then go back to Pand in the same ssytem buy the minerals and deliver to the station ( PCI should get a influence boost on the supply side of hte ledger)

I stand by my opinion that the devs really need to rework and expand the mission system by a large margin we dont even get the military plans, black box, rebel tramsission missions because we dont have a neighbrouing settled system under 10LY ( that neighbour thing for missions needs to be expanded out to 50LY at least)

But yeah at the moment killing wanteds is the only thing really that is risk free in pand. If youre after credits and u get a good drop like palladium from a merchant ro wanted, haul it over to oro and drop it off as its an anarchy system, a lot of us are trying to tip the balance of pand to expansion we have a good core fo 20, but we just lack the critical mass and committed long term players that mikunn and lugh have for example, another 10 players would be enough to cover all timezones and keep new players joining us as well. The other half of the issue is the devs.

U can add me commander ollobrains in game as a friend i am around a bit more now in local. Zeemand and others here and on the offical forums seem to be active, i got banned over there so zeeman (barefoot bandit keeps the main group ticking over)