What are you doing (ingame) now?

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Loriath » Sat Mar 28, 2015 7:44 pm

Xebeth wrote:Congrats :)



If you've got your Vulture well kitted you are fairly safe in many cases, but from experience of using a Vulture in RES...

    Watch out for asteroids when boosting, it's always worth hitting a RES that's in sunlight so you can see what you are doing (the lights on the Vulture do not illuminate anything until you are right on top of it)

    If you go after something big like an Anaconda, keep an eye on it's wing's status, whilst the Vulture can happily take these down, it can go horribly wrong very quickly when their buddies in Cobras join in

    Watch your fire, the Vulture has big guns so there is no allowance if you hit a Security Viper, and given that there are usually a lot around, hit the wrong target and your radar will light up with hostiles

    Watch what the security are doing, they seem to rush towards 'Wanted' ships, especially the big ones, so if you see them all heading in one direction it's worth going and checking it out

    Keep an eye out for laser fire, you'll see this even if there is nothing on your radar, always a good sign that there are Wanted ships in that direction, but you often need to be fast to get there in time

Above all have fun and fly safe


Wow! Thanks for all the great tips.

I jumped the gun a little today and went into a Low Intensity CZ. Cost me more than I wanted as I checked the factions, and stupidly chose the wrong one. Hurt my rep, but I went back and got myself allied again.
Still need to find a RES area near my Home System of Cemiess.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Cmdr Kharma » Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:47 pm

Well......Stripped some upgrades I had put on my Asp to give me some trading money and insurance.......

100 tons of berrylium aint cheap.......

Drove my taxi back to my T6......Grinded a few hours....Whilst listening to the Monkees greatest hits......And some Asia....

Got bored and took the taxi out.......To a nav.......

Took down a viper and an eagle I think.....

Then got fucked and lost the bounties and another ship......

I Really should bug out and cash in bounties that are worth more than the rebuy cost of my ship.....

Oh well......

Onwards and upwards...........

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Roger Wilco Jr » Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:58 pm

KleinerFisch wrote:My favorite hunting ground, a RES near my home system, is no longer "working as intended" ... I'm enemy to one faction, so they send out wings of small ships (Sideys, Eagles, Adders) to hunt me and only few pirates show up. This results in me defending myself more often than actually hunting. ...

And then they start sending out Cobras, then Vipers, then Pythons ...OK, OK - I get the hint.
It's time to give this another go.

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby PvtClip » Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:18 pm

Moved up to Squire today. 3 more ranks to go. Was a kill mission this time, Kill Gen Pratchett, he was in a USS flying a Clipper. He didnt fare well against my C3G beamed Vulture. Probably helped that Im a lowly mostly harmless warrior. :) I try to avoid kills as it hurts my trading and ranking in all races. I did make some local enemies over that tho. Gold brotherhood I think. Im sure there will be plenty of time later to make more enemies, AFTER Ive gotten highest ranks. :) Im not sure how all that works exactly so Im cautious about who I shoot.

BTW. Ive been flying in the group for a couple days now, havent seen a soul. Pretty much just like Solo. lol :)

Doh! I just checked and Im just harmless, not even mostly, how depressing. lol
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Colin The Grey » Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:24 pm

Just finished 2hrs in RES, back to home base to change to my ASP for some trade missions and quiet time :)
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby PvtClip » Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:53 pm

Had time for a couple hours a gaming this morning. In that time I managed to get another rank ascension mission. This time it was a kill pirates mission. After I finally figured out where to find them,it went pretty quick. Killed a couple of Sidewinders and an Eagle and a Python. Now Im a Knight and I went from harmless to mostly harmless. Seemed pretty quick to get this mission but maybe that was just my imagination.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Sendraks » Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:10 pm

I'm bounty hunting in RES in a little out of the way system on the fringes of inhabited space. I've got two res within 1LS of the station.

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby clavain » Mon Mar 30, 2015 6:34 pm

I'm out exploring around the California Nebula in my Asp, after visiting the three runaway stars created from the Supernova that former Barnard's Loop, AE Aurigae, Mu Columbae and 53 Arietis. Was sort of disappointed that all three were regular stars and that there was nothing special about them, or even a note to this effect in their system descriptions. After I'm done here may keep going further out or head back to refit and upgrade, have not decided yet. Still don't have an A5 FSD and want to make sure I have enough for it before I head back.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby elpedro21 » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:41 pm

I'm exploring about 2,5 K out. I was already on the way back but i keep encountering stuff that just needs to be scanned! :mrgreen:

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Zedar » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:46 pm

After the fun -and profit- in Lugh I un-garaged and re-tasked the old asp into an explorer, you know -fit better beds and an entertainment system in the head :) . Then fired up the galaxy map and looked for a nebula some 1000 Ly away. Found what I was looking for and locked in the flight path. Now I'm well on the way scanning everything I come across.

Took a time out to watch Interstellar, so went from virtually exploring the galaxy to watching a film exploring the galaxy (or two). Can see a pattern developing here.

Now stocked up on beer and nibbles and continuing on to my Nebula.
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