What are you doing (ingame) now?

[Unserene]

What am I doing?
Wishing I had a better internet connection. Winged up with Cmdr JohnLuke and FSB for a unfortunately brief funtime in Beta-1 Tucanae Hazres. Sorry I couldn't stay and help, but my internet sucks the big one. That'll teach me to live in the sticks. Stupid, crappy DSL.

[JohnLuke]

What am I doing?
Wishing I had a better internet connection. Winged up with Cmdr JohnLuke and FSB for a unfortunately brief funtiume in Beta-1 Tucanae Hazres. Sorry I couldn't stay and help, but my internet sucks the big one. That'll teach me to live in the sticks. Stupid, crappy DSL.

No worries bud. At least we got to have a bit of fun killing ships in seconds. The combined firepower of a Python, FDL, and Vette is an awesome sight to see... unless you are a wanted NPC.

Hopefully next time we'll have a better connection!

[Darwin]

Looking at the crashed Annaconda site on Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1
There is also multiple barnacle sites here as well.

[Cmdr Kharma]

Losing the will to live.......

3 crash reports tonight from me.......

But did take on 2 heavily defended data points and won......

[Darr Valen]

Looking at the crashed Annaconda site on Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1
There is also multiple barnacle sites here as well.

The more I hear about barnacles, and crash sites, the more I think Frontier is setting us up for the xeno-patch later in the year.

AND I CAN'T FRIGGIN WAIT!


Anywho, going to do a few trade runs before I crash. Killed plenty of NPCs in my T9 today. Quite fun to use it for interdicting ships. I dunno if the mini-game is that easy, or if the T9 is just that lucky, but it seems like I just insta-win, or close enough to, all my interdictions. Then cannons come out, and missiles are loosed.

What's what NPC, you're being out-turned by a Type 9? What's that, shields offline after getting rammed by the Tradenought? What's that, you're giving up? You're giving ME your cargo? No thanks, I'll take your bounty instead.

[Roger Wilco Jr]

Landed at the rendezvous tonight and my comms wouldn't broadcast in local. Logged out and in and the comms worked, but then I fell through the planet when I deployed my SRV. Fell for a few minutes before logging out and in again. Came back with my ship in orbit and my SRV falling some meters to the planet surface - thankfully no serious damage.

Dear FD ...

[blazingmaniac]

Made it to Elite trading woohoooo the last 10% done in one go!!! 937 million in Trade profit is what it took me.

[Black Rose]

Every planetary ring in the HIP 16607 system is a "pristine reserve". I was out there today and typical asteroid large enough to pulverize the shields on my drop ship and it says "100% --- consisting of 46% osmium, 23% indite and 7.6% Gallium " ---- Um, what king of math is that? What part is the 'pristine' part? I don't have Horizons so I can't say anything about planetary mining. I filled my ship 4 times, that's 96 ton per trip and I didn't get one ton of painite! I got a fair amount of palladium and platinum but nowhere near what I am supposed to expect.

You know the phrase "ignorance is bliss?" Well it all came to light watching that video, its almost too bad I watched it as the sheer force of this game hit me right in the face.

There are a ton of cool things and FD did do a great job on all the details for the stations and the ships, but the planets are pretty bland and all the glaring AI issues, especially the ones where the NPCs don't adhere to any of the rules that plague players.

[Schmobius]

So, the rank grind by assaulting the planetary base in Cubeo is going fairly well. Saw a few un-friended CMDRs in Mobius there too.

I also think I may have learned something: base defenses respawn quicker (Immediately?) when a new CMDR approaches.

I had parked my Gunship on the landing pad at the base, and drove to the data comm terminal (I've finally gotten those working), finished up, and as I'm driving back, my helpless ship is getting pwnd, even though I just killed everything in the area a minute or two prior. I notice on the drive back (which takes what, 30 seconds?) there's another hollow dot somewhere nearby, and make it into my ship, which now has about 20% hull.

I was hoping to hop in and boost away to safety... that didn't happen. It was kind of like getting a fast-travel back to the station to turn in missions for the low, low, price of 2 million credits though.

Normally, I have AT LEAST 5 minutes of safety after clearing the area at that base, as I've never had trouble exploring it in the SRV trying to find any other data terminals, and being very inefficient about it (and flipping the buggy a lot.)

So I'm thinking I may conduct my base assaults in Solo now, just in case. I've been cycling the boards anyway, so I'll just land somewhere different before I head out.

It's a shame though, as I'd be happy to help another CMDR otherwise.

[robfm81]

traded in my python for a FDL - loving the manouverability.... and many many shield boosters..... woohoo shields

working towards A rating it, but for now have a c3 beam, 2x2 beams and 2x2 multi's

considering wether to go for the grade 4 cannon or PA... hmmmm....