What are you doing (ingame) now?

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Tifu » Thu Jan 28, 2016 5:28 am

Schmobius wrote:Which reminds me, how is the order doing in exioce?

War ended way before the 30 day max limit with the Order enjoying a wide lead over Crimsom Electronics. Unfortunately, no bases flipped so the bug report has been escalated (very determinedly) to the Fdevs. Fingers crossed.

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby blazingmaniac » Thu Jan 28, 2016 6:04 am

Falcon_D wrote:
blazingmaniac wrote:Doing the 2 community goals to fight off Emperor's Dawn CG's

Not many doing it at the moment, I am in the top 5 Commanders in each at the moment. Seeing as they are very close to Azrael I have been trying out various ships and load outs and flitting between the 2 CG's

Its actually quite fun. Favourite ship and load out has to be this so far FDL

Hopefully more Commanders will come and help with the fightsoon.


I've given up on CGs regarding the Emperor's Dawn. They seemed to be bugged. I actually signed up for this CG but when I got to the CZ it was in cease fire. This is the second Emperor's Dawn CG which I signed up for and bugged out.

Finished running media material for the Blue Haired One. Going to try and get Elite trader this week, 33% to go. Then get a Corvette and equip it with class 7 prismatics and then resign from PP. :)

Have fun, fly safe. o7


It was indeed bugged for several days over the previous weekend where both of these were in cease fire, they are however both up and running now with numbers slowly picking up. The good thing is they are only just over 30ly's apart so you can jump between the 2 easily. I am maintaining top 5% in each easily so far so if I can keep that going then it should be a good pay day all round in a weeks time, as long as they reach the 1st tier at least.
20% more to get to Elite combat so its a double bonus for me :)
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Pembroke » Thu Jan 28, 2016 6:45 am

Prepping my diamond back exploder to head out in to the black. Been a long time since I went exploring, and now I can look at moons I find.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Jack Dunhill » Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:53 am

Taking part of CG in Ch'i Lin. Im in top 5 commanders with 42mil of collected bonds. I sure hope it makes the first tier...

But at least it's been a good shakedown cruise to my Python... :D
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby bootsam » Thu Jan 28, 2016 8:45 am

I carried on at Cubeo, I too watched that Vind Jones Vid Schmobius, but he makes it look easy. Im in an asp. But I did equip dumbfires and yes it helped a lot. :) I also managed to get a defence turret to take a goliath out, which was nice. But I need to be careful, the low gravity of the planet makes rushing in and bombing the shit out of the turrets straight from re-entry interesting. I thought I was going to bury my Asp into the planet. I only just managed to pull up with all thrusters, some luck and quite a bit of swearing.

Gone from Count 55% to 87%. Soon, soon the Cutter will be mine. Spare us the cutter....

I cant wait to sell that T9. Then I can return to bimbling around trading.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Schmobius » Thu Jan 28, 2016 2:06 pm

I struggled with this run in a python, but the gunship, with its 7 hardpoints, 4 utility slots, and decent armor does make it easier. I usually manage to leave after only 5 minutes having destroyed EVERYTHING, landed, and scanned the comms relay. For the time or two that I miss something, the armor is clutch.

Best approach is to kill the air defense turrets before the goliath can even start shooting. Aim for generators, and don't worry about being too precise: the point of the missiles is splash damage. (Don't forget the one on the roof!) Then go after the goliath. I use the beams to take down its shields, then 2-4 shots of missiles to kill it. Then take down the sentries and small turrets at your leisure, land on the pad, and you can easily drive right to the comms relay, and back to your ship.

I've been doing this in solo, as when a new commander shows up in Mobius, everything seems to respawn early.

Again, I can do all that in about 5 minutes, and I am far from the best pilot in this group. I spend much more time stacking missions, so I can't wait to be done with this grind! Might be by this weekend. (Those of you on my friends list will probably be happy to stop getting notifications when I switch modes.)

I made it to Earl last night, and I was Lord when so started this. I also went from about 87mil in cash (after buying the gunship) to 210mil. There are more lucrative strategies, but this is decent.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Tifu » Thu Jan 28, 2016 2:06 pm

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I LIKE the tactical cobalt blue skin :)

Spent the past hour and a half patrolling the route between the Order's homebase at Rafferty station to the lawless anarchic area around Guth dock in the Azrael system. I currently suck at this - lost one battle against two lawless Sidewinders after I pulled both of them out of hypercruise. Very frustrating to scan a target and find them :

a) Too powerful
b) Too many
c) Too fast (need to equip an FS wakescanner that won't shut down my ship)
d) A & B

On top of that - and I have to be frank - the Order was a cheapskate with missions on the BB today. Finally gave up and headed back to HQ when I was (to my great joy) interdicted by a lone Imperial Courier bandit. After a lengthy battle my two fixed size 2 pulse lasers & 2 size 1 gimballed multi-canons reduced him to a thousand expensive splinters.

Went home & parked happy :)

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby pargyrak » Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:25 pm

Running Fehu missions and exploring...

79% left for Elite trading and 96% for Elite Explorer...

Ah! Made it to Baron...
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby charlie2alpha » Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:53 pm

Camped at Cubeo today and was today the usual missions, went to Lord up from Knight, still have ways to until I reach Duke which is my goal. Unsure if I can keep doing this daily as it is becoming very tedious and boring after a while. Taking down the base defenses and the goliaths became routine, I need no gunship or anything fancy, I do it easily with my ASP Explorer, 2 small beams, 4 dumb missile batteries, 4 point defenses and it does the job.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Schmobius » Thu Jan 28, 2016 5:48 pm

That is about the same loadout.
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