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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Black Rose » Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:03 pm

Schmobius wrote:You're killing me. (And my wallet.) :-)

I need to make back some rebuy money, and unless I quit my job, it would take me months to make it back in the CZ. (Spoiler alert, not quitting my job, since playing Elite doesn't pay my rent.)


CZ can be fun for me for about an hour, after that my boredom meter peaks out and I have to do something else. I couldn't imagine doing that for very long. To me its almost as boring as chasing down Sirius Transports and interdicting them.

I find that if I am careful and don't go crazy I can make about 3 million an hour in a High Rez or 5 to 6 million in a Haz rez.

I need cash as all I have is about 26 million. I do have 141 million tied up in my Clipper but after working so hard to get to Baroness rank I really don't want to sell it.

I am currently using a Federal Assault Ship for combat and with its mass ( greater than an Anaconda ) and its agility 6/10 plus fire power its an excellent choice. Its jump range is a joke though so I had to drop allot of armor for a fuel scoop.

Now I ranked up Federation Navy to get into a Gun Ship and I am appalled as to the number of slots its had and the way its laid out. For example I can fit a size 6 power supply and a size 7 power distributor, but I can't swap the modules. There are also a limited number of additional module slots over and above what is hard coded. Trying to actually load up on firepower over taxes the power module, so even with all those weapon slots, 1 large, 4 medium and 2 small, I have to use the lower weapons to even hope to deploy them and not shut down the ship!

And to top it off the agility is the same as the Drop Ship at 2/10. Heck the Drop Ship has more internals.

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Schmobius » Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:28 pm

I tried taking the gunship into RES... it wasn't great. The thing is a beast for killing surface bases, and that's about it. And yes, a lot of that has to do with the internals.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Darwin » Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:47 pm

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Darwin wrote:Just lost a Cutter in the Exioce CZ to a ramming Cutter that was unkillable.
Hey Ho. Off to do a bit of something else for a bit.

Hello,
Sorry for the loss. I know the exact feeling, except I was rammed by a Conda.
Personally I hate fighting Cutters. They take a Long time to kill and the AI loves ramming. The cutter I was fighting last night kept trying to ram my Corvette but now I now the trick of pitching down or up and boosting out of its way. It can't turn in time as the Cutter tends to slide. Then throttle back to blue, full pips to engines, spin back in the cutter and light up the power plant.

Have fun, fly safe. o7


Thanks. Still not quite rich enough that a large rebuy does not hurt...

The odd thing is that even with a pimped ship, the other Cutter could still out-turn, keep firing beams and plasmas, and have a shield strength that from experience I just cant match. Heck, even my old fully A rated Clipper does not perform like the ones I met in the CZ.
Would like to know where the NPCs get their tweaked distributers with the extra pips!

There was an NPC Annaconda on my side, and we got it down to no shields and 60% hull.
Then the second ram (I dodged the first one), and it took out 1.5 shield rings (@4pips) and my entire re-inforced and armoured hull in one swipe.

NPC's seem to pull off one in a million shots 9 times out of 10.

Actually made more trading for an hour or so than my entire available time every day since the war started, earning bonds.

Going to trade for a bit before returning to the CZ.
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby CMDR Reaper » Mon Feb 22, 2016 5:51 pm

So I tried a comminity goal for the first time.... and I must say - I like it :D :D :D

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Schmobius » Mon Feb 22, 2016 5:58 pm

Is it over? Can I finally start making money again?
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Cmdr Kharma » Mon Feb 22, 2016 6:48 pm

Fly tipping Cryolite all over the planet as I keep finding Silver...Gold and Platinum when my hold is full..........

Oh and flying about 10 - 50m above the surface at 270........That keeps you concentrated......Especially when you boost.....

:D

Now waiting for the idiots to come online so they can get a share of the profit when I sell....Of I'm course looking at BB for platinum missions......Just in case...

Still loving it.......

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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Xebeth » Mon Feb 22, 2016 6:57 pm

Cmdr Kharma wrote:Fly tipping Cryolite all over the planet
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:)


Nooooo! We'll be overrun with insects and have no more yellow fireworks :P
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Jack Dunhill » Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:28 pm

It was fun on CZ again, thanks everyone :)

Almost managed to loose my ship to elite cutter. Lucky for me i finally got frame shift drive to start after several malfunctions :lol:
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Darwin » Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:33 pm

4 Anaconda paint packs in the Frontier store.
Camo, Tactical, Vibrant & Military
https://www.frontierstore.net/game-extras.html
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Re: What are you doing (ingame) now?

Postby Black Rose » Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:42 pm

Darwin wrote:The odd thing is that even with a pimped ship, the other Cutter could still out-turn, keep firing beams and plasmas, and have a shield strength that from experience I just cant match. Heck, even my old fully A rated Clipper does not perform like the ones I met in the CZ.
Would like to know where the NPCs get their tweaked distributors with the extra pips!

There was an NPC Annaconda on my side, and we got it down to no shields and 60% hull.
Then the second ram (I dodged the first one), and it took out 1.5 shield rings (@4pips) and my entire re-inforced and armoured hull in one swipe.

NPC's seem to pull off one in a million shots 9 times out of 10.



The NPCs are not constrained by the same things we are for one. Their reflexes are 100%, their spatial awareness is perfect and we can never match it. They also have to compensate in some way to match a human's superior creativity in combat. So in simple terms they cheat :P

They almost never miss because their gun reflexes and maneuvering is perfect, their lead ability is perfect.

What they don't have is an imagination so they do the only thing they can do. Cheat!

Yes, its true the NPC ships are better than ours and we can't match them because then the NPCs would never lose and what fun would that be?


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