Gaming Elite: Dangerous

[Notebook]

Are community goals part of the multi-player?

Thanks, N.

 

[Fabri91]

Nyes: a certain goal is stated (e.g. "bring as much [material] as you can to place x" or similar ones for mining and bounty hunting) and everyone's contribution is counted, but you can play in solo mode.

The rewards are structured in tiers, as in this example:

the toal collected material reaches the third tier (graph on the right), while this Commander's contribution lands him in the top 5%, netting a reward of 80000 Credits (bottom table).

Note that this must be some sort of test CG, since the rewards are usually much higher.

In general it's very easy to at least get in the top 50% contributors.

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A short history of Jaques and his station, as taken from the new tourist beacon:

Mining with a fellow CMDR for the Colonia Community Goal:

 

[Hielor]

Has mining improved? I tried it when I first picked up the game (a year or so ago, I guess) and it was rather underwhelming -- payoff wasn't great at all and the mining process itself was rather annoying.

 

[PeterRoss]

The process can be automated if you use limpets: scan asteroids with prospectors, which are not only determine its composition but also double the amount of minerals in it (yeah, this weird); mine it with lasers; collect fragments with collector drones; then refine in with refinery. Everything goes much faster compared to doing everything manually.

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Here's a good article with hints about mining:

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Miner

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Hisaaka D1, The Black Planet:

 

[Loru]

Slowly ranking up in the empire.

\o/ I've got Imperial Courier.

Test flight.

Should've reconfigured it for long flights (on the way to Maia to buy meta-alloy for engineer).

Farseer INC.

 

[Fabri91]

That ship looks so nice it's making me rethink my position about slave smuggling.

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There also appears to be a mysterious CG, essentially only a request to be in a certain place at a certain time.

 

[PeterRoss]

I bought Type-7 and decided to try to make money as a trader. With 200 tons capable cargo bay and an economy-class cabin for 32 passengers equipped it can be quite convenient to take multiple delivery and passenger missions at once and fill the cargo bay to the max with commodities to sell on the way. Yes, cargo delivery makes less money than before, but many missions are giving bonuses on some accounts like change og destination or lesser time limit, and these bonuses are clearly not affected by the delivery price glitch. And by completing missions you're gaining factions' rep, and more rep means more missions.
Another matter is pirates. The ones that hunt you because of some delivery you take, not the wild ones. When you are carrying several missions, you have several pirates on your tail. Type-7 is especially good at evading supercruise interdiction, I've never been interdicted when flying it yet. But they tried, oh, they did. The worst case was nine interdiction attempts in a row!

 

[Loru]

That ship looks so nice it's making me rethink my position about slave smuggling.

Don't plan to do big deliveries with it. It has only 2 class-3 slots. I'm re-fitting mine depending on a mission. Suprisingly I managed to kill a pirate lord in Vulture somehow with my "combat outfit".

 

[mojoey]

That mystery CG sounds like a good excuse for a road trip. I'm in, anybody else?

 

[Fabri91]

I'd be there, but I'm 20,000LY away and there's no way I'd make it without some serious sleep deprivation.

 

[mojoey]

It's not a Frame Shift Drive, It's a Freedom Spreading Drive.

 

[Urwumpe]

Make the universe great again?

 

[Fabri91]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUu9-ASyg0"]Elite Dangerous 2.2 Alien Crash site - Mystery Solved - YouTube[/ame]

 

[PeterRoss]

Amitrite A2A from the surface of Amitrite A2:

 

[n122vu]

Space is hard.

Decided to find a quick mission last night before dinner, then finish it up just before bed. Just a simple cargo run. Deliver 4 units of beer. Easy, right? Plotted a course with 3 jumps to the system that had the beer, landed & bought the beer before logging off. Logged back on just after eleven o'clock, figured I'd take the cargo back & reap the rewards. Oh, hey, a destination change , still 3 jumps & an increase in pay. Two jumps down, it drops me by the star, I scoop some fuel, then at 60% heat it does an emergency stop. "Taking heat damage." No biggie, been there, done that already, lived to tell the tale & repaired at the next station. Then, my blood runs cold as I see the message in the upper-right of my hud, "Cargo hold damaged. Jettisoning cargo." Aaaaand I've wasted 2 hours.

Play Elite: Dangerous they said. Explore the vast expanse of space they said. It'll be fun they said. Why are you sobbing on the floor they said....

I love this game.

 

[Urwumpe]

Hey ... Elite: Dangerous has -33% on Steam ..................................... :shifty:

 

[Fabri91]

Do it! Become a space trucker today!

At this point and at the prices now available I'd get Horizons too (the "Commander Deluxe Edition" as advertised on Steam).

 

[Urwumpe]

Do it! Become a space trucker today!

At this point and at the prices now available I'd get Horizons too (the "Commander Deluxe Edition" as advertised on Steam).

Same here, but I can't try it before the weekend, some residual work left to be done.

 

[Fabri91]

"Luckily" I've been blessed with a train strike. :dry:

 

[Urwumpe]

"Luckily" I've been blessed with a train strike. :dry:

Feel lucky. I just got informed, I'll be send to an urgent bootcamp training course for two weeks in the beginning of December and then get deployed for the first three months of 2017 at the shores of the Rhine river.... This means I will only be at home for two weeks this year.