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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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Indeed - it was the life, the universe and everything.
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Excellent timing!3K pages and 3m views? By Christmas might be pushing it though!
EDITAnd, as if by magic, this is post 42K. I must be Golgafrinchen. Or, more probably, a bugblatter beast.
…and here is a completely gratuitous image of the Ravenous Beast of Traal
Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of Half Life 2.
It's free on Steam. I've been playing it. It sill stands up as a great SP game,
It's free on Steam. I've been playing it. It sill stands up as a great SP game,
Discovered that the suit engineering unlocks seem to have changed since last I looked 
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/qxfk63/a_visual_guide_to_unlocking_all_odyssey_pilot/
Those 10x on-foot CGs have always been a wall for me, but apparently the wall was torn down a while back and I never noticed! New things to explore
Aside from that, finished engineering the bolts off my Clipper and moved on to the Mandalay. I'm up to 74.01ly jump range. I'm aware this ship can do 80, but quite honestly, I like being able to support 5A drag drives and near-permanent boost. When I'm doing exobio, a lot of time is spent buzzing around planetary surfaces, and I don't feel like stretching the extra jump range is as important as good handling and a short stopping distance. I'm also happy to keep a backup SRV on hand.
I have found it hard to use an undersized powerplant in the Mandalay; I have settled for turning off the AFMU during regular flight, otherwise a 4A overcharged is on an absolute razor edge of adequate.
Also I never knew you could talk directly to the engineers!
I think tomorrow is time to go pledge... then either investigate the alternative routes to suit engineering, or just do some mining or something mundane. I'm not quite hearing the call of the deep black right now.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/qxfk63/a_visual_guide_to_unlocking_all_odyssey_pilot/Those 10x on-foot CGs have always been a wall for me, but apparently the wall was torn down a while back and I never noticed! New things to explore
Aside from that, finished engineering the bolts off my Clipper and moved on to the Mandalay. I'm up to 74.01ly jump range. I'm aware this ship can do 80, but quite honestly, I like being able to support 5A drag drives and near-permanent boost. When I'm doing exobio, a lot of time is spent buzzing around planetary surfaces, and I don't feel like stretching the extra jump range is as important as good handling and a short stopping distance. I'm also happy to keep a backup SRV on hand.
I have found it hard to use an undersized powerplant in the Mandalay; I have settled for turning off the AFMU during regular flight, otherwise a 4A overcharged is on an absolute razor edge of adequate.
Also I never knew you could talk directly to the engineers!
I think tomorrow is time to go pledge... then either investigate the alternative routes to suit engineering, or just do some mining or something mundane. I'm not quite hearing the call of the deep black right now.
Where did you read that? I can't find any hint on that in your link.
Would be nice if it were like that, though. I crashed into that wall, too.
Today I saw the new ship model in the field, when I was at Jail
Well, however the real big success of the day was actually visiting Any Na and buying 16T of Any Na coffee. It has to be Any Na coffee! Just like the ad at the stations says.
Well, however the real big success of the day was actually visiting Any Na and buying 16T of Any Na coffee. It has to be Any Na coffee! Just like the ad at the stations says.
You have me worried I've misinterpreted it now
The way I'm reading the map is that there's 6 starting engineers: 3 in the bubble, 3 in Colonia. Domino Green seems to just need us to travel 100ly in Apex shuttles, and offers reduced energy usage and a referral chain that ends with jump assist. Jude Navarro wants restore and reactivation missions, and can refer us to Terra Velasquez, who wants heist and theft missions for increase air and sprint.
They seem better to me than CZs, but then, perhaps they will prove to be even more annoying
Meanwhile Baltanos out in Colonia only needs you to have decent rep with the Colonia Council for jump, air, and sprint. If it's that easy, I will consider looking for an FCOC ride to Colonia in the near future!
I will catch some taxis and see what happens. If it gets an invite to Domino Green, that kind of tells us everything
If it gets an invite to Domino Green, that kind of tells us everything
Well, that worked!
I was going to just go buy the 5x Push at a nearby fleet carrier so she'd immediately recommend me onwards... but unfortunately I am doing this at exactly the weekend when there is an open bug with FC bartenders not working.
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Well, that kind of took the wind out of my sales. I guess I can go look for some low threat missions or PoIs, but I am terrible at FPS combat in all games and my point was to not have to get involved with any of it. Still, maybe I can get lucky and find something guarded by like a skimmer or something; I've managed vehicle combat before.
At least it was a cool view... didn't know carriers could park in such low orbit.
But at least I have a plan for when the bug is fixed. Prior to yesterday, I didn't think there was anything I could do with suit engineering without doing CZs, so while it's been a bit of a wasted hour, there's also a new option for the future. Could be worse news
It is Hero Ferrari (the one between Domino and Jude) that has the 10 CZ wall in front of their shop...You have me worried I've misinterpreted it now
The way I'm reading the map is that there's 6 starting engineers: 3 in the bubble, 3 in Colonia. Domino Green seems to just need us to travel 100ly in Apex shuttles, and offers reduced energy usage and a referral chain that ends with jump assist. Jude Navarro wants restore and reactivation missions, and can refer us to Terra Velasquez, who wants heist and theft missions for increase air and sprint.
They seem better to me than CZs, but then, perhaps they will prove to be even more annoying
Meanwhile Baltanos out in Colonia only needs you to have decent rep with the Colonia Council for jump, air, and sprint. If it's that easy, I will consider looking for an FCOC ride to Colonia in the near future!
I will catch some taxis and see what happens. If it gets an invite to Domino Green, that kind of tells us everything
Thus everything is as it was, as far as I know. Domino is the only on-foot engineer I unlocked so far. It is easy enough, after all.
Those restore/reactivation missions, do they come with any combat?
Well, congrats. I know you didn't mean to do it, but you created the best thread ever.3K pages and 3m views? By Christmas might be pushing it though!
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Yes/No/Maybe.
From what I have read some come with scavs there or arriving later and sometimes the base wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and goes after you unless you shutdown alarms and the like before putting the power on.
But that is just what I think I remember reading on the forums so…
Push is easy to get, you can scan planets to find Irregular Markers (in systems where at least some anarchy factions are present i assume is better, but idk for sure), there will be often a couple of containers there, cut doors, loot chests, lots of those hushes and pushes are there. Or, a possibly illegal mission that asks you to get smth from a hidden cache (wording might be a bit different) will usually lead you to such Irregular Markers signal.
Scavs may very well come, but just bring SRV and run away in case it gets too hot. Push is also kind of useless to sell from carrier due to its commonness, checked that back in times when i was deciding what do i keep and what to vendor, noone basically buys it, ppl just put it on sale in hopes that at some point maybe someone comes, but that's way too long and it's way too cheap.
Yeah, 50/50. Some are quiet, but you never know in advance, as scavs may come while you're tinkering inside the PWR building and they won't message you about this. So a worst surprise you can get is a couple of them shooting at you in the doorway, which is bad, but you can just run, no need to fight them.
Dismiss ship, remember where you park SRV and either run either fight in SRV. Also helps to reach the ship faster. And bring dumbfires, sometimes scavs are already there.
Great. The engineers that give you longer sprint duration are hidden behind those combat walls. Not sure id faster shield regen is of any use.
Protip: For the planetary PoI missions (like "seize the nerve agents from a hidden cache" one), you can stay in the ship, put 4 pips to shields and squish the scavengers on the ground.
It's 1000 times more entertaining than getting out and shooting them on foot.
It's 1000 times more entertaining than getting out and shooting them on foot.
Yeah faster shield generation, I think especially if you are making effective use of cover (is that the "combat walls" you mention?). But you don't shoot at the engineer
Thank you!Well, congrats. I know you didn't mean to do it, but you created the best thread ever.