Elite Dangerous | Cobra MK V Update - 12 December 2024

I tried selling some silver I had bought cheap and stored on my carrier to a station in a system we're trying to reinforce. (Sell at large profit).
I got no merits, anyone else having the same issue? Selling goods bought but not stored at carrier reportedly works, havn't had time yet myself to try either that or buying something new after the update, storing it and then selling it.
Yes same. Another group I used to play with I still keep in touch said they drew a system down to zero demand with BGS trade and essentially hit immediate diminishing returns. Like as in, not tapering down but basically NO ROI on future activities...
 
Clear the Internet Cache (Temporary Files, not the same as the Windows Temporary files) via the Windows Drive Cleanup Tool (type 'clean' in Windows search to find the tool). Worked every time for me.

The updater uses WinInet and that cache can lead to files not properly updated/re-downloaded.

O7,
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Bingo! Nice one, thanks! This was the issue.
Even uninstalling, then manually deleting all the ED folders didn't fix it.
Cleared cache like you mentioned, problem resolved.
Not had an install issue, like ever...Every day is a school day. Thanks again.
 
Just tried an Inara search for a Cobra Mk V. I can't find any within 20kly of Colonia, which is where I am operating at the moment.

Unless it's something I'm doing wrong, that's just not on. Many ED players have made their home here!

Any ideas?

[Edit]: And yes, I have bought the 'rights' to one using Arx :D
[Second Edit]: Could it be that they have sold out? In which case Mr. Rimmer sir, when do they restock? Overnight, or just on Thursdays?
 
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...due to a last minute technical issue the Mandalay Midnight Black paint jobs are currently unavailable.
Ah so it didn't disappear and we still get the chance to grab the matte one... I was waiting on that along with other metallic colourations (I assume the Stygian series) as mentioned earlier in this post for the 28th Nov update. But those didn't show up yet, when are those coming?
 
Yes same. Another group I used to play with I still keep in touch said they drew a system down to zero demand with BGS trade and essentially hit immediate diminishing returns. Like as in, not tapering down but basically NO ROI on future activities...
I don't think this has ahnything to do with demand, it seem to be that the carrier "unmarks" the commodity for earning merits after todays update.
 
I wonder if the Cobra V will supplant the Diamondback Scout as the best ship in the game. It’s a high bar.
It will be interesting to see... It took me a while to come around to the DBS but once I did it found a very solid place as my go to personal transport.
 
As you know I think FDev have utterly dropped the ball on in-game discoverability generally and PP 2.0 rules specifically, so I agree with you.

BUT I am looking at a thread where people are:
  • creating solid, testable hypotheses
  • TESTING THEM
  • drawing conclusions, including a minimum viable set of rules which Ian gave in the very comment you are replying to.

And some of the "minimum set of viable rules" I've seen contradicted by other posts on the subject; I don't know which are correct.

The fact that the playerbase is needing to do this sort of detective work is ridiculous, but I think that we agree on.

We seem to also have a different definition of "solid hypotheses", most of what I've seen have been more akin to guesses. Ian was referencing something that seemed better though, but I've missed that lengthy data driven conversation. You did notice the "from what I've seen" qualifier there didn't you?

You at least did understand I was replying to two different messages though, right?


That is the opposite of pure guessing and I really don't think anyone should denigrate the amount of work the community have put into it so far. In fact that supports your point!

There's been an awful lot of constructive Principium Contradictionis and almost no post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. There has been one case of someone misspelling "propter" whilst trying to look clever though.

Oh dear I made a typo, what an utter disaster; I salute your superiority in never having made one yourself. But in your effort to look clever, you might want to brush up on principium contradictionis; though point taken, don't use dead languages because someone will get their panties in a bunch.

Hey, it's great the community is willing to do a job they shouldn't need to do, and doing it for free.
But most of the comments on the subject that I have seen have been along the lines of "I did X and it worked, so X is the secret requirement". If you don't consider that to be an example of "after this, therefore because of this", then that is your prerogative I guess. Or more likely, since you acknowledged some propter hoc, but considered the vast majority to not have been, we've been looking at different sets of posts.

There's also a big difference in my opinion between making hypotheses and testing them in a concerted way to figure out the parameters, and stating hypotheses to someone who just wants to do exploration for merits. Latter is what I'm criticizing, but I probably could have phrased things in a way that made that more apparent.
 
Wow, that is amazing, how come nobody mentions it??
I guess majority of people already knew about this from watching Cobra early access streams.

A fix has been implemented to resolve a number of issues related to carrier bartender transactions. However, transaction errors may still be encountered in some specific cases, please report any instances via the issue tracker and we will continue to investigate. https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/67143
We still cannot transfer materials to/from FC.
 
New bug: Adding a bookmark instantly gives a 'Black Adder' error and exits to main menu. (was trying to add the Hutner rescue ship to favorites..)
 
New bug: Adding a bookmark instantly gives a 'Black Adder' error and exits to main menu. (was trying to add the Hutner rescue ship to favorites..)
I ran into this couple days ago as well. Seemed to be just the particular rescue ship in Lyuten; I was able to bookmark other stuff just fine, at least at the time, it could have got worse since. :unsure:
 
New bug: Adding a bookmark instantly gives a 'Black Adder' error and exits to main menu. (was trying to add the Hutner rescue ship to favorites..)
That seems to be specific for the Hutner. The other rescue ship can be bookmarked without problem.
 
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