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[paul_mumford]

I've managed to persuade Aisling Duval to let me have some prismatic shields!

Edit: Once again I've been a complete plank and didn't unlock Petra Olmanova when I was in Colonia as I assumed the combat rank to unlock her is much higher than it is.
I'm now Competent(!) in combat and will have to return to unlock the engineer...... I shall use my 91.33 unladen Mandalay.

 

[oblivionmanman 2476]

just for pointers pris shields are heavy on power and slow to charge in fact tortise slow,careful what ship you use them on apart from that congratulations 07. also heavy forgot that watch youre mass.

 

[CMDR Lefty Jackson]

Finally got my Mandalay Core Internals all G5 except Life Support (G3 Lightweight) and Fuel Tank (G0).

Also added two Shield Boosters, G5 Heavy Duty/Super Caps.

Can't get G5 Life Support without going to Colonia. That sucks.

 

[aRJay]

Finally got my Mandalay Core Internals all G5 except Life Support (G3 Lightweight) and Fuel Tank (G0).

Also added two Shield Boosters, G5 Heavy Duty/Super Caps.

Can't get G5 Life Support without going to Colonia. That sucks.

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However it doesn’t suck that much, on an otherwise stock Mandalay changing the engineering on D rated life support from G3 to G5 will increase unladen jump range from 21.08 to 21.12 light years which even on a fully worked up ship is not going to become that significant an increase.

 

[Rhialto]

I thought I'd jump on and make a few more runs towards hitting the 50% tier and I'm getting £21M profit for semiconductors in the Type 8. That's more than double what I was getting last time I was on. I'm only five more runs away from joining the 3 billion club so I think I'll just blast through the 50% tier today.

I'm also in the 50% by a small margin.
Been doing other things lately, but i'll make few more runs today.
50% is nice, but 75% is good enough.

 

[Jumpin' Jack Flash]

Hi

I'm also in the 50% by a small margin.
Been doing other things lately, but i'll make few more runs today.
50% is nice, but 75% is good enough.

I also checked my progress in the current CG this morning , I was in the 50% margin so I was kinda hoping that wouldn't change much, as I was also doing other stuff in the game yesterday.
I'm down to 75% so I'll make a few more runs myself to push that back up to 50%. I'm currently at Bowersox port with my carrier in an adjacent system with about 1500t of semiconductors and synthetic fabrics on board. I'll get that shifted as I still want to concentrate on selling off some mined metals and minerals I've got stashed on the carrier.

I want to find some stations that have good pay outs for Osmium, Palladium and Gold based (rewards) trade missions. I usually find those missions at stations that also give high pay-outs for those rarer commodities like Monazite, Platinum etc....but they seem scarce at the moment for some reason ...I'm probably just docking at the wrong ports, as it's just a random thing I guess.

Oh!...yes, yesterday... I usually do these CG's in Solo. I must've forgotten to double check the solo button yesterday when I booted up the game...I'd just arrived in the Winiama system on my way to the station when I was interdicted. I just submitted as usual and assumed it was an npc pirate, though I thought it was strange as I don't usually get interdicted by pirates when I'm doing CG's.
Turns out I was in Open ...but I just powered away from the interdicting ship, engaged supercruise (I was quite near the station at this point) and a short time later docked at the station.
No damage of any sort, and my shields didn't go down either, so it was probably just another player wanting to get my attention maybe!


We had some rain here recently, and the slugs and snails are out in force.. I try to be as 'Organic' as possible but they're making a concerted effort in eating my young parsley plants!. ...

Jack

 

[paul_mumford]

Hi oblivionmanman 2476,

I am going to put them on my Type 10 but I didn't think they would be so expensive and I can't afford them at the moment...

 

[CMDR Lefty Jackson]

However it doesn’t suck that much, on an otherwise stock Mandalay changing the engineering on D rated life support from G3 to G5 will increase unladen jump range from 21.08 to 21.12 light years which even on a fully worked up ship is not going to become that significant an increase.

Right. Not really any difference in range to take Life Support to G5. It only increases from 77.69 to 77.85.

Just sucks if I want all of them to G5. At G3 it seems...incomplete.

That said, it's fully loaded with what I want as an exploration ship. Range is at 77.6Ly Unladen.

I call it done!

 

[Markov Chaney]

Finished the Commercial outpost in the with-planets system. Now I just need to work out what the hell it's going to sell - I'm sure one of the planets could be persuaded to do some refining - but I have already discovered the boffins in my no-planets High Tech system absolutely love the Onionhead. The two systems are one hop apart so I seem to have accidentally made myself a nice trade run...

 

[KnezBP]

I'm also in the 50% by a small margin.
Been doing other things lately, but i'll make few more runs today.
50% is nice, but 75% is good enough.

Yeah, I mostly jumped back on today for other reasons. My trade rank seemed to be static when I went for the 75% tier. Then I noticed that my Tycoon rank had gone from around 33% to nearly 66% as I was getting to the next tier. There's discernable movement with each jump so I thought I'd take advantage while there's simple high paying trades to be made.

And that was before I realised that Elite was the next rank (minutes ago). This surprised me because trading is not my thing at all. Though it was in the early Cobra days. I suppose that's the beauty of CG's. They encourage you to try things you wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

 

[oblivionmanman 2476]

im sure i got my 5Alife support for my mandy in the bubble going to check that out.

 

[aRJay]

im sure i got my 5Alife support for my mandy in the bubble going to check that out.

It is the grade 5 engineering for life support that you cannot get in the bubble.

 

[oblivionmanman 2476]

got you my mistake cheers

 

[Rhialto]

Yeah, I mostly jumped back on today for other reasons. My trade rank seemed to be static when I went for the 75% tier. Then I noticed that my Tycoon rank had gone from around 33% to nearly 66% as I was getting to the next tier. There's discernable movement with each jump so I thought I'd take advantage while there's simple high paying trades to be made.

And that was before I realised that Elite was the next rank (minutes ago). This surprised me because trading is not my thing at all. Though it was in the early Cobra days. I suppose that's the beauty of CG's. They encourage you to try things you wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

True, i am Elite V @ 100 % in trade for some time now.
Still, there are other ranks to pursue.

 

[0threeleven]

There's Fungoida down there somewhere.

 

[aRJay]

There's Fungoida down there somewhere.
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You see the smooth areas where your ship can easily land?

Those are not where the Fungoida is likely to be.

 

[KnezBP]

Woohoo! Trade Elite. I've never remotely thought about trying for it but that's my favourite reward from the CG.

Time to change the Type-8 decals. I've also given him a KNZ-NS ID in homage to the Nostromo.

I also checked my progress in the current CG this morning , I was in the 50% margin so I was kinda hoping that wouldn't change much, as I was also doing other stuff in the game yesterday.
I'm down to 75% so I'll make a few more runs myself to push that back up to 50%. I'm currently at Bowersox port with my carrier in an adjacent system with about 1500t of semiconductors and synthetic fabrics on board. I'll get that shifted as I still want to concentrate on selling off some mined metals and minerals I've got stashed on the carrier.

So that's how people are getting those ridiculous numbers in the top ten? I wondered if they were just strapped to their desks 24/7 and being fed nutrients via drip.

True, i am Elite V @ 100 % in trade for some time now.
Still, there are other ranks to pursue.

I feel like I could possibly reach combat Elite by the time Elon Musk colonises Europa.

 

[0threeleven]

You see the smooth areas where your ship can easily land?

Those are not where the Fungoida is likely to be.

Oh yeah, it's always a pain in the donkey.

 

[Rustnsawdust]

What am I up to? The usual... cataloging vegetables.

I'm just a few jumps out of Colonia so far, but have found a bunch of terraformable HMCs, several waterworlds, and one earthlike - all undiscovered. Racked up some good to-be-cashed credits for bio scanning but nothing I haven't seen before. Yet.

Would I be right in surmising that there are different bios in different parts of the galaxy? Since I returned to the game I've been exploring east-ish of Colonia and I'm finding the same stuff again and again - not just the same species but the same variants. Maybe I just need to go farther... I can do that!

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Woohoo! Trade Elite. ...

Right on, CMDR! O7