Games been out for 27 days, not 5.
How do people get to imperial clippers within 5 days of the game coming out? (Raden)
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Games been out for 27 days, not 5.
Firstly, it's Redan. Not Raden.
Secondly, I didn't get my ship through trading or exploiting or rare goods. I got it through piracy... Piracy done right. I've been playing since before the gamma wipe and just as a pat on the head for you and your friends, who with your keen powers of deduction assumed that I exploited to my ship and thus have little to no combat experience whatsoever: I've been Master rank for over 2 weeks now. All real pirates have real skill in combat.
Thirdly, let me shed some light on the situation and tell you all a little story...
Although I am primarily a pirate, I am also an opportunistic trader. While I was docked at a station, I saw a high-profit mission to go and get some silver. I took the quest, and as I am very familiar with the area I knew exactly where to go for the goods. The problem is that the station which carries those goods is ruled by the federation and (at the time) I had a 3.2 million credit bounty on my head with those guys, which is how I intend to play the game: To be a notorious, highly wanted pirate.
I went there, docked with no issues, grabbed the goods and started heading back to hand in my mission. While on my return journey, I encountered a type-7 captained by a the OP. Now, being the pirate that I am, I'd be damned before I let a type-7 cross my path without pirating the heck out of it, so naturally... I attempt piracy.....But sadly as my Clipper does not mass lock (due to a known and ticketed glitch which I've posted about ever since I got the ship weeks and weeks ago) I fail in my attempt and he escapes into SC with little effort on his part.
I choose to follow. I snatch him back down from Super Cruise and attempt once more, this time with limpets. Now, he has point defenses, so I have to get in super close to be effective with the limpets. With full pips in engines and 2 in weapons (pursuit mode) I get within 150m of his cargo hatch and launch a limpet at him (which lands successfully) when the unthinkable happens: He crashes into me and I instantly die.
Mind you, my ship is close to fully best in slot. The re-buy alone costs me over 3 million credits without factoring in my cargo, but even that isn't the kicker. The problem is that my last dock was federation space and I had to pay 5.1 million credits (you need to pay 150% of your bounties if you die in their jurisdiction) to my bounty fines or else lose my ship.
This little encounter cost me over 8 million credits.
Of course, naturally I was absolutely furious. I had no idea if the OP died as well or whether or not he could claim my bounty, but I was absolutely livid at the fact that his ship doesn't weigh that much more than mine and given that he had no shields and was at around 60% hull while I was at 100% hull with full shielding and yet he still one shot me with his truck (or maybe I should say his train?) by ramming into me, I felt it was a total physics glitch. I even ticketed it in a very angry message to FD about broken physics and mechanics in a ticket which was so rude that I've since decided to close and delete it.
So, given that he has gotten the better of me, why does he make this thread, you might ask? The reason is that some time after this incident while docking at a station, I saw him fly in before me. My hands started to shake with fury, my eyes squinted with rage and I resolved to make an example out of this person. This would be what happens when you cross a real pirate. I quickly concluded my business with the station and chased him to a nearby system.
There he was, ladies and gentlemen. Alone and helpless in Super Cruise just trying to sell his 187 Performance Enhancers along with some other garbage he picked up from the station from which i tracked him (I cargo scanned him before I gave chase), completely oblivious to the fact that he just off one of the biggest sharks in the galaxy. I interdicted him, pulled him down and killed him with zero remorse. He died in seconds, guys. No limpets, no point defenses, no threats, nothing. I was not interested in his cargo. I was interested in harming him. His death was cold, wordless and instant. As the wreckage of his type-7 floated past my canopy, all I could imagine were his last moments. Imagine all of the chaos from the alarms in his cockpit, his panic at the attack, his fear of losing his hard earned work all jammed into his confused little brain. His last moments were dominated flash of my lasers and the ring of my bullets. It must have been...Glorious.
I've already made back the majority of my lost credits and I've already gotten over a million credits in Federation bounties on my head back, but the true justice of this is that I got him back.
Now I understand that these forums are monitored and have a policy about keeping CMDR names anonymous and perhaps this thread will get redacted at some point like many others, but allow me to part with some wisdom here and now to all traders, and especially you and your friends, Commander: You may ask your allies to threaten me with private messages on these forums, accusing me of exploiting, of having no experience in combat. You may ask them to hunt me down and chase after me in an attempt to bring me to justice...But listen well, you filthy trader and bounty hunter peasants: There is a darkness in these skies that you will all come to fear and respect. We are the Pirates Of The Void....and The Void beckons.
Secondly, I didn't get my ship through trading or exploiting or rare goods. I got it through piracy... Piracy done right. I've been playing since before the gamma wipe and just as a pat on the head for you and your friends, who with your keen powers of deduction assumed that I exploited to my ship and thus have little to no combat experience whatsoever: I've been Master rank for over 2 weeks now. All real pirates have real skill in combat.
Thirdly, let me shed some light on the situation and tell you all a little story...
Although I am primarily a pirate, I am also an opportunistic trader. While I was docked at a station, I saw a high-profit mission to go and get some silver. I took the quest, and as I am very familiar with the area I knew exactly where to go for the goods. The problem is that the station which carries those goods is ruled by the federation and (at the time) I had a 3.2 million credit bounty on my head with those guys, which is how I intend to play the game: To be a notorious, highly wanted pirate.
I went there, docked with no issues, grabbed the goods and started heading back to hand in my mission. While on my return journey, I encountered a type-7 captained by a the OP. Now, being the pirate that I am, I'd be damned before I let a type-7 cross my path without pirating the heck out of it, so naturally... I attempt piracy.....But sadly as my Clipper does not mass lock (due to a known and ticketed glitch which I've posted about ever since I got the ship weeks and weeks ago) I fail in my attempt and he escapes into SC with little effort on his part.
I choose to follow. I snatch him back down from Super Cruise and attempt once more, this time with limpets. Now, he has point defenses, so I have to get in super close to be effective with the limpets. With full pips in engines and 2 in weapons (pursuit mode) I get within 150m of his cargo hatch and launch a limpet at him (which lands successfully) when the unthinkable happens: He crashes into me and I instantly die.
Mind you, my ship is close to fully best in slot. The re-buy alone costs me over 3 million credits without factoring in my cargo, but even that isn't the kicker. The problem is that my last dock was federation space and I had to pay 5.1 million credits (you need to pay 150% of your bounties if you die in their jurisdiction) to my bounty fines or else lose my ship.
This little encounter cost me over 8 million credits.
Of course, naturally I was absolutely furious. I had no idea if the OP died as well or whether or not he could claim my bounty, but I was absolutely livid at the fact that his ship doesn't weigh that much more than mine and given that he had no shields and was at around 60% hull while I was at 100% hull with full shielding and yet he still one shot me with his truck (or maybe I should say his train?) by ramming into me, I felt it was a total physics glitch. I even ticketed it in a very angry message to FD about broken physics and mechanics in a ticket which was so rude that I've since decided to close and delete it.
So, given that he has gotten the better of me, why does he make this thread, you might ask? The reason is that some time after this incident while docking at a station, I saw him fly in before me. My hands started to shake with fury, my eyes squinted with rage and I resolved to make an example out of this person. This would be what happens when you cross a real pirate. I quickly concluded my business with the station and chased him to a nearby system.
There he was, ladies and gentlemen. Alone and helpless in Super Cruise just trying to sell his 187 Performance Enhancers along with some other garbage he picked up from the station from which i tracked him (I cargo scanned him before I gave chase), completely oblivious to the fact that he just off one of the biggest sharks in the galaxy. I interdicted him, pulled him down and killed him with zero remorse. He died in seconds, guys. No limpets, no point defenses, no threats, nothing. I was not interested in his cargo. I was interested in harming him. His death was cold, wordless and instant. As the wreckage of his type-7 floated past my canopy, all I could imagine were his last moments. Imagine all of the chaos from the alarms in his cockpit, his panic at the attack, his fear of losing his hard earned work all jammed into his confused little brain. His last moments were dominated flash of my lasers and the ring of my bullets. It must have been...Glorious.
I've already made back the majority of my lost credits and I've already gotten over a million credits in Federation bounties on my head back, but the true justice of this is that I got him back.
Now I understand that these forums are monitored and have a policy about keeping CMDR names anonymous and perhaps this thread will get redacted at some point like many others, but allow me to part with some wisdom here and now to all traders, and especially you and your friends, Commander: You may ask your allies to threaten me with private messages on these forums, accusing me of exploiting, of having no experience in combat. You may ask them to hunt me down and chase after me in an attempt to bring me to justice...But listen well, you filthy trader and bounty hunter peasants: There is a darkness in these skies that you will all come to fear and respect. We are the Pirates Of The Void....and The Void beckons.
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Launched 16 Dec 2014.
Christmas Day 25 Dec 2014.
Santa delivered a lot of Clippers that day.
vonvonbraun
Banned
The funniest part of this is that the OP was in a Type 7, which is just about 5 millions short of a Clipper
So I ask, how does a player is in a Type 7 5 days post launch (lol) ?
We are all alphas / betas / gammas
Bow and pay your tribute to the Pirates of The Void.
So I ask, how does a player is in a Type 7 5 days post launch (lol) ?
We are all alphas / betas / gammas
Bow and pay your tribute to the Pirates of The Void.
That's incorrect. I have been a beta player since october, played hundreds of hours, practically every day, and I am far from getting a python after the wipe in gamma... I got an ASP pretty loaded but I didn't like it so I resold it and now have a 9M+ cobra and a 6M Type 6 with 10M in the bank...
Anyone who has more than what a python cost has cheated... Even a python is a stretch since any single upgrade is worth millions.
There are a few exploits that have been rolled back (exploiters got their stuff resold)...
I play in open play and haven't seen a single PvE Anaconda since they started the exploit cleanup a week ago.
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You could camp rares pre-nerf and load up on lots of them before going somewhere else to sell. Rares selling price depends on distance traveled.
Nice to hear someone say that
Played through beta and the wipes. I was going to stop play when the gamma wipe happened but... I could not put this game down
I saw another Anaconda the other day and I know of others from gamma who have them. There are a few of us out there but... within another 3 weeks or so people starting from the 16th launch should be there or thereabouts.
The headstart will be null and void quite soon (as others get them) but for now I enjoy being something of a rarity in the game
Yup was a Premium Beta player from August - lots of wipes, crashes, bug reports sent and voila - lovely game on Launch
That is considered an exploit and is being cleaned up.
that would not be considered an exploit... because it wasn't an exploit. It was by design... they used to have rares spawn slowly but everybody shared the same "pool" of stock. Then they changed it so everybody had individual stocks... it was a design change, not an exploit fix. Making changes to balance things doesn't mean people playing before the change were exploiting.
Well I haven't cheated and I have a Type9 and a full-spec Cobra. I'm about 15M away from a Anaconda though I'll need another 20M on top of that for insurance and a load of cargo. I'm grinding better than 10M per day + some Empire rank missions. There are quite a few people in Anacondas I think and I saw Pythons around at least a week before I could afford one.
For what its worth I did not play the beta or the gamma and have roughly 160 million in assets without exploits now, and I havent even really played what would be considered an obscene amount of hours. Its really not that hard.
Also awesome post Redan, personally I loathe pirates, but that was good writing and a great story, so +1 for you.
Also awesome post Redan, personally I loathe pirates, but that was good writing and a great story, so +1 for you.
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After resetting my save on the 3rd (got bugged on the 1st; still haven't got a reply on that ticket), I had a Python and 80M assets one week later on the 10th. I played a lot, but someone who doesn't work full time could have easily played far more.
It took me ~12 hours to get the first couple million for a T6 and some trade money. After that I earned ~1.5/hr in the T6, 2/hr in an Asp, and 3.5/hr in a T7. Total time grinding was about 40 hours.
It took me ~12 hours to get the first couple million for a T6 and some trade money. After that I earned ~1.5/hr in the T6, 2/hr in an Asp, and 3.5/hr in a T7. Total time grinding was about 40 hours.
I'm not resistant. I haven't played this in three days because just the thought of doing more trading makes me bored, and bounty hunting and exploring don't make near enough money.
The knowledge gained from beta/gamma is the real prize, not the credits. I started on the 16th, and it took me until Christmas to make my first Million. If I started again today, I could probably do it in one night's play.
This is not an exploit. It is the reward of skill.
This is not an exploit. It is the reward of skill.
That's a much overlooked point too, yes....knowledge.
oh I really hope this is all true. Funny when you see the other side isnt it?
Just to keep things in perspective, some folks were flying Anconda on the first day of gamma, I was attacked on the second morning after launch by just such a player.
vonvonbraun
Banned
You just have a lesser skill at. Making in the game