Combat community goal in banki

[phantagor]

I started working on the community goal in bd+03 2338, but as i logged in today, i stopped it...i get about 1.000.000 cr for one and a half our of playing in my viper, which is pretty good in my mind, but when i looked at the top contributors with about 28.000.000 cr so far, i lost interest...it was clear from the beginning, that i can stand with people who have no life, work and a big ship, but at least i tried, as i thought it would be fun...

but the actually thing i am more annoyed about is, that this isnt an acutally community event...we are not working together to achieve something...right now it is a race who gets the most kills to stay on top of the chain...and sadly, nether skill nor luck do help, just a big ship and too much time...

 

[Adept]

The missions are misattributed. For some reason doing the combat zone missions for the Partners makes them angry and reduced Federal rep. It's very unfortunate. I had to do three pirate hunting missions for them just to get back to Neutral.

When I signed up for the Community Goal, it wasn't attributed to the Gold Advanced Partners on the bulletin board. The wording was also confusing enough, that I initially thought I had to fight for the Gold Gang to advance the Federal cause in the system.

I'm now very reluctant to accept any of the combatzone related missions, which is a shame as they make a big difference to the profits.

I've been battling in Banki off and on for over a week. Before the 1.1 update the influence wouldn't budge. Last time I looked last night, the Federation's Gold Advanced Partners were easily beating the Gold Gang. But I'll probably be back there later tonight to help make sure victory is ours

And I've also been having issues with Federation conflict zone missions decreasing my Federation influence and Gold Advanced Partners influence. I can go to the conflict zone and choose sides with success, but I won't even touch the conflict zone missions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcLUrlE0MVA

Anyways, there's a link to a video of my exploits in one of the Banki conflict zones in my sig below for anyone interesting in seeing lots of things that go boom The Gold Gang probably believes I am the Grim Reaper at this point

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I started working on the community goal in bd+03 2338, but as i logged in today, i stopped it...i get about 1.000.000 cr for one and a half our of playing in my viper, which is pretty good in my mind, but when i looked at the top contributors with about 28.000.000 cr so far, i lost interest...it was clear from the beginning, that i can stand with people who have no life, work and a big ship, but at least i tried, as i thought it would be fun...

but the actually thing i am more annoyed about is, that this isnt an acutally community event...we are not working together to achieve something...right now it is a race who gets the most kills to stay on top of the chain...and sadly, nether skill nor luck do help, just a big ship and too much time...

I think you're missing the point here. Getting to the top 1% reward tier isn't the point here, but to do your part in helping the faction you support win the day.

 

[Eagle Eye]

I'm after dat 15% (hopefully 20% at tier 8?) discount. I can liberate a LOT of money from my fleet's modules (the station have a respectable inventory), to the tune of tens of millions.

 

[Adept]

I'm after dat 15% (hopefully 20% at tier 8?) discount. I can liberate a LOT of money from my fleet's modules (the station have a respectable inventory), to the tune of tens of millions.

What do you mean? Sell stuff elsewhere for full price, re-buy them at the station for the discount price?

 

[Mephane]

What do you mean? Sell stuff elsewhere for full price, re-buy them at the station for the discount price?

No, that was an exploit that has been fixed since. But you can retroactively use such discounts on equipment you already have, by selling it (for its normal, non-discounted price) and then buying the same but discounted item again. It also lowers your effective rebuy cost as that is calculated on the actual purchase price.

 

[Rezar]

Just want to clarify some things for new players and anyone who has never done BD+03 2338 conflict zones before.
First of all I've been participating in this event for 2 days and I've been in the conflict zone 2 times (half hour each). I cashed in a total of 1.2million credits so far and will definitelly be doing more of that. So here are some tips.

- To be able to participate in BD+03 2338 go to Khasiri and dock in the 50k Ls away station Matteucci Terminal (takes about 5mins to reach there so be patient listen to some songs and browse Elite Reddit). There hit bullettin board and sign for the community goal.
- Don't do any missions other than the community goal stuff. They are bugged in a way that if you do any 'X warzone kill' missions from any faction your rep will decrease with said faction.
- In BD+03 2338 the conflict zones are near the 3rd planet and since the planet is 2.5kLs away from the star, they dont show automatically in the navigation panel. Just fly through the 3rd planet and they should appear as you approach.
- To be able to fight go to BD+03 2338 3rd planet (after signing in Khasiri) and enter either one of the conflict zones. After dropping from frame shift go to your right panel and choose faction from the Functions=>Faction
- Go in solo mode and shoot at whatever enemy. Even if you do 2-3% damage you will get the bond so go for big ships like Anaconda and Python (18k and 13k bond respectively!)
- If you want to play Open Mode make sure you are not targetting the same ship as other CMDR's since then the bond goes to highest damage output player and its a waste of time for anyone who is not that person (thus I suggest Solo Mod)
- Right now feds are dominating the conflict zones and any enemy that is stupid enough to warp in and open fire at the capital ship that is being guarded by 20+ ships (none smaller than a viper) dies in mere seconds. So you dont even need bullets to make money. Get some lazers, start hitting whatever enemy is being prioritized by majority of the ships. Do a couple % hull damage. Watch it explode in seconds and start figuring out where to spend all the cash you are making.

Cheers
CMDR Helve Gengar

Just wanted to say thank you. I was getting really confused about what to do and this really helped!

 

[Knarfis]

Just want to clarify some things for new players and anyone who has never done BD+03 2338 conflict zones before.
First of all I've been participating in this event for 2 days and I've been in the conflict zone 2 times (half hour each). I cashed in a total of 1.2million credits so far and will definitelly be doing more of that. So here are some tips.

- To be able to participate in BD+03 2338 go to Khasiri and dock in the 50k Ls away station Matteucci Terminal (takes about 5mins to reach there so be patient listen to some songs and browse Elite Reddit). There hit bullettin board and sign for the community goal.
- Don't do any missions other than the community goal stuff. They are bugged in a way that if you do any 'X warzone kill' missions from any faction your rep will decrease with said faction.
- In BD+03 2338 the conflict zones are near the 3rd planet and since the planet is 2.5kLs away from the star, they dont show automatically in the navigation panel. Just fly through the 3rd planet and they should appear as you approach.
- To be able to fight go to BD+03 2338 3rd planet (after signing in Khasiri) and enter either one of the conflict zones. After dropping from frame shift go to your right panel and choose faction from the Functions=>Faction
- Go in solo mode and shoot at whatever enemy. Even if you do 2-3% damage you will get the bond so go for big ships like Anaconda and Python (18k and 13k bond respectively!)
- If you want to play Open Mode make sure you are not targetting the same ship as other CMDR's since then the bond goes to highest damage output player and its a waste of time for anyone who is not that person (thus I suggest Solo Mod)
- Right now feds are dominating the conflict zones and any enemy that is stupid enough to warp in and open fire at the capital ship that is being guarded by 20+ ships (none smaller than a viper) dies in mere seconds. So you dont even need bullets to make money. Get some lazers, start hitting whatever enemy is being prioritized by majority of the ships. Do a couple % hull damage. Watch it explode in seconds and start figuring out where to spend all the cash you are making.

Cheers
CMDR Helve Gengar

Wow just closed down have to go to bed. Hade so much fun. Got around 1 milj in a hr or so. Just bring laser weopans and keep and maximum turn rate and tag all ships with some hull dmg.

I tested this out this morning and it did not work at all. Put way more then 2 or 3% hull damage into these ships. It seems that if I did not stay on the target, I do not get to claim the bounties.

I really have no idea how you guys are making the kind of money you are claiming here, but I am way off your numbers as I am pulling in about 110k an hour.

Knarfis

 

[malkythealky]

Would be even better if there were 2 opposing goals, be a nice focus for PvP.

Agreed, it seems weird that taking the opposing isn't an option.

 

[Kalearne]

AFAIK its time based, up to 15 (I think) seconds after you hit an enemy it's yours regardless if an NPC kills it. After that it's fair game again.

I'm just having fun chasing them to destruction rather than 'sploiting my kills*

*personal opinion. Tagging npc's and raking in the kills just doesn't seem right

 

[JJKowalski]

I notice this is nearing the top tier now - anyone know if the challenge will end once it hits top tier? Or will it carry one regardless till the timer runs out (2 days or so).

And be interesting to know how many bonds people have earned through this - I'm currently at 4.9M

 

[Dannyc]

AFAIK its time based, up to 15 (I think) seconds after you hit an enemy it's yours regardless if an NPC kills it. After that it's fair game again.

I'm just having fun chasing them to destruction rather than 'sploiting my kills*

*personal opinion. Tagging npc's and raking in the kills just doesn't seem right

Have to agree this seems a bit wrong.. Im just basically feeling like Im exploiting a little here

 

[Darth Ender]

exploiting a little? This is stupidly broken. You shouldn't get a combat bond if you're not the one killing the ship. Same as bounty. The whole running to Solo to avoid having to compete for ships is another broken mechanic of the game, one that probably can only be fixed by game-mode locked characters vs letting the same character jump between modes.

 

[Pandemik]

Stupid question about war zones as I have not given it a proper go.

Who do you know to shoot at?

I went to a low density war zone near Duamata or something like that, and every ship looked similar. I had no idea who to shoot at, and scanning them didnt even say their factions :/ so confused. So i thought I would pick one on random, and took a shot, then i got lit up by 5 vipers.

No clue how war zones work.

 

[Kalearne]

Stupid question about war zones as I have not given it a proper go.

Who do you know to shoot at?

I went to a low density war zone near Duamata or something like that, and every ship looked similar. I had no idea who to shoot at, and scanning them didnt even say their factions :/ so confused. So i thought I would pick one on random, and took a shot, then i got lit up by 5 vipers.

No clue how war zones work.

Head into a zone, then check panel 4. In the functions panel you set which side of the conflict your on.. All the targets will change colour accordingly. Aim for red

 

[ghetto]

Did i see it mentioned there is a capital ship in one of the conflict zones? I was fighting in a low intensity zone just outside the main station in BK+03... its the only conflict zone i could see..

Just thought i would mention that although you have to cash your combat bonds in the correct station, you can still reload your ammo in bk+03, only make the long trek back to cash in your bonds when you feel uncomfortable with that much money unclaimed incase you get killed.

im in an A graded Eagle and kicking pretty much everythings but, one beam laser, 2x multicannon...

 

[Malek]

Anyone know of a decent shipyard/outfitting close to Khiasiri? Heading over that way now in my galaxy taxi

 

[Yanaran]

I notice this is nearing the top tier now - anyone know if the challenge will end once it hits top tier? Or will it carry one regardless till the timer runs out (2 days or so).

And be interesting to know how many bonds people have earned through this - I'm currently at 4.9M

If the final tier is reached the goal ends immediately (unless they changed it since the beta).

exploiting a little? This is stupidly broken. You shouldn't get a combat bond if you're not the one killing the ship. Same as bounty. The whole running to Solo to avoid having to compete for ships is another broken mechanic of the game, one that probably can only be fixed by game-mode locked characters vs letting the same character jump between modes.

It only works this way because so many people complained about getting their kills "stolen" when only the last hit counted. Letting the cap ship finish your kills is only a natural consequence of the "fix". I stay away from the capital zones for exactly that reason, you can still make decent progress in normal combat - 9.5 million in BD+03 and 6.5 million in Banki so far.

 

[Pandemik]

Head into a zone, then check panel 4. In the functions panel you set which side of the conflict your on.. All the targets will change colour accordingly. Aim for red

Thanks for the tip dude, will check it out when I finally arrive there. Travelling from Sol!

 

[Darth Ender]

It only works this way because so many people complained about getting their kills "stolen" when only the last hit counted. Letting the cap ship finish your kills is only a natural consequence of the "fix". I stay away from the capital zones for exactly that reason, you can still make decent progress in normal combat - 9.5 million in BD+03 and 6.5 million in Banki so far.

Crying about their kills stolen. Having your kill stolen is a much better behavior than getting credit for a kill you didn't make, much less contribute the majority of damage to (regardless of if npc or players are contributing).

Might as well pay players for dps dealt since heaven forbid their efforts didn't constantly profit them.

 

[mattensky]

I spent 2 hours last night in the low intensity zone - earned around 300k (took down quite a few elite vipers and a couple of anacondas in my cobra) and was pretty pleased with myself. Went to cash and noticed some cmdrs had earned more than 30 million towards the goal!?
I can't see how it's possible. What ship? How many hours? Boggles the mind . . .

Edit: sorry should have read previous page - did not realise you could just "tag" a ship and move on . . . doesn't sound like much fun to me. Still . . . 30 mil must have taken a while.