Look on the bright side. 500 or so of those battle condas will go into a HazRes or CZ and need to be replaced. Faulcon DeLacy stock is going to skyrocket!
[video=youtube;5haF6oGGYYY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5haF6oGGYYY[/video]
OMG! You can make 20+Mil Cr per Hour, if you didn't realise.
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Look on the bright side. 500 or so of those battle condas will go into a HazRes or CZ and need to be replaced. Faulcon DeLacy stock is going to skyrocket!
[video=youtube;5haF6oGGYYY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5haF6oGGYYY[/video]
I was around for the rares. Did it. Did Sothis yesterday, pulled in average of 12m an hour with a 45m total pull. I am Tycoon ranked trading and get 7-8m an hour listening to audio books, zoning out, mindlessly trading.
Rares were totally profits.
This is NOTHING close to how rares were initially. This is also quite a challenge, with probably what I would say is a 20% chance at least of losing it all initially on the trip back to the bubble.
This is a pretty serious challenge, and very engaging.
... honestly, I would say this is what the game SHOULD be more like. I hope ED does more things like this, rather than straying away from it. This was the most engaged I have been in ED in a very long time.
Even the rares trading stuff was actually what I would classify as having been very mindless, esp since NPC interdictions back then were very poorly made and could be avoided 100%. Yesterday was a serious challenge.
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Oh I don't know, maybe they'll start listening? They're approaching the point of do or die really. People are already skipping over pretty much the entire line of small ships. When everybody is jumping from Sidey to Asp to Python to Cutter they'll have to do something or just pretend the rest of the ships have no purpose.
+1 for all the points, mate!
This is not easy at all, very engaging, exciting and rewarding. And that's how this game should be. I'm on fire for playing again.
FD, don't touch a thing please!
How is it a challenge? You fit double chaff, you submit to interdictions when they happen, you high wake. Done. No challenge whatsoever. If you get fined by an NPC, ignore the fine, there's literally nothing that forces you to pay your fine/bounty.
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You know what, so did I, but I'm really not sure if I deserve this gold plated battle conda I just bought along with the other 2000 asps passing through Sothis in the past day. I guess the conda will be the new viper. Hooray...NOTI just burst out of Sothis with a hold full of iffy goods with this blasting out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHZJej98_T0
And a HUGE grin on my face!
Not the players' fault, it's the devs, and this cake has been baking since Beta. Tons of players warned them that they didn't have enough sinks in the economy.
5% rebuy costs on ships is ridiculous, fuel and ammunition is pennies, repair bills are pathetic, and the economy ensures that once you pass a certain threshold in wealth you start skyrocketing towards the next tier at a much faster rate than what you were previously at.
Now that doesn't mean you need to increase all of the things I listed, you can introduce other costs for players, but they are undeniable examples that Frontier has never done a multiplayer economy in a long haul game like this, being virtually the only credit sinks in the game that mean anything.
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I chose to buy a 15% off ASP at Diaguandri /Ray Gateway
http://www.edshipyard.com/#/L=70g,0...5Rr5Rr,2-7_8S7_6u6Q8S8I,0AA7Sk05U05U4zM7dg2UI
...according to INARA website...
http://inara.cz/market/9808/3888
...the nearest place to Sothis that has ASP is Varati /Thompson Dock ...so I figured if it's that far away might as well build a cheap ASP (as cheap as you can lol) at Diaguandri system
I found that was the better approach for me in smaller ships...until get I get sloppy, tired, or desperate lol & hit the boost on my way to the station's mail slot...then WHAM!! ...back of the station wall I hit, thankfully I keep shields equipped
.. in the screenshot below I had full shields 5A before hitting that wall
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But also bear in mind that you can now get scanned at Outposts when sitting on the landing pad.
You need to enter the hanger to avoid the scans.
This was news to me until it happened twice
lol I didn't know that, but I did get scanned while at Sothis /Newholm Station ...docked on the pad inside & looking around at all the ASP & then scanned /fined for illegal cargo...immediately went into the hanger....since then I always go inside to the hanger everywhere I go.
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yes, i have 4 pips to engine, still leaves 2 for system, i just run this all the time when smuggling. And the idea of submitting means you jump quick enough anyway with a decent power distributer
I am not even convinced sys pips effects jumping much at all, as long as the capacitor is full anyway.
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On the trip back I lost shields, and it was 2 clippers and a viper that almost took me down entirely, but I had my share of other clippers and cobras that caused me trouble. I continually did heat damage from interdictions at stars, and "chaff" doesn't seem to totally affect NPCs for some reason.
I never referenced the fines. I got a few 100K fines, but didn't care much for them.
The main challenge however, when the pirates hopped in with each other in faster ships than mine, while I was also near a star.
I just burst out of Sothis with a hold full of iffy goods with this blasting out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHZJej98_T0
And a HUGE grin on my face!
Awesome
And there we go, was about to hand in the last mission of this run when i got interdicted by some Pirate. FSD failed for some reason (i always submit and run) and a Clipper and a Federal Ship (not sure wich one) popped in and blew me apart like i was made out of Paper.
So there IS risk in this, dont call this easy peasy money like the seeking luxury Stuff back in the day.
So there IS risk in this, dont call this easy peasy money like the seeking luxury Stuff back in the day.
At Entrepreneur rank this is just awesome. I did 2 runs today, total earned 105m. With pauses between deliveries and spending 1,5-2h getting the right missions (so 3-4h total for that), I have spent 8h doing both runs.
That is really not so awesome money like some are making it to be, I actually think earnings are fine having all requirements in mind.
But most important part for me is:
The hell I wouldn't be able to spend 8h (2x4h) doing any A-B trade route, even if it gives bigger profit!!!
Time pass so fast doing this, and I like that. It is so nice mix of everything.
That is really not so awesome money like some are making it to be, I actually think earnings are fine having all requirements in mind.
But most important part for me is:
The hell I wouldn't be able to spend 8h (2x4h) doing any A-B trade route, even if it gives bigger profit!!!
Time pass so fast doing this, and I like that. It is so nice mix of everything.
I was at 12% tycoon when I started doing this missions. After one full day of doing these missions, I just hit elite in trading.
Low end tycoon to elite in a day. Balanced and challenging game-play at it's finest.
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Pretty sad eh?
How many hours exactly did you play? 24? 16? Less?
I calculated that you have made 548 millions + whatever change during that time. Easy to find out your cr / hour from there.
CQC
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catch a round, check for missions, catch a round, check for missions.
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catch a round, check for missions, catch a round, check for missions.