Be really careful coming home!

NCFCpaul

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Hi everyone, been playing elite dangerous for a long time but never went exploring to any great depth. After having my FDL a) nerfed with heat issues and b) horribly blown up by a cobra I switched to a heavily armoured and heavily gunned python. Same result, although it was a culture this time. So with the engineers update leaving the bubble hazardous at best, or at very least unbalanced I'm off into the depths of space in my shiny new asp!
I've made sure to fit really good shields, it hurts my range a bit but when I eventually come home i know they'll be needed. Having seen as cobra chew up an a rated, military alloy, but desperately over heating FDL I can't imagine what would happen to an undefended asp with months of exploitation data!
I know this is probably nothing new to anyone but having read a lot of forums I reckon shields are now an absolute must for exploitation.
Fly safe everyone, hope to catch up with one or two of you who won't shoot me somewhere many light years from Sol
 

Eisen

Eisen
The only solution to this seem to be armed escorts (Iridium Wing) or choosing a system on the borders of the bubble with a station very near the sun for your first landing.
However in the last week there were some very strong hints that deep space may become a very unsafe place soon. People like Michael Brookes ("Winter is coming" and "it will be an ice-age") and Drew Wagar ("Go with the biggest guns you can get and pimp your jumprange using the engineers") have made quite clear statements about it. The only question is: when??
 

newman1702

newman1702
They were trolling Ed, who was on his way from BP, they even said as much. While I hope aliens do come eventually, turning exploration builds into combat ones with scanners attached seems lame to me so I hope they don't overdo it whem they do come.
 
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Eisen

Eisen
Quote from the AMA with Drew Wagar:

Given the hints that players have been given that "Winter is coming" and it will be an "Ice age", personally I'd take along the biggest guns you can carry whilst retaining a usable exploration jump range. Just FYI. ;) It's no co-incidence these engineers have opened their stalls at this point you know!
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The whole AMA-Summary is here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Canonn/comments/4lo1kk/drews_ama_summary/
 
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newman1702

newman1702
I'm aware of it, and while aliens are eventually coming, I'd wager we won't see them at least during 2.1 (perhaps with guardians?), though I suspect that given this season seems to be about major balance changes they just might wait to get things balanced properly and then release them either at the end of this season or with 3.0. Again, MB said they overstated a bit to troll ED who was (still is? not sure) deep in the black at that point.
 

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
newman1702 said:
I'm aware of it, and while aliens are eventually coming, I'd wager we won't see them at least during 2.1 (perhaps with guardians?), though I suspect that given this season seems to be about major balance changes they just might wait to get things balanced properly and then release them either at the end of this season or with 3.0. Again, MB said they overstated a bit to troll ED who was (still is? not sure) deep in the black at that point.
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Mike said to Ed "...then you're screwed!" But it was obviously tongue-in-cheek.

Frawd
 

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
Eisen said:
People like Michael Brookes ("Winter is coming" and "it will be an ice-age") and Drew Wagar ("Go with the biggest guns you can get and pimp your jumprange using the engineers") have made quite clear statements about it.
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Statement being: grind you apes, do you want to live forever?

I was drawn to exploring because it's a welcome change from pew pew. Aint no wintery thargoid bint-o-saur gonna change that.

And since it's off little use to shoot a solar flare, I feel I shouldn't need guns to deal with those kind of exploration-type dangers.
 

NCFCpaul

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Good spot newman1702, I missed a few typos, that Vulture wasn't especially cultured either!
I hadn't considered that deep space would be dangerous in that way but now you've said it...
By the way does anyone have any sightseeing tips? Especially nebulas, or anything else with looking for?
 

newman1702

newman1702
NCFCpaul said:
Good spot newman1702, I missed a few typos, that Vulture wasn't especially cultured either!
I hadn't considered that deep space would be dangerous in that way but now you've said it...
By the way does anyone have any sightseeing tips? Especially nebulas, or anything else with looking for?
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There are many non-procedural, real nebulae close to the bubble, such as Barnard's Loop, California nebula, Omega and Eagle Nebulae, the list goes on. If you don't mind traveling further I highly suggest a visit to the core, as the fringes of the core contain not just the neutron fields with many neutron stars and black holes, but also many small planetary nebulae that are just plain gorgeous. When you get closer to the core the star density increases meaning the background starfield becomes brighter and more beautiful with each jump. And of course, since you're in town why not swing around and visit Sag A and the Great Annihilator :)
 
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Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
NCFCpaul said:
Good spot newman1702, I missed a few typos, that Vulture wasn't especially cultured either!
I hadn't considered that deep space would be dangerous in that way but now you've said it...
By the way does anyone have any sightseeing tips? Especially nebulas, or anything else with looking for?
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There's the nebulae in our backyard around Barnard's Loop. There's a couple of planetary nebulae close to the bubble: Eskimo, Hind. The Spirograph nebula is a little further away.

And there's lots of info in this sticky thread

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=139049
 

Sugarat

Sugarat
NCFCpaul said:
Hi everyone, been playing elite dangerous for a long time but never went exploring to any great depth. After having my FDL a) nerfed with heat issues and b) horribly blown up by a cobra I switched to a heavily armoured and heavily gunned python. Same result, although it was a culture this time. So with the engineers update leaving the bubble hazardous at best, or at very least unbalanced I'm off into the depths of space in my shiny new asp!
I've made sure to fit really good shields, it hurts my range a bit but when I eventually come home i know they'll be needed. Having seen as cobra chew up an a rated, military alloy, but desperately over heating FDL I can't imagine what would happen to an undefended asp with months of exploitation data!
I know this is probably nothing new to anyone but having read a lot of forums I reckon shields are now an absolute must for exploitation.
Fly safe everyone, hope to catch up with one or two of you who won't shoot me somewhere many light years from Sol
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"Never mind the danger, OTBC" ;)
 
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