So I have spent the last 3 months unlocking engineers for the simple purpose of having something new to do and making my ships a little more liveable. Then comes time for Palin. 5000 lys of utter misery as I am loathe to explore. Hold onto my exploration data to dump on Palin after unlocking. Then time to gather the Unknown fragments. Trying to find a crash site is tedious. I find one pick up some frags and they eat thru my cargo hatch 20 yards from the landing pad. Get corrosive res cargo holds and try again. Dropped into a USS that says non human because how often do you see something new in this game. Picked up a black box or something and a Thargoid promptly squashed my little Viper. Haven't made a dime or rank increase in weeks and loose all my exp data. This isn't a rage quit. I am just highly disapointed in a few small details that amount to huge game breaking issues for us players. As for now I am going to play Witcher or something. I will probably come back just not for a while. Good luck while I am gone CMDRS.
This is not a rage quit!
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Honestly, this is the best way to deal with disappointment. And the Witcher III is, what i call a perfect game... it really shines in all its perfection and the fun you will have, while you get immersed in that world... Good choice!
Be seeing you in the void in the future!
o7 CMDR.
Be seeing you in the void in the future!
o7 CMDR.
In the meantime can I haz ur stuff?
ROFLMAO
Thanks guys. ED is truly one of a kind but, I kind of just find myself longing for Ace Combat 7. If only FD included some actual fun mission design and didn't make me feel like I was being punished for trying to be entertained. Oh well. I guess one of you guys will have to save the galaxy for the time being.
Just a note, if done right you can travel that 5000ly in 30 minutes gametime (1kly = 6 minutes).... Does require a lot of engineering and for the average player not possible. However, with an average ship (say the AspX) and decent engineering (+50% FSD) to get 50Ly that's perhaps 32 jumps using neutron stars, at a non optimal rate that's 45 minutes odd. If you self destruct back thats gonna cost you 2 million in insurance and another 4.5 million if you buy then sell the ship after.
For the cash savvy cmdr you can fit a discovery scanner and do the route out and back, sure it takes twice as long but you'll probably earn 300-500k Credits on the way, if you don't yet have the cash for an Asp the Adder can get 36ly in a much cheaper package which will need about 42 jumps total, 1hr again if you aren't rushing too much.
Best case you can do a jump every 53-60 seconds(ish) but that's record racing speeds.
^ For more tips see the Buckyball race team, they taught me a lot when I set out to beat some of the records but the neutron highway is the way to go for distance travel
As for the unknown fragments you didn't need the corrosive cargo rack. Fragments are materials and are not stored in cargo. You probably found the Thargoid probe or artefact. The Probe doesn't help afaik but either shooting or better yet ramming the artefact to death drops 2-3 fragments which go into your materials storage to deliver to Palin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IabpaGfXQAs < Note not all crashed ships are still there, some mysteriously disappeared, so don't take co-ordinates/planet as gospel
I totally get where you are coming from with the disappointment of loosing exploration data and I totally understand the confusion around the fragments and that. Sounds like you got off on the wrong track and it just got worse and worse there. I think the exploration distance for Palin will stick even after death but the fragments obviously won't. Hopefully the above tidbit of info will help when you come back to it. For what it's worth the Thargoid probes are a pain, I did Palin unlock back when they were rare and the only way to find one was to sit in supercruise for a few hours waiting for the right deep space signal source.
If you come back and fancy a hand and or a bit of a leg-up with some help trading/fighting/mission-ing etc let me know! (PC, Uk timezone, same name in game but no space, usually on at weekends but can be persuaded to join in evenings after work if pre-arranged meeting time/location)
For the cash savvy cmdr you can fit a discovery scanner and do the route out and back, sure it takes twice as long but you'll probably earn 300-500k Credits on the way, if you don't yet have the cash for an Asp the Adder can get 36ly in a much cheaper package which will need about 42 jumps total, 1hr again if you aren't rushing too much.
Best case you can do a jump every 53-60 seconds(ish) but that's record racing speeds.
^ For more tips see the Buckyball race team, they taught me a lot when I set out to beat some of the records but the neutron highway is the way to go for distance travel
As for the unknown fragments you didn't need the corrosive cargo rack. Fragments are materials and are not stored in cargo. You probably found the Thargoid probe or artefact. The Probe doesn't help afaik but either shooting or better yet ramming the artefact to death drops 2-3 fragments which go into your materials storage to deliver to Palin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IabpaGfXQAs < Note not all crashed ships are still there, some mysteriously disappeared, so don't take co-ordinates/planet as gospel
I totally get where you are coming from with the disappointment of loosing exploration data and I totally understand the confusion around the fragments and that. Sounds like you got off on the wrong track and it just got worse and worse there. I think the exploration distance for Palin will stick even after death but the fragments obviously won't. Hopefully the above tidbit of info will help when you come back to it. For what it's worth the Thargoid probes are a pain, I did Palin unlock back when they were rare and the only way to find one was to sit in supercruise for a few hours waiting for the right deep space signal source.
If you come back and fancy a hand and or a bit of a leg-up with some help trading/fighting/mission-ing etc let me know!
(PC, Uk timezone, same name in game but no space, usually on at weekends but can be persuaded to join in evenings after work if pre-arranged meeting time/location)
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Hey, come and play Titanfall 2, it's dirt cheap now and pretty amazing, just mind you the player base is not as big and who remained is really good, so expect a high learning curve.
I started playing recently, and it is by far the best FPS shooter I played in a long time. It sits in the middle between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty in how it plays, and is extremely fast paced and action packed.
I bet they wouldn't mind more people coming.
I started playing recently, and it is by far the best FPS shooter I played in a long time. It sits in the middle between Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty in how it plays, and is extremely fast paced and action packed.
I bet they wouldn't mind more people coming.
Seems to me you've picked Unknown Artifacts and not Unknown Fragments since the latter aren't corrosive
Shoot the artifacts, they break into fragments
I did the 5000LY in a Sidewinder - there and back. It;s not too bad: I did it while watching TV.
The fragments aren't corrosive. You're supposed to blow up the pod thing to get the fragments from it. It's the pod that's corrosive.
I did all the engineers in my Sidewinder. It only took a few weeks and gave me something to do. Do your research first, then it's easy.
The fragments aren't corrosive. You're supposed to blow up the pod thing to get the fragments from it. It's the pod that's corrosive.
I did all the engineers in my Sidewinder. It only took a few weeks and gave me something to do. Do your research first, then it's easy.
I did it while under pain meds after surgery.
The 5000 Ly thing is the most ridiculous mistake FD have made (FOR ME)
It could just as easily have been 1000Ly, and done just as much to show people the exploration mechanics, and what's out there, 5000Ly is just making it tedious for people who this gameplay doesn't appeal to.
It's the same with the silly number of ore you have to mine.... I think it's 500? make it 100! achieves the same thing, of showing people what that part of the game is like, and that it exists. It;s not AS bad with mining, because you can do it over time, but with the 5000Ly, it has to be continuous play. there's no taking a break from it for a few days/a week, and doing what you wanna do, nope, because you'd have to travel ALL the way back... to then start again.
There were many other options for this, ones which would have shown off exploration vastly more efectivetly even. Seems like they were rushed to get something in for the engineers, and didnt have time to create what they wanted to, to me.
It could just as easily have been 1000Ly, and done just as much to show people the exploration mechanics, and what's out there, 5000Ly is just making it tedious for people who this gameplay doesn't appeal to.
It's the same with the silly number of ore you have to mine.... I think it's 500? make it 100! achieves the same thing, of showing people what that part of the game is like, and that it exists. It;s not AS bad with mining, because you can do it over time, but with the 5000Ly, it has to be continuous play. there's no taking a break from it for a few days/a week, and doing what you wanna do, nope, because you'd have to travel ALL the way back... to then start again.
There were many other options for this, ones which would have shown off exploration vastly more efectivetly even. Seems like they were rushed to get something in for the engineers, and didnt have time to create what they wanted to, to me.
I picked a spot just out 6kly, went to the Omega Nebula. Was an interesting trip, saw lots of cool systems, some really interesting star formations, and a Brown Dwarf with a ring system! Also made about 80m CR and had 87 first discoveries across the 15k or so LY trip, and it only took me a total of about 8 hours. Got the mail from Palin after arriving in the Omega Nebula.
Agreed: they should have made it 50k ly - until you go traveling the universe seems slow to traverse, afterwards everything is possible. Make it so FD o7
OK look, you were punished for making mistakes. You didn't need to load the corrosive artifacts, just break them into (non-corrosive) fragments and take those. And what did you expect to happen when you dropped into a USS labelled "non-human" and just grabbed something, with alien stuff in your cargo hold no less? There was no reason to lose the exploration data, you could have easily sold it before going out and doing something dangerous.
Yeah, it sucks when something like that happens. But don't blame the game for your own mistakes, and don't be surprised when it punishes you for those mistakes. That's just the game teaching you how to play it, it's this game's form of a user's manual.
Man, people are really different. Exploration is one of my favorite things to do in this game, I've been on four big exploration loops each totalling roughly 100k ly in my estimate, while others like the TS can't handle 5k. I also enjoy gathering resources, I just spent 2 evenings at high grade emissions and couldn't be happier with it.
So interesting and to each their own. Trading is my weak point; I'm just glad there were other ways to make trade elite because I can't do ABA trading very long...!
So interesting and to each their own. Trading is my weak point; I'm just glad there were other ways to make trade elite because I can't do ABA trading very long...!
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