So after playing around in a high res site for a while I decided to head out to do some Painite mining to unlock Selene Jean and to make some cash off the gold rush in the double hot spots. So I put some mining lasers and prospector limpets on the Corvette and headed out to a site. After I drop out of SC at the site of my choice (btw ring mapping doesn't work in systems that have fully fleshed out system maps) I started blasting a rock that had some painite in it. I launched my collector limpets, but they weren't collecting anything. Why? Because I forgot to add the refinery. Now I need to find a station with a refinery and add that to my ship.
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Logged on today and found that my bindings were missing. Fussed around for a bit, then realized my joystick wasn't even plugged in. That's what I get for taking a couple weeks off, I guess 
Went mining in the Cutter, just to enjoy the feel of flying for a bit, and to top off my credits before the incoming nerf. No idea how "bad" it'll be, but I decided to play it safe, lol.
I wound up in this very industrial, bare-bones station. They were offering top money for painite, though, so I didn't mind the rough accomodations much.
Went mining in the Cutter, just to enjoy the feel of flying for a bit, and to top off my credits before the incoming nerf. No idea how "bad" it'll be, but I decided to play it safe, lol.
I wound up in this very industrial, bare-bones station. They were offering top money for painite, though, so I didn't mind the rough accomodations much.
Thank you so much, it's incredibly kind of you to post that build, much appreciated (and I might well copy it verbatim). You're getting a better jump range than my passenger build (!), too, so I must be doing something wrong. Anyway, thank you ever so much. I love the Orca and always want one in my fleet.
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Thank you!
Well, I have always been a big fan of Westerns, and also my four kids got the game for me, so it has taken on instant sentimentality. I do love the story and characterisation, but that said I have only taken the single player campaign to 70%. I then discovered the online side to it, and it has taken on a whole new longevity for me. I ride with a regular posse, am engaged in all of the three available careers (fourth dropping next Friday), and with the online side it has become really varied, so I now have a pretty levelled up character and it is incredibly relaxing just to saddle up and ride the range for an hour or two. That said, I am a space and sci fi nut (my wife and I have watched pretty much every sci fi show and film released over the past 25 years and have many happy memories, whereas she indulges rather than embraces my love of Westerns) so I am also going to be a life-long Eliter. If only one game existed I'd be delighted with life. Having the two to choose from - painful at times, but I am a kid in a candy store.
Logged on today and found that my bindings were missing. Fussed around for a bit, then realized my joystick wasn't even plugged in. That's what I get for taking a couple weeks off, I guess
Went mining in the Cutter, just to enjoy the feel of flying for a bit, and to top off my credits before the incoming nerf. No idea how "bad" it'll be, but I decided to play it safe, lol.
I wound up in this very industrial, bare-bones station. They were offering top money for painite, though, so I didn't mind the rough accomodations much.
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Hope you had a backup BINDS to copy back!
I did, of course. But I didn't need to. ED doesn't show you any bindings for your joystick if it's not plugged in, even if the bindings exist. Seems counterproductive to me, but anyway once I realized what was going on and plugged in the joystick, my bindings returned.
I periodically back them up, though, because re-doing them would be a huge pain
How do you backup the bindings?I did, of course. But I didn't need to. ED doesn't show you any bindings for your joystick if it's not plugged in, even if the bindings exist. Seems counterproductive to me, but anyway once I realized what was going on and plugged in the joystick, my bindings returned.
I periodically back them up, though, because re-doing them would be a huge pain
Anytime I build/rebuild a mining ship...
Forget refinery
And yes, even with the reminders, I often forget limpets.
✌You should put a post-it note on your screen saying "LIMPETS"Anytime I build/rebuild a mining ship...
Forget refinery
And yes, even with the reminders, I often forget limpets.
Been helping some new guys get into the game. They were stuck with some basic things and kept asking things like "how do you deploy landing gear" and it's been so long since I used keyboard controls I couldn't remember!
Got him up into an adder though and took him to a couple of stations to get him fitted out for travel, then gave him an escort out of newbtown. I was giving a very strong side-eye to every hollow pip that appeared since we were one jump out of the PF district, haha.
Got him up into an adder though and took him to a couple of stations to get him fitted out for travel, then gave him an escort out of newbtown. I was giving a very strong side-eye to every hollow pip that appeared since we were one jump out of the PF district, haha.
Honestly, no matter how much they're going to "nerf" the income, it won't be enough.Logged on today and found that my bindings were missing. Fussed around for a bit, then realized my joystick wasn't even plugged in. That's what I get for taking a couple weeks off, I guess
Went mining in the Cutter, just to enjoy the feel of flying for a bit, and to top off my credits before the incoming nerf. No idea how "bad" it'll be, but I decided to play it safe, lol.
I wound up in this very industrial, bare-bones station. They were offering top money for painite, though, so I didn't mind the rough accomodations much.
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It really should go all the way back to Beta 2 days when earning enough for a Cobra would take about a week and Anaconda was a distant dream for everybody but the most dedicated traders.
It made you feel really good about your accomplishments and more importantly it made you fly small and medium ship not for utility and vanity but out of necessity.
I miss those days and I remember them dearly...
Btw. your Cutter looks jaw-droppingly gorgeous. I missed this paintjob, apparently.
I've just fallen in love, the krait mk2, wow, what a lovely ship inside and out, plus it looks ace when you fire to mining lasers either side of the cockpit.
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This is my end goal build, might add some point defense turrets just for the fun of it.
I just wish i did't waste all my materials on the keelback !
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This is my end goal build, might add some point defense turrets just for the fun of it.
I just wish i did't waste all my materials on the keelback !
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It's the closest to Millennium Falcon you're ever gonna get in Elite.
Well, technically Phantom is a bit closer (jump range and thruster bar), but Mk.II has more utility.
It's a great ship.
Being able to equip a slf was what sold me the mk2 over the phantom, i want lots of toys when i go exploring!
Its boost sound effect sounds cool too, thats what put me off the keelback
Currently parked amid the water geysers I mentioned up thread, so I can post some pictures here
The first site I checked out (32 of 41 iirc):
These ones actually changed as I was lining up the shot - those in the background where blowing steam/ash/smoke/vapour, and the one in the foreground water, and they changed just as I was about to trigger the camera!
The second site I visited (38 of 41, or maybe it was 38 above and this was 32?):
And hi-res pic (I deleted Nvidia Experience, and the function is back!)
This one was a little more intersting - green vapours as well as water spouts. Some of the geyser holes also had green crystal outcroppings on them that dropped managanese materials, ans the local picaceous cobbles dropped carbon, iron and sulphur. Oh, and some free standin crystal yttrium, too!
Time to go look at the next moon over - there's methane magma to look at there!
The first site I checked out (32 of 41 iirc):
These ones actually changed as I was lining up the shot - those in the background where blowing steam/ash/smoke/vapour, and the one in the foreground water, and they changed just as I was about to trigger the camera!
The second site I visited (38 of 41, or maybe it was 38 above and this was 32?):
And hi-res pic (I deleted Nvidia Experience, and the function is back!)
This one was a little more intersting - green vapours as well as water spouts. Some of the geyser holes also had green crystal outcroppings on them that dropped managanese materials, ans the local picaceous cobbles dropped carbon, iron and sulphur. Oh, and some free standin crystal yttrium, too!
Time to go look at the next moon over - there's methane magma to look at there!
There's a file called custom.3.0.BINDS (iirc) in one of the ED directories; you just make a copy and put it somewhere else other than ED for safety's sake.
Again, iirc, it's in here:
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings
If you have 2 SRVs with you drive into the plume of the strongest water geyser/spout it is fascinating to watch your ship take off and head for orbit past you as you and your SRV climb past 2kms a soft landing is usually possible but not guaranteed.Currently parked amid the water geysers I mentioned up thread, so I can post some pictures here
The first site I checked out (32 of 41 iirc):
These ones actually changed as I was lining up the shot - those in the background where blowing steam/ash/smoke/vapour, and the one in the foreground water, and they changed just as I was about to trigger the camera!
The second site I visited (38 of 41, or maybe it was 38 above and this was 32?):
And hi-res pic (I deleted Nvidia Experience, and the function is back!)
This one was a little more intersting - green vapours as well as water spouts. Some of the geyser holes also had green crystal outcroppings on them that dropped managanese materials, ans the local picaceous cobbles dropped carbon, iron and sulphur. Oh, and some free standin crystal yttrium, too!
Time to go look at the next moon over - there's methane magma to look at there!
This evening, I felt I should finally bite the bullet and unlock The Dweller.. To be honest, it isn’t so much him I want as access to Lei Cheung, but that is another story! Anyway, I am sure the G5 Power Distributor will be useful
I am not cut out to be a criminal. I have no problem with conducting covert ops against an opposing faction, or other “all fair in love and war” scenarios, but sneaking around with illegal goods in my cargo is something I really didn’t want to have to do. So I made the best of it, and found 5 Federation outposts close to Sirius that would “benefit” from the decrease in security and chaos provided by my glistening Krait, La Piuma Al Vento, casually offloading a ton of personal firearms at them.
I had selected outposts, rather than busy Coriolis or larger stations, as I had a feeling they would be less likely to have attendant cops, and less likely to scan me. Hesitatingly, I set off for my first port of call, Versalius City in Duamata. With my finger on the heat-sink deploy button, I edged my way in. No one around. Requested docking permission, granted. Landed without any comment or interest from the outpost. Phew.
And so it went on. For another 3 systems, a completely uneventful and most welcome safe landing, followed by a quick shady deal round the back of the bike sheds with the local fence, and off again.
Until I went to Sol.
Maybe it was a bit cheeky, going to offload some dodgy weapons to Burnell Station, in the absolute heart of Fed space, but the impish delight I got thinking about doing that sealed the deal, so off I went. As before, nothing remarkable happened, I dropped out of supercruise, slowed to a law-abiding crawl, and made my way towards the instantly provided pad. I was dropping down nicely towards it, all lined up, when..
“Scan detected”
Damn. Well, this is what the heat-sink is for, so I popped one off. As the ice crackled over the canopy, I thought “Job done, that should do the trick”.
Two seconds later... “Scan detected”
Oh hell.. pop another heat sink. Persistent, this lot. But here is the landing radar, so I’ll be down in moments now... OH HOLY ZARQUON’S SINGING FISH!! I’M THE WRONG WAY ROUND!!
“Scan detected”
F.. I mean, blast, last heat sink off... please let that be it... The platform swung beneath me wildly as I tried to turn the beast around by balancing on the nose and rolling, rising fear making me over compensate on my controls.
“Scan detected”
That’s it. I’m out of ammo for the heat-sink. I’m toast. But wait.. I’m aligned on the platform! Maybe if I plonk her down unceremoniously and land before the scan completes, I’ll be ok. With a wince and a prayer, I slammed the vertical thrusters and reversed enough to get me central as I dropped like a stone onto the deck.
“Docking successful”
Oh thank gods. As my heart-rate slowed to normal, I whispered an apology to La Piuma, who had emitted all sorts of offended creaks and groans on being rammed into dock, and promised to repair and repaint anything that I had damaged in the process, just as soon as I had delivered this final ton of naughty shooters to the dodgy person in the shadows of the hangar.
And post repair, repaint, refresh, and a soothing cup of tea, we’re off to Wyrd...
I am not cut out to be a criminal. I have no problem with conducting covert ops against an opposing faction, or other “all fair in love and war” scenarios, but sneaking around with illegal goods in my cargo is something I really didn’t want to have to do. So I made the best of it, and found 5 Federation outposts close to Sirius that would “benefit” from the decrease in security and chaos provided by my glistening Krait, La Piuma Al Vento, casually offloading a ton of personal firearms at them.
I had selected outposts, rather than busy Coriolis or larger stations, as I had a feeling they would be less likely to have attendant cops, and less likely to scan me. Hesitatingly, I set off for my first port of call, Versalius City in Duamata. With my finger on the heat-sink deploy button, I edged my way in. No one around. Requested docking permission, granted. Landed without any comment or interest from the outpost. Phew.
And so it went on. For another 3 systems, a completely uneventful and most welcome safe landing, followed by a quick shady deal round the back of the bike sheds with the local fence, and off again.
Until I went to Sol.
Maybe it was a bit cheeky, going to offload some dodgy weapons to Burnell Station, in the absolute heart of Fed space, but the impish delight I got thinking about doing that sealed the deal, so off I went. As before, nothing remarkable happened, I dropped out of supercruise, slowed to a law-abiding crawl, and made my way towards the instantly provided pad. I was dropping down nicely towards it, all lined up, when..
“Scan detected”
Damn. Well, this is what the heat-sink is for, so I popped one off. As the ice crackled over the canopy, I thought “Job done, that should do the trick”.
Two seconds later... “Scan detected”
Oh hell.. pop another heat sink. Persistent, this lot. But here is the landing radar, so I’ll be down in moments now... OH HOLY ZARQUON’S SINGING FISH!! I’M THE WRONG WAY ROUND!!
“Scan detected”
F.. I mean, blast, last heat sink off... please let that be it... The platform swung beneath me wildly as I tried to turn the beast around by balancing on the nose and rolling, rising fear making me over compensate on my controls.
“Scan detected”
That’s it. I’m out of ammo for the heat-sink. I’m toast. But wait.. I’m aligned on the platform! Maybe if I plonk her down unceremoniously and land before the scan completes, I’ll be ok. With a wince and a prayer, I slammed the vertical thrusters and reversed enough to get me central as I dropped like a stone onto the deck.
“Docking successful”
Oh thank gods. As my heart-rate slowed to normal, I whispered an apology to La Piuma, who had emitted all sorts of offended creaks and groans on being rammed into dock, and promised to repair and repaint anything that I had damaged in the process, just as soon as I had delivered this final ton of naughty shooters to the dodgy person in the shadows of the hangar.
And post repair, repaint, refresh, and a soothing cup of tea, we’re off to Wyrd...
As it happens I do, but I've moved on somewhat before I saw this! I'll give it a try when I find some more
In the meantime, here's a landable Metal Rich World with Liquid Silicate Geysers:
You just gotta find them in the folder in your AppData, let's see, it's
C:\Users\<YourUserName>\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings
I back up the whole folder now and then, to be safe.
Yeah, I remember those days as well. I remember the very long struggle I had to make enough to buy that first Python. I spent umpteen hours in a Vulture, doing CGs, getting closer inch by inch. It was a true joy when I finally got that ship, and it was a turning point as far as making credits was concerned. The Python was a great money-earner.
That was all pre-engineering, when credits mattered because that's what you bought everything with.
But I honestly don't want to go back there. I like being able to make faster credits, because the real progression in my eyes is the Engineering. That's when you really start to customize your ships to make them perfect for you, and that's where all the intricacies of loadouts and stuff happens, which I really enjoy.
Anyway, we won't be going back to those days ever, so onward, into the future! I hope it's a good one
And thanks for the compliment on the paint job. It's one of the "galvanized" ones. Why they called them that, I have no idea. Shoulda been "anodized" perhaps, but not galvanized, because that means "iron coated with zinc", which is clearly not what they are!