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Sometimes it's nice to shuttle back and forth between my ship depots on autopilot.
I hate to say it, but I'm actually finding the Apex taxi to be useful.
Same. But then again, it's one of the few things I vocally defended against naysayers back during alpha, so it might still be something everyone else hates.
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It's nice. I can park my pirate/murder ships in my favorite Anarchy location, get all clean, then go have a snack while it flies me back to civilization.
Interesting quandry there - a lack of middle ground. Nearby missions tick the make a cup of tea box, but Colonia's too far for leave it to it whilst I go down to the pub and end up having five more pints than I intended.
Too true. In the time it takes to ferry a ship there (due, to a lack of expedited services), I can head down to the bar, drink five pints too many, recover from a miserable next day and I'm still waiting for the blasted thing. So, unless they have a copy of Elite that I can play on a 72 hour journey? I'm out ;P
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Is it even possible? I thought there was a distance limit.
Nah. Complaining about Apex is sooo alpha phase 1. Folks have moved on to hate other things.
I haven't flown my own ship in about a week. I've been taking the taxi everywhere just to see what life as a space cowboy is like. I don't mind it at all and I've not had it do anything unexpected once. The only real annoyance I've experienced is not having big enough pockets and having to keep calling the taxi to fill up. Once it wasn't able to land in the area (I'd had to make a quick escape from some upset locals) due to it being too rocky and aborted.
Yep.
Visiting several stations and checking for engineered gear is more "background activity" friendly when using APEX instead of your ship.
It has its uses - if it would just stop stranding people on hot / high gravity / ringed planets then people could move on to discuss other stuff 
I actually don't know. I just saw the option for "long range transport" and assumed the sky's the limit. lol
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I honestly didn't think much of it in Alpha. But, like with Grubhub and Drizzly, I'm finding it way too convenient to ignore at times.
Sometimes you just want to sit on your ass and let the food and booze come to you.
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Concur.
That's the main thing I've used it for as well. Multi-tasking while gear hunting.
As far as I remember, even the "long range" Apex has some maximum range - 50Ly per trip, if I'm not mistaken.
So pity but can't get to Colonia, even calling Apex in the middle of nowhere - cause it still requires Apex facility as a target.
Which is a shame, really, I bet there would be that one maniac who would travel all the way to Colonia, using 50Ly legs along the way. I would watch that ;-)
So pity but can't get to Colonia, even calling Apex in the middle of nowhere - cause it still requires Apex facility as a target.
Which is a shame, really, I bet there would be that one maniac who would travel all the way to Colonia, using 50Ly legs along the way. I would watch that ;-)
I think it's 100 ly, if I'm not mistaken. Just enough that you can't do the engineer unlock requirements in one flight, since you probably won't find a destination that's exactly 100 ly, instead of 99.9xx or something.