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[Yingnei Gasua]

I didn't shoot him when he jumped in, instead I keep bumping him, that's harder than you thought to bump out his shield. I intended to bump him to death but FSD charged as hull down below 80%, I was forced to open fire...

I use the same bi-weave percussion attack for wing targets as well. I still refuse to fly a purpose built combat ship so with my limited skills, a straight up fight to try to take down the multiple higher threat wing targets never work in my multi-purpose ship. (I see you using a vette. Doesnt that steamroll them if you do decide to fire away?)

They always tend to charge FSD after a while but when I open fire at that point, it somehow seems to make them cancel the FSD.

 

[Kram Nehpets Strebor]

End of first week as a CMDR...

Haven't died recently, which is a plus
Got rid of the Sidewinder and replaced with a bog standard Hauler.
Made ~80 Mil exploring and upgraded to an ASP Explorer (About an hour ago) Again, bog standard.

Unlocked 2 Engineers and now have to figure out how to get materials - Mining?

Still a nasty smell of N00b in the cockpit, but things are improving.
I can now fuel scoop faster than I can honk the system

Stay tuned o7

 

[Codger]

End of first week as a CMDR...

Haven't died recently, which is a plus
Got rid of the Sidewinder and replaced with a bog standard Hauler.
Made ~80 Mil exploring and upgraded to an ASP Explorer (About an hour ago) Again, bog standard.

Unlocked 2 Engineers and now have to figure out how to get materials - Mining?

Still a nasty smell of N00b in the cockpit, but things are improving.
I can now fuel scoop faster than I can honk the system

Stay tuned o7

Sounds like excellent progress!

If you're interested in video-type guides for material finding, this has some decent stuffs.

Spoiler: Material Guides

Engineering Material Finder: Elite Dangerous — CMDRs ToolBox

A easy to use list that shows you where you can find any engineering material in Elite Dangerous. There is also guides for each material to help you get started.

cmdrs-toolbox.com

And welcome to the game (and the thread)!

 

[Kram Nehpets Strebor]

Sounds like excellent progress!

If you're interested in video-type guides for material finding, this has some decent stuffs.

Spoiler: Material Guides

Engineering Material Finder: Elite Dangerous — CMDRs ToolBox

A easy to use list that shows you where you can find any engineering material in Elite Dangerous. There is also guides for each material to help you get started.

cmdrs-toolbox.com

And welcome to the game (and the thread)!

Many thanks - I think I have spent more time researching than flying!

 

[Ashnak]

To get engineering materials... that's going to haunt you for the remainder of your ED career.

But the low level engineering only requires low level mats, and only raw mats for the lowest level. And the easiest way to get those is to get an SRV and go surface prospecting. For the start, any planet will do - e.g. those the engineers sit on, right outside the door.

The SRV's scanner will lead you to the interesting spots - for a guide, you used to be able to check on https://www.wavescanner.net/ (for now, I just get a "bad gateway"). Otherwise, the entry in the wiki looks reasonable https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Wave_Scanner

There are other types of mats (data, manufactured, guardian, thargoid) and other, maybe more efficient means of getting at them - but you're going to need the Wavescanner (and the SRV) for a lot of them, so better become used to it.

 

[Speedcuffs]

Did another stack of bounty hunting.
And just to mix things up a bit, I took a 'wetwork' mission.
It was rubbish.

So I abandoned it, swapped over to the Tanya Wu account and started pulling Belugas out of supercruise. Because... reasons.
Felt much better.

 

[Kram Nehpets Strebor]

...OK, So I'm probably nuts - Next stop Beagle Point

Wish me luck!

 

[Codger]

...OK, So I'm probably nuts - Next stop Beagle Point

Wish me luck!

Good luck!

 

[nemolomen]

...OK, So I'm probably nuts - Next stop Beagle Point

Wish me luck!

Good luck!

and god speed...

 

[nemolomen]

Indeed. I'm not a fan of the drive-by friend request from what looks like a complete random...

I have a few of these. I haven't encountered them in game since. There are others I have accepted and then unfriended after they attacked me in whatever ship I was in whenever they saw me.

One of the current ones, when asked why, said they friend request everyone they see, they've got around 2800 friends in their list apparently...

 

[Shir]

I'm back at my little home area, at a quiet place of the bubble. No one is playing Horizons BGS anymore, so it's fun, i'm overturning governments and factions all by myself! Some parked fleet carriers are all that's left, lights still on, but there's no traffic in the systems..

 

[Codger]

I have a few of these. I haven't encountered them in game since. There are others I have accepted and then unfriended after they attacked me in whatever ship I was in whenever they saw me.

One of the current ones, when asked why, said they friend request everyone they see, they've got around 2800 friends in their list apparently...

Well I have no clue who they are, and since I play Solo only they could not have seen me anywhere in game. I just deleted the requests. If you can't be bothered to talk to me before sending such a request, I figure we have nothing to talk about

 

[Skürt Avil]

...OK, So I'm probably nuts - Next stop Beagle Point

Wish me luck!

Good luck CMDR. Keep us posted and don't forget the Fuel Rats are there if you need them.

 

[Codger]

So I was reading the thread about the Winking Cat stuff going on, and realized that my alt CMDR could make very good use of 10 million credits and a free Imperial Courier.

GALNET - 16 DEC 3307 - A Gift From a Thief

GALNET - 16 DEC 3307 - A Gift From a Thief Pilots’ Federation ALERT Detective Erik Gunnarson has claimed that the Winking Cat thief has something planned for the weeks ahead. “After our investigation into the Jokers’ Deck gambling circle, Wolfe and I were hired to track down their stolen...

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He's still in the starting Sidewinder, D-rated so it has a jump range of about 20LY. He had a balance of 6 million. The system in question was about 200LY away, but have fuel scoop, will travel. So off I went.

I had to buy a DSS and an SRV, but I was able to get over there.

Here he is admiring his shiny new ship he didn't expect to have

 

[CMDR-NOBODY]

...(I see you using a vette. Doesnt that steamroll them if you do decide to fire away?)

They always tend to charge FSD after a while but when I open fire at that point, it somehow seems to make them cancel the FSD.

My vette is not full G5 engineered yet, the target wing of 4 (1xFDL, 3x Vulture) are expected to be engineered (threat lv6, based on previous encounter), so they will cook fast me instead.

Funny thing is that, if you attack the assassin target (FDL in this case) when he charge FSD, the whole wing will not return fire...

 

[CMDR-NOBODY]

...
And just to mix things up a bit, I took a 'wetwork' mission.
It was rubbish.

...

Actually what's need to be done in wetwork missions? Looks like I should stick with assassin & massacre missions...

And also what's those covert missions? The payouts are tempting... but I hate doing illegal missions, don't get me wrong, I hate them just because I need to deal with the fines/bounty.

 

[CMDR-NOBODY]

I'm back at my little home area, at a quiet place of the bubble. No one is playing Horizons BGS anymore, so it's fun, i'm overturning governments and factions all by myself! Some parked fleet carriers are all that's left, lights still on, but there's no traffic in the systems..

May be its a good time for me to pledge to some super power?? Still have no cue for what to do after pledging to get those precious powerplay modules....

 

[Codger]

May be its a good time for me to pledge to some super power?? Still have no cue for what to do after pledging to get those precious powerplay modules....

Pledge, wait 3 weeks, deliver enough pamphlets to get rank 3, wait until Thursday, buy stuff and store it, unpledge. That's how I remember it.

I've only done the Prismatics, and it was some time ago.

 

[bangermsuk]

give the alcoholics some liquor at Bumbo system/

bleeding drunks in the industrial areas. 42t of the stuff ,i tell you the supervisor really needs to put his foot down.

2 crashes to day, no not the computer, the t9 16 million down the tube.

 

[Ashnak]

May be its a good time for me to pledge to some super power?? Still have no cue for what to do after pledging to get those precious powerplay modules....

Pledge and earn merits - the wiki article used to be good enough for me.
If you want to support the hardcore power players, check their forum/discord so you don't work against their efforts.
You can earn merits by transporting pamphlets (or prisoners) for any power, but that's either expensive or boring or both, due to the way those are rationed to you. Killing enemy powerplay ships (players or NPCs) in the right systems is faster and (for me) more fun (especially if I can manage for those ships to belong to Denton Patreus ).