My only gripe - And I believe it's well known in EDO is that sometimes (Most of the time) if you drive over a group of mats, some disappear!
This can be really annoying if you hit a outcrop of good stuff!
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This can be really annoying if you hit a outcrop of good stuff!
Strange thing is, when I first started, I really didn't like the SRV. Hated the handling.
Now, I go do Guardian sites just because I like driving the SRV.
Probably wheels off the ground more than 50% of the time. Great stuff.
As for Odyssey, I pre ordered but I'm leaving it for now, it's still there to look forward to.
Currently doing 'tramp' runs in Tanya's Python. Not even slightly tempted to grind or transfer money, enjoying the pauper pirate RP.
She's nearly Elite trade.
It always comes back to:
I like flying spaceships! \o/
I didn't know any different when I ordered ELITE DANGEROUS: COMMANDER PREMIUM EDITION
..And then of course, it's was heavily discounted on Steam 2 weeks later!
Still tootling around on... <checks>... Waraswarre A 1. Not because it doesn't have any materials, but because it does. It's not the abundant richness of Kappa-1 something something, but with a little time taken to understand the landscape, it still has a lot to offer.
As tempting as it is to stick to the open plains where you can floor the accelerator; that's not where the resources are. Everything, everything in Odyssey is about the geological activity. Hunting meteorites is a mug's game, what you want is the rough terrain with the steam vents and/or lava, because that is where the minerals are. Find yourself one of these, and it's like a Horizons PoI. (Body dependent. Some are better than others. Which is bodies in general, I guess.)
It's taken a while to get used to Odyssey's way of surface prospecting - not least because there don't seem to be any guides - but if I have one overriding thought, it is "trust the world gen". Do you have at least 2x geology on this body? If not, leave, go somewhere else. If there is 2+ geology here; look for it. Are you on top of geology right now? If so, you can probably already see radar pings; if not, drive until you find some. When you run out of pings, continue in a known direction; I like going towards the local star because it's a clear marker point. You will absolutely encounter something, it's just a matter of what and when.
I do like that with Odyssey, there's really no particular need to relog and reset instances. You're probably not finding big enough clusters to make it worthwhile trying (sometimes you might though!), and there's usually another cluster just a couple of clicks in any direction.
So far on this expedition I've gone from nearly empty to nearly full on several T1, T2 and T3 materials, while having backed up a solid reserve of tungsten and ruthenium. I am pretty confident that with some trading around, this will last me for quite a while. And I am definitely sure I won't get stuck for limpets again like when I ran out of iron a few days ago
Also, this was in no way related to how much beer was consumed during this long, long road trip.
Honestly, I don't know what happened. There's not even a rock! I blame a steering malfunction
At least my ship found a good landing spot this time. Some places it gets really stuck and tries to set down on the other side of a canyon and I have to drive way, way away to make it choose the obvious flat plains behind me. I do think smaller ships are probably better for this task. I imagine a courier or dbx would always drop on top of you, unless you're trying to give it problems.
As tempting as it is to stick to the open plains where you can floor the accelerator; that's not where the resources are. Everything, everything in Odyssey is about the geological activity. Hunting meteorites is a mug's game, what you want is the rough terrain with the steam vents and/or lava, because that is where the minerals are. Find yourself one of these, and it's like a Horizons PoI. (Body dependent. Some are better than others. Which is bodies in general, I guess.)
It's taken a while to get used to Odyssey's way of surface prospecting - not least because there don't seem to be any guides - but if I have one overriding thought, it is "trust the world gen". Do you have at least 2x geology on this body? If not, leave, go somewhere else. If there is 2+ geology here; look for it. Are you on top of geology right now? If so, you can probably already see radar pings; if not, drive until you find some. When you run out of pings, continue in a known direction; I like going towards the local star because it's a clear marker point. You will absolutely encounter something, it's just a matter of what and when.
I do like that with Odyssey, there's really no particular need to relog and reset instances. You're probably not finding big enough clusters to make it worthwhile trying (sometimes you might though!), and there's usually another cluster just a couple of clicks in any direction.
So far on this expedition I've gone from nearly empty to nearly full on several T1, T2 and T3 materials, while having backed up a solid reserve of tungsten and ruthenium. I am pretty confident that with some trading around, this will last me for quite a while. And I am definitely sure I won't get stuck for limpets again like when I ran out of iron a few days ago
Also, this was in no way related to how much beer was consumed during this long, long road trip.
Honestly, I don't know what happened. There's not even a rock! I blame a steering malfunction
At least my ship found a good landing spot this time. Some places it gets really stuck and tries to set down on the other side of a canyon and I have to drive way, way away to make it choose the obvious flat plains behind me. I do think smaller ships are probably better for this task. I imagine a courier or dbx would always drop on top of you, unless you're trying to give it problems.
In my life I have definitely noticed that some bodies are better than others. Absolutely
Yeah, I'm using a DBX, and it's very easy to land. I've always liked the DBX, so I'm glad I have a good use for it now
Well, once those CG drives actually arrive, I'll see what I have that will benefit from one and maybe make that my material runner from here onYeah, I'm using a DBX, and it's very easy to land. I've always liked the DBX, so I'm glad I have a good use for it now
Sadly the DBX needs a class 5 drive. On my alt I just bought one from the tech broker and was happy. Might do that for my main sometime.Well, once those CG drives actually arrive, I'll see what I have that will benefit from one and maybe make that my material runner from here on
I made myself curious, so I looked at my current DBX build (on Codger). It has a 67.97 LY jump range, using an FSD booster and normal 5A FSD with G5 engineering, mass manager, all that jazz.
If I were to put one of the double-engineered 5As on it, that would go to 73.66 (with mass manager added). That's pretty groovy.
Not that I need to jump great distances in it, really. These days I just park my carrier in some out of the way spot where almost nothing is discovered, and then use the DBX to investigate the systems in the area.
Still...I'll probably do it just because. Once I return to the bubble, that is.
If I were to put one of the double-engineered 5As on it, that would go to 73.66 (with mass manager added). That's pretty groovy.
Not that I need to jump great distances in it, really. These days I just park my carrier in some out of the way spot where almost nothing is discovered, and then use the DBX to investigate the systems in the area.
Still...I'll probably do it just because.
Once I return to the bubble, that is.
I'm 17% Marquis with the IMP, after unlocking bill turner I think I will try to complete the "dude" rank by grinding assassin missions in IMP space. While Fed assassin mission mostly give me vette to shoot at, I expect IMP assassin missions will give me cutter. Then I will buy cutter, but not sure what to do with it, as I don't do much mining nor trading.
But yeah, cutter is need to complete my Imperial XXX collection.
The empty slot is reserved for cutter.
Cannot comment on EDO, craters still works in EDH, to the point that I totally ignored geo sites, when I need mats, i just drop to the craters, run around it until the SRV fuel get below 20%.
just visted an area that wasn't known to me, hip 12099 : found a stack and recieved materials and 7 escape pods with a little profit
of cr's 971,000 for scanning a unused delirected base.and 4 irregular sites and 1 distress beacon.and boy do you need a big fuel scoop.nearly ran out just managed to find a station one more jump from me,phew.
my little asp x needs a big rest.
Nearly called out the fuel rats.and rearraange my fuel scoop to something a little bit larger.
current jump range asp scout : 26 lys each jump was 25 lys
of cr's 971,000 for scanning a unused delirected base.and 4 irregular sites and 1 distress beacon.and boy do you need a big fuel scoop.nearly ran out just managed to find a station one more jump from me,phew.
my little asp x needs a big rest.
Nearly called out the fuel rats.and rearraange my fuel scoop to something a little bit larger.
current jump range asp scout : 26 lys each jump was 25 lys
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I've just been introduced to Mel Brandon and think I will pin Shield Cell Bank blueprints as suggested by D2EA. Which is maybe crazy because I don't use SCB. Which is maybe crazy because I do enjoy a good CZ. Assuming the second to be more crazy than the first. Any tips on what size/type I should add to my Krait Mk2, 'Sir Zapsalot'? (Because this thread loves a silly ship name)
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I sometimes go through several tanks of fuel synthing fuel as I go, and still havent crossed an entire crater yet - these things are much bigger than they look.
Almost had to self destruct yesterday - I drove/fell into a very narrow crevice and started to explore, then got to a point where the crevice was narrower than the SRV and got stuck.
10 minutes of horizontal 3 point turns and I managed to escape!
still looking for the jameson Crashed vessel.it here somewhere in this system and all i can fine here is carriers last count from inara (52).
Horizons or EDO?
As per the Canonn site, in Horizons: "The crashed Cobra Mk III of ill-fated CMDR John Jameson can be found in the HIP 12099 system on planet 1B -54.3803, -50.3575."
edo i in mostly now. just exploring the sulphar planet, got one more irregular sites to raid and mapping system.
did find some tuffiene/gold/resonates or something in the last two poi.
did find some tuffiene/gold/resonates or something in the last two poi.
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It shows up on your nav panel after you DSS the planet, no coordinates needed. I just went there on my alt the other day (in EDO).
Just like in Car Wars or Battletech or any number of games, for the sake of 'game-balance', the larger vehicles are artificially nerfed.
If the mass/volume was scaled up from the small ships, something the size of the cutter should pack a lot more.