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[CMDRQuainMarln]

Ha... I have just bring out my Clipper to go add FSD booster, then I see yours.
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Its been so long it was in storage that I forgotten it is a medium ship that require large pad

I used it only to fly around and surface mining.

Due to some past activity in the game I seem to have a huge amount of Imperial reputation but never did any Imperial Navy rank promotion missions. I'm doing them now to see if I make Duke. Then my alt will use to Clipper to engage in a bit of piracy against one particular faction in the game. Never tried being a pirate before

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

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Otherwise known as read the preceding posts before demonstrating that you didn't.

1. Reading on a phone screen means it's really easy to miss a post
2. Your post changes nothing about my general comment that I had never though about the mass of a limpet before, but of course I was forgetting we're in pretend space when I actually said weight instead of mass

 

[CMDR-NOBODY]

Oh my ~~ The railgun is so cute next to a C4 beam

This was my initial rail setup of 4x c2 rails + 1 C4 Beam Lazor + 2x c1 Pulse Lazor. The hardpoint layout is not ideal for rails on the vette IMO. I switched 1x C4 Beam + 1x C4 Pulse + 3x C2 and 2x C1 rails here soon.

The hardpoints still quite spread out comparing to conda, KM2 and FDLs, but after a few fights I started to like it.

 

[Miscellaneous]

We studied the Terran "moth", and in conjunction with Elvira "Mean Face" Marsuuk, new imaginary engineered landing gear!

And had a relaxing tour around the IC 4604 Nebula

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[Teiri]

Nice Cobra pic, i have to do one of my own like that too.

Its been so long it was in storage that I forgotten it is a medium ship that require large pad

I had my Clipper for ages and i didn't know what to purpose it for. Then once i got a wanderer ship conception (rare docking = rare concern about your landing pad) - basically a ship that is self-sufficient enough (little fuel scoop), that has cargo (128), that has weapons and strong enough shield to fight a bit if necesssary (2 beams + whatever, rockets currently), that has rescue + collector limpets (mostly for signals, especially HGE, i load like 100 limpets and go), that has double SRV hangar (ground stuff if any wish to land, clipper was actually not that bad at landing), DSS and that still jumps 30+ ly and all this without a terrible supercruise maneuvrability that those real big ships have. Nowhere perfect except of one area - you don't have to return to you carrier and take another ship. Can just wander and do a lot of different and unrelated stuff.

Ofc as that's a Clipper i've soon found myself wanted as somehow i've stolen some useless canisters (I landed and they were there, now what, leave them be?) and had to migrate from Fed to Emp space, but that's just a little nuance. Otherwise fine ship.

 

[0threeleven]

Found an interesting little plant today, looks like a seed pod with something sprouting out of it. Speaking of pods, I dumped the occupied life pod I was carrying at another wreck
site with 4 other pods already there
.

 

[aRJay]

Found an interesting little plant today, looks like a seed pod with something sprouting out of it.

For some reason I am very reluctant to examine those too closely, certainly not by peering down into them.

Speaking of pods, I dumped the occupied life pod I was carrying at another wreck
site with 4 other pods already there

You could have confused thing even more by taking one of these new escape pods back to where you got the first one from.

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[0threeleven]

You could have confused thing even more by taking one of these new escape pods back to where you got the first one from.

Funny thing is, it looked completely different from the ones that were already there. Hey, the censuses is that this is a game bug, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

 

[KnezBP]

That may have been the worst dad joke I've seen in this thread. And that includes my own. Good call.

 

[KnezBP]

Basically, Bitcoin breaks down like this:

There are a limited number of Bitcoin. The way you "mine" a Bitcoin is by using a computer to solve a very large, very elaborate equation. In the beginning, people were using simple desktop computers to try to mine it with limited success.

The more Bitcoin were "mined", the harder and more elaborate they made the equations. So then people started building bigger and bigger rigs. One of the easiest ways to increase your computing power was installing multiple high-memory GPU's.

So then the Bitcoin miners started buying up every GPU they could that had 8 GB of RAM or more, and the more powerful the GPU, the better. They would buy up dozens of them at a time and build multiple rigs working in conjunction with each other to mine Bitcoin.

Over the last two years, it got completely out of hand to the point some companies were buying up HUNDREDS of GPU's at a time. All of a sudden, a RTX 3060 12GB card that had a MSRP of $325.00 was selling for over $600.00. What's more, people like you and me were told they were "out of stock" all the time because companies didn't want to sell you one card today and sell me one card next week.

They got greedy. They were holding all of the cards (pun intended) and selling mining companies 150 cards at a time. Screw you and me. We didn't matter.

Bitcoin hit it's height November 12th, 2021 at $64,400.00 per Bitcoin.

Presently it is worth $20,000.00 - a decrease of 69% in just the last 7 months.

So now all those companies that kept expanding their mining operations aren't making enough money to even run all the rigs they presently have, let alone build and expand to new ones.

And of course now that they're not buying anymore and many of them are going bankrupt having lost everything they had, INSTANTLY the video card companies are back begging us to buy their cards as if nothing ever happened.

That's why I'm waiting until my birthday (October) to buy a new GPU. I'll go ahead and bet I'll be able to pick up a RTX 3060 TI for around $325.00 by then.

Thanks for that little history lesson, Marvin.

I actually noticed that Nvidia were advertising cards the other day but I didn't check their site until I saw this post. They're selling 3060's for £100 cheaper than I paid a few months back.

I'm not mad though. I got the card I wanted.

 

[aRJay]

Just now I am trying out all the activities I enjoy in the game with the Frames per Second counter going, the I will stop bothering with that soon.

I am doing this because after around 6 years of play I have upgraded to a new laptop, some of this was because when I chose the last one I got one that just met some of the specs for the game and it has struggled in places over the years, the shard sites in particular. Odyssey made that struggle more general. Another reason is that some of the keys were getting erratic causing problems both in game and elsewhere.

So with this new machine I want to visit some familiar things to see how they look on the new settings as well as ensure my rewritten bindings are OK, regrettably the new machine‘s keyboard doesn’t have a number pad so I am missing some very familiar keys. I also need to check that I have swapped various tools across OK.

Some specs old > new.
i7 2.5ghz > i9 5ghz
GTX950m 2Gb > RTX3080Ti 16Gb
8Gb DDR4 > 32Gb DDR5
Win 10 > Win 11

https://imgur.com/T5Fxk5q

Source: https://imgur.com/T5Fxk5q

 

[algwat]

Just now I am trying out all the activities I enjoy in the game with the Frames per Second counter going, the I will stop bothering with that soon.

I am doing this because after around 6 years of play I have upgraded to a new laptop, some of this was because when I chose the last one I got one that just met some of the specs for the game and it has struggled in places over the years, the shard sites in particular. Odyssey made that struggle more general. Another reason is that some of the keys were getting erratic causing problems both in game and elsewhere.

So with this new machine I want to visit some familiar things to see how they look on the new settings as well as ensure my rewritten bindings are OK, regrettably the new machine‘s keyboard doesn’t have a number pad so I am missing some very familiar keys. I also need to check that I have swapped various tools across OK.

Some specs old > new.
i7 2.5ghz > i9 5ghz
GTX950m 2Gb > RTX3080Ti 16Gb
8Gb DDR4 > 32Gb DDR5
Win 10 > Win 11

https://imgur.com/T5Fxk5q

Source: https://imgur.com/T5Fxk5q

noice....have fun. Is it very noisy when playing at high frame rates??
You could get a usb ten key pad if need those for functions.

 

[Codger]

Found an interesting little plant today, looks like a seed pod with something sprouting out of it.

It's just happy to see you.

 

[aRJay]

noice....have fun. Is it very noisy when playing at high frame rates??
You could get a usb ten key pad if need those for functions.

No seems very quiet at all times.

I am more likely to get a keyboard for the old machine which I intend to use for forums and external tools while the game is on the new machine. It will just take a little time to learn where the preset throttle keys are now I am sure they will become familiar in a time.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

No seems very quiet at all times.

I am more likely to get a keyboard for the old machine which I intend to use for forums and external tools while the game is on the new machine. It will just take a little time to learn where the preset throttle keys are now I am sure they will become familiar in a time.

Consider one of these wireless keyboards that connects via Bluetooth or the included USB dongle and allows you to switch it with one key press between up to 3 different computers.
Bit pricey, but I like it a lot.

Logitech Support + Download

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[Kram Nehpets Strebor]

I don't remember who recommended compromised nav beacons, but thank you
OMG so much fun!!!!

 

[CMDR🤐 Wolfzx12r]

 

[CMDR🤐 Wolfzx12r]

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

I don't remember who recommended compromised nav beacons, but thank you
OMG so much fun!!!!

It wasn't me, but I use one to progress combat rank as some wanted ships are elite, and it's a way to use combat to push up influence for the controlling faction in the beacon's system in another system they control.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Nice Cobra pic, i have to do one of my own like that too.

I had my Clipper for ages and i didn't know what to purpose it for. Then once i got a wanderer ship conception (rare docking = rare concern about your landing pad) - basically a ship that is self-sufficient enough (little fuel scoop), that has cargo (128), that has weapons and strong enough shield to fight a bit if necesssary (2 beams + whatever, rockets currently), that has rescue + collector limpets (mostly for signals, especially HGE, i load like 100 limpets and go), that has double SRV hangar (ground stuff if any wish to land, clipper was actually not that bad at landing), DSS and that still jumps 30+ ly and all this without a terrible supercruise maneuvrability that those real big ships have. Nowhere perfect except of one area - you don't have to return to you carrier and take another ship. Can just wander and do a lot of different and unrelated stuff.

Ofc as that's a Clipper i've soon found myself wanted as somehow i've stolen some useless canisters (I landed and they were there, now what, leave them be?) and had to migrate from Fed to Emp space, but that's just a little nuance. Otherwise fine ship.

I'm realising a Clipper needs at least one thermal vent beam laser to work properly in combat. It heats up really easily, and I've gone and put 2 x incendury round double shot large frag cannons and 2 x pack hound launchers on it. So long as I only have one ship to kill, I can just about make the kill before the ship cooks itself and it's very entertaining. I'll try a couple of extra ammo heat sink launchers firing when the pack hounds do to last a bit longer for multi target assassination missions. That's all I need from it as other ships are used for long duration combat.