I take it you;re doing economical jumps?Yes, I have plenty of fuel. I can usually go 3500-4000Ly before refueling and I topped off before entering.
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Exactly, I'm out now, it was 320Ly across.
Edit: I did find gas giants with both water and ammonia based life.
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I really ought to do something different from on-foot missions: I think I'm addicted! (Or, if you're of that persuasion, they're "addicting" - which is a word I absoluetly hate).
EDIT I did one yesterday that was a real challenge. I couldn't find a scav takedown so I took on power-up that was a threat five (first one I've seen). One ship landed while I was on settlment approach and my info panel said there were four scavs absailing down.
Were there five? No. There were another four planetside. Some were easily picked off but, when I got down to two, another ship landed another four. Never mind, keep at it.
I whittled them down to two again but those last ones were really dug in. What's more, their AI was almost like another player was controlling them.
In the end, I had to go shields-up and gung-ho with the Oppressor, almost toe-to-toe.
A very satisfyingf mission indeed!
EDIT I did one yesterday that was a real challenge. I couldn't find a scav takedown so I took on power-up that was a threat five (first one I've seen). One ship landed while I was on settlment approach and my info panel said there were four scavs absailing down.
Were there five? No. There were another four planetside. Some were easily picked off but, when I got down to two, another ship landed another four. Never mind, keep at it.
I whittled them down to two again but those last ones were really dug in. What's more, their AI was almost like another player was controlling them.
In the end, I had to go shields-up and gung-ho with the Oppressor, almost toe-to-toe.
A very satisfyingf mission indeed!
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Once or twice I've been to on foot POI missions and had 5 waves of enemies drop in...killed some on foot, some with the Scorpion, some with AMR and one with my ship's cargo scoop...
That post is worthless without video and/or screen shots.
That was harsh! Love it.
Perhaps we could a competition for the most creative way of taking out an enemy... I have run over a commando once but that's not very original.
Well... after a quick trawl, I don't think we'll ever be able to top this lot (look out for the chicken one about 10 mins in):
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBrL6_GPGQ
EPIC!!!
Thanks!
In that particular instance (npi) I was in my T7 ExploMiner with no weapons, save two mining lasers, though I did try both the abrasion blaster and SsDM but neither of those worked either...and my Scarab had already been destroyed...so I got...creative...
The beginning of that video is riddled with running over NPCs, using the AMR and just having fun...
So, the author of E.D.I.S.O.N. is back and was willing to update it to work while on-foot. This is a wonderful help when doing Exobiology! You can mark the location of plants, and come back to them when ready to scan.
See my post on the EDISON thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...face-navigation-waypoints.372326/post-9904823
See my post on the EDISON thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...face-navigation-waypoints.372326/post-9904823
Looks really useful! Thanks!
Mind you, it would be better if the scanner had multiple canisters so you could store more than one sample. Like bins in mining.
Mind you, it would be better if the scanner had multiple canisters so you could store more than one sample. Like bins in mining.
I try to follow this rule of thumb: Play with what I have and don't pine for what I want...
Sometimes I'm actually successful...
Yep, wait until you are there before arrival and within 6km(?) of it and in the path of it, it knocks you spinning into the void.
I was spinning out of control for a few minutes with no sign off stopping, so logged off and when logged in again was 80km away!
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I took the Scorpion out exploring today, just for a change of pace. I don't have any livery for it, but the default color looked rather fitting on this sandy planet.
The Scorpion is good on this kind of flat terrain, but I do prefer the Scarab on anything bumpy. 6 wheels do a better job there, it seems.
But it was a fun explore, and I found 2 planets with high-value bios on them (Stratum Techtonicas for 806,300cr and Bacterium Cerbrus for 121,300cr). It came to nearly 4 million with first-logged bonuses. Rank in Exobiology is pretty slow going, so it's nice to get a boost now and then.
The Scorpion is good on this kind of flat terrain, but I do prefer the Scarab on anything bumpy. 6 wheels do a better job there, it seems.
But it was a fun explore, and I found 2 planets with high-value bios on them (Stratum Techtonicas for 806,300cr and Bacterium Cerbrus for 121,300cr). It came to nearly 4 million with first-logged bonuses. Rank in Exobiology is pretty slow going, so it's nice to get a boost now and then.
I'm still laughing
Can the scarab scan plants though? I know it can't "see" geo signs.
Not that I'm aware of. That HAS been asked for though...
Or was that sarcasm???
Hehe, no, not sarcasm. I've never tried to data scan a bio in the Scorpion.