Here's some more from the same moon.
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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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How very bulbous!
I thought it would be nemolomen that cought that one first
Ah, c'mon man
Major break through for me this morning. After 15 months and more hours of play than I'm willing to admit, I finally found the right combination of keyboard and mouse settings to get decent results using railguns. I was struggling to hit a T10 at 700m , and all of sudden I'm hitting Vipers at 4km. My beloved Krait MKII has been reinvented as a wonderfully stable railgun sniping platform. Landing an opening salvo of 5 railgun strikes on the Alliance Chieftains given for pirate massacre missions immediately removes their shields and reduces their hull to 93%. If I can land 2 more salvos like that they're dead before they fire a shot. Granted they are not particularly challenging opponents, but its good while I'm practicing some more.
It's different and effective, but not really an exciting dog fight. I'll keep going with this set up for a while to get more practice and complete this stack of pirate massacre missions this way.
It's different and effective, but not really an exciting dog fight. I'll keep going with this set up for a while to get more practice and complete this stack of pirate massacre missions this way.
As you are finding, water worlds are relatively common and keep the exploration rank and credit balance building. The best place I know of for finding high value planets is a few thousand ly "south east" of Sag A* where an ELW hunting expedition ran between October last year and March. I joined in for a while, and then got bored. Filtering for F and A star types I was finding water worlds almost every other system. No ELWs though, but others were finding them at a rate of 1 in every 50 systems which is a high rate.
I've found it takes somewhere between 12 and 14 million in exploration data sales to get allied status with a controlling faction. I did this a while back in 6 different systems I used for gaining Federation ranks. Got allied to give that process a head start since I had nowhere better to sell the data.Not had much game time the last week, but logged a couple of hours total meandering around the arsenic-heavy brain trees and picking their fruits. For obvious reasons, I threw them into the ship's material processing unit and will not be bringing them back for sale on the food market.
Fortunately I found that even though 90% of fruits get stuck in the branches of the tree, it is not necessary to get out and kick each one of them loose. Simply 'flying' the SRV at them with the cargo hatch open generally managed to grab the target
Eventually with full arsenic and reasonably improved zirconium supplies, I moved on - and promptly found another vacuum body with biology+geology just a couple of systems over. Oh, look... more brain trees. At least this moon has an interesting primary planet to look at while I collect vanadium apples.
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I'm starting to get a little tired of exploring for the moment, and I seem to have hit a cluster of explored (though often not scanned) systems which is kind of taking the shine off. I think I will head back to the bubble soon.
Although I am pleased to log a sighting of the rock of ubiquity on a delightfully sparkly moon where everything twinkles as I drive.
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Think I have upwards of 20m in scan data, plus a million in codex discoveries and I have no idea how much bio data. Hopefully the first of these will get me allied status with at least two factions. My list tells me to head for Wolf 1230 and talk to DaVinci Corp, who will be the 14th of the top 20 factions that I've gotten to allied with so far. They seem to average about 100 systems each, so the full top 20 might make 2000 systems or 10% of the bubble in which I can find an allied faction.
Maybe. There's probably some overlap.
...I'm starting to realise the idea of having an ally in every system might take longer than I'd like.
Nope. I said I wouldn't do that again, and I meant it...
A new record for me. 9 biologicals!
Er.........
Amazing pics. The planets I have been finding are mostly boring deserts or unnavigable mountainous wastelands.
Nah, I didn't want to post it in the Dev thread
It was fun though!Nah, I didn't want to post it in the Dev thread
Yes, the humor of a thargoid dancing on Jameson's ship -- it certainly made me laugh. Some CMDR has a lot of time on their hands, apparentlyIt was fun though!
Got to love how the human mind naturally seeks patterns, and is so good at it, finds patterns that aren't even there....
I think a lot of people are reading a lot more into all sorts of things in Elite that just are not there and not as complex as they dream them to be.
Yes, the humor of a thargoid dancing on Jameson's ship -- it certainly made me laugh. Some CMDR has a lot of time on their hands, apparently
Another new record for me: 6 water worlds in one system. It's been a good morning.
Another first: A ringed water world.
