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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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Has anyone noticed that the bottom has fallen out of the prices of just about all minerals?
Yep, mines a MKIV too - all hard points are standard missile racks - 2 on fire 1, 2 on fire 2 as there's no need to fire all 4 at once. One pair is quite concentrated, the other has a useful split.
I took my own ship most of the time. It unlocked after I had completed 10 low ground CZs. I don't think winning or losing matters, but I didn't lose any.
They used to estimate that it took 2400 kills to go from Deadly to Elite. It should be slightly less now in Odyssey because they removed some of the penalty for shooting lower-ranked ships (used to be you got nothing for shooting any ship more than a couple ranks under you -- now you get at least something).
Folks I've talked to that have made it to Elite in combat said it was around 7000 kills total.
I'm currently 45% through Deadly, so I'm on the "last leg" of the journey I guess. According to my Codex I have 5,579 kills. That puts me a bit behind in terms of rank/kill, probably because I've killed a lot of low-level stuffs along the way. I figure another 2500 might do it for me, maybe.
On-foot killing of scavengers counts toward the rank as well (a little), although killing in a ground CZ does not. Go figure.
I hadn't noticed, but I looked 'em up on EDDB and yes, currently there appear to be no systems with those high prices
BGS states are so random to me -- but you need stuff like Boom + Expansion + Holiday to get the good prices. I guess there's not much like that going on at the moment.
I've killed more than that, mostly in Threat 4 and 5 zones, and I'm only half way to Dangerous.
Now is the time to offer top of the current market prices for platinum and similar in the bubble on your carrier. Next week you can make a tidy sum selling it off to stations when the prices will probably be better.
I accidentally made about 80kk/t on Rhodplumsite when it was flavor of the month. I had about 850t of it because I forget to end a buy order.
I'm going to have to remember that when I get back.
Yeah. Deadly is the halfway mark.
Remember not all kills are the same value - there is a sliding scale relative to your own rank - so an elite NPC is worth lots (OK, 3) to a harmless commander but is just worth one point (or 1.25?) to a deadly commander.
Is Elite halfway to Elite 1? Not really looked in any detail into ranking beyond the standard elites. The couple I have just... happened.
When I got "stuck" at Master, I found a few posts suggesting I go after Thargoid scouts, which used to be considered Elite. The scouts are no longer Elite, however it takes "only" roughly 700 scouts to go from Master to Dangerous. So I did out that at Asterope and or Merope. I used the Scout build from Axi for it. Not much money, but the combat rank % goes up much faster. The Threat 3 Non Human signal sources have 2 scouts, the Threat 4 Non Human signal sources usually have 4 scouts. And a surprise bonus of a scout swarm is 6 or 8 or more scouts. Any NHSS 5 or above will have Thargoid Interceptors, which I did not target going from Master to Dangerous.
A new gun to run around CZ's with.
Now to try it out!
Now to try it out!
Almost done finding G3 personal equipment I used most. Using G3 Laser and AR-50 in low intensity CZ seems bit of OP, I never lose one also.
Spent the whole day flying around for G3 P-15 but in vain... I give up for now after getting G2 instead.
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I'm well aware of that.
Most of my victims are elite or deadly. Still can't make any headway even though I'm only Master rank.
Two Aphelions FTW. Don't want to be downrange of me with these puppies...
I might buy a bar for my carrier. That's my random thought for the day.
I might buy a bar for my carrier. That's my random thought for the day.
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I don't think all Elite kills are equal. The wing pirate assassination mission gave me 2% increase in rank, although it could has been as little as 1.2% to increase the whole number by two. That mission is 3 deadly Vultures and a deadly FDL. If I destroy half a dozen Elite Eagle/Cobra/Vipers at a compromised nav beacon, I see no noticeable rank increase.
Mauve Adder.
That is all.
That is all.
The most boring looking (before you scan it) and yet most valuable system I've ever found. All metal worlds and water worlds. Estimated value of this one little system: 32 million credits.
