It's just the one new player, that's been "griefed" 30,000 times. poor ****er.
30,000 ships through Eravate in last 24 hours
- Thread starter Jay8ch
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Number of players DROPING from day to day, ED going to crapper as one player said
Planet landings are the only thing that can save this game (and shuttles coming up and down from planet to orbit) passengers
we would like to see firing trails while they going through the orbit
Planet landings are the only thing that can save this game (and shuttles coming up and down from planet to orbit) passengers
we would like to see firing trails while they going through the orbit
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One of them was mineLoving the game so far. A steep learning curve, but nothing an avid 30 yo gamer like myself couldn't handle. I guess I have to buy a HOTAS now, though I'm managing trade just fine with my keyboard.
I came back from walking my dog at around 7:30 PM and I played until 4 AM wiht work from 9AM the next day (and walking the dog before that)...
It took me a while to beat the first two combat scenarios, space combat was really hard before I read somewhere to bind 50% reverse throttle to a hotkey.
Then, I went in and decide to trade, took a mission to supply progenitor cells. I was in my stock sidewinder. The planned route was 24 jumps haha. A few minutes later i learned that you can run out of fuel stranded lightyears away from the nearest station.
But then I kind of got the hang of it, now I dock like a champ and I even got the hang of silent running. Made almost 500k in my first night of playing, and I can't wait to buy a Cobra when I get back. If anyone wants to message me, I will hang around in federation space (gonna get my cobra from Gidzenko Ring in Chamunda). IGN is the same.
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Since I can't seem to edit my post, I made my 500k mostly by doing "smuggle these here imperial slaves" missions that paid 60 to 90k per mission.
Not really worth it to travel all the way to Delaine space for a Cobra, but once you start earning your way up to bigger ships (1M credit+ territory), you should check out the Active Discounts Thread - don't have link offhand but it's easy to lookup.
You will want to go to Lembava for the 15% off ships and modules discount, and Diaguandri to fully spec it out as not all the best modules are available at Lembava.
Except the FSD drives - those are an extra 10% on top of the 15% already discounted at Lembava. Once you start buying 5M CR FSD drives, that extra discount really helps.
Good luck out there! Ram an asteroid, show it who's boss.
OK, will look up the discounts thread. So far I'm content in my local kiddy sandbox, even if I have to sometimes go to single player because "DOCKING REQUEST DENIED". I guess the price of having new players is that some of them take the full 10 minutes to dock haha!
Another funny newbie moment i had, which you guys probably have experienced a long time ago.
*zooms out of hyperspace*
"Oh cool, it's a white dwarf. Right? I think thats what they were ca... OH GOD! IT BURNS! IT BUUURNS!"
Another funny newbie moment i had, which you guys probably have experienced a long time ago.
*zooms out of hyperspace*
"Oh cool, it's a white dwarf. Right? I think thats what they were ca... OH GOD! IT BURNS! IT BUUURNS!"
I went back there recently for some fun. I abandoned a few tons of gold outside Dalton Gateway, it was fun watching them scramble around.
I also found a Hauler in supercruise with a bounty of about 400 credits. I wasn't going to destroy him for that but decided to interdict him for a bit of fun and a bit of interaction. He evaded the interdiction and my Python got a 30K repair bill. I got schooled by a noob in a Hauler basically.
I also found a Hauler in supercruise with a bounty of about 400 credits. I wasn't going to destroy him for that but decided to interdict him for a bit of fun and a bit of interaction. He evaded the interdiction and my Python got a 30K repair bill. I got schooled by a noob in a Hauler basically.
LoL, yea - I know exactly the one you're talking about, if you're still in Hudson space area - it's only a few jumps over from major tech / ship outfitting system Bhritzameno, and whenever I come back there to refit for cheaper weapons (hudson discount) and run some fed faction missions, I always kick myself when I get sent to that system and forget.
It looks damn small but the gravity radius around that sucker is huge, you have far less time to react than you think
I went back there recently for some fun. I abandoned a few tons of gold outside Dalton Gateway, it was fun watching them scramble around.
I also found a Hauler in supercruise with a bounty of about 400 credits. I wasn't going to destroy him for that but decided to interdict him for a bit of fun and a bit of interaction. He evaded the interdiction and my Python got a 30K repair bill. I got schooled by a noob in a Hauler basically.
Haha, yeah, showing off and failing is awesome! At the end of the last session I figured, after having been drinking and smoking all evening, that it would be great fun to show people how really skilled pilots land their Eagle: looping backwards and landing straight on the pad with FA off, never mind that I cannot do that even when perfectly sober. Never landed on so many docking pads in one manouver before...
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I was around this area sniping at the 'WANTED' big guys picking on the newbies, when I accidentally hit an authority vessel and became WANTED myself. Instantly this CMDR in an Eagle started firing at me. His lasers barely made a dent in the shields of my FDL so I took time out to message him saying 'Are you sure you want to do this?' He came again for another run so I took that as a yes, and hit him with 2 barrels of beams, stripping his shields and taking his hull down to 73%, before I let him jump out of there. i think it was enough of a lesson learned, don't you?
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The honourable thing to do is to point your lasers at yourself and commit sepuku!
Anyway ...
Day 12.
My scheme of pretending to be thousands lightyears away while hopping my sidey from Eravate to LHS 3447 seems to have worked.
Numbers aren't all players
Haha, yeah, showing off and failing is awesome! At the end of the last session I figured, after having been drinking and smoking all evening, that it would be great fun to show people how really skilled pilots land their Eagle: looping backwards and landing straight on the pad with FA off, never mind that I cannot do that even when perfectly sober. Never landed on so many docking pads in one manouver before...
Yup, I comms'd him to say well done and that I deserved my repair bill, but he didn't reply. Probably didn't know how to use the comms yet, but could still out pilot me.
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That's a very funny thing to do. Personally never had that issue, took about 1 minute to find out by reading the control map keys and the basic guide.LOL Do you think they have learned how to deploy cargo scoop? I learned that very late and in fact rammed the first few canisters.
When i was there I was attacked (I wasn't wanted) by 2 CMDR's in sidewinders and 1 in an Eagle. I didn't bother firing back, just told them to stop that. I had report crimes switched off so they were lucky they didn't get wanted.
We used to dream about a docking bay. After an 'ard day in the pits my Dad would park the ship on a nearby asteroid, let us out to scavenge for a handful of gravel for dinner then beat us for six hours until bed time. But we wus happy in them days.
Really shouldnt read and post whilst at work. I'm now cleaning coffee from my monitor.
Missed the asteroid. Didn't miss that stupid railing that encompasses the narrow slit in the borg cube thing that passes for a space station. Who needs railing in space anyway?
Yeah, they learn how to grow up into a nasty pirate Conda and come back and eat you laterEDIT: Also had to take out a wanted CMDR while there...oh well...they have to learn sometimes!
No NPC ships show in the traffic reports