There is definitely a bit of a startreck vibe going on here!
Elite Dangerous | Ascendancy Update 1 - Thursday 21st November
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itsa AWACS python without the early warning or control
looking forward to the c130 C.A.S variant
looking forward to the c130 C.A.S variant
Actually not totally "new" ... ;-)
Yes, we're lucky they're not compulsory any more...
From what I've seen if you deliver rares as assigned the assignment will still complete and award merits for completing it, but no merits from the actual trade itself.
I assume (but don't know) the same is true for escape pods assignments.
I just traded some precious metals, at great profit, to easily fit into the 40% above bracket, this brings loads more merits than it used too; Fantastic stuff. This makes a nice change from combat from time to time and the merits awarded are well worth the effort of looking for great trade opportunities for.
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It is, afaik
It’s worse than that it’s Boeing Jim, but not as we know it…
Just made a trade loop in Utopian space, making about 2k Merits per run and some decent credits.
Feels like my old days in PP1 hauling Dissidents but this actually makes me credits instead of costing me.
This will do me
O7
I just finished my play session for today (I played about four hours or so), and I had some good, clean fun. Some dirty too.
I was mainly busy doing my weeklies. I wasn't exactly rushing it, and I had some bad luck too - I got two pod collection (from two different systems) and one salvage task, and I had a bit of bad luck with spawning the power signal sources, and I also went to a few HGEs that popped up on the way to fill up some materials, and some black box and salvage part hand ins didn't count for some reason. Maybe the game gets confused when you have pods, salvage parts and black boxes from different systems in your hold. I also got distracted and killed the occasional enemy I came across, and scanned a lot of ships.
All this to say, I didn't grind it, I played it relaxed. Took a trip to the material trader too to be able to fully collect the care packages. After finishing the weeklies I jumped in my murder Python II as an encore, flew to a HazRes and went to town until I ran out of ammo.
All in all I made 28k merits tonight. Probably not on par with the grindin' folks, but I'm content. I have to admit, doing the different tasks is a bit more fun when the progression is a bit more tangible. I'm now at 57k merits, and the way towards the first module rank doesn't feel as long anymore.
Of those 28k merits, 16k were the reward for the weeklies. That felt appropriate. At the HazRes I made touch over 5k I think, and I was there between 15 and 20 minutes I'd say, plus I spent some flight time. This would mean I made 7k merits on the side - scanning ships, killing enemies, handing in salvage. Pods still give no merits.
In total I am at 57k merits now and rank 10, I started out today at rank 6 with 29k merits, so I made four ranks this evening. I'm 6k away from rank 12. This is with me being pledged to Kaine.
I still consider myself a "filthy casual", even though my earning rate probably still way above I the average player, let alone a new CMDR - I guess I have experience on my side, even if my approach is pretty chill (I'd say). The leaderboard can be deceptive, with today's play session I jumped right to the top of the top 10%, just a smidge away from top 10. I assume it won't stay that way, as this was the first night of the current cycle and the weekend is coming.
The TL;DR is: I had some good fun, and even though I really don't care about modules or rank progression (I promise!), it felt good to get some immediate reward feedback. I am no strategic expert and can't comment on if that 4:1 ratio is good or bad, but this power play newbie CMDR had some good fun tonight. I liked it the way it was tonight.
I was mainly busy doing my weeklies. I wasn't exactly rushing it, and I had some bad luck too - I got two pod collection (from two different systems) and one salvage task, and I had a bit of bad luck with spawning the power signal sources, and I also went to a few HGEs that popped up on the way to fill up some materials, and some black box and salvage part hand ins didn't count for some reason. Maybe the game gets confused when you have pods, salvage parts and black boxes from different systems in your hold. I also got distracted and killed the occasional enemy I came across, and scanned a lot of ships.
All this to say, I didn't grind it, I played it relaxed. Took a trip to the material trader too to be able to fully collect the care packages. After finishing the weeklies I jumped in my murder Python II as an encore, flew to a HazRes and went to town until I ran out of ammo.
All in all I made 28k merits tonight. Probably not on par with the grindin' folks, but I'm content. I have to admit, doing the different tasks is a bit more fun when the progression is a bit more tangible. I'm now at 57k merits, and the way towards the first module rank doesn't feel as long anymore.
Of those 28k merits, 16k were the reward for the weeklies. That felt appropriate. At the HazRes I made touch over 5k I think, and I was there between 15 and 20 minutes I'd say, plus I spent some flight time. This would mean I made 7k merits on the side - scanning ships, killing enemies, handing in salvage. Pods still give no merits.
In total I am at 57k merits now and rank 10, I started out today at rank 6 with 29k merits, so I made four ranks this evening. I'm 6k away from rank 12. This is with me being pledged to Kaine.
I still consider myself a "filthy casual", even though my earning rate probably still way above I the average player, let alone a new CMDR - I guess I have experience on my side, even if my approach is pretty chill (I'd say). The leaderboard can be deceptive, with today's play session I jumped right to the top of the top 10%, just a smidge away from top 10. I assume it won't stay that way, as this was the first night of the current cycle and the weekend is coming.
The TL;DR is: I had some good fun, and even though I really don't care about modules or rank progression (I promise!), it felt good to get some immediate reward feedback. I am no strategic expert and can't comment on if that 4:1 ratio is good or bad, but this power play newbie CMDR had some good fun tonight. I liked it the way it was tonight.
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Started the evening at Level 60, was hoping for 100 but only ended up as ...
oh and:
(this won't last )
Game is totally balanced, all it needed was that patch today
Edit: Ah, actually I had a mission still to hand in, so actually finished at
oh and:
(this won't last
)Game is totally balanced, all it needed was that patch today
Edit: Ah, actually I had a mission still to hand in, so actually finished at
just for some context: How long did you play, and what did you do? Did you... GRIND a new meta???? (dun dun duh!)Started the evening at Level 60, was hoping for 100 but only ended up as ...
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(this won't last
Game is totally balanced, all it needed was that patch today
drums fingers on desk ... https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/67130
I mean, it's not like a major bug ... oh wait, yes it is!
Where are you finding these donate cargo missions? I keep looking for systems in Boom/Expansion, with Industry/Refinery economies, etc. but the only Support missions there are to donate credits =/Started the evening at Level 60, was hoping for 100 but only ended up as ...
oh and:
(this won't last
Game is totally balanced, all it needed was that patch today
Edit: Ah, actually I had a mission still to hand in, so actually finished at
I think you need to rank up with some factions to get to deliver larger amounts of stock. I'm also on the search for systems that take Gold/Silver/Tritium/Palladium donation missions. Only found one that has two stations spawning Palladium missions, but they are rare.
Does anyone know what the conditions for the system have to be to spawn Gold/Silver/Tritium donation missions?
Only tried Industry/Refinery and one Industry/Extraction system. The Palladium missions (from 48 to 96 tons) were found in Industry/Refinery.
Everything in the table above 10-20 K buy or sell is worth it donating, when you find the mission for it. Don't know if the avg. buy or sell price are driving the merit calculation, if there is a fixed price in the background for every mineral/metal or if the stations buy/sell price dictate it - will need to take note if the merits i get are consistend across different systems. Also don't know if all will spawn for donation missons, but most of the Minerals on the right i have already seen. Things like Rutile, Bauxite etc. are not worth the hassle (except the amount is really high, don't know what the limits here are for donation missions).
Not sure about Osmium, Platinum, Samarium and Bromellite - if those spawn too. But i guess Platinum would be too high anyway.
| Metals | Avg. Buy | Avg. Sell | Minerals | Avg. Buy | Avg. Sell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 44,555 | 48,172 | Bertrandite | 16,131 | 18,732 |
| Osmium | 0 | 65,054 | Bromellite | 0 | 41,927 |
| Palladium | 47,805 | 51,906 | Cryolite | 10,845 | 15,941 |
| Platinum | 0 | 82,633 | Gallite | 10,247 | 11,986 |
| Samarium | 0 | 27,410 | Indite | 9,609 | 11,489 |
| Silver | 34,223 | 38,178 | Pyrophyllite | 9,859 | 15,381 |
| Tritium (under Chemicals) | 10,411 | 11,907 | - | - | - |
And for the min-max-Traders - these are the average prices from: https://inara.cz/elite/commodities-list/
They are meant to compare the donation missions worth, not selling them for those prices.
I would like to know too... 280.000 merits in the evening is better than anything I can think of, only possibility I would find is if you had stored lot of those data from the exploit, but I don't see you as an exploit userStarted the evening at Level 60, was hoping for 100 but only ended up as ...
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oh and:
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(this won't last
Game is totally balanced, all it needed was that patch today
Edit: Ah, actually I had a mission still to hand in, so actually finished at
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Or you did find a way to get those donation mission for gold tritium etc reliabily
I would like to know too... 280.000 merits in the evening is better than anything I can think of, only possibility I would find is if you had stored lot of those data from the exploit, but I don't see you as an exploit user
Or you did find a way to get those donation mission for gold tritium etc reliabily
Of course there has to be a set of conditions for the system spawning the Gold/Silver/Tritium/Palladium missions. But he won't tell
I guess a high population, 7 faction, Industrial + Extraction or Refinery in Boom, Expansion (+ Public Holiday?) with a lof of Industrial stations (M) to efficiently rotate the missions.
There are systems with 4-5 large stations and 4-5 medium ones (faster landing for mission rotation). If the mission board gets refreshed every 10min. you can spam these missions indefinetely. Of course you need the money, but money is not hard to come by. Sourcing a market that has the requested minerals or tritium is also not that hard. And if you have a FC you only have to fill it up with a few cargo runs, then jump to the target system.
I've only found Gold + Tritium missions by now in:
Industrial / Extraction
State: Normal (could have sworn it was Boom when i was there - i selected it as a filter on inara)
Population: 12 M
Stations with missions:
- Industrial
- Extraction/Industrial
Industrial / Extraction
State: Normal (i also think it was Boom then and is now over)
Population: 27 M
Stations with missions:
- Industrial/Extraction
- Extraction/Industrial
The missions only requested small amounts (54 Tritium, 27 Gold) and 2-3 missions at a time from 2 stations. Maybe i should have ranked up the factions with credit donation missions - will try that first. Need something more efficient with more stations.
Nice research, but if this is how Factabulous did, I'm less interested, as we won't be able to use it reliabily for powerplay goals. Still good to know and I will look into that.Of course there has to be a set of conditions for the system spawning the Gold/Silver/Tritium/Palladium missions. But he won't tell
I guess a high population, 7 faction, Industrial + Extraction or Refinery in Boom, Expansion (+ Public Holiday?) with a lof of Industrial stations (M) to efficiently rotate the missions.
There are systems with 4-5 large stations and 4-5 medium ones (faster landing for mission rotation). If the mission board gets refreshed every 10min. you can spam these missions indefinetely. Of course you need the money, but money is not hard to come by. Sourcing a market that has the requested minerals or tritium is also not that hard. And if you have a FC you only have to fill it up with a few cargo runs, then jump to the target system.
I've only found Gold + Tritium missions by now in:
Industrial / Extraction
State: Normal (could have sworn it was Boom when i was there - i selected it as a filter on inara)
Population: 12 M
Stations with missions:
- Industrial
- Extraction/Industrial
Industrial / Extraction
State: Normal (i also think it was Boom then and is now over)
Population: 27 M
Stations with missions:
- Industrial/Extraction
- Extraction/Industrial
The missions only requested small amounts (54 Tritium, 27 Gold) and 2-3 missions at a time from 2 stations. Maybe i should have ranked up the factions with credit donation missions - will try that first. Need something more efficient with more stations.
Either i'm having really bad luck at the mission boards or the mining materials donation missions are switched off everywhere. I can't get Palladium/Gold/Tritium to spawn at stations where i already did some missions. Could be it's a one time thing where if you deliver enough of one material the stations don't need it anymore. But at a lot of stations i only see the credit donations now - not even other item categories other than mining stuff.
Will check a few new systems but i won't be surprised if the donation route is also closed now.