Goodbye Robby, Its been emotional

[Darrack]

For many years ive been trading out Biotech Conductors, Exquisite Focus Crystals along with Modified Embedded Firmware for those hard to get G5 Manufactured and Encoded’s, safe in the knowledge that heading over to Robby Mines will net me tons of them from ferrying dubious passengers to Sirius Atmospherics.

Nearly 9000 missions and 90000 Tourists safely delivered (well except for those 9 Federal dignitaries we ejected and 20ish passengers lost to the infamous CEOS 1 cockpit dog incident).

So now the Python ‘Gothica Star Tours’ will forever be on permanent display in Hausers Reach, where generation after generation of school children aspiring to obtain a pilots federation permit can point and laugh at how thousands of passengers were conned out of their hard earned credits into sight seeing in a ship with no windows.

Now in 3310 it has become all too easy to trade out other materials and create loops such as the ‘Meenatsu loop of the plenty’.
This simple task involves jumping into HGEs in Meenerati for CDCs then jumping over to Kwatsu’s HGEs for Imperial shielding, trading out at Fossum Ring in that system and repeating until the material gods have done their magic.

It’s a new dawn Commanders

O7

 

[Screemonster]

And here I was wondering whether the buff to mission rewards was going to lead to more passenger missions out of robigo.

I was gonna go hang out at the beacon with a fast KWS.

 

[Rat Catcher]

I've never been to Robigo...

Always found my nice mats doing planetary scans given from anarchy systems.

Since the 'rework' I am, for the first time, nearly full of Manufactured and have a goodly supply of data, happy times!

 

[Joe Cool]

But you can now add nice G4 raws to your booty bag @ Robigo

 

[yianniv]

It certainly is the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one...

 

[Doctor Dread]

My farewell to Robigo was ~8 years ago, when they killed maybe the best gaming I had in Elite: Robigo drugs/slaves smuggling.

Shieldless Cobra III, crazy runs to those micro-bubbles of destination worlds on the rim of the bubble. Docking full speed.

 

[Mrc_NorthEast]

The mats and $$$ at Robigo, helped many engineer ships and afford a FC. I still have a python dedicated to passengers missions in storage out there, which I have not used since before the current Tharg war started. Ye shall not be forgotten

 

[Darkfyre99]

Never bothered with Robigo myself. I don’t care how “efficient” something is, if it makes the game less fun, I’m not going to bother doing it. Since the Type-Eight update, it took me all of four hours of what I consider normal gameplay to top off all my manufactured bins from G1 to G3 from HGEs I encountered along my flight path. I’m now working on evening out my G4s and G5s.

Between that and the slightly lowered cost of completing G5 mods, my main bottleneck will be data rather than manufactured materials.

And to think getting materials from HGEs used to a fun an fast mini game I enjoyed playing every chance get. It’s now approaching “Is it worth dropping in? It takes forever for my operations controller’s limpets to get all this stuff!” levels of pointlessness. Yet another example of obviated gameplay sacrificed to appease the “I want it NOW!” community, because turned the easy but slow and grindy method of getting stuff, rather than addressing the true “problem”: exponential costs for logarithmic gains.

Thanks a lot, Frontier!

 

[Alaska Sædelære]

Guys... I get it, immersion is a wonderful thing but are we sometimes overdoing it? I saw the headline and thought another commander has died. While I don't know many of you personally, that -is- emotional.

 

[Darrack]

Guys... I get it, immersion is a wonderful thing but are we sometimes overdoing it? I saw the headline and thought another commander has died. While I don't know many of you personally, that -is- emotional.

I apologise if the title misled you, that wasn't my intention, many folks who have been in game for a while automatically know what Robby is.

O7

 

[Alaska Sædelære]

I apologise if the title misled you, that wasn't my intention, many folks who have been in game for a while automatically know what Robby is.

O7

No worries, I also know it but the "emotional" part got me first and with the plausible name... So I thought to make a more generic statement, because I feel it sometimes that one is "in it" a bit too much.

 

[Darrack]

emotional

Again sorry the 'emotional' part is a reference to the film 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'

O7

 

[Northpin]

I also felt like an end of an era - i always took some trips at Robigo when i was low on the 3 ex_mission-only materials.
Running shieldless and picking anyone no matter their criminal status, made for some really interesting runs.

Now it's not worth the effort anymore since the material rewards are absolutely random and also not very good (5 materials tops).
Long live the 120materials_HGE

 

[Darrack]

I will go back from time to time, Robby helped me get my Carrier and i have fond memories of the gentle grind (yes i love grind!), i compare it to my previous life farming windstones with my Paladin in Katta Castellum (Everquest).

O7

 

[Jumpin' Jack Flash]

Hi All

I've never been to Robigo...

I'm surprised .....

I've frequented that den of iniquity in the past, I've also bookmarked it on my Galaxy map (lest we forget!). Scraping together credits for a Python etc. running missions with an Asp Explorer from Robigo. Incidentally, I also ran missions to and from some of the other Stations in the vicinity of the Robigo System, namely Ceos, Sothis, Hip 10792 and Almagest.
Just checked on the Galactic map...There's roughly 126 Carriers parked up in Robigo at the present time, so it looks like the system is still fairly popular.
I can't check the through traffic for Robigo though as I'm 8500Ly out from it at the moment.

Jack

 

[Felix DiCestria]

I've never been to Robigo...

Always found my nice mats doing planetary scans given from anarchy systems.

Since the 'rework' I am, for the first time, nearly full of Manufactured and have a goodly supply of data, happy times!

I passed through Robigo on the way back to the Bubble at the end of a tour in the Black once.
Had a look in but didn't see anything that caught my eye there.

 

[aRJay]

In my earlier years in the game I did some stuff between Ceos and Sophis and will have visited Robigo at that time however as it’s claim to fame was not merely missions but passenger missions I won’t have bean there often.

I was in that area more recently but that was visiting the large number of barely explored systems around there filling my codex and collecting exobiology.

 

[Greasetrap42]

Sorry for the minor necro.

I just visited Robigo for old time fun. I'm close to my 50,000 passenger mark.

Well...

• There aren't enough passenger missions to half fill my python.
• Upon returning I get scanned at Robigo and shot at. I get a 200 Cr bounty I can't clear with the local admin. Interstallar factors required.
• I tried this 3 times. I never got to complete any missions.

Ya, I'm carrying illegal passengers. I guess C&P changed because I have never ever been scanned and shot at Robigo Mines.

I supposed I could modify my ship and be more stealthy. But its not worth 34 passengers and a couple million credits in missions. Waste of time.

 

[mtfatboy3006]

I swapped out my old passenger Python for a Type 8 and went back to Robigo. The amounts of mats for rewards are still 3-5 (vs 12 for high-reward trade missions or filling up a G5 mat with a single HGE), and now the rewards are so varied that no one item fills up. In a few hours I grabbed maybe 8 biotech conductors and no exquisite focus crystals, but all manner of grade 4 and 5 mats of all three types. I built up a Type 8 Robirunner for nothing. I mean, it's still easy and rewarding casual game play, but it's not a farming meta anymore, which is FANTASTIC.

I raise my Hutton mug to the new dawn.

 

[Greasetrap42]

I swapped out my old passenger Python for a Type 8 and went back to Robigo.

Was that before or after Ascendancy and PP 2.0? Because I just get insta-attacked wherever I go with these illegal passengers. I never experienced this before.

On my 3rd visit to interstellar factors I got scanned, shot-at, and bounty. I had to abandon the missions.