I Have Been A Naughty Doggie. :)

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
With the upcoming changes to exploration going live soon, I decided to do something pointless and meaningless to celebrate. Like, the whole game. :)

To please at least two groups with well established centers of gravity, I embarked on the Journey of the Traveller's Annoyance Sojourn.

The first group, The True Scientists, I decided to amuse by taking a trip with their most beloved module in the Universe: The Advanced Discovery Scanner.

Then I took a fifty thousand light-year tour, doing nothing but "honking" and scooping. No detail scanning. The very thought should cause a grand mal attack.

"Burn The Filthy Casual!" "Road To Riches!" "No True Explorer!" "You're Just A Low-Life Traveller, Passing Through!"

Hopefully, this might filter through to the Codex.

Then, I decided to amuse another gravitationally centered group: The Let's Put Our Silly Names In Control Of This System Society.

I sold every system individually to just one faction in Colonia. Fifty. Thousand. Light. Years. Worth.

I'm not telling which one. :)

*That* should make someone's day. :)

I am under no illusions that this will change anything. I just thought it would be fun to do, before the door gets slammed on us low-life's.

I am in the process of selling all my scanners. That freed up a enormous amount of cash. Pity I can't recover the materials spent on them.

I have also ceremonially burned one of my two DBX's, after stripping it. I'm trying to decide what to do with the parts of the other, particularly the G5 5A FSD. The parts will filter down to more worthy craft. There will be a celebratory funeral pyre for the last one.

I never want to see the cockpit of a DBX again. There's no point for my playstyle for a pure exploration ship anymore. The True Scientists have seen to that. Everyone who wishes to do so can now twiddle with the FSS to their complete satisfaction.

Keep arguing over the perfect fringe exploration ship as well.

I'm going to be up in the peanut gallery. :)
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Yeah, what was the point you were making OP, or are you just salty you've sold the best ships in the game (DBX) for no reason?
 

Kitfox

Kitfox
Keep the DBX. Tune it cold and go after Thargoids with it.

Incidentally just racing round jonking doesn't do much as everything remains marked as unexplored. If you really want to wind up the, uh, somewhat 'focused' types you need to detail scan in every system.

Just one detail scan. Pick a planet at random.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
I've headed out - pre-3.3 - without any DS at all (since that slot will become empty when 3.3 hits, and I will then gain a DS). So no honks, and the DSS (surprisingly to me) won't even scan the stars I can see. Planning on travelling around 50k LY to get 'somewhere' for when 3.3 drops.

But I am uploading to EDSM, so that is filling up with systems that only have the location ;)
 

Faybs

Faybs
... I don't know how to break this to you, but there's a cap on how much influence you can dump into a faction in a single day. Anything beyond that is just money in the bank for you. You should have sold that data over the course of a few days if you really wanted to make a big dent.
 

[VR] Marrs

[VR] Marrs
Faybs said:
... I don't know how to break this to you, but there's a cap on how much influence you can dump into a faction in a single day. Anything beyond that is just money in the bank for you. You should have sold that data over the course of a few days if you really wanted to make a big dent.
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Ha ha, priceless!
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Faybs said:
... I don't know how to break this to you, but there's a cap on how much influence you can dump into a faction in a single day. Anything beyond that is just money in the bank for you. You should have sold that data over the course of a few days if you really wanted to make a big dent.
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Ah, well. A detail best left to the experts. I *did* cash in, which should annoy Dr. Baltar & Co. :)
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Autoculto said:
Wait a minute. Are you saying that all our hard earned materials won't be reimbursed when the new scanners touch down ?
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No, Frontier will credit you for the worth of the discovery scanners. I just want to get the *engineering* materials back, for the G5 DSS's. A metric boatload of time and materials was spent on dozens of them.
 

shreddog

shreddog
Factabulous said:
I've headed out - pre-3.3 - without any DS at all (since that slot will become empty when 3.3 hits, and I will then gain a DS). So no honks, and the DSS (surprisingly to me) won't even scan the stars I can see. Planning on travelling around 50k LY to get 'somewhere' for when 3.3 drops.

But I am uploading to EDSM, so that is filling up with systems that only have the location ;)
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Same here :D
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Kitfox said:
Keep the DBX. Tune it cold and go after Thargoids with it.

Incidentally just racing round jonking doesn't do much as everything remains marked as unexplored. If you really want to wind up the, uh, somewhat 'focused' types you need to detail scan in every system.

Just one detail scan. Pick a planet at random.
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The DSS was left behind to save mass, and to deliberately annoy the True Scientists, who declaim we are less than biowaste.

Not that they really care...

In my old days, I would have scanned even the asteroid belts. I flooded EDSM at one time with fixes on distant systems, for example. I was #12, last time I checked. All of my other records on EDSM and EGO have fallen into their deserved oblivion.

Y'all aren't getting the joke.

I was once one of the most OCD Travellers back in the day. As soon as a supremely grindy and klunky exploration method came out, so did the maniacs who think all are inferior to them. Just because exploration got some love- and a grindwall appeared to show just how masochism trumps wonder in this game. Power Play, and engineering are previous examples. The BGS play is a grind that doesn't even have your name on it, unless you are a PMF, and even then you have little player agency.

Explorers are abused children, who finally got treatment four years too late. BGS, PMF's, and squadrons are as close to EVE as Frontier will let happen- but you really still don't "own" anything.

So, I picked an absurdist "protest" to amuse myself. I Blazed My Own Tail!

I'm not surprised that I am getting robot responses. You're missing the greater point in that the game needs fleshed out content behind the new mechanics. If Frontier keeps on being a bad Dungeon Master, the only thing left is to go chaotic...

Which I *did*. :)
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Bad doggie.

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Come get your dues.
 
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