Are black hole jet cones just like neutron stars? Are they more dangerous, can they be used to boost?
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Stratum usually isn’t hard to find as it tends to occur in groups, is not small and flat, usually a good colour contrast. Bacteria is hard to find because it is basically just a surface texture.
They are based on the planetary composition amongst other things so I am sure patterns could be derived but equally I am sure RNG is involved as well.
The only jet cones are the relatively safe ones from neutron stars and the much more dangerous ones from white dwarf stars which won’t boost you as far and are much more likely to trash your ship.
Black holes are pretty much inert.
Is there any way to repair your own power plant?
No. PP is the only module that can only be repaired in a dock.
I bet that can be a real pain for long distance explorers. I'm only a week into my self-imposed exile to the far reaches of space and I'm at 98% already.
Nope. Stations and fleet carriers only.
Use AMFU (that's why you want 2 of them) to make all 100% except PP. rebot & repair, repeat. This way you can restore PP until 95%.
Yes I have two max-size AFMU. Good to know that this is an option, thanks, although I suspect I'll be lost in a lithobraking incident long before my power plant gives out.
In my current minimalist exploration/plant hunting ship, a Hauler, I have tried to mitigate that risk by putting 4 pips in Sys then shutting down the Power Distributor so I can’t accidentally change them, this also helps reduce fuel usage by reducing the power needed by the ship.
I went the other way big time, I'm in an Anaconda with all the bells and whistles. Maybe I'll try something a little more modest for my next expedition as it is really hard or impossible to land in some places!
I explored a little in an Anaconda back when I first got one in the days before the FSS when you had to fly within range of all bodies you wanted detailed information on, its lack of agility in supercruise soured me on it as an exploration vessel even though it has a lot of other things to recommend it. My full size explorer is a Krait Phantom.
Seems it is worth checking out single-bio planets, as I've never even heard of Luteolum Anemone before.
Oh, those are cordyceps growths on top, but mostly just iron, sulphur, and nickel. On this planet anyway, maybe others might have more interesting material growths.
Oh, those are cordyceps growths on top, but mostly just iron, sulphur, and nickel. On this planet anyway, maybe others might have more interesting material growths.
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I boarded a bus for a sight seeing tour yesterday to see Mount Tiede - the volcano that created Tenerife island. The landscape would not have looked out of place in ED but for the complete absence of Codger's Rock examples 
When boarding the bus, the luggage compartment was open. Yes, that was the point I though, I wonder what would happen if I asked for 2 units of landmines to make my trip more comfortable....
I need help
When boarding the bus, the luggage compartment was open. Yes, that was the point I though, I wonder what would happen if I asked for 2 units of landmines to make my trip more comfortable....
I need help
They will be one of the original bios like Brain Trees and Bark Mounds that we had access to before Odyssey.
As long as you are just wondering what would happen if you asked you are fine, the time to worry is after you ask the question especially if they actually give you the minesI boarded a bus for a sight seeing tour yesterday to see Mount Tiede - the volcano that created Tenerife island. The landscape would not have looked out of place in ED but for the complete absence of Codger's Rock examples
When boarding the bus, the luggage compartment was open. Yes, that was the point I though, I wonder what would happen if I asked for 2 units of landmines to make my trip more comfortable....
I need help
I'm seeing a lot of non-human signal sources on planets way out in the middle of nowhere, is that new content? It's just sensor fragments.
I'm playing around with running two commanders at the same time. It looks like that wing delivery missions are a way to make some money, typically the materials cost more than the mission reward, but if two commanders both get the reward then you can make money. I spent ₡41M on tritium, and each commander got ₡25M payout. Not too bad.
Is it possible to beat that, any tips on finding fetch missions that pay really well for around 840 tons of cargo between my two ships? I've seen a couple of missions for gold and silver but always small quantities that don't make it worth the time spent.
Update I just checked in on the PTN discord and I'm going to have a go at wing mining mission profiteering.
Is it possible to beat that, any tips on finding fetch missions that pay really well for around 840 tons of cargo between my two ships? I've seen a couple of missions for gold and silver but always small quantities that don't make it worth the time spent.
Update I just checked in on the PTN discord and I'm going to have a go at wing mining mission profiteering.
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For anyone who is unaware of this trick, it is hands down THE quickest way to make money.
By doing WMMs and sharing with others, I made over 3 billion since Saturday. And one of my sharing sessions was just giving ₡550M to people who had no missions to contribute.
Even if you're doing this solo, you can get missions that pay ₡50M for ₡10M worth of gold, and although it's a "mining" mission, you don't have to mine it, you can just go buy it. There are systems nearby that sell it at a good price, or there are fleet carriers selling it at a "modest" markup right by the stations.
The Pilots Trade Network have a Discord that people arrange these shares on - sometimes you can just join and share in other people's profits, some people prefer that everyone brings a few missions to the sharing party but plenty don't care.
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Here's a paste of an email I sent to some friends last night to share my profits with them:
Wing missions, which have a little three-blue-dot icon in the bottom left, pay out their reward to everybody in the wing who is sharing the mission.
So if the mission is "Fetch 500 gold", and gold costs 1,000 per ton, and the payout is 500,000 then you're exactly breaking even on the costs... except that EVERYONE in the wing gets 500,000 so in total the mission pays out four times the outlay.
Anyone in the wing who has shared in the mission can deliver goods for it until it is complete.
Most wing missions pay out more than the materials cost, a few pay out quite a bit less, but even those are worth it if you take into account what everyone gets.
Wing mining missions, referred to as WMMs, are the best. They pay out higher, and it doesn't matter if you actually mined the materials or not - materials that can be bought like gold, silver, bertrandite, etc. can be bought and turned in.
I have a mission for a bunch of gold that cost less than ₡10M and it pays out ₡50M. Not only that, it pays that out to everyone in the wing, so that's ₡200M between us for ₡10M spent on a couple of hundred tons of gold. There's a Discord that people arrange to group up on and share their missions with each other, so everybody wins. Sometimes people are allowed in who don't have any missions to share, most people aren't too prickly about leechers.
The missions are only available if you are allied with the faction, but can be shared with anyone regardless of their rep. There's a couple of systems (Mbutas and Wally Bei) where all the factions give WMMs so by picking one and doing a couple of days of rank grinding, the credits roll in.
Also I have three accounts now - Sharky is off exploring the far side of Colonia, but Zola Fel and Kero Fin are doing these wing missions. I can run two copies of the game at the same time, so I will share a mission with one, accept it with the other, others also accept it, then I turn it in.
So throw me a friend request and a private group invite and I'll share the missions that I have. You will need to go to Mbutas to claim your rewards, but it isn't far and you have 30 days to do so.
THE PROCESS
I will share one mission at a time in the TRANSACTIONS tab of the Number 1 screen. It will show up as a blue mission at the top of the list.
Select this mission with the arrow keys, press Enter, move across to ACCEPT and press Enter again.
When I see that you have both done this, I will turn in the mission. This will give you an "INCOMING MESSAGE" announcement and the blue mission will go yellow.
I will then share another mission, which shows up for you in blue, rinse and repeat.
Wing missions, which have a little three-blue-dot icon in the bottom left, pay out their reward to everybody in the wing who is sharing the mission.
So if the mission is "Fetch 500 gold", and gold costs 1,000 per ton, and the payout is 500,000 then you're exactly breaking even on the costs... except that EVERYONE in the wing gets 500,000 so in total the mission pays out four times the outlay.
Anyone in the wing who has shared in the mission can deliver goods for it until it is complete.
Most wing missions pay out more than the materials cost, a few pay out quite a bit less, but even those are worth it if you take into account what everyone gets.
Wing mining missions, referred to as WMMs, are the best. They pay out higher, and it doesn't matter if you actually mined the materials or not - materials that can be bought like gold, silver, bertrandite, etc. can be bought and turned in.
I have a mission for a bunch of gold that cost less than ₡10M and it pays out ₡50M. Not only that, it pays that out to everyone in the wing, so that's ₡200M between us for ₡10M spent on a couple of hundred tons of gold. There's a Discord that people arrange to group up on and share their missions with each other, so everybody wins. Sometimes people are allowed in who don't have any missions to share, most people aren't too prickly about leechers.
The missions are only available if you are allied with the faction, but can be shared with anyone regardless of their rep. There's a couple of systems (Mbutas and Wally Bei) where all the factions give WMMs so by picking one and doing a couple of days of rank grinding, the credits roll in.
Also I have three accounts now - Sharky is off exploring the far side of Colonia, but Zola Fel and Kero Fin are doing these wing missions. I can run two copies of the game at the same time, so I will share a mission with one, accept it with the other, others also accept it, then I turn it in.
So throw me a friend request and a private group invite and I'll share the missions that I have. You will need to go to Mbutas to claim your rewards, but it isn't far and you have 30 days to do so.
THE PROCESS
I will share one mission at a time in the TRANSACTIONS tab of the Number 1 screen. It will show up as a blue mission at the top of the list.
Select this mission with the arrow keys, press Enter, move across to ACCEPT and press Enter again.
When I see that you have both done this, I will turn in the mission. This will give you an "INCOMING MESSAGE" announcement and the blue mission will go yellow.
I will then share another mission, which shows up for you in blue, rinse and repeat.
Pro tips:
- Only do missions for commodities that can be bought: gold, silver, bertrandite, etc. Do not do bromellite, osmium, etc.
- If you do source-and-return missions (box icon) rather than mining missions (asteroid icon), you will be attacked by more pirates. Some people say "do not do these" but it's up to you. You will continue to be attacked as long as you have the mission in your list and goods in your hold.
- Some source-and-return missions pay out less than the materials cost, so you personally will make a loss. Check the numbers, avoid these.
- Source-and-return missions only last one day before you have to share-and-turn-in. Mining missions last 6 days.
- Mining missions have a much better payout rate per ton than source-and-return.
- Try to focus on ₡50M missions, but take ₡25M or above if no better ones show up.
- It can be frustrating waiting for missions to show up. The board cycles every 10 minutes on the mark e.g. 09:00, 09:10, 09:20. Missions stay around for about 40 minutes so you will see some of the same missions and some new ones.
- The stations in Mbutas are close enough that you can go from one to the other and back again within ten minutes so you can check both boards. I don't know if this is true for Wally Bei.
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As I mentioned above, I'm running two commanders at the same time.
First of all, how? The launcher locks itself down when you run the game, and you can't run the launcher twice. Answer: I use Min-ED-Launcher, a command line launcher replacement.
Once you're in, obviously there's a performance hit for running two copies at a time. Frame rate will suffer unless your rig is massively overpowered. I'm on a 3060 laptop and it's just about playable, some stuttering particularly whilst docking leading to scratched paintwork.
Also the user interface in stations is a bit glitchy. You have to click and wait and see if it worked and click again to get into the missions and commodities and other screens.
There's also the fun of when one (or both, not happened yet...) commanders gets interdicted, good luck with that!
I've been doing WMMs this way, one commander sitting in one station monitoring the board whilst the other does the fetch-and-return part and checks the other station. That way I can safely do "box" missions without attracting pirates, as the fetcher is only actually "on the mission" when they dock, share the mission, turn in the goods, then leave the mission.
First of all, how? The launcher locks itself down when you run the game, and you can't run the launcher twice. Answer: I use Min-ED-Launcher, a command line launcher replacement.
Once you're in, obviously there's a performance hit for running two copies at a time. Frame rate will suffer unless your rig is massively overpowered. I'm on a 3060 laptop and it's just about playable, some stuttering particularly whilst docking leading to scratched paintwork.
Also the user interface in stations is a bit glitchy. You have to click and wait and see if it worked and click again to get into the missions and commodities and other screens.
There's also the fun of when one (or both, not happened yet...) commanders gets interdicted, good luck with that!
I've been doing WMMs this way, one commander sitting in one station monitoring the board whilst the other does the fetch-and-return part and checks the other station. That way I can safely do "box" missions without attracting pirates, as the fetcher is only actually "on the mission" when they dock, share the mission, turn in the goods, then leave the mission.
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