- What are the controls for strafing, or at least does anyone know what it's called in the controls menu? I don't mean the slow as hell sideways thrust, I mean how the ship slides (for want of a better word) laterally to your Z axis like the ADC does when docking?
- Can I buy a module and either ship it in my cargo hold or have it shipped elsewhere, or fit two of the same kind on a ship as a way of hauling it?
- How am I supposed to find the parts I need to upgrade my ship? The wiki sent me on two wild goose chases yesterday hunting down modules at places that didn't sell them and whilst I have another site there's no guarantee that's accurate either so is there a method in game?
- Does this game give you the ability to remotely check markets when not docked, and markets of other systems whilst docked elsewhere? If anyone plays/played Eve Online I'm talking like that sort of thing.
New player, got some questions
- Thread starter Commander Jericho
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1. Those thrusters are all there is. Mastering FA off is the key to 'strafing'.
2. You store the module and fly where you want to transfer it, then use the transfer option in outfitting.
3. In game way: just go around looking for stuff. Can be immensely frustrating experience. Otherwise Inara & such sites are quite good.
4. Not in game.
2. You store the module and fly where you want to transfer it, then use the transfer option in outfitting.
3. In game way: just go around looking for stuff. Can be immensely frustrating experience. Otherwise Inara & such sites are quite good.
4. Not in game.
As Zieman says, plus:
Jamesons in Shinrarta Dezhra has everything (if you have access) or I Sola prospect in Brestla if you don't. But it charges more.
Or pay attention to the update time on the data on 3rd party sites - I wouldn't trust anything over a few hours old.
4 You can only check markets of where you have already been with in 40Lys in game of your current location..
Galaxy map. Commodity filter, select the commodity, then navigate to systems on galaxy map to get a guestimated price at single market...
Word of mouth for best sales was how it was meant to work...
Websites and third party tools removed the word mouth requirement and allowed instant price sharing with thousands of users...
The result now is that any price displayed on these sites can be price crashed by other users selling there without reporting the changes to the same websites...
Galaxy map. Commodity filter, select the commodity, then navigate to systems on galaxy map to get a guestimated price at single market...
Word of mouth for best sales was how it was meant to work...
Websites and third party tools removed the word mouth requirement and allowed instant price sharing with thousands of users...
The result now is that any price displayed on these sites can be price crashed by other users selling there without reporting the changes to the same websites...
I can't check trends, I can't check prices, I can't check volumes, and I can't check demand, all of which a trader needs to be successful, but all I can do is see where what sells what. I want to find the most lucrative trade routes, not fly a half way across the map looking for a profitable product that's sold out by the time I get there.
I don't know what FA off means, at least not in this context. Is there a tutorial for this, please?
INARA and EDDB will give you trade prices, but as Factabulous says, you can't trust data that is older than a couple of hours.
This will tell you what's good to buy and where to sell it: https://inara.cz/market-traderoutes/
This will tell you what's good to buy and where to sell it: https://inara.cz/market-traderoutes/
Thanks for the quick replies, everyone.
Flight Assist is the keybind.
It means that the fly-by-wire system is switched off, if you rotate/apply thrust to your ship, it will not stop until you apply the opposite rotation/thrust (or turn FA back on).
YouTube is your friend here, there are many tutorials there.
And Isinona's videos are always worth watching.
Your looking for lateral/ vertical thrusters. If you bind it you can fire your thrusters in that direction for as long as you hold it. If your trying to use it for landing there is an option called "landing gear override". Basically what it does is when you deploy your landing gear it switches some of your flight controlls to help you maneuver your ship easier into a good landing position and switches it back when you retract them. Example: say your direction keys are normally bound to pip management. With the override you can make it so that with the LG out you can now control your forward and lateral thrusters.
I dont personally recommend you seriously try to learn FA off as a beginning player but there are training methods you can start doing now to help you become familiar with it that will be a big benefit later down the road. For right now the best thing to do is learn the core mechanics before tackling the hard stuff.
Yes
Use this website when you need to find something https://eddb.io/
1. Depends on how you set them up. In my case, the left stick controls translational movement, the right stick rotational movement. But it really all depends on your input devices, ED will handle anything that communicates via USB - a few players have even set up a space mouse (like in The Expanse). How fast the ship slips sideways depends on a lot of variables, not the least of all the specifc ship. There are ships out there that can reverse faster than others can boost forward...
Flight Assist (FA) is the software in your ship's computer that (attempts to) tries to make your ship behave more or less like you'd expect from a classical airplane - except that you can move along and rotate around all three spatial axes. Switch it off, and you get full control and full responsibility for all your ship's thrusters.
NPCs (and your ADC) won't use FA-Off - but have suffiecient "understanding" of thruster handling so they don't need to.
If you don't have 6 independent analog axes (plus whatever you need for headlook) on your input devices, you can set up the aforementioned "landing overrides" - you can define a second (actually, a third and fourth, as most controls will accept two independent inputs) set of controls that become active when you lower the landing gear - espcially if you use a gamepad, that lets you remap (e.g.) the fire buttons for thruster controls. In that case, though, it is advisable to disable the "fire button deploys weapons" option (after takeoff, you retract the landing gear - but still think in "landing override" mode. First press of the fire button, instead of thrust right, deploys your guns. Second press, bacause you still want to thrust right, fires it. Third press... instead, you renew your acquaintance with the rebuy screen).
2. Yes and no. Some modules, you can put more than one in your ship. Otherwise, you can buy them, put them into storage and then have them shipped to you obnce you are at the destination (same goes for whole ships - but NOT for cargo).
3. You are (ok, have been) supposed to look around, maybe ask around on the forums. Size (population) and base economy of a system should give you a few hints as to what you can find (or sell) where. Nowadays (and for quite a few years), EDDB tells you all of that. That is, as long as someone who is running one of the feeder tools on PC (EDDiscovery, EDMC) and has enabled uploading has visited the respective system/station. That means, for some places, you get an update every few minutes - for others, maybe once a year. For sales prices, this is further complicated by what is called "volume tax" - as soon as your ship's hold carries a significant percentage of the station's demand, the price offered on sale will drop.
4. No Idea about EDO, but in EDH, you can see some of that information in the trade/market screens when you're docked at a station. Problem is (for EDH), that you will see also data from EDO ground bases, which are unreacheable from EDH.