PSA: Open is carnage and I expect them to follow us all the way

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Bob Lighthouse

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Maolagin said:
I would *maybe* buy this for engineering or CG decals. But it's irrelevant to exploration. Outside of hotspots, recreational player-killers are too rare to matter.
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Have you been following along with DW2?

More explorers have been killed in the past few days than probably in the past year, I would hazard to guess.
 

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Der Zeitgeist said:
Could you post a "typical" PvP build (especially weapons with applicable engineering) for something we might come up against? I'd like to run some tests on Coriolis vs. my shield stats.
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They vary widely - there are a lot of weapons and a lot of mod combos that people use.

In that video, I am using three double-shot pacifiers, one each of corrosive, drag, and incendiary. I am also running a 7A charge enhanced power distributor with super conduits. All Grade 5 modded.

My missile racks are 1 x Rapid Fire FSD Interrupt, and 1 x Sturdy Penetrator.

If you plug those into coriolis you should be able to get some numbers vs your shields and hull.

I'd also recommend http://edshipyard.net, as it gives you more robust stats and (I believe) more accurate stats.

I use a combo of both, as they are both useful.

Do you have access to Lei Chung, and whoever the engineer is in Leesti?
 
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Maolagin

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Bob Lighthouse said:
Have you been following along with DW2?

More explorers have been killed in the past few days than probably in the past year, I would hazard to guess.
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My point exactly. The activity at the WPs isn't exploration, they're social hotspots like any other CG. I'd hazard that the number of explorers killed while exploring or traveling between the published gathering points is lost in the noise of bad landings and botched neutron boosts.

For DWII I've been mainly in Fleetcom since that's where the people mostly are. But when I'm exploring in ordinary times, I fly in Open and aside from Guardian and Thargoid stuff I can't remember the last time I saw another player more than a couple of jumps outside the bubble.
 

Der Zeitgeist

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Well, this would be,..., interesting. [big grin]

vindelanos said:
Do you have access to Lei Chung, and whoever the engineer is in Leesti?
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Sure, my stuff is all G5, mostly geared towards collision damage, though, just raw shield booster capacity.
 

Bob Lighthouse

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Bob Lighthouse
Maolagin said:
My point exactly. The activity at the WPs isn't exploration, they're social hotspots like any other CG. I'd hazard that the number of explorers killed while exploring or traveling between the published gathering points is lost in the noise of bad landings and botched neutron boosts.

For DWII I've been mainly in Fleetcom since that's where the people mostly are. But when I'm exploring in ordinary times, I fly in Open and aside from Guardian and Thargoid stuff I can't remember the last time I saw another player more than a couple of jumps outside the bubble.
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"No true explorers".
 

Bartizan

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Maolagin said:
My point exactly. The activity at the WPs isn't exploration, they're social hotspots like any other CG. I'd hazard that the number of explorers killed while exploring or traveling between the published gathering points is lost in the noise of bad landings and botched neutron boosts.

For DWII I've been mainly in Fleetcom since that's where the people mostly are. But when I'm exploring in ordinary times, I fly in Open and aside from Guardian and Thargoid stuff I can't remember the last time I saw another player more than a couple of jumps outside the bubble.
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Space parade of thousands is more like a locust migration than exploration.
 

Orvidius

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Zaphod Hawke said:
Harry is closer to you than me, and I was instancing with him for days without even being on the friend list.

Maybe you have a firewall issue or some other network related problem.
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Something to keep in mind is that "network distance" and "geographical distance" often don't correlate nicely. You could be in adjacent towns, but connect to the backbone in places that are hundreds of miles apart, or vice versa.
 

Der Zeitgeist

Der Zeitgeist
vindelanos said:
Without knowing your build, it's hard for me to say what you're running exactly. But here are a couple ideas for you...

https://s.orbis.zone/1wep
https://s.orbis.zone/1wen

As for armor, what are you running?
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Thanks, but my build was decided almost a year ago, and, as I said, is mostly geared towards collision survivability on high G planets and not PvP.

I might fly in open over the next week from time to time, and maybe also around Sag A*, but otherwise, I'm mostly in the PG anyway, so the question how long my shields would last is mostly academic. :)
 
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Bob Lighthouse

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Der Zeitgeist said:
Thanks, but my build was decided many months ago, and, as I said, is mostly geared towards collision survivability on high G planets and not PvP.

I might fly in open over the next week from time to time, and maybe also around Sag A*, but otherwise, I'm mostly in the PG anyway, so the question how long my shields would last is mostly academic. :)
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Harry's Anaconda is around 3000DPS as I recall.
So he could kill you a few times over in one salvo.
 

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Der Zeitgeist said:
Thanks, but my build was decided almost a year ago, and, as I said, is mostly geared towards collision survivability on high G planets and not PvP.

I might fly in open over the next week from time to time, and maybe also around Sag A*, but otherwise, I'm mostly in the PG anyway, so the question how long my shields would last is mostly academic. :)
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Well, when you get back to the bubble you might just look into it.
 

Der Zeitgeist

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Bob Lighthouse said:
Harry's Anaconda is around 3000DPS as I recall.
So he could kill you a few times over in one salvo.
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Sure, but not unless I'm within a dozen jumps of a respawn station.

So, as I said, the whole question is academic. No one in the expedition will allow himself to be killed out in the black after months of exploration.

You guys will have some fun over the next week, and maybe also around the time we're at the Sag A* station, but after that, you won't see anyone in open any longer.
 
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Der Zeitgeist said:
Sure, but not unless I'm within a dozen jumps of a respawn station.

So, as I said, the whole question is academic. No one in the expedition will allow himself to be killed out in the black after months of exploration.

You guys will have some fun over the next week, and maybe also around the time we're at the Sag A* station, but after that, you won't see anyone in open any longer.
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But back to your armor. Any idea what you're running? I assume reinforced alloy, but any mods or addition armor packages?
 
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