RE: TIP OFF - Co-ordinates

PaxtonNewt

PaxtonNewt
o7 CMDRS

had a couple of tip offs in the messages after rank grinding for the empire.. it says you need to fly to such and such co-ordinates..

how do you program in co-ordinates as a destination?

please help..
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
You don't, sadly, you have to eyeball them at the lower right of the HUD. Assuming you're talking about planetary lat/long.
 

Midian Cabal

Midian Cabal
If you're on PC, you can use E.D.I.S.O.N.

If you're on a console, be a good boy scout and learn how to find your way:

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Stealthie

Stealthie
It's not that hard to navigate manually.

Just get into orbit then use the compass to fly North/South until one number's right then fly East/West until the other number's nearly right.
The glide down from orbit might mean you have to fly back the way you came for a few km but it shouldn't be far.

Just make sure you pay attention to whether a coordinate has a "-" symbol at the start.
"-171.12" is a completely different coordinate to "171.12", for example.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
AtomicMegaNerd said:
Are these tip-offs ever worth it though? Do any ever pay in the millions of credits?
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It's ages since I've done one but shortly after 3.3 dropped I did one which paid something like Cr150m, IIRC.
Not megabucks, but a decent payout for a little adventure, IMO.
No idea if all tip-offs got buffed with 3.3 or whether I just got lucky, but some of 'em, at least, appear to pay quite well.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
AtomicMegaNerd said:
150MCr?!? Ok I am totally not ignoring these anymore.
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Don't get me wrong, I've also seen plenty (prior to 3.3) that were a total waste of time.
It's just that the only one I've done since 3.3 happened to pay Cr150m (or whatever it was).

Also, rather weirdly, the tip-off was a crash site that turned out to have a bunch of iCutter and space-station parts lying around on the surface, which I'd never seen before.
Pretty sure FDev must've tweaked tip-offs in various ways for 3.3, hopefully including buffing the payments.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Depending on what the tip-off site is, you may be able to probe the planet with the DSS and get it to show up as a marker from that. Works for the ones I've found (including two I found by probing the planet without first getting the tip-off message, and getting lucky)

Otherwise just watch your heading and coordinates on the HUD:
0 = North = number goes up
180 = South = number goes down
90 = East = other number goes up
270 = West = other number goes down

It's generally easier to get the East/West number right first, then do North/South, though with a bit of practice you can line up both at once.
 

[VR] Goooost

[VR] Goooost
PaxtonNewt said:
o7 CMDRS

had a couple of tip offs in the messages after rank grinding for the empire.. it says you need to fly to such and such co-ordinates..

how do you program in co-ordinates as a destination?

please help..
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You fly around in orbital cruise randomly until you see something close and then you fine tune it in glide and regular flight.
Keep in mind sometimes the tip-off coordinates are reversed and support says that when this happens it's INTENTIONAL and part of the challenge of finding them.
 
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