This is the thing with ED - everyone has a preferred method of doing stuff. For me, I find SCA and ADC vauluable tools that I couldn't live without - and yes, I'm lazy
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This is the thing with ED - everyone has a preferred method of doing stuff. For me, I find SCA and ADC vauluable tools that I couldn't live without - and yes, I'm lazy
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Dont be afraid to try crazy stunts. The penalty for smashing up the starter Sidewinder is almost nothing. As for leaving the newbie zone, in general, for ED, if you dont look for trouble, trouble doesnt come looking for you. So feel free to leave the zone.
Oh, I think the best tip I can give you is this:
WHEN SUPERCRUISING (without SC assist, ditch it. IT SU CKS)
Have a key bind to 75% throttle. e.g. Button X
When supercruising to the target, always use max throttle.
Watch the timer, once the timer reaches 7 seconds, press X for 75% throttle
That gives you the optimal deceleration to prevent overshoot and minimise time to target.
**Of course there are some other considerations like gravity wells slowing you down after the 7 second mark where you will want to throttle up again or cutting throttle to 75% only at the 6 second mark for moar haste but you will figure it out soon enough
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Yes entirely agree. It wouldn’t occur to me to use either, yet to you they’re ubiquitous. We’re both right!
This is the thing with ED - everyone has a preferred method of doing stuff. For me, I find SCA and ADC vauluable tools that I couldn't live without - and yes, I'm lazy
I'm still not entirely sure what SCA does? I have it on some ships, but not others and don't see any difference?
ADC Put me in the lazy camp. I can manual dock ok, but its much easier, and certainly faster with ADC
I am in the middle camp.
No SCAs for all ships. Its too slow.
ADC only for the big haulers like T9 or Cutter with no shields. For shielded more nimble stuff like my Krait, I can dock much much faster smashing it belly down onto the pad.
The SCA will line you up with where you want to go and set your speed to 75%. At a station, it will automatically drop you from SC, whilst at a planet base it will put you in orbit around the planet. Bear in mind, objects such as plenets will block it and you'll have to manually steer around them.
Is you select a body (star/planet) or a planetary settlement/port as destination and enable the SCA, it will fly your ship to the destination and put the ship in orbit of that body.
If you target a space station/outpost it will fly your ship to destination and exit supercruise nearby as if you do it yourself.
Also, you an use SCA as a fast drop-off mechanism, greatly cutting the time spent in supercruise (especially in the slow final approach phase) - you'd have to google that, i'm not going to explain it.
Oh, and you need to select the target from your left hand panel, then select the activate supercruise assist. You can still be interdicted, natch, and then you'll have the fun of the avoid/surrender/fight mini game. You can also "interrupt" the SCA by manually stearing away from your target but your speed will go back up to 100% if you had that set before SCA was selected.
SCA mean you can type on the forums and let your ship do the work. But listen for audio cues as to what is going on in your ED window
SCA mean you can type on the forums and let your ship do the work. But listen for audio cues as to what is going on in your ED window
So, talking about assistant, any CMDRs collect the mess (mfg mats) manually after exploding someone's ship??
This is the thing with ED - everyone has a preferred method of doing stuff. For me, I find SCA and ADC vauluable tools that I couldn't live without - and yes, I'm lazy
I tried limpets, but I hate the fact that they have limited life time so I have to take tons of them out and cannot restock them with just one single click like ammo.Anyway, still surface mining. That huge crater have some nice amount of low grade mats.
I feel daft. I still have SCA equipped but I always flew myself to everything. Somehow, I didn't even realize it could do that.
Due to annoyances with "Object is obscured", I quickly keybound supercruise to another key and kept using that instead of the button for SCA, even when there was no need for it..
..Welp, at least I know I can remove it.
I just landed at my carrier and was able to disembark without issue... perhaps a server-side fix took place?I decided to take a couple short jumps out of the bubble to do some casual exploration and test out my new Vista Genomics service on the carrier.
I got a couple of "First Mapped" and "First Footfall" entries. I had a hard time finding any plantlife, though. I managed to get a complete scan of one bacterium.
Headed back to the carrier to test things out, but I ran into the greyed-out-disembark button bug. Can't disembark. Relogging, restarting, switching ships...no go.
So I haven't yet tested my Vista Genomics service. Can't get there without walking.
So I've set the carrier to make a jump to another place for tomorrow. Maybe I can disembark then, lol.
The planets I landed on today were typical, nothing special to see. This one did have a nice purple atmosphere, though (Neon).
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You'll have lots of these moments. I have them all the time
Nothing to worry about, perfectly normal and all part of the fun and learning curve!
LOL same here - Probably why I didnt notice any difference - I've always manually flown it to destination and hit 75% at 7 clicks.
You'll have lots of these moments. I have them all the time
I'm still a newish player at 3 months in game, and still manage a couple of "Loops of shame" a week
I still do it from time to time, even 3000 hours later.
Also, the loop of shame is actually faster than using the 75% throttle at 7 seconds mark (but not if your're using a Type-9
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You should find that in the noob-zone you will not be too stretched to easily undertake any mission. However, the combat-training stuff over in Orna between Alpha and Omega companies always seemed to me to have NPCs which way outgunned that available to a commander (due to the artificially restricted availability in the noob-zone). I don't know if that is still the case, just bear it in mind.
I have mainly avoided Oddity missions since 1) I am not into FPS and 2) performance was "jobbie". I don't know if it still the case but the "threat level" of the on-foot missions was a joke.
In the main though, the game is great, hopefully your starting around an update releease won't give you too many glitches, stick with it.
Have fun and "don't fly without the rebuy".
I'm just amazed people can find slot space for things like SCA, I always seem to be scratching around for the last slot.
Yes, I'm a post-combat manual scooper. There is often good stuff as the opponents are often at a higher combat rating, plus most of the time I have prismatic shields fitted, so it gives them some time to come back up. Lets my fighter pilot reboard, a planning moment with any wingmates. So yes, it's part of my routine to hoover up some stuff manually after a fight. Hate limpets outside of mining, find them painful to watch and a chore to store.So, talking about assistant, any CMDRs collect the mess (mfg mats) manually after exploding someone's ship??
Anyway, still surface mining. That huge crater have some nice amount of low grade mats.
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There are only two ways of approaching faster than 75%@6s - 1) gravity well breaking (depends on approach vector) and 2) using the exploit of engaging SCA but staying off-course until very last possible time so it disengages at the station virtually instantly.
(I don't do 1 as I am crap at aligning it and I don't do 2 as it feels like cheating to me.)