I think the issue lies more in the internal labeling to identify those hotspots for the RNG and other related systems to work properly.
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I am making a lot better progress keeping track of what I need now that I found on INARA, there is a personal crafting list separate from the main blueprints and engineers section. In that section there are "blueprints" that are your plans, and in the missing components tab, it sums it all up.
If I didn't enjoy on foot missions I guess I wouldn't care to upgrade. But I do so it's not a grind just something to work towards.
I upgraded my Tormentor though I feel I sold out and should have done the P-15. So I'm working on it now, and the Maverick, and the Dominator. That missing components tab is the bee's knees for keeping track of it.
Oh I'm at about 99% through gladiator rank now. I enjoy gladiating but next stop DEADEYE.
I find the missing components tab is unreliable for ship materials. After a while it overstates what you need. The crafting list view of missing items works fine for ship materials, and personal equipment seem OK for what is needed for my one blueprint for night vision.
Part of my issue with foot missions is the small tone (time) window to complete and I don't know how long it will take me to do a mission. If I only have 30 minutes available to play and I spend it lost in some buildings, I'm not making what feels like progress.
I'm sure I'll come back to foot missions gain later.
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I assume you meant "small time window"
And I agree. This is one of the things they changed for the on-foot missions, and I don't understand why. Maybe there's some technical reasons behind the scenes.
Some missions take much longer than others, simply because you don't know the layout yet, or it's a new type of mission for you, etc.
For that reason I only take one mission at a time. I never stack 'em. I finish the one, then decide if I'm up for another
In any case, yes, the time window is too short.
Gotta love smartphone auto correct!I assume you meant "small time window"
I'm gonna try and see if I can get the Guardian Frame Shift Drive Booster. Wish me luck, I'm gonna need it!!!
Good luck!
Hopefully you're taking a smaller ship like a DBX or Asp X so you can park close to the site
I'm using a DBX.Good luck!
Hopefully you're taking a smaller ship like a DBX or Asp X so you can park close to the site
Especially when it always turns he'll into hell and hell into he'll.Gotta love smartphone auto correct!
Have you an active point defence on top of the ship (can the DBX have one there)?
Ah, Zieman, I don't have one of them. I shall fit one. Thank you for the advice.
DBX is perfect, like the best ship in the game, for the trip to Guardian sites. There is a utility slot above the cockpit for the point defence. The DBX can land on the rough ground almost inside the ruins.
Yes,
the best advice right there, it will make you feel warm and fuzzy inside watching it take out those Guardian skimmer missiles.The current hauling CG has high profits and offers a permit for Mbooni, so I decided to do a few trips.
At 20 million per trip, I did 5 trips. That put me in the top 25% for now. I just have to be in the top 50% to get the permit, so I'm probably good.
I probably won't ever need the permit, but you never know. It's the only system where you can buy some special AX weapons, I guess. It's unlikely I will care about those, but maybe after the bubble starts burning I might change my mind. And who knows, maybe other special stuff will show up in that system, too.
Anyway, here I am landing on the Musashi megaship (that's the turn-in point). Spiffy, eh?
At 20 million per trip, I did 5 trips. That put me in the top 25% for now. I just have to be in the top 50% to get the permit, so I'm probably good.
I probably won't ever need the permit, but you never know. It's the only system where you can buy some special AX weapons, I guess. It's unlikely I will care about those, but maybe after the bubble starts burning I might change my mind. And who knows, maybe other special stuff will show up in that system, too.
Anyway, here I am landing on the Musashi megaship (that's the turn-in point). Spiffy, eh?
Yes,
I fit 2 for the Guardian ruins - one on the top of the fuselage and one on top of one wing (normally I would have one on top and have one below on my ships to protect from hatch-breakers).
Here's my small bit of advice, to go with the point defense suggestion.
If you DO end up getting targeted with missiles from the Sentinels, despite your point defense, remember that engaging the Handbrake will prevent you from tumbling. Otherwise those missiles will knock you over.
Have fun out there. It's an exciting trip.
Good advice, sometimes I scoop canisters after I destroy NPC pirates and their back in 5 minutes with their wing shooting and swarming me with limpets wanting their stuff back.
Seems @Para Handy is still around, just not present on the boards - I just saw him pop up on my comms.
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I just read a pretty cool article about the F-35 fighter, it would seem the UK makes about 20% of the parts that go into every plane and some say it wouldn't be possible without their help. I do know every ejection seat in every US fighter is engineered and built in the UK. And the UK is the only level 1 partner in it's development (F-35) meaning they contributed the most money.
Way to go, boys..........
Way to go, boys..........
Be careful those can get uncomfortably warm if they have to absorb a lot of radar in a short time.The Thargoids are restless today it seems...
I just made a trip back to The Bug Killer after having visited a Material Trader when I got hyperdicted in successive jumps, once by 2 cabbages and then by four.
BTW @CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF - yes you can see the fourth interceptor jump out after firing the pulse in the second video - so that is what I saw the last time as you surmised.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky4ff2SyKnY
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7-w5KTFJsI
I'm off to make an upgraded tin-foil hat out of RAM (radar absorbant material).
Not just a pretend world various things in the real world aren’t as random as most expect, take shuffle when listening to music that is actually made non random because many people assume that if you get the same song several times in a row then the tracks aren’t random.Yes, that's the funny thing about RNG (which stands for "Random Number Generator", which is what they call the piece of code that generates the numbers that are then used to trigger things in the game).
It is next to impossible to code a truly random number generator, so the RNG is actually always pseudo-random. It's usually based on a seed number, which they get from stuff like current time, location, etc., and then it spits out numbers. It's quite easy for it to produce a long string of bad numbers at times, which makes people scream "Nerf!".
But a Nerf requires dev time and input. RNG does not. The string of bad numbers for your particular seed today is the real answer to these bad luck streaks.
It'll go away, once you've used up all them bad numbers (or the seed changes, which it will).
Such is life in a pretend world, I guess