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[CMDR-NOBODY]

Hmm wondering what's the current effective way to farm manufacturing instructions at impact site now??

Watched some YT videos about this but seems those are not repeatable by just SC out and back or logout now.

 

[ubermick]

Hmm wondering what's the current effective way to farm manufacturing instructions at impact site now??

Watched some YT videos about this but seems those are not repeatable by just SC out and back or logout now.

Its not exactly fun, and I personally hate and don’t recommend relogging but…

Look for on-foot missions that ask you to retrieve a microchip/component from a crash site. Often they’re a crashed nav beacon. As long as you don’t collect the mission item, you should be able to SC out (or just relog to the main menu) to get the data to respawn.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Don't get me started on MI's!

 

[bugbait42]

I'm now 7,600 LY from Sol and well into our home region now ie the Inner Orion Spur, so I doubt I'll do much more in the way of Exobiology as I don't think there's much in this region that I haven't already found.

What I am interested in doing though is prospecting - not so much for the common mats such as phosphorous and sulphur etc as I already know how to find those in Odyssey - what I'm really interested in is trying to find the high grade stuff such as polonium, as I guess it's quite possible I'll need them for engineering etc when I get back to the bubble.

I'm now subscribed on YT to Down to Earth Astronomy, who uploaded this good video about farming high grade mats from crystal shards. If you can't shoot the stuff from the SRV, (as often happens in Odyssey,) get yer Dominator suit on and shoot the stuff with your guns!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWN_iV5xnQ


So if you're reading this thread DTEA thanks very much for that.

 

[Nekozji]

Found some very wrinkly rocks on an orange ammonia world. This place must be terrifying at sunset...

You might say I'm a little left leaning.

And my autopilot is a jerk.

Anyway, still not far from the Cat's Paw nebula, but hitting plenty of undiscovered systems. Accidentally jumped into an M class, but it turns out to have 4x terraformable HMCs which should be close on 8 million in scan value between them, so I'm counting that as a lucky mistake! Still, this area seems so unexplored in general that I'm going to keep cherrypicking for F and G type stars.

Now chasing 200 mil in scan data, I'm thinking I might head back to the bubble this weekend, especially since next week I will be busy out of game and I won't want to be having to take a long trip to go and see what those Stargoids are up to! Would be sensible to get things turned in, my factions allied, and be parked somewhere close by for when civilization ends.

(Unless everything in the bubble ends up on fire and only those out in the black survive...)

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Found some very wrinkly rocks on an orange ammonia world. This place must be terrifying at sunset...

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Mmmm, Shai Hulud

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

That was quite some work... Snooping around at a nav beacon... Poking everything that had a "WANTED" sticker somewhere...
Star Moray has proven itself as a capable ship.View attachment 333458​

This reminds me how late I came to combat. I was flying an Anaconda with grade 5 engineered everything except lasers (I used engineered multi cannons) while still rank Novice in combat.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Don't get me started on MI's!

For sure.

All one has to do is go back in this very thread and find your rantings to me about materials. It's all there. You want the rant, just go back and read the two pages worth.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

For sure.

All one has to do is go back in this very thread and find your rantings to me about materials. It's all there. You want the rant, just go back and read the two pages worth.

Ha!

Well, how about this then?

 

[ubermick]

Ha!

Well, how about this then?

Look at that! Almost a perfect hand! (Although rare its possible to get FOUR in one go!)

Forum stalwart MVbanks once got three SETTLEMENT DEFENCE PLANS in one go!

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Look at that! Almost a perfect hand! (Although rare its possible to get FOUR in one go!)

Yes, it is. And I'm insanely envious.

Manufacturing Instructions

Manufacturing Instructions seem to be back with a vengeance. None at Impact Sites yesterday, but today I got a mission reward of five of them (data download from a settlement with scavengers) and one of the data ports had one too. Also another mission in the same system with a reward of one MI.

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[Frankymole]

Yes, it is. And I'm insanely envious.

Manufacturing Instructions

Manufacturing Instructions seem to be back with a vengeance. None at Impact Sites yesterday, but today I got a mission reward of five of them (data download from a settlement with scavengers) and one of the data ports had one too. Also another mission in the same system with a reward of one MI.

forums.frontier.co.uk

That was a good day.

 

[Frankymole]

Yes, it is. And I'm insanely envious.

Manufacturing Instructions

Manufacturing Instructions seem to be back with a vengeance. None at Impact Sites yesterday, but today I got a mission reward of five of them (data download from a settlement with scavengers) and one of the data ports had one too. Also another mission in the same system with a reward of one MI.

forums.frontier.co.uk

If it helps, I spent about 4 hours two days ago landing at every impact site I could find in the Colonia region, most had scavengers, some had no data at all; there were no MIs.
In the end I had to take a non-violent theft mission and a kill-all-scavengers one, just to get the last six MIs for a submachinegun upgrade; ironically, halfway through doing the missions I found a crashed satellite with one MI in it. The clear-scavengers-from-settlement took ages as another CMDR was there and I had to keep shooting him too.

 

[bangermsuk]

atm, just show the Crew in DEciate the error of there ways.... no one person should ever have dominance over the other. so shoot a few, won't matte will it.

going for a ride on a Vulture,

 

[bugbait42]

This moon ain't big enough for both of us Fumarole.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Wow. After update 14 Horizons 3.8 is becoming a separate version of the galaxy from Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey. That means all progress made with your commander in Horizons 3.8 is not reflected in Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey as 3.8 a separate game.

Elite Dangerous Update 14 and Beyond: Live and Legacy Modes - Elite Dangerous

Greetings Commanders. In our Access to 4.0 post from August, we mentioned that future content would only be available to players on the 4.0 framewo...

www.elitedangerous.com

 

[Marvin the Martian]

Wow. After update 14 Horizons 3.8 is becoming a separate version of the galaxy from Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey. That means all progress made with your commander in Horizons 3.8 is not reflected in Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey as 3.8 a separate game.

Elite Dangerous Update 14 and Beyond: Live and Legacy Modes - Elite Dangerous

Greetings Commanders. In our Access to 4.0 post from August, we mentioned that future content would only be available to players on the 4.0 framewo...

www.elitedangerous.com

Which is about what we all thought it would be: they're separating the player base into those who paid for Odyssey and those who didn't.

In other news, haven't found anything of note lately except for this cool looking planet. It's about like me: other than its looks, it's otherwise unremarkable.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Which is about what we all thought it would be: they're separating the player base into those who paid for Odyssey and those who didn't.

In other news, haven't found anything of note lately except for this cool looking planet. It's about like me: other than its looks, it's otherwise unremarkable.

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Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey will still share the same galaxy.
So console players trapped on 3.8 really are cut off - not even part of the same BGS as other players.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

This reminds me how late I came to combat. I was flying an Anaconda with grade 5 engineered everything except lasers (I used engineered multi cannons) while still rank Novice in combat.

Yeah, combat is not really a priority for me. But it is helpful for some stress release from time to time...
And I slowly get the hang of getting my ship to point into the right direction to deal some damage...
Who knows, if I try to find a way to toggle FA, it gets even better. (I heard rumours that fighting with FA on is harder than with it turned off...)

Wow. After update 14 Horizons 3.8 is becoming a separate version of the galaxy from Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey. That means all progress made with your commander in Horizons 3.8 is not reflected in Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey as 3.8 a separate game.

Elite Dangerous Update 14 and Beyond: Live and Legacy Modes - Elite Dangerous

Greetings Commanders. In our Access to 4.0 post from August, we mentioned that future content would only be available to players on the 4.0 framewo...

www.elitedangerous.com

From what I have caught, this is already the case. As far as I know, HIP 22460 is not the same in 3.8 as in 4.0. I have not visited that place, yet, though. But I do not think that a new commander would get a permit for a system that would be instadeath for them. (HIP 22460 was the first permit ever given to me, back when I set sail into the galaxy outside of the PF bubble.)

That is why I usually tend to refer to 3.8 as the other timeline, where only rumours about the proteus wave and its aftermath exist...

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey will still share the same galaxy.
So console players trapped on 3.8 really are cut off - not even part of the same BGS as other players.

That does not only affect console players, but also PC players with insufficient hardware to play 4.0 that can not afford any upgrades for their computers.