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Ha. Autoland works when this is the situation, which it often is for bacteria - it does try quite hard to keep your heading even if it moves you sideways a little. You can have a really good look around for where you might take the SRV whilst it's landing, I find that helps connect the aerial picture with my mental picture once I'm in the SRV. If it's going miles for no reason then yeah I turn it off again.
(Look above the middle of the top crossbar, although the top crossbar is currently the bottom crossbar...)
If I really think I might lose my bearings or it's dark then a Comp Scan of the patch from the ship will log it as a target in SRV Survey.
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I started my journey as a Commander in Horizons and I think we didn't have autoland back then. At least I've always been landing manually when setting down on a planetary body. And after the forced install of Odyssey (I had bought it because I intended to upgrade to another computer, which still hasn't happened), I suddenly had my ship landing automatically and instantly annoying me by leaving a perfetly flat spot and fly over to a rocky patch about 200m away, landing right above a rock that prevented me from getting the SRV out of its bay. Guess what I did next.
I'm just having fun out here moseying around the planets, finding vegetables.
In general I don't skip anything. It's rare for me to give up and move on, but I do that sometimes, usually only if it's a very low value item on a very ugly planet. I enjoy seeing all the views, so I'll go after even the lowliest bacterium to complete the planet. Even those pay 5 million or so for a first-scanned, so it's really not nothing. It's more than I get for scanning a waterworld. Plus I'm not in a hurry. At all.
As for autoland, nah. I tried it a couple of times, but it's too iffy for me and never puts the ship where I want it.
On the other hand, I'm finding that the Cobra MKV can land almost anywhere, even on very bumpy ground. It's even better than the DBX. I have shields (and pretty good ones) so the "bump and skid" method is very fast and easy in this ship.
Nothing like a ringed landable with atmosphere to give you some incredible views:
And it's always a joy to meet an old friend. Although I called this the "Rock of Ubiquity" when I first posted it, now I just call it "Codger's Rock" like you guys have been doing
In general I don't skip anything. It's rare for me to give up and move on, but I do that sometimes, usually only if it's a very low value item on a very ugly planet. I enjoy seeing all the views, so I'll go after even the lowliest bacterium to complete the planet. Even those pay 5 million or so for a first-scanned, so it's really not nothing. It's more than I get for scanning a waterworld. Plus I'm not in a hurry. At all.
As for autoland, nah. I tried it a couple of times, but it's too iffy for me and never puts the ship where I want it.
On the other hand, I'm finding that the Cobra MKV can land almost anywhere, even on very bumpy ground. It's even better than the DBX. I have shields (and pretty good ones) so the "bump and skid" method is very fast and easy in this ship.
Nothing like a ringed landable with atmosphere to give you some incredible views:
And it's always a joy to meet an old friend. Although I called this the "Rock of Ubiquity" when I first posted it, now I just call it "Codger's Rock" like you guys have been doing
Nice postcards!I'm just having fun out here moseying around the planets, finding vegetables.
In general I don't skip anything. It's rare for me to give up and move on, but I do that sometimes, usually only if it's a very low value item on a very ugly planet. I enjoy seeing all the views, so I'll go after even the lowliest bacterium to complete the planet. Even those pay 5 million or so for a first-scanned, so it's really not nothing. It's more than I get for scanning a waterworld. Plus I'm not in a hurry. At all.
As for autoland, nah. I tried it a couple of times, but it's too iffy for me and never puts the ship where I want it.
On the other hand, I'm finding that the Cobra MKV can land almost anywhere, even on very bumpy ground. It's even better than the DBX. I have shields (and pretty good ones) so the "bump and skid" method is very fast and easy in this ship.
Nothing like a ringed landable with atmosphere to give you some incredible views:
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And it's always a joy to meet an old friend. Although I called this the "Rock of Ubiquity" when I first posted it, now I just call it "Codger's Rock" like you guys have been doing
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Ought to be in #StellarScreenshots
Not sure if there's been a winning pic with a Codgers Rock in it yet...
I find myself rather addicted to finding terrafomable planets. If colonisation allows us to build atmosphere processors on the worlds we discover as being candidates, well... imagine the scope. I'd be putting Weyland-Yutani out of business. It could be called "O'Flaherty Industries" and I could employ people like Carter Burke.
"We manufacture those, by the way".
"We manufacture those, by the way".
Or you could buy some slaves, I heard they are having a two-fer sale.
I found a nice Metallic ring in a system I've been exploring, and just decided to go mining for the heck of it. I haven't dragged out the mining Cutter in ages.
There was a Platinum hotspot in the ring and it turned out to be quite nice. I found many rocks with 50% or greater and a few over 60%. I filled my hull with Platinum (and some Gold) quite fast. I had to toss a lot of limpets, which happens when the area is rich like that.
It was a fun diversion from exobiology.
Later, in another system, I found one planet that had just one biological signal. BioInsights told me it would be a Bacterium, so small change credits-wise.
But I went down anyway, just to see the view. You never know what you'll see, after all.
I wasn't disappointed.
There was a Platinum hotspot in the ring and it turned out to be quite nice. I found many rocks with 50% or greater and a few over 60%. I filled my hull with Platinum (and some Gold) quite fast. I had to toss a lot of limpets, which happens when the area is rich like that.
It was a fun diversion from exobiology.
Later, in another system, I found one planet that had just one biological signal. BioInsights told me it would be a Bacterium, so small change credits-wise.
But I went down anyway, just to see the view. You never know what you'll see, after all.
I wasn't disappointed.
Hmm. At this moment in time, I feel no pressing need to be in the bubble. My GCZ weapons and armour have been stowed and I'm not sure when they'll be used again.
Unless I come over all Arny.
Unless I come over all Arny.
Hi All
After some exploration and 'probing' around the outside of the Col 70* and Col 121* sectors I'm now heading slowly through the Outer Orion Spur and generally on my way to the Hawking's Gap area. There's a cluster of Systems out there that had a profusion of Outdoor Worlds in systems fairly close to each other that I'd discovered quite a while ago, so I'm going to revisit them, and the plan is to 'inspect' some more systems around there.
Incidentally, sometimes when I click on some of these discovered systems (I have them bookmarked) most of them display in the system view fairly quickly, while others either take a while to display, or sometimes don't display at all...which is annoying. I presume it's perhaps a server side problem. I've recorded most, if not all by taking a screenshot of those more interesting systems, so I have a pictorial record I can just bring up if I want to see them again, so no problem there.
Edit...just had a thought...I've got Elite installed on two of my computers, my AMD based one, which is the most recent build, and the one I'm using at the moment for playing Elite hasn't many of those screenshots recorded, most of those are on my other computer (Intel based), so at some point I'll copy those screenshots over to this one. All my bookmarked systems show up in the game on both computers though so I don't suppose this has anything to do with those few systems book marked that won't show up when I click on the Galmap system icon?....
And while I'm thinking about it...are we still limited to the original amount of bookmarks allowed as per a few years ago, or has Frontier expanded on that recently?
I can't remember the original figure btw.
* Those permit locked systems...I wonder if some of them might be 'unlocked' when Frontier release the Colonisation feature.
Anyway, I've just set my Carrier to do another 498 ly jump in the general direction, and as it's getting close towards the Thursday server downtime maintenance time I'll grab another coffee and have some breakfast!
Jack
After some exploration and 'probing' around the outside of the Col 70* and Col 121* sectors I'm now heading slowly through the Outer Orion Spur and generally on my way to the Hawking's Gap area. There's a cluster of Systems out there that had a profusion of Outdoor Worlds in systems fairly close to each other that I'd discovered quite a while ago, so I'm going to revisit them, and the plan is to 'inspect' some more systems around there.
Incidentally, sometimes when I click on some of these discovered systems (I have them bookmarked) most of them display in the system view fairly quickly, while others either take a while to display, or sometimes don't display at all...which is annoying. I presume it's perhaps a server side problem. I've recorded most, if not all by taking a screenshot of those more interesting systems, so I have a pictorial record I can just bring up if I want to see them again, so no problem there.
Edit...just had a thought...I've got Elite installed on two of my computers, my AMD based one, which is the most recent build, and the one I'm using at the moment for playing Elite hasn't many of those screenshots recorded, most of those are on my other computer (Intel based), so at some point I'll copy those screenshots over to this one. All my bookmarked systems show up in the game on both computers though so I don't suppose this has anything to do with those few systems book marked that won't show up when I click on the Galmap system icon?....
And while I'm thinking about it...are we still limited to the original amount of bookmarks allowed as per a few years ago, or has Frontier expanded on that recently?
I can't remember the original figure btw.
* Those permit locked systems...I wonder if some of them might be 'unlocked' when Frontier release the Colonisation feature.
Anyway, I've just set my Carrier to do another 498 ly jump in the general direction, and as it's getting close towards the Thursday server downtime maintenance time I'll grab another coffee and have some breakfast!
Jack
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Just a reminder, your journals, bindings, and your "visited stars" cache are stored locally on the machine on which you are running Elite. If you switch machines those do not follow you, so it's possible to have things seemingly disappear when actually they are just on your other machine.
If you ever get rid of a computer, be sure to copy those files over, and combine them as needed, otherwise that info is lost forever.
For future reference:
Journals are here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous
Bindings are here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings
Visited Stars are here:
C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\[SOME_NUMBERED_FOLDER]
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Originally it was 100, expanded to 200 more recently iirc - tbh, with the recent much-welcome increase in outfitting store from 200 to 600 i am hoping (without expectation ofc) that the bookmarks will be upped to at least 1000 sometime in the not-too-distant future...And while I'm thinking about it...are we still limited to the original amount of bookmarks allowed as per a few years ago, or has Frontier expanded on that recently?
I can't remember the original figure btw.
Alt-M has been trucking Tritium to the carrier at Helgrind Gateway with an almost shiny new Type-8, topping up the store before heading off towards the central regions, while ]M[ remains in the bubble to do a bit of ground work & hop the carrier around ofc...
Only really notable incident was passing one Tricia McMillan in her Sidewinder around or about the 8th run ;p
Only really notable incident was passing one Tricia McMillan in her Sidewinder around or about the 8th run ;p
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Okay, thanks for that, I'll make some copy's and store them on the usb stick I've already copied my bindings to.
Ah!..that's good, I can be a bit more generous with using them now.
Incidentally, I seem to remember one forum member (Can't remember exactly who) suggesting that it would be a boon to be able to have a small choice of colours you could use for different bookmarks, which I thought was a very good idea. Just a small idea such as this would've made bookmarking stuff a lot more organized visually.
I've just started to hit those undiscovered systems at the moment (I'm about 1,800 Ly out from the bubble). Presently landed on an atmos planet and just found a Tubus I haven't seen before, Tubus Sororibus, there's two more bios here (Total 4) so once I've scanned them I'll be moving on again.
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Jack
Okay, thanks for that, I'll make some copy's and store them on the usb stick I've already copied my bindings to.
Originally it was 100, expanded to 200 more recently iirc - tbh, with the recent much-welcome increase in outfitting store from 200 to 600 i am hoping (without expectation ofc) that the bookmarks will be upped to at least 1000 sometime in the not-too-distant future...
Ah!..that's good, I can be a bit more generous with using them now.
Incidentally, I seem to remember one forum member (Can't remember exactly who) suggesting that it would be a boon to be able to have a small choice of colours you could use for different bookmarks, which I thought was a very good idea. Just a small idea such as this would've made bookmarking stuff a lot more organized visually.
I've just started to hit those undiscovered systems at the moment (I'm about 1,800 Ly out from the bubble). Presently landed on an atmos planet and just found a Tubus I haven't seen before, Tubus Sororibus, there's two more bios here (Total 4) so once I've scanned them I'll be moving on again.
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Jack
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A colour-key system would be almost unimaginably more useful than what we have at presentAh!..that's good, I can be a bit more generous with using them now.
Incidentally, I seem to remember one forum member (Can't remember exactly who) suggesting that it would be boon to be able to have a small choice of colours you could use for different bookmarks, which I thought was a very good idea. Just a small idea such as this would've made bookmarking stuff a lot more organized visually.
If you have 2 CMDRs on the same PC, how does it work? Do they share any files?
All the game options are shared - bindings, audio and graphics.
Each time you play a log file is created - the header of which details the commander name etc.
Yeah, they share settings, bindings, graphics, etc. The journals wind up all mixed together in one folder, but they are marked internally so they can be differentiated. EDDiscovery can read them per CMDR, for example. The Visited Stars caches go into separate folders, as far as I can tell, based on some internal CMDR ID number.
What I am up to is wondering how many reputation nerfs I will have now because I planned to have some time this evening and I have not, and I had a load of trucker missions stacked...
By the way - when you are in a system is there any way to find out the text of the bookmark you left there, other than going through the bookmarks screen looking for that system by eye?
By the way - when you are in a system is there any way to find out the text of the bookmark you left there, other than going through the bookmarks screen looking for that system by eye?