Oddly quiet with FFC AWOL. Still at least there's no coloured cobra's so far.
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- Thread starter Tyres O'Flaherty
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I still don't know what FFC stands for.
Federal Flight Control I think... "FFC, out".
Or “stow your weapons commander! This is a no fire zone!” when one is peacefully trying to deploy one’s wake scanner for some gentle data collection
Nonetheless, I miss the chatter. That very respectful chap who pops up at a number of the Imperial stations was awfully pleasant to me.
I'm having bad thoughts about a Fleet Carrier. I have 5.3bn in cash and a number of ships I could sell.
Those assets are burning a hole in my Remlock suit. I must resist. But is resistance futile? Oh the dilemma
Those assets are burning a hole in my Remlock suit. I must resist. But is resistance futile? Oh the dilemma
I'm having bad thoughts about a Fleet Carrier. I have 5.3bn in cash and a number of ships I could sell.
Those assets are burning a hole in my Remlock suit. I must resist. But is resistance futile? Oh the dilemma
Do some LTD-mining or tritium trading - 10 hours or so should suffice - and you should no longer have to sell your ships to afford a decently kitted-out Fleet Carrier.
Don't buy too soon. Upkeep starts happening, and there's a psychological effect. I still dislike the offline upkeep angle, but there it is.I'm having bad thoughts about a Fleet Carrier. I have 5.3bn in cash and a number of ships I could sell.
Those assets are burning a hole in my Remlock suit. I must resist. But is resistance futile? Oh the dilemma
Just be sure you have plenty of cash left to dump into the upkeep section. It reduces the pressure you feel.
Do some LTD-mining or tritium trading - 10 hours or so should suffice - and you should no longer have to sell your ships to afford a decently kitted-out Fleet Carrier.
Thanks CMDRs!
Perhaps I'll crack on with some more mining then.![[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/234/234580.jpg?1612617334){kind=avatar}
I’m not getting a FLEET CARRIER as I don’t think I need it. I use 2 ships, Dolphin for exploring and a Python for everything else. I like the pioneering spirit of being in the black in a small craft, having had to make compromises on the loadout. The will I or won’t I make it home safe thrill.
I actually have 2 Pythons one is solely for mining. I didn’t go mining for the credits but for the experience. The only reason I see to keep it is to fuel a FLEET CARRIER. This feels like a lot of work to do what I would be doing in a Dolphin. So when I get back to a station, I’m selling it, to show my commitment to my plan to myself.
Being in deep space makes you act weird.
In other news, just found a system with 14 bodies, 3 of which are water worlds. Unlikely to be a record but was interesting all the same.
I actually have 2 Pythons one is solely for mining. I didn’t go mining for the credits but for the experience. The only reason I see to keep it is to fuel a FLEET CARRIER. This feels like a lot of work to do what I would be doing in a Dolphin. So when I get back to a station, I’m selling it, to show my commitment to my plan to myself.
Being in deep space makes you act weird.
In other news, just found a system with 14 bodies, 3 of which are water worlds. Unlikely to be a record but was interesting all the same.
Consider this before rushing in to buy, fleet carriers are only a few days old if you leave it long enough that some have been involuntarily and voluntarily decommissioned the do’s and don’ts will be clearer, you will have more funds and if it all turns out to have been a short term fad you will be laughing.I'm having bad thoughts about a Fleet Carrier. I have 5.3bn in cash and a number of ships I could sell.
Those assets are burning a hole in my Remlock suit. I must resist. But is resistance futile? Oh the dilemma
Or treat it like buying a ship where you need three times the hull price.
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It's odd; I was also firmly in the camp of not getting one but, now I'm quite liquid, I'm tempted. I could probably scrape together another 3-400m by getting rid of the ships I never use. Out of the 36 I have (one of each), I'd probably only keep... mmm... perhaps 10.
I think more LTD mining first.
Good points!
Glory be what a learning curve of a day! Forgot everything about planetary landings, got too close to the Bug Killer Planet whie mapping it to find the POI, then forgot how to get out of the planet's atmosphere to be able to fly around the planet and back in again.
Then the boost button on the joystick broke, so not only did I have to try and find like THE ONLY Thrustmaster T.Flight X around on Amazon, I had to rebind boost on the fly, and thanks to some nifty stream from a wonderful CMDR in the Galactic Academy Discord, I came back around, landed (well ok a little more by luck than judgement) and did as many rounds of Bug Killer as I could manage - SRV hull was down to 50% and fuel down to 25% - but managed to get enough to do everything I needed to trade for the Encoded Data mats I need for a first FSD engineering role.
Jeez though, driving an SRV... once I was kindly shown how to get in the damn thing... I have had easier shopping trolleys with wonky wheels to get around! Also saw the thargoid, at one stage even a couple of them zapping the crashed Anaconda... bloody creepy with night vision on...
All in all it ended out a productive day....
At this point I declare it beer o'clock!
Then the boost button on the joystick broke, so not only did I have to try and find like THE ONLY Thrustmaster T.Flight X around on Amazon, I had to rebind boost on the fly, and thanks to some nifty stream from a wonderful CMDR in the Galactic Academy Discord, I came back around, landed (well ok a little more by luck than judgement) and did as many rounds of Bug Killer as I could manage - SRV hull was down to 50% and fuel down to 25% - but managed to get enough to do everything I needed to trade for the Encoded Data mats I need for a first FSD engineering role.
Jeez though, driving an SRV... once I was kindly shown how to get in the damn thing... I have had easier shopping trolleys with wonky wheels to get around! Also saw the thargoid, at one stage even a couple of them zapping the crashed Anaconda... bloody creepy with night vision on...
All in all it ended out a productive day....
At this point I declare it beer o'clock!
Check out D2EA's latest video on the tube, if you need to gather some credits (it's long but you can skip through it to get the general idea). It looks fun so I might give it a go, now that slip mining has (finally) been nerfed, even though I have billions that I'm not gonna spend on a FC after all. I like flying spaceships, more than all the menus.
The SRV can be a right pain, setting it to default FA off works better for some, although I have been driving and adjusting the bindings for ages it still doesn't work well for me if I try to use the turret on the move but it is so much better now than it was.
All I can say was that any neighbours in the vicinity of my house will have heard some very earthy Anglo-Saxon.
And at one stage on the Frontier-Flop, I came back in to not one but two Thargoids scanning the wreck... which was pretty cool but also damn creepy!
It's their faces. They don't have them.