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algwat

algwat
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Probably not the best place to ask this but...

I've had to order a new keyboard for my PC - the b key and space bar are only working if I hit them really hard (probably some congealed sheekh kebab has fused the blister membrane to the circuit board :D ) - just a cheap thing, nothing fancy and exactly the same make and model as the one that's going ye-bye.

Will my bindings stay the same or will ED realise a new peripheral is attached and reset them? I'll have a backup of the file anyway but I was curious. Is there anything else I need to be aware of?

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I am finding the color coded keyboards quite useful, SteelSeries brand look good.
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Pixie40

Pixie40
Or helpful if you can't actually see them due to a HMD covering your eyes and blocking all peripheral vision. :D

When not in VR, I generally don't need backlit keys. Although they can help if it's dark. So long as I can see the keyboard out of the corner of my eye, I can type just fine and get my fingers back into 'home' position without having to look down. It's mostly if using symbols like $, & and @ that I have to look at the keyboard anymore. That said, touch typing is possible for me even if I can't see the keyboard. It's just harder to find the home position.

Speaking of which, I love my ALienware keyboard, but I'm not a fan of the home, ins, del, end, pg up, and pg down keys being vertical instead of horizontal. I've been using it for a year and a half now, and that still throws me off.
 

MishaTX

MishaTX
Hey Pixie, I think one of the main stumbling blocks for you is that you seem to think that you have to exit SC when making a planetary landing, just like you have to in order to approach a station. You don't. The computer does it for you, as long as your speed is 50% or less. "Entering Glide" is your ship nav system exiting SC. At the end of the glide, you'll automatically be in normal space, no "exit" button necessary. Used to confuse me initially too. :)

Other than that, you're right. "Practice, practice, practice." :)

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aRJay

aRJay
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Interesting! Was there an announcement about it?
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Apparently yes.

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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
So far today I have repurposed my T9 purely for laser mining. Stripped back, with all the stuff it needs, it'll ship 512 units but a single jump range of 29lys. I went for a 7A shield gen. in case NPC's interdicted me, giving me a modicum of a chance to escape - "Five Dollar Shake" still handles like a crawler-transporter stuck in an ocean of molasses, even with 7A thrusters. I may have to swap out the lightweight alloys as well.

While I was flying around engineers, I noticed Farseer Inc. not in pitch black:

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Futhermore, Qwent Research Base was in daylight:

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That doesn't happen very often.
 
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aRJay

aRJay
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
So far today I have repurposed my T9 purely for laser mining. Stripped back, with all the stuff it needs, it'll ship 512 units but a single jump range of 29lys. I went for a 7A shield gen. in case NPC's interdicted me, giving me a modicum of a chance to escape - "Five Dollar Shake" still handles like a crawler-transporter stuck in an ocean of molasses, even with 7A thrusters. I may have to swap out the lightweight alloys as well.

While I was flying around engineers, I noticed Farseer Inc. not in pitch black:

FEi5HWL.jpg


Futhermore, Qwent Research Base was in daylight:

eb1XfuA.jpg


That doesn't happen very often.
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I wouldn’t bother swapping the lightweight alloys out of your T9 the protection could be useful and there isn’t an option lighter than zero tonnes anyway, any engineering done will have only added a percentage to that which will still be zero.

There is something quite odd about a location that is always benighted or at best gloomy in full sunlight.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
aRJay said:
I wouldn’t bother swapping the lightweight alloys out of your T9 the protection could be useful and there isn’t an option lighter than zero tonnes anyway, any engineering done will have only added a percentage to that which will still be zero.

There is something quite odd about a location that is always benighted or at best gloomy in full sunlight.
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No reinforced alloys?
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
No reinforced alloys?
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For non-combat ships just using the Heavy Duty engineering modification recipe gives you increased resistance + hull boost (plus an experimental) for zero mass increase - G5 for example increases your mass by 30% but 30% of 0 is 0. (Why everyone should mine 500t of rubbish and unlock Selene Jean. ;) )


P.S. I use Cherry MX (Blue) mechanical keyboards - great if you live alone, not so great to annoy a significant other with noisy typing. :sneaky:
 
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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Good point, well made. I'll slap some mods on the alloys.

As for keyboard, it's this - no frills. Cheap as. Spare mouse too:

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I am a bit choleric when comes to gaming so I go through a lot of mice and keyboards, unfortunately.
But Logitech, as much as I hate their other peripherals and the software, makes really great keyboards and mice, imo the best on the market. I've been with them for a decade, now and no matter if cheap or expensive, it's always good. I've never have one fail on me and even their cheap membrane keyboards are smooth and comfortable. Shame they are not indestructible.
 

Pixie40

Pixie40
Speaking of Logitech, I use to have a Logitech G-15 Gaming Keyboard. Not the newer one with the programable RGB backlighting, but the old model that had 5 programable macro keys (3 macro sets possible at once) and an orange LED screen for tracking things like health, ammo, inventory space, and the like in games. I got it back around 2006 or so, and I loved that thing. Man did it work great. The drivers for it however... not so good. Quite regularly I found that if I had the Logitech drivers installed, the keyboard would stop working. If I didn't install them, the keyboard worked extremely well. Same with an old Logitech gamepad I had. It no longer works since it isn't compatable with Win 10, but it didn't work at all if I tried using the Logitech drivers instead of the generic Windows driver.

EDIT: Found a link with a pic of it.

Are you a human?

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Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Pixie40 said:
Speaking of Logitech, I use to have a Logitech G-15 Gaming Keyboard. Not the newer one with the programable RGB backlighting, but the old model that had 5 programable macro keys (3 macro sets possible at once) and an orange LED screen for tracking things like health, ammo, inventory space, and the like in games. I got it back around 2006 or so, and I loved that thing. Man did it work great. The drivers for it however... not so good. Quite regularly I found that if I had the Logitech drivers installed, the keyboard would stop working. If I didn't install them, the keyboard worked extremely well. Same with an old Logitech gamepad I had. It no longer works since it isn't compatable with Win 10, but it didn't work at all if I tried using the Logitech drivers instead of the generic Windows driver.

EDIT: Found a link with a pic of it.

Are you a human?

www.newegg.com www.newegg.com
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Yeah, same here. Never install Logitech software and drivers. Yes, I'll have to miss on the added functionality (like macros), but in return I can keep my sanity, so I think it's a fair trade. :LOL:
They're not the worst offenders, though. At least their drivers didn't force me to stop using their products entirely, like Razer did.
 

Pixie40

Pixie40
The keyboard drivers might mess up on occasion, but Logitech really don't know how to make functional mouse drivers. Had a Logitech gaming mouse with two programable buttons on the side. And it never failed, 30 seconds after the Logitech driver gets installed, the mouse would stop working.
 

Harrowdown

Harrowdown
I'm in a bit of a bind actually. I somehow figured Explorer's Anchorage would have a better stocked outfitting than it does, so I can't shave off a bunch of jumps on the trip back home to the bubble. I checked the nearby fleet carriers and while some of them have an outfitting, none of them are selling anything. I suppose I better see if there are any other bases in the wider area.
 

Ant hill

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Promoted to Competent at LFT 926 I'm on my way to Broo for an upgrade to lasers. I'm also going to invest time and effort into engineering a Vulture for this stage of my progression. My iCourier only got light investment (the DDD Enhanced Performance Thrusters being the best addition) but I'll stick with the Vulture for longer.
I'm feeling competent too. My last kill, with security assistance, was taking out an Elite T9 in the iCourier. Generally I wasn't the target, but I could control my position next to the cow and constantly lay down fire by virtue of proximity even when the T9 was depositing chaff.
Unfortunately after the wing men went for me I lost my canopy. Back to the station with no HUD. Challenge. Only no station on contacts when I got there. Challenge. Sensors destroyed. Challenge. Restarted the ship. Landed totally rattled now. Challenge.
I picked up a Phantom for the trip to Broo via Dav's Hope and some Selenium. It sounds like a proper starship and I can see the appeal.
What bothers me is not that I have to pick up 50 units of Fujin tea. But that it is a rare sold in batches of 23.
 
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