Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

[KnezBP]

Tried Batman: Arkham Asylum on PC but my PS3 sixaxis just refused to work at all and I got sick of it. I had to test the game on keyboard. I got a used xBox One S controller in near mint though and I really like it. Sturdy. Buttons and stuff. It might be my new gamepad love.


As for the game, I was looking for an actioner I could jump in and out of and I enjoyed the little 40 minute test. Plus it looked pretty good for a decade old game. I might like this series. Although this is my first experience with Mark Hamill Joker and I hate it. Obnoxious AF.

"But wait!", I hear you cry "You're obnoxious too!!". I know, but you get me for free.

 

[KnezBP]

Summoned the carrier to a body I wanted it to orbit so I could make a short journey for delivery of tritium.

I saw the carrier appear on my nav panel and zoomed over to it - except it wasn't there. I'd got there just before it did - I'm such a Lando.

So I waited a bit and I get the comms "Warning! Capital class signature detected!" or something similar. I thought I was going to witness some spectacular-massive-ship-exiting-from-hyperspace light show.

I was disappointed.

I would've waited too. The most interesting experience I've had with someone exiting supercruise is when they landed right between myself and an NPC pirate. I'm also still waiting for vids of carriers crashing through jovian rings.

 

[algwat]

Got to Deadly yesterday, found a good set of RES's with a population of dangerous to elite mostly in small scale ships.
The Res's were not there when I first got there with the FC deployed to the first moon. So I am thinking they are just for me...?
Easy work for Gimbbly Denis...

Did some one say Dolphin...made me go a buy one, lightly engineered, needs more thought.
Jumps further and runs colder than the phantom, the nick name is 'Cold Comfort' . .

 

[KnezBP]

Took a quick trip to Sol so I could give the engine a little run after a couple of weeks absence and thought I'd spread some poorly spelt Beach Boys love in the chat.

One human player encountered but they high woke(?) as I carefully considered pulling them out of supercruise and starting a new life as a pirate.

 

[Codger]

A lonely little ice ring, out in the void, somewhere in Hawking's Gap.

 

[MishaTX]

Still fine tuning my Krait thanks to the help of the awesome members of this community and my own deranged ideas, and enjoying the coffee maker.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Decaf or full on Vienese cinnamon like K's worms?

 

[MishaTX]

ecaf or full on Vienese cinnamon like K's worms?

Colombian, roasted so dark it bends light and strong enough that I can leave the spoon standing in the middle of the mug.

 

[[VR] Orodruin]

Space lettuce go boom!

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Back on the carrier after having been laid low with some stupid virus/bug whatsit.

Apart from another patch, it doesn't look like I missed much

 

[Codger]

I went VO mining today, in a hotspot I discovered out here. It was relaxing, but not very productive.

I think they did something weird to the Pulse Wave Scanner -- it's not working right.

Anyway, I spent a couple of hours and only came back with 35 tons of VOs from 2 cores.

Other than that, I'm continuing my rambling journey, currently somewhere in Hawking's Gap.

 

[Phongsalt]

Back from the basement more or less straight down from the core.A surprisingly interesting trip.I was not expecting to find skies like this

Looking from the other side of the planet, the skies were matt black,with here and there a faint twinkle,but the view from the orbiting moon of this little beauty is re-assuringly watery.

On the way back i came upon this place and thought it was rather striking. My very own Tracey Island.

p.s. I'm landed here, to give a sense of scale. I don't know what the composition of the 'structure' is but it seems fairly resilient.A des-res facility
for the weekend rock-hermit,perhaps.With the right engineering you could dome over the crater and put in some palm trees and a swimming pool.
Now wouldn't that be grand.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I went VO mining today, in a hotspot I discovered out here. It was relaxing, but not very productive.

I think they did something weird to the Pulse Wave Scanner -- it's not working right.

Anyway, I spent a couple of hours and only came back with 35 tons of VOs from 2 cores.

Other than that, I'm continuing my rambling journey, currently somewhere in Hawking's Gap.

I've heard reports of PW behaving oddly too - something about range?

I know I've only been playing a relatively short time compared to many, but it seems that bugs are more prevalent now. It may have been my greenhorn knowledge at the time but I'm sure it wasn't like this when I first started.

Maybe it's just me, I dunno, but with every "fix" lately, something else gets broken. I'm sure there's always been an element of that but now it seems the norm.

I find it quite concerning.

 

[Winterwalker]

I know I've only been playing a relatively short time compared to many, but it seems that bugs are more prevalent now. It may have been my greenhorn knowledge at the time but I'm sure it wasn't like this when I first started.

The game has never and will never run 100%, 100% of the time. This new Pulse Width bug does looks annoying and in need of a fix but I can be totally honest and say, some bugs I think actually add to the game. Sounds bizarre but hear me out, bugs add a certain level of unpredictability. Obviously game breakers are game breakers but when it's little bits of missing information I imagine corruption in the galaxy, why should every cleric in be whiter than white? Or random explosions, a seal went, it's space! etc. For me it helps my enjoyment rather than detracts when not everything is perfect all the time.

Talking of corruption. I just bought myself a Dukedom with the Empire. It's who you know.

 

[Codger]

I know I've only been playing a relatively short time compared to many, but it seems that bugs are more prevalent now. It may have been my greenhorn knowledge at the time but I'm sure it wasn't like this when I first started.

I dunno. I started playing in 2016, and every release has had its share of added bugs, some of which never get fixed.

The last few weeks/months since the FC release has been pretty bad, though, I have to agree. There's been sooo many mining changes, trying to balance or fix exploits or just get stuff to work -- it does seem that FDEV doesn't quite have a handle on things.

I don't mind the bugs so much as I mind the design decisions that make the game worse.

Right after FCs came out things were actually pretty amazingly good. Credits were too easy to get, I suppose, but everything mining-related worked and it was fun. I actually had a reason to bring all of the mining tools, because they were all useful. Trading was on fire. People were excited and player numbers skyrocketed.

Now that they've gone in and 'tweaked' things, the fun part has been destroyed (no point in core mining now, no point in SSDs unless you want Tritium -- we're back to old school laser mining and all the new mining tech is not worth using). Credits are a little harder to get maybe, but still easy, so... And now players are upset and the numbers are down again. It's kinda sad.

But bad design decisions aren't new either. Do you remember how Engineering was at first? Every module was random, it was impossible to build a ship to a certain spec because you couldn't guarantee your engineering results, there were 'super NPCs' that had impossible weapons like plasma chargers that fired as fast as lasers, and exploits were left in that allowed people to make super-modules for quite a while. It was a hot mess as far as the design went. It took a year or so for them to redesign it to what we have now (still not perfect but much more reasonable).

I just wish they'd stop changing stuff and leave well enough alone. They keep making it worse, lately.

This is still the greatest space game ever, and nothing looks like it will surpass Elite any time soon. We'll all get used to the bugs/designs and continue our journeys.

I wonder what new bugs will come with space feet?

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

I'm just a short way outside of the Formidine Rift, going to mooch in there for a while then skirt round the outside back up to Colonia.

I remember @Codger saying that he was enjoying the solitude that the FC gave him. I'm all over that. To be able to just drift, no rush, is lovely.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I dunno. I started playing in 2016, and every release has had its share of added bugs, some of which never get fixed.

The last few weeks/months since the FC release has been pretty bad, though, I have to agree. There's been sooo many mining changes, trying to balance or fix exploits or just get stuff to work -- it does seem that FDEV doesn't quite have a handle on things.

I don't mind the bugs so much as I mind the design decisions that make the game worse.

Right after FCs came out things were actually pretty amazingly good. Credits were too easy to get, I suppose, but everything mining-related worked and it was fun. I actually had a reason to bring all of the mining tools, because they were all useful. Trading was on fire. People were excited and player numbers skyrocketed.

Now that they've gone in and 'tweaked' things, the fun part has been destroyed (no point in core mining now, no point in SSDs unless you want Tritium -- we're back to old school laser mining and all the new mining tech is not worth using). Credits are a little harder to get maybe, but still easy, so... And now players are upset and the numbers are down again. It's kinda sad.

But bad design decisions aren't new either. Do you remember how Engineering was at first? Every module was random, it was impossible to build a ship to a certain spec because you couldn't guarantee your engineering results, there were 'super NPCs' that had impossible weapons like plasma chargers that fired as fast as lasers, and exploits were left in that allowed people to make super-modules for quite a while. It was a hot mess as far as the design went. It took a year or so for them to redesign it to what we have now (still not perfect but much more reasonable).

I just wish they'd stop changing stuff and leave well enough alone. They keep making it worse, lately.

This is still the greatest space game ever, and nothing looks like it will surpass Elite any time soon. We'll all get used to the bugs/designs and continue our journeys.

I wonder what new bugs will come with space feet?

That engineering situation sounded rather unpleasant and I'm thankful I didn't go through that!

Painite still seems a good money maker although metal rings are proving to be a rare phenomenon on my meander from the bubble to Colonia. Still, as our new house cat XloublellXX says, a carrier makes it a stately, relaxing meander.

 

[Codger]

Speaking of meandering, this is my travel map (from EDSM). It shows my travels over the years, most of them anyway. You can see my zig-zagging all over the bubble. You can see I've been to Colonia a few times, and a bit beyond, and you can see my trip to visit the Zurara way back when. My current trip is the little leg to the right, which has now turned core-wards.

I think I might be headed all the way to the core. Maybe. I'm out far enough to the side that I'm not seeing any already-discovered systems.

 

[Para Handy]

Speaking of meandering, this is my travel map (from EDSM). It shows my travels over the years, most of them anyway.

Here is one of my accounts - it doesn't go back the full five and a half years - and that commander still has not come back from DW2.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

My own map is... somewhat different as I am currently on my longest ever journey - and barely started at that

Incidentally... I know a carrier has limited landing pads, but does that directly relate to how many ships you can have on board, i.e.16 ships? The Wiki isn't clear.