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Codger

Codger
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Do I just register a new account with FDEV, then log on to the launcher with that account and this will run the game without having to rebuy/redownload the game?
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It's all very smooth as long as you purchase all your accounts from Frontier. As soon as Steam or Epic get involved, you're in for problems.

I can run all 3 of my accounts from the one install, no issues. All of them are Frontier accounts, with no third parties involved.

All I have to do is log out of one, then log into the other, from the Launcher menu.
 

Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
Codger said:
It's all very smooth as long as you purchase all your accounts from Frontier. As soon as Steam or Epic get involved, you're in for problems.
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Absolutely this!
You can shove your free Epic and Steam sale garbage.
One install, two copies of launcher on desktop, one named 'Speedcuffs', one named 'Tanya Wu'.
No problems.
If buying Arx, remember which email is tied to which account!
:D (y)
 

Codger

Codger
All this talk of new CMDRs made me want to reset my alt again. So I did.

Here's his new Sidewinder, in the free Azure paint job, named the "Contagious Droplet". ID is "Death".

Well, it made me laugh :)

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aRJay

aRJay
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Very, very similar to me. Iirc I'm at 37% dangerous. It just creeps along, doesn't it? :D

I can't wait to see how slow it is from deadly to elite! I've heard it said it takes as long as getting to deadly all over again. :D

I'm not going chase it: much too grindy but, in all honesty, it doesn't bug me and I'm not that fussed about combat elite anyway.
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Each stage in the process is twice the size of the one before it so yes when you reach Deadly you are finally half way to Elite.

The issue with combat ranking is that the higher your NPC opponents rank is above yours the more the victory is worth towards your rank progress, but there is only one rank above Deadly and anyone Dangerous or below will only earn a fraction of a point.

Try to remember that your SLF pilot if used could be taking half your ranking points as well.
 

algwat

algwat
stetson harrison said:
Been playing for a bit over a week now. Yesterday I jumped into a system with a base full of tritium for 50 k apiece and a fleet carrier willing to pay 100 k per unit for the same. Went from 17 million to 102 million in a day and bought + outfitted a T-7 along the way. Let's see what today brings.
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some of the best deals appear in the local surrounding systems on the gal map, look for the brightest green triangle(buy) or blue square(sell).
Chasing Inara data for the best price can be a lost cause. But, only the other day I found the commodity link in the system/station description that shows what items will give the best profits. Good Cobalt profits for little credit risk.....
I am paying 5% over the gal average for a few items on my FC, the only cmdr helping out is my Alt young Sergi. FC Bulk trading still a mystery to me. :unsure:
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
SCiARA said:
my 1st attempt at FC bulk trading will see me full of Silver by the end of today bought for C3500, according to inara (been pretty accurate for me to date) I can sell it for C49,000 to a station with huge demand for the stuff

we'll see!
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The only trouble is, when you have an absolute truck load of stuff to sell, you need to get it from the carrier to the station - or, indeed, another carrier. If you find yourself in a system with a nasty carrier infection, you will need to park up a distance away - maybe, even, in another system.

If there're large landing pads available, you could use your T9 to carry oodles but that behemoth is slow and interdiction-fail prone. If it has medium pads, you can use a Pythog which is great at avoiding interdictions but can't shift as much.

ED - the game that emphasises "compromise" :D

I'm out in the near black again, painting my name all over the place, contemplating (still - why does it take me so long to make a decision? :D ) the alt CMDR thing.
 

Speedcuffs

Speedcuffs
Hm. Was considering booting the PS4 up and buying a Carrier. Persistent across platforms, run it on a separate monitor, doesn't need PS+...
But then realised it's not been switched on for months and will go crazy with updates and game downloads: Nah. :LOL:

And the key binds will make no sense anymore. :LOL:
 
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algwat

algwat
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
The only trouble is, when you have an absolute truck load of stuff to sell, you need to get it from the carrier to the station - or, indeed, another carrier. I
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Yeah, this is the main problem, being an elite trader still did not prepare you for this. If only the NPC's could see the stock on the FC and move it to the Station.
or better yet an instant trade goods transfer , like occurs at the station market. Stock is beamed to your cargo space instantly...am I right???
edit - ian stanly has nothing to say here..
 

Simon Templar

Simon Templar
alexzk said:
both 2 + 2 will do. And some guardin hull enforce (for resist) and decon. limpets. Because it still shoots rockets with acid.
So you shard him, then snipe heart, then shard. When he do lighting you still can eat it. On my krait it does 5% to hull or so without drones. When he has 40% he will do disabling attack, so make sure counter measure it OR FA-OFF and boost in the sky so u don't drop to ground.
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Crikey. Sounds a nightmare!! Thank you so much for the assistance, much appreciated. Don't think I have Guardian hull reinforcement, sadly, just shield reinforcement, but am sure I can lash something together. Thank you, Commander. Guess I'm going fishing in the Pleiyedes Sector. Let's hope it doesn't turn out that I need a bigger boat.

o7
 

Simon Templar

Simon Templar
Codger said:
These guys have ship builds and combat guides for all things Thargoid. Seems like they know their stuff:

Disclaimer: I know nothing about fighting Thargoids other than it's not something I'm about to do right now ;)

www.antixenoinitiative.com

Home

Welcome to the Anti-Xeno Initiative Wiki. Your complete repository for Anti-Xeno Combat.
www.antixenoinitiative.com www.antixenoinitiative.com
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Thank you very much, will take a look. I did outfit a Challenger for anti-Thargoid a while back, just never used it, so hope I made a half decent job of it. I'd happily avoid the whole thing, but the squadron I joined has requirements to achieve promotion, and I can do more to help them the higher rank I hold, and have access to more channels, so as a one-off it (sadly) makes sense for me to saddle up and ride out. I'd love to have the bandwidth to time the encounter to high noon, but frankly we have more pressing concerns (for instance - surviving). Thank you very much for the link. o7
 

Simon Templar

Simon Templar
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I see the salt is strong on the latest Odyssey post.
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I think some of the regulars are quietly quite pleased, gives them another opportunity to unload on FDev. Personally I'd rather it were released when ready and stable, and am very grateful to FDev for giving me this whole hobby and introducing me to so many wonderful people. Wouldn't dare say that on that thread, though!! I just wonder why some are here, if it's all so awful..?
 

SCiARA

SCiARA
yea that thread took a downward turn, didn't think it was all bad a few pages in but now it's just self righteous bile

anyways, silver trading is almost done (once I unload the 20k I've accumulated) and I didn't mind it at all, that cutter is a flippin drift king though isn't it, and the docking assist is so sloooow to react in it, twice it slid me straight into the side of the station hahaha, full on slow mo as well, sitting there thinking naa computer will sort it, proximity lights flashing? naa I'm going far too slow it will sort it....clunk...27% hull....mother fu....it's chuckle worthy so log as you don't blow up I spose

think I'll stick with the bulk trading for now as coming out of SC and seeing my FC there in all it's glory hasn't got boring yet, tonight's experience will be to get to the end jump point and see her come through (assume that can be done?)
 

Codger

Codger
I decided to take my alt CMDR in a different direction. It occurred to me that I hadn't tried salvage in a long time. Back in the day I became expert at finding those temporary POIs on planets, the ones that show up as blue circles on your radar when you're at least 2km above the surface. I know how to navigate to them and find whatever they are. They can be small installations or wrecks with cargo strew about. Sometimes they are guarded by skimmers, sometimes not. Usually the salvage is legal stuff, free for the taking.

The thing is, the stuff laying around didn't used to be worth much at all. But now that metals are worth more, I thought maybe I could earn enough just doing salvage to advance a bit.

So off I went to the nearest landable planet that had a base or two on it. I flew about for a few minutes until I found a POI, and went down to see what it was. The very first one had 2 canisters of Platinum. Sitting there in my starter Sidey, it looked like the motherlode. I picked up all the stuff from that site and high-tailed it to a base to sell. I was interdicted twice! But I arrived safely, and made 750,000 credits or so. It beats doing missions :)

Anyway, I've continued along that path a ways, and now I have a nice little Cobra and 2.5 million in assets and I'm a salvager. Haha!

This is why I like occasionally starting a new CMDR. I wind up doing different stuff, for different reasons, and it's fun for me.

This is what I found on my first stop:

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I surprisingly ranked up to Scout in exploration, just from finding "new" materials on the planet surface. That was without selling any cartographic data. I didn't expect that.

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Ah well, fun times.
 

SCiARA

SCiARA
Codger said:
I decided to take my alt CMDR in a different direction. It occurred to me that I hadn't tried salvage in a long time. Back in the day I became expert at finding those temporary POIs on planets, the ones that show up as blue circles on your radar when you're at least 2km above the surface. I know how to navigate to them and find whatever they are. They can be small installations or wrecks with cargo strew about. Sometimes they are guarded by skimmers, sometimes not. Usually the salvage is legal stuff, free for the taking.

The thing is, the stuff laying around didn't used to be worth much at all. But now that metals are worth more, I thought maybe I could earn enough just doing salvage to advance a bit.

So off I went to the nearest landable planet that had a base or two on it. I flew about for a few minutes until I found a POI, and went down to see what it was. The very first one had 2 canisters of Platinum. Sitting there in my starter Sidey, it looked like the motherlode. I picked up all the stuff from that site and high-tailed it to a base to sell. I was interdicted twice! But I arrived safely, and made 750,000 credits or so. It beats doing missions :)

Anyway, I've continued along that path a ways, and now I have a nice little Cobra and 2.5 million in assets and I'm a salvager. Haha!

This is why I like occasionally starting a new CMDR. I wind up doing different stuff, for different reasons, and it's fun for me.

This is what I found on my first stop:

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I surprisingly ranked up to Scout in exploration, just from finding "new" materials on the planet surface. That was without selling any cartographic data. I didn't expect that.

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Ah well, fun times.
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salvaging has always appealed to me, never tried it though just seams to be a very hit n miss thing
is there salvage on all planets or just occupied ones?
 
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