Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

It was quite interesting coloration, green with yellow in some of the valleys. There were fumaroles, too.

The "beige plague" is definitely gone, now, there are a lot of color variations on planets. It's a great time to be exploring

Excellent screenshots as ever, Codger!

Here I am at King's Landing - I mean King's Barracks (winter is coming) - is anyone else witnessing more "terrain alert" warnings at planet bases than before the last update? I seem to be getting them every time, more or less.

 

[Lysette]

Excellent screenshots as ever, Codger!

Here I am at King's Landing - I mean King's Barracks (winter is coming) - is anyone else witnessing more "terrain alert" warnings at planet bases than before the last update? I seem to be getting them every time, more or less.

You are getting them as well when using a DC approach - it is not your piloting, some bases have it more often than others.

Well, with DC approaches there is something strange sometimes - like I am near the base - about 300m above ground and invoke docking computer - what does the DC do - it is not gliding softly into it's landing pad, lowering the gear and touch down - no, in some bases it moves up to over 1000m above ground first - and if it does that, there is often as well a terrain warning.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Hmm, tis odd. I've not noticed it so much as to post the last game update. Oh well, not an issue - at least not until I get crash into the landing pad and face a rebuy screen

And, just for funsies, I bought a new boat. Not sure what to do with it yet and the cockpit is slightly different to all my other ships... this is "Susan Sto Helit":

 

[aRJay]

Hmm, tis odd. I've not noticed it so much as to post the last game update. Oh well, not an issue - at least not until I get crash into the landing pad and face a rebuy screen

And, just for funsies, I bought a new boat. Not sure what to do with it yet and the cockpit is slightly different to all my other ships... this is "Susan Sto Helit":

Well that should be you safe from the monsters under the bed and other similar creatures.

 

[sicksuntzu]

Currently i am printing creds while the going is good, Core mining in my engineered python. It's a lot more fun then i thought it would be and so far have made 1bn over the last couple of days. Full cargo will net me around 310m which takes between 1-3 hrs depending on how afk i am . If you are new try it out in a cobra mk3

 

[Speedcuffs]

Hmm, tis odd. I've not noticed it so much as to post the last game update. Oh well, not an issue - at least not until I get crash into the landing pad and face a rebuy screen

And, just for funsies, I bought a new boat. Not sure what to do with it yet and the cockpit is slightly different to all my other ships... this is "Susan Sto Helit":

G5 dirty drag drives immediately Sir!
Then boot it and laugh like a maniac.[yesnod]

 

[Spaceman Si]

And, just for funsies, I bought a new boat. Not sure what to do with it yet and the cockpit is slightly different to all my other ships... this is "Susan Sto Helit":

Didn't you already have a Susan Sto Helit in your fleet? Or did she get renamed? (I can't imagine she would have liked that )

At some point, I am going to get one of those Gutamaya sparkly white ships, and name it "Binky"

 

[Speedcuffs]

Didn't you already have a Susan Sto Helit in your fleet? Or did she get renamed? (I can't imagine she would have liked that )

At some point, I am going to get one of those Gutamaya sparkly white ships, and name it "Binky"

Squadron: C.M.O.T. Luxury Imports Unlimited.

 

[Spaceman Si]

Squadron: C.M.O.T. Luxury Imports Unlimited.

Onnastick.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Hmm, tis odd. I've not noticed it so much as to post the last game update. Oh well, not an issue - at least not until I get crash into the landing pad and face a rebuy screen

And, just for funsies, I bought a new boat. Not sure what to do with it yet and the cockpit is slightly different to all my other ships... this is "Susan Sto Helit":

Aweome!
I love the Courier.
It was my first ship that I really spent time modding, back in the old RNGineers.
I had one build that would practically burst into flames when scooping or firing rails, lol...

Anyhow,
Buy some Enhanced Performance Thrusters for it at Farseer's, Martuuk's or Palin's.
Mod those with dirty drives/drive distributors.
NOT drag drives.
EPTs are different and suffer from excess mass more.

Then strip as much mass off of it as you're comfortable with.
3A EPTs have an optimal mass of 90t stock, min of 70.
IF you build a super light racer you can run drag drives, but that drops the optimal mass down to 78t, min of 61.
Drive distributors is 86t, min of 67.

Minimum mass is the point where going lighter won't make you any faster.

So if you want to carry weapons or some tools, you'll likely want to go dirty/drive distributors.
You should still boost in the 800s if you're careful.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Didn't you already have a Susan Sto Helit in your fleet? Or did she get renamed? (I can't imagine she would have liked that )

At some point, I am going to get one of those Gutamaya sparkly white ships, and name it "Binky"

Now I need to check! Tiffany Aching and Moist von Lipwig for sure...

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Aweome!
I love the Courier.
It was my first ship that I really spent time modding, back in the old RNGineers.
I had one build that would practically burst into flames when scooping or firing rails, lol...

Anyhow,
Buy some Enhanced Performance Thrusters for it at Farseer's, Martuuk's or Palin's.
Mod those with dirty drives/drive distributors.
NOT drag drives.
EPTs are different and suffer from excess mass more.

Then strip as much mass off of it as you're comfortable with.
3A EPTs have an optimal mass of 90t stock, min of 70.
IF you build a super light racer you can run drag drives, but that drops the optimal mass down to 78t, min of 61.
Drive distributors is 86t, min of 67.

Minimum mass is the point where going lighter won't make you any faster.

So if you want to carry weapons or some tools, you'll likely want to go dirty/drive distributors.
You should still boost in the 800s if you're careful.

Woah... really? Time to get to work!

 

[Spaceman Si]

Wow. Never even considered that!

Bob, it seems that if there is anything you don't know about power management, it might be written on the smallest postage stamp issued by the state of Lilliput.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Lol, no this game is vast!

I've had a lot of generous guidance from the likes of Truesilver, Morbad, Frenotx, Replicant, jasonbarron and many others.
What they still know in relation to me boggles my mind...


The Courier is sooo goood imo.


I love it for planetary scan missions.
You can land on the roughest terrain easily and you boost out of the planets mass lock right away.

These were what got me into it:

[video=youtube;xK63wFtYOE8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK63wFtYOE8[/video]

[video=youtube;prIDzqoJ4Kw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prIDzqoJ4Kw[/video]

 

[Speedcuffs]

BD-12 1172, recommended by CMDR Cosmic Spacehead.

Well worth a look.[up]

 

[Chris Simon]

BD-12 1172, recommended by CMDR Cosmic Spacehead.

Well worth a look.[up]

Oh, wow!

 

[Codger]

I enjoy the iCourier. It’s a great ship, fun and fast. I haven’t flown mine for a while, though. I’ll have to rectify that soon.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I've been examining my fleet so far and it looks like I'm almost 50% on the way to having one of each ship. Soooo....

I have:
Sidey
Cobra 3
Viper 3
Viper 4
Eagle
iEagle
Courier
Hauler
Vulture
DBS
T6
DBX
Dolphin
Asp S
Asp X
Krait Phantom
Krait 2
Python
Clipper

To get:
Adder
Keelback
FAS
FDS
Federal Gunship
Federal Corvette
Cutter
Anaconda
Mamba
FDL
T7
T9
T10
Orca
Beluga
Alliancd Chieftan
Alliance Challenger
Alliance Crusader

Did I miss anything? The Cobra 4 won't be possible, obviously.

And the next question to myself is "what one next?"

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

I've been examining my fleet so far and it looks like I'm almost 50% on the way to having one of each ship. Soooo....

I have:
Sidey
Cobra 3
Viper 3
Viper 4
Eagle
iEagle
Courier
Hauler
Vulture
DBS
T6
DBX
Dolphin
Asp S
Asp X
Krait Phantom
Krait 2
Python
Clipper

To get:
Adder
Keelback
FAS
FDS
Federal Gunship
Federal Corvette
Cutter
Anaconda
Mamba
FDL
T7
T9
T10
Orca
Beluga
Alliancd Chieftan
Alliance Challenger
Alliance Crusader

Did I miss anything? The Cobra 4 won't be possible, obviously.

And the next question to myself is "what one next?"

Oh my goodness, there are so many ways to go.
I like so many of those.

Mediums that really stand out to me are the FGS, FDL and Chieftain, with an honorable mention to the FAS.

Cutter, T10, Orca and Corvette are all great too.

In fact, aside from my Kraits, those I mentioned are some of my favorite ships overall.

 

[aRJay]

I've been examining my fleet so far and it looks like I'm almost 50% on the way to having one of each ship. Soooo....

I have:
Sidey[up]
Cobra 3[up]
Viper 3
Viper 4
Eagle[up]
iEagle[up]
Courier
Hauler[up]
Vulture
DBS
T6[up]
DBX[up]
Dolphin[up]
Asp S
Asp X[up]
Krait Phantom[up]
Krait 2[up]
Python[up]
Clipper

To get:
Adder[up]
Keelback[up]
FAS[up]
FDS[up]
Federal Gunship[up]
Federal Corvette
Cutter
Anaconda[up]
Mamba[up]
FDL[up][up]
T7[up]
T9[up]
T10[up]
Orca[up][up]
Beluga
Alliancd Chieftain[up]
Alliance Challenger[up]
Alliance Crusader[up]

Did I miss anything? The Cobra 4 won't be possible, obviously.

And the next question to myself is "what one next?"

I have the ones marked with a thumbs up for each one I own.

My reccomendations are get get an Orca built and engineered for speed, an Aliance Chieftain for fun to fly and a Fer-de-Lance for the the ability to obey general Maximus and unleash hell.

Edit: Currently I am investigating and harvesting gas vents on the planet wth Jameson's Cobra, the reason I am not collecting data from the crash site is that it was dropping almost nothing I hadn't already maxed out my storage for.