That does sound weird. What happened to your ship? Instamelt?
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That does sound weird. What happened to your ship? Instamelt?
I returned yesterday from the Colonia trip I mentioned. 53,000 light years, took me 12 days, and unlocked the engineers there. The coronavirus has granted me more Elite time so it didn't take all that long really.
According to EDSM I got these as first-discoveries
Systems: 558
HMCs: 1276
Rocky: 957
Icy: 1032
Earth-like: 9
Water World: 76
Ammonia World: 11
If I add in the stars, gas giants and others it's a lot more. My commander name is now firmly stitched in to the galaxy
Distance Flown: 53,296
Jumps: 887
Systems: 854
Scans: 6,699
Exploration Data: 536 million
Of course this only reflects data submitted to EDSM and there's a chance some of these were not first-discoveries, and some that are not here, are. It cannot be accurate in every case, but I feel it's close enough.
After returning to the bubble I shifted a few pinned blueprints and unlocked the Sarge. I then sold my AspX and Python (sniff, sniff), bought a Phantom and flew it to Ceos to run some shuttles. Always something to keep me interested!
According to EDSM I got these as first-discoveries
Systems: 558
HMCs: 1276
Rocky: 957
Icy: 1032
Earth-like: 9
Water World: 76
Ammonia World: 11
If I add in the stars, gas giants and others it's a lot more. My commander name is now firmly stitched in to the galaxy
Distance Flown: 53,296
Jumps: 887
Systems: 854
Scans: 6,699
Exploration Data: 536 million
Of course this only reflects data submitted to EDSM and there's a chance some of these were not first-discoveries, and some that are not here, are. It cannot be accurate in every case, but I feel it's close enough.
After returning to the bubble I shifted a few pinned blueprints and unlocked the Sarge. I then sold my AspX and Python (sniff, sniff), bought a Phantom and flew it to Ceos to run some shuttles. Always something to keep me interested!
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I returned yesterday from the Colonia trip I mentioned. 53,000 light years, took me 12 days, and unlocked the engineers there. The coronavirus has granted me more Elite time so it didn't take all that long really.
According to EDSM I got these as first-discoveries
Systems: 558
HMCs: 1276
Rocky: 957
Icy: 1032
Earth-like: 9
Water World: 76
Ammonia World: 11
If I add in the stars, gas giants and others it's a lot more. My commander name is now firmly stitched in to the galaxy
Distance Flown: 53,296
Jumps: 887
Systems: 854
Scans: 6,699
Exploration Data: 536 million
Of course this only reflects data submitted to EDSM and there's a chance some of these were not first-disoveries, and some that are not here, are. It cannot be accurate in every case, but I feel it's close enough.
After returning to the bubble I shifted a few pinned blueprints and unlocked the Sarge. I then sold my AspX and Python (sniff, sniff), bought a Phantom and flew it to Ceos to run some shuttles. Always something to keep me interested!
Awesome numbers there!
Man, BIG time. 1/2 billion in data? Wow!Awesome numbers there!
Nice work!
I've spent most of today trying to get ALVR and SteamVR to play nicely together on my laptop.
It is not going well.
It is not going well.
Still working on the triple elite thing.
Combat rank is now at 33% Deadly... so I'm calling that another milestone.
Combat rank is now at 33% Deadly... so I'm calling that another milestone.
It takes ages, doesn't it? I've stopped trying to get to deadly as that progress bar just creeps along too slowly
Still, getting elite in combat isn't really something I must have; I prefer spending my time finding first disco's. Mrs. Tyres thought I'd completely lost every plot ever when I whooped at an undiscovered ammonia world. It's this lockdown: one's priorities shift.
I've moved a further 500lys out now, hoping to find something unique instead of "oh goody, another icy world".
It's been a while again. Been busy working, and then the cable for my Oculus Rift started having a loose connection, meaning that during scooping or in the middle of a fight, the headset turned black for several seconds until HDMI came back online. Searched for a replacement cable, but Facebook decided to stop selling those, saying "Buy a refurbished headset or a Rift S instead". Problem solved, NOT! What the flip kind of customer service is that on an expensive product that is only a few years old? I'll never buy Oculus again.
By opening the cable, I got it somewhat working again, and by taping the wire to the headset, it worked in a flimsy way, but once back in ED, I must admit that I had lost some of my enthusiasm. I flew a long trip in my favorite Mamba, and then went outside Jameson Memorial to see if someone stupid was up for some brawl. Maybe it was because I now flew a Vulture, but after a couple of hours of looking for a single ganker, I gave up.
I can't see myself playing the game outside VR, so I'll probably leave for a while or forever. I'll drop by to say hello once in a while, until I can afford a new VR headset, with better customer support.
Fly safe CMDRs - o7
By opening the cable, I got it somewhat working again, and by taping the wire to the headset, it worked in a flimsy way, but once back in ED, I must admit that I had lost some of my enthusiasm. I flew a long trip in my favorite Mamba, and then went outside Jameson Memorial to see if someone stupid was up for some brawl. Maybe it was because I now flew a Vulture, but after a couple of hours of looking for a single ganker, I gave up.
I can't see myself playing the game outside VR, so I'll probably leave for a while or forever. I'll drop by to say hello once in a while, until I can afford a new VR headset, with better customer support.
Fly safe CMDRs - o7
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I got tired of mining for the time being and decided to fill up my raw material bins, so I threw together a DBX build, down traded all grade 4 raw materials except selenium and took a trip out to the shard sites. Once done there I decided to do a short bout of exploration over the weekend and set a course for the Heart and Soul nebulae. Arrived before ending the session yesterday and found a nice neutron star nearby to start the journey back to the bubble. A fair number of first discoveries in the navigation computer, but nothing too exciting. Got a couple of nice screenshots from a few pretty gas giants though. For some reason I have an unhealthy obsession with looking at pretty gas giants when landed on their moons ... Something about all that swirly gas ...
Well, at least the raw materials should keep me for a while ...
Must say I like the DBX. So much easier to find a landing spot than with the Asp, especially when you want to park on top of a mountain. I also found that the relatively small scoop does not bother me that much as long as I can honk and have a look at the FSS while scooping.
I remember grinding Thargoid scouts for that. It took me exactly 1636 scout kills ... I was seeing scouts in my sleep ...
Well, at least the raw materials should keep me for a while ...
Must say I like the DBX. So much easier to find a landing spot than with the Asp, especially when you want to park on top of a mountain. I also found that the relatively small scoop does not bother me that much as long as I can honk and have a look at the FSS while scooping.
I remember grinding Thargoid scouts for that. It took me exactly 1636 scout kills ... I was seeing scouts in my sleep ...
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DBX is also wonderful for Guardian sites as you can park easily and put some point defence for the skimmers. It's a great little ship.
I may have put point defences on my DBX just in case I get the urge to unlock more modules ...
It takes ages, doesn't it? I've stopped trying to get to deadly as that progress bar just creeps along too slowly
Still, getting elite in combat isn't really something I must have; I prefer spending my time finding first disco's. Mrs. Tyres thought I'd completely lost every plot ever when I whooped at an undiscovered ammonia world. It's this lockdown: one's priorities shift.
I've moved a further 500lys out now, hoping to find something unique instead of "oh goody, another icy world".
Originally I wasn't bothered about it, I was happy with my Exploration Elite but then I did a bit of mining and suddenly I had Trade Elite too, and then I noticed I was also 98% Dangerous in combat rank so I thought getting Triple Elite seemed like a reasonable thing to aim for...
Way off topic and something for the kids, turn your favorite screenshot into a https://www.jigsawexplorer.com/. Isolation therapy?
getting back into combat just a bit angrier, cause it takes so long to complete with over 200 pieces.....
getting back into combat just a bit angrier, cause it takes so long to complete with over 200 pieces.....
I'm doubly-elite and singularly dangerous. Given that the explorer and trader ones don't require an enormous level of pilot skill, I'm not elite at all, I'm just dangerous, as far as I'm concerned.
That said, having the pilot's federation promotion to Elite in combat is just recognition by the pilot's federation of you having passed a milestone - for all you know, you might already be fighting at Elite level already.
That said, having the pilot's federation promotion to Elite in combat is just recognition by the pilot's federation of you having passed a milestone - for all you know, you might already be fighting at Elite level already.
Neither does combat elite. You can just outfit a ship with turreted AX multicannons and sit around an AX conflict zone for enough time.
I'm also hunting Elite combat rank. I turned Deadly March 1 and now 30%. It's worked out to be about 30 kills per point for me, prioritizing deadly and elite targets, but if it's in front of me I'll shoot it regardless of rank. At that pace it's 3000 kills to run through the rank to Elite, which was exactly how many ships it took to get from noob to Deadly. This pace will slow for commanders who either employ minions or fight in wings a lot. One of my friends in our PG just hit combat Elite at 11,000 kills as most of his combat has been winged up. That's a huge difference, nearly double to reach the same rank.
When I first got in to Elite and learned what triple Elite meant it became my main goal. I've let it come naturally, aside from the VO rush I suppose, and am nearly there. I am honestly concerned though that when I reach it I will lose motivation to play. Having a goal or purpose in Elite is pure gold and removing my longest running one could be detrimental. I said three years ago that I think once I hit triple Elite and have every ship I want I might stop playing. I guess I will find out sooner or later.
When I first got in to Elite and learned what triple Elite meant it became my main goal. I've let it come naturally, aside from the VO rush I suppose, and am nearly there. I am honestly concerned though that when I reach it I will lose motivation to play. Having a goal or purpose in Elite is pure gold and removing my longest running one could be detrimental. I said three years ago that I think once I hit triple Elite and have every ship I want I might stop playing. I guess I will find out sooner or later.
Setting new personal goals help a lot. There is more or less always something that you have not done before.
Returning to civilisation... first time in the black for two consecutive days without returning "home". Bit like first time out camping.