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[Gheera]

P-Trek update - it’s like going on holiday... takes ages to get there, and seems to take even longer getting back! 100 jumps last night, a lot less FSSing, but still stopped to map a few fresh water worlds. Not sure I’ve spotted an Earth Like in the 9kly tho

starting to get twitchy about NPCs before I get to a station in Procyon, so a limitless adrenaline starting to creep back in.

38 Jumps to go!

 

[Alec Turner]

Been a while since I reported in here ... what am I up to?

Well, I've just been checking the latest scoreboard entries for the ongoing Buckyball race - Keys To The Carrier.

You can hear a little interview I did for Elite Week about the race here ..

.. and full race details can be found over here: the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-keys-to-the-carrier-18th-26th-july-3306

Meanwhile, having distracted certain pilots away from the bubble with my race, I've been practicing for the first leg of the Elite Racers SRV endurance rally down on Moriosong A 2 A. Here's a little clip following one of the others competitors yesterday.

Full details for the rally series can be found here: 8WD Endurance Chapionship

 

[Simon Templar]

Another 20-odd systems first disco'd \o/

Perhaps I ought to get some more Guardian stuff too... not sure I need it at this stage though.

As for now, I'm at an ED loose end. I might see if I can practice somd ssm but, with the current state of affairs, I may not find any deposits.

Maybe I'm odd but I actually enjoyed the Guardian unlocking process. The shield boosters are incredibly powerful for combat (My FDL and Mamba are now neatly over 1000 shield strength, which is pretty potent with their speed and a 4A engineered beam), and I just love the Guardian fighter. It sounds amazing, the plasma it fires is like a firework display and it seems pretty effective. I have other commanders now saying 'what was that?!', I find myself launching it just to have is buzzing around. And the key unlocks for it were a hoot. So I'm a Guardian convert.

 

[[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos]

I might be going into a period of radio silence for a while (cheers erupt across the forum), I pick up my copy of. I

Maybe I'm odd but I actually enjoyed the Guardian unlocking process. The shield boosters are incredibly powerful for combat (My FDL and Mamba are now neatly over 1000 shield strength, which is pretty potent with their speed and a 4A engineered beam), and I just love the Guardian fighter. It sounds amazing, the plasma it fires is like a firework display and it seems pretty effective. I have other commanders now saying 'what was that?!', I find myself launching it just to have is buzzing around. And the key unlocks for it were a hoot. So I'm a Guardian convert.

I also liked unlocking the Guardian stuff. It was very atmospheric, a bit spooky and feels like the most 'story' provided in the game (that you might not provide yourself). I have done some Thargoid stuff and I appreciate why it is in there, the oldest story in the world, confrontation, what story doesn't have that? But in sci-fi it's (for me) just a bit tired and predictable. No matter what, they are our sworn enemies. We will ceaselessly do battle every time we meet and so on. The Guardian stuff (though actually thin on detail) at least felt 'historic', like we investigating the origins of possibly us or all life in the universe.

I wish they would develop it more. Combat is easy to come by, pirates, rival factions and that is fine, but the sort of space archeology the Guardians offered us was a new angle in this game and I loved it.

 

[Simon Templar]

I might be going into a period of radio silence for a while (cheers erupt across the forum), I pick up my copy of. I


I also liked unlocking the Guardian stuff. It was very atmospheric, a bit spooky and feels like the most 'story' provided in the game (that you might not provide yourself). I have done some Thargoid stuff and I appreciate why it is in there, the oldest story in the world, confrontation, what story doesn't have that? But in sci-fi it's (for me) just a bit tired and predictable. No matter what, they are our sworn enemies. We will ceaselessly do battle every time we meet and so on. The Guardian stuff (though actually thin on detail) at least felt 'historic', like we investigating the origins of possibly us or all life in the universe.

I wish they would develop it more. Combat is easy to come by, pirates, rival factions and that is fine, but the sort of space archeology the Guardians offered us was a new angle in this game and I loved it.

Quite agree. There are plenty of locked systems for future content - I hope that they give us some more ruins, crashed ships whatever on some of those. Entirely agree on the atmosphere - getting the keys for the fighters was very spooky, it was like awaking an ancient mother ship. And their blue shields make it feel very different.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Quite agree. There are plenty of locked systems for future content - I hope that they give us some more ruins, crashed ships whatever on some of those. Entirely agree on the atmosphere - getting the keys for the fighters was very spooky, it was like awaking an ancient mother ship. And their blue shields make it feel very different.

Agreed. And perhaps use GalNet to tie it all together.

 

[Simon Templar]

Agreed. And perhaps use GalNet to tie it all together.

Absolutely. It's actually the bit I have most benefited from in joining a squadron. I was a bit of a Guardian noob, just a bit at sea with it. The squadron organised a Guardian expedition, and eight of us jumped into a system with lots of nearby Guardian content on a Carrier. We stayed for a week. I ranged a lot on my own, other times with a couple of more experienced Guardian players, and suddenly my understanding leapt forwards. It really opened my eyes to another side of the game, content I might have found a little impenetrable left to my own devices.

 

[Codger]

This was me over the weekend. NMS had yet another free update and it's wicked cool. So, yeah.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Can't compete with that, Codger!

So here's a shot of me, just now, at a site I hadn't been back to for a good while:

 

[[VR] Orodruin]

Basilisk down!

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Hmm... as it turns out, this was me:

Pity it doesn't have the CMDR name against confirmations! Ah well...

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I just became a murderer. Never flown so fast to the IF in my entire life.

I knew it was getting iffy when the mission target was clean. But I opened up with my guns anyway and, after becoming target practice for his friends, I did blow him up. Talk about pushing the pedal to the metal...

 

[Gheera]

10 kLy P-Trek - done!

Reckon that took about 18 hours... earned about 50mCr in exploration day, and horsed it all trying to get the Sirius permit - would have spread with the Alioth lot if I’d realised the Sirius permit appeared in the follow-on missions page not straight into your inbox

looks like I’ll have to work a bit harder to get friendly with them. Ah well..!

is there anywhere you get a tally of FirstDiscos/First Maps?

has to be said, it was nice to pay for some fuel for a change!

 

[Ashnak]

I just became a murderer. Never flown so fast to the IF in my entire life.

I knew it was getting iffy when the mission target was clean. But I opened up with my guns anyway and, after becoming target practice for his friends, I did blow him up. Talk about pushing the pedal to the metal...

Well, you know what they say: "These actions may be considered illegal in the target system."

 

[Codger]

I just became a murderer. Never flown so fast to the IF in my entire life.

I remember the first time I did one of those missions! It was also the last time

is there anywhere you get a tally of FirstDiscos/First Maps?

Not in the game. If you are connected to EDSM it keeps it's own internal tally (which may not match the actual tally in ED).

It might be possible to figure it out from journal files, but I actually have no idea if that info is stored there. I suspect not.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I screenshot my first discos. Not ideal...

 

[Gheera]

Thanks Cmdrs - maybe we should get an FD log added as a priority? Who wants to go mining anyways?

 

[Zincfinger]

As for me... I did my "go to the top of the galactic disk and look around" thing, making a trip from somewhere near Sirius to Zhuar. Honked a bit, side-tracked to check any systems along the way that had human habitation, and making copious notes. Then spread out across the top surface of the disk where I could reach, gaining my 300 ly distance for Ms Martuuk, then headed home. I found the top of the disk a bit dull, though, and my Asp-X had not been kitted out for longer jumps yet, and fuel stars are a bit thin in the neighborhood so I was cautious... I did though fall into a white dwarf system [pretty sure] and experienced my first FSD boost, totally accidentally and, with a bit of terror considering how much surveying info I had on me.

Back to the bubble, did the cross-bubble run for the newly intro'd Martuuk and then ran what I could by her to upgrade the ship.

I'm on PS4 [which I have linked to nothing] so my screenies will come a bit later.

My HOTAS is not good on me yet. A few crucial functions are missing for me [touchpad related] and I'm a bit disappointed, but, my depuytren's contracture on my left hand is getting a bit bad [def. due to PS4 controller repetitive motion] and it would REALLY be great if the damn HOTAS would just magically do what I want.

 

[KnezBP]

Back at Wolf 359 and I've made some more Fed faction friends so I can get better missions. I also wanted to be closer to Wolf 397 while I'm engineering multi-cannons. Just one more mechanical scrap needed for the Cobra and then I can fix the single cannon on the iEagle. Chris Simon's advice on using limpet collectors during bounty hunts was also helpful. Not for getting mechanical scrap but at least I'm picking up materials I might need later. It makes things a little more interesting anyway.

Aaaaaaand I got myself a new paint job. I love it but I'll have to send Frontier a strongly worded letter due to the Union Flag being incorrectly drawn on the underside of my ship. I will not tolerate such blasphemy against the Crown.

But hey, everyone makes mistakes. It's not like they're a British company or anything.

Oh wait..

I actually had to return to Powell High before taking these screenshots because my Logitech X52 wanted to roll left as I got back to the game and tried to take off. I thought I accidentally turned off flight assist again and ended up pinballed above the dock door. I thought I was a goner for a second. The stick seems alright now, a day later, after checking the stick's properties in device manager but I might try some mods. Coincidentally, I was looking at fixing the deadzone just prior to that and ordered some magnets to void the warranty with. It's completely fine for most gameplay but combat really requires more accuracy and I find myself jumping around a bit while trying to hit a target with fixed weapons. The stick is also a bit loose because the spring is garbage but I reckon I can fix that to some degree.

 

[KnezBP]

This is gonna sound moronically stupid (because it is) but I always thought the triangular objects on your scanner were human players. I double checked earlier in the week and I've seen maybe three human players on my scanner since. Elite definitely needs to be cross-platform in this regard. It may not help that much but open play seems a bit redundant if you only ever encounter NPC's.