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[Codger]

Engineering guns and suits seems to require you to become a burglar and/or murderer. It's not in character for Quain. There is also more ship based play I'm busy doing with a Fleet Carrier purchase now possible once back in the bubble and things I plan to do with it.
I also have not found guides for suit and gun material collection that really help enough and I don't want to spend time figuring it out for myself - at least not now. I started playing just before Odyssey was released, so coming to the game late unless the 1984 version on the ZX Spectrum counts.

One thing I love about this game is the leeway it gives you to play your own way.

I avoided all combat for years, myself, but not because it would be out of character for my CMDR. I don't roleplay. My CMDR(s) are just vehicles for me to do what I find fun at the time -- there's no overarching storyline in my head.

Funny thing about Odyssey, though, it kind of forced me to come to grips with the (lousy) Crime and Punishment features of the game. I had never had notoriety prior to Odyssey, and didn't understand the mechanics of it all. However, now that I do understand things, I find that I can pick and choose whether to do "bad things" or not. I can easily avoid bounties and notoriety now, if I so choose, and always be the "good guy." But you have to know what you're doing in order to remain on the good side of the law, which I find rather strange. I admit I'm not a fan of how C&P works.

As for guides on mat collection, the UTUBERS seem to be all in the 'kill everything and rack up notoriety' camp. It's totally unnecessary, but I suppose it's more dramatic and gets more clicks.

My main guide was this one, which is not about mat collection but rather about the mechanics of missions, and how NPCs react to you, and how to be stealthy. The stealth in Odyssey is excellently implemented, as are the missions. I've had an enormous amount of fun doing them.

Spoiler: Stealth Guide

The Definitive Stealth Guide!

I finally got my first "Live Odyssey" video guide completed and it's now available to view on Youtube, complete with a brand new intro/outro and improved audio recording. Most of the transcript is available in the description of the video but I'll add the key points here. I'll be adding to this...

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As long as you're having fun, you're playing correctly

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Sold off the platinum I had which gave me 2 T9's-full of tritium - around 1,500 units - plus some extra for, you know, just profit.

So, I'm now off on a relatively short trip to the Outer Orion Spur to see what I can see. I haven't seen an NSP for an absolute age so I'm hoping to find one, just for the photo album. I'm also hoping to get to Geneticist in exo and, with luck, Elite I in exploration. I have a lot of work to do in both but my aim is to accomplish these goals on this sojourn. *

I'm sure, going back to on-foot stuff, manufacturing instructions used to be more plentiful than I've seen of late. Did they wave the nerf bat at them? My next goal on that front is to get a G4 Dominator suit. Maybe a G5 but that requires a lot more mats. Not sure I need to upgrade the Artemis - it has faster shield regen (which was already on-board when I bought it) and I added reduced tool battery consumption. Haven't felt the need to go any further.

Anyway, I'm hoping to get some nice pictures soon as I want another Stellar Screenshots AspX paint job. Just to make it three which is a tidy number...

* Unless I get tired of it and just go back to the bubble.

 

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[Nekozji]

For the past week or so I've had my sights set on the Fine Ring Nebula, and today I actually got close enough for it to be a feature in the sky. The planet was yet another triple-geo with no geo present, so nothing to say there.

Not quite sure what I expected from the star inside the nebula? Of course it doesn't have planets... it does have a binary partner some 43,000ls away, which apparently is far enough to survive the nova.

Whelp, moving on then. Found a lovely bright ice planet which seems to be illuminated by the primary star of the system... but is in orbit around a ringed brown dwarf. I am not sure if it is a moon or a planet...

Also musing on what I feel was a wasted opportunity for bio hunting. When you have a lovely two tone surface like this; surely, surely all the dark stuff is bacteria. It's been here for millions of years, it's covered the planet; it should be ubiquitous, not in teeny tiny clumps. Still, nice place to visit, easy driving, probably get a bit of a tan through the SRV windshield.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Found a fumerola - my first - but life got in the way before I could complete the three samples and take a photo. Maybe later.

I'd just tipped over into the Outer Orion Spur although not everything I'm discovering is a codex entry - must've been here before

I'll see how it goes but I might journey on to Kepler's Crest, fuel permitting. Seems a long way off.

EDIT:

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Quain is vain and will normally repair paint work on 99%, and go polish it after each trip if he could. But none of that is an option deep in the black. I don't know what paint wear level is like, but would estimate 30% or less since it was 40% while at the last DSSA carrier where Quain finally admitted to himself, paint wear on an exploration ship is cool.

 

[CMDR-NOBODY]

I think I have concluded my crystalline shard run tonight.

Time to prep for home.

 

[Raxiel]

One thing I love about this game is the leeway it gives you to play your own way.

I avoided all combat for years, myself, but not because it would be out of character for my CMDR. I don't roleplay. My CMDR(s) are just vehicles for me to do what I find fun at the time -- there's no overarching storyline in my head.

Funny thing about Odyssey, though, it kind of forced me to come to grips with the (lousy) Crime and Punishment features of the game. I had never had notoriety prior to Odyssey, and didn't understand the mechanics of it all. However, now that I do understand things, I find that I can pick and choose whether to do "bad things" or not. I can easily avoid bounties and notoriety now, if I so choose, and always be the "good guy." But you have to know what you're doing in order to remain on the good side of the law, which I find rather strange. I admit I'm not a fan of how C&P works.

As for guides on mat collection, the UTUBERS seem to be all in the 'kill everything and rack up notoriety' camp. It's totally unnecessary, but I suppose it's more dramatic and gets more clicks.

My main guide was this one, which is not about mat collection but rather about the mechanics of missions, and how NPCs react to you, and how to be stealthy. The stealth in Odyssey is excellently implemented, as are the missions. I've had an enormous amount of fun doing them.

Spoiler: Stealth Guide

The Definitive Stealth Guide!

I finally got my first "Live Odyssey" video guide completed and it's now available to view on Youtube, complete with a brand new intro/outro and improved audio recording. Most of the transcript is available in the description of the video but I'll add the key points here. I'll be adding to this...

forums.frontier.co.uk

As long as you're having fun, you're playing correctly

Wholeheartedly agree.

I derive a great deal of satisfaction from robbing a place blind without even raising suspicion, much less firing a shot. If people want to go on a murder spree that's their prerogative, but too many people act like its the only option.

You don't even have to engage in theft if you don't want to. My second account went straight from Horizons flight suit only to Grade 3 gear purchased directly from Pioneer during a single evenings worth of Apex travel, and while it could be more optimal (I miss my quieter footsteps, big backpack and double silencer options on my main account, not to mention the night vision) I can still handle a swarm (19) of scavengers in a dead settlement or a low GCZ (and probably higher but I've not tried any yet).

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Wow, two ELWs in one day today. All I'm doing is travelling and checking FSS for ELW, WW and AW signals as I got. Several WW, of course.

 

[Codger]

Spent quite some time in this one system I discovered. It had 6 planets with 4 biologicals on each, so it took me quite a while to scan them all.

The planets themselves were somewhat mundane. One of them was so weirdly bumpy the SRV could barely travel. It didn't look that bumpy, but somehow it was still hard to navigate.

This place was mostly just gray:

This one was nearly featureless, but it had a nice sky at least.

There were 3 biologicals in pretty close proximity here, but I couldn't find an angle to show all 3. That 3rd one was just a bit too far away. But I did get this shot with 2 of them in it.

I made just over 9 million in Exo scans from that one system. Not terrible.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

You can be forgiven for thinking this is Sagittarius A*. It's not. I find it a bit unnerving to look at. Bizarrely, very neat in appearance.
Hyphokooe AA-A h62 (Gates Of Apzu / Lower Boreas Depot) discovered during Distance Worlds Expedition 3302

Same black hole, different position.

 

[Codger]

Livestream with zero details again. At least it appears that the game will continue. But they've given us nothing to look forward to. Weird.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Looking at Myoangooe KD-S e4-2 (Winds Of Enlil) with a bit of illumination from an OCAS light (Obstacle Collision Avoidance System). Never quite sure if these lights have a place on a spaceship considering they are designed to allow aircraft to detect each other in the dark and fog.

 

[Miscellaneous]

Two recent trip reports from Millenium Dolphin Tours, of a failed and successful attempt to reach Norma's Expanse.

An Incident Report on the loss of the passenger ship, For Her Pleasure.
The passenger ship For Her Pleasure, piloted by Cmdr Rupee Noon 25, did not reach its destination at the Norma Expanse. The Orca reversed course at approximately 3000 light years, for repairs and improvements. The last signal from For Her Pleasure emanated from a nest of foul purple stars about halfway back: Bigger fuel scoop. Half tank policy. More Onionhead Gamma.

Rumours of "What's that aroma?" Across one end of Hawking's Gap
Rupee Noon 26 applied 25's plans and lessons and beyond for the rebuilt Orca, the Hotboxed Luxury Cabin then, for a voyage of over 20k LY round trip, reaching Norma Expanse. With better hardware and habits the ship made Helgrind Gateway, and took some light repairs, sold off escape pods. The larger fuel scoop and frame shift drive engineering work, combined with a strict half tank policy, were effective this far. And the ARX points roll in easy for explorers, affording a got a nice vibrant yellow paint job at Helgrind before a cheerful departure.
Their long, luxurious lemon cetacean then did cross the tip of Hawking's Gap and reach the Expanse. They made it! But not all of the onionhead in the cargo hold did make it. The onionhead fumes now enrich the interstellar medium. Hotboxed Luxury Cabin then landed on a non descript planet with 96% hull integrity to stretch legs and plan. The planet was found to be very dumb and featureless, and the plan was to blast it with the laser for fun and forge onward to reach Norma Arm, when pilot error struct and we are lucky to be alive.
Rupee 26 burnt out the laser hovering 241M in the air then initiated the first use of the field repairs module, without reading the manual, survived the resultant system reboot and plummet with 56% hull integrity. Thanks to pure luck and some generous hull reinforcements, part of the upgrades (in lieu of the second cabin!). At this point the passenger did take exception with the hull damange, possibly rightly so.
And the return voyage was brisker, and earned enough ARX points and credits from all the exploration and cartographic data, to abandon the unhappy passenger, buy a freighter, and paint it yellow too.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Two recent trip reports from Millenium Dolphin Tours, of a failed and successful attempt to reach Norma's Expanse.

An Incident Report on the loss of the passenger ship, For Her Pleasure.
The passenger ship For Her Pleasure, piloted by Cmdr Rupee Noon 25, did not reach its destination at the Norma Expanse. The Orca reversed course at approximately 3000 light years, for repairs and improvements. The last signal from For Her Pleasure emanated from a nest of foul purple stars about halfway back: Bigger fuel scoop. Half tank policy. More Onionhead Gamma.

Rumours of "What's that aroma?" Across one end of Hawking's Gap
Rupee Noon 26 applied 25's plans and lessons and beyond for the rebuilt Orca, the Hotboxed Luxury Cabin then, for a voyage of over 20k LY round trip, reaching Norma Expanse. With better hardware and habits the ship made Helgrind Gateway, and took some light repairs, sold off escape pods. The larger fuel scoop and frame shift drive engineering work, combined with a strict half tank policy, were effective this far. And the ARX points roll in easy for explorers, affording a got a nice vibrant yellow paint job at Helgrind before a cheerful departure.
Their long, luxurious lemon cetacean then did cross the tip of Hawking's Gap and reach the Expanse. They made it! But not all of the onionhead in the cargo hold did make it. The onionhead fumes now enrich the interstellar medium. Hotboxed Luxury Cabin then landed on a non descript planet with 96% hull integrity to stretch legs and plan. The planet was found to be very dumb and featureless, and the plan was to blast it with the laser for fun and forge onward to reach Norma Arm, when pilot error struct and we are lucky to be alive.
Rupee 26 burnt out the laser hovering 241M in the air then initiated the first use of the field repairs module, without reading the manual, survived the resultant system reboot and plummet with 56% hull integrity. Thanks to pure luck and some generous hull reinforcements, part of the upgrades (in lieu of the second cabin!). At this point the passenger did take exception with the hull damange, possibly rightly so.
And the return voyage was brisker, and earned enough ARX points and credits from all the exploration and cartographic data, to abandon the unhappy passenger, buy a freighter, and paint it yellow too.

Did someone mention painting an Orca?
Pictures required
The Bronze Mermaid, a play thing I keep in Colonia rather than full time exploration vessel. She did take a famous explorer to Explorers Anchorage and back via Sagittarius A* to Colonia once, though.

 

[CMDRQuainMarln]

Last one for today.
Sorry this is Quain's sense of humour, not mine

 

[Miscellaneous]

Did someone mention painting an Orca?
Pictures required
The Bronze Mermaid, a play thing I keep in Colonia rather than full time exploration vessel. She did take a famous explorer to Explorers Anchorage and back via Sagittarius A* to Colonia once, though.

That sure is a pretty orca alright. Yes here are a few photos of the Orca and from the trip, thanks for asking, twist my arm etc.,

Showcasing the schoolbus-like finish,

Showcasing the challenge parking of our classic offroad sightseeing tours - and a before paint job picture in classic "Saud Kruger Exciting White"

It's those Saud Kruger curves I tell you what. And here was a fine view of the Cat's Paw -I think that was NGC 6357- nebula, I believe this is on the way from Helgrind Gateway to the Hawking's Gap. Right out the port porthole! Or left rather! What a view