When doing cargo delivery missions in my Vette, I religiously min/max income/container even though it's far from the best money maker in the game. So, missions that pay less than 10k/unit are out of the question. Can't find any missions that fit, fine, I'll go blow up stuff. I have standards, you know.
What is your Elite Quirk?
- Thread starter M00ka
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Its the sound effects, they're too good
If I fly to an engineers base I always have to fly under one of the bridges before swooping back up and around to my assigned pad.
When I'm initiating a jump to another system I need to have the target system absolutely centered on my HUD before I jump even though the game will centre before the jump anyway. I get a tiny dopamine hit when the ship doesn't need to adjust course...so sad.
I'm equally pedantic about landing, I will faff about hovering over the pad, adjusting position until I'm exactly centered on the landing bullseye, same goes for coming in through the letterbox, need to be absolutely centered to the lights at the back of the orbital, then I move over to the green entry side of the slot...again sad.
I guess I just like being very precise with my flying.
I'm equally pedantic about landing, I will faff about hovering over the pad, adjusting position until I'm exactly centered on the landing bullseye, same goes for coming in through the letterbox, need to be absolutely centered to the lights at the back of the orbital, then I move over to the green entry side of the slot...again sad.
I guess I just like being very precise with my flying.
When using lateral thrust in combat, I always seem to move left.
Ooh, ooh, I've got another one I just remembered.
When I'm flying passenger missions, I always use a Saud Kruger ship (currently got the same Orca I've always had for the job, never up/down graded). And whenever I approach something scenic (star, planet, starport, surface features, etc) while flying a passenger mission, I always rotate the ship so that the passengers get a good view out of either the left or right side windows during the approach.
When I'm flying passenger missions, I always use a Saud Kruger ship (currently got the same Orca I've always had for the job, never up/down graded). And whenever I approach something scenic (star, planet, starport, surface features, etc) while flying a passenger mission, I always rotate the ship so that the passengers get a good view out of either the left or right side windows during the approach.
I felt the same way, but I drifted into Sag A recently while taking screenshots during my first visit to the core. The game just faded out briefly and dropped me a safe distance away.
Kind of lame.
You know, i KNOW that while making my approach traffic control is watching. That's why i always try to make the most clean and fast landing as possible. I can hear them saying something like "Hey guys, never saw this one before, let's see how he puts his ship down".
Not to mention the other pilots around the stations...
You try it with real spectators!
One of my worst landings was at Hutton Orbital with many (skilled) cmdrs present to watch.
Very embarrassing
I have a terrible habbit of mugging off the main game play and jumping in one of my lightly engineered aerobatic/racers scattered around the bubble, then spending the rest of the play session using the structure of the station as an assault course for some flight assist off shennanigans.
Even when "playing the game properly" I'm also extremely likely to use most of the available time in the count down timers to land/leave doing "cricket runs" buzzing pads (favouring those with CMDR's on them) and and using the big rings at either end of the docking "barrel" as the stumps.
Despite flying 100% Flight assist off, Its a matter of pride tat I always have to get my ships vector and attitude spot on for any hyperspace jump BEFORE the drive has charged.
When in the first stages of Supercruising away from a planetary landing, and my destination star system is obscured, usually by the planet I've just launched from, I always rotate the ship to a position where I can see the destinations reticule over my shoulder, and then as I climb I watch fo the destination recticule to "emerge from behind the planet", spool the FSD and yaw round to the destination is centred on my hud.
Even when "playing the game properly" I'm also extremely likely to use most of the available time in the count down timers to land/leave doing "cricket runs" buzzing pads (favouring those with CMDR's on them) and and using the big rings at either end of the docking "barrel" as the stumps.
Despite flying 100% Flight assist off, Its a matter of pride tat I always have to get my ships vector and attitude spot on for any hyperspace jump BEFORE the drive has charged.
When in the first stages of Supercruising away from a planetary landing, and my destination star system is obscured, usually by the planet I've just launched from, I always rotate the ship to a position where I can see the destinations reticule over my shoulder, and then as I climb I watch fo the destination recticule to "emerge from behind the planet", spool the FSD and yaw round to the destination is centred on my hud.
This ^^^
I'm always totally like "death star in range in T minus 15 seconds and counting" ...
I do that too, that's pretty normal ime.
He said on the forums