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Maybe some of you want to add me ingame: AccidentalGenius

We are a few who use TS and help each other with the bounty missions etc. Works fine for us now

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Hi all, will be joining the Elite: Dangerous community once my Saitek Cyborg F.L.Y.5 arrives.

Anyone have advice for a beginner, or what i should focus and stay away from in the game?
 
phinix said:
Hi all, will be joining the Elite: Dangerous community once my Saitek Cyborg F.L.Y.5 arrives.

Anyone have advice for a beginner, or what i should focus and stay away from in the game?
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Personally I would do the following for fast funds and learning how to dog fight quick:-

Camp at any resource zone and wait for the pirates to show themselves.

It is easy to do and requires less effort on looking for wanted people. For e.g. I usually hang around PSI Capricorni as the resource zone and the next docking station are 1.26 Ls away from each other.

What I do is fly around the resource zone (Out of frame shift) and watch around, there will always be 1 laser lights flashing, when you see those, race to them and scan, you will find a pirate among them.

I generally go with this kind of setup when it comes to weaponry:-
2x Pulse Lasers (Gimbled) - Small or Medium
2x Auto-Cannon (Gimbled) - Small or Medium

Take note to have the lasers at the top weapons bays of your ships and the auto-cannons at the bottom, this allows you to lead with the target, having the lasers hit the target and the Auto-cannons following the target ahead. Sorry little hard to explain but if you try it I'm sure you will understand it.

With gimbled it allows you to do sub-targeting systems which is highly effective against Anaconda's, I generally bait anaconda's to follow me towards the federal guards. Once the guards has started attacking and the Anaconda's is now focusing the guards, I assist them in bringing down the shields, once the shields are down, I open fire with everything I have using the sub-targeting systems to focus on the vessels power unit. When you do this, you will find that the Anaconda's Hull would be at 34% meanwhile the power unit will be at 5%. Which at that point a few more shots and the 47 000 cr's is yours.

I only use the pulse lasers to bring down the targets shields and the auto-cannons when I want to get that last hit in. You will often find your kills credits get taken away due to the guards taking the last hit. Hence why I take auto-cannons, it allows for that extra burst damage coupled with your lasers.


Since you are starting with the small ship, have 1x Pulse Lasers (Gimbled) and 1x Auto-Cannon (Gimbled). Oh and dont take on Anaconda's till you got a eagle or viper.
 
Yep, my update also didn't successfully complete. I also don't understand why it's necessary to re-download the launcher itself every now and again, surely they can patch it themselves like other apps do.
 
Struggling to get mine updated too. D/L speed all over the place.

Main new features:

NEW FEATURES/CONTENT
- Community Goals added
- Route planning extended to 1,000 ly
- Russian language translations added
- Add 'Discovered by' tag to system map - needs to be surfaced scanned
- Fancy new gas giant shader
- City lights on imhabited planets
- Pilots Federation rank decals
- Parallax shader for cloud layer on terrestrial planets
- Add explored system details on the right hand side of the cartographics shop
- Top benefactors support added to system map

2.5GB for that? Have to agree that it doesn't really seem worth it...

(Although, in some small defence, the list of tweaks and fixes is pretty long: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=112197&p=1743689&viewfull=1#post1743689 )
 
GregRedd said:
Struggling to get mine updated too. D/L speed all over the place.

Main new features:

NEW FEATURES/CONTENT
- Community Goals added
- Route planning extended to 1,000 ly
- Russian language translations added
- Add 'Discovered by' tag to system map - needs to be surfaced scanned
- Fancy new gas giant shader
- City lights on imhabited planets
- Pilots Federation rank decals
- Parallax shader for cloud layer on terrestrial planets
- Add explored system details on the right hand side of the cartographics shop
- Top benefactors support added to system map

2.5GB for that? Have to agree that it doesn't really seem worth it...

(Although, in some small defence, the list of tweaks and fixes is pretty long: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=112197&p=1743689&viewfull=1#post1743689 )
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Looks like a bunch of nice-to-haves, but they didn't fix the game-breaking chat system.
 
So i've been doing some bounty hunting tonight and eventually got shafted by a Cobra NPC.

In the entire 4 hours I played tonight (give or take), I never saw a single CMDR. Is there any reason I am not seeing actual players in my games?




Thinking if I should take the time to travel to where Isinona is as it seems to be a hot locale, Lave. Problem is, that system is <200ly away.
 
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BeoTeK said:
In the entire 4 hours I played tonight (give or take), I never saw a single CMDR. Is there any reason I am not seeing actual players in my games?
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Can't speak for others, but I haven't logged in in weeks. Will probably only log in again when wings is out.

200LY isn't that bad, what's the issue? :D
 
Wyzak said:
Can't speak for others, but I haven't logged in in weeks. Will probably only log in again when wings is out.

200LY isn't that bad, what's the issue? :D
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That's exactly what I'm thinking. Once wing is out we can really form a MyG wing and have some fun.
 
I haven't been able to play for several weeks now unfortunately :/

I did see a lot of CMDR's though when I was flying around looking for bounties (once again, quite a while back).
 
Been playing pretty much all day, haven't come across a single CMDR!


Also, you get these missions where a federation will ask you to off someone and will give me <150k, their last known locations were star systems; x, y, and z.
Takes me an hour tracking through these systems, only to find a group of pilots and contract updated. Now all the contract says is a system name and a faction name. WTF must do now, just fly around that ONE starport and sit and wait scanning every ships that goes in/out?
 
BeoTeK said:
Been playing pretty much all day, haven't come across a single CMDR!


Also, you get these missions where a federation will ask you to off someone and will give me <150k, their last known locations were star systems; x, y, and z.
Takes me an hour tracking through these systems, only to find a group of pilots and contract updated. Now all the contract says is a system name and a faction name. WTF must do now, just fly around that ONE starport and sit and wait scanning every ships that goes in/out?
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Aren't those usually in the to be found in the USS?
 
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