Official Elite Dangerous Thread

Hiro said:
Why is the enemy difficulty not tied to mission rank ?
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It is if my memory serves. The more you do a certain aspect the harder those mission types become. The bounty target might be in an Eagle now but do a lot more and you'll see they will start to be targets of Imperial Cutters and Pythons.
 
BeoTeK said:
It is if my memory serves. The more you do a certain aspect the harder those mission types become. The bounty target might be in an Eagle now but do a lot more and you'll see they will start to be targets of Imperial Cutters and Pythons.
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But that's the thing. I have only managed to kill a single ship, and that one interdicted me and was fortunately quite weak. When I go to LOW conflict zones, enemies all Master and Expert. But more frustratingly, even if I select a "kill mission" of lowest mission rank, the enemies I encounter are all Master and Expert, so can't kill them.


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Hiro said:
But that's the thing. I have only managed to kill a single ship, and that one interdicted me and was fortunately quite weak. When I go to LOW conflict zones, enemies all Master and Expert. But more frustratingly, even if I select a "kill mission" of lowest mission rank, the enemies I encounter are all Master and Expert, so can't kill them.
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Git gud!

but actually, your rewards will be that much greater for disposing of a killer that is much higher ranked than you are. Get a kill warrant scanner and do some scanning/killing.
 
BeoTeK said:
Yeah, I'm jumping around 32-36LY depending on fuel loads.
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I would ditch the fuel tank for a smaller one, but I'm really worried about hitting a patch of dead stars several Ly out. It's happened before and apparently FuelRats don't operate that far out of the bubble.

Hiro said:
Only started playing recently. Very proud of my swanky new Viper MkIII, I will have you know!

Although it's currently still vanilla. I am basically penniless and doing bland data delivery missions to rustle up cash. I tried a few "kill XYZ" missions but they went badly. Doesn't make sense, the mission rank says "Harmless" but when I get to combat zone, the enemies are all MASTER/EXPERT/ELITE.

Why is the enemy difficulty not tied to mission rank ?
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I'm not sure. I don't think I've ever done combat missions, tbh. If I were you I'd do some bounty hunting in Nav beacons and HiRes sites. Just wait for the police to engage targets and then open fire. You should easily be able to take on anything up to Cobras in a Viper MKIII if you know what you're doing. A Cobra MKIII usually averages about 50k bounty per pop, sometimes lower depending on the rank. If you're feeling ballsy you can take a few shots at bigger ships like Clippers, Pythons and Anacondas and then fly a few km away and wait for the feds to finish them off. Provided you got enough shots in it will still give you the bounty. Those ships are rarely under 100k and I've had some go as high as 350k.

And then once you've got enough you can upgrade to a Vulture and then the money just starts pouring in. I think the Vulture might even be better than the Imperial Clipper I upgraded to.
 
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Graal said:
I would ditch the fuel tank for a smaller one, but I'm really worried about hitting a patch of dead stars several Ly out. It's happened before and apparently FuelRats don't operate that far out of the bubble.
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I dunno, I've read stories of the 'Rats travelling thousands of LY out to save someone in need. Some occasions they've stayed up like 17 hours just do to a rescue.
 
BeoTeK said:
Yeah, I'm jumping around 32-36LY depending on fuel loads.
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I haven't played in quite some time, but if I remember correctly, I fully upgraded my Hauler and I could do 32 LY jumps. A cheap ship with nice jump range.

Do you play on X1 or PC?
 
Blazzok said:
I haven't played in quite some time, but if I remember correctly, I fully upgraded my Hauler and I could do 32 LY jumps. A cheap ship with nice jump range.

Do you play on X1 or PC?
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Both, though mostly on PC as I have a better setup. Also I don't have XBL membership to play in Open on Xbox.
 
Reading up on the fuel rats alone makes me want to play this game...thats frikking awesome! I wanna be a fuel rat and help people out of tough situations :)
 
mottamort said:
Reading up on the fuel rats alone makes me want to play this game...thats frikking awesome! I wanna be a fuel rat and help people out of tough situations :)
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Yeah, the commitment and actual role play in this game are some of the best of any games. There are groups that do security, refuels (like FuelRats), freighters, etc. You even get dedicated communities which have claimed areas of space (within the bubble) and will defend it. People role play this game like mad!


I've actually seriously had people come over comms explaining things like, "You've entered restricted area of the Imperial Majesty, state your business!"
At which point I replied, "just passing through"
And they respond with, "stay calm for cargo scan and inspection, do NOT resists or deploy hard points" - they scan your cargo hold and inform you that you may be on your way.

It's crazy cool, in my opinion.
 
BeoTeK said:
Yeah, the commitment and actual role play in this game are some of the best of any games. There are groups that do security, refuels (like FuelRats), freighters, etc. You even get dedicated communities which have claimed areas of space (within the bubble) and will defend it. People role play this game like mad!


I've actually seriously had people come over comms explaining things like, "You've entered restricted area of the Imperial Majesty, state your business!"
At which point I replied, "just passing through"
And they respond with, "stay calm for cargo scan and inspection, do NOT resists or deploy hard points" - they scan your cargo hold and inform you that you may be on your way.

It's crazy cool, in my opinion.
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Thats where I'd go "I have secret information for the Rebel Alliance!" and probably get blown up...
 
BeoTeK said:
I dunno, I've read stories of the 'Rats travelling thousands of LY out to save someone in need. Some occasions they've stayed up like 17 hours just do to a rescue.
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Holy shit! Haha, I don't know if I'm even willing to wait that long to be rescued. :D

I made it back to civilized space and cashed in all my exploration data for a whopping... 785k. :( I wish exploration paid better. On the other hand, I was the first to discover several planets so that was nice. It just shows how much is still left to be discovered. This was less than 800Ly out of the bubble. Frontier could be hiding an entire alien civilization and we probably wouldn't know about it until someone accidentally stumbles across it. I don't believe for a second that vast universe is that empty.
 
Graal said:
Holy shit! Haha, I don't know if I'm even willing to wait that long to be rescued. :D

I made it back to civilized space and cashed in all my exploration data for a whopping... 785k. :( I wish exploration paid better. On the other hand, I was the first to discover several planets so that was nice. It just shows how much is still left to be discovered. This was less than 800Ly out of the bubble. Frontier could be hiding an entire alien civilization and we probably wouldn't know about it until someone accidentally stumbles across it. I don't believe for a second that vast universe is that empty.
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Yeah it's amazing how much has not been discovered, considering it's been out for almost 2 years now. Only like 0.14% has been discovered, it's ridiculous. But also I wish it payed out a bit more, it has been increased though with a patch. But to get the big cash-ins you need to find water, earth-like planets, black holes and of course Neutron stars. And if you're the first then double whammy.
 
Some travels from last night.


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I think i figured out WTF is going on with combat. went so a LOW Combat Zone and everybody was LAWLESS and ranked MASTER/DEADLY/EXPERT. Needless to say, got ass whipped.

turns out, if system is in state of ANARCHY then combat zones don't have wanted, they have as above. Having said that, when i eventually killed a proper MISSION target, the game bugged out and refused to give me reward at the Station :(
 
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