This had scared me. I got interdicted last night and noticed that the guy was Deadly so at first I started to just run away. Turns out I just couldn't as he would stay on my tail regardless. So after a bit of getting shot I realized he wasn't doing too much damage so I decided to turn around and fight. I ended up with the win, luckily due to the 2 ships that came in and backed me up, and distracted him. It was great fun though, nonetheless!
Thanks. I haven't been able to find any good grade multicannons or pulse lasers up till now.
Good to know, but me being so new I havn't experienced it too much yet. I have ran into a couple of guys that down my shield in one shot and proceed to obliterate me in a few seconds, but ever since your post I try to avoid the higher ranks.
is there a way to safely get around that?
On a side note, I had a mission to destroy 6 enemy faction ships in a conflict/war area. I had went in and shot one, and got absolutely nailed on by about 15 others
Ah, I figured as much. I tried being very selective, and I'd wait for one to stray from the pack, but as time went on more and more just started popping up on my radar. The radar got so packed up with blips that it was hard to even follow. I've never died so fast!
Good to know, but me being so new I havn't experienced it too much yet. I have ran into a couple of guys that down my shield in one shot and proceed to obliterate me in a few seconds, but ever since your post I try to avoid the higher ranks.
On a side note, I had a mission to destroy 6 enemy faction ships in a conflict/war area. I had went in and shot one, and got absolutely nailed on by about 15 others
2 more questions.
What is the data you sometimes get from scanning ships used for? Like it says you have abnormal shield data or something.
Also at I Bootis nav beacon there is a grey square on the radar but I have no clue what it is.
The bulletin board missions aren't locked by your rank anymore, if it sayss elite or tycoon, that's a recommendation. What unlocks a lot of the missions is your reputation with the faction giving the mission. If you become friendly or allied with a faction at the station, you get much better missions. That and some of the missions are locked for cargo capacity purpose. That's what I gathered from reading on it.Cash Money
All I know is I made a ton of money since this update, I love it. Lately I have been piggy-backing Trading Missions on the mission board with Commodities trading. Example, I accept a mission for 697K to run 60t of Gold to Aphra, my cargo capacity in the Type 7 is 212t, so I fill up the rest of my hold with Gold or another commodity I know I can sell and I'm off. Usually these are 1 jump or 2 jump runs that take 10 minutes and can make 800-900K. Sometimes I am running more than one mission, I will take on $588,000 trading mission and a $342,000, let's say Cobalt to one and Silver to another. My left over cargo space usually gets divided between the two commodities to piggyback earnings at each station. Through Sunday my original cash flow projection was 22 million, my actual earnings were 28 million.
One odd thing happened, I saw a trading mission for 2.8 million 35 ly away, minimum trading rank was Tycoon but I am only a Broker, it let me accept it anyway, not sure if glitch but I was sure happy
As far as the overpowered AI is concerned, I ran into very little of that issue, I also did not get interdicted very much; if anything, I was getting interdicted far more before the update. I did run into one Elite Eagle with supreme weapons, some kind of hyper-railgun, I was dog fighting in my Viper at the time, all I heard was Jenny say 'run Forest!' and I did, I ran as fast as I could, Jenny
Community Missions are awesome
I decide to give one of these a go, I participated in the Ngolibardu bounty hunt event. My first session was at the nav beacon, no big deal I made about 180K in about 30 minutes and had to leave to go do something. Later that night in my 2nd session I went to a Extraction site (high) and just absolutely crushed my previous 1 hour record of 800K.....I made a whopping 1.8 million. The Pirate ship sets were ridiculous, Anacondas, Pythons, Fer De Lances but I had a whole posse of Federation ships on my side. Boom, explosion, $199K made, Boom, Explosion, $211K made and on an on, I was rattling them off like Popsicles from a ice cream truck on a sunny, hot weekend afternoon. Still can't believe I made 1.8 million dogfighting in just one hour.....
So I quickly found myself in the top 25% on the leaderboard which put me at about 2.25 million in prize money + Global rewards after the event closes. Last night it closed and I made 16 million total, I couldn't believe my eyes, I rubbed them to make sure the figure I was seeing was real. I had 30 million before and sure enough, that total is now 46 million. It's safe to say I will be doing plenty more of these community events!
Just realised it's often my own FSD wake lol.
. It doesn't have quite the firepower, or shields as an anaconda. but it's faster and better at catching ships, and it can be set up to do a lot of things. This is my loadout as of now, this cost around 220 mill:
On larger ships with a lot of hardpoints, you'll drain all of your weapon power if you constantly fire lasers. I like to keep one weapon that's straight for hull damage, or maybe one powerful one that may not be the most accurate, but for when your right up on a large ship and can't miss. They do great damage while targeting subsystems. Generally lasers are better against shields, and kinetics are better against hulls, plasma against both.
Well if it was purely for fighting I would go all fixed multicannons. I only use pulse lasers to boost my profits.
I checked it out and they do have a lot of stuff. They didn't have military/reactive/mirrored hull upgrades though. There's a Beta-3 Tucanae too.
Hey I just started, give me a breakI barely found out yesterday that there was alternate flight controls, so it made manual docking a lot easier
I'm about a week in and I'm still juts kind of aimlessly wandering, and taking in the game. Recently I've been checking out the multiple source signals you encounter to see what's up with those, and like @prousonhairy mentioned, one was a booby-trap set by pirates
I hightailed it out of there. I tried to take on some mining missions, but I have no idea how to find out where to get the specific material. Is there locations? or do you just mine an asteroid and hope it falls out? Only other missions I've done is deliveries and some of those bounty ones.You know, I was figuring that might be the case about the right stick, but at the time of my testing I didn't realize that staying in the blue also helped, so I wasn't getting the best test results from the get go. I had a hunch, though! Thanks for the assurance.
I'm about a week in and I'm still juts kind of aimlessly wandering, and taking in the game. Recently I've been checking out the multiple source signals you encounter to see what's up with those, and like @prousonhairy mentioned, one was a booby-trap set by pirates
You know, I was figuring that might be the case about the right stick, but at the time of my testing I didn't realize that staying in the blue also helped, so I wasn't getting the best test results from the get go. I had a hunch, though! Thanks for the assurance.
Ok so I'm getting my times messed up. It's 10 am BST we can download it. Which is 5am eastern, 4am my time, and 2am for you west coasters. I guess I'm getting up early. It will be like Xmas morning.
