Elite: Dangerous

Go have a wank or something and come back in an hour. It's not that fucking hard to find stuff to do.

 

It is on now. They updated the servers. Jesus, some people can't stop complaining.

 

Do note that bounties on players only apply to the current system (and across the faction?). In order to claim all bounties on a pilot you need a K-Warrant scanner that will reveal the universal bounty value.

 

If some new doodz make it to Nahua in their crap hauler and need to get started, hit me up. Apparently we can jettison cargo without it being flagged as stolen now. I'll donate you a few tons of gold to kit out your eagle/hauler

 

Unstable, taking ages to get commodities market, universal cartographic still dont work .

 

Just logged in. Am in commodities market. Bought stuffies. No problems. Will check cartographics after hitting an unexplored star system. the bulletin/commodity market servers may be separate from the flying in spehss servers and take a min or two to get back online.

 

It came back online after 10 minutes, works great ever since.

 

Look at this handsome devil I met!





He tried to follow me into the hangar... cheeky bugger.

 

And here's Ulmi the harmless who kicked my arse in 1v1.



Get out of here, stalker.



Quite shy that guy.



Top Gun shot. Like i said, he's quite shy, so he hid underneath the dashboard.

 

I'm next to Nahua at the moment. And poor as fuck. It took me far too long to realise that collecting bounties from npcs fucks you over even when they're a member of a pirate faction.

 

Send a friend invite to Ulminati in the main menu. I'll hook you up with some shinies in 9-10hrs or so when I'm home from work. :3

 

What you should really do Ulminati, is a Supercruise tutorial. I still have some problems with it, I either overshoot the target, or I slow down too early. It is also strange that sometimes I can accelerate easily, and sometimes I'm stuck at 100km/s, and not being able to accelerate further.

Problem no2: I tried my first assasination misison. I had to find a Wraak ship, and I was given 3 systems where it might be. Great. The thing I did was to travel to a system and supercruise back and forth in it, looking at contacts. But I had no luck and haven't find it. Am I doing something wrong?

 

Your maximum supercruise speed is a function of how close you are to a gravity well. Fly really close to a planet or star -> max speed is low. Deep space -> max speed is high. If you leave your throttle in the middle of the blue area, you should automatically accelerate/decelerate to slow down so you're at ~200km/s when you're 1Mm away from your destination. It'll overshoot once in a while, but not by much.

If you find yourself about to overshoot for whatever reason, try to get as close as possible to the nearest planet/moon/star as you can while zooming past. (without hitting the green sphere of FSD emergency stop). That'll help bleed off your speed faster.

They tend to hang around near planets and moons with no space stations. Keep hitting USS'es. In the case of missions where they can be in multiple systems, there are USS'es that can spawn where NPC ships talk in the comms channel and drop hints as to where your target is hiding.

 

What is a USS?

 

Unidentified Signal Sauce

 

Got it. And these show up just on the contact lists or do I have to use some scanner?

 

they show up while you supercruise. Just keep an eye on your contact list.

 

so, bought joystick, will buy game after wednesday to get some practice in the tutorial missions. haven't used a joystick in forever, and i've been meaning to replay FreeSpace (1+2) with the SCP since forever so i thought it would be good practice... but then i read the yaw axis is severely nerfed in ED. so, do you guys use the funsticks like other spasims where the stick twist is roll, or like regular aircraft sims where the twist is yaw? i've tried briefly both in FS, and i found the former more precise, but i'd rather get used to the latter if it's the superior control scheme for ED (i doubt i'll be playing any other spasim until StarCitizen comes out in the next decade so better get used to it... ) and searching online both have their advocates, although the proponents of latter (yaw on twist) seemed to be more monocled

 

praetor -- I'm not sure buying the game now will give you access to the Beta/Gamma. You may not be able to play until Dec 16th. Better google to avoid disappointment.

As for the joystick: forward/back = pitch, left/right = roll, twist= yaw. You'll barely ever use yaw outside of aligning to dock, since it's way faster to roll+pitch.

 

Certainly use it as in a regular aircraft, as Ulminati says, i think it is more effective in fights. It provides a more responsive control.

Also, I'm certain you can't play the game now if you preorder, the gamma is closed now. Nov 22 was the deadline.

 

On another topic -- any idea what the decal slots are for in the outfitting menu? They haven't popped any in the store (tey probably will). I'm kind of hoping you can get faction insignia for free if you reach a high enough rep/rank with them. :3

 

it's not the full game, just the tutorial missions will be available to all who preordered the regular version from tomorrow until release. at least that's what Braben said at that livestream event

and thanks. will practice more the monocled way

 

>text comms in a spaceship game

Looks like CMDR Kodex Kool Kommissar (I can never get "Blaine" of course, fuck those guys) will have to set up a VoIP so you fags can... most probably make excuses about how you don't have a headset or mic in order to hide your dorky voices, but in theory you could use VoIP to communicate.

I lost all my keybindings and shit and will need to set them up properly again at some point, probably after the holidays since I have no free time at the moment.

In any event, for those of you who worship this game as the most perfectest space sim evar, see here for what I consider to be fairly valid criticisms as well as some gen-yoo-wine undelivered promised features listed in the OP. There's been an explosion of pent-up whingeing ever since offline mode got axed.

 

There's voicecomms in ED. We just don't use them. :3

 

In-game voice comms always suck balls and don't count. Anyway, stop being a bunch of fags and get some mics.