This is exactly what I'm doing too atm. Mostly because I have no clue about what to do and how to earn comparable money otherwise.
I haven't played Powerplay yet, but I read that it is broken right now, and Frontier is not hurrying to fix it. You can find alien ruins on planets if you start exploring. You can also find long lost satellites, ships and shit.This is exactly what I'm doing too atm. Mostly because I have no clue about what to do and how to earn comparable money otherwise.
I'm also struggling with the controls. Something tells me that I should stick with the XBox 360 controller rather than trying kb & mouse but I still need to find a control scheme that I'm comfortable with.
Died for the first time because for some reason the default advanced gamepad scheme has "tap right stick" for toggling between free view and maneuvering thrusters.
Before it even dawned on me what I did wrong I was already dead.
I like the faction warfare systems or Powerplay btw. What I don't like is that it seems like only collaborative efforts of a lot of players really make a difference and influence the outcome of wars and the expansion of their favorite faction. I wanna be able to do the same on my own.
Am playing in Single Player since I'm a rookie doing his first baby steps and I doubt that I would have fun playing with or against others anyway. Wished there was a way to download the universe from their servers and go offline completely. I want my own Powerplay without pros aka unemployed people screwing things up.
And I want more story bits. And things worth exploring at the edge of known space. Mysteries, Thargoids, the ruins of ancient alien civilizations, stuff like that.
That nice little political game they added alone can't replace that.
Btw, is it useful to read the ingame GalNet newsfeeds for finding profitable trade routes? Like this system is at war so they surely need weapons or medicine. I'd like that.
Nice to see you are a having a fun with the game too.I think I'm already addicted to this game. Even in its unfinished state it's such a great time waster.
Physics simulation is of course utter shit but whatever, I'm kinda glad that you can fly around in super-duper-cruise instead of having to use auto navigation systems all the time like in Elite 2.
Combat is fantastic so far. I got killed maybe a dozen times by now, but I'm getting better at it.
I still don't know if I should practice flight assist off + boost to optimize my turn rate btw. Some of these small fighter crafts are really difficult to aim at even with gimballed weapons since I rarely get on their tail long enough. But then again FA off turns me into a sitting duck and against 2 or more enemies using it might be a bad idea...
Not that I would be able to survive against 3 or more enemies anyway.
edit: Practiced Flight Assist Off combined with boost. It gives you no better turn rate compared to the one in the middle of the blue speed indicator. I guess the advantage is that with boost and generally higher speed you get hit less.
At least I hope so, might as well have the opposite effect since you spend less time circling around your enemy so he might get more chances to fire at you...
Will practice it in combat and see for myself.
I also like the mission variety and how missions fit the goals and character of the factions offering them. The systems in this game are shaping up to become pretty fabulous I think.
Pledged alliance to Archon Delaine and am halfway on my way to his home system.
I wanna be a pirate.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me!
Death to the empire! Down with the Federation! Alliance is for pussies, we seek true independence!
Ahem, one thing I still can't figure out is if there is an easier way to find the ship graveyards in salvage missions. These missions always send me to some planet and then I'm just flying around in supercruise near it searching for unknown signal sources. Which is irritating, I want a quest compass.
Exactly that. I'm flying a Vulture, and since it's a very agile ship, for the most part I manage to keep my targets within aim radius and FA on. However if I bump on a faster ship (not more agile, but faster - like Cobra Mk. III), they try to boost away, turn back and go full head-on-head joust on me. This is when I switch FA off for just a few seconds, while already turning and pushing bottom thrusters at the same time. I usually manage to get them back in sights before they even start turning towards me again.Nice to see you are a having a fun with the game too.I think I'm already addicted to this game. Even in its unfinished state it's such a great time waster.
Physics simulation is of course utter shit but whatever, I'm kinda glad that you can fly around in super-duper-cruise instead of having to use auto navigation systems all the time like in Elite 2.
Combat is fantastic so far. I got killed maybe a dozen times by now, but I'm getting better at it.
I still don't know if I should practice flight assist off + boost to optimize my turn rate btw. Some of these small fighter crafts are really difficult to aim at even with gimballed weapons since I rarely get on their tail long enough. But then again FA off turns me into a sitting duck and against 2 or more enemies using it might be a bad idea...
Not that I would be able to survive against 3 or more enemies anyway.
edit: Practiced Flight Assist Off combined with boost. It gives you no better turn rate compared to the one in the middle of the blue speed indicator. I guess the advantage is that with boost and generally higher speed you get hit less.
At least I hope so, might as well have the opposite effect since you spend less time circling around your enemy so he might get more chances to fire at you...
Will practice it in combat and see for myself.
I also like the mission variety and how missions fit the goals and character of the factions offering them. The systems in this game are shaping up to become pretty fabulous I think.
Pledged alliance to Archon Delaine and am halfway on my way to his home system.
I wanna be a pirate.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me!
Death to the empire! Down with the Federation! Alliance is for pussies, we seek true independence!
Ahem, one thing I still can't figure out is if there is an easier way to find the ship graveyards in salvage missions. These missions always send me to some planet and then I'm just flying around in supercruise near it searching for unknown signal sources. Which is irritating, I want a quest compass.
The main adventage of Flight Assist Off is not the better turn rate, but the higher efficency of the thrusters. With Flight Assist Off they are only pulling a fracktion of their maximum thrust. This helps to circle around targets, but it is very difficult to learn. In the end, what the pro players say that the combination of FA ON and OFF is the best way to go. Using FA OFF all them time is not that efficient and just needlessly complicates combat.
Nah, seems like I was a bit unlucky with my flight route. There are indeed a lot of earth-like planets. I'm seeing more of them now that I do Powerplay (transporting slaves from controlled systems to Harma - fortification), since many of the controlled systems have very high population.
You will be able to hire your AI pilots who level up in the next update. And maybe when multicrew comes in 2.3, you will be able to hire other type of crew as well.
