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Achievement Unlocked: Visit Sag A*
Thousands of hours in, already Elite in Exploration and I decided last week to head out to Colonia to clean up my pins and then FINALLY make it to Sag A*.
It is worth the hype. I'm glad I docked at Explorer's Anchorage and switched to VR. I play most of my E:D in flat mode, switching to VR for combat because it's just awesome like that. If you're lucky enough to have a headset, stop and switch at Explorer's Anchorage, it's one jump away.
This game is still beautiful 10 years later!
Got into Omicron Capricorni B while mining Platinum for the Community Goal in VR and ended up in this very nice eclipse ! Managed to get a high res screenshot (11k*11k )!
If someone wants a new wallpaper I've uploaded it on my OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/i/c/3a85aaaee51fcceb/ETRuhiFfVslBuvJLgm62qsMBkXGNJV_gjHa0TiogDuLx3w?e=2m8g6r
It's totally pointless… but I haz now boot sequence 🤓
Huh… not sure how well this works on Lemmy, that doesn't seem to be able to deal with videos, but this is a quick demo of my home cockpit "rebooting" when I switch ships: https://indieweb.social/@bekopharm/114451319761012037
I'm considering to add some Mechwarrior like audio on top "All systems nominal" :D
finished my fleet for now
o7 CMDRs.
The recent development drew me back into this beautiful game. I am really looking forward to the Panther Clipper MK2, also the colonization expansion looks interesting. I took this as a chance to finish my fleet, as i wanted to get one good ship for every role I wanted to play. I got an Corsair and the MK5 and the latter really advanced to one of my favorite ships.
I tried giving every ship a purpose and unique style. Every ship has a german name reffering to a kind of bird, which I also tried to align with the roles. As I finished my collection and engineering, I took the chance to collect some screenshots for each ship, too.
Some examples are:
And my favorite picture wise:
Now I am getting back into combat (really enjoyed
Exobiology Pricing Cheatsheet
Since I went through the trouble of making this for myself, I figured I would post it in case it might be useful for someone else. Prices are in millions of credits, rounded to the nearest decimal.
so many memories
I just couldn't attack him :) finally he is a mighty pirate
Time to take a tour of our Solar System in Elite Dangerous! We caught up with Curators from the Science Museum as they explore some of Sol's most iconic sights! Read the exclusive interview with Space.com!
Corsair review
I have already put a tonne of time into my Corsair, both theory crafting and bounty hunting, and here are my thoughts.
The size 7 thrusters are interesting. You end up not being able to underweight the ship to get more speed like you can with others. Instead, you have to work pretty hard to max out the weight to get the speed to drop. Even packed full of heavy modules and high ammo capacity weapons, I just barely lose a few m/s from max. This means the Corsair is an excellent multirole, smuggler, and tank, while still maintaining its fantastic speed and decent handling.
The hardpoints are begging you to use fixed weapons. In fact, gimbals and turrets may perform poorly here, due to the hull blocking much of their FOV. The only exception is if you're doing all frags... Some of the hardpoints are still too separated to focus on smaller targets, so for frags I still recommend gimbals.
It works fantastic with 3x rail and 3x plasma. I ran this with grade 3 low emissions power plant and
Just started engineering my weapons
Holy smokes! I absolutely blitz most npcs with even level 2 engineered multicannons. I used to struggle against even expert craft, but last night, I took out 2 FAS with my Python mk2, one deadly and the other expert, in like less than a minute. And i had upgraded my thrusters to dirty drives and i just flew circles around them.
I knew engineering was strong, but this is wild. Honestly, the only thing that gave me trouble were high ranked snub craft, like the Vulture.
Help with Winwing HOSAS in Linux
I recently got the Winwing Ursa Minor Space L and Fighter R. My OS registers all buttons and axes in evtest. When I try to set up key binds in ED it doesn’t register most of the inputs from either stick. I have tried with steam input disabled and enabled, and it seems to not change anything.
I’m running Linux Mint 22.1. If any other info is helpful to troubleshoot, let me know.
How do you think the EU's Digital Fairness Act will affect ARX?
More info on the Act and context: https://www.digital-fairness-act.com/
YouTube video info: "The Law Finally Caught Up, EVERY AAA Is In Trouble" by Bellular News. (the preview for some reason is coming up in German for me, sorry no idea why if it is for you too - the video is in English).
The video talks about how the Act will affect mostly AAA title's use of digital game currency and loot boxes, namely that the act will 'disallow' things like buying lump sum amounts of game currency instead of just spending the exact amount of game currency on an in game purchase, dark patterns 'encouraging' or tricking people into spending on game currency/loot boxes, limited time deals, etc.
Disclaimer: I don't live in the EU and I don't completely understand the full implications of this or if it would affect Frontier and ED at all.
So in terms of ED, Frontier possibly wouldn't be allowed to sell ARX as a bulk lot and instead you would just pay for the amount of ARX needed for a paint job or
What "easy to implement" feature would you like to get implemented in the game?
An "easy to implement" note to remove the obvious ship interiors, something like new mechanics with UI or interactions with the BGS.
My first feature would be stolen from Eve Online's Project Discovery it would consist of a new module that acts as a powerful telescope to look at systems in a medium range, 10-30LY.
You wouldn't see planets, but you could do Astrometry (see the wobble of the star as planets orbit around), or Transit detection (see the star light dim as planets go in front).
The data could be taken from real dataset that need human analysis (if there's any left), and players rewarded with both a credit vouchers and a way to look for potential biological signals in surrounding systems.
Another feature that could be easy (but require a lot of balancing or limits) would be to allow players to create Missions.
For example, with colonization, you could give credits to players who participate in transporting resources, you could pay players to bring you engineering r
Planets with no orbital slots (Colonisation)
Hiya, what structures do you suggest i put on my planets that cant hold orbitals? Should those have like military bases for security or what?
Just bought the game yesterday and I feel like I am going to play for a very long time.
Hello everyone, brand new commander here. I have just bought and installed the game yesterday and it is really a pleasure and an eye-candy on my 4K monitor. Finished the first training and the first mission in Dromi.
I am playing with mouse and keyboard for now. But cannot exclude buying a flight controller for this and other games in the near future.
Please advise in general on anything that may be useful to a newbie, but here are a few questions:
FSD when?
Just be sure to put it to 75% at 0:06
python mk2 conflict zone build
What is a good build for the python mk2 while in a conflict zone? Im trying to grind combat rank (im halfway through Competent) and im okaaaaay at piloting. Ill get smoked by players, but i can do well against the AI most the time, though I have trouble managing pips.
what is your favorite ship?
I've been really enjoying the Mandalay, but I also really like the Python MK2 for combat. There will also always be a place in my heart for the DBX tho.
Distant Worlds 3 Expedition Teaser
A couple days late posting it but IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!!!
When you build a military surface settlement, does the security level change immediately or will I have to wait for the tick?
Because I just finished one (+6 security) and it's still showing low security for the system.
EDIT: today it switched to medium security \o/ and I also gained some population, even if there was no tick since last checked this night according to https://elitebgs.app/tick
