Elite: Dangerous

[Shilka]

Ooooh you're doing good P!

Good to hear it's not easy to get the type 7 in the letterbox, personally I like docking to be more of a challenge... I sunk in quite a bit time into the game yesterday, but none of it was about making money, so it will be a bit longer untill I have my type 7... Glad to hear your spacebum days are definately over now though

 

[little P]

lol yes the Space Bum is now the Space Trump

CMDR Aquila Oculus captains log. 180115 b

It turns out a fully A spec Cobra MKIII is no match for an Elite Anaconda either... Not on it's own at least.

I got him down to 42% Hull this time, and fought much harder and smarter than the Viper confrontation. It seems I will have to wait until I get my Asp back online to really take one of these impressive ships on. One on one at least. If I can't get him in an Asp I will be calling on my fellow CMDR's help once wings is enabled.

Back to Space Trucking I go... (not that it's a problem, I love trucking in the Type 7 with some relaxing music or a film on)

I look forward to hearing from you all and your adventures. Also looking forward to the results of your experiment CMDR Shilka

 

[Shilka]

Well, 3 more stations of data to feed into the database and I can get started on turning the system and making money at the same time... Ofcourse the last system I had to do turned out to have 9 stations....

3522 data entries done, couple more hundred to go..lol
Gonna finish it tonight though, so I can get back to regular play tomorrow!

 

[Shilka]

Found some more info about the upcoming 1.1 version; improved looks on gas giants, city lights on planet shadow sides, and some more interesting interactive elements in gameplay, read about it at pc gamer; http://www.pcgamer.com/elite-dangerous-patch-11-preview-community-goals-revealed/

 

[D.O.A.]

Zeropunctuations Yahtzee reviews Elite : Dangerous !!

 

[Shilka]

Yeah saw that one DOA, it's quite honest, and frankly, quite mild for zeropunctuation's doing, but still good!

Meanwhile, 1.06 is incoming now, here are the patch notes;

Hi everyone,

update 1.06 is incoming at 11am GMT. Everyone will be taken off the servers at this time while the update is applied. We should be live again within 30 minutes, so 11.30am GMT. Here's the client and server change log:

Client Changes


- Make sure that station doors do not kill players in stations
- Stability fix for memory allocation on textures
- Prevent recycling of the mission list so the same mission cannot be taken over and over again
- Fix for matchmaking in private groups
- Add more telemetry to continue investigation on why some resourses don't load on some machines
- Add more telemetry for player collisions
- Some mission text fixes


Server Changes


- Memory optimisations for scenario handling
- Improvements to space station news generated from background simulation events
- No longer treat commodities as prohibited in the system map or on trade route data for space stations that have temporarily declared them legal
- Fix a bug that sometimes prevented a starsystem's government type and major faction allegiance changing
- System change queues no longer stall

Thanks!

Michael

 

[little P]

I'm really looking forward to the 1.1 stuff coming in. Population lights on the dark side of celestial bodies will be great, and improved player interaction will be welcome

CMDR Aquila Oculus - Captains Log: 220115

With enough credits to buy and outfit a Clipper I have sold my Type - 7 and purchased a Cobra MKIII. I have christened her the "Cobra Kai (never die)".

So, fully outfitted to A spec with a bad attitude and a bank balance ready to buy and outfit a Clipper, Cobra Kai and I have set off to try and get noticed by the Empire to begin my naval career and get to "Baron" rank. This will enable me to buy my target ship - The bodacious Imperial Clipper.

After a not insignificant period of running missions for local factions aligned to the Empire, I finally get a naval progression mission. I had already been scouting local systems and noting down details of that system so when I had the call to supply some personal weapons I knew roughly where to go already. After the 3rd try I found a station that supplied the weapons and made it back in time with 20 minutes to spare on the mission clock. I am now ranked "Outsider" and am waiting for a new progression mission.

My home station which is in "Boom" state has had some interesting developments, first we had some Lakon 9's turning up "seeking luxuries". More and more were turning up until today where it has now degenerated into a High Intensity Conflict Zone. I can only imagine the dispute over who gets to trade with the Type 9's has gone past the tipping point and now it is all out war... I had a little look earlier but tonight I will be jumping in feet first and getting involved fighting for the Empire. Hopefully this will increase my standing with them after I (try to) dispatch a few Federation pilots and help the local security vessels clean up the area....

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.

CMDR Aquila Oculus out.

 

[Shilka]

Nice going P! Yeah boom status triggers the luxury traders, and often times having one faction in boom means another faction crashing into lockdown and civil war. I saw a bunch of systems today that had like over 12 high intensity conflict zones, a whole bunch of checkpoints (no idea what those are) with a dozen of clusters of luxury traders floating inbetween. Sure makes the system list look like a mess

Meanwhile I bought my type 7 yesterday (still have my 7 million max upgrade type 6), and did a 27 station rare goods trade run today, which takes me about 4 hours and made me as many millions, so I had some upgrading money for the type 7. Fitted it with chaff, ECM, top and bottom defence turrets, mines, missiles, rail gun and beam laser. Gonna take it for a ride tonight to make more upgrading money, not grinding the best route, but just chilling doing some somewhat profitabel trade. Haven't found new shields for it yet, so I hope I don't lose a million in insurance this evening...


Oh btw, since yesterday I started noticing stations with custom messages on the outside. Instead of the usual 'welcome' it sais stuff like 'never surrender', 'fight to survive', and some other quote I forgot with something about a graveyard, lol. Is that something from the latest patches or was that always there? Never noticed it before...

 

[little P]

Nice going P! Yeah boom status triggers the luxury traders, and often times having one faction in boom means another faction crashing into lockdown and civil war. I saw a bunch of systems today that had like over 12 high intensity conflict zones, a whole bunch of checkpoints (no idea what those are) with a dozen of clusters of luxury traders floating inbetween. Sure makes the system list look like a mess

Meanwhile I bought my type 7 yesterday (still have my 7 million max upgrade type 6), and did a 27 station rare goods trade run today, which takes me about 4 hours and made me as many millions, so I had some upgrading money for the type 7. Fitted it with chaff, ECM, top and bottom defence turrets, mines, missiles, rail gun and beam laser. Gonna take it for a ride tonight to make more upgrading money, not grinding the best route, but just chilling doing some somewhat profitabel trade. Haven't found new shields for it yet, so I hope I don't lose a million in insurance this evening...


Oh btw, since yesterday I started noticing stations with custom messages on the outside. Instead of the usual 'welcome' it sais stuff like 'never surrender', 'fight to survive', and some other quote I forgot with something about a graveyard, lol. Is that something from the latest patches or was that always there? Never noticed it before...

Nice! Congrats on your purchase

I've seen a couple of custom messages but not those ones... great find!

I'm actually seeing a lot more variety in the stations now I am looking closer at them with details and colours etc.

I'm still learning how the systems are affected by our actions, it is fun finding all this out though that's for sure

Love this game

 

[Shilka]

Oh btw, new nvidia drivers out today, mainly to support a new card. A bunch of ED players tested them, and they all suffered from worsening performance, SLI being disabled upto driver crashes, and they all rolled back to the old drivers, so don't bother with those new drivers is my advice...

 

[little P]

Ok cheers for the advice mate

 

[tmtm]

So, I....ummm...... finally just bought this.

 

[little P]

So, I....ummm...... finally just bought this.

Excellent! Let us know if you have any questions

I'm just in the process of climbing the ladder in the Imperial Navy. I'm now ranked "Serf"... waiting for the next communication... I can almost taste that Clipper :icon_twisted:

 

[tmtm]

Some fool threw out my joystick when we moved, so I'm going to try using an XBox controller.

 

[little P]

Ok tm, that's a shame because I would say to get the best out of this you would want to be using a stick.

But, as that is not possible for you at the moment hopefully this should help;



I've never played with a controller but these mappings look like a good place to start.

I would definitely look at picking up a HOTAS or even any kind of Saitek stick or thrustmaster do a couple of good ones for decent money.

Let us know if you have any questions, it can be daunting at first, but extremely rewarding once you get going

 

[tmtm]

Thanks! That's just what I was looking for. I plan to get a stick, but I want to make sure I'm going to keep going with the game first.

 

[Shilka]

I'm seriously considering going open full time. I'm not in a really busy part of the milky way anyway... wanna test my run away skills on human pirrrrrates. (or my when to surrender and when to run skills)...

 

[little P]

I'm ok to give that a go too.

So, Open Play from now on? Let's do it :icon_twisted:

 

[Shilka]

Sure! Actually I was in open play all evening, and haven't met a living soul. Must admit current system I am in only saw 4 cmdrs in 24 hours, lol

Will be doing some rare trade good runs too, thatwill probably be busier, and riskier... I will actively avoid hotspots like lave though.,..

 

[skerwball]

i am getting more and more interested in this game. Do have a few questions. How is the learning curve, is it like EVE online ( after avatar making you are just tossed in to space) or you can ease into it? Is there player vs player? If so is there a major lost at death? Right now i have a cheap radio shack keyboard. Can i get by with that or is joystick the way to go?