Maybe my fist visit to Earth would have gone better if I have had a drink?

So after finally getting the rank of Earl for the Magnificent Empire and convincing them that I am a true Ally. I got the Mission from the Emperors own staff to Infiltrate the Federal Navy and bring back any info I could about their secure systems.

Well after kissing some Fed behinds and doing some small time jobs for them they finally let me into the Sol system. I hoped into my Clipper (The HMS Anja) and went to Sol playing tourist and trying to get as much info I could to deliver to the mighty empire. Long story short after 190 light year from my start location I finally entered Sol. My first visit was Mars to check out how the Terraformed planet was doing since last the Empire got data on it. Then I decided to visit Earth after orbiting the planet for a bit I decided to land on Abraham Lincoln to get my supplies restocked and listen to any info I could get at the local bar.
Now this is where my mission all went to hell. Im sure someone must have hacked my Ships AI because when I was just lined up at the letterbox to the station I asked ASTRA to deploy my docking gear and instead she activated my boost and I flew though the station and into the end of the station wall with a might explosion. On my way I managed to bring down my docking gear but to no avail. My last thoughts during the rather long way from the letterbox to the end of the station was that I failed the Empire. When I again opened my eyes in my re-life clone 190 light years from Sol, at the last place I downloaded my memories. The Imperial Insurance company charged me 4million Credits for smashing a Gutamaya Imperial Clipper into a Federation space station. Officially the Empire does NOT condone kamikaze attacks.
Unofficially the Empire gave me a new Clipper (The HMS Anja II) and send me on my way to wreck more havoc in the galaxy.
No drinks was involved in this adventure what so ever. But I'm thinking if there had been I might have actually avoided that boost button.
 

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Ouch. I'm so terrified of boosting into a station that I put my gear down far away from the slot. Oddly enough it was never an issue with keyboard and mouse, but it was when everything was mapped on the throttle.

I had to bind the landing gear back to the keyboard.
 
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Hehe gotta love the unforgivingness of Elite :)

I'm currently sucking up to the feds just to visit Sol, you did the naval progression missions for that no?
I've become allied with a couple of federation aligned factions but no luck on reaching allied status for the federation itself.
 
Yep I did fed navy till rank for sol :)


im allied with Empire and you need to become allied with a lot of the different minor factions to become allied with one of the 3 major factions

i started wirth important systems like achenar summeland and facece and worked for each major faction to become ally with them

once I was allied I chose another system. Selling bounty in stations controlled by the factions you are working for is very useful way to get rep :)


ranks (and permits) is not connected to being friendly or ally you can be highest rank and neutral or less :)
you need to do missions for ranks
 
Oops I did it Again :eek:

I have been working for the last 3-4 days in a T9 trying to buy my components back for my beloved Clipper,

Well I managed to finally buy her a A6 Power plant today which meant she was more or less Space worthy...so I thought I would take her from the High tech system she is stationed in to another hi tech to look for a5 lifesupport. Well while i was landing in the next hi tech base i pushed tab to answer someone in chat......problem is...I was not in chat so i boosted myself into the walls of the station..............AGAIN!

RIP HMS Anja II ....Long live HMS Anja III

Im starting to worry that Gutamaya wont sell me an Imperial Courrier at this rate

Also the Empire are looking into a law suit against me...because they might not officially condone kamikaze attacks on Federal stations..but they sure as hell do not condone it officially or unofficially on their own stations :eek:
 

Daunt

MLG Pro
Oops I did it Again :eek:

I have been working for the last 3-4 days in a T9 trying to buy my components back for my beloved Clipper,

Well I managed to finally buy her a A6 Power plant today which meant she was more or less Space worthy...so I thought I would take her from the High tech system she is stationed in to another hi tech to look for a5 lifesupport. Well while i was landing in the next hi tech base i pushed tab to answer someone in chat......problem is...I was not in chat so i boosted myself into the walls of the station..............AGAIN!

RIP HMS Anja II ....Long live HMS Anja III

Im starting to worry that Gutamaya wont sell me an Imperial Courrier at this rate

Also the Empire are looking into a law suit against me...because they might not officially condone kamikaze attacks on Federal stations..but they sure as hell do not condone it officially or unofficially on their own stations :eek:
Boy that sucks. I think the comms got improved but there are very obvious shortcomings still that just don't seem well thought out. I don't get why this game struggles so much with in game chat.
 
Boy that sucks. I think the comms got improved but there are very obvious shortcomings still that just don't seem well thought out. I don't get why this game struggles so much with in game chat.
I dont blame anyone but myself for this mistake.

My biggest problem with text chat in elite is i have to reach over my HOTAS set to get to the keyboard.....everything else I have played online only uses keyboard and mouse and does not have a complicated setup of controls like elite does.

To me its not the chat that is the problem in elite..its more that texting and flying a spaceship is a really really bad idea.

and I hate voice chat :p
 
1. I hate voice chat...all kinds of voice chat....

2. Actually like the idea of the filter they put on...if not it was because of 1
 

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