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Glad you are enjoying the game NoXion.

A few weeks in to me rebooting the game after several years off. I like the new scanning system - its fun.
Did an exploration - found an earth like and few water worlds and made £58 million. Still haven't got enought for an Anaconda yet. didnt know about Diaguandri system - will have to check it out.
Where do you get the meta alloys and stuff that engineers are after? Would really like to increase the range on my FSD so I don't have to make 150 jumps to get to uncharted space.
 
Kaka Tim said:
Glad you are enjoying the game NoXion.

A few weeks in to me rebooting the game after several years off. I like the new scanning system - its fun.
Did an exploration - found an earth like and few water worlds and made £58 million. Still haven't got enought for an Anaconda yet. didnt know about Diaguandri system - will have to check it out.
Where do you get the meta alloys and stuff that engineers are after? Would really like to increase the range on my FSD so I don't have to make 150 jumps to get to uncharted space.
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Danielle's Progress in the Maia system. Take a ship with good shields, the chances of getting interdicted by an NPC flying from there to Deciat is high. Oh, and don't fly in Open in Deciat if you can help it.
 
Yesterday I had not long jumped into a system, when three things happened all in quick succession:

1) One of my friends called me on my phone
2) Some NPC pirate decided that moment would be the perfect time to strike, and
3) The flight stick on my HOTAS decided to stop working.

This sudden confluence of events ensured that I did not have the presence of mind to log out and thus save my cargo of 15 tons of water and one ton of meta-alloy (that last one hurt the most). It was only after I had been blown the fuck up that I realised I had a serious hardware issue, i.e. a dead flight stick. It still lights up, but none of the inputs work.

Hopefully my replacement stick and throttle will arrive today.
 
OK, twice now I've lifted off from docking and sustained damage to my ship in doing so. Anyone know what that might be about?
 
NoXion said:
OK, twice now I've lifted off from docking and sustained damage to my ship in doing so. Anyone know what that might be about?
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Sounds like a shields issue. Check your shields are on, and if they are (and considering you use auto-docking) make sure you have 4 pips in SYS.
 
Steel Icarus said:
Sounds like a shields issue. Check your shields are on, and if they are (and considering you use auto-docking) make sure you have 4 pips in SYS.
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Aaah, that might explain it. In my most recent ship reconfiguration, I took out the shield generator so I could have more space with which to do cargo runs within the bubble. Since I'm currently playing Euro Truck Simulator IN SPAAAAACE, I figured that I didn't need the shields for now. The damage has only happened a couple of times over a dozen runs, and the first time I figured it was because I was being too quick to relaunch after refuelling.
 
That reminds me, removing the Planetary Approach Suite doesn't take away your landing gear, does it? What's stopping me from landing on a planet without it? Seems like I could go without and land manually, which would be cool.
 
Steel Icarus said:
I think so, you don't enter the planetary approach
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My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. I like it when games allow you to min-max to ridiculous extremes, even if it comes with strong disadvantages. That's why I was doing shieldless cargo runs last night; it really does feel worth it when you go for trading commodities that offer the most profit per unit, such as palladium or gallite. If I were to get scragged, then I would still be making a fat profit even with the rebuy costs.

Might still test it later for myself, to see what actually happens. Makes no sense to me that you can keep your landing legs, be able to slow to a relative stop and yet not land on an airless planet.
 
I just successfully completed a docking procedure at a Coriolis station while stopping off for fuel. I'm currently heading back towards my adopted home system in my newly-bought Keelback, The Fat Mallard. It doesn't come with a docking computer installed, so I had to do it all manually. Had a bit of a scare when I was first leaving the station I bought it from, apparently I briefly strayed into a forbidden area or took too long or something like that, and this ominous red timer suddenly appeared for a few seconds before disappearing once more.

I'm stepping up my freight game.
 
I had my first run-in with the Fuel Rats on Saturday. I had been hopping from system to system without paying attention to fuel stops, because I had gotten it into my head for some reason that my route was being automatically planned with them in mind. As it turns out, I needed to first set a filter on the galaxy map after installing Odyssey. I was very impressed with how quickly they found me, although I guess I was easy to reach considering I was in the bubble.
 
Got bored of playing space trucker, and decided to spend a fraction of my 30+ million credits and take a holiday space trip to Colonia. There's a chain of megaships and habitats I can stop off at along the way to get repairs and resupplies, and The Fat Mallard has been converted into a space-going RV, complete with massive 5A fuel scoop, a Planetary Vehicle Hangar for driving around on planets, and a Fighter Hangar for going on joy-rides through planetary rings.

My first stop is the system playing host to the megaship Argon's Reach, where I'm currently testing the limits of the SRV's mountain-climbing abilities.
 
NoXion said:
Got bored of playing space trucker, and decided to spend a fraction of my 30+ million credits and take a holiday space trip to Colonia. There's a chain of megaships and habitats I can stop off at along the way to get repairs and resupplies, and The Fat Mallard has been converted into a space-going RV, complete with massive 5A fuel scoop, a Planetary Vehicle Hangar for driving around on planets, and a Fighter Hangar for going on joy-rides through planetary rings.

My first stop is the system playing host to the megaship Argon's Reach, where I'm currently testing the limits of the SRV's mountain-climbing abilities.
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Enjoy! If you feel like it's not too much hassle to divert a bit here and there try and fly close to or through one of the nebulae on the way (your sky will have plenty in it soon). Very pretty places. Colonia itself is in one.
 
Steel Icarus said:
Enjoy! If you feel like it's not too much hassle to divert a bit here and there try and fly close to or through one of the nebulae on the way (your sky will have plenty in it soon). Very pretty places. Colonia itself is in one.
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I can already see some interesting-looking dark cloudy blobs towards the galactic centre.
 
I got my first kill! I think? I landed some hits on an asteroid pirate who then blew up, and I was subsequently credited with ~166,000 worth of whatever the guy's bounty was.

Funny thing, I never expected to be flying a fighter when I did this. I was just joy-riding through the planetary ring system of Snake Sector OD-S B4-2 6, when my connection stopped working. After resetting the router and logging back in, I saw a big fight break out nearby. For some reason I felt like I could stick my oar in this one. My tactic was to go for the unlucky ne'er-do-well's rear end while he was being battered by two or three System Authority ships. I clearly managed to land a few shots in his back before he blew up.

That felt really good, even if in practical terms I probably wasn't much more than a horse-fly in that fight. The emergent spontaneity of the event was especially pleasing, as I had not even planned on engaging in any combat this far from the rest of civilisation.
 
I've reached the Megaship CB-7 Endless Flight, which will be my stop for this evening. I think the sheer enormity of this journey is starting to sink in. Turns out that music is a surprisingly good accompaniment to the two dozen or so jumps I have to make between each way-station on this route.

When I stop for repairs I like to imagine what it would be like to be stationed at one of these far-flung ships and outposts. I hope it pays well! Then there are the little mysteries along the way. What is the Task Group monitoring at the Mammon Monitoring Facility? Apparently nobody knows apart from the local military dictatorship, and they're certainly not telling.

Along the way I've been reading about various expeditions and all the marvellous places they've stopped to visit. Apparently there are only three known places in the entire galaxy where Void Hearts can be found. Expeditions sound like a fun experience.
 
CB-10 EVERGREEN had serious water shortages. I wanted to help them out and give them the 16 units of water they were asking for. I dropped a million credits on them instead, next best thing I was able to do.

Helgrind Gateway is in lockdown for some reason, judging from the radio chatter there's some kind of civil disorder going on.

I think I'm like a sixth of the way? Here's a screenshot of my Galaxy Map:

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What the fuck? Someone just tried to interdict me as I was leaving Amundsen Terminal! I wasn't carrying any cargo whatsoever. I thought NPCs didn't bother you with FSD interdictions when you weren't carrying anything?
 
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