Elite: Dangerous

digitalscream

@d8m - here you go, the docking swoop:



The only fancy bit is the Flight Assist Off move as I'm approaching the station entrance from the side. After that, it's pretty standard - landing gear down as I'm entering the mail slot, locate the landing pad, and fly down to it. There's a slight lateral adjustment on approach to the pad, and then I go right and left with the lateral thrusters once I'm down to get lined up exactly.

Hope that helps

Oh, and yes...I wasn't concentrating, so I rolled way more than necessary once I'd found my pad. Nobody's perfect...

d8m

digitalscream said:

@d8m - here you go, the docking swoop:



The only fancy bit is the Flight Assist Off move as I'm approaching the station entrance from the side. After that, it's pretty standard - landing gear down as I'm entering the mail slot, locate the landing pad, and fly down to it. There's a slight lateral adjustment on approach to the pad, and then I go right and left with the lateral thrusters once I'm down to get lined up exactly.

Hope that helps

Oh, and yes...I wasn't concentrating, so I rolled way more than necessary once I'd found my pad. Nobody's perfect...

Skills.

I had another go tonight and managed a couple of missions, currently scanning around my current system trying to find some data as part Of my best paying mission yet.

digitalscream

d8m said:

Skills.

I had another go tonight and managed a couple of missions, currently scanning around my current system trying to find some data as part Of my best paying mission yet.

It's really not that hard - you just have to remember to be smooth with the stick(s). If you visualise yourself swooping in, and don't worry too much about overshooting (remember your power management - until you get the hang of it, put 4 pips in SYS which makes your shields much stronger).

While I'm on the subject - power management is very important. More pips in SYS (shields), ENG (engines) or WEP (weapons) doesn't just give you faster recharge to those systems. It also has a secondary effect:

SYS: Stronger shields
ENG: Higher top speed, faster turn rate
WEP: Better weapon cooling

As you might imagine, against an opponent approaching (or above) your level, power management is really important in combat.

Axe_meister

Trying to protect newbies at Eravate at the moment but all the wanted commanders have buggered off.

d8m

digitalscream said:

d8m said:

Skills.

I had another go tonight and managed a couple of missions, currently scanning around my current system trying to find some data as part Of my best paying mission yet.

It's really not that hard - you just have to remember to be smooth with the stick(s). If you visualise yourself swooping in, and don't worry too much about overshooting (remember your power management - until you get the hang of it, put 4 pips in SYS which makes your shields much stronger).

While I'm on the subject - power management is very important. More pips in SYS (shields), ENG (engines) or WEP (weapons) doesn't just give you faster recharge to those systems. It also has a secondary effect:

SYS: Stronger shields
ENG: Higher top speed, faster turn rate
WEP: Better weapon cooling

As you might imagine, against an opponent approaching (or above) your level, power management is really important in combat.

I haven't really tweaked my ship yet apart from the fuel scoop. I'm going to get a couple of decent missions in to get the cash level up then do some mods.

Want some mining beams!

Sporky

digitalscream said:

Sporky said:

I should probably have another go at this. I did some tutorials and got fed up with the process of trying to map controls sensibly.

Also I miss having a joystick that twists.

I have the Thrustmaster HOTAS X - it's pretty cheap (~£30), and does the job admirably. You do need to install JoystickCurves to customise the response curve, otherwise you'll find it's ridiculously over-sensitive.

I bought the Warthog one.

There are a LOT of switches.

digitalscream

d8m said:

digitalscream said:

d8m said:

Skills.

I had another go tonight and managed a couple of missions, currently scanning around my current system trying to find some data as part Of my best paying mission yet.

It's really not that hard - you just have to remember to be smooth with the stick(s). If you visualise yourself swooping in, and don't worry too much about overshooting (remember your power management - until you get the hang of it, put 4 pips in SYS which makes your shields much stronger).

While I'm on the subject - power management is very important. More pips in SYS (shields), ENG (engines) or WEP (weapons) doesn't just give you faster recharge to those systems. It also has a secondary effect:

SYS: Stronger shields
ENG: Higher top speed, faster turn rate
WEP: Better weapon cooling

As you might imagine, against an opponent approaching (or above) your level, power management is really important in combat.

I haven't really tweaked my ship yet apart from the fuel scoop. I'm going to get a couple of decent missions in to get the cash level up then do some mods.

Want some mining beams!

I'm not talking about modding or tweaking your ship - I'm talking about these little buggers to the right of your scanner:



You can change those on the fly. If you watch PvPers going at it on YouTube, you'll see they muck around with their power priorities constantly to keep the ship running optimally for everything they're doing.

d8m

Did not know you could change those around!

digitalscream

d8m said:

Did not know you could change those around!

Aye...the advantage you have is that there are lots of folk about to tell you these things. I played from beta, and - because I never read the manual - there was a lot of trial and error involved. Basically, I had the control map on my laptop screen, and tried everything one-by-one.

It was laborious, to say the least. Don't do what I did

d8m

I've done a couple more boom data deliveries and got up to 60 thousand credits. Still have an on going mission that requires me to scan and find something before delivering it back so will try and get that one as it's worth another 60k credits!

d8m

Done it!
 I'm also landing better now.

TimmyO

Thinking about trying this on PS4 - but we also have an XBOX One - is there any reason to choose one over the other froma  technical or gameplay point of view?

Is anyone playing on console using the controller, or have you added HOTAS controller? 

racefaceec90

good luck all new commanders o7

i play on xb1 with the controller. have never used a hotas e.t.c but find the controller pretty good for the most part. i have been playing ed since march last year and have currently put over 70 days real time into the game so it is very addictive i have to say (if you are into this type of game,not everyone is).

Axe_meister

Now in the top 50% of commanders at the CG at Eravate with 2 days to go. Have already gotten 2m credits with 6m due on completion.
So what should I do with an already tricked out Vulture + 11m credits?

digitalscream

Axe_meister said:

Now in the top 50% of commanders at the CG at Eravate with 2 days to go. Have already gotten 2m credits with 6m due on completion.
So what should I do with an already tricked out Vulture + 11m credits?

Put together another 100m, and you're ready to start PvPing

Actually, that's not true. How far have you gone with the Engineers?

My Vulture's mostly G5-modded - long-range (5.5km) beam + pulse lasers, engines at 320m/s (525m/s boost), bi-weave shields modded for resistance (around 700MJ shield strength), dual chaff with 15 ammo each, ~1400 armour, 19Ly jump range, lightweight scanners etc.

It's still only enough to last 10 minutes against a decent CMDR in a fully-war-specced FDL and still lose, but I've scared off quite a few Cutters, Corvettes, Pythons and Anacondas with it

Axe_meister

Not far to be honest so far have only done a level 1 upgrade to my power distributor.
Too much faffing around finding materials. Even though I always play in open so far I have not had a single PvP encounter.

Axe_meister

Where I would love the game to go is the ability to buy a space station and really start to control my own little empire. 
So far there is not really that much variation in game play.
It's buy/find/mine stuff or/and shoot stuff and lots of time wasted in travel.

digitalscream

I actually have several different fits for my Vulture, thinking about it - I can swap out the strong shields for efficient shields (faster recharge, lower strength). My current build has beam + pulse lasers, both long-range, but the pulse laser has the phasing sequence special effect (small amount of damage bleeds through shields - very useful in protracted PvP encounters). The other weapons fit is dual efficient beam lasers with no special effects, for about 55MJ/s constant damage, which I use for PvE stuff.

Whenever I'm going to be in one place for a while, I just call all the modules to the station I'm crashing at and re-fit as necessary.

digitalscream

Axe_meister said:

Where I would love the game to go is the ability to buy a space station and really start to control my own little empire. 
So far there is not really that much variation in game play.
It's buy/find/mine stuff or/and shoot stuff and lots of time wasted in travel.

For travel, I have an Asp Scout which is stripped-out and range-modded - I can get about 42Ly in a single jump, and it's got a class 5 fuel scoop for endless overall range. I use that to taxi me about, and plan at least an hour ahead; when I get where I'm going, I just pay to have my Vulture delivered

I can get pretty much anywhere in the bubble in 20 minutes or so with the Scout, so I usually do that in the morning or at lunchtime and then play in the evening when my Vulture and modules have caught up with me.

Axe_meister

Didn't know you could have your ship delivered!