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DON'T WORRY. MURICA VIPER WILL BE IN ALLIANCE SPACE SOON. Probably.

peoplearestrange wrote:Are the resource extraction sites much harder than what appears at the nav beacons? I get a feeling I'll be blown to shit if I go to one of them.

Same ships, just more of them if you're at the right resource extraction site.

You go from fight to fight to fight. No downtime waiting for more baddies to arrive.

It's actually kind of impressive how crammed full of NPC's one of these things can get. If you're on later we could wing up and I'll show you.

STuck beam lasers on the Viper Also Canons. Beam Lasers, great idea. Cannons... not so much.

Cannons are only good if you're going to target subsystems every time

An0n3 wrote:Cannons are only good if you're going to tarteg subsystems every time

I shoulda kept the damn multicannons I had. Oh well. I'll buy more later. I'm in the Alliance faction's local capital place. Technically I think I'm still in Fedeation space, but this is the border region.

Ya'll wana squad up some time

Yes. We need to agree on some space to meet up though.

EDIT: My stream turned out pretty great and I kicked a lot of ass on it. If you want to see what a full HOTAS setup with TrackIR flies and fights like, check it out. All dem flight skills put to use making me some money.

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Been playing for the past three days and oh god this game is so fun. Been doing smuggling runs and making like 120k credits per mission

Oh well, trying gimballed multicannons because why not I can afford it.

Gimbal'ed is truly the best. More time on target = more effective DPS.

An0n3 wrote:Gimbal'ed is truly the best. More time on target = more effective DPS.

True. I've also made it to Gateway. Sooo I guess I have some access to the rest of the Alliance sorta.

Those of you having Jumprange problems, replace your FTL drive. I got a Viper with 13ly range, with the best drive.

AWE SHEIT- YOU CAN PLEDGE TO A POW-AH.

FEAR THE IMPERIAL MIGHT

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Yea, I'm supporting the alliance.

>choosing anyone but Alliance

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Good luck trading in slaves

When you're a slave yourself

I'm a knight! I can't possibly be a slave if im almost royalty, and if your not jamming out to LotGH ost or any other classical music in general while playing your doing something wrong.

And slave trading is actually very lucrative in Jeterait, plus dat imperial clipper boy, oh god dam one of these days I'll have it.

THIS SUMMER srifenbyxp IS...



COMING SOON TO A SLICE OF IMPERIAL SPACE NEAR YOU

All I know I joined the Alliance to escape the corruption of the Federation and the tyranny of the Empire.

obligatory provocation music, ironically the most said engrish word is part of this games name!
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Needs more FREEDOM TWANG

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I some times pick up missions to help escape slaves to increase my reputation with a company, only to soon send them back to the fields!

Do you make 'em dress like Captain Crunch too, or is that just your uniform?

An0n3 wrote:Needs more FREEDOM TWANG

-snip-

With all the Borderlands I've been playing... ... Christ is Trigun "Borderlands: The Anime" Or am I just completely fucking insane.



But yea. Killing pirates and mafioso in this one system next door to Gateway that starts with an L.

Speaking of things that starts with an L im now a Lord, so on your knees peasants.

srifenbyxp wrote:Speaking of things that starts with an L im now a Lord, so on your knees peasants.

I love how so many of the ships are named after snakes. The Alliance says hi. Also "Don't tread on me."

ThanatosRa wrote:I love how so many of the ships are named after snakes. The Alliance says hi. Also "Don't tread on me."

You can tell which generation the ships are from by how they're named.

All the ships named after snakes are OG Elite.
All the ships named after birds are from the sequel.

You'll notice that a lot of the snakes are blocky wedge shapes for that same reason, while the birds are a little more dynamic.

Here's a roster of ships from Elite

And here's the roster of Frontier

ThanatosRa wrote:

srifenbyxp wrote:Speaking of things that starts with an L im now a Lord, so on your knees peasants.

I love how so many of the ships are named after snakes. The Alliance says hi. Also "Don't tread on me."

In the literal flavor text when I got my promotion.

Hail the emperor, bask in his glory

I've had some nice interactions in open. Here's a story:

>Signed up to the feds for a little bit when I started,
>flying around edge of fed space
>accidental shoot fed ship so get 200 bounty
>fucksake not again
>head back to station to pay off bounty
>OHSHITINTERDICTION!
>"WAIT I ONLY HAVE A 200 BOUNTY!" in local chat
>"Thats ok, I only came to tell you to join the empire or die anyway"
>Other ship way out guns me and has me locked and targeted.
>Ok so they want to RP? I can do that.
>"Im just a poor explorer looking to pilgrimage to my ancestors planet, earth, to start my epic trail throughout the galaxy, but the fucking feds have the system locked down so I need to get a shit permit" plus more fluff.
>MFW they retract their hardpoints
>"Hmmm get your permit and get the hell out would be my only warning, If I see you again, you're dead"
>Lets me go.

Both terrified and extremely happy. Particularity because I didnt have the cash (until I got back to the station to turn in my bounties) to rebuy my ship if he had blown it up.

I left the feds the next day.

See, the Imps have the honour. Thats why you should join them.


Unless you prefer being an independent merc like me.

Malkevin wrote:See, the Imps have the honour.

Malkevin wrote:See, the Imps have the honour. Thats why you should join them.

Forgot to mention about that slave trading

I'm just going to be an independent explorer, travelling the systems. Just need enough for that system wide scanner though...

I've been making like 2 million in a hour from all these smuggling missions

Heat sinks while silent running to dock feels like cheating

Sounds like awesome cleverness.

Finding slaves in every corner of the universe.

CMDR Fenby is it?

Now you fucked up.

I do gotta say I am amused by the prospect of what these pirates are thinking when I jump in, scan them then wordlessly kill them, then fly off.

An0n3 wrote:Now you fucked up.

Implying you can even catch me when I can jump 19 LY unladen.


Speaking of jumping, anyone come across a starport that offers High Grade class 4 fuel storage? Don't want to jump too far and run out of fuel because fuck fuel scoops.

One of the stations in Belagro has Class 4 Grade A Friendship Drives for 1.6million.


P.S. your diamondback scout is sheeiiiitttt compared to a cobra, stats better yo. Compact ships tend to be squshy moment those shields drop.

>actively talking about how fast your ship can run away from a fight as a deterrence
>trying to say the Cobra is better in a fight than the Diamondback
>has likely never interdicted a single person



Please tell me more

Sheeiiittt, picture says it's all.

Added more cobras to show I mean BUSINESS



Either way I'm going to be playing tonight around 8PM, but then again everybody shares the same glorious EST yes?

You know the Diamondback, or Crotalus atrox is the same snake commonly referred to as the Texas Rattlesnake?

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STUNNING

I kinda wanna get an Adder, kit it out, leave my Viper safely in storage at Gateway, then become a wandering space hobo in a space toyota.

ThanatosRa wrote:I kinda wanna get an Adder, kit it out, leave my Viper safely in storage at Gateway, then become a wandering space hobo in a space toyota.

No. Save up and get a Cobra for that. Much much better at it.

srifenbyxp wrote: Implying you can even catch me when I can jump 19 LY unladen.

Lol 19 LY unladen...? I'm pushing 28 right now...

An0n3 wrote:

ThanatosRa wrote:I kinda wanna get an Adder, kit it out, leave my Viper safely in storage at Gateway, then become a wandering space hobo in a space toyota.

No. Save up and get a Cobra for that. Much much better at it.

But space toyota.

An0n3 wrote:Save up and get a Cobra for that.

ANY HOW; next time I jump on I'm gona get me a Type-6 Transporter, strip it down to max it out to 112 on cargo racks and ship me some more people along with some steroids. From what my best trade route is showing:
Orang to Mehuenomici -Imperial Slaves- {128,794}
Mehuenomici to Orang -Performance Enhancers- {118,496}
So averaging out time it get's to each station around 5 - 10 minutes depending if I overshoot the station round trip it's 242,290 profit after taxes so in a time span of an hour that's nearly 1.5 million. Dayum it feels good to be a gangster.

Yep. Trading is easy money. Stash a Type-6 somewhere close by your fightan ship for when you want to just cruise space and make money. I've got the Type-6 fitted up to go and the Diamondback Scout fitted up to crush faces.

I'm actually rather pleased on how I'm doing with just this little Viper. I'm having fun. I do just want a proper hauler/multirole for hauling/exploring. But part of the reason I wanted the cheapy Adder was because it was disposable. Something that I could risk getting killed in.

I've read on the elite forums vipers have a tendency of overheating faster than a cobra, granted the weapon placement is boss and it's quicker I've had bad luck with ships with weaker hulls even with military grade armor. More compact you are the quicker damage is going to rack up once shields drop and the moment the cock pits gone it's ogre. Bitch out or self destruct if your too far out. About 1 out of 3 times in a conflict zone I for some reason always run into somebody with a rail gun. That shit can drop shields quick and do other stupid shit like this:

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I was going to buy a vulture some time later down the road and slap on two of the best railguns I can find.

I used to flaunt 6 rails on my trading asp but it's a setup that works only as a deterrent against pirates or if you're a griefer, ammo is too expensive and limited for bounty hounting or combat zones. And it's hard to hit players in small rigs zapping aorund you. Not to mention the annoying delay between click and shot.

An0n3 wrote:Yep. Trading is easy money. Stash a Type-6 somewhere close by your fightan ship for when you want to just cruise space and make money. I've got the Type-6 fitted up to go and the Diamondback Scout fitted up to crush faces.

I never manage to make money trading.

Not because I can't find profitable route, but just because after doing the same A-B-A only three times I'm already nodding off at the stick.
Really don't know how people manage to do it so much without being bored to tears.