Elite: Game talk | Starfield | INARA (2024)

DescartesDecided to try my luck as a pirate using my Covette maybe. Any suggestions about ships and equipment to employ would be most welcome.

A parrot, a jaunty hat, and a concertina for playing sea shanties.

In the process of rebinding the game and crawling my way back to the bubble, this ship looks gorgeous.

So you can get it from your Carrier which is just as well because I'm in the middle of Flyiedge CZ-I c25-28 nowhere...

Vasil Vasilescua concertina for playing sea shanties.

On a serious note: hatch breakers, collectors, some cargo space and lots of patience because piracy in Elite is maybe the worst, slowest and most underdeveloped activity. I tried. Quite a long ago though, but I assume nothing had changed since then.

DescartesDecided to try my luck as a pirate using my Covette maybe. Any suggestions about ships and equipment to employ would be most welcome.

Piracy in Open is on my bucket list, too. I put it on pause at the moment for the thargs are an easier way to earn good money (still dreaming of my own carrier...).

However, it did start building a ship already. Fast, good hull and shields, slots for limpets and an interdictor. And a concertina of course. I will give it a shot with my Clipper. I like that ship but do not have any other use of it anyhow due to the large pad it needs.

Arrr,.let us know, how your Buccaneer career develops.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-update-18-06-thargoid-war-overhaul-tuesday-28-may-2024.625728/

Only took them a year and a half. And until three Titans were dead with a fourth well underway.

Kasumi GotoBy the way, war rebalance coming our way in 5ish days.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/elite-dangerous-update-18-06-thargoid-war-overhaul-tuesday-28-may-2024.625728/

Only took them a year and a half. And until three Titans were dead with a fourth well underway.

Oh no, the Orthrus is my primary source of income right now.

… and, likely unpopular opinion, but you shouldn’t be paid what a Medusa used to (and now does again) pay out for slaughtering a practically defenseless transport/recon craft that is extremely slow and barely evasive. They were just paying out too much for the effort and (very modest) amount of skill required to get a kill on one of those Orthrus.

Kasumi GotoI never watched Spaceballs. Sorry.

Silver TafferSo, if a new player invests in a pre-built combat ship for Arx (the Python MkII being the only such option as it stands) it would clearly be overpowered for the newb zone, true.
But only one PvP victory would be sufficient to raise them above Harmless. As I understand it any rank increase is enough to disqualify a player from the zone? If that is so I wonder how many folks would pay Arx for such a fleeting advantage? And once out of the safety of the newb zone that Python MkII would be easy fodder for the specialized, engineered ships flown by experienced Cmdrs.

I wouldn't entirely rule out your concerns but I suspect they may not prove to be that big an issue.

arx are bought with real world money mate. lik eit or not. earning 400 a week aint buying a pre built ship any time soon.
So the thought experiment here is simple.

Does a new player who pays for the arx 33,000 arx...
have an advantage over other new players who do not.

Answer
YES very much

Conclusion its a pay to win mechanic.

The reason us lot here don't give a crap about it is because it is never gonna negatively affect us. considering our level of game we are at.

But morally ... Pay to win is really off putting, very unexpected from Fdev to be honest and more a roberts space scam type of deal from my point of view.

5k hours in the game. I think im entitled to the opinion not expecting agreement

Miner Willy

Kasumi GotoI never watched Spaceballs. Sorry.

You ain't missing much. Probably the worst Mel Brookes film

may the schwartz be with you... it is must-see film, definitely it is better than the new dune.

Shg56 may the schwartz be with you... it is must-see film, definitely it is better than the new dune.

I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!