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[Morwen Lagann]

They also show up frequently at Resource Extraction Sites.

[Seriphyn]

Thanks for replies. No trouble finding the pirates, that's for sure. Just I eventually run into this trader who replaces the mission (made about 50% progress in one) with his 'offer', and if I try to abandon it, it counts as accepting his offer.

[Mithfindel]

Seriphyn, that mission is just badly worded.

The counter offer is assumably done so that your mission is either updated or replaced with a new mission with two alternative goals. The first one is the original mission. The second one is the new mission. You can choose to complete either one, even is the title (e.g. "Sabotage") always belongs to the alternative goal. And yes, your progress that far is wiped.

To play safe with pirates, stick to RES or nav beacons. To play safe with traders, stick to nav beacons, "seeking goods" ("seeking luxuries", etc.) beacons, or stations. Do note that there is an extra fine for firing within no-fire zone, and if you hit a non-wanted target there, the station will attack you. Large stations will zap you, but outpost defenses are assumably made up of janitors with flashlights, so it's quite viable to fight around an outpost.

Or then first do rounds in unidentified signature sources until you find the counteroffer and then start killing. I understand some people have used this with the background simulation fiddling, accepting missions from a faction they want to bring down and wait for the alternative mission.

[Aelisha]

I have compiled the following albums of my travels thus far, having migrated from my Cobra MK.III to the Asp Explorer in the hopes of becoming a spr-srs astrocartographer.  My current quest is to get to the galactic core, but I am taking a long road, detouring to stellar nurseries and nebulae along the way. 

I hope you enjoy what I have collected so far, and I will endeavour to update the albums to have a semi IC work-diary feel in time. 

http://imgur.com/a/l68sW

http://imgur.com/a/Ta6Iz

http://imgur.com/a/acYat#0

The adventures of Commander Nyninch Anaconda continue; though the road may be long and hard, seek medical attention if it lasts longer than four hours.

[Mithfindel]

I understand that devs are more or less manually/batch processing transactions on formerly-bugged systems. Suddenly, at least four civil wars near the Big Dipper.

[Alain Colcer]

I have compiled the following albums of my travels thus far, having migrated from my Cobra MK.III to the Asp Explorer in the hopes of becoming a spr-srs astrocartographer.  My current quest is to get to the galactic core, but I am taking a long road, detouring to stellar nurseries and nebulae along the way. 

I hope you enjoy what I have collected so far, and I will endeavour to update the albums to have a semi IC work-diary feel in time. 

http://imgur.com/a/l68sW

http://imgur.com/a/Ta6Iz

http://imgur.com/a/acYat#0

The adventures of Commander Nyninch Anaconda continue; though the road may be long and hard, seek medical attention if it lasts longer than four hours.

how can you map "new territory"?....does the game extends the known universe as players go further out?

[Morwen Lagann]

All of the systems, afaik, have been generated.

It's a question of whether the actual information on what stellar bodies are present and where they are and what they are made of, is available to anyone else yet.

[Jocca Quinn]

Had the opportunity to take a look at this and well it is pretty, but there doesn't seem to be a lot to actually do ..

Currently there does not seem to be any tools to group up, say to fly escort for a freighter for example.

Lots of residual nostalgia there, but little else to interest me at the moment.

[Thorolfur]

So I stumbled into elite today... and having run some of the tutorials dont think I'll be doing much combat... cant seem to hit anything that moves.

oh... I died 3 times in the docking tutorial... starting to think "mouse and keyboard" might not be the control setup for me in this game. Any suggestions?

[Morwen Lagann]

If kb/mouse are bad for you, gamepad or stick. If you're going to go stick, a cheap HOTAS is what I would suggest unless you want to blow a bit of money on an X52 or X55.

[Thorolfur]

Right so I think I have the controls in ED figured out. Feels a bit slugish to me though... but then I'm not one to judge, dosent take a fighter pilot to fly a Hulk.

Any how... now that I can un/dock without making dents in the station, any suggestions as to how I could earn the creds to buy ship I could do mining/trade runs with?

Wonder if they will make crafting system for ED... havent noticed one so far.

[Morwen Lagann]

Hauling missions - or shooting pirate NPCs - to start.

Your Sidewinder is entirely free to replace (unless you upgrade it) so there's nothing wrong with risking it against NPC pirates in belts and things (Resource Extraction Sites - there's a few in Kremainn which is probably near where you started). Just make sure that if you go bounty hunting you dock up and turn in your bounty claims periodically - if you die with unclaimed bounties, you lose them.

[Aria Jenneth]

Watched a housemate get briefly so into this that he went and bought a flight stick and throttle, the better to pew pew with.

He then lost interest two days before they arrived.

Le sigh.

[Morwen Lagann]

Take the HOTAS and use it for yourself, Aria. Come join us on Jaques Station for an exploration tour. :3

[Thorolfur]

Got a logitech: extreme 3d pro ... not for any thought as to it beginning better or worse for this then other, just only thing the store I went had. Flying with it is much smoother, though its a tad big for my desk... poor thing tends to end up in my lap while playing.

Might give bounty hunting try later today... I just face planted into a gas-giants rings cause I forgot it was there.