Elite: Dangerous

[Wayoftheflower]

The Carrier upkeep is annoying especially when you've limited time to play and come back to a hundred million credits drained from the account.

OTOH it is incredibly useful for the Thargoid events when you can use a highly optimised AX build knowing that a friendly dock and all your toys is only a jump away.

Would be nice to have a "light carrier" brought in for exploration. Mine is going to need about hundred million credits in tritium for a run out to Colonia and back by way of some sights.

[Oilchange]

Lol, i bought mine with only a bit over 5 billion and had to sell a load of modules to make the upkeep. Yes you really do need refuel rearm and repair so factor those into the purchase price but as owner you don’t have to worry about a shipyard or outfitting and it comes with 500 tonnes of tritium so a trip to a decent mining site is within range. Then spend a week filling the hold or just sell the platinum to another carrier.
My credit level only ever raced upwards when i got it

[Prak]

Oilchange said:

sell the platinum to another carrier.

I'm guessing this is a Freudian slip and you meant tritium

You're one of the people who prefer to mine platinum, sell at a higher price than trit, and use the proceeds to buy the trit?

[Oilchange]

Prak said:

Oilchange said:

sell the platinum to another carrier.

I'm guessing this is a Freudian slip and you meant tritium

You're one of the people who prefer to mine platinum, sell at a higher price than trit, and use the proceeds to buy the trit?

Hi yep, my name’s Oilchange and I mined platinum.
Then I’d sell it to another carrier or a large station and use the proceeds to buy tritium so no Freudian slip.

So a tonne of platinum is worth roughly 150-200k + a tonne of tritium (bought at around 50k). Kill as many birds with one stone.
Thats how I racked up the credits to the point of not worrying about upkeep for a year anyway.

I’d also collect osmium and then if I spotted a mining rush with team missions I’d sell for up to 350k/tonne and invite others to cash in too. I have about 1200 tonnes still waiting lol … 😂

Irrespective though, teaming up at a Spire site or a base under Thargoid attack can yield silly amounts, I cashed in 1 billion combat bonds after a day or so which is a pretty average amount and that’s not even including the shared missions!

[Wayoftheflower]

Please check your seatbelts and local spacetime instance.

https://youtu.be/1MovZNg-010?feature=shared

[FourWheelDrift]

If you play on the motorway you are going to get hit by a truck.

[Wayoftheflower]

Titan Hadad went boom yesterday, four down and four to go.

This week's Twitch stream may have some more details on the upcoming Type 8.

Patch on Tuesday has a bunch of balance changes to AX warfare and AX combat payouts. Main ones being a ~20% buff to payouts on most interceptors bar the Orthrus which gets a 60% cut from 40Mcr to 15MCr. Bit of a shame but Spire sites and the Titan Meltdown phases were clearly being too profitable for Fdev.

[Wayoftheflower]

Type 8 looks good and might actually beat the Python I for cargo carrying medium.

Struggling to link to Reddit hosted images at the moment.

[Oilchange]

Looks as ugly as fk in an A10 Thunderbolt kind of way…

[FourWheelDrift]

[Wayoftheflower]

FourWheelDrift said:

That's good looking spaceship.

A Type 8 II variant mounting twin huge hardpoints on those arms would be ace

I think the rumour is 2 large hardpoints.

If it's a better cargo hauler than the Python then that really leaves the Type 7 even more completely pointless (other than as a cheap BGS passenger yeeting tool) I wonder if a Type 7 rework will come along to "find" more internal space like they did with the type 9 iirc.

[Wayoftheflower]

More Type 8 news and views
https://youtu.be/lVbF2vDsbZ0?feature=shared

Available August probably for Arx, hopefully same price as Python II (or cheaper)

Preliminary specs.
1 medium and 5 small hard points. Class 5 Thrusters, PP, and FSD, Class 4 PD.

Optional internals 7, 6, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 2, 1 so potentially quite a bit more cargo than a Python I.

[Oilchange]

That would make a good trader I think, also you could put a load of those class 1 pre engineered mining lasers on, plus one class 2 and zap for platinum, I imagine it would be good as a miner, it's a jump start ship for new players isn't it?

[Wayoftheflower]

Oilchange said:

That would make a good trader I think, also you could put a load of those class 1 pre engineered mining lasers on, plus one class 2 and zap for platinum, I imagine it would be good as a miner, it's a jump start ship for new players isn't it?

I've seen speculatively that it doesn't have the PD capacity to stay with a Python for surface mining, not sure about Deep Core. The ability to fit a universal limpet controller is very good.

I assume there will be a pre rolled version for more Arx.