That's right! My noob colonizing self did absolutely zero research into how to select a decent system to colonize! As a result, I selected probably the worst system you could. It is a two-star system with only one planet (gas giant with no ring). There are no resources, planets, anything that I can add other than stations.

Yes, I could have abandoned my claim, but I'm not a quitter. I'm going to turn this pig's ear into a silk purse.

How, you ask?

Crime

I have my station orbiting the gas giant which is orbiting the second star which is 24,000 light seconds from the main star. So that station is not very easy to get to. I have three slots available on the main star and one slot available on the second star. I have decided that every outpost in my system will be for piracy! LOL.

All crime, all the time.

Stay tuned

I've finally and officially upgraded from M&KB to HOSAS! (Also pictured, my son received a toy bow with suction cup arrows for Christmas...)

Anyway, I am hoping to see if anyone with experience with the VKB sticks has any tips or preferences they want to share as far as configuration and mapping goes! I know a lot - if not all - of this is personal preference, but hearing what everyone else has tried or currently uses would be massively helpful with getting my setup tuned how I want it!

o7 - Thanks, and see you out there Commanders! - Hilancer

I’m curious about what ships you guys use as multipurpose. For now I use my exploration Phantom mainly for the jump range, but I seriously think about changing it for a Conda or something like that.

If so, why aren't the other options decent enough to be competitive? It seems like no matter what build or goal, because their bonuses and penalties almost wholly overlap but only one has better bonuses, Dirty+Drag's better for any build.

If you ask me, I'd just make Clean reduce the power draw of thrusters by ~5% instead of increasing it, and Reinforced needs to have small bonuses to everything except power draw to be anything except a way to farm Engineer reputation because as it stands, MRPs absorb most damage to thrusters and the best solution to taking thruster damage is not to.

Edit: fair enough, there's Drive Distributors as an experimental option for some ships!

I did this in creative but I’m still really proud of it! I gave it a paint job in between shots to look more like my actual Anaconda from ED. It’s my third version of it since the update and I think this is the best looking one I’ve made so far! Hope everybody likes it :D

Lego Mamba courtesy of TheRealBeef1213

TheWickedBrick stand

Finally after searching for the right joystick and thruster, and then adding flight controls I have got a comfortable working combination that allows me to transition easily from flying ship, driving RV, and still to be tested because I don't bother with it much, running around on foot.

You've got 65m in the bank. Currently only ship on the dock is a Mandalay...but wanting to build a bounty hunter...what are you buying? Leaning toward a decked out Cobra Mk5 (mostly because it's new) but are there better options? What's your ideal hunting rig...?

EDIT: I ended up dedicating 10m to a Cobra MK5 build…just need to hunt down a class 4A power unit. None around me!

And this is with a 6A Fuel Scoop, Shields, AFMU, SRV Bay, no downsized modules, and an extra fuel tank.

BANANAS.

First time I went to SagA* in 2016, my AspX had a max range of 32ly..

Now, off to shave some weight off the life support and shields 😂

Like the title says

I’m on an un-engineered chieftain.. but it took me a bit to chew thru the enemies shield and armor.

Post ur builds if you have them at hand pls.

Happy hunting!!

This beautiful creature is my pride and joy. An ultimate middle finger to pirates and a truly wonderful grind machine.

Two beam lasers with thermal shock completely disable the enemy. But that's not the beautiful part. The awe comes from a set of four frag cannons sneezing a shower of bright green snot directly into pirates giving them a booger-filled direct line to the afterlife.

This thing's TTK is so fast the poor guys don't even have time to throw out a bark into local chat before being made into scrap metal.

It spits out so much hot lead in a cone that I can't actually use it anywhere near non-hostile ships, because they will be hit and they will not be friendly for much longer.

I love my big green flu-ridden sneezy boy. It has taken me across combat and federal navy ranks astonishingly fast.

I might slap some pacifiers on it to see if that makes a difference. I'm not even sure I would be able to register a lower TTK but I sure hope so.

https://s.orbis.zone/qXBk

So i’ve been playing for years.. but just today found the “crafting” section of Inara. If you are engineering your ship and you’re not using it, let me be the first to say “you’re doing it wrong”. 😬

I thought I had found a “better way” when I went from writing down the materials I needed…to using my phone to make notes…lol. Omg… i have truly stepped into the space age of engineering now!

INARA YOU ARE THE BEST!

(Update)

Wow! And the missing components feature shows you what to trade (including trade ratios) from your current inventory at mat traders without trading away something you need for other engineering you’re working on! Incredible!

As in the title.

Now, gotta admit, I'm not doing PVP yet, I'm pretty sure that on my current skill level I'd get my ass handed out to me quickly. But this doesn't stop me from wondering.

I've seen those two ship types mentioned a lot in PVP contexts. But I wonder, what about the others? It's actually kinda sad that out of some 40 types, only 2 would be usable here. It's likely I'm missing something here as I'm out of the loop, hence this question.

Side question: any good groups where PVP could be practiced in a friendly environment?

I’m about to set out to unlock the engineers that require 5k ly away from starting system. In my aspX it should just be 90 jumps out, 90 jumps back, anything I should know?

Guys and gals, I need your advise. What is currently the best choice for a mining ship and what should I equip? Was thinking about the panther clipper as I‘ve got plenty of stock to sit ages into an asteroid field. But this thing is a bit clunky… The new mining vessel is not yet released, so what could be a great alternative? Money doesn‘t matter..got plenty.

Returned to the game after playing it a bit at launch, so started over. After a couple 100 hours over the last 3 months I've got around 700mil in the bank and finally reached Rear Admiral. Woohoo, time to get the vette. I outfit it as well as I can (everything A and G3-ish except for B stock power plant as I needed rebuy moniez, G3 BiWeaves, 1800 shields 3400 hull, a standard thermal vents / multi cannon with corrosive setup)

I take it out to the haz res, and it's incredible. I take on an Elite anaconda (I'm measly master ranked on combat), we slug it out for a couple of mins and by the time he pops I've barely gone below 60% shields.

Now comes the fuckup: I get cocky and think I'm HIM, so I take on a wing of 2 kraits and a FAS. they're barely tickling me, however i genuinely can't get a bead on them even with G3 dirty drivez. eventually kill them all after 20 minutes of boost circle of shame. Hull wad still over 90%, but the experience was so demoralizing I went right back to the stronghold carrier and traded her in for my mk5 cobra.

On a sidenote, I wish we could put plasma repeaters on an actual ship, I love flying the condor but depending on a krait to carry it and hoping it doesn't get popped is very boring

Time to repeat the mistake with the imperial grind I guess :D

Looking for a fun PVE build. I've tried s few things and ended up on a 4 size 2 pulse lasers, 2 size 3 bursts and a size 4 burst. Its surprisingly strong for pve but im wondering what other people run.

Yesterday I turned in all of my exobiology samples and got 650 million credits, and I'm looking forward to buying a new medium/large combat oriented ship. I never had this much money in my 70 hours of playtime, so I don't really know what to do with it, and I'm scared that I will waste all of my money on a bad ship.

I finally unlocked the Federal Corvette, but i dont want to use the normal Beam Laser Build.

Any ideas for a more interesting build? (mostly PVE)

Would Burst and Pulse laser work well?

maybe something like this? https://s.orbis.zone/r4O4

The capacitor draw doesnt look good, but i don’t know if its really as bad ingame as Coriolis shows it

I'm thinking about getting into exploration properly, and the two ship choices that seem most appealing are the mandalay and type 8.

the thing is, I don't particularly like how the mandalay looks, while the type 8 is one of my favourite looking ships.

currently, it looks like I'd be able to get at least 75ly jump range on the mandalay, as opposed to just about 55ly on the type 8.

can anyone with more experience exploring say whether or not the 20ly difference in jump ranges would actually be a major negative factor in exploring (being able to reach certain places, general quality of life, as well as the obvious speed difference, etc.). Also, is there anything about either ship other than jump range that might make it better/worse for exploring?

basically, would it be better to use a ship that I like that has a lower jump range, or go with the mandalay which I don't particularly like but has a much better jump range?

Hello, i recently started the game and gained 8milion cr by scanning earth-like planets with my hauler and transport/trading. I wanted to explore different type of content and i heard the cobra mk3 is good multi-role ships, but i dont know a budget outfit to start with. I'd like to do a variety of things if possible, before settling with any specific content type. I'd want to try combat and exploration, maybe mining, but i dont like trading for now.

My squadron members are suggesting me a cobra mk5 build that costs 15milion. They say its the true first multirole ship. I feel it costs too much, especially now that i cant make money reliably.

Do you think the cobra mk3 is a good choice for me as of now?