Yeah, seems so. Yesterday later that day I again flew a round and surprisingly everything went fine: the controls behaved as the should, and the application was stable for more than an hour. Just the pirate KI...*sigh* I'm always looking for TEST colours when they are flying around me at their normal distance of about 1 cm or 2, ready to crash into me.:D
2.5 Alpha EXCITEMENT thread! ^^
- Thread starter AstroSam
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Just watched ATV 100/4:
hypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehype!!!!!!!!!!
Especially the topic about their reprogramming of the CryEngine and the optical frame blending is absolutely great:
(screenshots by/on starcitizenbase.de)
Especially the topic about their reprogramming of the CryEngine and the optical frame blending is absolutely great:
(screenshots by/on starcitizenbase.de)
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GrimHex will be built in the asteroid belt around Yela (sad; I thought they would extend the miniPU). Screenshot:
(screenshots by/on starcitizenbase.de)
(screenshots by/on starcitizenbase.de)
Oooooohhhh....
Suddenly tiny ideas of raiding routes are taking shape in my mind..
Shadow Reaper
Space Marshal
Thanks so much. This is the kind of detail I love to see. So they moved Oberon over by Vega. Looks like they want to make that the center for UEE/Vanduul conflicts. Perhaps even more importantly, Leir has 6 wormholes. Still looks like the ideal out-of-the-way place to have a Privateering group. Note that there is one small tunnel to Vanguard (Vanduul space) for easy access raiding, and that Vanguard has a large wormhole to Elysium so can accommodate a Reclaimer. You can wait the Reclaimer in Elysium space and bring it in after you have a downed target.
First order of business for anyone flying out of Leir ought to be to recon Vanguard and map it for wormholes. I'd be interested to do that for the half dozen Vanduul worlds in that vicinity or linked to it, and I would guess the UEE would pay handsomely for that intel.
Also noting there is money to be made selling fuel out of Banshee, Idris, Cathcart and Nyx. And note they moved Trise up North. The last Map the Banu had one discontiguous world up North but Trise, its religious center; was down South. They also moved Yulin off by itself, so the Banu have made it a point to not be concerned with having contiguous holdings.
For raiders, it is interesting to select trade routes and then toggle between which size wormholes are displayed. This will tell you where to find which traffic. If you're a small privateering group and don't want to hit anything larger than a Hull C, and don't want to attack in UEE space, you now know that Null is on the "Terra-Centari Loop" and has only two medium wormholes, so you know where to be to find a target. Likewise you can also see that there is only one wormhole linking the independent world Branaugh and there is a trade route there, so anyone who comes into that system to trade will be medium size or less and appear in one location. Small raiders can hit that pretty easily and wise traders will have an armed escort.
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Yeah, wonderful map - and obviously CIG thinks also about it, choosing the author as the MVP of this week :)
Xian-Luc Picard
Space Marshal
The elegance of this map is its simplicity. I rarely see maps that are so easy to follow and understand... excellent find, @Sam K Macer !
Tyrone Alfonso
Grand Admiral
Exactly... even at this early stage of the game it is pretty dumb to have a wretched hive of scum and villainy literally 10 seconds from both the main hub of the system and a major security station.
It is temporary. They just need to add more assets before they start expanding.
That's the extent of my so called knowledge when it comes to game development. Haha
Same here. Also am curious about the 300 series re-design. If they hit it out of the park for these two like they did with the Freelancer I will definitely un-melt them and go back to my original lineup of 300i, Freelancer, and Cutlass Black.
Man, soooo tempting. I love my Cutty. I've never been a fan of the 300 series, but like you said, if they hit it out of the park...
May be worth looking at.
I'd really like to see a slightly bigger canopy on the 'lancer as well. Sigh. I loved my DUR.
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