Elite Dangerous.

[Undercovergeek]

This week has been mainly indecision week - I did have a python, unengineered, and of all my ships probably liked this the most - I put some guns in it and went hunting - I got my ass handed to me at a nav beacon by a pirate called Dave Wilkins - I will not forget his name - and the neighbours will bear testament to his name as I shouted ‘For fucks sake Dave Wilkins’ shortly before i disintegrated….. anyway this led me to realise the python may not be for fighting - or at least my python so I rebought the krait 2 and went blasting - all well and good - but it wasn’t the python

It’s purely aesthetics and love - the krait 2 does almost everything the python does slightly better and more but to look at a python, it’s a mini anaconda which is my favourite ship - so I sold the krait 2 and got the python again - only this time we headed out to the engineers - the python now is a death dealing no mercy weapon of mass destruction even in my hopeless hands - indestructable and deadly to all NPCs and I love it to bits again

For more weapons of carnage I need to increase my combat level so with a healthy balance of around 700m I have hung up my trading trousers and have turned to the combat side of things - I can use the python or the half engineered anaconda for this and then get new pew pew toys once levelled up

The anaconda is a stand off missile boat with 2 lasers to strip shields and 6 seeker missile hard points - the lasers are engineered to be heat vent which means if I hit you the heat that I’ve generated firing the weapon is transferred to you which overheats you and cools me down so I become harder to spot on radar and then after overheated and stripped of shields come 6 missiles - 2 stop your engines working so you can’t escape and the rest destroy the ship

The python has the same lasers but 3 multi cannons - one firing corrosive shells causing the other 2 to do 20% more damage and the other 2 doing incendiary damage taking down shields as well as armour and all 3 been overcharged to cause more damage

With engineered shields and armour, power and weapons you’re like a wolf in a sheep pen

[thecommandtent]

I've been so busy this week with real life that I haven't gotten to play much and I think I'm going through withdrawl 

[Undercovergeek]

This week has me engineering the ships a little more, dipping in and out of the 3 resource gathering areas of the game which I quite enjoy and then back into combat to test the results

I’ve flown a lot further - the power plant engineer is a good 15 jumps from where I consider my home system to be and then the various round trips to the other ones

I missed a 30m credits delivery mission by 34 seconds on Thursday whilst the servers were down - I literally entered the delivery destinations star port and failed while docking - I did my best but the servers were down too long - lesson learned - never leave a mission in the system and switch off

Weirdly or rather entertainingly the mission giver actually sent pirates after me a few times who were giving the warning that important people don’t have the time to be messed around - loved it

I entered the elite forums this week - never again - what a bunch of moaning clowns there are on there - the crux of the issue been they don’t like the grind - I get that - so don’t grind - the colonisation is rubbish because of all the work you have to do and so poor results in the end?

I’m sorry - are fdev making you play this game against your will?

Waaaaaahhhhhh I’m not enjoying myself - errrr - there, there’s actually a stop playing button any time you need it

I’m either getting old or people are dicks

[Barthheart]

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I’m either getting old or people are dicks

Yes.

[Undercovergeek]

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I’m either getting old or people are dicks

Yes.

 

[Undercovergeek]

This week there has been pirate hunting in my python - I find my combat score goes up faster in the python than it does the anaconda - I’m guessing that’s because everyone is out matched by the anaconda but the python is a fair fight

I need to unlock engineer XXX for frag cannons but to do that I need to unlock engineer ZZZ who builds frame shift drives - I’m already maxed out on FSDs so I either sell one and start again with this engineer or…….

Buy a new ship!!!!!

The python mark 2 - oh she’s beautiful much more combat oriented than the mark 1 with 4 large hard point and 2 medium - looking around this ship is perfect for frag cannons - engineered to be oversized and incendiary it’s a sawn off shot gun in space - that’s my current mission at the moment - upgrading the mark II - ‘nightfall’ and then more pew pew

The black pig (t9), inky blackness (python) and murky darkness (anaconda) are all sat ready for whatever’s needed next

[Martok]

Nice!  Which version of the Mark II did you get? 





(For some reason, I'm having trouble finding actual screenshots.) 

[Undercovergeek]

I’ll try and get some showroom pics

edit - here she is

[Martok]

 

[Undercovergeek]

I’m taking advantage of what appears to be a bug - some engineers require a lot of prerequisites - sell this, kill that, mine the other and some can be a real pain in the ass - an almost compulsory upgrade is armour engineering and the engineer requires you to mine 500 ore and then bring her 10 Painite that you’ve mined yourself - not hard but a lot of fannying around - I don’t know why but she doesn’t require any of the above - I forget sometimes that my game history goes back 11 years and I’m sure I’ve mined in the past but I certainly don’t have painite on me but she’s still prepared to engineer the armour so hay and sunshine and all that

That’ll be the python 2 all done except some very niche upgrades - just the frag cannons to complete and more deadly pew is on the horizon

That’ll get me to competent as a combat pilot opening an engineer for some stronger laser fizzles - beam lasers that transfer the heat they generate in my ship to the target making me cooler and practically invisible on radar 😈

[thecommandtent]

I haven't had a chance to check it out but it was fun to see this community goal popup today.  I really helps make the universe of ED feel alive and active.

https://www.elitedangerous.com/community/goals

[Undercovergeek]

That’s going to be carnage!!

If your target isn’t pledged to either power I don’t know how you’d know which side they were  fighting on

[bob48]

I'm still not pledged to anyone yet. Can't make up my mind.

[Undercovergeek]

The fully engineered python 2 is almost cheating - it will pop small craft in one salvo and medium in about 2 - it’s merciless because PVE ai is designed to charge you and ram you and they’re flying into the face of the shotgun of doom

Currently topping up the other 3 ships to peak power, shields and armour

Then I can confidently say I’m happy to reduce my elite time and get stuck into aow4 because giants!!!!!!

[bob48]

You've achieved a lot in quite a short space (no pun intended) of time.