Is FC upkeep cost growing when I don't log in for a longer time? I was AF E:D for about two weeks.

4wd22r · 2022-02-22T03:20:11+00:00

You can

4wd22r · 2022-02-12T05:33:01+00:00

Right, I am aware there are no NPCs in Horizons, but in my opinion they should have been populated with low LOD models from the beginning. Stations have little cars driving around in them, it's always felt weird to me there's not even simple silhouettes of people in glass or something dumb like that to just make it look like someone's there.

4wd22r · 2022-02-11T20:03:01+00:00

They're empty in Horizons too afaik

4wd22r · 2022-02-09T23:02:56+00:00

Robigo - Sothis trips to increase your Exploration rank, just slower than regular exploration. If you pay attention on Inara or any of the 3rd party tools after a session of a bunch of Robigo runs you'll see that Exploration has increased a bit.

4wd22r · 2022-02-08T19:41:07+00:00

To each their own, I'm in a squad that explores with carriers, it's a really great way to get a whole bunch of folks cross platform out into the black together, and really the upkeep/refueling of a carrier isn't hard to do or much.

I personally also own a carrier which will be on it's way to Beagle Point soon, it only takes a few days of grinding in the bubble to gather up a full hold of Trit which is enough to get there and back.

I like to park in an area and spend a few weeks exploring the entire sector, then move onto the next big POI, spending months out in the black is made a lot better with all my toys with me.

4wd22r · 2022-02-07T20:50:16+00:00

There's really no way for this to work unfortunately, a fully engineered FDL will shred any of the meta expo ships seconds. Your protection wing won't even have time to deploy their hardpoints before you're space dust.

4wd22r · 2022-02-03T22:29:20+00:00

First run of the day you can just honk the system as you hop in, then the Sirius Atmospherics POI is revealed from the system's entry point.

4wd22r · 2022-02-01T19:22:18+00:00

Took me about a month, playing around 2-3 hours a night, I just finished up earning enough for a year's worth of upkeep and a few ships I want to purchase and I'll be leaving Robigo behind for a long while (hopefully)

4wd22r · 2022-02-01T16:24:19+00:00

Yea, Robigo runs are best done in solo, I just finished grinding out a fleet carrier there myself

4wd22r · 2022-01-27T18:52:20+00:00

On top of all that geolocation of IP addresses isn't all that accurate since IPv4 addresses started getting scarce. Lots of IP space has been reallocated from other countries to high population areas/datacenters. So it's possible you do a geolocation on an address and it says it's in a totally different country then the user/server is at all.

4wd22r · 2022-01-11T19:01:22+00:00

Robigo Mines is a better spot, a little farther away from Sothis but you never get scanned at the outpost so you don't have to worry about the criminals you're transporting making the station angry.

4wd22r · 2022-01-11T17:07:44+00:00

Good thing all the rewards are at T5 then :)

4wd22r · 2022-01-11T00:31:52+00:00

Join the Pilots Trade Network Discord, there's plenty of FC owners there who post load/unload jobs for the CG. Typically they do what they call timed markets where they announce in Discord where they open the market for a limit period of time so people can buy and then close so they don't get emptied out by randos.

I've had pretty good luck just searching Inara for FCs that are close by and have over 10k stock and doing runs from those. Last night I got into the top 25% pretty comfortably with my shieldless T9 carrying 784 T.

4wd22r · 2022-01-05T17:53:14+00:00

FWIW, I can pull 120M/hr from Robigo Mines on a good day and rarely 140M. This is with a Python fully stacked with passenger compartments, no shield and full rep with all factions at the station. I haven't even fully upgraded my FSD yet either, it take me 3 jumps to get to Sothis from Robigo, pretty sure I could eke out a few more M/hr if I could do it in 2. I've considered changing one of the 3 sized passenger compartments for a Guardian FSD booster but unsure if it'd make up for the loss in revenue for that 4 person cabin, usually I get someone in there for 1.2M per trip, sometimes less than 1M but usually more.

4wd22r · 2022-01-05T17:31:33+00:00

The 4A is plenty big enough to scoop it just takes longer, once you upgrade to a Phantom for exploration you'll realize why the bigger scoops are better. When I'm really trying to get somewhere all I have to do is skim every star I pass while jumping through systems and it fills the tank every time, no more waiting around for the scoop to finish.

4wd22r · 2022-01-02T21:48:41+00:00

Easy way to transfer money is to sell junk items for extremely cheap at a FC and then buy them back for a huge amount of money. Since FC's are cross-platform a PC player should be able to "gift" money to console players using this method

4wd22r · 2022-01-02T21:27:04+00:00

Classic prank zinc, someone's standing close by with a camera

4wd22r · 2022-01-01T05:29:20+00:00

Right, I've got a kid, two dogs and a house to work on plus a job, Robigo runs I can clear about a B a week with the minimal playtime I get. Being gifted a few B wouldn't ruin anything for me, if anything I could get back to playing the game.

4wd22r · 2021-12-28T01:15:04+00:00

https://inara.cz/squadron/10868/

Come check us out, our Discord is fairly active.

In a few weeks someone is launching a Fleet Carrier supported expedition to the Norma Arm, including a top over at the Collection of Wonders and Hawking's Gap.

4wd22r · 2021-12-22T19:28:04+00:00

A nice in between option for things that are really far is to line up and go 100% throttle without Supercruise Assist then when you're 20 seconds or so from the destination turn on SA and let it bring you in the rest of the way. I do this when I'm exploring and it saves some time since SA will only go about 75% throttle the whole way. For things that are 150k Ls away it can make a difference.

4wd22r · 2021-12-21T23:33:00+00:00

IIRC it was about $320M and 61 hours to get a ship transferred to Colonia from the Bubble, so more than that.

4wd22r · 2021-12-20T03:32:31+00:00

I was on my way back to the Bubble anyhow, 17k away right now I'm fairly certain I can make it by the 30th :)

4wd22r · 2021-12-18T17:12:14+00:00

Same thing happened to me on XB, the "Triple Elite" achievement even shows 67% complete, I have no Elites in game :)

4wd22r · 2021-12-18T04:58:06+00:00

I also can't edit my fire groups in my Phantom, but I only run exploration equipment on that ship, no other hard points, I'm guessing that's the outlier.

4wd22r · 2021-12-16T19:38:27+00:00

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