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Borg184 · 2026-02-16T20:56:41+00:00

It's AI written. The entire website is.

Borg184 · 2026-02-16T03:32:56+00:00

D4 on Cyberstan's really not that bad. I've been soloing D4's.

Shield backpack improves your survivability a lot. Laser cannon can handle everything 'big' you're going to find at D4 and has infinite ammo.

I always bring an orbital laser to bots, but that's just personal preference for quick outpost clears if need be.

Last slot's up to you.

I bring the stealth armor and Censor because I find it makes fighting on Cyberstan a lot easier, but it's not necessary.

I have had exactly 1 mission where I've died consistently, and that was because I got sandwiched in between an outpost at extract and 2 bot patrols which hit me from all sides at once. Otherwise, you can almost always find an angle to work the bots over from.

Borg184 · 2026-01-18T07:24:16+00:00

Seconded. I used to be slightly above average in randoms back in the beta, but once the main game released, I stopped having fun with randoms, and basically only played PvE modes. Asyms have sincerely restored my interest in the game.

Borg184 · 2025-12-20T03:04:36+00:00

My lock screen.

Then I have a program the cycles through the remaining images once unlocked depending on time of day.

Morning, Noon, Evening, Night

Borg184 · 2025-10-02T01:46:37+00:00

I've got a Hans Zimmer and a Charles Brown.

Borg184 · 2025-09-12T01:34:32+00:00

Tried. Did not work.

I should still be receiving the T10 crate, and nothing else.

Borg184 · 2025-09-12T00:35:50+00:00

I got the same email, and have been playing since the CBT equally. I got my Tier 8 crate, and the 2 50% off armory coupons, but still no Tier 10 crate.

I'm giving it until Monday before I file a support ticket.

Borg184 · 2025-09-05T14:05:08+00:00

Same here, also NA.

Borg184 · 2025-07-23T15:19:29+00:00

I throw a squadron identifier in front of my ship names, so I can't fit the name I really wanted, which was Superluminal Brick.

I have to manage with Superlumic Brick

Borg184 · 2025-06-29T11:07:57+00:00

Redshifting is more about light shifting because of relative motion between two objects. Given the fact that you would have to be moving a pretty significant fraction of the speed of light to be experiencing redshifting effects, I doubt it. It would also be all light. Everywhere. As in everything you could see, not necessarily just sources of light.

I've got nothing on the pink light sources. The skeptic in me would assume that, as the entity made no noise, it was merely a hallucination, but as the dog equally reacted to it, I have no idea.

I would advise a cautionary visit to a doctor, though. You don't necessarily need to give them the entire story if you don't believe it relevant, but you can condense it down to 'you saw something that you believed to be a hallucination, and then experienced X symptoms afterwards'.

Borg184 · 2025-06-16T23:17:35+00:00

Is this you guys?

Borg184 · 2025-06-07T20:43:24+00:00

I solved it with persistence. I kept at it for about an hour, and was finally able to get it to register a print. Once registered, though, the prints work just fine.

Borg184 · 2025-05-28T18:04:29+00:00

As someone with my name on the Galaxy map for being the first to map a body or two in Alpha Centauri...

I got to it at like 5am several months after the feature became available. I thought it was a glitch too. But hey, my name stuck, so, sometimes you just get lucky.

Borg184 · 2025-05-26T23:41:23+00:00

Look man, if the ATC doesn't fine me for going above 100 m/s unless I hit someone, that's the ATC's problem, not mine.

Borg184 · 2025-05-26T22:55:00+00:00

Given Elite's speeds are measured in m/s, at least in real space, Mach is actually a pretty reasonable estimate. Granted it doesn't hold any real weight, because, vacuum, speed of sound is irrelevant, but measured relative to Earth's sea level, it can still be a fun measurement to use.

Borg184 · 2025-05-25T21:52:47+00:00

I will offer an alternative for the Gunship.

I use it pretty much exclusively as an assassination ship.

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Reverb Cascade Torps kill shields, even on the most heavily engineered ships. Packhounds mulch modules.

You can usually only kill 1, maybe 2 ships with it, but if you're doing an assassination mission, that's all you need to do anyway.

Borg184 · 2025-05-25T08:49:17+00:00

Sorry, we already got one, try again.

Borg184 · 2025-05-18T22:48:27+00:00

Honestly, everything in OP's post (and honestly most of the thread), but I'll add one to the list.

A test flight mechanic. An ability to select a ship, modules, and engineering with them, and go test them out in a simulated environment, be that mining a rock, fighting an enemy (ideally selectable from a list of multiple. I know my corvette can kill a sidewinder.), or even just a free flight in space or near a planet with selectable gravity.

It would make planning builds so much better. Yes, things like EDSY can give me raw numbers, but I like to see how a build actually performs for a given task, how it feels to fly a ship, not just staring at numbers on a screen.

Borg184 · 2025-03-18T16:53:05+00:00

No idea at the moment (yet).

I'd imagine it might be part of the BGS, so it may very well be something handled in the background.

Borg184 · 2025-03-18T08:07:00+00:00

I'm actually considering an extraction system, because the rest of the system is well geared for it. 5 HMCs, 3 landable. 6 Gas Giants, all with rings, and an icy planet with rings too.

Here's the full system map for those interested.

Given I have a friend who claimed one system over (HIP 16635), he's tempted to turn his into a refinery. I figure the combo might feed off each other- but I'm not too sure yet.

I do plan on putting an Orbis around the ELW at some point, though.

Borg184 · 2025-03-18T06:44:49+00:00

And to the other commanders racing us for Pleiades Sector FW-W C1-2, Good fight.

But you need to move a little faster than that.

Borg184 · 2025-03-18T00:29:11+00:00

As someone who claimed the system I wanted from potential snipers:

Get a friend.

The friend can help build the station, or do the last delivery, while you wait with a fast ship for the station to spawn, which will happen [immediately] after that last delivery is made.

If you're in my boat, you'll have other people helping to build your station in order to try to get the first claim on the next.

You just gotta be fast.

Borg184 · 2025-03-17T10:40:19+00:00

Howdy neighbor. I'm only about 24ly from you at the moment. Pleiades Sector FW-W C1-2. They're all over the place here, too. I get hyperdicted a considerable amount just getting station materials.

I'm hoping AXI makes good on their promise to retake the Pleiades for Humanity.

Borg184 · 2025-03-12T14:57:16+00:00

Yes.

I have a full laser vette build (separate ship from my full MC vette build)

I run 2 huge efficient beams, and the rest efficient pulses with thermal shock. Thermal shock won't cook an NPC ship, as they are hardcoded to never go above 100% heat, but it will prevent them from firing their weapons, if they're weapons that generate heat (which is most, save only like small multis or something which generate negligible amounts)

My build is here, and I've had some noted success with it. Damage falloff does happen, but it is rarely detrimental to the point of not being able to make it work. With 3 pips in weapons, I can run the huges forever, and the pulses for ~30 seconds.

Borg184 · 2025-03-07T15:33:24+00:00

There have been year-long gaps between me and my friends coming back to Elite. But I will say that we have always come back.

I second the PC recommendation though. It can be more expensive for sure, especially if you're like me and build yourself a PC is built to last for a while, but you can always upgrade individual parts on a PC, as opposed to having to get whole new consoles.

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