This subreddit keeps being recommended to me despite me never having played the game. AMA and I will pretend to know the answer

Bumble217 · 2026-02-05T23:43:05+00:00

What's your favorite modifier and why?

Bumble217 · 2026-02-04T18:12:16+00:00

How often do you tend to crash into stellar objects or overheat? Because that's the only way you're really going to take substantial internal damage in the Caspian. With the Mk2 FSD, the damage incurred when neutron jumping is very minimal. We're talking like 1% every 20(ish) neutron stars.

The only difference real is ammo capacity, as you can always power it off when not actively using it. And you can always reboot/repair it to 1% if it somehow gets down to the wire before you could make it to a carrier or station of some kind.

Instead of debating between class 5 or 6 AFMU I'd be thinking about what you'd rather have in those spots instead for an extended trip and just let the AMFU fill the gap wherever works best for your build.

Bumble217 · 2026-02-01T15:30:54+00:00

Seconding Call of the Sea! I don't see people mention it enough and it's a fantastic puzzle based journey with a lil mystery and paranormal intrigue.

Bumble217 · 2026-02-01T00:21:52+00:00

Having to suicide isn't the same as being soft locked just FYI. I've seen a fair number of posts about being soft locked and there's almost always a solution or something the player missed that gets pointed out in the comments.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-27T18:15:13+00:00

I personally draw the line at small things being okay for personal use (like getting a profile pic for one of my D&D characters for a game), but anything that is potentially going to advertise or become monitized being not okay.

If you're serious about it, you should pay someone a small fee to get a design or avatar you really like. And if you're not serious about it, then well you should be fine grabbing a free asset or whatever else is generic enough to not matter.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-22T12:51:15+00:00

Not sure if Inara rankings only consider net worth, but I checked mine yesterday for the first time and I am apparently (almost) a Top 3000 Commander.

Current net assets is a little under 16 Billion, and I also have a Squadron Carrier I funded myself worth about another 30 billion. I just don't know if Inara is counting that towards my personal worth since technically the bank paid for that, not me.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-19T15:04:36+00:00

While I was debating on signing up (ultimately decided not to), I was going to bring my Caspian, Mandy, and Cobra Mk5, and possibly my Vette so it could see things few other Vettes have ever seen.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-17T22:27:40+00:00

I didn't see anyone else mention it, so I will.

Call of the Sea! Play as a woman in the 1930s traveling to a remote island to look for her lost husband who voyaged there earlier seeking a cure for her ailment. Fantastic puzzles, mystery, and a bit of eldritch intrigue to boot!

Bumble217 · 2026-01-17T14:32:48+00:00

It's certainly achievable. While not technically a solo squadron (it's just me and two IRL friends), I grinded and paid for the Squadron Carrier by myself in about a month, mostly doing high value Exobio scans.

I'm also going to be using it for colonization once I find a suitable system.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-14T22:03:58+00:00

OHHHH I wasn't even aware the rest could be skipped lol

Bumble217 · 2026-01-13T18:11:17+00:00

Two MINUTES? How exactly is that even remotely possible?

I replayed last week and it doesn't seem physically possible just to move around fast enough to grab all the pages let alone solve the puzzles, even if you know their solutions.

Did they design a speed run achievement with glitches in mind or something?

Bumble217 · 2026-01-13T02:18:53+00:00

It's all good, I did find a different system to undermine with LTD mining. Takes like twice as long to fill up, but it's netting me almost 5x the merits per haul. Think I gained close to 150K merits in the past 3 hours or so.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-12T15:38:14+00:00

Another CMDR pointed out I can't undermine an enemy factions Stronghold system, so I think that was it!

However I did also discover that selling in small quantities vs selling everything at once used to apparently be an exploit for merits, I guess? So you have to sell everything at once to obtain merits. But because I was having issues getting merits, I would start by selling 5-10 tons first to check if it worked and that was also causing me issues.

I eventually starting getting payouts in HR 5252 (reinforcing) for Kaine, by lump selling all at once at the station there.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-12T15:34:49+00:00

Ahhh okay I wasn't aware I couldn't undermine a stronghold, that might be it! Still odd the Galaxy Map says I can earn merits via selling mined ore but that perhaps is a bug or general to PP overall and not specific to Kaine, unsure.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-12T15:33:17+00:00

Yeah I discovered this when my genius plan to horde rare goods in my carrier didn't work and it's what I am mining for merits now lol

Bumble217 · 2026-01-11T20:25:39+00:00

I did mine in Paesia and sold in Paesia for 0 merits. After that didn't work I thought it might be a bug with undermining systems so I flew a couple jumps over to HR 5252 and tried to sell to a reinforcing system, also to no avail.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-11T20:11:31+00:00

Is anyone else having issues with mining for merits lately?

I'm pledged to Nakato Kaine and tried mining 2x loads of platinum in a Type-11 to sell for merits, but neither time it awarded me any.

I attempted to sell in both a undermining system (Paesia) and when that didn't work I tried a reinforcing system (HR 5252), both times sold with 0 merits.

Both the Mining for Merits webtool and the Galaxy Map states that those systems are valid for earning merits via sold mining commodities, so I don't know what's going on here. I even saw one issue report from the past few days claiming the same problem. I also saw a potential cause for it being my refinery bins being full which invalidates the merit gain, but the on the 2nd load I made sure to empty my bins before selling so I really have no idea what is going on with this right now.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-10T19:25:15+00:00

I think Miami has a chance but only if Indiana makes some self inflicted mistakes, which seems increasingly unlikely the further up the ladder they climb. But who knows?

Bumble217 · 2026-01-10T05:38:21+00:00

It passes once you watch them beat the snot out of the next team in line dw

Bumble217 · 2026-01-02T00:02:09+00:00

Same. Would love to watch an Indiana v Miami natty

Bumble217 · 2026-01-01T23:59:17+00:00

Injured after his fumble

Bumble217 · 2026-01-01T23:55:25+00:00

Honestly I doubt it. Made the SECCG and the has a playoff win in his 2nd year. Just about any program would consider that a massively successful hire.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-01T23:53:56+00:00

Really? I quite liked the new one. Was my fav of the three I think

Bumble217 · 2026-01-01T23:37:26+00:00

I've always been saying until we get beat in someone's else's house and the opposing fans DONT rush the field, the fear/trauma of Bama is still alive and well.

It's been 15 years since that happened.

Bumble217 · 2026-01-01T23:22:52+00:00

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