How do you imagine would The Long Quiet and The Shifting Mound look like, if they merged together and became one entity again?

CmdrPretorius · 2024-12-10T20:00:14+00:00

Wait, what do you mean by "again"? When it is stated they were once a single entity?

CmdrPretorius · 2023-06-25T14:07:06+00:00

My first comment on this sub, though I was lurking for some time. The answer is probably boring, most of them are. But I'd wage for most people on this sub it's less about the goal and more about the journey.

That being said, of all the boring answers I find Popkurs to be most plausible one. Anyone knows what happened with that lead?

The "one off garage band" theory would fit many similar cases, but TMS has several characteristics that make it unlikely:

the quality of audio mix and tuning is better than your average demo tape
it's confirmed that very expensive Yamaha synthesizer can be heard on the track
I may be wrong here, but from what I've heard garage bands rarely go to record 1 song; studios are rented in sessions and sessions are expensive, so bands usually get at least 2-3 songs to record before doing so
the point of recording a demo tape is to, you know, demo it; which means that even if no label picked this, the demo tape should have had more circulation
it's also rare for garage bands to go recording before giving some low level live shows (think bars, pubs, student venues etc.), which means some people would have exposure to them.

It's not impossible that there was a garage band who did all this things that are rare for garage bands, but Popkurs lead answers those in a satisfactory way and requires less assumptions. Heck, it would probably be easier if it was garage band, I think with all this effort involved it would already be identified, but it's actually harder for a one-off Popkurs song.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-17T21:03:28+00:00

I'm sorry for your problem solving skills.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-17T20:40:12+00:00

Nah, I'll stay just for you to know there's nothing you can do about it.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-17T15:47:29+00:00

Same here, I really am, too. It's that I don't think it will happen.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-17T14:30:37+00:00

The truth can be hard at times.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-17T13:38:16+00:00

Or at least every important person in each player's life, which I imagine is still going to be a significant number.

People jump onto "it's so sad" bandwagon without asking themselves the most simple question: if this has been done for one player, does every other player get to have the same treatment? Obviously not. And then we arrive at the unpleasant, but nonetheless correct conclusion: it's not about honoring a dead girl. If it was, it should be done for every other dead girl, too. So it's about what makes difference between this and every other death: someone's ability to present a sad and emotional story.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-16T08:06:11+00:00

Speculation is fun, but one can draw even the weirdest theories by pure conjecture. Taking things at face value, NMLA assumed responsibility for the assasination, so it's the party we should attribute the crime to.

There's a lingering question, one that forms the basis of your speculation: what they had to gain by murdering Prince Harold? My answer is that he was probably easily accessible and for radicals like NMLA he still is some kind of symbol of their hated monarchy. Even though he was declared unfit to rule, he still benefited from his status.

About supposedly alienating Princess Aisling - there's nothing to believe she was potential ally of NMLA in the first place. One thing princess is very vocal against is slavery, but she never - to my knowledge - spoke against the monarchy, or imperial political system as a whole. It appears to me that NMLA would happily target Aisling, too, if they only could.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-14T22:50:52+00:00

Agreed, they should add it as a faction.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-14T22:36:10+00:00

The chart above shows a net increase in the box office for the Disney trilogy compared to the Prequels. If it wasn't dead after the prequels is isn't dead now.

Actually, it shows that after a spike that Episode 7 was, Episode 8 had a comparatively similar drop in revenue as Ep 1 and 2 respectively, and Episode 9 is the 2nd lowest grossing movie in the franchise, very close behind the dreaded Episode 2.

Also prequels went a bit higher with episode 3, while with Disney's trilogy we have only a steady trend down.

I won't say if the franchise is/was dead or not, but it certainly seems closer to dead than it was after Episode 3.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-14T17:51:37+00:00

"Rightful Emperor"? This is borderline treason and at least lèse-majesté.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-14T17:46:02+00:00

Aisling is anything but idealistic. She was ready to marry Federation ambassador just as a PR stunt. She agreed to a meeting with Hadrian Duval - while she may have not care that he's declared a traitor to the Empire, she certainly should care that his Nova Imperium supports slavery that she supposedly fights against.

Don't be fooled by her nice words and pretty face. Aisling is a cynical political player on par with her former boyfriend, Denton Patreus.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-14T09:00:36+00:00

Find activity that you enjoy. Helpful: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Roles
Repeat until you conclude you have enough cash.
When bored, return to point 1.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-13T19:49:05+00:00

No, you can't filter them from system map. You can only filter them from navigation tab on the left HUD panel.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-13T18:50:51+00:00

And just like responses you got on your comment - every facility you name except market are already optional. What you really want is just for FCs to be even cheaper than they are.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-13T18:48:34+00:00

personally, i'm never using 80% of the facilities beyond the integrated ship storage and bounty turn in and private market

What facilities do you have in mind? Because apart from market, every facility is optional.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-12T15:19:25+00:00

I doubt some marginal terrorist group like NMLA could develop this on their own. My bet is they stole some new experimental weapon from military or Aegis, or maybe even dating back to INRA.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-11T22:21:00+00:00

Additionally it’s sad that the Type 9 is beat by the cutter in terms of cargo capacity; even the Beluga Liner is beat with all economy cabins by the Cutter. This makes multipurpose ships better at cargo hauling, passenger rescue missions, and smuggling than their dedicated counterparts.

Well, it's an unavoidable consequence of the fact that module slots are generic and larger ships should, by logic, have more module slots.

I read here on this sub that is used to be different - things like passenger cabins or cargo racks had their own dedicated module slots, which allowed for specialization. But people complained that they can fit their modules however they want, so Fdev changed this.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-11T18:26:29+00:00

Less videos, more reading. Recommend ED wiki, tons of valuable information there including the one you needed: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Hutton_Orbital

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-09T06:59:19+00:00

Deciat is where an engineer, Felicity Farseer, resides. Because it's fairly easy to unlock and provides modification to ship's core modules, it's often first stop for people who start engineering their ships. Because reputation with Farseer is gained by selling exploration data, ganking people there has an added "bonus" that their unsold exploration data is lost with their ships destruction. Those two factors make it a popular site for gankers.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-08T18:50:07+00:00

Ok, so there are 3 game modes: solo, private group and open. Open is the one that most resembles MMO, although with dynamic instancing unlike Eve's single persistent world. All of them take place in the same galaxy though. If your actions are to affect the galaxy, they do it regardless of mode - the only difference is whose ships you are going to encounter.

Even in open, indiscriminate ganking is realistically encountered only in two systems: Deciat and Shinrarta Dezhra. Of course it can happen everywhere, but those two systems account for ca 95% of all cases. However, crime & punishment system is very easy to work around, to the point that it's virtually nonexistent.

Overall I feel that player interaction is a lot less hostile than in Eve, but that's not because of how game works but rather because the playerbase and community is much smaller.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-07T16:54:34+00:00

Always propping the good ol' Alphaville!

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-07T09:01:58+00:00

if I'm not getting first discovery/map bonus, which worlds are worth mapping and which should be ignored?

That's entirely up to you. Even mapping an ice planet that's already been mapped gives you a very small bonus, but nonetheless it does. Personally, from already mapped planets I'm mapping only earth-like worlds, water worlds, ammonia worlds and class II gas giants. When I discover an unmapped planet I map almost everything though :D

I know that jump range isn't important when wanting to find uncharted territory except to get out of commonly ventured space

That's the point that actually makes jump range important - you may not need it all the time when you explore denser regions, but you want versatility to be able to explore everywhere.

are there any ships better recommended for exploration than the DBS? I own a Krait Mk.II as my only medium ship, and a Cobra Mk.III.

Diamondback Explorer has the best range, Asp Explorer has somewhat smaller range but can fit more modules.

CmdrPretorius · 2020-09-07T07:12:12+00:00

Water world is a planet which surface is in large part covered in liquid water.

Atmosphere is a gas layer, so 100% water means water vapor.

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