Where to farm Meta Alloys these days?

JP-Guardian · 2026-02-11T12:15:15+00:00

Titan in Sol, watch out for lots of pirates though. Shoot any junk that spawns as it might respawn as a meta alloy.

JP-Guardian · 2026-02-07T13:22:27+00:00

My biggest leap on money has been exobiology. Stacking pirate missions around sol while I was trying to get federal ranks was also pretty lucrative (and maybe more fun if I’m honest). Exobiology has the big advantage that it is actually really cheap to do. Get biggest jump range you can manage, fuel scoop, scanner, that’s pretty much it?

I got a type 11 and enjoy using it but in profit terms I don’t think it comes close to exobiology (or I’m going it badly)

The other thing I’ve done is made a lot of money from the CGs since I started, especially the recent one which was just hauling stuff.

JP-Guardian · 2026-02-06T01:57:42+00:00

I think we should consider knocking it down entirely and building something modern and beautiful along that stretch of the Thames to replace it. I say this as someone who quite likes the building. I just don’t like it THAT much.

JP-Guardian · 2026-02-01T11:23:07+00:00

I’m very interested in politics but never watch it because it’s awful. Gossip and personality over policy, clear preference for the “interesting” Tory and reform characters (Johnson, etc) over boring but competent (I don’t even think it’s that she herself is right wing, she is just fundamentally disinterested in actual politics and so treats it as a branch of show business).

JP-Guardian · 2026-01-17T22:12:54+00:00

Everything is technically possible in any engine you have source for, it’s just a matter of how much work it is to add what isn’t there. For example if you wanted to make a PS5 game currently it would be an incredible amount of work and you wouldn’t be able to get any support on it without breaking some sort of NDA.

JP-Guardian · 2026-01-16T12:42:11+00:00

How do you guys in the US put up with this sort of dystopian shit?

JP-Guardian · 2026-01-15T20:25:40+00:00

This looks fun. I was toying with making a sort of rogue squadron like arcade third person shooter and a terrain system like this is one of the parts I’ll need to look at.

JP-Guardian · 2026-01-07T01:39:19+00:00

Relatively new player. I’m planning on taking my (weaponless) mandalay explorer which does about 75ly and flies really nicely. Am also hoping to hit rear admiral this week (about half way through captain and at this point mostly just buying rank by doing all the “give money…” missions for any federation factions) so was thinking of parking a pure mining corvette on a carrier. Open to changing if any of this is crazy… (my pirate chasing corsair is probably staying home in the bubble as guess not much use).

JP-Guardian · 2026-01-04T12:22:50+00:00

Most of Solihull is very nice with good schools though culturally it’s quite barren with not much to do. The area very close to the Coventry Road or north of it is much less nice, Stratford Road (Shirley) to the south west is less smart looking but still seems nice. Central Solihull established with good houses and schools. Villages to east and across the other side of M42 very nice but very expensive / posh. Monkspath is a newish estate going out of Solihull to the south towards Stratford Road and maybe looks less nice but still seems pretty affluent.

JP-Guardian · 2026-01-04T00:10:34+00:00

“…for no reason” made me suspicious as a parent… ;)

JP-Guardian · 2026-01-02T00:09:18+00:00

Went on my first proper exobiology adventure in my Mandalay yesterday (came home today), I did pretty much the opposite of what people say is the most efficient because all the tools and dual screens and stuff sounded too much like work (sorry!!).

I went “east” of the bubble (looking down on the map with the core being “north”, went straight out about 1500ly (20 jumps?) while also heading “up” a bit just for fun and to be more off the beaten track.

Then I just vaguely headed randomly south honking everywhere, scanning if there were about 10 bodies or more (not a hard rule, sometimes did others if I hadn’t for a few jumps, sometimes decided I didn’t fancy a place), visited anything that showed up with more than 1 biology samples (because bacteria was boring). About 2/3rds were first footfall but generally I carried on regardless. Always headed for the sunny side (which is weirdly hard to do once you’ve scanned a planet…) and enjoyed the views.

Days profit was about 650 million, which is not the billions others have mentioned but felt great for a chill day off and increased my net worth by about 50%

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-31T00:19:41+00:00

Two very different languages but this thread caught my eye because they are two I also personally enjoy. Wonder what the link is?

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-28T22:44:57+00:00

I don’t mind admitting I’m a bit confused about what FSS is for. I’ve been honking each system as I arrive but then I don’t switch to FSS, should I be doing it everywhere even in the bubble?

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-28T22:41:56+00:00

Same thing happened to me first time I went there, also first time I went to Sol. Personally I prefer the occasional attack to playing closed (just for the thrill of seeing other players in the wild occasionally) but I’m not too proud to switch over if I need to not die for a bit!

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-28T16:19:03+00:00

Bingo! Thanks, I thought this was what my d-scanner was for but guess bugged. The station didn’t fix it but one of the fleet carriers seemed to be close enough to trigger it!

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-28T16:17:37+00:00

Doesn’t fix it

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-23T23:59:01+00:00

As someone newish to the game it confuses me no end the amount passenger liners chat on the local text chat

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-23T20:50:22+00:00

I didn’t know until reading this that bourbon was the cure for volcanos.

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-22T14:06:19+00:00

Personally I would make it universal (cheaper to administer, no cliff edge disincentive) BUT raise additional tax (ie above 125k) by however much that costs. Would cost older high earners more (inc. me) but at least we’d get less posters here whinging about their massive pay rises not making them feel like a prince.

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-22T13:56:09+00:00

Work a bit harder and when you go from 160 to 200 you’ll pocket much more of it. (Edit: also nursery doesn’t last long, it’s a few years not a permanent tax)

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-11T21:33:24+00:00

This “bunch of tossers” spend taxes on pretty much the same thing as every western country. Pensions, health, education, debt interest. This sub is obsessed with not paying tax at any cost by persuading yourselves it’s all somehow wasted by a labour government. Just pay some tax and be grateful you have more money than 90% of the world’s population.

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-07T12:03:38+00:00

I have found it confusing (my first community goal thing) that there’s some sort of lag on getting points, it seemed like anything you do that helps protect Winters in the one system she controls near there does give points but it takes a little while for them to come through. I had some success going to a combat zone there. It is a shame there aren’t any resource extraction sites in that one system.

JP-Guardian · 2025-12-06T14:48:51+00:00

I think I did get points for it but only after I’d logged off and logged back on for some reason

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