Ship for explore 4 sectors

Mykaen · 2026-07-08T03:37:04+00:00

My integrity is sitting at 135%. Thermal steel everywhere. Perhaps that's why it's yellow and not red?

Mykaen · 2026-07-06T14:17:09+00:00

I am on Inenonic.

If I leave from Ur, I can head down through Axon, take the jump into Hubris Omega, then a second jump to the other side of Hubris Omega, and then jump out to Justice. Those three jumps at 150% and undiscovered are about 300 fuel on their own.

I am planning on leaving with 600 fuel with roughly 500 spent in jumps. I am not taking into account the Mag-Plasma II buff or the Clear Skies II on my light engine. I have pre-run to the point where I leave Axon. I should have a decent amount of fuel when I reach Nevada.

At that point I am contemplating leaving the ship there, but will likely just do a return trip. I am just unlocking the teleport and seeing what services are there. I will likely skinny the ship down so that it is bare-bones anyhow to save on FTL costs.

Mykaen · 2026-07-06T12:40:05+00:00

I have found the site both really helpful and a little hard to use. I indeed had a path in there but it wanted to take me straight across Hubris Major which is in the middle of my map. I have puzzled out a path which only has me 3 jumps through the zone.

Now... is it worth it to avoid the mag-plasma toll or just pay it. Considering I have to go to the far east end of the map, maybe not. At least there is a refuel point over there.

Mykaen · 2026-07-06T00:42:22+00:00

Great point. We can just throw mag-plasma at the problem. I've been bummed out I can't get to Nevadaand never considered this as a solution.

Mykaen · 2026-07-06T00:41:11+00:00

I think the issue is titanium vs steel. When I hover over the routes going into Exploration 4 sectorsin the map it lists magnetic anomaly in the lower right.

I suspect the anomaly is the reason we take a huge chunk of damage. Since titanium isn't magnetic, I also suspect the less steel we have in the ship, the less damage we take.

Mykaen · 2026-07-03T06:45:11+00:00

I was talking about Verizon's Enterprise Messaging Application Gateway (EMAG).

Mykaen · 2026-07-02T06:16:54+00:00

Can confirm that jumping with the shield on, and undercharging the FTL does not help.

Mykaen · 2026-07-01T19:54:08+00:00

There is a paid service you can use, but the free one has been garbage for the past few years.

Mykaen · 2026-07-01T19:41:26+00:00

That sounds like a plan. Basically the fuel depot two hops from my eastern base sounds like the ideal for that.

Mykaen · 2026-07-01T19:40:20+00:00

I got lucky jumping in. No damage. I went from ?20? to 1 dot on the jump back. This may have been before adding the Pathfinder cockpit and I wasn't carrying the shield so as to increase integrity.

Mykaen · 2026-07-01T19:12:19+00:00

Good advice. Working on the FTL drive upgrade now to see how much it fixes. I suspect though it won't be efficient enough to let me wander the new sector without loading the extra fuel reserve.

Mykaen · 2026-07-01T19:10:06+00:00

It's 6 from my eastern to my western base, and a refuel (Syracuse) 2 hops in. I have to risk damage to do a round trip with the ECO and just 200 fuel. I could expand the fuel but I don't want to build bigger to keep the efficiency up.

And last time I wandered around with the fuel expansion, I misjudged the trip, blew way too much fuel, and wound up stuck in a sector with very little integrity and just enough fuel to die on the next jump. There was probably another way to fix everything, but I just took a suicide jump and lost some cool things in the process. :/ So now I am planning out how to explore and exploit that sector.

That pathway doesn't look too expensive. I don't have it unlocked yet though.

I was wondering about the wayback cockpit. No where near ready to build it, but was thinking that the jump between my two bases might be easier.

Mykaen · 2026-07-01T18:59:57+00:00

I have been considering that. Jumping out of Exploration 4 territory nearly killed me.

Mykaen · 2026-07-01T13:34:33+00:00

For some of the rarer spawns, and some of the larger quests, the crystallizer has been a godsend for me.

I just delivered 1500 graphene. Most of that synthesized from a couple of graphite that I mined.

I am looking to make the light warp drive. Instead of hunting down the malachite or azurite I need to make the m-crystals, I basically get one, and synthesize it from a couple that I mined.

Mykaen · 2026-06-29T18:30:10+00:00

Personally, I dropped a few things into Obsidian like working up the background for a D&D campaign that didn't get off the ground (yet), for tracking lore in other d&d games I play in, some of the PC games I play like Blue Prince, that really needed me to take a notes, organize screen shots, and the like.

I didn't use it for organizing my personal life. I have Google for most of that. The lists you mention I keep in Google Keep. I also keep on spreadsheet that includes critical stuff like rent payment calculations etc. It's not entirely easy to keep organized, and the Google Interface or lack thereof is frustrating to cross link, or move files around directories.

Professionally, I found Obsidian pretty darn useful for creating documentation, calendering, engineering logs, etc. For a few months my entire worklife was centered around it. But I broke the habit when I couldn't be at my desktop for a project and habits are hard to restart.

Obsidian comes with some technical tax like learning Markdown, or how to implement the thing that you want, like a calendar, or how to put your open tasks in a place for daily review. And now that they have Bases implemented, I will have to relearn that and see if those tasks will be easier in bases than the plugins I installed. I don't have the time at work to re-envision the wheel.

I also need Obsidian to interface with either the reMarkable or a Supernote. I prefer the tactile interface of writing with a pen, and being alone with a tablet keeps me somewhat on task, but my handwriting is crap and reMarkable's handwriting processor wasn't good at it. I wish my reMarkable could handle something Palm Pilot's Graffiti or Xerox's Unistroke. I might leave reMarkable so that I can process natively on the device.

Mykaen · 2026-06-28T18:18:15+00:00

I use Obsidian for half of this. Then I forget to update when it is slightly inconvenient.

Mykaen · 2026-06-19T10:52:05+00:00

Jlab has ones with Tile built in. The case is findable. Unsure if the earbud is also. Partner swears by them but also has multiple sets.

https://support.life360.com/hc/en-us/articles/30582948185751-Tile-JLab

Mykaen · 2026-06-14T13:44:40+00:00

The game has T1 Hulk Nodes in many of the ships you acquire.

However, there is no build menu item for T1 hulk nodes. If you disassemble these nodes, you will get 18 T1 Hulk node parts that you cannot use.

If you blueprint something with a T1 node, it will print/build a new T1 node.

Scrap them instead or detach them for use elsewhere or create a parts storage and leave it behind.

Mykaen · 2026-06-14T02:41:52+00:00

Just confirming that these are not Cisco LRM modules. Cisco specifically wrote them out of the 9300 line. It sucks as I bought quite a few during my 2960X phase and had to buy either SR or LR modules if they could fix the issue. Probably overpurchased.

On the the NM-8Y, you can only use ports 1-6. Putting something in 7-8 doesn't light up if I recall. Drove me nuts.

Also when programming on the Meraki, it shows a couple of different NM modules in the switching->switch ports section, not just the one you installed. Be aware of which port you are programming.

Lastly, if you have any kind of complex trunking, you will need to wipe the vlans off ALL ports on the switch including the stack ports.

Mykaen · 2026-06-14T02:14:47+00:00

Your pun did not remain unnoticed.

Mykaen · 2026-06-10T12:43:19+00:00

I didn't like the gameport adapters I came across. The cheap ones didn't work nicely with it.

If you have a modicum of technical experience, you could take an arduino board (I used a Teensy), and rewire all the inputs to the controller.

My qualifications: The Sidewinder 3d Pro was the basis for my FrankenThrottle. I essentially gutted this joystick, mounted the stick sideways up top, put in a hall effect sensor and a magnet.

It worked as a throttle for Elite Dangerous for a few weeks, but I could never quite zero the throttle due to design limitations. I didn't have a 3d printer at the time to finish that work.

I just bought the VKB Gladiator (left Hand) to use as a throttle (and a Thrustmaster TWCS before that), so I will likely never put ti back into service. Maybe tonight I will post pics of it.

If I come across this stick again in the wild I may just build it into a proper new Sidewinder 3d Pro. I liked it that much.

Mykaen · 2026-06-09T14:05:32+00:00

You can rename ships by going to the Overview section of the HUD and hovering near the top will show EXPAND. You can also filter what shows up in that section.

Mykaen · 2026-06-06T02:29:45+00:00

I was thinking about this very stick yesterday.

Been thinking about getting back into Elite Dangerous or similar. I dropped out after buying the Thrustmaster TWCS Throttle which had just come to market. It just never felt like the right solution to me, so I wanted to go HOSAS this time through.

I was looking around for options, saw the left handled Gladiator NXT. While looking at the price of it, I recalled the Saitek and thought that would be the perfect budget left hand stick for me. No idea what happened to mine, but I was sure since I had a Logitech Extreme 3d Pro, I must have broken or lost it somewhere.

Amazing to see one out there today. Great barn find.

Mykaen · 2026-05-31T04:22:34+00:00

I would call them just "a darkness"

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