What are you doing (ingame) now?

[Rimsplitter]

I'm going to resign from ALD because PP has just become more of a hassle than it's worth. Which means that I'll be heading out of ALD space for a while, but I shall return with an A-rated combat Python for the next OOM expansion, all being well.

[charlie2alpha]

So, my first time today since my month long hiatus. Spawned at Hutton Orbital as that's where I left my Python the last time. First thing I did, left ALD becoming independent and removing myself from Power Play as it is more useless than useful now. Next, went to DVorsi to change over to my Corvette. Spend some time changing its weapons, running all gimballed Pulse Laser setup plus 2 4A Mutlis also gimballed. Went to a H-Res nearby to test the ship vs the new AI. Got about 2.6 mils before I decided to withdraw without a scratch, mostly because the month out made me rusty now and I got tired.

My most challenging opponent was a deadly Anaconda that spammed chaff and SCBs and rammed me on top of all that. The vette with some help from the cops at the end of the battle managed to made it without losing shields! I was already in the habit of targeting the power plants and use FA off to turn even before the 2.1 patch it's all coming back to me now. I may appear at the Exioce CZs one of those days to try my luck.

[Schmobius]

I just need 1 polonium, which I spent around 5 fruitless hours searching for last night, and then about 60% more rank with Farseer, and I can get my FSD. Scanning all the things everywhere I go for exploration data.

If anybody knows a guaranteed place to find Polonium, I'm listening. (Yes, I used that materials spreadsheet, and this is the only planet where I found one singular polonium before, but even that took hours. So if someone knows a place with a better drop rate than Eta Draconis A4, please let me know.)

[Rimsplitter]

Didn't need to leave ALD space after all so my Python is currently docked in Exioce ready for some combat bond farming later this evening. Hope the war doesn't end without me.

[Hrdina]

Getting an in-game error message I had not seen before: "Body exclusion zone hit". Location: 24 km away from Maia B

Did some tests, and you cannot traverse even at full boost of a Cobra Mk III, but you can shoot a cargo canister in there. Only travels about 4.2km before it slows to a stop. Retrieval was not an option, obviously.

IIRC, you get that message when you try to approach a landable world, but you are running Elite Dangerous but not Horizons (or something like that).

[thebs]

I see encouraging stories here, I'm thinking to get back out there, get my vette and find some huge MCs for it.

Short version ...
Obviously I don't know what I'm doing in an A-spec Python, at least when doing everything I can to avoid any combat.

Long version ...

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Between last night and this morning, I mined in Delkar 7 (well away from any RES) for a good 2 hours and filled my 224t cargo hold about 200t, around 36t of gold for the CG, using my A-spec Python. I then made the 5 jumps over to Naunin. I had purposely been avoiding combat and it seemed Mining would be peaceful again.

At about 3Ls before reaching the station, I got interdicted by a "Deadly" FGS. I tried to avoid the interdiction, and almost had it, but then it twisted and I was interdicted. Not wanting to fight, I immediate boosted and kept the FGS at 2km away, kicking out chaff. He slowly, but surely, brought down my A-spec shields (I went with the top class, plus an OA booster), just as the cooldown completed.

I laughed as I started my FSD charge as he barely got to 90% of my hull as it was nearly full. I was just about ready to jump, when I got a FDS malfunction, he had taken out my FDS with 89% of hull remaning. And that was that. Another 5M credit loss, which brings my insurance claims to over 15M for the last 5 hours of gameplay. I like risk, but every single chance is resulting in death for me.

I don't get to game but 4-5 hours/week, and all I'm doing is losing money now. Every single encounter is almost guaranteed death, even in an A-spec Python. The "chance rolls" or whatever they are doing just never seem to let me live. No interdiction until 3Ls from station (after hours and jumps), jumping, then he hits my FDS just as he starts to do hull damage. Kinda really long odds, yet it happens over and over.

Heck, when I got interdicted, I should have just exited and chanced the 15 seconds. I've never done that, and I shouldn't have to. Hence why I'm chickening out. The game is just too frustrating for a someone like me now. Heck, I'm pretty good at combat, and maybe I should have faced him and chanced it. But I guess I just never wanted to after the 2.1 patch, and just always run, not that I can ... and still can't seem to either.

I'm going back to Fallout 4.

[JohnLuke]

Didn't need to leave ALD space after all so my Python is currently docked in Exioce ready for some combat bond farming later this evening. Hope the war doesn't end without me.

The war is over!!

Sabine Installation now belongs to the Order of Mobius.

[Hrdina]

Didn't need to leave ALD space after all so my Python is currently docked in Exioce ready for some combat bond farming later this evening. Hope the war doesn't end without me.

The war is over!!

Sabine Installation now belongs to the Order of Mobius.

Ha, I just got into the system and docked last night before bed. I was planning to jump into the CZ this evening.

This is the second time time that's happened to me.

[Rimsplitter]

But there's still a CZ with OOM fighting the crimson doo-dahs. I've spent the last two hours getting my ship torn apart and pissing away money on repairs.

Think I'll go take some delivery missions that I can't deliver to wind down for a bit.

[Xebeth]

Sabine is showing as ours, but we are still registered as being at war. Hopefully it'll sort itself out at tomorrows BGS tick.

Well done to everyone who did their bit, we've been after this for some time, and it is well deserved.

For those Bounty Hunters amongst us it's going to be nice to have some RESs in the same system as one of our bases.