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  4. Posted

    If you are a combat char then try finding a high lvl miner that wants to take on the L9 roids in some very dodgy places. But be nice and share the loot that drops.

    I sometimes need cover.

    Mining xp is not bad if you are mining efficiently - for that you need points investing in Prospect, Reactor (best recharge) and Devices - PM of course. If you invest points elsewhere you will spend all day watching the reactor rise for one more unit to be mined.

    Mine the roids above L6 (L1-6 only give 50xp per roid). L9 gives 225xp. If you get it right you suck up the xp constantly - way faster than touring.

    Gas is particularly good (more of it please devs!).

    Grouping with other miners is even better. A neat thing to do would be to attack high level fields in a swarm with combat cover. Clear the mob, clear the field, move on. The only trouble is there simply isnt enough ore fields in any one system yet, for a team to do this for any length of time.

    And remember to refine for trade. If you are near the next prospect level be disciplined and save the ore for the next level and you will get the extra trade when you refine. Keep enough and you will get a really nice bump up on trade.

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    It would be nice to have information. We did get a snippet of news earlier. But two things - sometimes it just takes an unknown time to fix something, and remember we do not have a big game company supporting this 24x7 (certainly not paid from monthly subs). We are probably waiting for someone to wake up and reboot the server.

  6. Posted

    I think the majority want a level playing field on the play server. I've witnessed a few exploits and it just imbalances the game. Tinkering with game mechanics, free loot - especially uber-items, credit shortcuts and xp exploits all serve to worsen the game experience for people doing it the correct way.

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    ...and explorers should be able to make ammo, and have L9 shields/weaps/reactor and 5 weap slots and lots of turbo buffs....well NO.

    Choose well grasshopper... Warrior or Trader or Explorer.

    The thing still missing at the moment is the hulks. There is only so much point to mining ore (most minerals which you could rip from looted comps anyway). You can source rarer ammo-ores, etc. But at the minute the end-game fails the explorer. You spend the time getting E45 and T45 so you can mine L9 ores and get max build, when warriors sail around zapping the mobs and getting lots of goodies, lots of credits and trade, lots to analyse. Explorers need a slice of the cake too with L8-9 engines/reactors/devices/comps/weaps and rare (only to be mined) items. Sorry - until hulks are restored, and put them into high lvl mob areas then there is little point getting an explorer to maximum.

    Gallina is good to a point (so well done to the Dev that put that together) but the drop list is limited to just 4 different L2 devices, 4 x L4 devices and 2 x L6 devices - and most suck.

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  10. Posted

    Daywolf - so you want UK (and US) to pull out of Iraq and Afganistan too?

    There are very few US troops in Europe these days - and mostly for operating US long strategic logistics. USAF would struggle to fly anywhere if it wasnt for European help, especially Britain and its dependent territories like Diego Garcia. Norfolk England at 4am sounds like JFK with all the lifters, troop carriers and refuellers taking off - and no they are not all American.

    Plus ships bunkering in Gibraltar.

    As someone said - the gaming world doenst normally want to talk politics, wars and religion. Perhaps we should keep it that way. ? and we got onto this through insurance...? Ok - politics, wars and religion and insurance.

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    There are some areas (not the training area) with high densities of the same ores.

    There are several oddities with ore spawning. I love the cleared field bonus which sets of a respawn ?30mins? ater.

    Some roids have a couple of devices in them. Not sure this is intended.

    Hulks needs some love.

    Some roids dont mine at max distance and you need to get up real close to start drilling, and you then find even if you are at 0.0 the ore is dragged in from a long way away.

    Some roids look massive, and (even though they are rock) they only have 1u of Helium.

    Until prospecting is encouraged more then the temptation will be to go for warrior classes.

  20. Posted

    Or two vaults - one for keepsies and one for general use. I'm terrified of throwing away something I need.

    As an avid miner I'd like to keep a lot of the 210+ ores AND some of the refines as these are needed for refining chains.

    Also - the ability to transfer goods to another player remotely - some kind of escrow. Not just to other players but also to your other 4 chars.

    Great post - heartily agree about the noise demanding improvements for race types. If you want trade skills get a Terran, etc. If you want a warrior dont get a thin hulled miner. But I do think the new classes need a few more hugs and licks of paint to bring them into full play.

  21. Posted

    I had great fun developing a TS to L75.

    The two points I'd make are Jumpstart cannot be used on yourself (at least not at L3 - 'unable to activate while incapacitated'). And as a missile boat you are severely hampered by being unable to make your own ammo, whereas the ability to make just engines and devices is just stupid for a Terran. Which reminds me - engines just do not seem as regular loot as the other stuff which makes me think training Engine Build a bit of a waste unless you are the builder type.

    It would be nice to see some TS specific gear buffs like missile accuracy/rate, hull patch, JS, etc. Like all the new classes they lack a few choice engines/shields/reactors/weaps/devices making gear choice tough.

    I did feel I hit a combat wall at ML2 and had to carefully grind. After L75 HU and 3MLs at L4/5 you are on your way.

  22. Posted

    Got it... Press close, then Logon, then hey presto...

    Its very pedantic - I suppose, 'accurate'. It HAS to be the correct forum username, password, return email. If you cannot log in its because you have one of those incorrect. Many thanks to peops above who helped us all through this.

  24. Posted

    Yup - seconded. I happened to be going back to my home sector to try for my Hack mission yet again and I noticed someone hiding behind the mission terminal.

    Not sure people realise but the GMs took time out all weekend US-time and Europe-time. Very appreciated as in Live I'd always thought such events were slanted one way. Props due.

  25. Posted

    Please can hulks be made a priority in ST4. I've searched all over and agree that there are only 3 sectors with hulk drops, and all progen devices. This is a significant part of the explorer gameplay - being able to ninja into a hulk to steal a L7 device without the L43 bio blatting you. We dont just mine. We need more carrots, and not just L4 and L6 progen devices.

    Please could devs let us know whether skulking around more dangerous areas is worthwhile. The best places were always the dodgiest, and it was always worth hopping belt to belt to see if anything had spawned (Cloaked JEs FTW).

    Also suggest bringing back the pop-roids... Nothing like a scare for a thin shielded explorer.

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