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Whoa, flashback to Live, reading the forums about the goings-on over in Andromeda, LOL.

Agree with everything said above. JE is best miner, IMO, but the combat leveling is HARD playing solo. Hiding (cloak) is a JE's best offensive skill, LOL. I rate PS second. It's better in combat/more durable than the JE but (typically) uses projectile weps which require ammo which require cargo slots. Menace can indeed be hit or miss - and usually miss when you REALLY need it - but Powerdown has always been very effective for me. TS can't disappear and needs ammo; it can be built real fast but mining solo with no cloak or teleport skills can really suck.

Are you saying that you did 4K builds on EACH category? IME just doing the volume build on ONE thing is enough (and components don't count but then all PM comps are always 200%). So if the builder can build devices then the cheapest device (forget what it is at the moment) is the way to go for the initial volume build even if that char is going to focus on weps or something else. Again, that's just my experience and if I misinterpreted . . . but want to be clear to new(er) builders that might read this thread in the future.

Echoing everything @Sioux said above. I've used the 3K items built as my threshold and all my builders routinely hit 200% but there is the occasional *burp* that spits out one at less than that. In the interim, while waiting on building experience, IME using PM components vs store-bought in the build goes a long way to increasing the quality, too. As to the analyze aspect I don't know that there's any established correlation between build #'s and analyze success. Many have opined that doing the analyze at a terminal on a station with favorable faction for the character plays a role. I'm inclined to agree but have no objective data to offer up to support that.

Cool beans! I may come back to this when I repurpose this box down the road . . . gosh, thanks Microsoft, but I'm going to pass on tossing a perfectly functional PC in the trash heap just because it's too old (Haswell) for you. I had tinkered with Linux installs of some of the old games but it was a PITA and I didn't try real hard as I had working Win options so didn't HAVE to make it work on *nix. This looks much better, thanks for sharing.

Oh that sounds awful, I'm glad at least you were in the right place at the right time to get care. Hope all goes well and wish you a fast recovery.

IME there's a number of 7/8/9 fields that are only moderately guarded at best. Regardless of race-type any miner going for 7+ ores should be able to fly a low sig ship plus good reactor/device combos that allow them to quickly drain each rock/cloud. Focusing on the same roid-types allows a field to be quickly cleared - and get the bonus - without running out of hold space; I routinely clear 2 fields and then some before filling up.

Very cool!

Nice to see a post from Magoo, blast from the past (and thanks for all the help over the years). Apologies if this is a thread-jack but it's the same topic - I have multiple avatars in the guild "The Chosen" and our GL (Tore, Mori, etc.) hasn't been on in over a year. My char "Warsteiner" is the highest ranked char that's logged in within the last year. Is it possible to elevate that char to GL? Thanks for any feedback!

Just a totally rando suggestion . . . if you were to attempt again an uninstall and reinstall perhaps use something like the Everything search agent to look for Net7 goobers after your "uninstall" to verify there's not a directory still present that might be effing up your efforts.

I'm noticing an error when I login to the game and to the net-7 portal with my security software noting that there's a mismatch on the cert. Others mentioned it in-game as well. I bypass it and continue but I'm also seeing where formerly routine actions within the portal now "spin" and I have to hit the browser reload button and start from scratch. This *might* be a possible reason for some of the other recent posts from people reporting difficulty logging in - they *may* have s/w that detects and fails a cert mismatch but doesn't externalize it so it's "silent". Just an FYI . . .

Wow, that's even worse than I had imagined. I haven't interacted with you (Laracraft et al) in game much but see you being pretty generous in chats on giving away mappable loots (like most everyone these days) so OP's description seemed pretty out of character and I assumed (s)he was "off". Love the promise of "You will be banned", surprised (s)he didn't resort to "You will RUE the day!" LOFL. Back to mom's basement for you, troll, and NO LASAGNA! 🤡

That's pretty slick. Thanks for contributing. Right now other than the sometimes obtrusive tooltips I'm OK with the vanilla interface but should I need to it's nice to know this option is there.

Wow. That was quite the train wreck. Update: Oh, just realized OP was in An-DRAMA-duh in Live, so that explains a lot, LOL. Back in Live one of the most entertaining things was reading the forum threads from Andromeda members, better than modern day reality TV I tell ya! (all in good fun to you Andromeda vet's, but you know I'm not lyin'!).

Pretty old, I'd have to search gmail for invoices as to when I bought the stuff but it's an Intel Haswell 4770K with a GeForce GTX780 so that should give you an idea. Recently started running pretty hot so I think I probably need to remount the CPU cooler after cleaning and applying fresh goo.