That would explain why you can’t access Multi-Crew info.
You can join a PvE private group. I’m in one called Mobius PVE, for example; they don’t PvP unless it’s in a Combat Zone and will quickly boot anyone caught doing that elsewhere.
Commander Mobius founded the Mobius private group, which grew so large that it overwhelmed Frontier’s server so those of us in the Western Hemisphere were shuffled off into Mobius PVE. There’s now a third group for Asia and Oceania. If you want to join, send a message to Mobius.
Lately I’ve been getting my space combat fix from Everspace, but that’s gotten really grindy so last night I decided to fire up ED again.
Only I haven’t played in so long it needed several gigs of updates, which meant that it wouldn’t be done until after I went to bed (updates always download really slowly for me, despite my fast connection).
It should be ready for tonight, though.
I’m going to try it in VR again. Last time I tried it in VR mode the galaxy map was totally unusable. Hopefully that’s fixed now.
I don’t know what it used to be like since I just started playing two weeks ago, but I find it ok, but certainly not great.
I had my most exciting combat to date. A vulture blew out my canopy. That was VERY exciting. I ended up forcing the vulture to FSD away and got to a landing with 40 seconds to spare.
That vulture was a mission NPC so she came back later. In round 2, I won handily but she escaped by FSD. In the 3rd round we beat the CRAP out of each other. I “won” with 37% left of my hull. She was worth 125K credits, plus 60K for an optional objective so well worth it.
I’ve been trying to figure this out, too; even posted to their forums but didn’t get a response. I’ve basically quit playing until I can figure out how to do this.
Part of the problem is that it starts you looking straight down the galactic plane that it puts the crosshairs on, so you can’t actually SEE any of the UI until you tilt up or down. Once I figure that out, it’s easy enough to target a star and select it, which brings up (a) the tabbed UI panel on the left, and (b) a little “flag” on the star with four or so options - target, plot, system info, and maybe something else. “Target” is selected on the flag once you select the system.
My problem is, nothing I do will let me change to the “plot” field of the flag. I can tab around the UI all day (but nothing there – even on the plot tab – actually plots, so far as I can tell), and back in/out/cancel, etc. I can literally do everything on this screen except the one thing you’re going to want to do 95% of the time you’re in there. I swear I’ve tried every button and combination of buttons on the controllers a bunch of times – no luck. So I can fly only to systems within a single jump range, and since I left my ship about 1000 light years out when I quit playing last time, I’m basically screwed for ever getting home.
Anybody know what the magic button sequence is to plot a course? I’m using the out-of-the-box Oculus touch controllers scheme. I’d really, really like to play this game in VR, but so far it’s been hours and hours of frustration to see a few cool visuals.
If I’m understanding correctly, I use the XBox controller and I just hit right on the d-pad. I’m not sure how to do it with the touch since there’s no d-pad.
I was up about 2 million. I got whooped by a Diamondback Explorer. It wasn’t even close. I opened up on him with my lasers. He opened up on me with purple balls of energy. I don’t know what those are but they hurt. In the opening salvo my shields were nearly offline while his were at 50%. I switched to flying defense and got his shields offline shortly after that he got a good pass on me. Shields offline. Hull at 57%. I decide to make a run for it, as I should have done earlier. Hard points retracted. Frame Shift Drive charging. Boom.
500K in insurance.
Plus I had about 600K in jobs and cargo.
All gone.
I did get a A-rated distributor. I need to go over to my engineer today and get him to do his technobabble on it.
Bought myself a Dolphin and kitted it out, the Ecco Beach. I’ve put luxury cabins in her, but I have not actually found any luxury passengers yet - I may drop a rating.
I’m not sure what ship to get next. I’m leaning towards a Type-7 Transporter. Although I find getting enough cargo missions to fill up even my Asp Explorer is difficult, so I’m not sure if I really need more cargo space.
I got my 4A power distributor souped up. I got VERY luck on the rolls. I have +recharge to Wep/Eng/Sys and slightly improved capacity on Wep/Sys. A pretty heafty decrease to Eng capacity but whatever I find I don’t use the boost that much anyway, and I have enough to boost and it is
recharged by the time the boost has worn off so I don’t really feel like I need more capacity anyway.
I have 1 business class cabin (3E so 3 passengers) on my Asp Explorer. It stays full enough to justify its existence but I find that syncing up cargo with passengers is pretty difficult.
That was one of the problems that I had previously, and the other was that the systems would flicker like crazy during any movement, which in VR was an express train to Barfsville.
The flicker is gone, and I can move around on the little ‘flag’ and select ‘plot course’ now. It’s not great, but at least I can use it.
I don’t know what the touch controls are, since I have a Vive and a HOTAS setup, but the same controls that let me move left and right in other menus (like the station menu) lets me get over to the little flag and set the course and bookmark. You might actually need to go into the control config menu and set it explicitly for the galaxy map. I had to do that for a lot of the pitch/yaw/roll controls in there, as the default didn’t have any of them set.
Over the past couple days of playing I’ve been able to make about 2 million space bucks, which is roughly 1.9 million more than I’d ever been able to make in this game up to this point. Mostly courier missions, and I made a bunch from scanning a couple of unexplored systems that had lots of objects scattered about.
That may be my favorite part of this game right now. You can track down undiscovered astronomical objects by looking at the orbital plots of the ones that you have found and seeing where they get perturbed. I suppose a better discovery scanner would make that less necessary, but my little Eagle’s powerplant can’t handle anything other than the basic one.
That’s the problem with letting missions guide your path. You don’t stay in one place long enough to build up a reputation with the locals, thereby granting access to more lucrative contracts.
