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I keep forgetting that it's not "one real week", too, and rushing into the My Roms section of my account to make sure I renew my shit at the 20% discount you get on renewals. And then I get there and there's 3-6 days left on everything. :v: Fuckin' Anxiety Commander. Just loading the hangar doesn't spend a token, and [I]attempting[/I] to load AC (but failing because it dies on the loading screen or something) doesn't seem to spend a token. But if you spawn in a ship in space, a token's probably been spent right then. Edit: Thinking about it, I don't really give a shit if they nerf REC for co-op VS to half its current rate, it's too easy to gain. My Aurora LX with quad Badgers (this is about to be fixed, but okay, two Omnisky IIIs or K&W laser repeaters on the S1 mounts is still effective) can compete against three other pilots of equal skill unless every single one's in an M50 or a SH, so I can count on a consistent REC income as long as I don't get matched with Team Ultratryhard. And, y'know, I'm not limited to the LX, but I don't even have to pay REC for it, just any guns I buy, so that's the baseline and it goes up from there. And once the fps module goes up and it's CoD Citizen day in and day out (and the crowd of holdouts rushes in), holy shit is it going to be easy to farm REC once the fps gamemodes/matchmaking are stable.

I keep blowing REC on Gimbals and Weapons for my Avenger (I made sure they fall under the proper sizes and whatnot), only to have them NOT show up in my Holotable. wut do? D:

[QUOTE=Suitcase;47475970]I keep blowing REC on Gimbals and Weapons for my Avenger (I made sure they fall under the proper sizes and whatnot), only to have them NOT show up in my Holotable. wut do? D:[/QUOTE] When in doubt, delete your inventory xml in CitizenClient\USER\you\youinventory.xml. The whole inventory and purchasing system rarely works right.

Delete (username)_inventory.xml from your Star Citizen\CitizenClient\USER\ directory and relog. fuck :v

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;47475595]The 1.1.1 PTU patch notes say they added the functionality to be able to set different REC rates for different game modes, so I'm pretty sure they're nerfing coop VS specifically, because people can farm it for REC [I]so[/I] easily. However, what remains to be seen is how hard they nerf it.[/QUOTE] I understand why they want to nerf it but I don't agree and I really have no problem with the idea of people farming it for REC. The game is way too buggy to force a grind on somebody, especially when all it does is prevent people from testing things out, which is the whole point of Arena Commander. Despite the fact that I've actually been having fun playing Star Citizen for a change, Arena Commander really isn't in a state of completion or polish to be played or thought of as a real game yet. I'm hoping it won't be a big nerf, and were this any other company I would expect things to go completely to shit at this point, but REC is already a freakishly forgiving and user friendly system so it might not be as bad as I'm thinking.

Anyone feel like playing some free flight, for shits and giggles? I'll hop onto the Teamspeak at prfn.se in about ten minutes, want to make some tea.

I might be on in 5 or so hours to dink about, need to get my space legs back. I'd set up the controls while remoted into my home computer but the screen'll just go black when it launches since it's still in windowed mode. Is an xbox controller mappable/viable at the moment? Might just do that for now [QUOTE=Why485;47476040]I understand why they want to nerf it but I don't agree and I really have no problem with the idea of people farming it for REC. The game is way too buggy to force a grind on somebody, especially when all it does is prevent people from testing things out, which is the whole point of Arena Commander. Despite the fact that I've actually been having fun playing Star Citizen for a change, Arena Commander really isn't in a state of completion or polish to be played or thought of as a real game yet. I'm hoping it won't be a big nerf, and were this any other company I would expect things to go completely to shit at this point, but REC is already a freakishly forgiving and user friendly system so it might not be as bad as I'm thinking.[/QUOTE] if what he says is right regarding the coop VS, it makes sense that it'd be the only one getting nerfed, since those kinds of gamemodes often result in people kill-trading to grind dosh real fast

I've tried deleting my inventory.xml settings with limited success. I can now see my weapons under the "weapons" category on the holotable without any ship selected; but as soon as I select my Avenger it all disappears. Now, that leads me to believe that the gimbals I bought (tried both S2 and S3s) and the weapons I've bought (Badger and Panther) just won't fit on the Avenger... But I've heard stories about people putting a Panther repeater on the nose mount before? How is this possible?

I think it'd be kind of funny to have an all-ES race. :v: Cheapest ship in the REC store, weapons don't matter, everyone's equal, not completely slow and uncontrollable so it won't be a total disaster. [editline]7th April 2015[/editline] I will record it and dub F-Zero music over this shit and have it uploaded by tonight if we do this. Will only have my perspective, though. I might try a lap in third-person mode, for extra hilarity and deathcrashy. There's gonna be a lot of crashing if we do this. Auroras are drifty. Use LeftAlt+M for limited-look-ahead mode if you don't have TrackIR.

Welp, I got one thing to work: missiles. Apparently you can equip size 2 on the Avenger's rack. (Cluster Missibles are pretty cool.) But that's it as far as I can tell... Edit: Reading some old patch notes states that the Avenger can ONLY mount the Tigershriek on the nose, and nothing else. So besides S2 missiles on the only available racks (the default ones), I am limited to my two wingtip, size 1 mounts, where my repeaters are. Any suggestions for swapping those? Or are they pretty much the best I can get at the moment? Not much variety for only-Avenger pilots. D:

Remember: A gimbal mounts guns one size smaller than itself (at least one, possibly more). Hover over the hardpoint ball on the turret and look at the slot size(s). If you put a gimbal in the S2 mount, it will have one or two S1 slots and will say either 1 or 1-1. A S3-mounted gimbal can take S2 or possibly only S1 guns (a gimbal with autotracking, for example, goes down a slot size due to the bulk taken up by the tracking hardware and would go S3->S1). Badgers are S2. Panthers are S3. Bulldogs are the S1 guns. oh, wait, you're trying to replace your Tigerworkstoppage nose gun. Yeah, no, as you said, right now that's the only thing that goes on the Avenger's nose and that's the only place the gun can be mounted.

The Avenger nose gun is special and can't be swapped out for anything else at the moment. I don't know if it's going to always be that way and stay a unique gun, but that's how it is for now. With only S1 on the wingtips, yeah your options in the Avenger are unfortunately very limited. Sledges are super good to carry in S1, but those are getting nerfed next patch for good reason. Omnisky IIIs are pretty fun too if you want a slower firing but heavier hitting gun than the Bulldogs. I'm still hoping that at some point you can put some giant spinal mounted gun on the Avenger in the place of the nose gun. Maybe as a variant eventually. The Avenger is in an awkward place because the ship they described with the stats they initially gave it were so far off base from what we have right now. [t]http://i58.tinypic.com/2s6q8h2.jpg[/t]

sounds like the A-10 and its gun also that picture makes that ship look way more interesting than just the ship by itself, I can't stand the weird hump shape without thinking about how it'll just kind of nose dive in circles if it were in atmosphere

Yeah... it kind of bothers me too. I wish the ship was a little longer, so it would make it look less "stubby" and "fat". Plus, the strange angle that the wingtips curve up at BOTHER me to no end... I'd rather just have flat wings as opposed to wingtips...

[QUOTE=dai;47476401]sounds like the A-10 and its gun also that picture makes that ship look way more interesting than just the ship by itself, I can't stand the weird hump shape without thinking about how it'll just kind of nose dive in circles if it were in atmosphere[/QUOTE] I was going to say that [url=http://www.military-today.com/aircraft/sukhoi_su27_flanker_l1.jpg]the SU-27 has a distinct downwards curve[/url] like the Avenger and it flies just fine, but then I remembered that when you turn off the flight assist in DCS it has an alarmingly lethal tendency to pitch downwards into an inverted flat spin.

[QUOTE=Why485;47476340]The Avenger nose gun is special and can't be swapped out for anything else at the moment. I don't know if it's going to always be that way and stay a unique gun, but that's how it is for now. With only S1 on the wingtips, yeah your options in the Avenger are unfortunately very limited. Sledges are super good to carry in S1, but those are getting nerfed next patch for good reason. Omnisky IIIs are pretty fun too if you want a slower firing but heavier hitting gun than the Bulldogs. I'm still hoping that at some point you can put some giant spinal mounted gun on the Avenger in the place of the nose gun. Maybe as a variant eventually. The Avenger is in an awkward place because the ship they described with the stats they initially gave it were so far off base from what we have right now. [t]http://i58.tinypic.com/2s6q8h2.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] It would be cool to have ships like the Ion Frigate in Homeworld 2, where the gun is so large that the ship is built around the gun. Good for Anti-capital combat, terrible at fighter based combat and is an alternative to heavy torpedoes.

1.1.1 PTU includes lighting changes for the R&Y hangar. Before and after: [t]https://i.imgur.com/4UWs7vB.jpg[/t] [t]https://i.imgur.com/W4tjDHN.jpg[/t] Floors are dirtier, but I like it otherwise. Me, Arch, and Jono did a bit of free flight. [t]http://i.imgur.com/huh6AN0.jpg[/t] This Cutlass was balanced on its ladder, wing, and ramp for me, but Arch seemed to see the landing gear. There're some funny desync issues to work out. If you step into someone's Aurora and they fly off when you're not in the bed, it desyncs. [t]http://i.imgur.com/PD43mwK.jpg[/t] Jono dislocating his arms for science. [t]http://i.imgur.com/stzeXz4.jpg[/t] That's Jono t-posing behind his Avenger down there. I forgot to launch OBS before SC, otherwise I'd have recorded parts of it. Next time.

those screenshots of the RY hangar feel like it just went from invitingly warm and classy, to a mildly cold sterile medical environment

I like the increased reflections, but the blue tint does give it a harsh sterility, yeah. Also, yesterday was 10FTC. [video=youtube;OXpx2C6rFAc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXpx2C6rFAc[/video] [QUOTE]Question 1: Medic and Surgeon Skill progression Question 2: FPS weapon types Question 3: Mining and resource gathering Question 4: Fabricate weapons/armor/ship parts Question 5: Team Leader FPS Question 6: Design of the Herald Question 7: Vanguard shields Question 8: FPS Inspiration Question 9: FPS Armor Types Question 10: NPC control in FPS[/QUOTE]

Pedro appreciation time [url]http://3kv.in/~techbot/public/Star%20Citizen/Unreleased%20Music/[/url]

"But in space, fuck your couch." - inspirational quote by elixwhitetail.

finally set up and vaguely re-accustomed to the default bindings, because binding junk to the right side of the keyboard ends up with double-binds for some junk that's not labeled/bindable yet hopping into that TS mentioned on the last page

Don't suppose you're still around, dai. I could probably try and pull jono in if you're around, and if not the two of us can fuck around. I'm chilling in the TS.

crashed my computer fighting the very first wave of vanduul, gonna swap back to fullscreen mode :v:

[QUOTE=dai;47476401]sounds like the A-10 and its gun also that picture makes that ship look way more interesting than just the ship by itself, I can't stand the weird hump shape without thinking about how it'll just kind of nose dive in circles if it were in atmosphere[/QUOTE] Not necessarily, but it's an insanely wasteful design anyway if atmospheric viability was their goal.

PSA to remember to always test your loadout in Free Flight before taking it online. Like 9 times out of 10 something gets screwed up and I'm missing a gun or three.

[QUOTE=Why485;47479476]PSA to remember to always test your loadout in Free Flight before taking it online. Like 9 times out of 10 something gets screwed up and I'm missing a gun or three.[/QUOTE] usually if you open and close the holo table it will show the loadout it would have given you ingame there, then you can try to sort out any problems.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;47479566]usually if you open and close the holo table it will show the loadout it would have given you ingame there, then you can try to sort out any problems.[/QUOTE] Sometimes the fuckup is "no power/heat connections", and that's not in the holotable, or there's no thruster control.

[t]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/34116492227641228/B1BE81E31C4FE111C07E892AE94EE395ABF09F90/[/t] [t]http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/34116492227640452/C1F2407CCD1B78C09D10BD449ABEF707D1A8A9E0/[/t] Plenty of room

[t]http://i.imgur.com/yMee0hF.jpg[/t] I don't really see the big deal about landing several people on a pad, there's a lot of space to play with. Maybe I'm used to zipping into docking bays in elite dangerous also at one point my ship was held together by will and very little else [t]http://i.imgur.com/CUe876h.jpg[/t]