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I'm guessing that the deck-building and random skill battling system is in for keeps, anyone know for sure? This one thing completely turns me away from an otherwise beautiful game.... I wish it was like the original UO sandbox with training skills and point caps and so on.

You can get 30 lbs of fillets + shipping for around 400 bucks.

It's good to live in swamp town

I was reading up on that on the official site. Also read several instances where 'poodlecorp' was named for DDoS attack elsewhere.

Local university has an incredible density of pokestops AND 2 gyms all in the QUAD/easy walking distance. Where I'm at a few miles away... 1 stop within a mile

Tried it. There isn't shit where I live. Literally miles between pokestops if you arent in a populated city/someplace with landmarks.

NOOOO, quit buying ACCOUNTS! At most, buy a single ship at a time and get them that way if you must. Do not buy whole accounts. Buy a ship, make the trade, verfiy everything is done correctly, move on to the next ship. If it is ungiftable for whatever reason, take a pass on it. If you want ships on multiple/separate accounts, then CREATE legitimate empty accounts and have the ships gifted there on purchase. I don't see why you don't just buy some token LTI ships (like dragonflys) and then CCU them into whatever you want to have LTI on (just about any ship once it is sold again, which tends to happen around the end of each year anniversary in Oct + christmas in Dec). You win some and lose some whenever you are trying to play a market... I see no reason to buy ships from other players, let alone whole accounts. CIG is against transferring of accounts under any terms (gift, sale, auction, trade, 'donation'). This reminds me of watching the show about weed legalization in Colorado and the first shop on main street where a guy was 'donating' weed to people in exchange for cash 'donations' (right outside the shop that went through the proper channels, licensing, and fees to open business, to the shop's customers waiting in line). You can try to cut the shit any way you want, but in the end, its still shit and he knew it. You should too.

QD Travel on/engage (dont pick a target) Pretty easy to do even without a macro. If anything, escaping a fight is far too easy now. No need to make it easier.

Probably said already, but account transfers/sales are expressely forbidden by CIG and they will take no action in your case. Ship 'sales' through use of the one time gift feature are considered part of the 'grey market'. They are allowed, but again, not supported by CIG and advised against. Take any of these actions at your own risk. What you thought based on any assumptions or data from 3rd party sources is immediately trumped by what CIG has explicitly stated concerning the matter, reiterated in the CS reply. IMHO, you are stupid for rating them as 'bad' because they didn't give you the answer you wanted, even if it is a perfectly correct answer. Also stupid for thinking an expressly forbidden 3rd party transaction would be 'free of risk'. You really have no ground to stand on. Suck it up and learn your lesson. A lot of people do hardcore drugs too. Still doesn't change the rules about them. Things like this and its resulting thread are EXACTLY why there are cautions/disclaimers concerning the SCB market, our policies here at SCB, and CIG's policies.

The Starfarer is for fuel collection/distribution. The Orion is likely part of the repair chain. The Orion would probably collect and refine materials used by a Crucible repair ship (or possibly other ships as well). A Reclaimer may also be needed to recover modules/replacement parts, as the Crucible seems to be aimed at hull repair only. If you want the oficial in depth info on mining and the Orion, search for the deep dive comm-lik. Also, play the mini-game 'A Loan in the Verse' if you want to earn the Prospector forum badge Nothing is certain yet, but the Orion is expected to have a boom operator for the mining laser, a pilot, a tractor beam operator (rock chunks to the jaws), and a refinery operator at the least. Some stations may include other duties as well, and stations may be flexible to allow for one person to fulfill multiple roles (though perhaps not as effectively) such as cutting and tractoring at once. It is likely that the refinery operation will be done on a remote part of the ship, or at least the servicable parts will require physical pressence at the refinery in the event of a breakdown from missuse (or who knows what). I plan on parking somewhere and then running the laser/tractor until im full of raw ores, then moving to the refinery to clean everything up. In some way, I want to be able to operate this ship solo, if needed. More profits, less expenses, everything gets done the right way (my way!). Of course, there is the added risk of having no one watching the radar or ready to QD away should a threat appear. Perhaps a 2-man crew is best.

There is no mobile factory that I know of (yet?), so missiles and ammunition would not be replenishable (I mentioned in some post, some thread about using energy weapons and stocking all the missiles we could carry) The old saying goes 'If you want it done right...' Just like with Overclocking parts and having an Endeavor. Things can be done at your hangar, but even better given the right tools. I suspect the Orion will be able to put out materials of equal or greater quality (but not necessarily cheaper) than a mega-corporation that is mostly interested in maximizing profits when operated in the 'mom and pop' fashion. Quality, quantity, and cost-effectiveness/profit margin. That'll be the difference. As for repairing damaged components, I don't know if that will be a thing (repair only covered hull). For those, you would likely have to carry spare modules, plug and play. Again, if there was a factory ship, an Orion would still be necessary We do know that salvage ships (Reclaimer) will be able to break apart wrecks, etc. to recover parts, so maybe one of those would be pretty useful for recovering parts from your defeated foes in order to sustain your own fleet. Who is to say how long fleet ops last. I fully expect as a mega-org that we will maintain a 24 hour pressence on and control of a persistent carrier ship. We have the global time-zone coverage and the numbers to do it.

The whole point of refining materials is to be able to use them. They already said some in the repair design/crucible post. Economics and manufacturing will require refined materials (raw may be involved too), same goes for repairing. What step are you expecting there to be in between Prospect raw materials -> refine materials -> use materials in repair/industry? You need a primary material, a bonding material, and an optional catalyst (names may be a little off, pulling from memory). I can only assume that the things the Orion mines and refines are what the crucible will use to repair ships. Why would you be disappointed with a fleet being able to take care of itself? It's all part of the supply chain, and makes the Orion necessary/useful in forward operations. Based on their limited description of repair, I've already mastered the concept (as best one can). The materials you input affect the quality and speed of repair, indicated on a line graph by a cut off point (whether or not the materials are of sufficient quality/type to do the job), the size/width of peak (x-axis range for quality of repair job, closer to center is better), magnitude/height of peak (y-axis range for maximum quality of repair), and position of peak (x-axis location of peak center, determines how long you must operate the repair beam to achieve desired results, going too long or too short from 'ideal' results in lower quality repair, optimal repair level at max peak height can be affected by resources input). There is the repair manager terminal and the repair operator terminal. Both can be run by a single person or a crew of 2 working together to speed things up (one choosing the materials to use/evaluating tentative results while the other does the work). An alloy is just a mixture of metals, not hard to do if you have the ability to refine metal ores (generally just requires heat), and the 'laser-matter' repair beam is being fed multiple types of materials, thus creating alloys on the spot. The economy model will be 90% NPC and largely uninfluenced by players. All things subject to change. An Orion may not provide everything/everything on the spot, but it will still be useful to have supply.

With the addition of the new smaller prospector, it is plausible that one or several could provide enough materials needed for the repair ship to operate. That was the idea behind having a mining vessel. A fleet needs the ability to continuously replenish itself. Endeavor/biodomes for life support, medical, etc. Starfarer for fuel (possibly some other smaller ship capable of extracting fuel later). Some mining ship to acquire raw resources to feed to the repair vessel (might actually require strictly refined resources, making an Orion required, or possibly raw will do it but less effective). An exploration vessel to lead the way, and a military force/carrier to protect everything.

Speaking of physical goods sales.. Have dog tags, star maps, or those other mouse pads shipped yet? Ordered hella' long time ago. Reviewing my invoices, and I don't see an order for another mouse pad. Coulda swore I put in an order for when I have a second machine up and running.. At least that one is explained. Still no map or (2) tags though. Looks like they were planned to ship in June (the month we are currently ending). Problem is they may take weeks in shipping, and I'm in the process of closing on a home. Yep, you heard it here first. Seen me on the forums talking about saving up/buying here and there? Well, it happened!