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You're welcome; glad it helped. I haven't been to the site since the engineering update, but from what I understand there are even more cargo racks to farm now. Also, apparently they can be farmed using Flak Launchers paired with Collector Limpets, similar to Brain Tree Farming.

It's always been there for me when switching focus between the various in-ship panels. I don't know that it's actually functional as I've never accessed it as an input. I just considered it environmental window dressing to maintain immersion. If it *_IS_* a true virtual keyboard, I'm not aware of any means of accessing it.

"Pickle" as in save them up over time and then redeem them all at once? If that's what you're asking, the best answer I can offer is, _"I'm not sure."_ I know there are some things that, if not redeemed prior to the weekly server tick every Thursday, you lose them; I don't know if Merits are counted among them. At a minimum, if it is indeed a case of _"use em or lose em"_ at the weekly tick, you could at the very least save them up over a period of 7 days (assuming you started earning them on a Thursday and redeemed them the following Wednesday). Be aware, though, that any Merits redeemed and counted towards your rating with a Galactic Power NPC to whom you've pledged decay at the rate of 50% each week. For example, if you earned and redeemed with your Galactic Power NPC 100 Merits this week, then come Thursday morning after the server reset you'll only have 50 Merits to your credit. The idea behind it is it forces players to constantly have to prove themselves worthy of their rating level (and the perks that come with it) with their chosen Galactic Power by re-earning enough Merits week-to-week to maintain a desired rating. Fail to do so and your rating drops as your Merits decay. Essentially a loyalty test. If you're only earning Merits to unlock a unique module and don't care about maintaining a rating level over the long-term, common wisdom holds that you earn your 750 Merits in the 3rd week of your pledge. By redeeming them prior to that 3rd week's Thursday server tick, you go into your 4th week of being pledged with a rating of 3. This way you hit your 28th day of being pledged at the same time you've achieved the rating needed to unlock the module (both the time investment _and_ rating 3 are required for the unlock). If you redeem earlier than this and earn no further Merits (for example, redeeming them in your 2nd week rather than your 3rd), the Merit decay mechanic will leave you with too few Merits to hit rating 3 at the same time you reach your 28th pledge day. You'll be ineligible to unlock the module until you earn and redeem more Merits to bring you up to rating 3. However, Power Play 2.0 is slated for release in October. This will be a major reworking of the Power Play system. Included in this update will be a new 10-tier loyalty system that does not decay; once a Commander unlocks a tier, it's a permanent achievement. Whether it will still be called Merits or something else entirely is not known at present. Indications are there will be a variety of activities one can undertake to earn progress along this new 10-tier ladder. So it's possible Merit farming may become a thing of the past in a few weeks.

Are you wanted in the system? Do you have an outstanding bounty or fine? Do you fire your weapons within the megaship's no-fire zone? Is the megaship under attack by pirates and you're caught in the crossfire? All possible explanations for why you get murdered coming out of supercruise at a megaship.

Thank you. Yeah, my HOTAS is too twitchy to maintain the steady aim required for effective rail gun use and I just can't bring myself to play using mouse & keyboard. So I had to find an alternative that would still allow for quick dispatch of CZ ships. I have a Corvette than can just brute force it with overwhelming firepower, but I wanted something that was more nimble and fun to fly. At the same time I needed a non-railgun alternative for sniping the Power Plant due to giving up the firepower of the Corvette. The result is what you see in the video. If interested in the build, see my response links to @JC33656's comment. Thank you for watching o7

Are you playing on console or PC and - if the latter - which version of the game are you playing? I may be wrong about this, but I think the mouse widget toggle was added with an update and hasn't always been an available option. Thus platform and game version might be one possible explanation for why it's not working for you.

@@JohnDoe-zl6qw Actually I figured out what the problem was a lil while ago this morning. I am using an X box controller for flying the ship and a combination of mouse and Keyboard as well for other functions. I have it set so I can use the mouse. Too look around the cockpit. while flying with one hand on the controller. Long story short. If you have head look on. So you can just move the mouse around, and look about. Even if the widget is on. Like your video shows. The widget will be turned off. While Head look is turned on. I did work out a compromise too look around with the widget on but it makes looking about a bit Janky because you have to use Key/ Buttons on the mouse to do it. I just wish they would fix it in the coding so you can do it right with head look on and still have the widget show up in the center of your screen with out it moving about.

@@defiant9809 Ahh, yes, that would explain it. Glad you figured it out o7

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Correct; it's equipped with a Collector Limpet Controller module, sold at most starports. As you stated, you can collect items manually by aligning with them and then running over them with your cargo hatch open. However, I find that to be very tedious and time consuming; the collector limpets make short work of it by comparison.

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The effect of reducing a module's integrity to 0% has changed over time. It _used_ to be the case that reducing the Power Plant to 0% caused the targeted ship to lose all power, including to thrusters. That is no longer the case; ships can still fly at full speed even with a 0% PP. The goal of targeting the PP is to cause it to detonate, destroying the ship (even if its hull is still intact). However, the chance to cause this explosion is small. I have no source for confirmation, but I read a long time ago the chance is 4% per shot that breaches to the PP _after_ it has reached 0%. Thus the goal is overwhelming volume of fire in the hope that one of the shots will "roll" somewhere within that magic 4% trigger. That is why the ship in the video is equipped with Pulse Lasers with the Rapid Fire engineering modification to achieve as many hits on the Power Plant as possible within a short time frame to hopefully trigger the explosion.

Yeah is not that consistent. Also, I assume the ship is still working even at pp 0% because there's some charge still left in the power dist capacitors... or just Fdev applying some RNG :) if you disable their thrusters though, they start drifting away for sure. But keep shooting at their pp, is especially handy on big ships as going to a full fledged Anaconda's hull is quite the chore.

@@josew.6423 Yep, even at 0% Power Plant integrity it's still putting out 50% of its capacity. And NPC ships, with no or little engineering, are generally not as power hungry as engineered player ships. Thus a zeroed Power Plant is less compromising for them.

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You're welcome; thanks for watching. Yeah, un-upgraded the Intimidator is not very good. Fully upgraded and engineered, it's a one-shot-one-kill beast; even against a fully-shielded enemy (if you're close enough).

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You're welcome; glad it helped. In the intervening time I've learned (oh, the endless learning curve of Elite:Dangerous!) you don't even have to return to Supercruise and re-drop past the Nav Beacon repeatedly. Instead, you can just log off to the Main Menu and log back in again to reset the instance and continue farming Merits in the same location. I realize this is 4 months late, but hopefully will be of use to you moving forward o7

Yes, as long as you're not shooting anything on the mega-ship, just scanning. There are other missions that task you with destroying the mega-ship's turrets (typically 5). That _WILL_ aggro the mega-ship, eliciting a lethal response.

@commander_maddogtheog Unfortunately, I do not have a video of that. However, here's what I can recommend from having successfully done it myself: The _"Destroy Mega-ship Turret"_ missions typically task you with destroying the turrets' _power plants_ rather than the turrets themselves. To access these you first target a turret, scan it, then drill down into sub-targeting to find the power plant. As the power plant is the only sub-target available, that's easy enough. Sub-targeting can be accessed from your left-hand panel on the _"Targeting"_ page after you've scanned an object. Alternately, it can also be assigned to a keybind. Once you have a turret's power plant sub-targeted you can then *_ram it with your ship_* to destroy it. Though it can also be destroyed by shooting it, ramming will not elicit a lethal response from the mega-ship. It's a cheesy way of doing it, but perfectly "legal" within the game and a valid method for Commanders who fear they may not survive if the mega-ship were to turn hostile.

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he is most likely using a Krait Mk2 or a krait phantom ( i cant tell the difference on his hologram as i have never used one of those ships) they are very good at pve combat when engineered the right way! im using a corvette, one large and 2 medium lasers, also 2 small and 2 huge multicannons, and i dont lose power either. the trick is in engineering your power plant and your power distributor accordingly. you can engineer your beam lasers with effecient, making them draw less power, but losing dps, you can also add the experimental effect "flow control" so they draw 10% less power. you can do the same to your power distributor: " weapon focused" @grade 5 you get +60% capacity and +44% recharge rate for weapons only, comes at a cost to less recharge rate to other systems. again add flow control as experimental for less power draw on weapons. and last but not least: you can engineer your powrplant with " overcharged" wich wil give you +40% power generation at the cost of heat efeciency and a loss of you power plant module's integrety (hit points) of -25% now i have recently changed my engineering done on my corvette to put out max DPS, and only now, im sitting at a power loss, so i cant use all my weapons for days anymore, however, im killing enemies a lot faster... so yeah, its a trade off.. hope this helped you a bit. fly dangerous, stay safe CMDR... Glory to mankind! o7

@@fartex1 From the weapons, its a Krait MkII. It also has an SLF hanger, which the Krait Phantom doesn't have.

Krait MK II (which already has an outsized Power Distributor) with its PD engineered _Charge Enhanced_ + _Super Conduits_ experimental effect = near endless weapons capacitor (with 4 PIPs to weapons, of course). The Beam Lasers are engineered _Long Range_ + _Thermal Vent_ experimental effect.

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I tested this just now for confirmation. Changing this setting in ship control options makes no change to on-foot. On my screen, while on-foot, I have a blue dot in the center; I find no option for turning it on or off.

Thanks for the answer. I searched on the google and in game settings many times but no disable option for the on foot. I will send feedback to the Frontier, maybe you should too.

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I love playing a game that's just like... Here is the milky way galaxy... What?.. enjoy! Byeeeee lmao

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Yep, Majestic-class Interdictor of the Imperial Navy.

I wish there were more game mechanics about these beasts. Fantastic...

0:48 The suit is a Grade 1 Dominator Suit, no engineering modifications. The weapons are all of the Manticore plasma variants, save the Oppressor (again, Grade 1, no engineering modifications): - 0:34 Manticore Executioner (sniper rifle) - 0:39 Manticore Intimidator (shotgun) - 0:43 Manticore Tormentor (pistol)

To the best of my understanding of Power Play, Fortified systems are a sub-set of Controlled system (i.e. a Fortified system is always also a Control system, as only Control systems can be Fortified). So this method should work there, as well.

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Thank you o7 Saw a large influx of new players over on the Elite:Dangerous sub-reddit these past couple months asking the same questions. Decided to make this tutorial series to cover some of the more common ones.

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No hassle at all. And no need to feel bad; your comment was on point. Each has their own challenges. With the upgraded gear it offers the challenge for one-shot-one-kill if one does their part to aim and lead their target properly. Without the upgraded gear the challenge becomes leveraging all skills and equipment as a whole (grenades, energy cells, med kits, movement, positioning, etc.) to survive. Both are fun! :)

For many players there's no appeal beyond unlocking the unique modules offered by the Power Play NPCs (e.g. Prismatic Shields, Pack Hound Missile Racks, etc.). Even so, one must still jump through the hoops of reaching rating 3 with the Power Play NPC and pledging for 28 consecutive days to be eligible to purchase these items. Rating 3 requires redeeming 750 Power Play Merits; thus the video.

At the very least the modules are worth it.

Because at rank 5 with Antal Pranav, my 2.5 billion CR in AX combat bonds are now worth 5.0 billion CR.

Also because prismatic shields, Pacifier frag cannons, and cytoscramblers are OP.

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Point taken. I've made another video in which I repeat this mission almost verbatim; but this time with basic vanilla setup (no upgraded gear, no engineering). ua-cam.com/video/x9VQ02M2IAI/v-deo.html