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Bruticus Prime
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Posted - 2005.12.08 22:51:00 -
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Ok, so my 1st mission is to go kill a drone and get the cargo. Mission brief even says the drone isn't tough. well I've tried it 3x now and it took out all my shields and in the mean time I was unable to do a single point of damage to it. Nothing at all. Every hit was for 0.0 damage. I only have the basic gun as I just started. I'm in optimal range etc. But at this point if the basic gun is too weak for the 1st mission, what the heck are people supposed to do? I need missions to make money for upgrades, if I can't complete the 1st mission then the game is a non starter.
Although I think my character may be bugged also. During the tutorial I'm supposed to mine Velspar. So I go about doing that. The tutorial says to mine it until my cargo area is full. Every asteroid I mine gives me 0.1 cargo, and my hold is 125.0 in size. That would take well over a day of real play time for the 1250 asteroids I'd have to mine. talked to a friend that plays, he says I'm doing it all correctly, has no idea why I can't mine.
Unfortunately there's no search on the forums, so all I can do is post.
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GC13
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Posted - 2005.12.09 00:09:00 -
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Edited by: GC13 on 09/12/2005 00:09:47 Hmmmmm... Try removing and repacking your gun and laser (EDIT: You do this by docking at a station, going to the fitting screen [an option at the right], and right-clicking on them and unfitting them. Then you go to Items, right-click on them, and choose Repackage), then re-equip them to your ship. That should fix that (at least the 0.0 damage issue; I've never heard of mining lasers not doing that so, you may be trying to mine asteroids that are nearly depleted).
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Wet Kitten
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Posted - 2005.12.09 01:05:00 -
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I'm not sure about your first problem, but I would guess you're not close enough to the drone as the starter weapon have abysmal optimum range...
As for the mining, I had the same problem woth the asteroids all being nearly empty but I understand you only need 1 unit of ore to continue with that step. Don't bother to fill your cargo hold, in other words (I never did).
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Bruticus Prime
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Posted - 2005.12.09 05:00:00 -
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Thanks for ths help. I was eventually able to find a station with a weapon I could afford to kill the drone. however, I still don't understand why they'd put a useless weapon on your ship for the 1st mission.
Haven't tried any more mining yet.
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Pagefault
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Posted - 2005.12.09 08:06:00 -
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Because you are supposed to do the tutorial, the civillian gun is enough for it. After the tutorial you have enough money to buy your first set of gear, for whatever you want to do. --- All my statements are my personal opinion. I am not speaking on behalf of any entity, corp or alliance in this forums. |
Peter Stuyvesant
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Posted - 2005.12.09 11:44:00 -
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Originally by: Wet Kitten I'm not sure about your first problem, but I would guess you're not close enough to the drone as the starter weapon have abysmal optimum range...
You would guess wrong. Lets be clear here: The civilian guns are bugged.
This guy would have been getting yellow hits, but scoring 0.0 damage, as he said. You can get wrecking hits for 0.0 damage with this bug. Please stop telling new players this is a range problem. The civi guns have a few km of falloff and they track pretty well so as long as you're under 2-3km, they should work ok.
What GC13 said is indeed the workaround for it, but a lot of new players won't know this.
CCP, for the love of god, fix this please.
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F'nog
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Posted - 2005.12.09 19:48:00 -
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I just did the tutorial a couple weeks ago with an alt to see what had changed and my civilian gun worked fine. I had to get closer than 500m though.
Originally by: rowbin hod Fragm's Oversized Ego Cannon barely scratches the forums, inflicting omgnoonecares damage.
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Ominus Decre
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Posted - 2005.12.09 20:30:00 -
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Originally by: Bruticus Prime Thanks for ths help. I was eventually able to find a station with a weapon I could afford to kill the drone. however, I still don't understand why they'd put a useless weapon on your ship for the 1st mission.
Haven't tried any more mining yet.
Hmm...I did not have any problem taking out two ships at the same time. I even had another one respawn on top of me within 2-5 minutes and never realy created a threat. I'm using the starter weapons.
*could it be skill related???
I also seemed to get ore in incriments of around 150-300.
very odd...
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GPrimeAlpha
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Posted - 2005.12.09 21:13:00 -
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Yes, this is definately a bug.
I did my tutorial and first missions about a month ago. If I remember correctly, I was able to kill the drones in the tutorial without issue. Then, on the first mission in which you're supposed to kill other drones, all I was getting was 0.0 damage hits. I know enough now to be able to verify I was doing everything correctly.
At the time I solved it by upgrading my weapon, and everything was fine.
Not sure about his mining issue - perhaps it was part of the Civilian guns bug as Peter Stuyvesant mentioned (which is definately true for the weapons). If it wasn't bug related, perhaps he was doing something like activating, then immediately de-activating his mining laser.
GP
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Tony Fats
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Posted - 2005.12.10 12:02:00 -
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Yep it's a bug. Repackage gun and do the mission again. Orbit drone at 1k.
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Kacia
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Posted - 2005.12.10 12:19:00 -
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I did the mission today and noticed that even though it kept telling me that I hit for 0.0 damage, the drone was getting hurt and eventually got killed.
Get in close and orbit. |
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