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Thread: REing Starmap parts like pulling teeth?
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TxChainSaw
Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:42 pm
#1
Its sick. An hour on vendor search, I see lvl 7 20k, lvl 9 20k, lvl 8 80k. And only a few at that.The same for lvl 10 gunnery. I have 5 sets of Starmap rewards, thought this would be pretty simple, but little did I know. Ya gotta learn how REing is done, then finding the damn fillerparts is near impossible. What have I got into? I best end up with one hell of a ship, lol.
My 2 creds
Attacca
Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:56 pm
#2
The filler parts are the easy ones - it's the initial stats that are hard to find. I've been working on a starmap engine for...um....ages now. And is still sucks.
I farm a full cargo load nearly every day, sometimes twice a day. That's 130 parts per tripoff T3/4/5 ships, and I'm still not finding good stats to finish some of my REs.
Worse is when you get close to finishing one - like my level 6 RE Engine with a pre-PYR of 68.5+ - and you find something exceptional, like a level 6 engine with a 70.1 pitch pre-RE. You just go nuts knowing there must be more like that, out there somewhere...
For the stats I want, I'd pay any price. It's not a matter of money though, the parts just aren't out there.
KaylBreinhar
Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:56 pm
#3
Welcome to Hell. I've been here since JTL's beta.
Thankfully, soon enough I'll put together a ship that won't be too easy to improve upon.
It only took me eight months.
Thankfully, soon enough I'll put together a ship that won't be too easy to improve upon.
It only took me eight months.
wasj2004
Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:13 pm
#4
Is it just me or has loot with good stats been nerfed or somthing? When I first mastered pilot It took me about 3 weeks to Find enough lev8 weapons to make my 22k mass, .7armor .7shields 3800 dammage weapon. (pritty decent I think). Now its so rare that I even loot a weapon of any kind ive about given up on REing another one. Its not just weapons, Ive looted nothing but junk the last couple months.
TxChainSaw
Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:25 pm
#5
Im paying my guildies to give me thier Starmap rewards, got one Beamrail at 44XX max dam.
Looted a DI at 9.7 speed myself yesterday
Looted some lvl 10 engine all YPR are over 70 some time ago.
However I spend a full Black Sun dookie mission a day, at the least.
But none of this is helping my Starmap RE quest....
/cry
Bawarr
Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:35 pm
#6
Fora good lv10 engine youre looking at 80 p/y/r pre-RE, ive seen quite alot on vendor search but its just people storage vendors 
ive got 75 accross the board atm.
ive got 75 accross the board atm.
quadpers0n
Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:21 am
#7
KaylBreinhar wrote:
Welcome to Hell. I've been here since JTL's beta.
Thankfully, soon enough I'll put together a ship that won't be too easy to improve upon.
It only took me eight months.
i keep wondering what i'll do when i hit that point...
KaylBreinhar
Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:40 am
#8
wasj2004 wrote:
Is it just me or has loot with good stats been nerfed or somthing? When I first mastered pilot It took me about 3 weeks to Find enough lev8 weapons to make my 22k mass, .7armor .7shields 3800 dammage weapon. (pritty decent I think). Now its so rare that I even loot a weapon of any kind ive about given up on REing another one. Its not just weapons, Ive looted nothing but junk the last couple months.
I don't think the stats have been nerfed insomuch as I think they've broadened the ranges. In the first month or two of JTL I don't remember ever looting engines with 59.9 and lower in the L6 category (which was a popular category back then), but now I get them all the time.
Same deal with L8 weapons and getting ones that have .5xx effs. They broadened the ranges, thereby making most loot fall drastically BELOW the threshold people would normally consider "adequate."
KaylBreinhar
Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:42 am
#9
quadpers0n wrote:
KaylBreinhar wrote:
Welcome to Hell. I've been here since JTL's beta.
Thankfully, soon enough I'll put together a ship that won't be too easy to improve upon.
It only took me eight months.
i keep wondering what i'll do when i hit that point...
Well, it hasn't been eight CONTINUOUS months. For about three months I took a break where I killed Nightsisters and Krayts to garner myself some loot and four -9 pearls with good damage and speed reductions for a Jedi I've decided to shelf for the time being.
Of course, during that time I constantly checked the bazaar (and the vendor search when it was introduced), so in essence I was still looting.....I was just paying for it.
OWPT
Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:32 am
#12
My gripe is, thatI see plenty of stuff on the bazaar, but it is all stuff that is in storage ie 9999999999 or else it is on a vendor whose display does not show.
So you send a gmail of to the vendor (never to hear from him), or ask around only to find that they left the game and they have all that good loot on their vendors!
One wonders what is sitting in peeps bank accounts or in the storage areas of vendors that we will never know about now that they have left the game. Damn there could even be a BS helmet there!!! 
TxChainSaw
Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:42 am
#13
OWPT wrote:
My gripe is, thatI see plenty of stuff on the bazaar, but it is all stuff that is in storage ie 9999999999 or else it is on a vendor whose display does not show.
So you send a gmail of to the vendor (never to hear from him), or ask around only to find that they left the game and they have all that good loot on their vendors!
One wonders what is sitting in peeps bank accounts or in the storage areas of vendors that we will never know about now that they have left the game. Damn there could even be a BS helmet there!!!
Same on this server. I think most are being held like that cause they have intentions of the same thing.
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