I usually have landfall planets disallowed too when I'm in my combat ships. No need for me to know that I can land on those 13moons in the system when I'm not there for that
@@Exigeous - it's helpful to be sure for other purposes (I use it to filter out everything but signal sources when I'm hunting HGEs), but not as helpful as it is to get rid of carriers ;) It's gotten a bit better of late with lower mining income and fewer carriers allowed per system (allegedly?), but oh man, the carrier spam in interesting places.. I'd really like carriers that don't allow docking for whatever reason to be automatically filtered from everything though :/ You should only be able to see carriers that allow you to dock... @Topher White - I leave 'em all selected (except carriers and systems) all the time, and then turn off the ones I don't want. You can even turn EVERYTHING on and then deselect the ones you don't that way. Just don't use the 'clear' button. @Neo - Yes, it friggin' does. Also they both need a search, as sometimes you DO want carriers shown when offloading valuables or buying rares/etc that you've found from eddb or inara or such. "Damn, where is XYZ-123?"....
Some great tips there - the only one I’d add is to bind night vision to a key so you can quickly turn it on in combat - it’s a game-changer to be able to actually see your target in the dark 😂
Yeah, you know that would have been a really good one to add here. I honestly don't use it much as I really don't like the effect visually but it is very useful for sure.
To make combat much more interesting, go to darkside of any extracion zone and (try) to fight among all of those rocks WITHOUT night vision! :P My personal record is 579 hits to a rock in an hour! BEAT THAT! :D
Tip that most CMDRs desperately need: *Fly towards your attackers unless you can outrun them.* Instead of presenting our thrusters on a silver platter to that ganker, keep facing and boosting passed them until our high-wake is charged.
@@timppaUT Mass-lock between ships only affects low wakes (jumps to supercruise). High-wakes (jumps to another system) are unaffected and the safe way to escape. This tip *is for* pilots in slower and smaller ships than their attackers. If you are faster, just fly away of course. If you are bigger, just low-wake.
@@7heHorror It depends? If that bigger ship has scanner, it can follow your wake. On another hand, only Conda out of big-3 have decent enough jumprange to follow you if you jump far enough. And usually even combat build Condas aren’t that impressive jumpers. Cutters most propably wont be able to follow, depending of course what ship you use, as most smaller and mid sized combat oriented ships aren’t that good jumpers either. And Vette is so lousy that almost any other ship can high wake safely out of its range :D And jumping is almost only option against big-3, as they would be almost impossible to win alone on smaller ships if you aren’t very VERY good pilot.
Another tip is to hit that f/a off and rotate around to bring guns to bear til the charge is done. Then just flip back turm it back on a and away you go. Also for this, when you get to the system if it is nearby, drop from super and pick another system to jump to.
A tip for you: turn drive assist off in the SRV. Drive assist slows the SRV down and fights against any in air maneuvers you want to make, which makes it hard to recover from getting turned around by a bump that launches you into mid air.
Just tagging along, you can make drive assist off the default mode by going into the controls settings, this effectively makes it like a regular car with an accelerator instead of a throttle
Another great to-the-point video. When approaching a signal source or station and realize you are "over-speeding", try deselecting the target then re-selecting it to slow you down.
In addition to the FSD Booster, It didn't take me too long to fully engineer my FSD. Grade 5 increased range and Mass Manager. My Diamondback Explorer will jump 61 ly and it's not stripped down.
Yeah, a few reported that after I published and given what a MASSIVE pain in the ass it is to delete, re-render, re-upload I figured it'd be a fun easter egg to see what asshole, err I mean attentive viewer would find!
My “I didn’t know you could do that” was to select what you wanted to see on the nav panel. Amazing stuff to be to clear out the 150 carriers so I can see the port I want to go to.
One thing I’d like to add is that getting your thrusters destroyed is not the end. Most CMDRs don’t realize that under the functions tab on the right panel there is an option called ‘reboot and repair’. This temporarily disables all of your ship’s functions, but can repair essential modules by cannibalizing parts from less essential ones. This situation shouldn’t happen too often, but in case it happens to you, just know that you don’t need to self-destruction get back to a station.
Most often I have to do that when my sensors go out. They're usually engineered lightweight and thus are first to break when shields go down. They are required for docking as you cannot select the station without them (I think).
I discovered that today... my poor Imperial Eagle had its drives and thrusters destroyed, and was sitting there spinning around, while being attacked. Diverting all power to "Sys" kept my bi-weaves up, but I couldn't do anything. All this talk of a "functions" tab had me beat though - its now under "Ship" and a button on the right "pointing" to the ship.
Yeah I had to do that two times in my 33 hrs of the game so far (I'm quite new) luckily they got destroyed as I was flying away, so I was drifting away from the enemy
i don't know how useful this is for FA on pilots, but i find cargo scoop boosting very helpful in FA off. A lot of times, you just need to change the vector of your ship quickly without overtaking your opponent. I learned this watching some PVP'ers do it. When you boost, you get a sudden burst of power to your main thrusters. When you hold a directional thruster during the boost, a majority of that power goes thru the held directional thruster. Combining that with the cargo scoop's ability to limit your ship's overall speed, you can use it to quickly change your vector without overtaking. You boost, and open the cargo scope directly after the boost. Then you can change your vector by holding down the desired directional thrusters. You can also adjust when you open the scoop to limit your speed as your ship is accelerating to its maximum boost speed. It's pretty useful when you're in a haz-rez, and you want to use asteroids for cover by weaving in and out of asteroids, or boosting to catch up with an enemy that's currently trying to low/high wake out, and you don't want to suddenly pass them. Takes a bit of practice to use effectively in combat, but i found it very helpful. Probably doesn't fit in these basic tips
jup, the cargo scoop is a great...not an airbrake...spacebreak? Also, landing gear out redistributes power flow evenly over all thruster, makes you slow, but very nimble. Can occasionally come in handy.
You can skip the last 40ls of every journey using Supercruise Assist by accelerating to full until the ETA is 3 seconds, then throttling back to the blue to re-engage for the rest of the very short trip
you can actually push it further than that, the super cruise assist lets you exit supercruise at any speed as long as you are within the correct distance. The problem is the game only checks your distance probably once per frame, so 60 times a second (not actually sure what the rate is). So if you do it at 3 seconds, you arrive at some speed that is guaranteed to check the distance while you are within the correct distance, but you can be lucky and arrive at much higher speeds. The highest I've done I think is 20C
@@theaveragepro1749 Nice! I'd be curious to push the limits of the distance you can begin the trick when I upgrade my frame rate. I'd also like to add that with bigger and less maneuverable ships, it's important to align your pitch with the orbit of your destination; the combination of high speeds, poor manoeuvrability and orbital motion is enough to actually miss the target and force the dreaded loop of shame, and in a T9 or even a corvette that's just painful 😂
@@redmoon383 And at the 6 Raw Mats planets he mentions and the Jameson Crash Site and around every Engineer's planet. I found I didn't NEED to search for the right planet the first ime I arrived (recent newbie) - just look for the dozens of Carriers in orbit around it! :-)
@@HeyYouYouAreFinallyAwake In general if you use the auto-plotter, yes. So, 99% of the time. You can manually plot jump by jump though, if you want to sequentially visit specific stars that would be off-route. Thats less efficient if the destination is all that matters, sure, but I did it occasionally to explore specific regions on the way to somewhere else. And there it happened, that I couldn´t make a jump I had planned after I fully refueled and had to make a detour, which was mildly annoying. It can also help occasionally for a jump or two (e.g. escape persistent pursuit on a mission or PvP) if you had to compromise on the fuel scoop in your built, for lack of money, room or weight. It´s niche , and risky, and you should have a Post-It with the FuelRat´s number on your navpanel. But it´s fun to supercharge a ship with large tank on half-empty and see just how far you can get. Coriolis let´s you check the difference between max Jump fuelled (empty cargo, full tank) and absolute max (empty cargo, just enough fuel) for your build. It can be several lightyears without supercharge, so with a neutron star, it can really matter.
Flipping FA off and on is almost as important as pip management imo.. save yourself some shield recharge time by turning that massive Conda around to blow that annoying Eagle into particles..
Gathering Manufactured materials alternative: A more fun way of gathering materials is going to the compromised nav beacon in the Nastrond system. Nastrond is an independent anarchy system, so it is open season on everybody, Pirates, freighters etc. The system requires a permit, to get it, you will have to become allied with the Defense Party of Nastrond faction in a nearby system which should be able to be done within an hour. I'm pretty sure they have a presence in Nowak Hub in Wonorne Nu.
Sure you can gather materials from conflict zones, pirate activity beacons, etc. - anywhere there is combat but if you just need materials that isn't even remotely an efficient way to do it. More fun, absolutely. Quick, holy shit no given you can get 100 imperial shielding in about 20 minutes then trade that for 16 of any other G5 or 300 G4 and so on. MUCH faster way if you're doing a lot of engineering or just wanna get a ton of mats very quickly.
@@Exigeous I meant as an alternative if the grind for gathering each of the G5 mats gets too boring and need a break from it. I should have clarified, My bad. If one wanted to take a break, yet gather some materials while doing so, This is a great alternative.
Some thing you missed in the materials portion, if you're going mining stop at a material trader and trade up grade 1 mats you get lots during mining so the poor exchange doesn't matter
#3 - I call this a level 1 system scan. I’m working on a video about exploring, and it’s the first video. Problem is, if you honk an unexplored system, it’s a waste. A level 2 scan (honk + fss) is the only way to get base money for a system... a scan of the primary star or stars, is basically 2k to 6k... which is pointless, but yes, free easy money.
Going to only three specific sites for engineering materials within a whole galaxy is only the correct way if you subscribe to the gamer mentality that you must reach the myth that is endgame, rush to max everything asap and ignore the journey. Elite is a sandbox so there'd not really a wrong way of progressing most things the game has to offer.
Or you know if you engineer literally hundreds and hundreds of modules (I'm well over 2000 at this point) then doing it efficiently like this is really the only way to do so without spending ALL my time doing it other ways.
@@Exigeous the man wants to enjoy the ride, let em spend a whole year tricking out a single ship. People like him don't need tutorials, git'r'done the hard way and complain about how long it takes to get those things done.
@@Einhander49 I'm too much of a coward to play in open at the moment, gonna wait till my brand new Krait is pimped out to the max before i take on you bad boys ; )
@@taffy.the.builder1496 I got a pimped out Federal corvette and was attacked by some twat. I can't be dealing with those people. These people ruin the game so I play solo.
@@timppaUT I later found out there are some people who have learned how to hack the the game to cheat. He literally was shooting at me for 4 seconds and I was dead, just came out of nowhere and I was 20 mil credits down.
Realizing this video is 2 years old, but of interest to newer players is that EDDB is no longer operational. Someone IS working on a replacement, but I'm not sure if it's up and running yet, or if it will be by the time someone sees this.
On this game 4 years. Only this summer did I discover the joys of TWO prospector controllers. No more poke, poke, drive 10km, poke poke, drive 10 km. Poke everything, find everything.
1st tip for route planning. Use this to get far enough away from the bubble to explore. Then deselect the last 2. (K+M) Set jump distance to economical. And plan a new course laterally to your home system. If you simply want to level up your Exploration level and get plenty of cash.
Bit of a context if anyone will ever see this: K and M type stars are believed to have the most chances of earth-likes and water worlds orbiting around them and those pay out the best money. If thats what you care about the most, this is the way to go, as there is no point of wasting time going through empty systems. At least in Horizons lol Edit: I just read the comment above once more and I dont understand... You should select only those two star types, K and M, deselect the other scoopable stars :D
Just got back from a 4-year break. Wasted 4 hours and about 1/2 million credits outfitting a Cobra Mk III only to realize I already tried it and it wasn't as good as my Vulture. So I sold everything back.
@@dfunckt fair enough. I know I have flirted wit the idea of getting a hotas, but with space legs coming i think I will stick with my kb mouse set up as it might be more fluid of a transition between the two modes.
Excellent music choice for this type of content. Another way of remembering which types of Stars are scoopable, in addition to KGBFOAM is Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me
With over 2,000 hours in this game, triple elite admiral and king ranks I still find new things to do and better ways to old things every week. Great game!
I have been playing this game all wrong since release! I am pretty sure that I was doing all 13 of those wrong in some form or another. That was very helpful!
This was a lifesaver during the fight I had. The boost bleeding is by far the best play I've had. I used to just do starving runs and hope to Bump the pirate and bust their shields open
Haven't played this in a while. My explorer Asp is parked in some random star system thousands of light-years away from population centers. Maybe it's time to dust off the joystick, power up the drive and start exploring again.
Glad I found this just for the tip on getting unstuck from the mail slot. Was using the Beluga for evacuations (first time flying it) and ALWAYS got stuck in the box, and just restarted the game and spawned outside before I got blown to bits. Wish I'd thought of the landing gear trick...
Ah I've been doing Bookmarks "correctly" :) I tend to prefix them with common stuff like "IF" for Interstellar Factors, "BM" black market, MAT, GEO, COOL, etc.. and I prefix them with "AA" or lower numbers if I'm going to be using them multiple times (i.e. back and forth community goals). Hope there was a better in game tooling to catalog your bookmarks. Thanks for an awesome vid!
That first one alone made me so happy. I didn't know it was something built into the game. So many brown dwarves on the route to the Col 285 triple hot spot.
Traversing the bubble without fuel scooping: Since the bubble and the fringes of it have so many stations available to refuel from (always 1 guaranteed in a system), you can often times get away without using a fuel scoop within the confines of it. I regularly travel in my combat and other ships without one and just top up at the nearest inhabited system when I need to. Another one is economizing jump fuel, which ties into this as well. I'm not entirely sure how the fuel usage is calculated but there is a sharp rise in fuel consumption for the last 10-20% of your jump range, so if you're travelling on just tanks, make sure to either a) plot route and manually select (not plot) stars close to the route that are at 75-80% of your jump range, then open the map in the next system for automatic route recalibration b) if you're in a ship with cargo racks, go to the galaxy map's route plotting (2nd) tab and increase your cargo allocation to the point where your jump range gets artificially limited to be more efficient, effectively cutting out the manual plotting part of the method I really wish they'd add a 3rd plotting mode besides economical and fastest routes called hybrid that would allow you to set the efficiency target while maintaining decent jump range, unlike economical where it always plots for the shortest jump sequence to your destination, thus resulting in high jump count and being only usable over short distances.} Another one is that the bookmarks menu sorts alphanumerically like in any other case, be it your operating system or other. This means you can use special characters (! ? % ` etc etc) to be able to prioritize your bookmarks by having them in front of the actual bookmark name. Somebody mentioned it below as well, but there are a lot of miscellaneous keybinds that are useful to have bound, such as select next target in route, night vision, cargo scoop and landing gear (those two are bound by default, but some people don't know and still go through the menus for them).
One thing I learned on my flight back from the Bubble nebula - you can use basic FSD injections to save fuel. I would jump, start synthesis, circle the star to the next target, then jump as soon as I stopped scooping. With the basic FSD injections I could do it without having to stop at all (30+ jumps). The normal route with my range would require stopping to scoop every 8-10 stars. It's a handy way to get a few extra jumps even in the bubble before having to stop.
Wish i knew how to get unstuck in my SRV. First time I went raw material gathering I got stuck and just turned off my life support when I couldn't get free. Sitting for 5 minutes till my O2 went out was not the best solution. Thanks CMDR!
While I agree with most of what you said, your info on two of them is a bit dated. #1 The in-game route plotting system has been improved significantly over the years and one of the improvements is that by default it tends to plot a route including scoopable stars as frequent as is needed for the ship/route. You even get a message now letting you know when you need to scoop at a star to prevent running out of fuel. While plotting through scoopable stars will make you feel more assured, it's really not that necessary anymore (unless you're in a vanilla sidewinder) and will certainly result in less discovery data than plotting through "not-visited". #3 Which brings us to the next bit of dated info... honking. Honking does nothing now. Whether you honk or not, you still get the discovery data on entry into a new system now. Test it. Sell your discovery data, jump through non-visited systems. You'll still get the data. Change went into effect when they got rid of the 3 classes of discovery scanners. #11 This one you just left-out a rather important piece of information. If you find yourself in your SRV and your SHIP gets destroyed, logging out and back in to Elite without Horizons will actually resurrect your destroyed ship and save you the cost of a re-buy.
What would REALLY be nice is filtering the scoopable stars to just on last (adjustable) 5ly to 20ly prior to max allowable jump range. This would open up many more stars for exploration along the way.
One thing I noticed with the ( stuck in SRV ) none Horizons has a smaller material inventory and I lost a ton of farmed mats, this was several years ago so if anybody with a second or testing account can verify then it should be noted.
You don't understand power priorities and the priority guidance you have provided in this guide only serves to further wide spread mis-information on the topic. Make sure you account for all three malfunction levels in guides related to power priorities otherwise people following your guides will only be able to handle running over power - and not handle the issues that occur when the powerplant malfunctions. There are 3 malfunctions: - Impact, when the plant is directly struck, reducing output to 40% - Collapse, when the plant hits 0% integrity, reduces output to 20% for a few seconds. - Recovery, after the collapse is done, it maintains a consistent output of 50% until the plant is triggered to explode, resulting in death, repaired to 1% with reboot & repair and returns to 100% output, another impact malfunction is experienced (which can happen when already at 0%) or the ship is destroyed. As such powerplant priorities should fall within the following rule-set: Priority 1 should never hit or exceed 20% consumption Priority 2 should never hit or exceed 40% consumption Priority 3 should never hit or exceed 50% consumption Priority 4 is anything you want on with hardpoints deployed. Priority 5 is anything you want to turn off automatically when weapons are deployed and over 100% total power consumption. The only time you should deviate from this method is when you are doing complex organization of many modules being used when over-powered, such as strategically organizing Shield Cell Banks so that they disable in sequence when turning on the next one. Like this topic; you also missed a huge amount of strategic uses of turrets in your guide bashing them, that land outside the realm of how much damage they can do. I suggest you do more research on these topics in the future.
I gave your comment a thumbs up because it seems like a really good point about Module Priority (to base them on power percentage rather than simply by type, defensive, offensive etc), and it was explained in a clear way - but the condescension (first sentence + final paragraph) was really unnecessary, esp given the breadth of content Exigeous has put time and effort into creating for the ED community. He generally seems very open to being corrected.
Hmm, I've never personally noticed it working that way, the only level I know of is 40% which triggers as soon as your PP drops to 0%. Nothing on impacts or anything of the sort in my experience. I haven't done any testing but I haven't seen any of the PvP folk making such claims before either, so a source would be nice.
Having watched many of your vids before getting the game the only one I haven't done is shop in Li-Yong Rui. Something I probably should have done for my recent Type 9 purchase.
One tip I wish I knew sooner is the Synthesis menu. You can create a lot of useful stuff ONBOARD your ship, including oxygen for life support, ammunition, fuel, FSD injection, heatsink etc.
The open question is, how I suppose to know, where particular synthesis materials could be collected ... especially, non-raw ones, like those, needed for heatsink synthesis.
Jameson Memorial Encrypted Data farm is worth noting. Caps out 2 different kinds of t5 encrypted data in 10 mins then trade down and repeat if you want to max.
Took me a long time to see how useful prospecting limpets were. I always thought that it just tells you the make up of the asteroid, how much remaining ores and low/med/high quantity. Did not know it also increases fragments!
Been playing for at least a year and just now unlocked the Guardian FSD Booster. The location was so far out and the sentinels whooped my butt that I never went back until now. I went back in my asp with 2 srvs, point defense turret placed on top of my asp to stop the sentinel missile attacks, and I practiced driving the srv while im in the turret. Now I can run through it no sweat. Oh except the fact that I'm in vr and for some reason I get motion sickness only in the srv going up and down the hills. Without warning I had to run to the bathroom feeling like I was going to throw up. I thought I had food poisoning until the next day I went back for the Gauss Cannon blueprint and it happened again. Maybe I'm doing it wrong? "Probably" lol
The nav filter needs a spot for "mission related". Nothing bothers me more than a futuristic game that doesn't have technology we consider common today. I should be able to open a mission, click on the destination, have it locked in waiting for me when I leave the station. There should be an icon on the scanner telling me where my jump point is. And when I get to the target system there should also be an icon pointing towards the destination. These basic functions are available in all but the cheapest phones today. There's no excuse for them to be missing from spaceships 1,000 years in the future. I don't know what sort of "gameplay" the devs think they would deny us by giving us basic navigation.
Good job on the vid! I've watched your vids before but on this one I subscribed. I have a channel and kiinda gave up after doing Subnautica. People don't realize how much work and time that go into production.
off topic, but all the videos i've seen of subnautica show the view changes as abrupt jerky movements, like i'm drunk... i don't think i could keep my breakfast down, esp in VR. is it really that bad in game?
Hey Exigeous, as an old player coming back to elite after a few years, your 5-10 minutes video are just amazing, so good to find exactly what I look each time... Thanks a lot man.
I do them all HOWEVER I see ppl ALL the time most in Groups such have FB where these tips would be their "ah haaa" moment. Love your videos and Fly Dangerously!
Heh, I had no need of the filter in the nav panel..until effing carriers were released. Now I use it all the time... to deselect carriers.
Oh it's still hugely helpful even when there aren't carriers in system when there are a lot of objects, carriers just make it worse.
I usually have landfall planets disallowed too when I'm in my combat ships. No need for me to know that I can land on those 13moons in the system when I'm not there for that
It would probably work better to select which objects to block instead of which ones to show
System map also need a filter... To filter out the carriers...
@@Exigeous - it's helpful to be sure for other purposes (I use it to filter out everything but signal sources when I'm hunting HGEs), but not as helpful as it is to get rid of carriers ;) It's gotten a bit better of late with lower mining income and fewer carriers allowed per system (allegedly?), but oh man, the carrier spam in interesting places..
I'd really like carriers that don't allow docking for whatever reason to be automatically filtered from everything though :/ You should only be able to see carriers that allow you to dock...
@Topher White - I leave 'em all selected (except carriers and systems) all the time, and then turn off the ones I don't want. You can even turn EVERYTHING on and then deselect the ones you don't that way. Just don't use the 'clear' button.
@Neo - Yes, it friggin' does. Also they both need a search, as sometimes you DO want carriers shown when offloading valuables or buying rares/etc that you've found from eddb or inara or such. "Damn, where is XYZ-123?"....
Some great tips there - the only one I’d add is to bind night vision to a key so you can quickly turn it on in combat - it’s a game-changer to be able to actually see your target in the dark 😂
Yeah, you know that would have been a really good one to add here. I honestly don't use it much as I really don't like the effect visually but it is very useful for sure.
NV rules. I even use it for mining as it helps you get a better feel for distance and rotation of asteroids.
@@Exigeous So the list is biased?
Probably. ;-)
To make combat much more interesting, go to darkside of any extracion zone and (try) to fight among all of those rocks WITHOUT night vision! :P My personal record is 579 hits to a rock in an hour! BEAT THAT! :D
Tip that most CMDRs desperately need: *Fly towards your attackers unless you can outrun them.* Instead of presenting our thrusters on a silver platter to that ganker, keep facing and boosting passed them until our high-wake is charged.
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... unless they have way higher mass ship than yours. As that way you just get masslocked by them, and with a slower ship cant even escape it anyhow.
@@timppaUT Mass-lock between ships only affects low wakes (jumps to supercruise). High-wakes (jumps to another system) are unaffected and the safe way to escape. This tip *is for* pilots in slower and smaller ships than their attackers. If you are faster, just fly away of course. If you are bigger, just low-wake.
@@7heHorror It depends? If that bigger ship has scanner, it can follow your wake. On another hand, only Conda out of big-3 have decent enough jumprange to follow you if you jump far enough. And usually even combat build Condas aren’t that impressive jumpers. Cutters most propably wont be able to follow, depending of course what ship you use, as most smaller and mid sized combat oriented ships aren’t that good jumpers either. And Vette is so lousy that almost any other ship can high wake safely out of its range :D
And jumping is almost only option against big-3, as they would be almost impossible to win alone on smaller ships if you aren’t very VERY good pilot.
Another tip is to hit that f/a off and rotate around to bring guns to bear til the charge is done. Then just flip back turm it back on a and away you go. Also for this, when you get to the system if it is nearby, drop from super and pick another system to jump to.
I'm a Fuel Rat, and I don't filter the map in most cases. Because gotta be fast :p
A tip for you: turn drive assist off in the SRV. Drive assist slows the SRV down and fights against any in air maneuvers you want to make, which makes it hard to recover from getting turned around by a bump that launches you into mid air.
Just tagging along, you can make drive assist off the default mode by going into the controls settings, this effectively makes it like a regular car with an accelerator instead of a throttle
Another great to-the-point video. When approaching a signal source or station and realize you are "over-speeding", try deselecting the target then re-selecting it to slow you down.
In addition to the FSD Booster, It didn't take me too long to fully engineer my FSD. Grade 5 increased range and Mass Manager. My Diamondback Explorer will jump 61 ly and it's not stripped down.
Get a doubly fsd for dbx gives extra 10 lys
4:54 'Fram Shift Drive'
They've come along way from air filters.
But always a trusted brand
"And I hope you will teach me something I'm doing wrong" - 4:50 FRAM shift drive :P
Yeah, a few reported that after I published and given what a MASSIVE pain in the ass it is to delete, re-render, re-upload I figured it'd be a fun easter egg to see what asshole, err I mean attentive viewer would find!
@@Exigeous Pack Houd missiles 😁 for the 2nd time. Still, keep up the great work.
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My “I didn’t know you could do that” was to select what you wanted to see on the nav panel. Amazing stuff to be to clear out the 150 carriers so I can see the port I want to go to.
One thing I’d like to add is that getting your thrusters destroyed is not the end. Most CMDRs don’t realize that under the functions tab on the right panel there is an option called ‘reboot and repair’. This temporarily disables all of your ship’s functions, but can repair essential modules by cannibalizing parts from less essential ones. This situation shouldn’t happen too often, but in case it happens to you, just know that you don’t need to self-destruction get back to a station.
Most often I have to do that when my sensors go out. They're usually engineered lightweight and thus are first to break when shields go down. They are required for docking as you cannot select the station without them (I think).
I discovered that today... my poor Imperial Eagle had its drives and thrusters destroyed, and was sitting there spinning around, while being attacked. Diverting all power to "Sys" kept my bi-weaves up, but I couldn't do anything. All this talk of a "functions" tab had me beat though - its now under "Ship" and a button on the right "pointing" to the ship.
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Yeah I had to do that two times in my 33 hrs of the game so far (I'm quite new)
luckily they got destroyed as I was flying away, so I was drifting away from the enemy
Reboot and repair is also an easy cheese to half shields iirc
Awesome video as always, Exigeous!
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i love it when you make videos like this, it is realy convinient for helping the new players out there, or just showing someone how to do something
Yeah, I'm trying to make them a bit more fun hence this format. Plus I love the channel Cinefix so I sorta copied their style.
i don't know how useful this is for FA on pilots, but i find cargo scoop boosting very helpful in FA off. A lot of times, you just need to change the vector of your ship quickly without overtaking your opponent. I learned this watching some PVP'ers do it.
When you boost, you get a sudden burst of power to your main thrusters. When you hold a directional thruster during the boost, a majority of that power goes thru the held directional thruster. Combining that with the cargo scoop's ability to limit your ship's overall speed, you can use it to quickly change your vector without overtaking. You boost, and open the cargo scope directly after the boost. Then you can change your vector by holding down the desired directional thrusters. You can also adjust when you open the scoop to limit your speed as your ship is accelerating to its maximum boost speed. It's pretty useful when you're in a haz-rez, and you want to use asteroids for cover by weaving in and out of asteroids, or boosting to catch up with an enemy that's currently trying to low/high wake out, and you don't want to suddenly pass them.
Takes a bit of practice to use effectively in combat, but i found it very helpful. Probably doesn't fit in these basic tips
I never thought of that im gonna try this
jup, the cargo scoop is a great...not an airbrake...spacebreak?
Also, landing gear out redistributes power flow evenly over all thruster, makes you slow, but very nimble. Can occasionally come in handy.
You can skip the last 40ls of every journey using Supercruise Assist by accelerating to full until the ETA is 3 seconds, then throttling back to the blue to re-engage for the rest of the very short trip
you can actually push it further than that, the super cruise assist lets you exit supercruise at any speed as long as you are within the correct distance. The problem is the game only checks your distance probably once per frame, so 60 times a second (not actually sure what the rate is). So if you do it at 3 seconds, you arrive at some speed that is guaranteed to check the distance while you are within the correct distance, but you can be lucky and arrive at much higher speeds. The highest I've done I think is 20C
@@theaveragepro1749 Nice! I'd be curious to push the limits of the distance you can begin the trick when I upgrade my frame rate. I'd also like to add that with bigger and less maneuverable ships, it's important to align your pitch with the orbit of your destination; the combination of high speeds, poor manoeuvrability and orbital motion is enough to actually miss the target and force the dreaded loop of shame, and in a T9 or even a corvette that's just painful 😂
Another top tip turn the 100 fleet carriers off clogging your nav panel
Yeah, I was shocked that they showed them in this way as it's AWFUL - and it makes the system map much harder to use.
@@Exigeous agreed m8 glad to see you making top videos again
Yeah I've had fleet carriers off since they came out. So many damn carriers in the bubble
@@redmoon383 And Colonia.....
@@redmoon383 And at the 6 Raw Mats planets he mentions and the Jameson Crash Site and around every Engineer's planet. I found I didn't NEED to search for the right planet the first ime I arrived (recent newbie) - just look for the dozens of Carriers in orbit around it! :-)
Your FSD should always be a high power priority. If you need to run away from a fight, the boot-up time can get you killed.
just scoop at EVERY star you can. It takes almost no time and is a security measure for always having the highest possible range
It reduces jump range, though, and you can´t dump fuel if need be
@@paavobergmann4920 you're gonna plot your route with max fuel anyway so it doesn't matter
@@HeyYouYouAreFinallyAwake In general if you use the auto-plotter, yes. So, 99% of the time. You can manually plot jump by jump though, if you want to sequentially visit specific stars that would be off-route. Thats less efficient if the destination is all that matters, sure, but I did it occasionally to explore specific regions on the way to somewhere else. And there it happened, that I couldn´t make a jump I had planned after I fully refueled and had to make a detour, which was mildly annoying. It can also help occasionally for a jump or two (e.g. escape persistent pursuit on a mission or PvP) if you had to compromise on the fuel scoop in your built, for lack of money, room or weight. It´s niche , and risky, and you should have a Post-It with the FuelRat´s number on your navpanel. But it´s fun to supercharge a ship with large tank on half-empty and see just how far you can get. Coriolis let´s you check the difference between max Jump fuelled (empty cargo, full tank) and absolute max (empty cargo, just enough fuel) for your build. It can be several lightyears without supercharge, so with a neutron star, it can really matter.
Flipping FA off and on is almost as important as pip management imo.. save yourself some shield recharge time by turning that massive Conda around to blow that annoying Eagle into particles..
Also full FAOFF with FAON toggle for stall maneuvers
What is FA?
@@Andromedon777 Flight Assist
@@TwentyFourSlevin thanks o7
I think the Li-Yong Rui shopping is the most overlooked tip, I made my home station in his area and have bought all my ships and modules there.
I’m surprised I’ve heard nobody else talk about this. I never knew about Li-Yong Rui, is it actually a 15% discount on everything?
Gathering Manufactured materials alternative: A more fun way of gathering materials is going to the compromised nav beacon in the Nastrond system. Nastrond is an independent anarchy system, so it is open season on everybody, Pirates, freighters etc. The system requires a permit, to get it, you will have to become allied with the Defense Party of Nastrond faction in a nearby system which should be able to be done within an hour. I'm pretty sure they have a presence in Nowak Hub in Wonorne Nu.
Sure you can gather materials from conflict zones, pirate activity beacons, etc. - anywhere there is combat but if you just need materials that isn't even remotely an efficient way to do it. More fun, absolutely. Quick, holy shit no given you can get 100 imperial shielding in about 20 minutes then trade that for 16 of any other G5 or 300 G4 and so on. MUCH faster way if you're doing a lot of engineering or just wanna get a ton of mats very quickly.
@@Exigeous I meant as an alternative if the grind for gathering each of the G5 mats gets too boring and need a break from it. I should have clarified, My bad. If one wanted to take a break, yet gather some materials while doing so, This is a great alternative.
As a new player, my only complaint about your channel is that I didn't find it sooner. Outstanding tutorials.
If you're new to elite dangerous highly recommend this video. No BS dribble or filler just good tips.
Some thing you missed in the materials portion, if you're going mining stop at a material trader and trade up grade 1 mats you get lots during mining so the poor exchange doesn't matter
#3 - I call this a level 1 system scan. I’m working on a video about exploring, and it’s the first video. Problem is, if you honk an unexplored system, it’s a waste. A level 2 scan (honk + fss) is the only way to get base money for a system... a scan of the primary star or stars, is basically 2k to 6k... which is pointless, but yes, free easy money.
I just went to the Guardian ruins and Coalsack Nebula, and it was enough to push me to a Surveyor rank - just from this "accidental" exploration.
Going to only three specific sites for engineering materials within a whole galaxy is only the correct way if you subscribe to the gamer mentality that you must reach the myth that is endgame, rush to max everything asap and ignore the journey.
Elite is a sandbox so there'd not really a wrong way of progressing most things the game has to offer.
Or you know if you engineer literally hundreds and hundreds of modules (I'm well over 2000 at this point) then doing it efficiently like this is really the only way to do so without spending ALL my time doing it other ways.
@@Exigeous the man wants to enjoy the ride, let em spend a whole year tricking out a single ship. People like him don't need tutorials, git'r'done the hard way and complain about how long it takes to get those things done.
Been playing just a few weeks now, i think i counted all of them, so this is now my goto place for tips n tricks.Thank you, subbed
I'm blowing you up, taffy, as soon as I see you in game. I got my gimbal on you.
@@Einhander49 I'm too much of a coward to play in open at the moment, gonna wait till my brand new Krait is pimped out to the max before i take on you bad boys ; )
@@taffy.the.builder1496 I got a pimped out Federal corvette and was attacked by some twat. I can't be dealing with those people. These people ruin the game so I play solo.
@@danielfinch362 If you can’t deal people with pimped out Fed Corvette, you are doing it wrong! :P ... propably?
@@timppaUT I later found out there are some people who have learned how to hack the the game to cheat. He literally was shooting at me for 4 seconds and I was dead, just came out of nowhere and I was 20 mil credits down.
Realizing this video is 2 years old, but of interest to newer players is that EDDB is no longer operational. Someone IS working on a replacement, but I'm not sure if it's up and running yet, or if it will be by the time someone sees this.
On this game 4 years. Only this summer did I discover the joys of TWO prospector controllers. No more poke, poke, drive 10km, poke poke, drive 10 km. Poke everything, find everything.
Testicle moon? I have to know where that bookmark is pointing.
I bet it was one of those moons that look like potato? And now we all know what Exigeous testicles look like? :D
1st tip for route planning. Use this to get far enough away from the bubble to explore. Then deselect the last 2. (K+M) Set jump distance to economical. And plan a new course laterally to your home system. If you simply want to level up your Exploration level and get plenty of cash.
Bit of a context if anyone will ever see this: K and M type stars are believed to have the most chances of earth-likes and water worlds orbiting around them and those pay out the best money. If thats what you care about the most, this is the way to go, as there is no point of wasting time going through empty systems. At least in Horizons lol
Edit: I just read the comment above once more and I dont understand... You should select only those two star types, K and M, deselect the other scoopable stars :D
As a new player having jumped in over the recent "free" and "sale" periods on Epic/Steam, this was THE most essential vid I've watched yet.
I hate when I come back after ages and having to relearn everything lol
Just got back from a 4-year break. Wasted 4 hours and about 1/2 million credits outfitting a Cobra Mk III only to realize I already tried it and it wasn't as good as my Vulture. So I sold everything back.
thats what I'm gonna have to do.
@@dfunckt Do you play KB and mouse? I know I ad to fiddle with my controls a few times before finally settling on something the felt right.
@@dfunckt fair enough. I know I have flirted wit the idea of getting a hotas, but with space legs coming i think I will stick with my kb mouse set up as it might be more fluid of a transition between the two modes.
OMG Yes, you Never Lied!!!!!
2:04 I love the little jabs you take at FDev like this.
Excellent music choice for this type of content. Another way of remembering which types of Stars are scoopable, in addition to KGBFOAM is Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me
The longer I play E:D, the more I have a feeling that one of the things I'm doing wrong is...well...playing E:D at all.
God, mood
With over 2,000 hours in this game, triple elite admiral and king ranks I still find new things to do and better ways to old things every week. Great game!
King rank? Is that an Empire rank?
@@grot777 Yes Garret. Top empire rank at the moment is King, top federation rank at the moment is Admiral 😊
Just started playing elite. Just found this channel. 😎👌 Thank you
I have been playing this game all wrong since release! I am pretty sure that I was doing all 13 of those wrong in some form or another. That was very helpful!
This was a lifesaver during the fight I had. The boost bleeding is by far the best play I've had. I used to just do starving runs and hope to Bump the pirate and bust their shields open
Haven't played this in a while. My explorer Asp is parked in some random star system thousands of light-years away from population centers. Maybe it's time to dust off the joystick, power up the drive and start exploring again.
250h and didn't know nav filtering or kgbfoam, or thought about macros. And long time come back so never knew about fsd, boostter, thaks bro !
Glad I found this just for the tip on getting unstuck from the mail slot. Was using the Beluga for evacuations (first time flying it) and ALWAYS got stuck in the box, and just restarted the game and spawned outside before I got blown to bits. Wish I'd thought of the landing gear trick...
The best defense is a great offensive ramming maneuver
Right off the bat that first tip is primo. Thanks. You're Aces.
Ah I've been doing Bookmarks "correctly" :) I tend to prefix them with common stuff like "IF" for Interstellar Factors, "BM" black market, MAT, GEO, COOL, etc.. and I prefix them with "AA" or lower numbers if I'm going to be using them multiple times (i.e. back and forth community goals). Hope there was a better in game tooling to catalog your bookmarks. Thanks for an awesome vid!
I am so new I have more time watching your videoes then playing the game, and You are a lifesaver! Thank you.
You are doing it wrong! You watch videos while you same time supercruise to that Hutton Orbital to get your free Anaconda!
@@timppaUT Too late, I have one already from Hutton Orbital.
Petition to change Exigious title from CMDR to GOAT.
Awesome video
Just in time for my lunch break. Awesome.
I am doing nothing wrong, but just because of content creators like you and the other great channels. Thanks a lot for everything.
That first one alone made me so happy. I didn't know it was something built into the game. So many brown dwarves on the route to the Col 285 triple hot spot.
3:08 While not particularly important, it should be noted that the discount also applies to ship transfer costs
Traversing the bubble without fuel scooping:
Since the bubble and the fringes of it have so many stations available to refuel from (always 1 guaranteed in a system), you can often times get away without using a fuel scoop within the confines of it. I regularly travel in my combat and other ships without one and just top up at the nearest inhabited system when I need to.
Another one is economizing jump fuel, which ties into this as well. I'm not entirely sure how the fuel usage is calculated but there is a sharp rise in fuel consumption for the last 10-20% of your jump range, so if you're travelling on just tanks, make sure to either
a) plot route and manually select (not plot) stars close to the route that are at 75-80% of your jump range, then open the map in the next system for automatic route recalibration
b) if you're in a ship with cargo racks, go to the galaxy map's route plotting (2nd) tab and increase your cargo allocation to the point where your jump range gets artificially limited to be more efficient, effectively cutting out the manual plotting part of the method
I really wish they'd add a 3rd plotting mode besides economical and fastest routes called hybrid that would allow you to set the efficiency target while maintaining decent jump range, unlike economical where it always plots for the shortest jump sequence to your destination, thus resulting in high jump count and being only usable over short distances.}
Another one is that the bookmarks menu sorts alphanumerically like in any other case, be it your operating system or other. This means you can use special characters (! ? % ` etc etc) to be able to prioritize your bookmarks by having them in front of the actual bookmark name.
Somebody mentioned it below as well, but there are a lot of miscellaneous keybinds that are useful to have bound, such as select next target in route, night vision, cargo scoop and landing gear (those two are bound by default, but some people don't know and still go through the menus for them).
One thing I learned on my flight back from the Bubble nebula - you can use basic FSD injections to save fuel. I would jump, start synthesis, circle the star to the next target, then jump as soon as I stopped scooping. With the basic FSD injections I could do it without having to stop at all (30+ jumps). The normal route with my range would require stopping to scoop every 8-10 stars. It's a handy way to get a few extra jumps even in the bubble before having to stop.
Ok. less than a month in the game -- learned so much in this 12 minute video. Thanks so much! Subscribed! (Probably!)
Didn't know the trick to get out of a stuck menu, thanks!
Yeah, that one is pretty key.
The one of the best tips & tricks video i have seen, probably.
Wish i knew how to get unstuck in my SRV. First time I went raw material gathering I got stuck and just turned off my life support when I couldn't get free. Sitting for 5 minutes till my O2 went out was not the best solution. Thanks CMDR!
They get stuck easy just use self destruct next time
The filtering stars was news to me, didn't know that drop down scrolled.
As a new player this is super helpful - thanks!
Excellent video, you earned my subscription...Probably!
So many great tips here and in your other videos. I had gotten frustrated with this game but I'm ready to jump back in now. Thanks for posting this!
While I agree with most of what you said, your info on two of them is a bit dated.
#1 The in-game route plotting system has been improved significantly over the years and one of the improvements is that by default it tends to plot a route including scoopable stars as frequent as is needed for the ship/route. You even get a message now letting you know when you need to scoop at a star to prevent running out of fuel. While plotting through scoopable stars will make you feel more assured, it's really not that necessary anymore (unless you're in a vanilla sidewinder) and will certainly result in less discovery data than plotting through "not-visited".
#3 Which brings us to the next bit of dated info... honking. Honking does nothing now. Whether you honk or not, you still get the discovery data on entry into a new system now. Test it. Sell your discovery data, jump through non-visited systems. You'll still get the data. Change went into effect when they got rid of the 3 classes of discovery scanners.
#11 This one you just left-out a rather important piece of information. If you find yourself in your SRV and your SHIP gets destroyed, logging out and back in to Elite without Horizons will actually resurrect your destroyed ship and save you the cost of a re-buy.
Thank you man. I always thought that honking was the most moronic idea. Even worse that it occupied a fire group on a combat ship. Not anymore o7
Just discovered that the stored modules list can be grabbed and dragged to move quickly, at least on PC
Please explain more.
@@danielfinch362 on PC, there is an orange slider on the left of the stored modules. It can be grabbed and dragged to move quickly
If you are scooping directly from the surface of the sun...you are probably doing it wrong...
Haha... love the effective use of "...probably."
Yeah, well people get all butt-hurt if you use terms like "wrong" as it hurts their poor feelings.
@@Exigeous indeed. Your 'disclaimer' is a cool way to deal with it. Probably.
loved when he said probably
probably
Great video! I've only been playing for about 3 weeks now and I'm doing about 1/3 wrong lol. Thank you!
#1 to 12 ticked. I guess I'll be on to #13 now :)
Sorry Exigeous, but contrary to what you say at the beginning this list is NOT for veteran players...
What would REALLY be nice is filtering the scoopable stars to just on last (adjustable) 5ly to 20ly prior to max allowable jump range. This would open up many more stars for exploration along the way.
Thank you for this video. I have learnt something new today. I didn't know about the Guardian.
Thank you.
Thanks for the help...probably!
One thing I noticed with the ( stuck in SRV ) none Horizons has a smaller material inventory and I lost a ton of farmed mats, this was several years ago so if anybody with a second or testing account can verify then it should be noted.
You don't understand power priorities and the priority guidance you have provided in this guide only serves to further wide spread mis-information on the topic. Make sure you account for all three malfunction levels in guides related to power priorities otherwise people following your guides will only be able to handle running over power - and not handle the issues that occur when the powerplant malfunctions.
There are 3 malfunctions:
- Impact, when the plant is directly struck, reducing output to 40%
- Collapse, when the plant hits 0% integrity, reduces output to 20% for a few seconds.
- Recovery, after the collapse is done, it maintains a consistent output of 50% until the plant is triggered to explode, resulting in death, repaired to 1% with reboot & repair and returns to 100% output, another impact malfunction is experienced (which can happen when already at 0%) or the ship is destroyed.
As such powerplant priorities should fall within the following rule-set:
Priority 1 should never hit or exceed 20% consumption
Priority 2 should never hit or exceed 40% consumption
Priority 3 should never hit or exceed 50% consumption
Priority 4 is anything you want on with hardpoints deployed.
Priority 5 is anything you want to turn off automatically when weapons are deployed and over 100% total power consumption.
The only time you should deviate from this method is when you are doing complex organization of many modules being used when over-powered, such as strategically organizing Shield Cell Banks so that they disable in sequence when turning on the next one.
Like this topic; you also missed a huge amount of strategic uses of turrets in your guide bashing them, that land outside the realm of how much damage they can do. I suggest you do more research on these topics in the future.
I gave your comment a thumbs up because it seems like a really good point about Module Priority (to base them on power percentage rather than simply by type, defensive, offensive etc), and it was explained in a clear way - but the condescension (first sentence + final paragraph) was really unnecessary, esp given the breadth of content Exigeous has put time and effort into creating for the ED community. He generally seems very open to being corrected.
Hmm, I've never personally noticed it working that way, the only level I know of is 40% which triggers as soon as your PP drops to 0%. Nothing on impacts or anything of the sort in my experience. I haven't done any testing but I haven't seen any of the PvP folk making such claims before either, so a source would be nice.
Very good and helpful video
Saved, top notch
Having watched many of your vids before getting the game the only one I haven't done is shop in Li-Yong Rui. Something I probably should have done for my recent Type 9 purchase.
One tip I wish I knew sooner is the Synthesis menu. You can create a lot of useful stuff ONBOARD your ship, including oxygen for life support, ammunition, fuel, FSD injection, heatsink etc.
The open question is, how I suppose to know, where particular synthesis materials could be collected ... especially, non-raw ones, like those, needed for heatsink synthesis.
@@semibiotic Exigeous has his own video about material farming. You should check it out. It's a pain in the ass though
As Jingles would say, if it's stupid but it works...
Also, I had no idea about #2.
Jameson Memorial Encrypted Data farm is worth noting. Caps out 2 different kinds of t5 encrypted data in 10 mins then trade down and repeat if you want to max.
Took me a long time to see how useful prospecting limpets were. I always thought that it just tells you the make up of the asteroid, how much remaining ores and low/med/high quantity. Did not know it also increases fragments!
You need to add Pulse Wave Analyser to this list. Believe or not some people having been using it wrong this whole time.
I only bookmark my trade routes and the legendary AASGAY
Been playing for at least a year and just now unlocked the Guardian FSD Booster. The location was so far out and the sentinels whooped my butt that I never went back until now. I went back in my asp with 2 srvs, point defense turret placed on top of my asp to stop the sentinel missile attacks, and I practiced driving the srv while im in the turret. Now I can run through it no sweat. Oh except the fact that I'm in vr and for some reason I get motion sickness only in the srv going up and down the hills. Without warning I had to run to the bathroom feeling like I was going to throw up. I thought I had food poisoning until the next day I went back for the Gauss Cannon blueprint and it happened again. Maybe I'm doing it wrong? "Probably" lol
You are god of elite dangerous.Very helpfull videos. Thank you so much
When trying to get somewhere quickly make sure you select fastest route in the galaxy map otherwise economical causes you to do way more jumps.
Video is 3 years old? I still didn't know about *HALF* of these things! And that's not "probably"! It's a fact!😅
Trying to craft modules and selling them on the galactic market in my own planetary base with module factory. That's what I've been doing wrong!
Only Big Ass Fuel Givers Keep Motivated. God that was harder than i thought...
The nav filter needs a spot for "mission related". Nothing bothers me more than a futuristic game that doesn't have technology we consider common today. I should be able to open a mission, click on the destination, have it locked in waiting for me when I leave the station. There should be an icon on the scanner telling me where my jump point is. And when I get to the target system there should also be an icon pointing towards the destination. These basic functions are available in all but the cheapest phones today. There's no excuse for them to be missing from spaceships 1,000 years in the future. I don't know what sort of "gameplay" the devs think they would deny us by giving us basic navigation.
Good job on the vid! I've watched your vids before but on this one I subscribed. I have a channel and kiinda gave up after doing Subnautica. People don't realize how much work and time that go into production.
off topic, but all the videos i've seen of subnautica show the view changes as abrupt jerky movements, like i'm drunk... i don't think i could keep my breakfast down, esp in VR.
is it really that bad in game?
Testicle Moon? Interesting bookmarks.
Many Thanks from an Elite newb!
I always learn something from your videos thanks Cmdr!
Great material Commander... probably... :)
Hey Exigeous, as an old player coming back to elite after a few years, your 5-10 minutes video are just amazing, so good to find exactly what I look each time... Thanks a lot man.
I want to visit the TESTICLE MOON you have bookmarked @7:33 !!!!
Glad to know Im doing all that right....probably lol
I do them all HOWEVER I see ppl ALL the time most in Groups such have FB where these tips would be their "ah haaa" moment.
Love your videos and Fly Dangerously!
Thanks for this video! It helps me a lot. Like!
o7 EDDB, you were the best of the best