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[EnigmaticHat]

Did an audacious no witnesses mission as a character's first mission.  Was partly due to good luck; the character started with long blade + high capacity stealth shield, and the mission was a theft mission where the bosses had shields and the unshielded mooks had the keys.  Still, it wasn't easy, the ship itself was large and there were 5 keys to get to the objective.

The first couple groups I took out by waiting for people to peel off and then taking them out.  But that's when things got dicey: a group with a shield, no way to bypass them, surrounding a turret and with a key that I needed.  And they weren't doing errands anywhere out of sight.  Fortunately, at that point I'd accessed the level's two loot crates: single use long range swap, and quiet automatic concussion rifle.  I swapped places with the shielder, then took the rest out with the gun before they realized what was happening.  From there I had only 21 seconds to cross about a dozen rooms to get to the pilot before the ship docked at a hostile station.

I used 2 stealth shields to get past the next group and pickpocket their key.  From there I sprinted towards the bridge and, with 3 seconds left, hurled my sword into the captain's head.  At that point most of the bosses were panicking so it was just down to shooting and slicing through some mooks to reach the objective.  When I reached it I had no more ammo or shields.  Not wanting to fight my way back to my pod, I jumped out a plate glass window into space and had the pod pick me up.  Fortunately none of the shielded bosses (who were effectively invincible to me) saw my face, so I even got the no witnesses bonus!

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Heat Signature

[Blaze]

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Wow, that Terra Tech was big. But when I slammed full speed into it, it collapsed like a stack of bricks.

[Egan_BW]

It, uh, looks kinda like you did too?

[Blaze]

I was buried in its parts, I am a melee tech after all.

[milo christiansen]

My Hyperion is currently wrecking a Xenon Q and escorts all by itself. Meanwhile, I am floating alltogether too close for comfort, hoping no one decides to pot the idiot in a space suit...

Sadly, the TS I was repairing didn't get away, but that's OK. The 6 M3s and 2 M4s I already repaired are safe.

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X3 Albion Prelude, with an NPC bailing mod.

I hit the motherlode here in Grand Exchange. All kinds of ditched fighters. My ride (the hyperion) keeps running off to blow the crap out of invading Xenon though.

[Blaze]

I have seen something similar in Black Hole Sun, where there's a constant stream of intruders from the Xenon stations in the northern sector fighting against the argon military base centered there.

[Akura]

Was falling behind on a mission to take down some pursuing cops, with at 3 or 4 left and getting close to the finish line. Then I placed some C4 on the back of one of the police cars. It went boom and I was greeted with the mission accomplished screen.

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Road Redemption

[hector13]

How like the Road Rash games of old is that game?

[Dunamisdeos]

Won my lvl-60 class quest first try. Class was RDM.

60 and 70 tend to be big set piece fights and can be complicated or difficult. Always feels good to nail it on the first try.

FFXIV

[Akura]

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Got enough equipment to start logging, that's the first tree I cut down and de-branched. Also, I'm fully equipped to deal with giant vampires now.

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Farming Simulator 2015

[IronTomato]

Finally got enough tech in my new career mode save to start building real spaceplanes. I made a similar SSTO to the one I used to travel to Duna a while back, with the same kinds of engines (4 RAPIER engines, two nuclear engines) but with better aerodynamics, a way cooler appearance, and a better LF/O ratio. I managed to fly it to the Mun, land, take off again, aerobrake in Kerbin, rendezvous with my space station, drop off the data from the Mun landing for research, then de-orbit and land at the KSC. The best part is that because it was an SSTO, the only expense paid for what will become thousands of science points (once the station's research is finished) was the cost of fuel, as opposed to spending thousands of credits on a rocket.

And yeah, I know I said I landed at Duna before, but I didn't have enough fuel to even take off again when I did, so this is actually way better.

Kerbal Space Program

[Detros]

My outer colonies have finally got so big civilian mining colony was established in other system than Sol. And this mining site will be there for a while.

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Aurora 4X

[Sirus]

My outer colonies have finally got so big civilian mining colony was established in other system than Sol. And this mining site will be there for a while.

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Aurora 4X

And you let the civilians get ahold of that? You're probably going to regret missing out on all those minerals down the line.

[Culise]

My outer colonies have finally got so big civilian mining colony was established in other system than Sol. And this mining site will be there for a while.

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Aurora 4X

And you let the civilians get ahold of that? You're probably going to regret missing out on all those minerals down the line.

CMCs are lovely because you have the option of buying up the minerals and send them home without investing in mines or mass drivers by simply checking an option and configuring the free mass driver integrated in the CMC.  It's civilian fuel harvesters that drive me batty since once they fill up, any extra mined fuel disappears into the wealth-based aether.  That means you need to be much more careful about picking up fuel from them on a regular basis with ships.  At least, they did last I checked. 

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Oh, and if you're looking for the option to buy up the output of CMCs, it's in the Population and Production Screen where you find other things like Industry and Research, under the "Civilian/Ind Status" tab.  The specific option is a radio button letting you choose between either "Minerals go to Civilian sector" (disappear into the wealth-aether) and "Purchase Mineral Output" (takes from your wealth, gives you the total mining output of the CMC.  If I had the game installed and running here, I could give you a screenshot, but I hope that at least is enough to help identify it. 

[Detros]

My outer colonies have finally got so big civilian mining colony was established in other system than Sol. And this mining site will be there for a while.

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Aurora 4X

And you let the civilians get ahold of that? You're probably going to regret missing out on all those minerals down the line.

CMCs are lovely because you have the option of buying up the minerals and send them home without investing in mines or mass drivers by simply checking an option and configuring the free mass driver integrated in the CMC.  It's civilian fuel harvesters that drive me batty since once they fill up, any extra mined fuel disappears into the wealth-based aether.  That means you need to be much more careful about picking up fuel from them on a regular basis with ships.  At least, they did last I checked. 

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Oh, and if you're looking for the option to buy up the output of CMCs, it's in the Population and Production Screen where you find other things like Industry and Research, under the "Civilian/Ind Status" tab.  The specific option is a radio button letting you choose between either "Minerals go to Civilian sector" (disappear into the wealth-aether) and "Purchase Mineral Output" (takes from your wealth, gives you the total mining output of the CMC.  If I had the game installed and running here, I could give you a screenshot, but I hope that at least is enough to help identify it.

Yes, that's how it works. I am going to just keep buying from here. Note the price depends on the amount of civilian mines, not on the amount of mined types of ore so this is a reaaally cheap source of minerals. In this game I am trying to survive just with mining, Sorium Harvester tech is not even researched so no issues with those (and I am hoping my ally won't give me it. Really great is also that those two ores with the best accessibility here are two you most need: duranium is the basic building material and sorium is the only source of fuel for your ships. But if you want to continue in this discussion, let's move to the proper thread.