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Aha, so perhaps new notable Stellar Phenomena of some kind… or even new Bio’s on the ground in invaded systems..?
Going to start combing the Codex when I can log in later on… :]
Intriguing. I'll keep my eyes open...
Though I guess I won't see them in Guardian "infested" areas...
But who knows...
I'm heading back to Synuefe TP-F b44-0, as I will need some more of those guardian mats for the jump extender...
Nice.
Too much nostalgia to comment on here but I completely forgot about the Buck Rogers Thunderfighter (01:58). I didn't even realise it had a name.
Back in the day the Corgi model, with its extra wing so the two spikes wouldn’t stick into any one too far, and the Monogram kit just called it the Buck Roger’s Starfighter.
I am not sure how much later the Thunderfighter name got coined, I don’t recall it having a name in the show.
Interesting.
Now that you mention it, I am having a small PTSD related 80's flashback and do think I had a version of this toy. I'm definitely thinking small die-cast rather than a larger model you might injure yourself putting together because of all the superglue. Plus our family was quite poor.
I didn't have many spaceship toys which is odd as sci-fi has always been a fave genre of mine.
However, from that oeuvre, I did have an Eagle Transporter and an Interceptor (the huge missile on the front never went very far or fast so the cat was spared).
However, from that oeuvre, I did have an Eagle Transporter and an Interceptor (the huge missile on the front never went very far or fast so the cat was spared).
Rock and pellet gun fights, awesome childhood, I had a Crossman 760 pump pellets or beebee's. We would wear six layers of clothes and motorcycle helmets with goggles. We used to put some nasty welts on each other.
Last night I tried out the updated evacuation missions from an Alert system - lots more passenger groups (no longer an arithmetic challenge to max out cabins, just keep adding groups until full), an unexpectedly decent profit at the far end (about 40 million per run), and a high risk of Scythe interdictions before the second jump - my trusty T7 already had a reinforced 3A Prismatic and a couple of boosters, just needed to add ECM and a point defence to scrape through unscathed (well, shield offline and 97% hull on average, but all passengers still safe in their seats).
And those passengers are indeed more chatty - when arriving in the Rescue Ship system I sometimes got 16 groups saying thank you at the same time
All in all, good fun.
And those passengers are indeed more chatty - when arriving in the Rescue Ship system I sometimes got 16 groups saying thank you at the same time
All in all, good fun.
Is that your first ELW? You seem giddy.
Not quite, but i still thought it worth stopping - it had a moon like Luna
I should still check that tbh, but iirc i did before, earlier on this months-long trip - a few red dots definitely... :]
Had a check through my screenshots and yep, i'd found one ELW earlier on this trip - quite a few red dots too
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I've been playing for, what, 16 months now, have found lots of untouched systems (though in no way do I pretend to be an explorer!), and have still not found a new ELW. Buckets of Ammonias and Waters, ELW nada.
Admittedly I have not been specifically looking for them, but had assumed one would have turned up by now. I occasionally have an urge to find a new system with one, map every world, set foot on everything set-footable, stick my carrier there and rename it to NO TRESPASSING.
Admittedly I have not been specifically looking for them, but had assumed one would have turned up by now. I occasionally have an urge to find a new system with one, map every world, set foot on everything set-footable, stick my carrier there and rename it to NO TRESPASSING.
Stopping here for lunch - the view is nice & there is reasonably mineable Tritium nearby... i'm not doing more than the test sample though ;p
*i'm also getting this new little target reticule (similar to the one one gets with an SLF) in the SRV btw - does that mean that i can have my ship follow me around later on? ...could be nice in exploration, but really useful in terms of ground/air tactics somewhere else...^
*i'm also getting this new little target reticule (similar to the one one gets with an SLF) in the SRV btw - does that mean that i can have my ship follow me around later on? ...could be nice in exploration, but really useful in terms of ground/air tactics somewhere else...^
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Well that is disappointing, the thing I loved most about those evacuation missions was the self loading cargo didn’t try and talk to me at all.Last night I tried out the updated evacuation missions from an Alert system - lots more passenger groups (no longer an arithmetic challenge to max out cabins, just keep adding groups until full), an unexpectedly decent profit at the far end (about 40 million per run), and a high risk of Scythe interdictions before the second jump - my trusty T7 already had a reinforced 3A Prismatic and a couple of boosters, just needed to add ECM and a point defence to scrape through unscathed (well, shield offline and 97% hull on average, but all passengers still safe in their seats).
And those passengers are indeed more chatty - when arriving in the Rescue Ship system I sometimes got 16 groups saying thank you at the same time
All in all, good fun.
Yes Corgi were with Dinky major producers of die cast metal models of usually cars, the Starfighter was probably around 4” long and had this flat plate wing between the two front spikes. I did quite fancy it or the much larger Monogram plastic kit but I was at that awkward age, too old to be comfortable buying toys for myself and not old enough to not care and get them anyway actually I think the kit might have been more money than I wanted to pay as well.
I had one of the Dinky Eagle transporters a nice model except Dinky had done their usual trick of using the colour they had available (green metallic) rather than the correct colour white.
Such guns were rare to not available/illegal over here in my youth.Rock and pellet gun fights, awesome childhood, I had a Crossman 760 pump pellets or beebee's. We would wear six layers of clothes and motorcycle helmets with goggles. We used to put some nasty welts on each other.
It was nice the first couple of times but can be a bit of a bombardment if you have picked up a lot of missions - they can send multiple messages over the course of the trip too (worried ones initially, relief later). I didn't lose any passengers so I don't know if there are also screams when the thimpets hit
Hmm. I didn't think to check whether a worried message meant you were in a Scythable system - might be some useful info for the Cmdr in there. I'll try to be more systematic when I next give it a go.
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