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CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
And those MS crash reports are as useful as a chocolate teapot but sometimes there's a crash number that can be looked up. Whenever I look at one mind you, it just bleats about some kernal error which mean nothing to me.
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Well, the Kernel is the core program of Windows*. It has a little issue, though, as it tends to get corrupted over time, causing crashes.

And the only way to prevent that is to restart the computer on a regular basis.

Shutting down the computer doesn't help with modern Windows, as the Kernel gets copied onto the hard disk (or whatever type of drive you use) before the computer is powered down. Much like the "hibernation mode" works, but just for the Kernel. MS has done this to expedite the power up sequence of the computer.

*: And some other bits and bobs that are deemed important.
 

SpaceGoblin

SpaceGoblin
Things seemed to return to normal after I got off the 'Planet of CTD', so I guess we'll find out if today is more stable...


In the meantime, here is a pic of a Momma Codgers Rock, with her brood of Rocklings in tow:

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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
SpaceGoblin said:
Things seemed to return to normal after I got off the 'Planet of CTD', so I guess we'll find out if today is more stable...


In the meantime, here is a pic of a Momma Codgers Rock, with her brood of Rocklings in tow:

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The planet you were on - or, more precisely, the area of the planet you were at - wasn't near a Thargoid place was it? I have heard that some planetary based Thargoid stuff has bugs - dating back a number of years, not the new stuff.
 

SpaceGoblin

SpaceGoblin
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
The planet you were on - or, more precisely, the area of the planet you were at - wasn't near a Thargoid place was it? I have heard that some planetary based Thargoid stuff has bugs - dating back a number of years, not the new stuff.
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No, it was just some random number system about 2kly outside the bubble, towards Colonia (Well Omega Nebula, since Colonia is still a loooong way from there). I stopped off to get the 'first scan' on the 2 bio-signs there.

CTD happened each time I took off after getting the 1st bio sampled, and passed over a nearby ridge to get to a hotspot for the next one.

I broke out the SRV and went by surface travel, summoned my ship and just boosted straight up after getting the 2nd, and normality appears to have been restored.
 

SpaceGoblin

SpaceGoblin
So today I have zeroed yet another account (somehow, I've ended up with 6 over the years!) and imposed the limits of 'Sidewinders only' (I can have more than one, once Engineering starts) and no 'relog farming' - not because it's 'bad-wrong-fun' but just for the extra bit of challenge. I don't have Odyssey on this acct, either. But with it being on sale still, that probably won't last.

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0threeleven

0threeleven
SpaceGoblin said:
So today I have zeroed yet another account (somehow, I've ended up with 6 over the years!) and imposed the limits of 'Sidewinders only' (I can have more than one, once Engineering starts) and no 'relog farming' - not because it's 'bad-wrong-fun' but just for the extra bit of challenge. I don't have Odyssey on this acct, either. But with it being on sale still, that probably won't last.
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Relogging sure saves time, I discovered recently that I can't do that hunting mats like zirconium, if I relog, there's nothing on the scope and that stuff is fairly hard to find. On a different subject, I installed the latest AMD chipset drivers that came out last month and they helped a lot. They have a cool little app that reads your computer hardware and fetches the correct drivers, you can't go wrong. I still have the super long black screen.:(
 

0threeleven

0threeleven
Here's a few moments in the life of Cmdr 0threeleven (6 1/2 minutes) and how I deal with an 8 vs 1 ambush. I rake 'em with fire to get them PO'd at me then boost like the wind, I wait for the NPC cops to show, you can see their arrival on the comms telling everyone to submit to a scan, the Reavers reply "say hello to my lil friend" then it's a full on fur ball. I had a Cobra slam into me at a full boost and bounce off. As I like to say, never a dull moment in Colonia.
 
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Rhialto

Rhialto
0threeleven said:
Here's a few moments in the life of Cmdr 0threeleven (6 1/2 minutes) and how I deal with an 8 vs 1 ambush. I rake 'em with fire to get them PO'd at me then boost like the wind, I wait for the NPC cops to show, you can see their arrival on the comms telling everyone to submit to a scan, the Reavers reply "say hello to my lil friend" then it's a full on fur ball. I had a Cobra slam into me at a full boost and bounce off. As I like to say, never a dull moment in Colonia.
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At first i thought you had only beam lasers, you don't seem to use your multi cannons very much.
I have two overcharged beam lasers with thermal vent, and three overcharged Pacifiers on my Krait.
It's a bit difficult to land a good hit with the Pacifiers, but they do a lot of damage.
 

0threeleven

0threeleven
Rhialto said:
At first i thought you had only beam lasers, you don't seem to use your multi cannons very much.
I have two overcharged beam lasers with thermal vent, and three overcharged Pacifiers on my Krait.
It's a bit difficult to land a good hit with the Pacifiers, but they do a lot of damage.
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I use my lasers mainly for shields, I keep a close watch on their hull, if it starts dropping fast, I stick with the beam lasers. If there's hardly any movement on their hull integrity, I switch to cannons. Using premium ammo gives 30% more damage and I try to conserve it, you don't know how long the fight will last and no time to make more before the cops take out all the targets. I managed to get 5 of 8, in my head it's all about being as efficient as possible, I was lucky, none of my opponents used chaff, that would have made it tougher.
 

]M[

]M[
Have been working on a more refined edit of the Titan emergency wake-out “explosion” video, looking for music that works well with the scene - it’s fairly lengthy still, as this includes the full tracks synched to a very loose assembly edit of the footage, but herewego… letmeknow what you think - and if it’s worth spending many hours more editing this into a more complete “cinematic”? :]

Titan Taranis "Catastrophic Failure" [CUTDOWN+MUSIC SELECTION - TRIMMED]
Source: https://youtu.be/c7Sf_z0boBs
 

Codger

Codger
]M[ said:
Have been working on a more refined edit of the Titan emergency wake-out “explosion” video, looking for music that works well with the scene - it’s fairly lengthy still, as this includes the full tracks synched to a very loose assembly edit of the footage, but herewego… letmeknow what you think - and if it’s worth spending many hours more editing this into a more complete “cinematic”? :]

Titan Taranis "Catastrophic Failure" [CUTDOWN+MUSIC SELECTION - TRIMMED]
Source: https://youtu.be/c7Sf_z0boBs
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You do nice work, very nice. I personally would not watch such a long version, but I'm jaded :)
 

]M[

]M[
Codger said:
You do nice work, very nice. I personally would not watch such a long version, but I'm jaded :)
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Thank you :)

I think it’s a bit like that well-known George Bernard Shaw quote, "I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to write a shorter one." …doing recordings & uploading takes some time, basic editing more time and a properly refined edit much, much more!

…so this is the currently still rather long version, with 2 extra days of music selection, synching the tracks and trimming the footage into what we call a “loose assembly”, ie: bringing all the audio / video material together in sequence for presentation…

What I’m trying to guage is whether there’d be much interest in the intended video, before spending quite a few more days editing & refining it into a proper “cinematic” piece… which would probably be around 10mins :]
 
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CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
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Thank you :)

I think it’s a bit like that well-known George Bernard Shaw quote, "I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to write a shorter one." …doing recordings & uploading takes some time, basic editing more time and a properly refined edit much, much more!

…so this is the currently still rather long version, with 2 extra days of music selection, synching the tracks and trimming the footage into what we call a “loose assembly”, ie: bringing all the audio / video material together in sequence for presentation…

What I’m trying to guage is whether there’d be much interest in the intended video, before spending quite a few more days editing & refining it into a proper “cinematic” piece… which would probably be around 10mins :]
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I wonder how you would be able to squeeze this into 10 minutes... It feels to me like 15ish might be doable, but 10?
Yes, I've watched the whole thing and was hooked for most of the time. Well done.
 

Frankymole

Frankymole
SpaceGoblin said:
I don't have Odyssey on this acct, either. But with it being on sale still, that probably won't last.
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Half of my accounts don't have Odyssey (two out of four). I'm not sure I can face doing all the suit and weapon upgrades again, so maybe it will have to be "lucky shop finds" only.

I guess there are no Odyssey bases in the Starter Zone "Pilot's Federation District" and no way to step out from an SRV into planets' wilderness areas either, there. You presumably get plonked outside that zone if you upgrade to Odyssey.
 

]M[

]M[
CMDR Timber McWolf said:
I wonder how you would be able to squeeze this into 10 minutes... It feels to me like 15ish might be doable, but 10?
Yes, I've watched the whole thing and was hooked for most of the time. Well done.
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Thank you most kindly, it’s really good to know that a video is getting more than just the typical “first 30-60 secs” YT viewing stats :)

Ofc, i’m enough of a nerd (and hopeless ED fanatic) to rewatch game recs myself, heck even spending much precious time editing & posting the stuff online… :D

…but yep, in a much media & video-jaded age, most viewers’ attention spans don’t seem to last much beyond a minute, if that, unless the material really grabs them - hence the countless YT meta-video’s explaining just how important it is to grab viewers’ attention with something-flashy-ASAP /o\

…might have something to do with the fact that i’m “the wrong side of 50”, but personally i feel that this is the road to hell: more ever-more kinetic/flashy media with ever less sense of pace, space or real content ;p

I think it’s probably enough material for a good 10-15 min final edit, ie: with the right pace to feel the final moments leading up to the “explosions”, and to leave one wondering just what happened, as some of us did after… without lagging/lingering to the point that most/many just skip through or away to something else ;]
 
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SpaceGoblin

SpaceGoblin
Frankymole said:
Half of my accounts don't have Odyssey (two out of four). I'm not sure I can face doing all the suit and weapon upgrades again, so maybe it will have to be "lucky shop finds" only.

I guess there are no Odyssey bases in the Starter Zone "Pilot's Federation District" and no way to step out from an SRV into planets' wilderness areas either, there. You presumably get plonked outside that zone if you upgrade to Odyssey.
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Turns out the 'Starter Zone' is more or less abandoned. When re-starting the ED/Horizons only acct, I had a choice between standard (LHS 3447, I think) or Horizons (Someplace starting with A, next door to Eranin) starts - picked the later. Kind of disappointing, I rather enjoyed the permit locked noob zone.

Upgrading an account to Odyssey 'in media res' opens the Odyssey Tutorial mission as a training simulation, presumably it drops you back to wherever you are after - I skipped it on the acct I updated last week, I had done it recently, didn't feel the need to do it again.

As for facing the 'upgrade grind', not something I ever bother with, couple of visits to Jameson Crash site/Dav's hope maybe when I pass nearby, but otherwise I just swing by an engineer once in a while, see what I can do each time. Nothing turns me away quite like 'must grind to x standard of gear' - I just want to get on with playing the game :cool:
 
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