Buckyball Racing Club presents: Questing on Qixi (Triple Eight Championship, Race 4)

[Chika Shirokane]

Day 5 of the Race

"6 Minutes?" Looking at the Compulink STARTREK 3001 Management Panel, Chika stood up in horror.
"You all are really a fast bunch. Sulu shaved a minute off, 3 more entries."

 

[CMDR Sir Boundness]

wow - that was brutal

 

[Alec Turner]

Crikey ... it's a long haul in regulation!

Originally I tried using pretty much all the same bonuses I did for Unlimited but boy does not having SCO slow things down. How did we live like this?

Tried again with a more appropriate bonus selection, very nearly didn't get a Thargoid encounter but then, hallelujah, literally as I'm heading back thinking I'd have to run again tomorrow my Thargoid team mate finally shows up! The meta-alloys are in the post bud!

Regulation run submitted.

 

[Fish172]

Well three serious runs, with one being easily my fastest yet. Problem is no interdictions making that three hours racing worthless for no fault of my own.

 

[Alec Turner]

Well three serious runs, with one being easily my fastest yet. Problem is no interdictions making that three hours racing worthless for no fault of my own.

Oh that’s brutal. I've been averaging about 1.5 hyperdictions per run.

 

[Darkfyre99]

The ships have been transferred…
The sheets have been spread…
The route has been plotted…
The books have been marked…

All that remains is for real life to give me a few frelling spare hour long blocks at home!!!

<<< Is both looking forward to an dreading having another licensed driver at home!

 

[Myxlplyx73]

Do you get pity points for two hyperdictions and a pirate attack?

 

[Alec Turner]

Bit late but I've made a race video for promotional purposes. I'll chuck it into a few places over on the socials.

Source: https://youtu.be/_0x_upH3ArM

 

[Fish172]

New unlimited posted

 

[Ozric]

New run submitted. I thought I'd try an extra bonus during this run to see if it would help, I'm not sure if it really did or not. I managed to get hyperdicted on my way home after already targeting a Thargoid but I completely forgot to turn off my life support again.

So a bit of a mixed bag, but it will definitely be an improvement.

 

[CMDR Timber McWolf]

Crikey, I'm late to the party again... RL completely confuddles me, these days. Still just watching from the sideline, as I'm still out there, making very slow progress recently, due to RL draining all my energy and then some... If I were to average my play time over the last four weeks, I might get to a maximum of about 5 minutes per day...

Shout out to @Alec Turner for posting his video today, which reminded me of what it was I felt was missing...

 

[CMDR Sir Boundness]

Bit late but I've made a race video for promotional purposes. I'll chuck it into a few places over on the socials.

Source: https://youtu.be/_0x_upH3ArM

a sub-9mins-run on regulation

 

[Fish172]

Regulation Submitted

 

[CMDR Sir Boundness]

new unlimited run submitted - muuuuuuch faster then before and with 2 hyperdictions ... so many stars need to alaign

 

[Chika Shirokane]

New Scoreboard before we enter the Final Weekend!

"Hey, it's Chika here, just wanting to pop some new words... First, a worrying development is that someone has been shipping off explosives to Artemis Lodge. Can't really build a spaceport out of those, right? New faces and old faces have been popping up on the scoreboard - a welcome addition. Finally - Sulu's score cannot be verified now by the Compulink STARTRAK software - it is being processed by the server right now. Shame, we will put that on for now."

 

[Myxlplyx73]

Well I tried again this time with more deductions but not sure it’ll make much difference. Harder I try to go fast I go slower.
More haste…less speed maybe?

 

[TobiasVonBrandt]

Well I tried again this time with more deductions but not sure it’ll make much difference. Harder I try to go fast I go slower.
More haste…less speed maybe?

"Harder I try to go fast I go slower" is so true. It is so counterintuitive and so hard to achieve, but smooth is faster. Relax. Don't push it.

 

[Fish172]

I will switch to images for anymore runs I do due to having issues with youtube. It has been getting slower for the last couple of days.

 

[Alec Turner]

"Harder I try to go fast I go slower" is so true. It is so counterintuitive and so hard to achieve, but smooth is faster. Relax. Don't push it.

 

[Leeya Geddy]

Ok, for my final run attempts I will be renaming the Xanadu. She needs a more race appropriate name. I will be calling her the Xǐquè Qún.

Let me be clear, Buckyballers, we are performing a VITALLY important duty here. All will be revealed in my next blog and, if you don’t want to spoil its content, please refrain from researching the Qixi festival until you’ve read it.