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Nekozji

Nekozji
Codger said:
Sometimes it will fix itself
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It seems to have fixed itself without any action on my part 😹

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Never paid a credit. Oh well.

Meantime, I'm working hard on getting allied with everyone currently in power at Jameson's. There was one glorious day where a neighboring system was in famine and I could take multiple delivery runs at once, but that has apparently ended and now it's pick up 2-3 shipments and do a tour. So far, I have visited some unexpectedly weird places...

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And I've become mildly obsessed with the day-glo brightness of NPC ships... pretty sure this has come in with PP 2.0, although I have lost track of who is orange. They make me feel kind of drab and dull. Maybe I should get on and pledge to someone just to get started. (Probably go with AD because that has the biggest discord community by some margin, and have been issuing weekly PP instructions for quite a long time. I appreciate that level of organisation.)

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Anyway, getting close, and although I'm 99% sure these minor factions will rotate out in weeks-months, worst case that's 4 more allies in the bubble.

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It remains useful that I spent a while back in 2022 or 23 working my way down the list of largest minor factions, and it is surprising where I can drop into and find at least 1 ally with good contracts available. Still miss EDDB's complete listing by system presence... Inara seems to have the top 20 but not much more. May just have to guess a bit - although again, if I pick a power to pledge to, it will restrict my space a LOT and I'll end up working my way through it.
 

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
I bought CMDR Passin a new coat - The Desperado. It wasn't so weird walking around in Penny's coat (but it does need washed).

So why am I not on site uploading malware in the new outfit?

Too busy sucking down an entire nutso HGE. These are super nuts overblow like exobiology payout scale overblown, hmm. But I guess that'll do it completely stocked me with Imperial Shieldings with 3 left to spare

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Egads that's a lot of Imperial shielding; but at least I earned it by being in Imperial Cronie. Or whatever I am. I'm a Knight

As Amado found out,
BY THE POWER OF MY PURPLE GLOVES,
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XFER SUGCESSFUL
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CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
aRJay said:
Given a heat resistant build and large fuel tank*.

*Or an available Fuel Rat.
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I've made it to such a destination with no extra fuel and without overheating. Without having a specialized build. I didn't even use a heatsink.
I use the SCO to get up to higher speeds quickly, in bursts that always end with the first temperature warning, long before it could inflict any damage. Then coast with the overspeed until the Overdrive has cooled down to start the next boost. When I have reached the half level of my fuel, I wait until the overspeed has completely worn off before activating the boost again. And at about a quarter of the tank, I stop boosting and slowly take the throtle back into the lower end of the blue area and travel the rest normally. Some additional fuel might get you closer to your destination before needing to slow down, though.
 

Markov Chaney

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Nekozji said:
I... did not check the mission info properly 😔

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Well, that's progress. It's a LOT of progress in one go.

Me? I've given up on getting caught out by the never-ending spaghetti of which counts for what merits so I'm going to stay pledged, do the odd thing along the way, and scan the hell out of every system on the way to the edge of the bubble.

And then summon the DBX which I bought months ago and parked in anticipation of PP 2.0 excitement. Will head directly out from the Bubble somewhere around the middle of my Power's cone*, so when I come back from the Black it'll have expanded towards me a bit and I'll have plenty of exploration data to sell, assuming it gets rebalanced whilst I'm in the black.

* not a cone, technically a "spherical sector"
 

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CMDR Timber McWolf said:
I've made it to such a destination with no extra fuel and without overheating. Without having a specialized build. I didn't even use a heatsink.
I use the SCO to get up to higher speeds quickly, in bursts that always end with the first temperature warning, long before it could inflict any damage. Then coast with the overspeed until the Overdrive has cooled down to start the next boost. When I have reached the half level of my fuel, I wait until the overspeed has completely worn off before activating the boost again. And at about a quarter of the tank, I stop boosting and slowly take the throtle back into the lower end of the blue area and travel the rest normally. Some additional fuel might get you closer to your destination before needing to slow down, though.
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Yep, it’s now quite possible to travel 500kls in reasonable time & with a main tank that’s not too small, with SCO - tbh I barely hesitate with “only 100kls” supercruises these days, though i can recall a time when Omicron Eridani data runs took almost 15 minutes in a Python and were only justified by stacking 10+ data courier missions at a time…

(For a more recent, early SCO Hutton run in a Python Mk I, i filled the optional module space with almost 256t in fuel tanks, allowing as much SCO as possible from a relatively inefficient ship on that 8+ million light second journey - iirc that brought the time down almost to 30 minutes.)

…a newer, SCO-era ship would be a lot more efficient with fuel - the Mandalay is amazing with this, probably not the fastest SCO acceleration of the new ships, but it cruises up fairly effortlessly to around 4200c and glides along at this kind of speed while being remarkably light on fuel :)
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
]M[ said:
Yep, it’s now quite possible to travel 500kls in reasonable time & with a main tank that’s not too small, with SCO - tbh I barely hesitate with “only 100kls” supercruises these days, though i can recall a time when Omicron Eridani data runs took almost 15 minutes in a Python and were only justified by stacking 10+ data courier missions at a time…

(For a more recent, early SCO Hutton run in a Python Mk I, i filled the optional module space with almost 256t in fuel tanks, allowing as much SCO as possible from a relatively inefficient ship on that 8+ million light second journey - iirc that brought the time down almost to 30 minutes.)

…a newer, SCO-era ship would be a lot more efficient with fuel - the Mandalay is amazing with this, probably not the fastest SCO acceleration of the new ships, but it cruises up fairly effortlessly to around 4200c and glides along at this kind of speed while being remarkably light on fuel :)
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I wish drop ships had SCO...
 

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Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Hmm. I've still not decided who to ally with or, in fact, if I'm going to pledge at all. I'm unsure as to what benefits there are - although some of the module "rewards" are quite nice.

If I'm honest, I'm struggling with the whole concept but I do wonder if I'm missing out.
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Similar feelings, tbh - feeling a bit of virtual existential angst, as I’m torn between remaining fiercely (or just happily) independent of galactic politics/conflict and faction battles…

…or just getting in somewhere, as this seems to be what’s happening with the game now :)
 

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Jumpin' Jack Flash
Hi All :)

CMDR Timber McWolf said:
Ah, yes. Happens all the time. To all of us. Though, with SCO, this isn't that big of a problem anymore.
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I'm out exploring at the moment, roughly parallel to the Colonia bridge line but 50 -100lys out from the mega stations. I'm starting to get the hang of the SCO drive, it's very handy in some of these systems, especially mapping those far out planets from the main systems star.
Still over / under shooting the targeted planet though sometimes! :rolleyes:...I'm finding some good mining spots so I'l be parking my carrier up today I think and grabbing some platinum, and stuff. :)

Jack :)
 
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