Hi all
I do have an external monitor awaiting its moment but that involves tidying my desk (!?!) to create the necessary space. It will be worth it though - I'll end up with a two-display setup with ED on the bigger screen and the laptop display for external tools. Just need to find the round tuit!
I know that feeling. Though, in my case, it requires getting rid of the desk I'm using to set up a new one...
Talking of tidying up desks etc
. I 'tidied' up my desk a month or two ago, 'cluttering up equipment' are... 2 desktop computers (not small cases either!) plus 2 monitors (one spare now just in case one of them packs up), 2 Logitech G19 keyboards, 1 7.1 surround sound speaker system, 1 modem,1 thrustmaster joystick, and 2 mice.....loads of flippin' cables...a nightmare!
The original desk (which I custom made several years back) measures roughly 6ft long x 2ft wide. It's not actually big enough now to place the computers on it (with all the other stuff), and I didn't want them on the floor, my wife complained she couldn't hoover round them which was a fair point, and she'd actually sometimes dislodged cables whilst hoovering.
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So, I ended up after a lot of deliberation buying one of those motorised desks you can alter the height easily. I did think of making another desk attached to the original one but it was (A)...a cobbles up, and (B)...just as expensive to buy the materials as the price of the motorised one, which is exactly now the same height as the custom one.
The cabling runs are in a much neater state now, but they're still not what you might call 'easy on the eye'....at least the floor of the room isn't bunged up with cables, mains socket points and cables etc.
I did consider at one point ditching the whole lot and buying a lap top!
What am I up to...I'm not sure what I'm going to do in the game today, it's interesting (and confusing) what's going on in the game what with people using the colonising feature etc, and for all we know there might be some changes and tweaks in the ongoing beta test. I wouldn't have thought there will be
major changes but I personally think there will be some more changes (quantity off materials required for station building etc.) that might alter what we'll finally need for each type of station eventually.
There's so many unfinished stations in systems, the galactic map is starting to appear 'cluttered', some filters on the map are still not functioning correctly which is starting to get annoying, and other game bugs, some experienced by some and not others, I see from reading the forums. So rather than waste the stuff I've gathered together possibly I'm just going to scout about the outer claimed systems for now and see what's developing over the general area.
Plus we're getting some sunny weather here, so I really should take advantage of it and go out for a short walk, and get some fresh air for a change!
Edit...Observation....It would be useful to see easily (for me personally) where players are currently progressing with colonisation if the player
completed stations in the systems were a different colour to that of the original systems (before the colonisation update). I'm a bit colourblind so this might have some bearing here. I just thought from an informative view on the galmap the differences would be immediately obvious, and useful.
Jack
