Cheers Raiko, enjoy the core. I found having a list of my jump multiples helped... and don't plot a number that isn't just a bit lower than one of your numbered numbers.Congratulations both of you!
I'm currently 2 hours in 4000LY from Sol, so I'm on my schedule, but miles behind your's!
Community Event / Creation Buckyball Run A*: What do you do when a mountain is there? Move it.
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I'm in,
Harbinger Els
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Gentle Annie
Harbinger Els
ASP
Gentle Annie
I made it! A combination of chatting on Skype while drinking several beers somehow resulted in a 1k ly leg taking 2.5 hours midway through the race versus ~32 minutes with plotting for the rest, eventually had to nap before finishing, but made it there nonetheless.
Would have beat my self-imposed goal of under 24 hours, were it not for the plotting difficulties during the last few thousand light years including one game crash during plotting. Now for a leisurely 26k ly jaunt back towards civilization, complete with ACTUALLY SURFACE SCANNING ALL THOSE INTERESTING SYSTEMS I HAD TO SKIP.
Arrival: [video]http://www.twitch.tv/delvan_neville/c/6634987[/video]
Would have beat my self-imposed goal of under 24 hours, were it not for the plotting difficulties during the last few thousand light years including one game crash during plotting. Now for a leisurely 26k ly jaunt back towards civilization, complete with ACTUALLY SURFACE SCANNING ALL THOSE INTERESTING SYSTEMS I HAD TO SKIP.
Arrival: [video]http://www.twitch.tv/delvan_neville/c/6634987[/video]
10 hours cobbers!
Your fingers must be twitching every 30 seconds or so - target next - jump - target next - jump - ... repeat 300 or so times.
That is some mighty impressive flying! For the sake of the rest of us, please go and have something to eat & drink.
Now, if you could hook up a chair with tubing, Gemini-style....
No, no, no, someone will actually do it!
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I hand't yet had a chance to say Freakin' awesome, cobber!
So there, I've said it no. PLEASE enter that in the C-A-Space film comp. PLEASE, for the sake of Bucky.
Your fingers must be twitching every 30 seconds or so - target next - jump - target next - jump - ... repeat 300 or so times.
That is some mighty impressive flying! For the sake of the rest of us, please go and have something to eat & drink.
Now, if you could hook up a chair with tubing, Gemini-style....
No, no, no, someone will actually do it!
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I'm afraid the Nav panel will only show a maximum of 20 (?) systems, which in the core gets you about 4Ly.
Anyhow...
Controversially, I decided that uploading an entire 12-hour run video might cause me need to find a new ISP - and also a new set of friends, because nobody's gonna watch that!
So... I decided to do something a little bit different... Enjoy!
Do Not Deviate: A Buckyball Run A* Adventure by CMDR Alot
I hand't yet had a chance to say Freakin' awesome, cobber!
So there, I've said it no. PLEASE enter that in the C-A-Space film comp. PLEASE, for the sake of Bucky.
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Half way as well, 8k Ly. Phoowee, this is a journey. No problems so far, very few TTauri or brown dwarfs as a put it down straight down the middle, well back to it, oh here is the view.
Absolutely stunning! I think we need a Buckyball awesome shots gallery... if not pictures taken on the way out, taken on the way back. I have to say I've seen some of the most impressive vistas in a game ever on my way back. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
(On the way out, not so much )GULP Not just figuratively, but literally GULP.
I nearly accidentally killed myself, 22,500Ly from home, with nealy 20 days with of scans - something like 2,000 systems.
How?
I had never realized that life-support is a finite resource. I just did my 5th slam-into-a-sun this trip - due in part from trying to play 1997 DOS Elite in a browser window while flying in today's Elite. (As an aside, I want the devs to put that on the blank screen in the cockpit, so you can play Elite on thos long Supercruise legs, but I digress).
I'm repairing away, with life support off, and over the sounds of Radio Sidewinder I could hear a sort of choking noise... I was focused on the modules panel, so I couldn't see the life support read-out; I switched back to front view and saw this:
Life Support Remaining:
0.02
The following thoughts went through my head:
I made it. Life support restored. I suspect I have less than one second remaining.
Damn, I'm still shaking, and actually feel a bit nauseous.
I'm going to go and make a nice relaxing cup of tea.
And then fly 22,500Ly home without a SINGLE ERROR.
Not just figuratively, but literally GULP.I nearly accidentally killed myself, 22,500Ly from home, with nealy 20 days with of scans - something like 2,000 systems.
How?
I had never realized that life-support is a finite resource. I just did my 5th slam-into-a-sun this trip - due in part from trying to play 1997 DOS Elite in a browser window while flying in today's Elite. (As an aside, I want the devs to put that on the blank screen in the cockpit, so you can play Elite on thos long Supercruise legs, but I digress).
I'm repairing away, with life support off, and over the sounds of Radio Sidewinder I could hear a sort of choking noise... I was focused on the modules panel, so I couldn't see the life support read-out; I switched back to front view and saw this:
Life Support Remaining:
0.02
The following thoughts went through my head:
I made it. Life support restored. I suspect I have less than one second remaining.
Damn, I'm still shaking, and actually feel a bit nauseous.
I'm going to go and make a nice relaxing cup of tea.
And then fly 22,500Ly home without a SINGLE ERROR.
GULP
I nearly accidentally killed myself, 22,500Ly from home, with nealy 20 days with of scans - something like 2,000 systems.
How?
I had never realized that life-support is a finite resource. I just did my 5th slam-into-a-sun this trip - due in part from trying to play 1997 DOS Elite in a browser window while flying in today's Elite. (As an aside, I want the devs to put that on the blank screen in the cockpit, so you can play Elite on thos long Supercruise legs, but I digress).
I'm repairing away, with life support off, and over the sounds of Radio Sidewinder I could hear a sort of choking noise... I was focused on the modules panel, so I couldn't see the life support read-out; I switched back to front view and saw this:
Life Support Remaining:
0.02
The following thoughts went through my head:
I made it. Life support restored. I suspect I have less than one second remaining.
Damn, I'm still shaking, and actually feel a bit nauseous.
I'm going to go and make a nice relaxing cup of tea.
And then fly 22,500Ly home without a SINGLE ERROR.
LOL reload gave a warning about life support in this thread some 10 pages ago
You might have missed it...it's pretty far back, just after the first convoy race to the centre...
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Now you've gone and done it. Here is the view back towards home some 2300ly 'Above' Sag A*
Pucker Factor > 9000
I gave a warning about that too a couple pages back
Which I, obviously, did not read.
Well, to both of you all I have to say is:
Fantastic times, although I slightly feel like a kingmaker (for now
) with my route planning advice This feels like an appropriate time to dig out something I said to EZ a week or so ago...
I didn't say it at the time for fear of sounding like an arrogant so-and-so, but I think now it's probably only a matter of time! (Pretty sure Anuranium is on his way back to the start line, for oneEsvandiary said:It's a pretty bold claim (which is why I'm not making it in public
)Anyhow, if someone feels like dethroning me again, I'd say given these two times, my Asp run is looking eminently beatable...
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https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Halo_Jones/status/594655204689256448
"Here, am I sitting in my tin can... Sag-A* is Black, and I'm thinking 'bout turning back"
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