Community Event / Creation Buckyball Run A*: What do you do when a mountain is there? Move it.

[Rankaze]

Here's a question for y'all... any of you have theme music for your run?

My BBR A* playlist started with my choice of theme, and anytime I felt like I needed to mentally reset and regain my focus, I restarted with it.

That song was Jerry Reed's "Eastbound and Down", from Smokey and the Bandit.

Seemed appropriate, making the run in a Hauler.

 

[Madoc Owain]

Here's a question for y'all... any of you have theme music for your run?

My BBR A* playlist started with my choice of theme, and anytime I felt like I needed to mentally reset and regain my focus, I restarted with it.

That song was Jerry Reed's "Eastbound and Down", from Smokey and the Bandit.

Seemed appropriate, making the run in a Hauler.

Yep.. I started mine with the opening music to "Star Wars" and closed with "We Are The Champions" by Queen. Interspersed with songs about traveling, space, and appropriate techno music.

 

[Mangel]

Here's a question for y'all... any of you have theme music for your run?

I started off with some nice driving music from The Crew, litstened to some of the Lave Radio recordings, and finised off with the entire Star Wars movie collection.

 

[Anuranium]

Here's a question for y'all... any of you have theme music for your run?

Radio sidewinder, OR The Immigrant song - Led Zeppelin

 

[Alec Turner]

Here's a question for y'all... any of you have theme music for your run?

Here's a few tracks from my Buckyball playlist that I seem to recall worked particularly well ...

Doors - L.A. Woman
Hendrix - Crosstown Traffic
Elton John - Rocket Man
Led Zep - When The Levee Breaks
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Santana - Black Magic Woman
De La Soul - Magic Number
Gang Starr - Full Clip
Geoff Muldaur - Brazil
Guru - Loungin
James Brown - Make It Funky

 

[drakhyr]

Here's a question for y'all... any of you have theme music for your run?

I was listening to Radio Sidewinder all the way. It felt highly appropriate that when I started on my run, one of the first songs that played was Muse's Supermassive Black Hole.

 

[Conkay]

Ha ha, excellent news bulletin!

And welcome to DoubleU, Conkay, Kiwi & Uberfish. Wow, looks like EZ is gonna need some more bumper stickers, we've totally underestimated the number of people crazy enough to attempt this!

Can't think of a better use of 12 hours!

 

[Esvandiary]

I got around to running the numbers for my last run...

Distance travelled:	26278 Ly (378Ly more than the straight-line distance)
Average jump distance:	40.00 Ly, over a total of 657 jumps
Average time per jump:	47.8s
Time per 1000 Ly:	20m 13s over 25900 Ly (19m 56s over 26278 Ly)
Light years per hour:	2967 over 25900 Ly (3010 over 26278 Ly)
Emergency stops:	0 (although at least 30 heat-related incidents...)
Time spent route planning:	~18 minutes (an hour less than on my first run!)
Forced replots due to unscoopable stars:	4 out of 30 total plots

All of the numbers

EDIT: Just noticed the table's going to be unreadable for some people on mobile, sorry

 

[mw_aurora]

I got around to running the numbers for my last run...

Distance travelled:	26278 Ly (378Ly more than the straight-line distance)
Average jump distance:	40.00 Ly, over a total of 657 jumps
Average time per jump:	47.8s
Time per 1000 Ly:	20m 13s over 25900 Ly (19m 56s over 26278 Ly)
Light years per hour:	2967 over 25900 Ly (3010 over 26278 Ly)
Emergency stops:	0 (although at least 30 heat-related incidents...)
Time spent route planning:	~18 minutes (an hour less than on my first run!)
Forced replots due to unscoopable stars:	4 out of 30 total plots

All of the numbers

EDIT: Just noticed the table's going to be unreadable for some people on mobile, sorry

Oooh numbers. I like numbers

Out of interest, how did you keep track of your actual distance? I tried recording each jump in a spreadsheet on a second PC but managed to lose 30+ jumps during the course of my run!

 

[FoxTwo]

Here's a question for y'all... any of you have theme music for your run?

I'm one of the weird ones that absolutely HATE external music when playing a game. I also hate people talking and yammering on their youtube videos when playing games. That is also why I don't really like Twitch.

If I go to Youtube to look at a gameplay session, I do NOT wanna hear the player talk and yak non-stop - I wanna hear the game sounds, the NPC dialogs, the epic music FROM THE GAME, etc .. don't bloody mute 'em out to talk over them!

So yeah... my runs are basically in-game OST - whatever plays during jumping or supercruise etc. I NEVER have any music playing when playing games.

The only, single, exception is Eurotruck Simulator 2. That one has an in-game, lore-friendly music / internet radio player, so yes time to time I'll turn the radio on.

 

[Anuranium]

I'm one of the weird ones that absolutely HATE external music when playing a game...

The only, single, exception is Eurotruck Simulator 2. That one has an in-game, lore-friendly music / internet radio player, so yes time to time I'll turn the radio on.

I really suggest you turn on radio sidewinder once... while playing. It doesn't get more lore friendly than Radio Sidewinder. This coming from someone who even downloaded tens of gigabytes of radio shows and broadcasts (among them every single broadcast from the Great Gildersleeve) from 1939-45 when playing silent hunter 3/4 to keep in touch with the immersion.

 

[kccummings3]

I really suggest you turn on radio sidewinder once... while playing. It doesn't get more lore friendly than Radio Sidewinder. This coming from someone who even downloaded tens of gigabytes of radio shows and broadcasts (among them every single broadcast from the Great Gildersleeve) from 1939-45 when playing silent hunter 3/4 to keep in touch with the immersion.

There's even a VLC skin that looks just like part of the HUD...

 

[FoxTwo]

I really suggest you turn on radio sidewinder once... while playing. It doesn't get more lore friendly than Radio Sidewinder. This coming from someone who even downloaded tens of gigabytes of radio shows and broadcasts (among them every single broadcast from the Great Gildersleeve) from 1939-45 when playing silent hunter 3/4 to keep in touch with the immersion.

Hahha I appreciate the thought, really I do... but I am very very very very unlikely to even consider that at all. As I said, I hate external music. My real life radio / hi-fi set etc are all not on when I'm gaming. My TV is off.

And, this coming from a guy who has never bothered to download ANY audio files for any music title in his life. Nope the only MP3s I do have are sound clips from Star Trek and they are just for my phone ringtones and stuff ...

ps: Yes it does mean that both my BBRA* runs were done in absence of 3rd party external music. Every sound is from ED itself

 

[kccummings3]

Made it!

Met up with CMDR Metta, took some nice selfies.

PM'd info/images to EZ.

Total time: 3d 11h 8m 47s.
Actual time spent in game: Around 15 hours. Bummer how real life gets in the way.

Nice picture with CMDR Metta:
http://i.imgur.com/QtnEatt.jpg

Cheers,
KC

 

[Rankaze]

Hahha I appreciate the thought, really I do... but I am very very very very unlikely to even consider that at all. As I said, I hate external music. My real life radio / hi-fi set etc are all not on when I'm gaming. My TV is off.

And, this coming from a guy who has never bothered to download ANY audio files for any music title in his life. Nope the only MP3s I do have are sound clips from Star Trek and they are just for my phone ringtones and stuff ...

ps: Yes it does mean that both my BBRA* runs were done in absence of 3rd party external music. Every sound is from ED itself

For me... it doesn't matter how good a game's music is, I will get tired of it eventually, and need to listen to something different.

But... music has really profound effects on me, on my mood, on my mental state and ability to focus. I've come to use music as a tool to help me get things done.

So while I'll usually play a game to the music that comes with it for a few weeks to months, eventually I have to listen to something different.

It's especially odd with something like Skyrim where the actual Skyrim music is part of the playlist I use while playing Skyrim (I bought the OST - I really like Skyrim's music). I just don't want to listen to the same music all the time... I burn out on it.

So I'm kind of the opposite of you, I guess. External music is pretty much essential for me.

 

[Alec Turner]

Made it!

Met up with CMDR Metta, took some nice selfies.

PM'd info/images to EZ.

Total time: 3d 11h 8m 47s.
Actual time spent in game: Around 15 hours. Bummer how real life gets in the way.

Nice picture with CMDR Metta:
http://i.imgur.com/QtnEatt.jpg

Cheers,
KC

Congratulations KC! As has been said before, with this BB run just getting there is challenge enough and an awesome achievement for anyone that makes it, in whatever RL time.

 

[Esvandiary]

Out of interest, how did you keep track of your actual distance? I tried recording each jump in a spreadsheet on a second PC but managed to lose 30+ jumps during the course of my run!

Hah... The answer is quite depressing, I'm afraid... I watch my run video back rather quickly after the fact, skipping 40 seconds once I've noted down the distance of the "current" jump in Excel. Sounds tedious, you say? Oh yes, yes it is. Takes me an hour or more.
However, it's also quite useful; it kills two birds with one stone - as well as the stats, I'll later need to easily find "interesting" footage for a video (which may or may not be in production ) and doing this allows me to find many of the bits that stand out "for free" along the way. I also note down the transition between different sectors ("oh, I jumped from a Shrogea star to a Dumbooe star on this jump") to more easily allow me to find where something was later.

I'm one of the weird ones that absolutely HATE external music when playing a game. I also hate people talking and yammering on their youtube videos when playing games. That is also why I don't really like Twitch.

For me... it doesn't matter how good a game's music is, I will get tired of it eventually, and need to listen to something different.

But... music has really profound effects on me, on my mood, on my mental state and ability to focus. I've come to use music as a tool to help me get things done.

Interesting discussion! I'm a bit of a hybrid... Normally I'd listen to music (recently, often Radio Sidewinder) - and on previous Buckyballs I've always had a soundtrack, to get me fired up and trying the dumb stuff that either gets you blown up or a fast time.
However, for the A* run I didn't have any music on - for that exact reason. For a normal Buckyball, I find I need the adrenaline going to do daring stunts and breakneck docking; for the A* run, that's more likely to see you fired into a star, especially 8 hours in when everything's starting to blur into one big mess of galaxy.
In fact, for a lot of it I had my headset around my neck with the volume up so I could still hear important sounds (such as the "jump's over pal, you might want to consider changing course a little" noise ); also meant I could still chat to the missus here and there, although she was mostly engrossed in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes for much of the journey, heh.

 

[FoxTwo]

For me... it doesn't matter how good a game's music is, I will get tired of it eventually, and need to listen to something different.

So I'm kind of the opposite of you, I guess. External music is pretty much essential for me.

Interesting discussion! I'm a bit of a hybrid... Normally I'd listen to music (recently, often Radio Sidewinder) - and on previous Buckyballs I've always had a soundtrack, to get me fired up and trying the dumb stuff that either gets you blown up or a fast time.
However, for the A* run I didn't have any music on - for that exact reason. For a normal Buckyball, I find I need the adrenaline going to do daring stunts and breakneck docking; for the A* run, that's more likely to see you fired into a star, especially 8 hours in when everything's starting to blur into one big mess of galaxy.
In fact, for a lot of it I had my headset around my neck with the volume up so I could still hear important sounds (such as the "jump's over pal, you might want to consider changing course a little" noise ); also meant I could still chat to the missus here and there, although she was mostly engrossed in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes for much of the journey, heh.

Hahahaa ok I think this shall be my last and final post on this, before it derails the topic of this thread.

Earlier I posted about the only single exception being another game - Eurotruck Simulator 2, because of how an MP3 player / Internet radio player is implemented in-game. When you are in the menus, the game music stops playing and your music plays in the game. It takes over where the original game music would have been. When driving, the music isn't "louder than" the ambient sound - it becomes part of it.

Radio Sidewinder may be lore-friendly but I would not listen to it (no offense to anybody intended), nor would I listen to ANY other station nor any MP3 music I may or may not have, when playing ED - Simply because there isn't an in-game player, and music and sound effects will "play over each other" and sound like a mess.

When I play games, I get "used" to some sounds. In certain situations I expect to hear something, and when I don't hear it, I will know something is up. That is why I immediately identified that Beta 1.3 has a couple of new sounds for your ship engines (deeper whine and growl) and that Fed and Empire stations have new lines of announcements, plus old existing lines being spoken by males.

I just need to hear these and not let music "play over" them.

So for BBRA runs, I need to hear the woosh of coming out of hyperspace, the quiet whine of the FSD cooling down, the bloop bloop bloop of my discovery scanner going, the refuelling scoops thumping sounds that let me know how close I am to being full-tank etc... by listening to these, I don't even have to look at the screen to know I can press the jump button again.

So yeah that is why I don't ever listen to external 3rd party music (nor even my own MP3 music library if I had one) in any game.

 

[Esvandiary]

When I play games, I get "used" to some sounds. In certain situations I expect to hear something, and when I don't hear it, I will know something is up. That is why I immediately identified that Beta 1.3 has a couple of new sounds for your ship engines (deeper whine and growl) and that Fed and Empire stations have new lines of announcements, plus old existing lines being spoken by males.

I just need to hear these and not let music "play over" them.

So for BBRA runs, I need to hear the woosh of coming out of hyperspace, the quiet whine of the FSD cooling down, the bloop bloop bloop of my discovery scanner going, the refuelling scoops thumping sounds that let me know how close I am to being full-tank etc... by listening to these, I don't even have to look at the screen to know I can press the jump button again.

I can definitely see that being very useful - especially in a game with audio as lovely as ED's!

I wasn't trying to convert you to music-listening ways, don't worry - I'm quite happy to leave the "but you're playing the game wrong!" cries to other threads (specifically, almost all of the other threads )
Just found it interesting hearing people's preferences and their reasoning. Always good to hear other people's point of view!

Anyhow, back to the run indeed...
Not sure if he's posted in here, but there's a fresh face who's going to be streaming a run live on Twitch from 2pm GMT today (if my time zone maths is correct...), barring any catastrophes I haven't heard about in the last day or two. He's had the game a month or so, and clearly isn't wasting any time in seeing the sights!
His name is FunnyGuy77, and his Twitch stream is here; I'll probably hop on in the chat until I go to bed tonight, would be great to have other racers around too

 

[mw_aurora]

Hah... The answer is quite depressing, I'm afraid... I watch my run video back rather quickly after the fact, skipping 40 seconds once I've noted down the distance of the "current" jump in Excel. Sounds tedious, you say? Oh yes, yes it is. Takes me an hour or more.

That's what I thought you were going to say...guess I will be cleaning up a drive and videoing my next attempt...

Not sure if he's posted in here, but there's a fresh face who's going to be streaming a run live on Twitch from 2pm GMT today (if my time zone maths is correct...), barring any catastrophes I haven't heard about in the last day or two. He's had the game a month or so, and clearly isn't wasting any time in seeing the sights!
His name is FunnyGuy77, and his Twitch stream is here; I'll probably hop on in the chat until I go to bed tonight, would be great to have other racers around too

Thanks for the heads up, I'll try to jump on when I can - always interesting to watch other racers