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

[Morbad]

After some significant technical difficulties, I have finally made it to Sagittarius A*. Was originally planning on three day tour, but a failed flight computer, HUD, and space dementia brought on from my overloaded environmental systems being unable to filter all the fumes of scorched electronics extended this considerably.

Anyway...

CMDR Name: Backer
Ship Name: S.S. Minnow
Ship Type: Fer-de-Lance

Total time: 19 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds.
Guestbook quote: Not even Mary Ann could get me to come back here.

Relevant entry images:

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[Alec Turner]

After some significant technical difficulties, I have finally made it to Sagittarius A*. Was originally planning on three day tour, but a failed flight computer, HUD, and space dementia brought on from my overloaded environmental systems being unable to filter all the fumes of scorched electronics extended this considerably.

Anyway...

CMDR Name: Backer
Ship Name: S.S. Minnow
Ship Type: Fer-de-Lance

Total time: 19 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds.
Guestbook quote: Not even Mary Ann could get me to come back here.

Relevant entry images:

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http://i.imgur.com/EvORFNK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gXxdT3a.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MRecjS8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/amboyW8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/44wHO6R.jpg

WOW, congratulations ... 10/10 for perseverance!

 

[robinjb]

After some significant technical difficulties, I have finally made it to Sagittarius A*.
Total time: 19 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds.
Guestbook quote: Not even Mary Ann could get me to come back here.
Relevant entry images:

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http://i.imgur.com/EvORFNK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gXxdT3a.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MRecjS8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/amboyW8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/44wHO6R.jpg

Well played that man ! great effort with a combat fdl.
Daedalus eh.. that's unorthodox.

 

[Nordstern]

I intend to make the fly tonight and on the following nights (as long as it takes). I'll record start, finish and something on the way for my YT channel (German). Wish me luck

CMDR Nordstern
Ship name: RPT- One (Rocket Propelled Tupperware)
Ship type: Hauler

 

[mw_aurora]

After some significant technical difficulties, I have finally made it to Sagittarius A*. Was originally planning on three day tour, but a failed flight computer, HUD, and space dementia brought on from my overloaded environmental systems being unable to filter all the fumes of scorched electronics extended this considerably.

Anyway...

CMDR Name: Backer
Ship Name: S.S. Minnow
Ship Type: Fer-de-Lance

Total time: 19 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds.
Guestbook quote: Not even Mary Ann could get me to come back here.

Congrats CMDR, that is impressive with a combat ready FDL!

 

[Takaru Minari]

After some significant technical difficulties, I have finally made it to Sagittarius A*. Was originally planning on three day tour, but a failed flight computer, HUD, and space dementia brought on from my overloaded environmental systems being unable to filter all the fumes of scorched electronics extended this considerably. [...]

Excellent job - and the first Fer-de-Lance to officially make the journey, too!

I intend to make the fly tonight and on the following nights (as long as it takes). I'll record start, finish and something on the way for my YT channel (German). Wish me luck [...]

All the best and viel Glück out there, Commander.

Oh, and speaking of luck, I think I have to take back what I said about Lady Luck abandoning me. On my way to Sadge, I've passed straight through three secondary suns on my drop from witchspace into normalspace. The first sun was a companion star in a binary system. The second was one component of a binary star orbiting the primary star. The third was the other star of said orbiting binary star, all three of which were perfectly aligned on my approach vector that ended just outside the second star's gravity well.

And as you might have guessed, the Diamondback Scout Cookies has arrived at Sadge after a flight time of 14h 52m 30s, breaking my previous streak of nigh 24h flights.

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All told, I had two emergency drops, two minor overheats, three sun fly-throughs, six server connection losses and far, far too much time on my hands whilst fuel scooping.

 

[Esvandiary]

And as you might have guessed, the Diamondback Scout Cookies has arrived at Sadge after a flight time of 14h 52m 30s, breaking my previous streak of nigh 24h flights.

All told, I had two emergency drops, two minor overheats, three sun fly-throughs, six server connection losses and far, far too much time on my hands whilst fuel scooping.

Wow, that's a great time, even without the aforementioned issues! Congratulations!

 

[robinjb]

And as you might have guessed, the Diamondback Scout Cookies has arrived at Sadge after a flight time of 14h 52m 30s, breaking my previous streak of nigh 24h flights.
All told, I had two emergency drops, two minor overheats, three sun fly-throughs, six server connection losses and far, far too much time on my hands whilst fuel scooping.

Nicely done, 15hr non stop is a hard core amount of time to play in a session. hats off to that. kettle next to the commode isn't it.

 

[mw_aurora]

Oh, and speaking of luck, I think I have to take back what I said about Lady Luck abandoning me. On my way to Sadge, I've passed straight through three secondary suns on my drop from witchspace into normalspace. The first sun was a companion star in a binary system. The second was one component of a binary star orbiting the primary star. The third was the other star of said orbiting binary star, all three of which were perfectly aligned on my approach vector that ended just outside the second star's gravity well.

And as you might have guessed, the Diamondback Scout Cookies has arrived at Sadge after a flight time of 14h 52m 30s, breaking my previous streak of nigh 24h flights.

Congrats CMDR - fantastic time

 

[Mangel]

After some significant technical difficulties, I have finally made it to Sagittarius A*. Was originally planning on three day tour, but a failed flight computer, HUD, and space dementia brought on from my overloaded environmental systems being unable to filter all the fumes of scorched electronics extended this considerably.

Anyway...

CMDR Name: Backer
Ship Name: S.S. Minnow
Ship Type: Fer-de-Lance

Total time: 19 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds.
Guestbook quote: Not even Mary Ann could get me to come back here.

Relevant entry images:

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/EvORFNK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gXxdT3a.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/MRecjS8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/amboyW8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/44wHO6R.jpg

Congratulations! And there are no FDLs on the board, so that's a best-in-class too

 

[Hanekura Shizuka]

I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about but there was a significant change with 1.3 in that exiting the map no longer cancels route plotting. For example, if you elect to plot a route where the magic number is slightly off and it gets stuck doing the 98% plot thing, previously you could come out of the galactic map to cancel that plot and try somewhere else. Now, it continues it's futile attempt to complete the plot even back in cockpit view, crushing the framerate and thus making it very difficult to cancel that plot and try a different one (basically all you can do is go back to the galaxy map and select a different route plot, e.g. to a neighbouring system, in order to cancel the first one). This has been reported and FD have said they're working to address this problem.

I noticed this as well; if what I saw was any indication, calculation wouldn't stop until a jump was made, thus invalidating any possibility of the route occurring, because framerate would suffer massively until the jump occurred - not until another calculation was done, but until the jump occurred. There were times when I would start a route calculation, it would get hung up, I would make a second, simpler calculation, get the route for that, go back into cockpit mode, and it would still be acting like that first calculation was taking place in that the framerate would be horrible until the jump occurred.

That said, the fact that it still calculates the route, even if you go back into cockpit view, produced one of the "Wait... COOL!" moments of my trip. I was using short routes for most of the last 5000 ly, just long enough that the computer could calculate a route immediately. For kicks and giggles, with about 700 ly to go, I requested a route to A*. It acted like it was hung up, so I moved to get out and back into the map to reset things and select a shorter route to calculate. While I was in cockpit mode, it finished calculating - and suddenly I had a route to A*.

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CMDR Name: Backer
Ship Name: S.S. Minnow
Ship Type: Fer-de-Lance

Total time: 19 days, 18 hours, 33 minutes and 27 seconds.
Guestbook quote: Not even Mary Ann could get me to come back here.

Congratulations, CMDR! Well done!

 

[Hanekura Shizuka]

And as you might have guessed, the Diamondback Scout Cookies has arrived at Sadge after a flight time of 14h 52m 30s, breaking my previous streak of nigh 24h flights.

Well done, CMDR, and excellent time!

 

[DreadedLurgy]

I think the issues with the galaxy map that MJMW highlighted are affecting me here. Core 1 hits 80% just looking at it, trying to plot a course is now a nightmare. It can take me up to 45 minutes to plot and travel just 200ly, not to mention I will get disconnected at least once in that time and I'm still 10.5k LY away from the core

I'm going to abandon this run and attempt it again once the map issues have been patched. Thing is, I'm sure I didn't have any problems like this in the Asp.

 

[drakhyr]

Here comes your mid-week update to the Unofficial Big Board...

As is traditional, first up has to be a big welcome to our newest entries to pre-flight staging, CMDRs Chance-, FatBat and Nordstern. Welcome to the party!

On the big board itself, crossing the finishing line are the first participants in not one, not two, but three new ship classes. Takaru Minari's time of just under 15 hours was very respectable first record for a Diamondback Scout, breaking with his traditional "just under 24 hours" approach. Shadow Lurk, piloted by Hanekura Shizuka, posted the first Adder time of just over 17.5 hours. And Morbad's fully-armed Fer-de-Lance S.S. Minnow rounded off the trio, closely managing to avoid coming last on the board... Congratulations to all three.

Morbad, technically the rules state that you have to start from Galileo if starting from Sol, rather than Daedalus, but I'll leave it to Bucky to decide if anybody is really going to worry about minor details like that

And finally commiserations to DreadedLurgy after deciding to abandon a run due to navigation computer problems. Here's hoping the hyperspace instability clears up soon!

 

[Morbad]

Morbad, technically the rules state that you have to start from Galileo if starting from Sol, rather than Daedalus, but I'll leave it to Bucky to decide if anybody is really going to worry about minor details like that

Hmm, I did overlook this when I first started. Figured it wouldn't be a bug issue since it's still closer than the alternate Wolf 359 start location...actually, it's the closest station to Sol proper!

Regardless, I'll not protest any judgement the race organizers make. It was more a personal test of fortitude than anything.

 

[mw_aurora]

I think the issues with the galaxy map that MJMW highlighted are affecting me here. Core 1 hits 80% just looking at it, trying to plot a course is now a nightmare. It can take me up to 45 minutes to plot and travel just 200ly, not to mention I will get disconnected at least once in that time and I'm still 10.5k LY away from the core

I'm going to abandon this run and attempt it again once the map issues have been patched. Thing is, I'm sure I didn't have any problems like this in the Asp.

Sorry to hear that, especially how far you have got.

Looks like the GalMap issue is on the known issues list "Low performance may be observed on higher end machines when viewing the Galactic Centre" - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=120113

Interesting that the connection errors and double scanning issues being widely reported aren't on that list, despite FD acknowledgement in the relevant threads.

 

[Raiko]

Morbad, technically the rules state that you have to start from Galileo if starting from Sol, rather than Daedalus, but I'll leave it to Bucky to decide if anybody is really going to worry about minor details like that

Hmm, I did overlook this when I first started. Figured it wouldn't be a bug issue since it's still closer than the alternate Wolf 359 start location...actually, it's the closest station to Sol proper!

Regardless, I'll not protest any judgement the race organizers make. It was more a personal test of fortitude than anything.

I hope that it doesn't matter, since it's still Sol-to-Sadge. I must admit that I found it quite hard to spot where it says Galileo in the rules. Early in the race I was wondering why everyone was setting off from Galileo as I would have probably chosen one of the stations orbiting Earth. I had to reread the rules more carefully to see where Galileo was specified.

 

[Chance-]

@drakhyr My friend Serraphix(Also CMDR Serraphix) would like to be put on the list. He is running a Diamondback Scout which is named Vakarian. He's too lazy to post but I got him interested in it

 

[FoxTwo]

I hope that it doesn't matter, since it's still Sol-to-Sadge. I must admit that I found it quite hard to spot where it says Galileo in the rules. Early in the race I was wondering why everyone was setting off from Galileo as I would have probably chosen one of the stations orbiting Earth. I had to reread the rules more carefully to see where Galileo was specified.

I believe (not confirmed by EZ) that Galileo was chosen only because Anuranium did his 13 hour run with that as the starting point. BBRA* is basically re-creating Anuranium's epic 13 hour run.

Otherwise, as per EZ's usual MO, he would have chosen a start system where there would be NO REQUIREMENTS to go to (Sol needed a permit). Just look at all the previous Buckyballs 1 through 7 - none of the systems and checkpoint systems ever needed any sort of permits or special requirements.

 

[Raiko]

@drakhyr My friend Serraphix(Also CMDR Serraphix) would like to be put on the list. He is running a Diamondback Scout which is named Vakarian. He's too lazy to post but I got him interested in it

The irony of a CMDR flying in a 26,000LY race, but too lazy to post a few words on a forum!

Welcome to the Buckyball Run CMDR Serraphix! Fly safe CMDR!

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I believe (not confirmed by EZ) that Galileo was chosen only because Anuranium did his 13 hour run with that as the starting point. BBRA* is basically re-creating Anuranium's epic 13 hour run.

Otherwise, as per EZ's usual MO, he would have chosen a start system where there would be NO REQUIREMENTS to go to (Sol needed a permit). Just look at all the previous Buckyballs 1 through 7 - none of the systems and checkpoint systems ever needed any sort of permits or special requirements.

That's my understanding as well.