The fleet just got a LOT smaller. So long Ziggy, see you waiting for me in the sky someday o7
Also, Polygon Interview: http://www.polygon.com/2016/4/6/11378024/elite-dangerous-distant-worlds-dr-kaii-video-interview
Distant Worlds - A journey beyond the Abyss
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The fleet just got a LOT smaller. So long Ziggy, see you waiting for me in the sky someday o7
Also, Polygon Interview: http://www.polygon.com/2016/4/6/11378024/elite-dangerous-distant-worlds-dr-kaii-video-interview
I'm hoping to time the return from my meandering explorations across the western quadrant of the galaxy with the launch of the Engineers expansion. Then I'll work at pimping all my rides to hell and back
You pretty much just described my plan...sight see in the "western" portion of the galaxy as the mood strikes me, then bolt for home just in time for 2.1
Of all the things I miss about the bubble, the one thing I've been jonesing for is paint. Yeah, I said it. Paint! Hahaha!
Ahem, sorry, just a bit of space psychosis kicking in...it went away as soon as I turned up the oxygen a bit
Thanks for that info Cmdr...I am in need of some Cadmium (so that I can leave BP), and Germanium and Niobium will always come in handy.
If anybody is up for a little prospecting duty I would really appreciate the help (from about 12PM GMT today)
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Was cool watching the Demolition Derby "the last four" from on high.
I think space madness hit at the end as we spontaneously (ok I suggested it) did a mass ship spin! We need to make this a THING!!
There is the side spin, the front roll, back spin or the crazy DW spin! DW spin = combination
We need to do this with added chaff and in the DW formation. My chaff levels are still pretty high... I have two on board!
I think space madness hit at the end as we spontaneously (ok I suggested it) did a mass ship spin! We need to make this a THING!!
There is the side spin, the front roll, back spin or the crazy DW spin! DW spin = combination
We need to do this with added chaff and in the DW formation. My chaff levels are still pretty high... I have two on board!
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Here's a video of the finalWas cool watching the Demolition Derby "the last four" from on high.
I think space madness hit at the end as we spontaneously (ok I suggested it) did a mass ship spin! We need to make this a THING!!
There is the side spin, the front roll, back spin or the crazy DW spin! DW spin = combination
We need to do this with added chaff and in the DW formation. My chaff levels are still pretty high... I have two on board!
[video=youtube;ijM6c_Vq6fY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijM6c_Vq6fY[/video]
Both my ships will be at BP until Sat for duo selfies, etc. I only have a laptop with me on vacation and don't return to UK till then. Once selfies done Cmdr Brian Cohen (Asp) will return to bubble slowly. I've decided that Cmdr Montgomery Python (conda)will remain at BP to welcome the FGE fleet on 31st May. The good news is that Mad Catz have replaced my injured X52Pro and it will be waiting for me on my return home.
Fly safe and see you all in December, if not before.
Fly safe and see you all in December, if not before.
Here is my vid from the stream of the destruction derby. Round 1: at 00:37:30, round 2: at 01:03:30 round 3: at 1:37:00, final round at 02:00:00! Bonus stuff and bloopers at: (00:32:10 - 00:32:50), (00:33:00 - 00:34:30), (01:20:35 - 01:21:40), (01:40:35 - 01:41:15) Woot!, (01:47:20 - 01:48:00), (01:53:00 - 01:54:00) Woot!.
https://www.twitch.tv/rewisiontv/v/58999995
https://www.twitch.tv/rewisiontv/v/58999995
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Really enjoyed the Destruction Derby last night (round 1). Seeing 30 (odd) CMDRs with SRVs charging around in the same instance was great. Lots of hijinx and some 'interesting' piloting techniques from GreyTest & Lyneria. Really cool when the lasers, railguns and cannons kicked in!
Really whetted my appetite for the Enduro rally on Saturday.
http://imgur.com/sIfyIxQ
drive reckless
CMDR <-lightspeed->
Really whetted my appetite for the Enduro rally on Saturday.
http://imgur.com/sIfyIxQ
drive reckless
CMDR <-lightspeed->
Yesterday, I was the luckiest guy north of the 65k line.
Through the waypoints, I'd gradually built up a small stack jumpoinium, with the intention of leaping off the edge of the galaxy, out to distant stars beyond the reach of casual explorers. I had chosen a point, made sure to manually note my route and distances for safe backtracking purposes, and took the first few jumps.... Into systems already tagged. While the casual explorer might be hesitant to burn jumponium, apparently the most intrepid ones have been hard at work mapping the local 1k ly or so around Beagle Point. But surely even they can't have infinite resources to visit every star 70+ lightyears from its closest neighbour.
And indeed not! I decided to stay my path, undeterred that others had already been here, and burn the last few J3 availible in a nothing-to-lose leap of faith. I was rewarded!
At the very edge of the galaxy, with no star in range of even our most formidably boosted FSDs, and with my entire supply of jumponium spent.
An ELW, so isolated from anything that my conda had to use several units of J2 and J3 to reach there, was discovered! I might even name it, should the opportunity arise.
It's also a moon, which is a first time for me. I've already found the binay ELWs, a ringed one, ones with landable moons and so forth. I need something new to look for, again.
For me, this is the perfect culmination of Distant Worlds, as I've been submitting ELWs to the public list since the start of my journeys.
It will take something spectacular to top this, and I'm eager to try my luck again, next year.
So, here it is, the reclusive ELW, our galaxy, and a battered but optimistic, formerly yellow conda for scale!
Many thanks to the Rockrats and their invaluable Prospecting Public Service, and the Distant World expediton for providing an incredible atmosphere to make this happen!
See you next mission. [heart]
Through the waypoints, I'd gradually built up a small stack jumpoinium, with the intention of leaping off the edge of the galaxy, out to distant stars beyond the reach of casual explorers. I had chosen a point, made sure to manually note my route and distances for safe backtracking purposes, and took the first few jumps.... Into systems already tagged. While the casual explorer might be hesitant to burn jumponium, apparently the most intrepid ones have been hard at work mapping the local 1k ly or so around Beagle Point. But surely even they can't have infinite resources to visit every star 70+ lightyears from its closest neighbour.
And indeed not! I decided to stay my path, undeterred that others had already been here, and burn the last few J3 availible in a nothing-to-lose leap of faith. I was rewarded!
At the very edge of the galaxy, with no star in range of even our most formidably boosted FSDs, and with my entire supply of jumponium spent.
An ELW, so isolated from anything that my conda had to use several units of J2 and J3 to reach there, was discovered! I might even name it, should the opportunity arise.
It's also a moon, which is a first time for me. I've already found the binay ELWs, a ringed one, ones with landable moons and so forth. I need something new to look for, again.
For me, this is the perfect culmination of Distant Worlds, as I've been submitting ELWs to the public list since the start of my journeys.
It will take something spectacular to top this, and I'm eager to try my luck again, next year.
So, here it is, the reclusive ELW, our galaxy, and a battered but optimistic, formerly yellow conda for scale!
Many thanks to the Rockrats and their invaluable Prospecting Public Service, and the Distant World expediton for providing an incredible atmosphere to make this happen!
See you next mission. [heart]
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Direct-line home...
Decided to leave Beagle Point early after getting a full load of Jumponium (31xL1, 29xL2, 5xL3) for my 34.75LY-capable 'Conda and try to forge a path directly to the core from BP.
Bottom line is yes, it's very "do-able". The first 3,000LY are easy, routes up to 1,000LY are easy to get. After that it gets a bit dicey, maximum routes average in the 150LY range and you need to do a lot of searching for clusters of stars ("cluster" being a relative term!) to navigate through.
It helps to do what I call "push-plotting", where you plot to the furthest allowable point, then re-plot slowly past that point, one star at a time. For whatever reason, the "spiderweb" will show you paths beyond the maximum allowable plot distance, but if you re-plot to a previously unavailable star, it will usually work.
In the end, I only used four Jumponium boosts; 3xL1 and 1xL2, and those were used more to simply short-cut ridiculously circuitous routes (150LY to move "forward" 40LY!). I'm confident that they were not actually required.
FYI, in a more or less direct-line from BP to Sol, the Scutum-Centaurus Arm is about 6,500LY from BP. It's visibly obvious when you get near, but my litmus test was whether I could consistently get 1,000LY routes towards the core area, along a number of different vectors.
Decided to leave Beagle Point early after getting a full load of Jumponium (31xL1, 29xL2, 5xL3) for my 34.75LY-capable 'Conda and try to forge a path directly to the core from BP.
Bottom line is yes, it's very "do-able". The first 3,000LY are easy, routes up to 1,000LY are easy to get. After that it gets a bit dicey, maximum routes average in the 150LY range and you need to do a lot of searching for clusters of stars ("cluster" being a relative term!) to navigate through.
It helps to do what I call "push-plotting", where you plot to the furthest allowable point, then re-plot slowly past that point, one star at a time. For whatever reason, the "spiderweb" will show you paths beyond the maximum allowable plot distance, but if you re-plot to a previously unavailable star, it will usually work.
In the end, I only used four Jumponium boosts; 3xL1 and 1xL2, and those were used more to simply short-cut ridiculously circuitous routes (150LY to move "forward" 40LY!). I'm confident that they were not actually required.
FYI, in a more or less direct-line from BP to Sol, the Scutum-Centaurus Arm is about 6,500LY from BP. It's visibly obvious when you get near, but my litmus test was whether I could consistently get 1,000LY routes towards the core area, along a number of different vectors.
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Well, I've made a huge mistake....
Last night I logged in and was still sitting at the Podar landing sight on it's first moon. My intention was to fly back up to Beagle and farm some jumponium, and maybe try to break my distance from Sol record of 65,427 lys, but upon checking my inventory I realized that I actually had a decent supply of boost mats stored up already (29 x L1, 25 x L2, 11 x L3). So as I sat there staring up at that ringed Earth like just hovering before me, the urge to explore washed over me. I figured I've got some time before the end of Beagle Week, and I was close to the initial point of Route 33 across the Abyss, I'd just fly on down there and check it out. So 970 lys later I'm sitting at the beginning of the route, and there is a choice laid out before me: do I turn around to hang out where I've already been, or do I jump out over the Abyss and into the unknown once more?
The explorer in me won out and I'm now on my slow and steady way to the Abyssal Plain..... (it's really Olfart's fault for talking me into it!)
I'm sure I'll see Beagle Point again one day, but for now the need to explore has gotten the best of me, so I'm firing up The Amity's FSD and setting out for new discoveries. To all of the Distant World commanders, I salute you! It's been an incredibly fun and thrilling journey, and I hope to see you all again at WP24 on December 1st! Fly safe everyone. [praise]
Last night I logged in and was still sitting at the Podar landing sight on it's first moon. My intention was to fly back up to Beagle and farm some jumponium, and maybe try to break my distance from Sol record of 65,427 lys, but upon checking my inventory I realized that I actually had a decent supply of boost mats stored up already (29 x L1, 25 x L2, 11 x L3). So as I sat there staring up at that ringed Earth like just hovering before me, the urge to explore washed over me. I figured I've got some time before the end of Beagle Week, and I was close to the initial point of Route 33 across the Abyss, I'd just fly on down there and check it out. So 970 lys later I'm sitting at the beginning of the route, and there is a choice laid out before me: do I turn around to hang out where I've already been, or do I jump out over the Abyss and into the unknown once more?
The explorer in me won out and I'm now on my slow and steady way to the Abyssal Plain..... (it's really Olfart's fault for talking me into it!)
I'm sure I'll see Beagle Point again one day, but for now the need to explore has gotten the best of me, so I'm firing up The Amity's FSD and setting out for new discoveries. To all of the Distant World commanders, I salute you! It's been an incredibly fun and thrilling journey, and I hope to see you all again at WP24 on December 1st! Fly safe everyone. [praise]
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+1 rep Nice find CMDR and Im a bit envious... was hoping to find one like that myself but guess its not to be...
Yesterday, I was the luckiest guy north of the 65k line.
Through the waypoints, I'd gradually built up a small stack jumpoinium, with the intention of leaping off the edge of the galaxy, out to distant stars beyond the reach of casual explorers. I had chosen a point, made sure to manually note my route and distances for safe backtracking purposes, and took the first few jumps.... Into systems already tagged. While the casual explorer might be hesitant to burn jumponium, apparently the most intrepid ones have been hard at work mapping the local 1k ly or so around Beagle Point. But surely even they can't have infinite resources to visit every star 70+ lightyears from its closest neighbour.
And indeed not! I decided to stay my path, undeterred that others had already been here, and burn the last few J3 availible in a nothing-to-lose leap of faith. I was rewarded!
At the very edge of the galaxy, with no star in range of even our most formidably boosted FSDs, and with my entire supply of jumponium spent.
An ELW, so isolated from anything that my conda had to use several units of J2 and J3 to reach there, was discovered! I might even name it, should the opportunity arise.
It's also a moon, which is a first time for me. I've already found the binay ELWs, a ringed one, ones with landable moons and so forth. I need something new to look for, again.
For me, this is the perfect culmination of Distant Worlds, as I've been submitting ELWs to the public list since the start of my journeys.
It will take something spectacular to top this, and I'm eager to try my luck again, next year.
So, here it is, the reclusive ELW, our galaxy, and a battered but optimistic, formerly yellow conda for scale!
Many thanks to the Rockrats and their invaluable Prospecting Public Service, and the Distant World expediton for providing an incredible atmosphere to make this happen!
See you next mission. [heart]
http://i.imgur.com/sEKDia9.jpg
Welll.... I'll tell you what I did to find a second 65k ELW.
After I made it back to Beagle in late February, my secondary goal was to find a second ELW, and I didn't have much luck for several days. Where I eventually found it was by not thinking in Cartesian terms, but as the photon flies.
When a pilot searches specifically 65k beyond Sol, they generally have a habit of sticking to the Cartesian coordinates - specifically, 65000 north on the galactic plane. Problem is, that's not quite how measurement from Sol takes place. The second ELW I found wasn't quite beyond 65000 north of the galactic plane - it was a bit less - but because it was a couple thousand ly to the west of the zero coordinate, it ended up being about 65030ly from Sol.
Just something to think about with regard to where to look.
A proposal for a flag of the Indepdendent Nation of Ceeckia
I don't mind having the one account either. It's me, basically. Anyone else just wouldn't be me.
You're going to need a third account soon.
Man, all you people with multiple accounts, where do you find the time? I can barely muster the time to play on ONE account!
Though I can see the appeal of it, but I kind of like having all of my Elite Space Commander Virtual Life being summarized in one account. It forces choices to be made and makes committing to large scale things even more exciting / fearful / final.
Part of me might be a little jealous though....
I don't mind having the one account either. It's me, basically. Anyone else just wouldn't be me.
His destiny lies within the Formidine Rift
You're going to need a third account soon.
hey guys, do I need to do anyhthing now that I have arrived at BP to confirm I am actually here?
Hello ,
can any one here me ...
this CMDR Dhror, finally I was able to repair my Drive, Radio etc. [ I will never drink and fly any more ] I'm on the way to Beagle Point ...
I just leave Altum Sagittarii and take the direction to The Phipoea Nebula ...
I hope I will get there under two weeks. I know, I know that I'm late but I will try my best to finish this journey.
Fly safe and good luck
can any one here me ...
this CMDR Dhror, finally I was able to repair my Drive, Radio etc. [ I will never drink and fly any more ] I'm on the way to Beagle Point ...
I just leave Altum Sagittarii and take the direction to The Phipoea Nebula ...
I hope I will get there under two weeks. I know, I know that I'm late but I will try my best to finish this journey.
Fly safe and good luck
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