The Buckyball Racing Club Presents: Total Recall (2nd - 17th April 3302)
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A final word from our sponsors ...
We would like to thank all the particpants of the recent BRC Total Recall event for their invaluable contribution to our ongoing research. As a result of your efforts we are delighted to announce that our TrakMark tyres will be rolling out into a user testing phase on the 8th May 3302.
Thank you!
We would like to thank all the particpants of the recent BRC Total Recall event for their invaluable contribution to our ongoing research. As a result of your efforts we are delighted to announce that our TrakMark tyres will be rolling out into a user testing phase on the 8th May 3302.
Thank you!
@furrycat - just saw your landing at Monge. Never mind what I wrote about making fewer mistakes, we both had our fair share I see.
If you like that wait till you see my attempt to exit the base at Darboux....
Having said that Alot proved that divebombing the pad is generally the fastest way to land a sufficiently shielded ship. That's why I have an A4 shield and two A0 boosters on the Blue Mongoose.
Congratulations to the winners and well done to all who took part! Sorry I missed out on this, I'm still not back in the bubble yet and my SRV handling could do with an overhaul. I'm not expecting to be back in time for the midweek madness (unless I race without selling my exploration data but I'm not that crazy) so I think it'll be the Kessel Run before I have a chance to put some times on the board of a BRC event. I'll keep an eye out for interesting surface bases once I'm back, though. Fly and drive fast!
bloody DBX fan club.. get a room
We have a room. It's located at the top of the board.
We have a room. It's located at the top of the board.bloody DBX fan club.. get a room
Savage
Upon closer inspection of the video footage, I can confirm that your ship actually had some attitude issues
:[video=youtube_share;bQESpl2_ZI0]https://youtu.be/bQESpl2_ZI0[/video]
Upon closer inspection of the video footage, I can confirm that your ship actually had some attitude issues
https://youtu.be/bQESpl2_ZI0
This is ace, I don't think I've ever seen someone recalling and boarding their ship from another pilots viewpoint before. That AI approach is brilliant but god, it seems to take AGES from driving under the ship to taking off. What were you doing in there Drakhyr? Changing the tyres?
And as for this, a rare opportunity to experience a winning BRC run from the pilots perspective. Fascinating. I'm only half way through so far so I haven't got to the Darboux exit debacle yet but some terrific orbital approaches and as for flying your SRV, now I see where I was going wrong on the Hutton Endurance run! I think you only touched the ground twice on your entire Monge drive.
P.S. what's going on in the right hand panel when you're driving the SRV? (I'm watching on an iPad mini and can't quite make it out).
Edit: and you seem not to favour boosting through the glide (notably at Cauchy) ... any specific reason?
Thanks for sharing!
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It was a close race between 18th and 19th place for sure. I figured I could beat a pilot who bounces on the landing pad as if it were a trampoline.
I didn't anticipate the fact that your synthesis skills can craft green turtle shells though.
But in all seriousness, thanks to Alec for organizing this race and well done to the winners and all participants.
I don't know about past events, but having 20 participants, I think is quite a turnout, hopefully the next one will have more.
I am looking forward to doing something like this again, (yeah, I am eyeballing The Swift-Walker Econ Sprint) provided the real life doesn't interfere.
That is too awesome! [haha]
And I concur (and probably should have said earlier - sorry), thank you to Alec for organizing the event. Excellent job. It was my first Buckyball. I doubt it will be the last.
It's cool isn't it. Sadly Premiere decided to crash just as I was about to export my capture of Aken's recall and drive-in this morning, neglecting to save my project before it did so. With bonus crashing of Asp into the ground from Kliggish. I'll see about painstakingly redoing all my work later.
Probably turning off stuff to save fuel. Partly because there must be a part of my brain that still thinks it's 60,000Ly away and partly because that's my rhythm; exit hangar, turn off shield, target base, crash into wall.
Do you mean boosting in glide? I see no speed increase from that. If you mean boosting while coming out of it I probably just forgot.
Same here. First racing experience with all those rallye stuffs like itineraries, notes around the cockpit, joysticks squeeking in sweaty hands, curse words... awesome.
I even went as far as scouting the routes from each base and for every landing pad I have an ideal heading assigned. And at Darboroux, I had all pads scouted with the note if the closest exit is to the left or to the right.
And although I didn't have much time to improve in the end, it was a great experience and I'm looking forward for more.
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Yeah, boosting "in" glide. Interesting, I'm like boost boost boost. Hmmm, might need to science the heck out of that.
Thought I'd better let you know I am still at one of the bases. There is a slim possibility I may even get to the end of the course sometime next week.
What a race! The action especially in the upper region of the leaderboard was insane and I'm sad I couldn't try this out.
The forum thread was fabulous as always and a good motivation to keep jonking towards the bubble
If rep were fuel, one would need the Fuelaconda (video) over here
Expect to see some Cookiebots over at the Swift-Walker Econ Sprint
The forum thread was fabulous as always and a good motivation to keep jonking towards the bubble
If rep were fuel, one would need the Fuelaconda (video) over here
Expect to see some Cookiebots over at the Swift-Walker Econ Sprint