The Altais system is slowly returning to normal and people have stopped talking about aliens, monoliths and planets turning into stars and have moved on to more mundane issues. Such as the recent increase in traffic accidents in Swanson Plant and surrounding space and the recent drop in profits of the Altais Industries.
None of these things of course can be correlated with the recent racing activities. At least they can't prove it anyway
Big thankyou to all participants. Your initial reactions and times made me think I'd made it too tricky, but fortunately the resilient Buckyball racers soon had those times tumbling.
Ouch, second is a bitter pill to swallow twice.
Congrats to Aken and Polly though, it was well-fought and hard-earned!
And many thanks for organizing! I was initially skeptical, but learned to love the new challenge. In fact, I felt better about it than planetary braking, which I'm still terrible at.
To more landmark racing in the future! Although I do recommend a reasonably long time-frame for such a race, as if it were a MWM there wouldn't be much time to learn the course.
One other comment: I was unwilling to run the other night because both of the Clotti landing sites were in the dark, and my squinting doesn't work any better for me than for Aken.
Perhaps make situate them across from each other so that both can't be in darkness?
And in the future, I'm going to have to steal Aken's landmarking tips wrt Altais, because that's a clever idea.
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You won't see a "coordinates hunt" like this in my upcoming race, but it won't be no ordinary landing either
Thank you racer1 for organizing, this has been a very welcome change, as has already been said, a whole new set of skills to develop for this one!
And also thank to Stern Winter input for allowing me to develop my very secret, highly advanced land-o-matic device (don't you dare copying it, it's a patent pending design):
That looks suspiciously similar to my Race-omatic spreadsheet.
