Community Event / Creation The Buckyball Racing Club Present: Heavy Metal Megadeth - 6th - 11th September 3302

racer1

racer1
Another update - the final day is upon us.

In the regulation hauler we have a new entry from CMDR SunDevil Dreiak in "Hauls to the Wall" with a solid effort coming in just behind CMDR Sulu. CMDRs Alec Turner and Polly both improved their regulation hauler times to move themselves up one place each. CMDR turkwinif has improved his already amazing time to 7:29 retaking the lead in the regulation hauler class. Can he hold off the rest of the competitors for the next 18 hours?

Only one update in open/unlimited so far but it is significant! CMDR Aken B. has broken the magical 7 minute barrier taking his Viper Spirit of Shenanigan down and back in a superb 6:53. Has he done enough? We will find out soon enough.

Great flying CMDRs :)

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cookiehole

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racer1 said:
Any runs must have a start time before 2359 IGT/UTC 10th July 3302 to be eligible.
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Is that a typo or is the race basically over?
I haven't had time to even read the forums over the last few days, but this looks great and I'd love to crash a few ships this evening :D
 
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racer1

racer1
Midday update. Just less than 10 hours to go. One new entry.

CMDR furrycat in Häúl Cät, has shaved 4 seconds off CMDR turkwinif's time to take the lead in the regulation hauler class. Can he be beaten? Only time will tell.

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turkwinif

turkwinif
furrycat said:
I know the answer to that...
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Alec Turner said:
turkwinif, Aken B. & Bruski react to the news of a late appearance by furrycat ...

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Yeah, that's basically it :p

Ooooohhhhh man, that's a really amazing time, furrycat! Aken, furrycat, and all other pilots, I wish you the best of luck.

I'm going to take one last crack at a better time tonight, going to have about 4 hours left to do it.

And I'm just going to leave this movie clip here, I feel like it fits.
[video=youtube;J6BA3wstTyA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6BA3wstTyA&feature=youtu.be[/video]
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Awesome time furrycat!

One last session in the hauler for me ...

[video=youtube_share;8-TMmvl4Am4]https://youtu.be/8-TMmvl4Am4[/video]

Nope.
How many times have I tried this now?

[video=youtube_share;Qj-TpOqLXQo]https://youtu.be/Qj-TpOqLXQo[/video]

Huh. It felt like more.
Perhaps just one more attempt.

[video=youtube_share;Cq38jFvJK6Q]https://youtu.be/Cq38jFvJK6Q[/video]

No no no.
That's it.
I quit.
Good luck to anyone running tonight.

o7
 
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AkenBosch

AkenBosch
Ahahah! And you think a 07:25 is a good time? Seriously?

No, seriously?

Because no, seriously, that's an exceptional time. Kudos!

I think I'll have a last go at it this evening, but my reflexes are not feline, so...

EVENING UPDATE: meooow...:p
 
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cookiehole

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Intent to race:

CMDR Cookiehole
Regulation Hauler "Tin Can"
Celldweller - Shapeshifter (feat. Styles of Beyond) from the good old Need for Speed Most Wanted (the 2005 one)*

* I'm a bit of a music noob and not sure if this really is heavy metal, but I don't want to dedicate too much of the remaining racing time to search for a truly fitting track and this kinda fits well bringing up memories about a legendary racing game :D
 
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cookiehole

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racer1 said:
Nothing to update... yet ^^
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There might be something "incoming!". But it feels wrong.
Because it was the first real attempt, my first landing on this planet and it went perfect, except for some minor improvement possibilities of maybe a few seconds. :eek:
I hadn't even crashed a ship before (the self destruct due to hitting the OC zone too fast in the preceding attempt doesn't count).

I'll have to do another run, because I had expected this to be hard and somehow it didn't feel like that. And it shouldn't go so smooth when attempting to land a tin can on a 4g planet for the first time at racing speed as it went.

EDIT: After a lot of further attempts I'm done.
6 completed runs, 1 crater, 2 self destructs due to obscured jump target, 4 self destructs due to OC speed limit exceedance (13 attempts total). Final and only submission incoming! :)
I had a nice battle with Aken B. who's still on the course at the time I'm writing this. We came to the conclusion that a 6:XX might be possible even in the Hauler, so I'm really looking forward to those final times!
It has been a blast, video and analysis following (probably) tomorrow. :)
 
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AkenBosch

AkenBosch
cookiehole said:
I had a nice battle with Aken B. who's still on the course at the time I'm writing this. We came to the conclusion that a 6:XX might be possible even in the Hauler, so I'm really looking forward to those final times!
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No luck in the end, stars never aligned properly again as in "that" attempt...everything after that was a second slower at best...putting the luck factor aside, on a "result/N° of attempts" ratio you clearly obtained stellar results in far less tries, so the usual hat off to you ;)
 

Bruski

Bruski
I suspect it's too late for an update, guess I'll have to wait till morning. *tension builds*

In the meantime, have a video of me trying to explain Elite: Dangerous gameplay and Buckyballing to my father-in-law (an engineer very unfamiliar with video games) while running the course. Sorry about the weird video aspect and music in the background (took my headphones off so I didn't know how long it was).

Trying to explain aspects of the game to someone unfamiliar makes you appreciate how dang complex it really is.

[video=youtube;2Ve-I9B8nas]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ve-I9B8nas[/video]

Bonus: Flyby from Turkwinif! Also another insurance claim at the end, as usual for my runs.
 

racer1

racer1
Provisional results are in. There are 3 last minute updates/entries with changes at the top...

In the regulation hauler CMDR Aken B. made a last dash attempt and managed to unseat CMDR furrycat from his number one position with a 7:13, but he didn't occupy the top spot for long as CMDR cookiehole pipped him in Tin Can by 7 seconds with a fantastic 7:08 to take the top spot.

In open/unlimited we have one final update from CMDR Bruski with an awesome 6:43 taking the lead back from CMDR Aken B.

Fantastic flying CMDRs and thanks to all for taking the time to enter. Will declare final later.

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furrycat

furrycat
Well done gents! I saw both cookiehole and Aken B. flying to the surface and they both seemed pretty fast. Every time I tried to drop at more than 200km/s I would spin out so I was a bit too conservative entering orbital cruise. It would seem they both got it right.

Fun race!
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Bruski said:
I suspect it's too late for an update, guess I'll have to wait till morning. *tension builds*

In the meantime, have a video of me trying to explain Elite: Dangerous gameplay and Buckyballing to my father-in-law (an engineer very unfamiliar with video games) while running the course. Sorry about the weird video aspect and music in the background (took my headphones off so I didn't know how long it was).

Trying to explain aspects of the game to someone unfamiliar makes you appreciate how dang complex it really is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ve-I9B8nas

Bonus: Flyby from Turkwinif! Also another insurance claim at the end, as usual for my runs.
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Oh man, that was excellent. I'd love to hear more racers talk through the process of a race like this, might even try it myself. It hadn't occured to me to transfer pips to shields at the last minute. My technique was to leave pips in engine for maximum vertical breaking at the last minute to soften the landing.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
furrycat said:
Every time I tried to drop at more than 200km/s I would spin out so I was a bit too conservative entering orbital cruise. It would seem they both got it right.

Fun race!
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One thing I noticed, but only in my last few funs, was that once the speed dropped below 200 I could go back to full throttle and it would auto-limit itself to 200 for the drop to orbital cruise. Another technique I've been using a lot lately, both here and in last minute approaches to stations, escpecially when I've mis-judged planetary breaking and overcooked it, is to employ fairly wild pitching motions to shave off speed. So here, after you've shot past the neighbouring planet (terrific choice of 4g planet by the way racer1, I don't know if you had more than one high-g to choose from but cutting past that first planet and then through the rings of the target planet was awesome fun) and are trying to slow for orbital cruise, I found you can break quite rapidly at the last minute by yanking forwards and backwards on the stick in rapid succession, coming in like a sine wave until you see (and hear) the speed dropping, hopefully fast enough to drop below 200 (and then full throttle again as above) just before hitting the orbital drop point. As you'll have seen from my earlier reports, more often than not I'd get this wrong and enter too fast for orbital cruise but when it worked it was pretty effective (if somewhat ugly). By the way, does anyone know exactly what speed is too fast for OC?
 
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
racer1 said:
Fantastic flying CMDRs and thanks to all for taking the time to enter. Will declare final later.
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Thanks for a terrific race! Until this point I hadn't actually attempted to land on anything greater than 2g, despite having Achenar 3 (6.7g) on my TODO list for months. A bit like cookiehole, when I first tried it (in my Asp - why the Asp? - err, no idea, seemed like a good idea at the time) it was easier than I'd expected. That said, I was probably being very cautious after what I'd heard about 2g landings and I lost plenty of ships subsequently when I started to actually believe it was easy and got cocky. Anyway, as I was saying, brilliant race, really good fun and yet another great learning experience (how is that possible after all this time, surely there can't be much more to learn!).
 
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