That's the beauty of it, doing a race like this will teach you pretty fast. I've learned most of my jump plotting techniques and many of my ship-handling skills from doing Buckyball races.
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Community Event / Creation Buckyball Racing Club presents: The Aquarian Job (06.05.3303 - 14.05.3303)
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That's the beauty of it, doing a race like this will teach you pretty fast. I've learned most of my jump plotting techniques and many of my ship-handling skills from doing Buckyball races.
London Relay Federal Control Center
Epsilon Indi System
23:49 May 8th, 3303
Colonel Morita Gonzalez-Weber clasped his hands behind his back as he regarded the holographic diagram of his station and its surroundings floating in front of him. "Another Adder, Lieutenant?"
"Yes sir. The Subtracter. Pilots' Federation Ship, registered to Commander Inga Stevenson."
"That would be the ship that activated its boosters while still inside the docking cylinder?"
"Yes sir."
"Remind me again why we can't arrest the whole lot of them."
"The Federation's Treaty with the Pilots' Federation sir. Not much we can do unless they actually kill someone, or violate Pilots' Federation docking procedures. Only then are we permitted to blow them out of our the sky."
"Pity." The Colonel waved his hand over the sensor, bringing up a holofac of the battered Subtracter. It's hull was scorched, one of the Adder's "wings" was missing, the nose was looking extremely crumpled, and fractures meandered their way across the cockpit's windows. "In the shape that ship's in, we'd better put the cleanup crew on standby."
"Cleanup crew has been on standby for several days now, sir. So far, they're not complaining about the OT." She paused as she watched the Adder passed through the plasma shield keeping the docking cylinder pressurized at reckless speeds, heading for its assigned landing pad. She sighed in relief when it came to a halt just above the platform. "At least they won't have to repair the pad this... time..."
Her voice trailed off as the battered ship fired its dorsal maneuvering thrusters one, twice, and then a third time, repeatedly slamming itself against the ferrocrete surface. It then scraped its belly across pad 43, before finally engaging its landing gears' clamps.
The Colonel sighed. "Remind me again why we can't arrest the lot of them, Lieutenant?"
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Finally got a worthwhile submission.
Includes this:
Epsilon Indi System
23:49 May 8th, 3303
Colonel Morita Gonzalez-Weber clasped his hands behind his back as he regarded the holographic diagram of his station and its surroundings floating in front of him. "Another Adder, Lieutenant?"
"Yes sir. The Subtracter. Pilots' Federation Ship, registered to Commander Inga Stevenson."
"That would be the ship that activated its boosters while still inside the docking cylinder?"
"Yes sir."
"Remind me again why we can't arrest the whole lot of them."
"The Federation's Treaty with the Pilots' Federation sir. Not much we can do unless they actually kill someone, or violate Pilots' Federation docking procedures. Only then are we permitted to blow them out of our the sky."
"Pity." The Colonel waved his hand over the sensor, bringing up a holofac of the battered Subtracter. It's hull was scorched, one of the Adder's "wings" was missing, the nose was looking extremely crumpled, and fractures meandered their way across the cockpit's windows. "In the shape that ship's in, we'd better put the cleanup crew on standby."
"Cleanup crew has been on standby for several days now, sir. So far, they're not complaining about the OT." She paused as she watched the Adder passed through the plasma shield keeping the docking cylinder pressurized at reckless speeds, heading for its assigned landing pad. She sighed in relief when it came to a halt just above the platform. "At least they won't have to repair the pad this... time..."
Her voice trailed off as the battered ship fired its dorsal maneuvering thrusters one, twice, and then a third time, repeatedly slamming itself against the ferrocrete surface. It then scraped its belly across pad 43, before finally engaging its landing gears' clamps.
The Colonel sighed. "Remind me again why we can't arrest the lot of them, Lieutenant?"
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Finally got a worthwhile submission.
Includes this:
But then you won't smack into a Neutron star when your need for fuel is at its greatest ... where's the fun in that?
Then you just FSD boost for greater fuel efficiency! This actually happened on my first serious attempt, but unfortunately ended one star later do to deliberate and reckless overheating.
It's a cool strategy though!
I went with option 4 - complete Adder Fodder in "just" over 30mins (curses) and "just" over 1% (double curses) but have thrown "conservative" out of the window!
Also, this ..
.. worked an absolute treat. New submission incoming.
P.S. is it just me or are the five most annoying words in the world ...
TOO FAST FOR ORBITAL CRUISE
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Yes.
A real ship recall should be performed when you are
[video=youtube_share;_UroGBjdeTc]https://youtu.be/_UroGBjdeTc[/video]
Ozric
Volunteer Moderator
I've got us some fresh meat...
Oh... I mean a new racer, yes, yes, that's what I meant
Oh... I mean a new racer, yes, yes, that's what I meant
Woo hoo! So you've got the rules right? Fly down to planet, explode ship on recall, fly half way around planet (clearing mountains in a single bound), obtain new ship, return to base.
Welcome to the BRC!
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Awesome! Let us know exactly when you'll be racing, and you might be able to pick up a video crew.
And as Alec says, welcome to the BRC.
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Can't you claim you're doing "quality control" and race during office hours? It's almost true...
Fly fast!
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The Race Direction is honoured to have you onboard for this event!*
*The Race Direction shall accept no liability for any loss of property or damage whatsoever arising from or related to the improper application of provided race procedures.
I hope you'll have fun with this, welcome to the BRC.
Just don't follow Alec Turner's advice to the letter. One stranded participant is enough for this one.
Welcome!
You picked one fun race to get your feet wet on.
Good luck, have fun, and fly like a
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Ozric
Volunteer Moderator
What a truly shocking first run Start as you mean to go on so they say...
I made a decision on where to land near Cooper Relay and I think it was the wrong one... Then I arrived back at my ship to be greeting by only the option to recall it, despite the fact it was sat above me with the Board Ship light on... Had to log out and in again Then I thought I'd get my heat up, forgot how tough the Cobra's were, then got too close to the star... at 183% heat then I was glad how tough the Cobra is as I had to sit out the long FSD CD while my ship cooked itself. Then I got distracted by Polly on my way into the station, completely missed my landing pad and ended with one of the most undignified dockings you will see.
It's good to be back
*Edit* Sorry I forgot to say originally, my SRV is called: Little Blue Dune Buggy
Start as you mean to go on so they say...[video=youtube_share;In6pG2tvbqo]https://youtu.be/In6pG2tvbqo[/video]
I made a decision on where to land near Cooper Relay and I think it was the wrong one... Then I arrived back at my ship to be greeting by only the option to recall it, despite the fact it was sat above me with the Board Ship light on... Had to log out and in again
Then I thought I'd get my heat up, forgot how tough the Cobra's were, then got too close to the star... at 183% heat then I was glad how tough the Cobra is as I had to sit out the long FSD CD while my ship cooked itself. Then I got distracted by Polly on my way into the station, completely missed my landing pad and ended with one of the most undignified dockings you will see.It's good to be back
*Edit* Sorry I forgot to say originally, my SRV is called: Little Blue Dune Buggy
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welcome!
don't forget to let us know the full gory details of your first run;
the growing excitment as the clock ticks towards your chosen start time (did you hit f10?),
launch
sheesh - did i defineitly remove those engineered parts that i've come to think of as standard?
when is too soon to boost out of the slot (can you boost twice?)
where did that Beluga come from (yes you can squeeze past it - but your 100% bonus is in peril)
did you fly straight enough until out mass lock?
well done you've completed the 60 seconds of your first Buckyball run. hooked yet?
*it's not like i'm sat in a hotel room counting the days until i can get Buckystyle again!
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...It's good to be back
good to have you back.
thanks for sharing the clip, i'd didn't LOL honest. because i obviously never, ever, never ever do that!
Time for an evening update:
Improvement across the board in the Adder Fodder category, and a couple of notable new entries from Buckyball regulars Cmdr Polly and Cmdr Bruski. Despite a remarkable SRV performance in his "The Self Preservation Society", and making "The Pakistani Ambassador" truly feel the heat (let's hope no one take this bit out of context, ever), Cmdr Bruski's final time puts him straight at the bottom of the board. But we all know the spacebear's relentless attitude, we'll surely hear more from him in the near future (Note: hull value not available due to temporary technical problems with video footage. Let's just say that even a 1% hull wouldn't cut anyway. Sorry cmdr!).
In the meantime, Cmdr Inga Stevenson improves her previous run by managing the daring achievement of slamming her still white-hot "Subtracter" down at London Relay at 1% hull, giving her enough of a push to surpass Cmdr Jak by a little margin and putting Cmdr Birdnose in her sights.
(Note for Cmdr Inga Stevenson from Race Direction: please do a check of your Scarab transponder, we received multiple entries where its submitted name didn't correspond to our registered "Prospector 10", let us know if we should change it)
Cmdr Polly storms the ranks by squeezing a run directly in the second position and just under the 30 minutes mark thanks to outstanding expertise in both flying wings and rolling wheels. Or rolling wings and flying wheels, both things work well enough in this race.
Closing comments on Cmdr Alec Turner, who confirms his temporary leadership once again with yet another improved time! Whatever his "great idea" might have been it must have worked a treat, putting him well ahead of the competition even with Polly's blazing new entry. That "316%" overheat value makes one feel the burn just by reading it, that's taking "reckless flying" to a whole new level of lack of self preservation. So much for The Self Preservation Society!
That 2% must have been a real bummer though but, hey, leave some glory for the others too!
Cmdr Inga mantains her leadership in both rover challenges, with a new improved record of 2942 meters traveled in a single jump in the Frequent Flyers Club. You should think about equipping your "Prospector 10" with a Business Class, you know.
In the Big Air Challenge Cmdr Bruski jumps directly into 2nd position with his 572, with Polly surpassing <-lightspeed->'s Chicken Grab in light of her 361 meters. Polly and Bruski take the 2nd and 3rd position respectively in the Frequent Flyers Club with remarkable jumps not too far from Inga's current record, all the while Alec Turner succeeds in making his "Preeetty Carrr" jump longer than <-lightspeed->'s "Chicken Grab" with a respectable 1770 meters hop.
In the meantime, I'd like to reassure everyone about our brave Cmdr Tannik Seldon: he's doing well, last time we heard from him he was well on his way to Kronecker Beacon, and his race is still definitely ON! Godspeed commander!
No new updates in the Open Unlimited category for now, I'm confident we'll hear something soon in that regard, stay tuned!
Improvement across the board in the Adder Fodder category, and a couple of notable new entries from Buckyball regulars Cmdr Polly and Cmdr Bruski. Despite a remarkable SRV performance in his "The Self Preservation Society", and making "The Pakistani Ambassador" truly feel the heat (let's hope no one take this bit out of context, ever), Cmdr Bruski's final time puts him straight at the bottom of the board. But we all know the spacebear's relentless attitude, we'll surely hear more from him in the near future (Note: hull value not available due to temporary technical problems with video footage. Let's just say that even a 1% hull wouldn't cut anyway. Sorry cmdr!).
In the meantime, Cmdr Inga Stevenson improves her previous run by managing the daring achievement of slamming her still white-hot "Subtracter" down at London Relay at 1% hull, giving her enough of a push to surpass Cmdr Jak by a little margin and putting Cmdr Birdnose in her sights.
(Note for Cmdr Inga Stevenson from Race Direction: please do a check of your Scarab transponder, we received multiple entries where its submitted name didn't correspond to our registered "Prospector 10", let us know if we should change it)
Cmdr Polly storms the ranks by squeezing a run directly in the second position and just under the 30 minutes mark thanks to outstanding expertise in both flying wings and rolling wheels. Or rolling wings and flying wheels, both things work well enough in this race.
Closing comments on Cmdr Alec Turner, who confirms his temporary leadership once again with yet another improved time! Whatever his "great idea" might have been it must have worked a treat, putting him well ahead of the competition even with Polly's blazing new entry. That "316%" overheat value makes one feel the burn just by reading it, that's taking "reckless flying" to a whole new level of lack of self preservation. So much for The Self Preservation Society!
That 2% must have been a real bummer though but, hey, leave some glory for the others too!
Cmdr Inga mantains her leadership in both rover challenges, with a new improved record of 2942 meters traveled in a single jump in the Frequent Flyers Club. You should think about equipping your "Prospector 10" with a Business Class, you know.
In the Big Air Challenge Cmdr Bruski jumps directly into 2nd position with his 572, with Polly surpassing <-lightspeed->'s Chicken Grab in light of her 361 meters. Polly and Bruski take the 2nd and 3rd position respectively in the Frequent Flyers Club with remarkable jumps not too far from Inga's current record, all the while Alec Turner succeeds in making his "Preeetty Carrr" jump longer than <-lightspeed->'s "Chicken Grab" with a respectable 1770 meters hop.
In the meantime, I'd like to reassure everyone about our brave Cmdr Tannik Seldon: he's doing well, last time we heard from him he was well on his way to Kronecker Beacon, and his race is still definitely ON! Godspeed commander!
No new updates in the Open Unlimited category for now, I'm confident we'll hear something soon in that regard, stay tuned!
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Unfortunately, Prospector 10 suffered an unplanned rapid disassembly event during one run. I'm now on Prospector 11. Darn things are cheaper to replace than they are to repair.
Had a first look at the course this evening and I have to say it is great! Now if I only manage to do this without emergency dropping out of glide, getting lost in the mountains with the SRV, overheating too much too early during the race and be confident enough in my lithobraking skills to take Redshift down to 1% hull, skip all the other screwups that cost me at least 3 mins combined and find a name for my SRV I could even do this fast enough I could actually call this a run and submit it
But it's great fun already, and provided I manage to produce a less embarrasing result in the Adder than today and still have enough time for a couple of runs I also have an idea about what to do in Unlimited
But it's great fun already, and provided I manage to produce a less embarrasing result in the Adder than today and still have enough time for a couple of runs I also have an idea about what to do in Unlimited
