One Hour and 45 Min??

Siobhan

Siobhan
As someone said upthread, Hutton Orbital is currently in lockdown.

Now personally I love the trip out, but I know for some it's a chore and seeing it closed for business is going to be a massive let down.

So, anyone here want to join me in a trip to Alpha C today to indulge in a spot of bounty hunting to try to break the lockdown? It could take 3 days of solid hunting though.
There's a closer station Al-Din, which I believe is also owned by the truckers for handing in. This is an outpost however, so no large ships. Pythons, FDLs and Fed Bricks are ideal.

Right On Commanders.
 

Tarrakis

Tarrakis
Siobhan said:
With practice you should be able to get it down to 75-80 minutes. Tune in to Hutton Orbital Radio for in-trip entertainment. There's also a monthly Mug-Meet if you want to meet some crazy truckers while you're there.
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FDev should make it so that this automatically plays on the in-game audio (instead of the standard SC music) when you're far enough away from the primary star (10+ KLs), so that it doesn't play to everyone in the system, only those specifically headed to Hutton Orbital
 

FoxTwo

FoxTwo
tastyhotschmoes said:
It took me this long to get across a system to one station. There has to be a way to choose which star in the system you want to jump to. Such a waste of time.
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I believe you just met "Hutton Orbital" :) Around these parts, some consider it as a "rite of passage" - you need to go to Hutton at least once in your career....

Uhm... I haven't been there yet myself. Everytime I see Hutton Orbital as a destination in missions, I skip it :D
 
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DefiledDragon

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Stealthie said:
Surely the "reason not to" is simply to preserve the perception of space as a big place, with vast distances between astronomical bodies?

In the case of Hutton, getting there provides a sense of achievement and the fact that it's taken you so long to get there creates a feeling of real isolation about the station and it's inhabitants.
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You've not achieved anything though, other than sitting still for 45 minutes. Also, Isolation? A 45 minute drive? I used to commute for over 90 minutes to work in Manchester City Centre. It did not make Manchester City Centre feel isolated.

Stealthie said:
Crazy-long journeys in SC are an anomaly, an aberration, an edge-case.
They're not something you HAVE to do every time you play ED.

Embrace the variety rather than moaning because not everything provides instant gratification.
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Not the tired old "instant gratification" crap again. Sigh.
 

Vasea Azure

Vasea Azure
I tried Hutton Run and I did it... ehm I mean my ship flew for itself in a straight line while I was watching old Will Smith TV show. Getting to Hutton is a achievement? lol yeah right...
 

RhymeRhyme

RhymeRhyme
Tarman said:
Obligatory "space is big, see where you're going first we have a giant map" post.
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Doesnt matter if space is big. It's a game. It's a waste of time.

These useless jump screens kept me away from playing yesterday. To reach the current CG I had 32 mind numbing jumps in front of me. I just shut the game down.
Waste of time. Mind numbing dull jump screens. The game justt ripps off sparetime. Bad implementation.
 
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Enderby

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I suppose the trouble is you're not actually doing anything while 'travelling' to places far away like Hutton O.

You, literally, don't have to do anything until braking at the other end. There's no challenge except to one's own boredom threshold.
 
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Para Handy

Para Handy
RhymeRhyme said:
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These useless jump screens kept me away from playing yesterday. ...............
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See, there is always a silver lining. ;)

(I am only teasing, your post just begged for my corny attempt at humour, I am sure you are a lovely warm friendly and intelligent human being really.)
 

Gimi

Gimi
Zieman said:
That's the same mug, I just combined 3 pics to show the whole pattern on it.
And no, I didn't buy it, I won it in a raffle related to the CG.
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So you are the one who won. My most disappointing moment in ED when I didn't win that MUG after 22 trips to Hutton Orbital :p
That community goal almost got me divorced. I had ED running on my laptop at 10 FPS and brought it with me everywhere to get those deliveries done.

Best CG ever in ED.
 

Luniticisi

Luniticisi
CookieJarviz said:
Lol no. Its randomized where stations and what not are placed.
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There is no randomisation in "where stations and what not are placed"

The galaxy is procedurally generated, which is not random. Also adding to that is the fact that all of the known stars in our night sky(from various star catalogs) were hand placed, along with loads of (if not all) stations.
 

PuffyEichhorst

PuffyEichhorst
Zieman said:
So, you got one of your initiation rites completed (Hutton Orbital)? o7
For the MUG! :D

On a less tongue-in-cheek note, sorry, have to repeat myself:
Nope, the mechanics are as good as they can be in a single player game which is shoehorned into a MMO mongrel.
If you want to comment further, or propose actual improvements, you should read some history first:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_Elite_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_First_Encounters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolite_(video_game)

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-world-ahead”-–-Hyperspace-in-Elite-Dangerous
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ths-to-tread-quot-Hyperspace-in-Elite-Summary
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/5443-Elite-Dangerous-Hyperspace
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Travelling-between-planets-in-Elite-Dangerous
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/5710-In-System-Travel-What-do-you-guys-actually-want
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/5728-Upcoming-Poll-Discussion-about-in-system-travel
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/38-In-System-Travel-Polls
AND ESPECIALLY:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...tle-bigger-darling-quot-The-Frame-Shift-Drive

Now, I wouldn't mind some sort of dumb autopilot which could fly you to a destination if no one interrupts the trip, but some insight into how the current system came to be might get you appreciate it a bit more.

And the long supercruises need to stay! We don't have cable-cars to Mount Everest or Matterhorn etc., some places should feel an achievement once you get there. Getting across the whole Galaxy is all too easy & quick already.

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:D
ya, hutton orbital would have been my guess aswell....just 2 days ago i went there....thinking for the whole time if the 4 Mil are worth it....
As i remember all 'long travel missions' are paid well, aren't they? At least it was a 1 jumps passenger mission for 4 Mill.Cr.- fair enough for me...
 
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Tarrakis

Tarrakis
Luniticisi said:
Lol no. Its randomized where stations and what not are placed.
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There is no randomisation in "where stations and what not are placed"

The galaxy is procedurally generated, which is not random. Also adding to that is the fact that all of the known stars in our night sky(from various star catalogs) were hand placed, along with loads of (if not all) stations.
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Yep, many of the systems closer to Sol are hand crafted, from their position in the galaxy (according to the latest data) to the planets & moons to the stations & bases...given that Alpha Centauri is our closest neighbour it's probably safe to assume this is one of them.

Even in the non-hand crafted systems the placement of stations is most definitely not random - their positions are consistent (or rather they follow a consistent orbit) every time someone enters a particular system
 
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