You even got my wife to laugh at that. Poor Cookiehole, he deserves better, though you might have my thanks.
I probably had a bad piece of anecdotal evidence from my early runs, mistaking a bad entry angle for a thicker ring. On the calculations, you're ultimately right: we lack density info. It might be possible to extract it from planet data, but not sure it's worth the effort.
Also, as I found, you cen get the beacon spawning from 3-8 km away from you even with a good perpendicular entry, and if you're racing, you won't know how thick the ring is (probably) since by the time you're exiting, you have the next system selected, not the beacon.
Poor asteroid clusters, nobody loves them
I had to clear my filters in order to see them again lol.
And I just feel dumb, since I've never used those filters.
I mean... I love asteroid clusters!
At the top of the board the struggle has continued. Cmdr Bruski continued his march to improve his time yet again (though how The Pakistani Ambassador is still holding together after all the punishment she's taken, we'll never know), managing to sneak past Cmdr Jak, just.
Oh, she's broken into pieces many times, but Elgin has some very good repairmen, although I heard them cursing my name yesterday.
Cmdr Aken B., leader for much of the week, managed to squeeze a bit more performance out of the Bucket of Bolts to break through the 13 minute barrier. However, less than an hour and a half later, Cmdr Bruski returned for yet another attempt in RazorBear and this time managed to pull together an outstanding run to take the lead with a time of 12 minutes and 45 seconds.
That is what happens to people who give their ships insulting names. Aken's poor DBX.
I also never worked out the best way to approach the asteroid cluster, did anyone do any timings? I ended up settling on a corkscrew approach with 4-5 seconds on the countdown, but my on my 'best' approaches my speed tended to drop into the blue zone just at the split second that the cluster moved off the screen.
I ended up doing an hour of testing one night, along with timings from earlier runs. I couldn't find a huge difference between overshoot and corkscrew in, vs corkscrewing all the way, vs corkscrewing starting at 0:03. I generally got faster and faster corkscrews as time went on, and maxed out holding it at 0:02 until about 1 Ls, then easing off to 0:03, otherwise I didn't have enough time to center the target once I dropped to 10Mm.
Here were some timings I got:
| Approach | Time | Test Resource |
| Helix of Death | 1:22 | Test |
| Deselect | 1:48 | Adder 23ish |
| Deselect Small Helix | 1:32 | DBX 1330ish |
| Deselect | 1:22 | DBX Crash on final
|
| Fly Past 0:04, Helix In 0:03 | 1:13 | Test 2 |
| Helix In | 1:15 | DBX 1245 |
| Deselect | 1:31 | DBX 1321 |
| Helix starting at 0:03 | 1:10 | Adder 2207 |
Next Race - 23-SEP-3303 to 01-OCT-3303:
Buckyball Racing Club presents Fat Tony's Festival of Racing (featuring the Ironbucky Trophy).
Long time Buckyball racing fans and notorious mobsters jovial entrepreneurs Anthony "Fat Tony" Lonnegan and Enoch "Little Nuk" Lonnegan - aka the Lonnegan Brothers - invite you to join them for a week-long festival of Buckyball racing at Brash Orbital in the beautiful Siren System.
Festival events include a traditional short range scramble around nearby stations, a quick lap of the bubble for longer range racers and trips out to the Wasat Cup Rally course in neighbouring Wasat for those who prefer to fly things with eight wheels.
The festival will also feature The Ironbucky Trophy for crazy racers who think they can run all three events back to back without repairs and the return of viewers' favourite The Lonnegan Brothers' Scale of Hotness.
Woohoo! I love the Lonnegan Brothers!
If you fancy some racing before the 23rd, take a look at
Jhyrryls post in the BRC thread.
Oh boy, even MORE RACING! Lets see how much I can get down before the new CMDR arrives.
On the subject of timings, one thing I wanted to try if I'd had more time ... did anyone try just flying into the RES at full speed and then simply emergency stopping when they flew through the belt rather than executing a controlled approach (or is that simply what everyone was doing?).
I did a couple times. Then It because obvious my skill (or lack thereof) would never be enough to allow me to arrive within 20km of the site, and the optimization was fruitless. Although...where did you stash those cookiebots?
Err, yes yes, that's exactly it, he's not around because school, lots and lots to do and stuff he must have been very busy, I've not seen him for a while either but I'm absolutely sure he is around, ehm...somewhere, yes no doubt, but you all know him-he's very shy, he didn't want to disturb us while we were all focused on the race, no doubt he's very happy, somewhere, right. Safe and sound, safe and sound. Happy, no doubt. [where is it]
Just a friendly reminder that despite its compact size, the Adder's trunk can easily accommodate two large-sized human adults as well as an average-size spacefaring plantigrade.
Wait what why?! At least I didn't win BOTH classes!
You can't threaten me for sharing with you.
Eh, I went for a 2-3 seconds corkscrew, blue zone was "tricky" at times:
I know the feel. Just wait until the very last frame!
Although I ended up last in the Regulation Adder class I had a lot of fun, thanks very much to Drakhyr for organising it!
I suppose I should try engineering a non-regulation ship for speed / jump distance for future races next
Glad you had fun, and come on in, the water's fine! Definitely no thargoids here...
Spent the morning at a "Distribution centre" in a Famine system scanning FSD wakes - I now have 6 Datamined Wake Exceptions! Felicity Farseer here I come!
Yep, that's where I'm heading. Again.
