Community Event / Creation Buckyball Racing Club presents: Fat Tony's Festival of Racing (30 September - 15 October 3303)
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I feel so evil for this Ironbucky thing.
It's brutal but brilliant. I actually really like the whole thing of having to declare it and then do it. You can practice all you like but when you actually sit down to do a run it's all or nothing. I'm planning to declare and do one more tomorrow afternoon sometime. In the meantime good luck to AkenBosch who is out there right now.
I have to say it's clicked during the course of this event. I was getting better but suddenly the whole mid-air rolling around to get myself facing fowards again thing has become instinctual. What was different about that last run I just submitted was that rather than doing it in a state of shear terror and panic, practically ripping the stick out of it's socket at every bump, something really came together and I actually enjoyed it ... not a single spin out or stop and re-orient on the whole route. Note: the leaders don't need to panic, but for me ... wow, that was some kind of milestone. Expect a new video at some point.
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It's done. A bad crash with full stop at Wasat with half the distance covered under 20% hull, overshoot of each and every assigned docking pad and obscured target exiting Gauss during the Scramble, 30 seconds waiting for drop out (and a certain specific anatomic part progressively clenching to the point of making diamonds out of coal) approaching Smeaton during the Bubble Tour.
But, it's done, so it went great.
Wrapping everything up, could take a bit.
But, it's done, so it went great.
Wrapping everything up, could take a bit.
Congrats on the new toy. I will be interested to hear how you get on with it as I use a DIY wired edtracker in ED. I find it very good now I have got used to it although I need to tweak the settings again.
I am still waiting for it to click. I have mainly done the Wasat course this time I need the practise on flyving and srv races are less common but I just don't seem to be getting any better at it.
I can't do it too much either as I find it too frustrating and stress inducing. I do a couple of jumps that seem to go ok and then the next one that looks to me as if it should be the same sends me tumbling.
I think I could probably do a similar time to the ones I posted if I just drove all the way.
Didn't manage to do an Ironbucky attempt today, only a Wasat run with a solid SRV section (but an obscured jump target). That led me to finally update my star position spreadsheet to at least include some basic functionality (still troubleshooting a few details though), which is the reason I didn't have time for an Ironbucky attempt...
Bad news: The two datapoints I've taken so far suggest (I still have to validate the results) that on Wasat A 2 E Siren will rise again on Monday morning (UTC), so after the race has ended. Aken, you're relatively safe now unless somebody manages a significantly faster SRV run
Edit: Nevermind, I've found one error, and now it's suggesting that tomorrow will be unobscured. Too tired now to really think about it, so we'll see how it goes
Edit: Nevermind, I've found one error, and now it's suggesting that tomorrow will be unobscured. Too tired now to really think about it, so we'll see how it goes
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Fat Tony's Festival of Racing - Current Standings - 00:00 GMT 15-OCT-3303
THE IRONBUCKY TROPHY
After clearing out all of the cookiebots from the leaderboards, CMDR Cookiehole has had his previous Ironbucky time corrected and now sits in the lead as we enter the final 24 hours of the festival.
Joining Cookiehole and Alec Turner in the Ironbucky podium positions is CMDR Aken B. who finally overcome jinxes with both the Wasat Cup course and galactic instability to record an excellent Ironbucky time of 1h19m09s despite travelling for the final 20km of the Wasat Cup course with The Tumbling Initiative having only 20% hull integrity remaining.
As we are now into the final 24 hours of the Ironbucky Trophy, everyone has slot #5 available to make a run. Additionally anyone who hasn't made a run using slot #3 also has that slot still available.
OPEN UNLIMITED CLASS
With the clock ticking down towards the end of the festival commanders Alec Turner, jumpingclear and Cookiehole all made runs in open-unlimited class today.
First up in the Bubble Tour Alec Turner made a run of 32:18 in Bananery Fandango, an improvement of 15 seconds which was enough to move Alec ahead of CMDR Hossi and into 6th place.
Alec was in action again in the Wasat Rally where he produced what he considers his best ever SRV run to finish in an excellent 21:58, with an SRV section time of 12:46.
Also in the Wasat Rally CMDR jumpingclear logged an improved SRV time of 25:03 and finished the Rally in his DBX Cool Bitter Turbulence with a nice run of 34:54.
Then just as the leaderboards were being updated Cookiehole logged a Wasat Rally time of 19:04 in Crater Creator, with an SRV time of 11:22 to take second place on both leaderboards and also in Nuk's Dangerous Landings challenge with a Spectacular! 649m/s landing. This Rally time doesn't affect the overall open-unlimited leaderboard yet, where Cookiehole is also lying in second place using his full Ironbucky time - however with such a fast Wasat Rally run, even breaking out his Ironbucky Scamble and Tour times separately would almost certainly push him above current leader Aken B.
COBRA CLASSIC CLASS
CMDR Samwell Drakhyr made successful Cobra Classic class runs in all three events to take the overall lead from Stern Winter by around 9 minutes.
As well as managing to survive the Wasat Cup course in his Scarab SRV Whirling Dervish to lead the Cobra Classic Wasat Rally, Drakhyr also made it through some fuel worries to break the 45 minute barrier in the Bubble Tour.
Drahkyr's Cobra Classic run times have been very consistant in all events, and in the Station Scramble while he didn't manage to overhaul Aken B. he did knock 6 seconds off his previous best and logged a good second place time of 21:51 - he then made another attempt and frustrating made it around in 21:52.
WASAT CUP COURSE - SRV TIMES
THE IRONBUCKY TROPHY
After clearing out all of the cookiebots from the leaderboards, CMDR Cookiehole has had his previous Ironbucky time corrected and now sits in the lead as we enter the final 24 hours of the festival.
Joining Cookiehole and Alec Turner in the Ironbucky podium positions is CMDR Aken B. who finally overcome jinxes with both the Wasat Cup course and galactic instability to record an excellent Ironbucky time of 1h19m09s despite travelling for the final 20km of the Wasat Cup course with The Tumbling Initiative having only 20% hull integrity remaining.
As we are now into the final 24 hours of the Ironbucky Trophy, everyone has slot #5 available to make a run. Additionally anyone who hasn't made a run using slot #3 also has that slot still available.
OPEN UNLIMITED CLASS
With the clock ticking down towards the end of the festival commanders Alec Turner, jumpingclear and Cookiehole all made runs in open-unlimited class today.
First up in the Bubble Tour Alec Turner made a run of 32:18 in Bananery Fandango, an improvement of 15 seconds which was enough to move Alec ahead of CMDR Hossi and into 6th place.
Alec was in action again in the Wasat Rally where he produced what he considers his best ever SRV run to finish in an excellent 21:58, with an SRV section time of 12:46.
Also in the Wasat Rally CMDR jumpingclear logged an improved SRV time of 25:03 and finished the Rally in his DBX Cool Bitter Turbulence with a nice run of 34:54.
Then just as the leaderboards were being updated Cookiehole logged a Wasat Rally time of 19:04 in Crater Creator, with an SRV time of 11:22 to take second place on both leaderboards and also in Nuk's Dangerous Landings challenge with a Spectacular! 649m/s landing. This Rally time doesn't affect the overall open-unlimited leaderboard yet, where Cookiehole is also lying in second place using his full Ironbucky time - however with such a fast Wasat Rally run, even breaking out his Ironbucky Scamble and Tour times separately would almost certainly push him above current leader Aken B.
COBRA CLASSIC CLASS
CMDR Samwell Drakhyr made successful Cobra Classic class runs in all three events to take the overall lead from Stern Winter by around 9 minutes.
As well as managing to survive the Wasat Cup course in his Scarab SRV Whirling Dervish to lead the Cobra Classic Wasat Rally, Drakhyr also made it through some fuel worries to break the 45 minute barrier in the Bubble Tour.
Drahkyr's Cobra Classic run times have been very consistant in all events, and in the Station Scramble while he didn't manage to overhaul Aken B. he did knock 6 seconds off his previous best and logged a good second place time of 21:51 - he then made another attempt and frustrating made it around in 21:52.
WASAT CUP COURSE - SRV TIMES
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Alright now that I've got the ships and modules in place and tried out the Wasat Rally portion last night, it's time to get some official runs on the board!
CMDR Perseus Tacitus
Open Unlimited
Station Scramble
Imperial Courier
Velox Vindex
Wasat Rally
Imperial Eagle
Inline Six
This 50k fliving has identified a big gap in my skills, so hopefully I can learn some of the techniques over one more evening of racing.
Checkered flag in sight friends!
CMDR Perseus Tacitus
Open Unlimited
Station Scramble
Imperial Courier
Velox Vindex
Wasat Rally
Imperial Eagle
Inline Six
This 50k fliving has identified a big gap in my skills, so hopefully I can learn some of the techniques over one more evening of racing.
Checkered flag in sight friends!
Holy cow I hope I can squeeze a run in sometime before the race ends. I might just try for a couple no-practice attempts at the Ironbucky.
As soon as it arrives AND I'll have time to tinker with it AND I'll have it properly configured for a good trial (I hope it won't fight with Joystick Curve's virtual vJoy device), I'll try to write my impression about it
Scoreboard needs updating! (sorry Hossi but I'll take what I can get).
Ok, thanks to another measurement from today and confirmation from Jhyrryl I'm now relatively sure that I've got the right function figured out (and the deviation between the two measurements most likely was a measurement error yesterday). So I can forecast within reasonable accuracy, that Siren will be above the Horizon at Ferguson until about 22:00 UTC/gametime. At the end of the race it will be about 10° below the horizon which on Wasat A2E roughly corresponds to 20-30 km altitude required for it to be visible, so still somewhat reachable without going to OC.Bad news: The two datapoints I've taken so far suggest (I still have to validate the results) that on Wasat A 2 E Siren will rise again on Monday morning (UTC), so after the race has ended. Aken, you're relatively safe now unless somebody manages a significantly faster SRV run
Edit: Nevermind, I've found one error, and now it's suggesting that tomorrow will be unobscured. Too tired now to really think about it, so we'll see how it goes
Here's the plot, if anyone is interested (I'll do documentation and share the link to my tool as soon as possible, but can't promise that I'll complete it today):
Anyway, the violet/grey graph is the not-so-correct measurement, so probably can be ignored
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Fixed, sorry I'd uploaded the corrected table to imgur, but forgot to update the link.
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I'll definitely do that after the race. I'm a bit overwhelmed with tables at the moment. Even with just 14 of the boards being used lol.
The SRV section is definitely the biggest single influence on overall standing, and other than Aken's server disconnect is the only reason that runs have failed.
The ship racing parts have worked out well though, so as long as a racer is good at fliving the SRV times haven't totally dominated the standings.
As soon as it arrives AND I'll have time to tinker with it AND I'll have it properly configured for a good trial (I hope it won't fight with Joystick Curve's virtual vJoy device), I'll try to write my impression about it
I used to use vJoy with Joystick Curves to try and get a bit more precision out of my TM Hotas X and didn't have any problems with it interfering with edtracker. I did try running the edtracker through Opentrack but now just use the edtracker ui settings. I use the exponential response which gives a reasonable deadzone so the view doesn't bounce when looking straight ahead. I am finding that the more I get used to it the more I increase the sensitivity. I also have double the sensitivity on the pitch axis as the yaw.
I think I'm going to preregister for a Cobra class Ironbucky run at 23:45 tonight which means I'll have to Buckyball my way through work to start my run in time. As long as I start before midnight it counts right? And gmt is the same as game time right?
CMDR Brabston, Timmy
Ship name: Styrofoam
Cobra mk iii
Srv name: Big Soda
Ironbucky
Cobra class
Wish me luck
CMDR Brabston, Timmy
Ship name: Styrofoam
Cobra mk iii
Srv name: Big Soda
Ironbucky
Cobra class
Wish me luck