Community Event / Creation BRC/TWH present: Hermaszewski Celebration Race

[Alec Turner]

reasons for just selecting a destination?

... in other words, where people have put that in their list of bookmarks what they mean is "select that as the destination for my next jump" rather than "plot a route to that destination" (since the former will be a single jump while that latter will be 2 jumps).

 

[cookiehole]

Thanks to rootsrat, drakhyr and all the other people who made this happen!
Congrats to furrycat, Arnul, Aken and Bruski and really everybody who made a run! This event has been great fun and it's nice to see so many new faces giving racing a try
Hopefully see you all at the next one, fly fast, CMDRs O7

 

[Inodoro Pereyra]

Thanks rootsrat & drakhyr!
The race was very fun, with plenty of space to optimize in both categories.
Congrats to the winners! and to the newcomers! and the old colleagues.

 

[MrLeighV]

Your jump range is dependent on - among other factors - the mass of the ship including the mass of fuel carried. As long as you have at least the max fuel per jump amount listed in outfitting for your FSD, the less fuel you have, the further you can jump.

The route planner always assumes you have a full fuel tank and plots for your worst case range. That means it won't plan a route you might end up too heavy to make - which would be a bummer - but it also means it won't give you a jump that you could make if you burned some fuel previously.

Sometimes that means that it will give you two jumps to a destination that you could make in one. By selecting the destination manually you can do the direct jump and save time.

Furthermore, it's sometimes really obvious what's happening. You'll see a long hop to a system close to where you want to go and then a really short one. It's a good idea to check if you can go direct when you see that. At other times you'll need racer's intuition to realise that you can save some time.



Advanced maintenance.

... in other words, where people have put that in their list of bookmarks what they mean is "select that as the destination for my next jump" rather than "plot a route to that destination" (since the former will be a single jump while that latter will be 2 jumps).

Cheers guys, will try and remember this for the next one.

 

[Milner]

Congrats everyone. Another post race analysis where I've learned a lot without racing (been away with work). When I do race next I'll have to try some route planning...

 

[Alec Turner]

Next race thread is up!

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ub-presents-Land-of-Hope-and-Glory-(Dec-5-11)

 

[rootsrat]

Apologies for a necro, but today is the 40th anniversary of Hermaszewski's trip into space. I'm celebrating! I am actually planning to re-run the race tonight, provided the servers will be back online and my game upgrades without any issues

I'll be setting off at 21:00 GMT (game time) from Ugraswar - Hermaszewski Ring if anybody cares to join me

 

[Raiko]

I'll do my best to be there, as I missed the original race.

I've a couple more details to check for the Black Riband II (which will finally launch on Saturday! ) so I'm planning to be playing tonight anyway.

 

[rootsrat]

Here's the relevant message from the Russian astronauts

https://www.facebook.com/142941459104683/videos/1761708093894670/

 

[rootsrat]

I did it!

Time: 41:31, but my DBE was configured for mega ship looting, so not necessarily the best build for a buckyball, plus I wasn't really focusing on getting the best time

It feels good to come back and fly this race again

 

[Alec Turner]

I did it!

Time: 41:31, but my DBE was configured for mega ship looting, so not necessarily the best build for a buckyball, plus I wasn't really focusing on getting the best time

It feels good to come back and fly this race again

Bravo. Sadly I was in a pub watching England lose at football.

 

[AkenBosch]

Dang! Missed it.

Always not at home at the wrong times...even if I were anyway, my evening would have been well over before that 1.8 GB download of yesterday...shame shame shame, I liked this one very much!

Here's the relevant message from the Russian astronauts

https://www.facebook.com/142941459104683/videos/1761708093894670/

Eh, I'll gladly take your word for it!

Bravo. Sadly I was in a pub watching England lose at football.

At least you had a team to watch lose at football!

 

[Alec Turner]

Please ignore this, I needed to use these leaderboards to test a visual issue and the original image links seem to be broken so I'm just reposting imgur versions below.

 

[rootsrat]

Thanks for reminding me of this! <3

We need some Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski stations in Elite, he was the 2nd Pole in space (and the 1st one to visit the ISS). Literally happened couple of weeks ago.

Time to splash some of that Arx on renaming some stations methinks.

 

[Alec Turner]

Thanks for reminding me of this! <3

We need some Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski stations in Elite, he was the 2nd Pole in space (and the 1st one to visit the ISS). Literally happened couple of weeks ago.

Time to splash some of that Arx on renaming some stations methinks.

If you use EDCoPilot don't forget that it's now possible to create your own Station Facts which everyone else who uses EDCoPilot will get to see when they visit those stations. For example, here's one I created for Slam'n Sammy's in my own colonisation system.

 

[rootsrat]

If you use EDCoPilot don't forget that it's now possible to create your own Station Facts which everyone else who uses EDCoPilot will get to see when they visit those stations. For example, here's one I created for Slam'n Sammy's in my own colonisation system.

I don't, but thanks for another reminder to finally check it out!

P.s. I think we may create our own Uznańki-Wiśniewski race within our colonised systems. That'll cost us quite a bit of Arx, but I don't see any other way. FDEV certainly won't update the name pool to include Sławosz's name

Watch this (nomen omen) space!