people will really try anything for the fastest time
Community Event / Creation The Buckyball Racing Club presents: Hot Off The Press (17th to 25th August 3305)
- Thread starter Alec Turner
- Start date
Plan A has produced a usable time, now submitted. Not perfect (e.g. one obscured jump) but it could have been much worse with windows playing up and dragging the focus away from the client at critical moments. Luckily I updated my drivers during the week; the old one would have probably crashed or required me to hard reboot.
I need to give Plan B some thought, else I'll try for beauty shots in different categories if I don't work out how to improve my time.
I need to give Plan B some thought, else I'll try for beauty shots in different categories if I don't work out how to improve my time.
What about the Guardian Globe cockpit lights?
OP updated to exclude Thargoid bobbleheads and Guardian cockpit lights!
I'm a bit busy today to do a proper scoreboard (maybe later, can't promise) but for now I have two entries, both awesome, both entirely valid.
So, quick Ad Hoc scoreboard ...
To be fair to Crotalus tho' - he did go to Sagittarius A* so he's already won the race in terms of Kudos!
So, quick Ad Hoc scoreboard ...
| Cmdr name | Ship name | Ship type | Time |
| Edelgard von Rhein | DBX | Hermes | Under 30 mins |
| Crotalus | Celeste | Krait Phantom | Under 7 hrs |
To be fair to Crotalus tho' - he did go to Sagittarius A* so he's already won the race in terms of Kudos!
Last edited:
Ok, serious question this time. I tried taking pictures of exploding ships. Which of these would be valid as proof (or not, and why):
1) Shows time and my ship's name, but there's not much left of the recently exploded ship
2) Ship in the process of exploding, but the timestamp has been cut off
3) Even better view of the exploding ship, and worse timestamp
4) Nice bang, but would you believe that was a ship? Also, again timestamp
5) Exploding ship and timestamop are both there, but someone could debate that the ship is exploding
6) I swear, that's an exploding ship right there in my crosshairs. Ok, apart from the cut off timestamp - permissible?
7) Nice and clear timestamp. The expoding ship seems to have evaporated into smoke, unfortunately.
Looking at these, I suppose I'm going to have to go for video. Hmmm.... since it (should be) easy to start and stop video - how about short video clips instead of images?
1) Shows time and my ship's name, but there's not much left of the recently exploded ship
2) Ship in the process of exploding, but the timestamp has been cut off
3) Even better view of the exploding ship, and worse timestamp
4) Nice bang, but would you believe that was a ship? Also, again timestamp
5) Exploding ship and timestamop are both there, but someone could debate that the ship is exploding
6) I swear, that's an exploding ship right there in my crosshairs. Ok, apart from the cut off timestamp - permissible?
7) Nice and clear timestamp. The expoding ship seems to have evaporated into smoke, unfortunately.
Looking at these, I suppose I'm going to have to go for video. Hmmm.... since it (should be) easy to start and stop video - how about short video clips instead of images?
Last edited:
Alas I can't see those images, they're either greyed out severely or replaced by a box about accepting conditions. Any chance of replacing those with imgur bbcodes?
Ok, edited. Looks at least different now on my end.
They are all displaying fine for me FWIW.I'm giving up on Imgur. Can't create a new album, can't even create a multi image post
Sorry for the confusion - that wasn't related to the pictures above, but to the submission I was preparing,
I'm giving up on Imgur. Can't create a new album, can't even create a multi image post
I don't know if this will help
OK - cool, I can see those images now.Ok, serious question this time. I tried taking pictures of exploding ships. Which of these would be valid as proof (or not, and why):
1) Shows time and my ship's name, but there's not much left of the recently exploded ship
2) Ship in the process of exploding, but the timestamp has been cut off
3) Even better view of the exploding ship, and worse timestamp
4) Nice bang, but would you believe that was a ship? Also, again timestamp
5) Exploding ship and timestamop are both there, but someone could debate that the ship is exploding
6) I swear, that's an exploding ship right there in my crosshairs. Ok, apart from the cut off timestamp - permissible?
7) Nice and clear timestamp. The expoding ship seems to have evaporated into smoke, unfortunately.
Looking at these, I suppose I'm going to have to go for video. Hmmm.... since it (should be) easy to start and stop video - how about short video clips instead of images?
1 would do, 2 (maybe) and 3 would do if I could see the time (are you in VR - I appreciate that can be difficult - maybe video?), 4 again good but timestamp, 5 & 6 yes (if time) - 7 no.
If people are in VR or using headlook can I suggest two screenshots, 1 showing the explosion and then look up/right and grab another of the clock?
I guess I had in mind the classic crashed ship you see down on planets sometimes but, without giving it away too much, there are other obvious examples of wrecked ships which came to mind. I guess those I had in mind would be POI's but I can now see there may be other ways of getting this shot. Hmmm, perhaps a bit of a loophole on this one but no obvious way of closing it now, damn. Basically I'm gonna say if it's recognisably a crashed/wrecked/derilict ship and not just a random bit of twisted metal then it's OK.
Last edited:
I've added a clarification on "crashed ship" to the wording. Apologies if that scuppers anyone's plans.
OK, as we hit day two here's the first proper scoreboard update of the race.
For now I'm keeping the exact times close to my chest but as you can see we have two times somewhere around the 30 min area (with Edelgard von Rhein just taking the lead over Azzie Elbub - but not by much!) and then one considerably longer run from Crotalus (but that did go all the way to Sagittarius Eye so R.E.S.P.E.C.T!)
We've got three different ship types and thus far we've had capital ships, mining, pumpkins, high altitide SRVs, exploding ships, thargoids, noob hammers, black holes, shipwrercks, geysers, space crystals, ship showrooms and wrecked SRVs. Quite the assortment and no two runs have been remotely similar. Next week when I have more time I'l start sharing the pie charts (which look really cool).
General consensus in the comments so far is: could do better.
For now I'm keeping the exact times close to my chest but as you can see we have two times somewhere around the 30 min area (with Edelgard von Rhein just taking the lead over Azzie Elbub - but not by much!) and then one considerably longer run from Crotalus (but that did go all the way to Sagittarius Eye so R.E.S.P.E.C.T!)
We've got three different ship types and thus far we've had capital ships, mining, pumpkins, high altitide SRVs, exploding ships, thargoids, noob hammers, black holes, shipwrercks, geysers, space crystals, ship showrooms and wrecked SRVs. Quite the assortment and no two runs have been remotely similar. Next week when I have more time I'l start sharing the pie charts (which look really cool).
General consensus in the comments so far is: could do better.
Last edited:
Ozric
Volunteer Moderator
Hmmm late to the party, but interesting... very interesting...
There's no regulation class which is going to be interesting for me, but I'll have a think about this today and see what I can come up with
There's no regulation class which is going to be interesting for me, but I'll have a think about this today and see what I can come up with
Please note - the initial "empty cargo" screenshot is really only necessary if one (or more) or your subsequent photos are of things which could theoretically be carried in the cargo hold (just to prove you weren't carrying them before the race started). If they're not then you don't have to bother with it. I mention this because a few people are cursing themselves for forgetting to include this shot.