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LetItBleed1980

LetItBleed1980
Trotsky2112 said:
Dude, how are you not dead from boredom? I barely made it to Colonia without smashing my face against my Hutton Mug :)
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Well I can get a little bored sometimes on long expeditions when I haven't found anything interesting in a while and I'm just jump/honk/scan-ing my way through unremarkable systems. Usually I end up finding something really cool and get back in the spirit pretty quickly. But as I said, on the Hutton run I would just do other things like laundry or reading (which I enjoy as much if not more than video games) so I didn't get bored doing those. The only time I was bored to the point of smashing my face against the wall was during the planetary circumnavigation expedition on Kumay. A month of SRV driving was pretty rough but it would only get bad on the long stretches between rally points, which were usually some mountain or valley complex so amazing that I'd be charged back up for the next long leg.
 

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos
It was sort of cheating but I made it from Colonia to the Bubble in one jump. I purchased a Sidey, did one jump, crashed it in to the star and refused the insurance rebuy.

I got to Jameson’s in a free Sidey then purchased and A rated a Krait II. Of course I can’t engineer it because that has been borked.
I’ll mainly be running merits to get Prismatic Sheild. I also have my DBX that jumps around 65ly. May run some passenger missions.
I’ll get my shields then head back out to Colonia.

Then I don’t know.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
If you want the authorities to give you a few free rides on your way back, there's the Colonia Prison Taxi: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/colonia-prison-taxi-14k-ly-to-colonia.477424/
You may have to rebuy a few times (if you're in a hurry - otherwise, there are enough crimes available you can commit outside the station and then sneak back in), so familiarize yourself with the screen or you may lose your ship, but even 4 rebuys are still cheaper than shipping the ship out there with the ship shipping ship.
 

wAsh67

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Speedcuffs said:
2001c. :LOL:
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Reminds me of a story regarding my total lunacy during the early days of playing.

I was on my way to a distant outpost, and answered the door to somebody. Long story short we have a coffee and a chat and I forget all about ED. An hour later I'm doing 2001C and have passsed the outpost by literally millions of light seconds.

So what so I do?

I turn around and fly millions of light seconds back, not even realising that I could high wake out and back in again and end up only 150,000 ls away.

Driving to work the next day fuming about having wasted an entire evening, I realised my error.....

Noob.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
I was near Sol, so I nipped over to say hello to the earthlings. While I was there, I saw that Europa had some geo sites. Aha!

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This is me, on Europa, finding antimony and... wait for it... arsenic!

Saturn was too high in the sky to capture it with the SRV in one shot, sadly, and it's rings weren't on show eaither. Ah well.
 

LetItBleed1980

LetItBleed1980
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I was near Sol, so I nipped over to say hello to the earthlings. While I was there, I saw that Europa had some geo sites. Aha!

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This is me, on Europa, finding antimony and... wait for it... arsenic!

Saturn was too high in the sky to capture it with the SRV in one shot, sadly, and it's rings weren't on show eaither. Ah well.
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I just had a similar frustrating experience trying to capture everything in a screenshot but as long as you got to see it that's all that matters. I know I've visited Europa but I can't remember if I landed or not. Right after I got my Sol permit I did a little "Space Odyssey" tour of the solar system visiting all the locations from the novel/film 2001: A Space Odyssey and all the sequels. I would be really surprised if I didn't land there because it is pretty much the focus of all the sequels beginning with the ill-fated Chinese expedition that landed/died on Europa in 2010.
 
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Marco Santos

Marco Santos
I am at the center of the galaxy exploring and mapping the inner systems, with jumps so close to each other with sometimes as much as 1ly only jump...
So much to see and do! :)

Current planned route as landed me 672 jumps to do, just to go a mere 1300Ly... At least will be really quick to get back to Explorers Anchorage to turn in the data!
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Marco Santos said:
I am at the center of the galaxy exploring and mapping the inner systems, with jumps so close to each other with sometimes as much as 1ly only jump...
So much to see and do! :)

Current planned route as landed me 672 jumps to do, just to go a mere 1300Ly... At least will be really quick to get back to Explorers Anchorage to turn in the data!
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Sounds interesting! Are you taking photos to share with us?
 

Trotsky2112

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LetItBleed1980 said:
Well I can get a little bored sometimes on long expeditions when I haven't found anything interesting in a while and I'm just jump/honk/scan-ing my way through unremarkable systems. Usually I end up finding something really cool and get back in the spirit pretty quickly. But as I said, on the Hutton run I would just do other things like laundry or reading (which I enjoy as much if not more than video games) so I didn't get bored doing those. The only time I was bored to the point of smashing my face against the wall was during the planetary circumnavigation expedition on Kumay. A month of SRV driving was pretty rough but it would only get bad on the long stretches between rally points, which were usually some mountain or valley complex so amazing that I'd be charged back up for the next long leg.
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Then you overshoot and have to do a loop of shame :)
 

A C Ender

A C Ender
I just started playing, still in the pilot federation area, but I'm trying to get better at combat. Working on staying on target, right now flying a cobra and just started using medium fixed frag... First few enemies I killed purely with my 2 small gimbal lasers... But I've got noticeable better at flying now. Still need work on pip management and more active training with FA of.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
I did the old "oh go on buy another copy in the Steam Sale before it ends" last night - gosh what a palaver. Frontier needs to get its act together over the registration, took me forever to finally find out how to get it sorted (8 times through the validation code loop).

After all that I then found I had to go through a "pilot certification process" (TUTORIAL) which I have to admit was quite well scripted but seemed to go on forever. I recorded most of it and I see that the recording
(it is on the yootoob on my MalcYorks channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxH5mv_EoXQRxoPXvVKLyA/ )
is about 25 minutes long (and there was stuff either side of the recording). All that just to be able to actually get into the commander creation / starting process.

With those two issues I wonder just how many purchases get refunded.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Para Handy said:
.... All that just to be able to actually get into the commander creation / starting process.
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Still experimenting with the "new player enhancements" of the update...

I checked the "Clear Save" procedure and found it wanted me to start right at the beginning, having to go through the above tutorial again.... :eek: Happily, bringing up the menu reveals a "Skip this training" (or similar wording) which then lets you into the new commander setup page.

I could only see the two options for starting in the noob-zone (i.e. with or without a SRV), if there were options for the traditional choice of start locations I couldn't find them.

P.S. The sale price Viper III repaint (0Arx) is no longer available - miserable gits.
 
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LetItBleed1980

LetItBleed1980
Had kind of a strange morning. Last night when I logged off I was about 20 jumps into a route from where I am in Achilles's Altar to the NGC 3199 nebula. I got back on today and started the re-calculation of the route then went and mapped a couple of planets, when I was done it appeared the plotting was complete I selected the system that was marked as next on my route, lined up with it (it showed up in my HUD as if I were ready to jump) and tried to jump only to drop out of SC with the message that I had no target selected. I looked closer at my left panel and it was telling me to go back into galaxy map to replot the route, I did so and it failed. I've never had anything like this happen before, I mean I've had it happen when trying to plot routes that wouldn't work for one reason or another but this was a route that was already plotted and I had traveled but couldn't get to work again. I don't know if some stars disappeared overnight but I couldn't plot any course to the nebula and I tried different stars. I checked to make sure I didn't accidentally deselect some star classes or anything else that could have affected my plotted course but there was nothing. Now I'm just plotting 20-40 jump legs to get there.

It wasn't all bad though, on the second leg I plotted this way I came across an ELW in 2 consecutive systems I traveled through. I've never found 2 in one day before and I found 2 in about 10 minutes, plus I found one last night so it was 3 in a little over 12 hours. In the past month I've been traveling I've only found 2 and I think I've only found 10 total in my travels. So annoyances aside it's been some pretty good exploring.
 
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