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A C Ender

A C Ender
WeComeInPeace said:
Btw. I like teasing by deliberately using wrong expressions like "no gain, no pain". I do know that "Over" and "Out" is "I expect a reply" and "I don't expect a reply", and that "Roger, over and out" causes any radio enthusiast to go through the roof, but that just makes it more fun. It's like asking an astronomer what sign they were born in, or whether they do horoscopes. That works every time ;)
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That's fair, most don't know! I wouldn't call myself a radio enthusiast, but I learned the NATO terminology in the navy.

So... Which sign are you? ;)

As you might have been able to tell from my last screenshot my cobra is standing ready to start mining next session. Without shields and 48t of cargo space for my first mining ever. Wish me luck!
 

wAsh67

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Dumb question time.

When you start the game, how many kill points does it take to graduate from Harmless to Mostly Harmless? I understand the mechanic where the points towards rank is based on your own rank and a sliding scale of your target's rank, but at what "score" does the rank upgrade to Mostly Harmless take place? I can't remember if it's after your first kill or if it's based on the points scale.

Before you ask me to wipe my save and start again and work it out for myself from scratch, be aware that the two word reply may cause offence.....

There is a reason for this query. It's for accuracy in the tutorial/novel I'm writing, so if nobody knows the answer I'll resort to artistic license, but I would prefer to be accurate.

Cheers for any replies.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
There's a section in this link ("Ranks and Experience") thar may help:

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Combat

Combat is an archetypal pilot career recognized by the Pilots Federation. Combat encompasses multiple sub-roles, such as Assassin, Bounty Hunter, Mercenary, and Pirate. Increasing Combat rank requires destroying other ships, and defeating pilots with higher Combat ranks rewards a greater amount...
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LetItBleed1980

LetItBleed1980
Deep space was starting to get to me a bit and I took a break from the game for about 5 days and the only video game I played was Discs Of Tron. Now I'm back at it and visited the PUELIAE AA-A HO Nebula then did about 100 of the 180 jumps to get me from there to the latest Stellar Unknown WP.
 

wAsh67

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Tyres O'Flaherty said:
There's a section in this link ("Ranks and Experience") thar may help:
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Yup, thats where I got the sliding scale table from, but the only examples it gives are for the higher ranks. All I need to know is if its one kill to go from harmless to mostly harmless, or if it's a number of kills up to, say, five points. The score doesn't matter. All I need to know is if my character can progress to mostly harmless after one kill or if he has to grind it out......

Do you not sleep?

;)
 

A C Ender

A C Ender
As promised, here is a picture of my home region! Is that another galaxy on the left?

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Tried to mine yesterday. Missclicked boost and ran into an asteroid from 100 m away and ended with 28% hull. Ouch. I flew back to station and am down to 32 slots but a shield booster. Yet to find a void opal motherlode in the ring though, but only had less than an hour to look (and first time doing so). I will continue next session.
 

WeComeInPeace

WeComeInPeace
A C Ender said:
As promised, here is a picture of my home region! Is that another galaxy on the left?

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Tried to mine yesterday. Missclicked boost and ran into an asteroid from 100 m away and ended with 28% hull. Ouch. I flew back to station and am down to 32 slots but a shield booster. Yet to find a void opal motherlode in the ring though, but only had less than an hour to look (and first time doing so). I will continue next session.
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In the image, from left to right: Andromeda Galxay, Large Magellanic Cloud, some nebula, Barnards loop, another nebula (probably Witchhead). The Andromeda Galaxy is normally said to be our nearest neighboring galaxy, at a distance of 2.5 million ly. The two Magellanic clouds however, are small galaxies being gobbled up by the Milky way. They are still separate galaxies. Likewise Andromeda is absorbing minor galaxies, like Messier 110 which is visible in ED close to the core of Andromeda. Andromeda is the large "disc" and M 110 is the blob above. In a few billion years Andromeda and the Milky way will collide and join into one giant galaxy. That's gonna look very cool seen from Earth!

Don't worry about the mining. You'll find that ML sooner or later. It just takes time getting used to all the buttons and thingies. If you get impatient, look at some of D2EA's videos about core mining at Youtube. They are excellent tutorials.
 
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A C Ender

A C Ender
WeComeInPeace said:
In the image, from left to right: Andromeda Galxay, Large Magellanic Cloud, some nebula, Barnards loop, another nebula (probably Witchhead). The Andromeda Galaxy is normally said to be our nearest neighboring galaxy, at a distance of 2.5 million ly. The two Magellanic clouds however, are small galaxies being gobbled up by the Milky way. They are still separate galaxies. Likewise Andromeda is absorbing minor galaxies, like Messier 110 which is visible in ED close to the core of Andromeda. Andromeda is the large "disc" and M 110 is the blob above. In a few billion years Andromeda and the Milky way will collide and join into one giant galaxy. That's gonna look very cool seen from Earth!

Don't worry about the mining. You'll find that ML sooner or later. It just takes time getting used to all the buttons and thingies. If you get impatient, look at some of D2EA's videos about core mining at Youtube. They are excellent tutorials.
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Always interesting to read. I've actually seen the Andromeda through a bird-watchers onocular (is that even a word?).

The bluish nebula should be the Pleiades Nebula, this all is seen from the Delphi direction about 1 jump outside the nebula.

I've enjoyed the hunting for a ML so far because I gotta pay attention and I can see where I can improve (this is why I chose deep core). If I get too frustrated I might watch some more again!
 

WeComeInPeace

WeComeInPeace
I was just looking at your picture again, and realized that it probably wasn't the Large Magellanic cloud. In ED it looks like this:

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So you're right. It's the Pleiades, also called Messier 45 or just M45. (That one is also very beautiful throgh a telescope or even binoculars!)

Edit: High res image of the real M45:


Messier was an astronomer back when astronomy was relatively young. Back then kings were terrified by comets. Not because they feared them hitting the Earth, but because they were believed to be bad omens. Therefore it could be a bad decision to start a war with a neighboring country, if a comet was about to appear in the night sky. This was one of the main occupations of astronomers back then. Predicting comets. Messier was looking for them as well, but he was distracted by all the faint fuzzies in the night sky, so he decided to make a catalog of the fuzzies he knew not to be comets. That became the Messier Catalog, which even today is extremely popular among amateur astronomers. Many of the popular objects in the night sky are in the catalog. Andromeda is called M31, and the Crab Nebula is called M1.

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Messier object - Wikipedia

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Messier didn't know what that fuzzies were, so he didn't distinguish between globular clusters, open clusters, different nebulae and galaxies. Nowadays we know the difference, but still use the Messier numbers. In professional astronomy there are other catalogs like NGC and HIP which are much larger than the original ~100 objects Messier found, but his achievement is still amazing.
 
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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Finally finished redoing my binds. It'll be interesting to how I fair in the interdiction game with my new stick; so far, I have quite a few unused buttons. The one thing that is alien to me (arf) is I now twist to roll - my previous joystick didn't have that functionality.

It's interesting how many controls I had that I took for granted and then struggled to find the setting I needed to change. I'm sure ED must hold the record for the sheer amount of mapable bindings! :D
 

A C Ender

A C Ender
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Finally finished redoing my binds. It'll be interesting to how I fair in the interdiction game with my new stick; so far, I have quite a few unused buttons. The one thing that is alien to me (arf) is I now twist to roll - my previous joystick didn't have that functionality.

It's interesting how many controls I had that I took for granted and then struggled to find the setting I needed to change. I'm sure ED must hold the record for the sheer amount of mapable bindings! :D
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Wouldn't it feel more intuitive to twist to yaw? I I use KAM with pitch+yaw on mouse but that feels very wrong for a joystick to me.
 
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