Community Event / Creation The Buckyball Racing Club presents: Lava Loop (16th Nov to 24th Nov 3305)

Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Ozric
Skipsophrenic said:
I need to make sure i focus on my engineers after this :) how you guys are getting such quick times in the hauler thou is insane, gonna get a few runs in later on the dbx and see how bad i do LOL my aim is 28 mins :) Though no matter times i get will admith its been a fun challenge :)
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28 minutes isn't a bad aim at all for the regulation Hauler! My first time was 27 minutes, and I've been doing this for over 5 years :D One of the good thing about Buckyball races is that because they're time trials the main goal is to just beat your own time. Always look to improve. You'll find that your flying skills in general become better, it helps your everyday flying, and then in time you become faster and faster as you learn tips and tricks from others. It took me a couple of years to begin troubling the top half of the leaderboard, though some learn quicker than others ;)

I do very little engineering in the game, so I always run the regulation classes because not only will Ozric refuse to fly Imperial ships, but I just can't handle anything going as fast as these people make their ships go 😂
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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Today's update is a bit earlier as I have other things happening this evening and tomorrow I will do the update probably in the early afternoon or even late morning so that everyone can see what they are aiming for on the final evening. I'll post a preliminary final leaderboard on Monday but there are 24 hours to submit the times from the final day, so it won't be until after that time is up that I can confirm the winning times. Any run started before 23:59:59 in-game time on the final day, Sunday 24th November 3305, will be in time to be considered.

There has been one new entry in each class today and CMDRs improving their time in the same ship. In Regulation Hauler, CMDR Skipsophrenic has submitted a time of 33:23 in the Bucky Brick, making him the second XBox CMDR to submit a time. Welcome and I hope you enjoyed the race! The Regulation Hauler is quite a challenge in its own right, with a D-rated power plant making heat management a useful skill. A number of CMDRs have been cooking their ships but the Bucky Brick returned home with modules above 50%. At the top of the table, CMDR Bob Dubrovnik has persevered and managed a time of 25:20 in the Hypergolic, placing him in 1st as things stand. He believes a sub-25-minute time is possible...

In Unlimited, there has been a new entry from CMDR crotalus in his Viper MkIV Angelensis, with a time of 22:38 in a rare anti-clockwise run. With the leaderboard now having many Imperial Couriers and DBXs, the oft-overlooked Viper MkIV has placed 19th. Several CMDRs have improved their times, in particular CMDR Sulu with a remarkable run in his DBX The Crimson Haybaler that was undertaken in its entirety with 4% health after a collision leaving Conway City but at 20:01 not quite able to gain a place. Also favouring the DBX , CMDR MIKEY99 has built a new one from scratch, the DBX Superlggera, and engineered it with lightweight components, enabling him to improve his time to 28:25, gaining a place in the process. Once more there has been an improvement at the top of the leaderboard, with CMDR Shaye Blackwood breaking the 16-minute mark in his Imperial Courier Fireball, with a time of 15:54 which is almost a minute ahead of second place. As we head into the final day of racing, is this lead unassailable, or is there another surprise waiting in the wings?!

Fly fast!
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Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
You ever have one of those moments where you realize you're doing things the hard way? I kind of overspent when I finally unlocked the Imperial Courier, and Beth didn't have enough to cover a single rebuy, let alone convert her Hauler to regulation. I've been running low-risk missions using the hauler to raise funds, and this evening I realized that the Hauler's rebuy cost shouldn't be that high.

I'd forgotten I still had an A-rated wave scanner installed. :LOL: I really should spend some quality time getting Beth properly outfitted. 😊

First run submitted. Plenty of room for improvement. :)
 

Pigletslastand

Pigletslastand
Dude if only you were on Xbox I could easily stop by and give you some painite..money worries don't need to be a thing in this game! Someone drop this Cmdr a haul 💪
 

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
Pigletslastand said:
Dude if only you were on Xbox I could easily stop by and give you some painite..money worries don't need to be a thing in this game! Someone drop this Cmdr a haul 💪
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Thanks for the kind offer, but the thing is that I prefer having money worries in this game. I’ve been playing since the Alpha, and the income inflation has gotten absurd in IMO. It’s hard to feel like a struggling Commander, where every credit counts, let alone like I’m in a realistic “one big lie” sci-fi universe, when mission payments creep up into the “You could buy your own ship for what you’re offering!” range. It’s one of the reasons why it’s headcanon for me that the Pilots’ Federation has a near monopoly on FSD technology.

I earned 420k from the exploration data during my initial run. I have nearly 2 million credits of (barely used) mining equipment I can liquidate if I’m desperate. Bad habits from my main character (Inga Stevenson) got Beth into this situation... which ironically fits Beth’s character in the first place. She got into the position she is in due to poor financial choices.

But this tangent has gone long enough. I’ve got the time two squeeze in two runs before work, and two after work. I have times I need to improve!
 

Darkfyre99

Darkfyre99
Did you ever have a run so perfect, so sublime, that you know you'll never top it?

Well, my first run this morning wasn't that. :p But it was good enough to shave two and a half minutes from my first attempt. Highlights include getting my landing gear caught in a light fixture, slamming into the side of another docking pad due to over correcting my FAO approach, quite a few good gravity braking attempts and no really bad ones, and one malfunctioning thruster due to heat damage (which I didn't notice because my FSD was still "fine" aka over 80%) that thankfully didn't cause any problems when it happened.

You can watch the chaos below... once its finished uploading in 40 minutes.

Source: https://youtu.be/ZSf-GwfBUsQ

Second run was aborted due to networking issues. :( I knew there was a reason why I don't upload and play at the same time. ;)
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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As the final day of racing is here, there are still new entries and some close and competitive times.

In Regulation Hauler, CMDR Beth Johanson has been struggling to manage her credit balance but thankfully the build costs less than an A-rated scanner. She has achieved a time in the Haulin' Arx of 31:37, a respectable first effort. Another new entrant to this category is CMDR Eleanor "Echo" Cho, whose vessel is named Outstanding Fines, thought whether this is in honour of past or anticipated legal achievements is uncertain. Her time of 29:07 places her in eighth.

In Unlimited, CMDR crotalus has brought another medium ship to the race, with his Lakon Type-6 Transporter Tyger completing the course in 19:33, making it the second-fastest medium ship in the race. Nice flying! There has also been a continuation of the close contest between CMDRs Sulu and Stern Winter. This is now closer than ever, with CMDR Sulu's Imperial Courier Anabasii Celeste now registering a time of 18:10, whilst the most recent entry (still waiting for the video to upload so technically provisional) from CMDR Stern Winter in the Yellow Avalanche is now just 18:12! Both CMDRs have shown persistence and determination to improve their times during the race that is worthy of applause regardless of which of them places higher.

Tomorrow I will post preliminary leaderboards, probably at some point during the afternoon (in-game time) but it won't be until Tuesday that I can finalise them, in case more submissions arrive from the final day of racing. Remember, as long as a run starts at or before 23:59:59 today, Nov 24th 3305, it is in time but after that it will be too late. Have fun and fly fast all!
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Right, last run submitted ... I knew I could get the DBX under 18 minutes! :)

Thanks for the race Edelgard - in many ways the perfect/classic Buckyball Race. Great to see so many new fans taking part too. There was a time earlier in the year when I thought the days of the Buckyball Racing Club were numbered so it's just wonderful to see this resurgence of interest in our race events. Long live the BRC!

Oh, and here's a thought I'll leave you all with ... has anyone else noticed how you never see Cmdrs Shaye Blackwood and Cookiehole together in the same race!

Just sayin' 😜
 

Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Ozric
Long live the BRC indeed!

I tried earlier in the day, but there was an obscured jump, so I abandoned for a while. Came back and did a couple of runs this evening, though 2 of the stations are currently on the opposite side to the star on jumping in, which is frustrating. The first run was a couple of seconds faster, the second run was... abandoned. I had bumped into Alec towards the end of the run, we both said we had another one in us, and unfortunately we both left at the same time! There was a minor coming together inside the mail slot.

This had at least a very good consequence, because when I'd landed and tabbed out to check the video evidence for the insurance company, I discovered that I didn't have OBS running 😮 So it saved me doing a second run and not actually recording either of them.

After another false start the last run finally got underway, and was more of an improvement. Just a shame about the station positioning...

It's been a good fun race though, slightly different, and as Alec said it's really good to see more new faces.
 

Pigletslastand

Pigletslastand
Have hit a bit of a snag guys. Have an improved time but the website that I grab my screenshots from that takes them from my Xbox is not updating my latest screens. It's stuck at 300 screenshots which might mean there's a cap. It's gamerdvr dot com

I have screenshots on my Xbox to prove my latest time and if anyone is on Xbox they can add me and see my latest 7 screengrabs to prove my time but at the moment I can't send a link. I've taken snaps of my screen with my tablet though.

If anyone has a workaround please let me know as I'm dying to post this time and would like to get on and do more!
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Pigletslastand said:
Have hit a bit of a snag guys. Have an improved time but the website that I grab my screenshots from that takes them from my Xbox is not updating my latest screens. It's stuck at 300 screenshots which might mean there's a cap. It's gamerdvr dot com

I have screenshots on my Xbox to prove my latest time and if anyone is on Xbox they can add me and see my latest 7 screengrabs to prove my time but at the moment I can't send a link. I've taken snaps of my screen with my tablet though.

If anyone has a workaround please let me know as I'm dying to post this time and would like to get on and do more!
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Upload the snaps you took with the tablet to imgur maybe? (it's free and easy to create an account if you don't have one).
 
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