Newcomer / Intro What are you up to?

[Speedcuffs]

Wow. Just checked out that system in Witch Head.
Trouble brewing!
Time to service the AX and rescue ships.
(klaxons, flashing lights, much inefficient running around...)

 

[MaxG10]

Guess most of you folks play on PC, some probably also considered high-End systems.

Now.... Have a a good look and if you like a guess what that is!

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Looks like a negative shot of the old Windows "Pipes" screensaver.

 

[SpaceGoblin]

Guess most of you folks play on PC, some probably also considered high-End systems.

Now.... Have a a good look and if you like a guess what that is!

My PC is barely minimum spec for Red Dead II, and my GFX card is actually one below the min for that (still runs it, but its a little potato-ey!) so maybe not! perfectly capable of cranking out ED on Ultra though

Looks like your screensaver has had way more caffeine than is good for it

Edit: Ninja'd by @Tyres O'Flaherty by half a minute!

 

[MaxG10]

Looks like a negative shot of the old Windows "Pipes" screensaver.

Geeze, yeah from the dark clouded memory of MS times, I remember that one. I think I had an 80486 CPU at this time, but I could be wrong.

It is also not an M.C. Escher I can say.

 

[MaxG10]

Well, I give you a hint, it is not science fiction, it is real.

P.S. Not a hint, but my second Corvette will be named after it.

 

[SpaceGoblin]

Pipework from a Saturn V engine?

 

[MaxG10]

Nope.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

PC where the builder has gone completely ape with the water cooling loops

 

[MaxG10]

Ok... Original picture is courtesy of Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, no copyright infringement intended.

My 2nd. Corvette will be named STELLARATOR.

What you see there is the water cooling cad model of the Fusion reactor W7x, "Wendelstein 7-x".

https://www.ipp.mpg.de/w7x

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

No wonder huge PAs are expensive. And probably too fragile to turret mount.

 

[Speedcuffs]

Hm.
Do clean out your keyboard with a paintbrush.

But not in supercruise.

Also, get off my pad Beluga person!

 

[Codger]

My alt commander has mining fever.

He bought a T7, used it for mining. But it was too slow. So he traded it in for a T9. Now he's buzzing around asteroids like a tortoise. Seriously, the T9 flies like a tortoise.

The T7 is so industrial looking. I love the canopy. It's even kind of fun to fly. Too bad about those hardpoints, though.

The T9 is slow as can be. Amazingly slow. Even with A class thrusters. I have no engineers unlocked yet on the alt account, so stock is all I can get! The T9 does have its good points, though. It will serve well.

 

[Speedcuffs]

My alt commander has mining fever.

He bought a T7, used it for mining. But it was too slow. So he traded it in for a T9. Now he's buzzing around asteroids like a tortoise. Seriously, the T9 flies like a tortoise.

The T7 is so industrial looking. I love the canopy. It's even kind of fun to fly. Too bad about those hardpoints, though.
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The T9 is slow as can be. Amazingly slow. Even with A class thrusters. I have no engineers unlocked yet on the alt account, so stock is all I can get! The T9 does have its good points, though. It will serve well.
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Fill it with 1.4 billion worth of VOs.
It's certainly entertaining trying to get to the selling station! ✌

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

The T9... ah yes.

A scary beast. She was great doing hauling missions to and from HIP8444 during my empire rank grind. But um... those interdictions.

Hm.
Do clean out your keyboard with a paintbrush.

But not in supercruise.

Also, get off my pad Beluga person!

What happened while you spring cleaned during SC?

As for Beluga's, they used to be nasty to me but I think their ADCs got a firmware flash to stop ramming other CMDRs in the mailslot.

 

[Speedcuffs]

The T9... ah yes.

A scary beast. She was great doing hauling missions to and from HIP8444 during my empire rank grind. But um... those interdictions.


What happened while you spring cleaned during SC?

As for Beluga's, they used to be nasty to me but I think their ADCs got a firmware flash to stop ramming other CMDRs in the mailslot.

There was a lot of chat in Ray Gateway today, many complaints about pad hogging Belugas. And lo! The DC drops me on one.

I redid a lot of my bindings for the joypad, no idea what 1/2 the keys do now.
Brushing the keyboard turned orbit lines off, crashed into exclusion zone, lamps flashing on and off, cargo scoop and landing gear flapping about, heatsinks firing off (fortunately) divers alarums!

 

[A C Ender]

I'm going to try going lawless, and for that I'm going to need a challenge. I have no experience with Power Play. Something along the lines of this:

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Coriolis EDCD Edition

A ship builder, outfitting and comparison tool for Elite Dangerous

coriolis.io

If I go totally crazy, and that would be quite normal, the beam will be switched to a huge plasma. I already engineered it, but it'll take a lot of practice. I like to get up close and personal when fighting, so it should be possible. Might as well get used to it. The pacifier frags are next, after those cytos.

The Pacifiers are a nice combo for Cyto, having the same jitter make them easy to use in conjunction. I like using them on a chieftain. For lawless purposes, it can be fun to see how many you get from a convoy before they jump away...

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Refitted my iCourier with the EPTs I'd put on my Viper IV. Going to take her to a high RES and see what happens.

Meet Chiana:

Ooops! I meant Chiana:

 

[Codger]

Meet Chiana

Hey, I remember her. Mostly because they painted in her cleavage. But I digress. Was a good show, and your iCourier does bear a resemblance!

 

[Speedcuffs]

Hey, I remember her. Mostly because they painted in her cleavage. But I digress. Was a good show, and your iCourier does bear a resemblance!

They what? Madness.
I shall have to study those pictures closely. ✌