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Arrived at Colonia. Quite a view arriving here. It's full of stars and nebulosity. Already unlocked the first engineer and bought an Eagle for buzzing around. Lots of buzzing around seems to be needed to find the thingies you want out here, where the Universe is extended with wooden planks.

On the final part of the trip I took the SLF out and inspected the Kriat. Thought I saw a suspicious looking shadow in my seat in the cockpit, but that couldn't be, since I was 19,000 ly from the Bub and I was in the fighter. When I got closer, like very close, I bumped the Krait slightly so that the shield lit up. This is what I saw:

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Good thing I've arrived to some sort of primitive civilization. I was just about to get "strange" out here :eek:
I'm not saying you don't know this, and in fact I may be me not knowing as I have never flown a SLF and not sure if they got the same features, but the ships also got full beams you can use to light up the environment, same as the SRV have. I think the ship lights are of by default.
 
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I'm not saying you don't know this, and in fact I may be me not knowing as I have never flown a SLF and not sure if they got the same features, but the ships also got full beams you can use to light up the environment, same as the SRV have. I think the ship lights are of by default.
Normally I use "night vision" when landing in the dark etc. I didn't think about ship lights. If I had, I wouldn't have had the scare of the dark reaper sitting in my chair though. That was pretty dramatic in the blue flash of the shield :)
 
So after travelling more than 20,000 ly out here to the outer colonies, what is the chance of finding your real name chalked onto a space station? This game! :)

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I guess this sort of proves the hypothesis, that if you let a monkey hit random keys on a typewriter ad infinitum, eventually it will type something that makes sense.
 
So after travelling more than 20,000 ly out here to the outer colonies, what is the chance of finding your real name chalked onto a space station? This game! :)

I guess this sort of proves the hypothesis, that if you let a monkey hit random keys on a typewriter ad infinitum, eventually it will type something that makes sense.
Your real name is "No Entry"? Odd parents you had. :p
 
Got to about 1,200 LYs out and got homesick so now I'n back in Shin :D

On the last leg of my outward journey, I encountered an oddity. Is this a bug or something else?

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I scanned the entire system but some bodies still showed up as "unknown" so I suspect a bug.
 
Points 1 and 2 of plan covered, meta-alloys stolen and Corrosion Resistant Cargo Rack obtained, first visit to Dav's Hope in the bag, picking up materials. The ExplOrca is low on power (4A Power Plant) I want to engineer in more power so its off to unlock Marco. I plan to combine 1. passenger missions, with 2. make progress unlocking Palin (>5,000 ly trip), with 3. building up rep with the Sirius Corp. Off to Procyon, a system worth almost 8 M credits if you map it.
 
Got to about 1,200 LYs out and got homesick so now I'n back in Shin :D

On the last leg of my outward journey, I encountered an oddity. Is this a bug or something else?

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I scanned the entire system but some bodies still showed up as "unknown" so I suspect a bug.
Happens when you got connection problems with the relevant FD server. Your scans may not be logged on the server, therefore you won't get credited for them when you try to turn them in.
 
Had an eerie encounter last night.

Just had finished watching The Expanse S2E5
where EROS, stuffed with Protomolecule, zooms off, and we get that strange "sleeping Beauty" scene,
and went on exploring in the outer Scutum-Centaurus arm.

Scanned a system. FSS reported 11 sources. Tagged 10 of them, but couldn't find the 11th. There was a white spot in the ecliptic, and every time I shifted the focus away, it was engulfed in the blue cloud, but whenever I shifted the focus towards it, the cloud disappeared again. Couldn't lock onto it, couldn't zoom in, and no other indication for any other body in the system.

So, stuff the high tech - back to good old footwork. Selected the nearest detectable body and fired up the thrusters. Sure enough, one of the white dots started to move against the background - the good old parallax technique from the time of the basic discovery scanner still worked, but I still couldn't get a lock onto it. Until I finally passed a couple of ls away, got the "system scan complete" message and finally a lock on the body.

Was a real disappointment when the subsequent surface scan didn't reveal anything extraordinary. Just another of these small atmospheric HMCs.
 
Had an eerie encounter last night.

Just had finished watching The Expanse S2E5
where EROS, stuffed with Protomolecule, zooms off, and we get that strange "sleeping Beauty" scene,
and went on exploring in the outer Scutum-Centaurus arm.

Scanned a system. FSS reported 11 sources. Tagged 10 of them, but couldn't find the 11th. There was a white spot in the ecliptic, and every time I shifted the focus away, it was engulfed in the blue cloud, but whenever I shifted the focus towards it, the cloud disappeared again. Couldn't lock onto it, couldn't zoom in, and no other indication for any other body in the system.

So, stuff the high tech - back to good old footwork. Selected the nearest detectable body and fired up the thrusters. Sure enough, one of the white dots started to move against the background - the good old parallax technique from the time of the basic discovery scanner still worked, but I still couldn't get a lock onto it. Until I finally passed a couple of ls away, got the "system scan complete" message and finally a lock on the body.

Was a real disappointment when the subsequent surface scan didn't reveal anything extraordinary. Just another of these small atmospheric HMCs.
I expect you to find Raxxla that way! No pressure, but... ;)

After a few days in Colonia I'm starting to plan a trip beyond Beagle Point. For that I think I'll switch from the Krait to a Conda. I have one built for max jump range back in the Bub, but it's expensive and time consuming to have it emailed out here, so I might just have to see if I can build another one. So far I've built an Eagle for flying around and bounty hunting, a Mamba mostly because you gotta have a Mamba, and a Python for mining. Yesterday I tried finding a good set of rings for some slip mining, but either it's been nerfed (not likely), or the rings I went to weren't suited. Time to find some new ones.
 
I could only find this old post. Seems to be some kind of glitch exploit to find core asteroids outside of rings, or something. I didn't watch it all once I realized it was a glitch thing.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteMiners/comments/bomep5/how_to_slip_mine_broken_mining_method/
I'm not really sure about this one. You are able to drop out in one ring, and fly to another ring around the same planet. That's not that mysterious. It's also pretty straight forward that both rings will contain asteroids that are more gravitationally bound to other nearby rocks than those in another ring. Therefore, since the rings rotate, they would eventually end up being synchronized with "slightly" different rotational speeds. So far so good. It might also be, that on the edge of the ring you approach, there are rocks moving at slower speeds than inside the ring itself. Now, that all those rocks contains cores, is somewhat a mystery to me, but I'm pretty sure that I considered it my luck, paving my path through the reality I was part of in the game, not too different from my RL reaction if I found a place nearby, where lots of gold nuggets were lying on the ground.

Slip mining is not for the faint of heart, which is why I sometimes do it. When you get to the other ring, the rocks move extremely fast, and you're not caught by them gravitationally, meaning that whenever you get hit by one, and you do, you'll die in an instant, sometimes hearing the echo of somthing that sounds like your ship screaming. I don't do it for the money, still having plenty cash if those FCs materialize. I slip mine occasionally because it's dangerous in a fun way, and I typically sell at my home base. It's not more profitable than normal core or laser minig, which might be why nobody seems to do it, and why it hasen't been nerfed. Remember, it's a game.

To me slip mining gives a "philosophical" experience resembling edge of reality in Thirteenth Floor, or The Great Wall of Samaris. I enjoy it almost as much as I love fuel scooping :)

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I decided to test out the changes to the Galaxy Map search function. Supposedly, they "fixed" it so you could search for stuff even if it's not in your cargo hold at the moment. So I tried it. Sure enough, it let me search. However, it also simply put up a red message that said "Only works for systems where you have personally docked" or words to that effect.

Haha! Useless for finding a good recent price unless you just happened to have docked in the right station at some point. With thousands upon thousands of stations this is not going to be the case. What complete garbage the in-game tools are, and continue to be.

It amazes me that such intelligent developers as FDEV somehow at times produce features that are dumb beyond belief. Oh well.

In the end I found an excellent price by using EDDB to find a place with the right states and high demand and a recent high price. Why can't I do that in-game? Because reasons, I guess.

On another topic, I'm considering re-equipping my AX stuff and killing scouts again. I didn't care for it much last time, but...maybe I'll try it again. lol.

o7 and all that stuff.
 
Went to a threat 3 USS and found it chock-full canisters, one of which was painite. I picked it all up like the greedy bar steward I am then remembered it would all be stolen property.

I was in my 'Vette so finding a black market at an outpost wasn't going to help.

I've never tried smuggling goods before and I understand silent running could work. However, I understand the ship gets pretty toasty doing that and I had no heatsinks to compensate.

So what did I do?

Jettisoned the entire lot like the big girls blouse I am :LOL:
 
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