Newcomer / Intro New system discovery

[Ashnak]

I have dreamed of doing since the first day this young girl child got plopped in front of the TV to watch Neil Armstrong land on the moon. I barely understood what I was seeing, another world, and we were stepping on it. I knew it was historic, and I knew a dream born at that moment.

I was barely 5 years old at that time, and the first time I was allowed to stay up that late and watch TV (Germany had the landing at something like 9 pm). My parents kept a German magazine with the most important pictures for me to see years later, when I was able to understand what had been happening.
I just don't know if my SF obsession came from this, or from effectively learning to read from my dad's stack of "Perry Rhodan" SF pulp series (those that haven't disintegrated now I still keep).

 

[Brenda Zephyr]

I was barely 5 years old at that time, and the first time I was allowed to stay up that late and watch TV (Germany had the landing at something like 9 pm). My parents kept a German magazine with the most important pictures for me to see years later, when I was able to understand what had been happening.
I just don't know if my SF obsession came from this, or from effectively learning to read from my dad's stack of "Perry Rhodan" SF pulp series (those that haven't disintegrated now I still keep).

Same, except for me it was Asimov's magazine. But pretty sure the moon landing started me down this dark and twisted sci-fi fan path.

 

[aRJay]

Same, except for me it was Asimov's magazine. But pretty sure the moon landing started me down this dark and twisted sci-fi fan path.

I was 13 and already into SF via library books* and Space Patrol and Dr Who on the telly. Magazines were never a big thing for me and fandom was something I had only heard about until the late 1980's.

*Possibly by accident, when little I read the Borrowers books so could well have picked up Andre Norton's books due to the same surname, but then again I used to read all sorts of stuff if it had a nice cover.

 

[Brenda Zephyr]

I was 13 and already into SF via library books* and Space Patrol and Dr Who on the telly. Magazines were never a big thing for me and fandom was something I had only heard about until the late 1980's.

*Possibly by accident, when little I read the Borrowers books so could well have picked up Andre Norton's books due to the same surname, but then again I used to read all sorts of stuff if it had a nice cover.

You can't judge a book by it's cover.

Me: Most of the books I have read, were read because of their covers. LOL

 

[Yingnei Gasua]

It took about 4 tries once it was explained to me how to access it, then it just clicked and is easy now. Time consuming though. So I'm prolly gonna skip surface scanning andjust stick to an FSS on my trip back to civilized space.

Yeah It can be time consuming. So I mainly reserve the FSS for juicy systems and also for 1st Discovery Systems (you got to scan it if you are the first!).

But sometimes, I just FSS anyway. Once I start the scan, it becomes a bit of an OCD issue and ......I...must......get....100%....

p.s. For the surface scanner, you can curve the probe using the planet's gravity well and hit the other side facing away from you. If you got even slight engineering on the probe (e.g. +15% radius), you can easily finish the surface scan (for small planets) just facing one side of the planet by lobbing the probes round the planet.

 

[Lowbee]

Same, except for me it was Asimov's magazine. But pretty sure the moon landing started me down this dark and twisted sci-fi fan path.

I devoured Asimov's magazine, and Analog as well, which started me on a life long love of scifi. Carl Sagan got me really started on astrophysics and SETI and that's lasted to this day as well. Elite lets me visit those places that I had only glimpsed through telescopes. I am glad you are enjoying your journey through the ED galaxy. Fly safe (or dangerous, if you prefer!)

o7

 

[Brenda Zephyr]

I devoured Asimov's magazine, and Analog as well, which started me on a life long love of scifi. Carl Sagan got me really started on astrophysics and SETI and that's lasted to this day as well. Elite lets me visit those places that I had only glimpsed through telescopes. I am glad you are enjoying your journey through the ED galaxy. Fly safe (or dangerous, if you prefer!)

o7

Pretty much the same for me. When I was 15 I built my first telescope. I had to work all summer cutting grass to afford the 10" primary mirror (I bought it already made) and a few other parts. Science made a huge difference for me growing up. It was an escape, and sci-fi an even funner one. Pretty much being able to fly to Capella, etc etc etc is tweaking my geek/nerd syndrome hard. Seeing the prominence's of the stars, the jets from neutron stars, white dwarfs etc. TOTAL geek out.

 

[Chris Simon]

Pretty much the same for me. When I was 15 I built my first telescope. I had to work all summer cutting grass to afford the 10" primary mirror (I bought it already made) and a few other parts. Science made a huge difference for me growing up. It was an escape, and sci-fi an even funner one. Pretty much being able to fly to Capella, etc etc etc is tweaking my geek/nerd syndrome hard. Seeing the prominence's of the stars, the jets from neutron stars, white dwarfs etc. TOTAL geek out.

When I'm really bored in the game, what I like to do is go to Sol, park my ship in orbit around Earth and stargaze. Trying to identify constelations and famous stars, knowing that I can then simply take off and go visit is amazing.

 

[varonica]

Why can't one probe circle the planet and scan the entire thing instead of being limited to a hemisphere? But, whatever, we'll see

Because there's an income value attached to the skill requirement, if you probe in the correct or lower number of probes you get a bonus on your mapping income.

 

[Brenda Zephyr]

Because there's an income value attached to the skill requirement, if you probe in the correct or lower number of probes you get a bonus on your mapping income.

Huh. go figure. Well that's a good thing to remember. Right now I am just honking my way coreward. But on my return, I'm going to take a slightly different route, and scan everything, and maybe map a few worlds for the experience. I've gotten pretty good at the FSS minigame now that I've done it a few times. I tend to do it on systems with greater than 15 bodies. yeah that leaves out a lot of lower body systems, but I can always come back to the area later and map the ones I skipped. Though next time, I think I'll come back in a Baluga, and that will be after I get Odyssey this coming month and can walk around.

Question for everyone about Odyssey, can we walk around inside our ships as well as stations? or?

 

[varonica]

Huh. go figure. Well that's a good thing to remember.

Just keep in mind you can engineer your DSS to give a wider radius scan, for the most part I can use 4 on a 6-7 probe body, so I suggest doing that when you get a chance, it makes it a lot easier.

 

[Brenda Zephyr]

Just keep in mind you can engineer your DSS to give a wider radius scan, for the most part I can use 4 on a 6-7 probe body, so I suggest doing that when you get a chance, it makes it a lot easier.

engineering is something I will have to study up on. Tried out the srv tutorial today and almost threw my monitor across the room again. They tell you to do things, but the keybinds to do what they tell you to do, don't exist for you. Click R mouse to target, R mouse click doesn't do anything at all. So gonna have to go into settings and keybinds and try to figure out that cluster F*** of a nightmare they created, and try to map keys to the buggy w/o unmapping them from anything else. Which has happened twice to me now. The controls for this game, and the key mapping, are pathetic and so beyond over complicated it's ridiculous.

 

[Ashnak]

Question for everyone about Odyssey, can we walk around inside our ships as well as stations?

That was (and still is) one of the major disappointments in Odyssey: no ship interiors.
The other one is VR - it simply doesn't exist.

 

[aRJay]

engineering is something I will have to study up on. Tried out the srv tutorial today and almost threw my monitor across the room again. They tell you to do things, but the keybinds to do what they tell you to do, don't exist for you. Click R mouse to target, R mouse click doesn't do anything at all. So gonna have to go into settings and keybinds and try to figure out that cluster F*** of a nightmare they created, and try to map keys to the buggy w/o unmapping them from anything else. Which has happened twice to me now. The controls for this game, and the key mapping, are pathetic and so beyond over complicated it's ridiculous.

For me the hints in the tutorial are always for the control key/button that is set in my bindings for example that one would say press (circled)B, one of the buttons on my joystick.

When I mapped the SRV controls I found remarkably few if any clashes with the bindings for the ship but there were some controls that were annoyingly unbound.

The bindings at first glance in Odyssey look more complex as they have been split into 4 however my binds had transferred OK and having separate sections for general, ship, SRV and feet makes sense.

It is in my experience well worth going through all my control bindings from time to time to remind myself what some little used controls are and to refine others based on experience.