I thought I would share my experiences today regarding station alignment:
I consider corrrect station alignment to be a badge of honour within ED. I have wanted to be able to do it for over a year but stuck with SCA and DC to get into stations. Last night I went between two systems 30 times in the pursuit of station alignment - as soon as I dropped out of SC I targeted the other system and so could practice alignment quite quickly.
Having gone to bed delighted that I can now get the slot facing the right way (if not perfectly central yet) thanks to Para and others and some old videos I fell into a deep sleep. I awoke at 0530 excited at the prospect of getting it right today especially with regard to perfect circular orbit lines around the planet and station which make station alignment easier. I decided it was a bit too early to get up so I went back to sleep even though I was keen to get started. I awoke an hour later with the same thoughts and managed to go back to sleep. At 0730 I awoke and knew I wasnt going to get back to sleep because I just wanted to test my perfect circular orbit lines strategy so I got up earlier than normal (0830 usually) and fed my cats and did a 1 hour brisk walk which I do every day all the time feeling the excitement of working out the perfect circles and station alignment generally.
I got back made coffee and studied my notes and watched the videos again.
Then I launched ED and ..............................servers offline!!! I had forgotten about this temporarily and so no station alignment practice for me today!
I consider corrrect station alignment to be a badge of honour within ED. I have wanted to be able to do it for over a year but stuck with SCA and DC to get into stations. Last night I went between two systems 30 times in the pursuit of station alignment - as soon as I dropped out of SC I targeted the other system and so could practice alignment quite quickly.
Having gone to bed delighted that I can now get the slot facing the right way (if not perfectly central yet) thanks to Para and others and some old videos I fell into a deep sleep. I awoke at 0530 excited at the prospect of getting it right today especially with regard to perfect circular orbit lines around the planet and station which make station alignment easier. I decided it was a bit too early to get up so I went back to sleep even though I was keen to get started. I awoke an hour later with the same thoughts and managed to go back to sleep. At 0730 I awoke and knew I wasnt going to get back to sleep because I just wanted to test my perfect circular orbit lines strategy so I got up earlier than normal (0830 usually) and fed my cats and did a 1 hour brisk walk which I do every day all the time feeling the excitement of working out the perfect circles and station alignment generally.
I got back made coffee and studied my notes and watched the videos again.
Then I launched ED and ..............................servers offline!!! I had forgotten about this temporarily and so no station alignment practice for me today!
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