Without wishing to derail this thread I'll drop some occasional progress updates here for anyone interested.
Community Event / Creation The Buckyball Racing Club Presents: The Aquarian Job (Magic 8-Ball Championship, Race 2)
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Apparently I got disqualified for my second run...
Right : Have this instead!!
Right : Have this instead!!
Cooper now 287km behind, 2.6Mm to go according to SRV Tracker
I wasn't able to hit my SRV goal tonight (why you gotta be 2km away autopilot!?), majorly stuffed landing at Bridger Town (twice), still had to deal with disconnects, still missed 100% hull, and yet was able to shave a few seconds off.
I chose poorly for an unlimited ship. My explo Krait was able to beat previous time while outfitted for fuel rat duty, but I won't have time to get engineering done on another ship. Guess I'll need to double down on SRV times. I didn't notice that column at first and looking at the times it seems I at least have a reasonably efficient route. It looked like the easiest way to go and seems to somewhat make up for my mediocre driving skills
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I chose poorly for an unlimited ship. My explo Krait was able to beat previous time while outfitted for fuel rat duty, but I won't have time to get engineering done on another ship. Guess I'll need to double down on SRV times. I didn't notice that column at first and looking at the times it seems I at least have a reasonably efficient route. It looked like the easiest way to go and seems to somewhat make up for my mediocre driving skills
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Cooper now 695km behind, 2.2Mm to go.
I really need to pick up the pace somehow ... hit some big craters today.
Oh, and the heading in that telemetry is wrong by the way ... I'm heading more like 65° at the moment.
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I'll take a 69 second bonus, thank you
Managed to shave a whole 10 seconds off my time tonight, I was really hoping to break 40 minutes though. If I can't do it tomorrow I'll try a different ship for a bit and attack the bottom of the unlimited board.
How the hell do you do 77? I can't get much past 30!
Well, I thought I was doing that, but I'm still crashing and spinning out too often. It looks like I need to tip forward more as well.
Ok, thanks for that; I'm off to practice more
Ok, thanks for that; I'm off to practice more
Had some RL stuff going on over the last week or so, but managed to jump in the cockpit today for a couple of hours and try for a decent time in Regulation. Managed two representative and reasonably competitive runs (nowhere near the Hamilton/Verstappen levels of certain CMDRs though ) which I'll possibly submit later this week, but I know I can go quicker. Trying again before logging off in a huff, two times in succession my ship decided to faceplant into a nearby hill and kill itself. Has anyone else experienced this? The only thing I can think of that I've altered is recalling it slightly earlier whilst I hoon it towards 4km from Cooper Arena.
) which I'll possibly submit later this week, but I know I can go quicker. Trying again before logging off in a huff, two times in succession my ship decided to faceplant into a nearby hill and kill itself. Has anyone else experienced this? The only thing I can think of that I've altered is recalling it slightly earlier whilst I hoon it towards 4km from Cooper Arena.'mild amusement'... yeah. I was more
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That's impressive. I went through about 3 Imp Eagles in the last race, and possible one or two Cobras. So far after about 12 or 13 attempted runs today, I've destroyed 1 SRV, and my useless ship computer has rapidly disassembled 2 Cobras. No jail time in either round....yet. There's still plenty of time though
Another 500km knocked off with Sgurr keeping me company. Cooper now 1.12Mm behind, 1.7Mm to go.