Yes, for sure. This is me returning to the Bubble after a trip to Beagle Point and Salome's Reach via Colonia. The Colonia to Salome's Reach and back trip earned me over 500 million in exploration data sales which were mostly first discoveries - including loads of water worlds and three ELWs. I am now thinking about where I can take a fleet carrier to have a mobile base that is within about 6000ly of the bubble. Somewhere past the Veil Nebula could be a good option. Maybe I'll explore more thoroughly around the area of my first ELW discovery as it would mean something to me. Its not that an interesting area of space, though.
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Good morning from Heaven's Lathe, a mere 2434ly away from Sol.
Earlier in this thread I posted pictures of several ringed neutron stars that minded me to pay HD 175876 (Heaven's Lathe) a revisit. When I left the bubble to visit Sag A* for the first time last year in this Phantom, Heaven's Lathe was among the first sights I visited on the way. I've never seen its equal in the 450Kly+ I've travelled in the game since. Bathed in the light of a blue-white O class star 118 times the mass of our own sun, this celestial disk is clearly seen 4000ls or more away. There is a tourist beacon here.
Earlier in this thread I posted pictures of several ringed neutron stars that minded me to pay HD 175876 (Heaven's Lathe) a revisit. When I left the bubble to visit Sag A* for the first time last year in this Phantom, Heaven's Lathe was among the first sights I visited on the way. I've never seen its equal in the 450Kly+ I've travelled in the game since. Bathed in the light of a blue-white O class star 118 times the mass of our own sun, this celestial disk is clearly seen 4000ls or more away. There is a tourist beacon here.
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My new bridge is up-and-running - needs a few tweaks mind you:
My new bridge is up-and-running - needs a few tweaks mind you:
LOL!Now try this: Stand in front of your ship and do the wave emote.
I just tried it! That's brilliant!
When will I ever learn to check gravity before each landing. Lost 25% of my 662MJ shields gliding to land while doing something else in real life - thus demonstrating again why I trade off about 1.5ly of jump range to have these shields. Cannot get out of the SRV due to 3.91G which doesn't seem to be troubling this magical bio signal. It must posses strong anti-gravity properties.
It's not infallible, but the ship auto-land can come in handy on high-grav planets.When will I ever learn to check gravity before each landing. Lost 25% of my 662MJ shields gliding to land while doing something else in real life - thus demonstrating again why I trade off about 1.5ly of jump range to have these shields. Cannot get out of the SRV due to 3.91G which doesn't seem to be troubling this magical bio signal. It must posses strong anti-gravity properties.
The Phantom being my one long range exploration ship has no docking computer of any kind. I don't have a slot available for it. All my other ships have advanced docking computers because I'm too lazy to even take off myself these days and I can always find a slot for it. I do use auto land a bit on my DBX and Cobra (in Colonia) used for Odyssey ground missions - sometime I have to take back control.
Today's crash landing was simply not stopping quick enough coming out of the glide and hitting the ground. Approach too steep for 3.91G
So, do you game on one monitor and forum on the other? I half expected to see a toilet in front of your gaming center...........
So, do you game on one monitor and forum on the other? I half expected to see a toilet in front of your gaming center...........
There is probably a "Stadium Pal" out of shot.
That's the plan going forward - the keft-hand monitor will house the forums (natch), EDDiscovery, Inara, Elite Observatory etc. while the main monitor will be the game screen. Stuff needs reposition a little and I do need a longer DP cable.So, do you game on one monitor and forum on the other? I half expected to see a toilet in front of your gaming center...........
Also, that box under the desk is an AV receiver that was once used for surround sound for the TV. My hope is to get some sort of use out of it, evern if it is just 2.1 - I game under cans for the most part but it would be nice to switch it up a bit. I already have the speakers - a nice Q-Acoustics 2000i package from a few years ago - and the sub on that is almost epic.
Stadium pal, eh? Never heard of those, they catch you on the jumbotron all red faced with veins bulging.There is probably a "Stadium Pal" out of shot.
If you actually go 5.1 (or 7.1) then your audio experience of Elite will astound you. Sitting in front of the slot when launching for example you can hear the ships behind you then transition past your side - the soundscape is superb in Elite to my mind the only improvement would be if they did Dolby Atmos.
I really miss the soundscape if I play in cans - volume doesn't compensate and DTS Headphone:X is a feeble substitute.
I think it's a 500 dollar fine for making a Krait look like a potpourri dispenser.A trip to the North America and Pelican Nebulae and the Elephant's Trunk Nebula
CMDR rupee noon, May 3308
My new Phantom is able to gobbles Nebulae as a form of photoshoots
I believe this was Elephant's Trunk but lost a batch of pictures. I am not 100% sure
But this was definitely Elephan's Trunk! An unantipated and most welcome landing to take repair. Well worth evading an interdiction at the nav beacon!
Afterwards, on to Veil West. Then Veil East that I mentioned earlier, which concluded the final stop on the Millenium Dolphin Tour co owner's personal local sightseeing tour.
If it's not, it should be.
Don't worry, it's an exploration ship. The paint will soon wear off
It is only a fine if the skin was purchased, if it was a twitch drop then the fine was prepaid by what had to be done to get the drop.
I use the 'clap' to turn the lights off on my SRV any time I have to log off during an on-foot explore. When I log back in the SRV always turns its lights back on, and there's no option to prevent it. I don't like having the lights on because it messes with the general planetary lighting, even on the day side, so I keep them off. But they come back on by themselves and it annoys the heck out of me. Used to have to get back in the SRV just to turn them off, but now I don't!Now try this: Stand in front of your ship and do the wave emote.
I'm only aware of the 2 functions tied to clap and wave. There may be more I don't know about.
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My new bridge is up-and-running - needs a few tweaks mind you:
...Like adding a beer fridge
Or maybe go all Slippery Jim diGriz and set up an intravenous alcohol drip to avoid spills....Like adding a beer fridge
... Nearly finished re-installing after my OS SSD cr@pped-out .... but for some reason Elite seems to take me a long time to re-install everything:
I ran into an interesting glitch in the Galmap the other day.
I'm currently out in the boonies with mostly undiscovered systems around me, but I noticed that the Galmap was offering to sell me the exploration data for a nearby system or two. Hmm. I figured that they must be discovered systems, then, so I bopped over to one to see (without buying the data).
It was an undiscovered system. How strange. I went back to my carrier but the Galmap no longer offered to sell me the data. I wondered what would have happened if I had bought the data.
Today, again, I noticed that I could buy the exploration data for a different nearby system, and this time I bought the data. The sale succeeded, and I was then able to view the system map. But in this case, the system actually was fully discovered by someone else.
It's a bit of a head scratcher. I guess it kinda makes sense if the system is already discovered, but the first one was not. I still don't know what would have happened there if I bought the data.
Anyway, today as I was scanning a new system, Elite Observatory popped up a message about a small icy moon, saying "Close Ring Proximity." I decided to go check it out, and sure enough the moon was very close to the rings of the gas giant it was orbiting.
Of course I had to see what it looked like from the surface. The moon had many geysers on it, which only added to the amazing view!
There were a couple of planets in the system that had biologicals on them, nothing special, but I went over and scanned the stuff. The Fonticula were particularly easy to find on this planet It had a methane atmosphere and everything was tinted a sickly yellow. I was grateful for my internal air supply
I'm currently out in the boonies with mostly undiscovered systems around me, but I noticed that the Galmap was offering to sell me the exploration data for a nearby system or two. Hmm. I figured that they must be discovered systems, then, so I bopped over to one to see (without buying the data).
It was an undiscovered system. How strange. I went back to my carrier but the Galmap no longer offered to sell me the data. I wondered what would have happened if I had bought the data.
Today, again, I noticed that I could buy the exploration data for a different nearby system, and this time I bought the data. The sale succeeded, and I was then able to view the system map. But in this case, the system actually was fully discovered by someone else.
It's a bit of a head scratcher. I guess it kinda makes sense if the system is already discovered, but the first one was not. I still don't know what would have happened there if I bought the data.
Anyway, today as I was scanning a new system, Elite Observatory popped up a message about a small icy moon, saying "Close Ring Proximity." I decided to go check it out, and sure enough the moon was very close to the rings of the gas giant it was orbiting.
Of course I had to see what it looked like from the surface. The moon had many geysers on it, which only added to the amazing view!
There were a couple of planets in the system that had biologicals on them, nothing special, but I went over and scanned the stuff. The Fonticula were particularly easy to find on this planet
It had a methane atmosphere and everything was tinted a sickly yellow. I was grateful for my internal air supply