A group planetary circumnavigation expedition (scouting phase)

[AkenBosch]

Hey Alec, want to hear a fun one? There was something I found vaguely familiar about that Bridger Town that I couldn't quite put a finger on these last days. This morning I remembered; turns out I already had Kumay, and Bridger Town especially, in my list of bookmarks. The Aquarian Job! How could I forget that place! (that was a candidate among some other similarly named "Bridger" places, that one won because distance and scenic landscape, no surprise)

Regarding glitches with fumaroles, I can confirm I've had the same problem, the last days where I scouted a bunch of planets around the Pleiades, each and every geological POI I met showed plumes some hundreds meters above ground level when first viewed from several km away, only to be rendered correctly while approaching them. Can't say if it's a thing of the latest patch, since I can regularly discover POIs only since the latest patch.

 

[Alec Turner]

Hey Alec, want to hear a fun one? There was something I found vaguely familiar about that Bridger Town that I couldn't quite put a finger on these last days. This morning I remembered; turns out I already had Kumay, and Bridger Town especially, in my list of bookmarks. The Aquarian Job! How could I forget that place! (that was a candidate among some other similarly named "Bridger" places, that one won because distance and scenic landscape, no surprise)

Regarding glitches with fumaroles, I can confirm I've had the same problem, the last days where I scouted a bunch of planets around the Pleiades, each and every geological POI I met showed plumes some hundreds meters above ground level when first viewed from several km away, only to be rendered correctly while approaching them. Can't say if it's a thing of the latest patch, since I can regularly discover POIs only since the latest patch.

Indeed ... I actually recognised it almost immediately. "Bridger" Town was a dead giveaway, that and the fact that I'd apparently visited this system some 30+ times before.

I guess SushiCW should be vaguely familiar with it too (although, having said that, despite spending an entire week participating in the race, I think he may have only passed through Bridger once). [haha]

"The-Aquarian-Job"-goes-badly-wrong-How-I-lost-a-ship-mid-race-but-am-still-in-the-running

 

[SushiCW]

I thought it sounded familiar. Alec's right, though, I only ever made one pass at that particular race. Definitely got my money's worth!

 

[Alec Turner]

Note: thread closure imminent at my request, our work here is done.

 

[dayrth]

Closed on behalf of Alec Turner.

The planet Kumay in the Chi Herculis system has been selected for the expedition and we have now moved into a route planning phase which can be found over here:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/478765-The-first-great-planetary-expedition-Chi-Herculis-Kumay-(route-planning-phase)


Thanks for all of your suggestions, in the end it was extremely difficult to choose just one planet.


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