Things happening in December.
As well as the beta there's actually now quite a lot of things happening around the community in December that I wanted to give a quick shout-out to.
First we have another
Buckyball Race. This one is the 3rd in the Total Recall series - a time trial race which involves flying to planetary bases, landing, deploying the SRV, driving a prescribed distance away from the base (typically around 5km), and then recalling the ship (hence the name) and flying on to the next base. Typically includes around 5 bases before returning to the start station.
Here's a video I made for Total Recall 1 which gives you the general idea.
The race starts on December 14th and will run until the 21st. Full details available at the following thread:
the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-total-recall-3-14th-dec-22nd-dec-3305
Next we have another SRV race from MAD7 and the Galactic Archive, basically a re-run of the Scully Power's 500 SRV race around Scully-Power's Progress on planet A1 in the Kuntae system.
The race involves driving around an inner loop of one of those circular planetary cities, then heading through the exit tunnel and doing another lap around the outside. This is the race that Frontier based their recent Full Throttle livestream on which was so brilliantly filmed by the Buur Pit.
I also did a demonstration run for the original Scully Power's 500 race which you can see here.
The live in-game race event will take place on 22nd December but any time from now leading up to that you can also do a time trial run and submit it to the leaderboard. Full details on this can be found
here and also on the
Galactic Archive Discord server in the #sp500-pt2-info channel.
Then, for those of you less race inclined we also have two other big events coming up. First there's the annual Christmas Carriers Convoy, basically a space trucking expedition which sets off on the 1st December.
Full details of the expedition (which there's still time to sign up for) can be found on the website:
https://ccced.ga/
And last we have Operation Ida's 2nd Annual Hauliday Haul, a series of events from the people who repair space stations which runs from December 14th to January 5th.
More information (including charity donation links) can be found by clicking the banner above but in the meantime here's a quick summary from Cmdr Zayn Till (who also appeared on
this week's episode of Lave Radio).
"The Hauliday Haul commemorates the attacks by The Thargoids on star ports that began on Dec 14th of 3303 and the start of the 2nd Thargoid/Human war as well as the impetus that led to the formation of Operation Ida.
It's going on 2 years now that our band of volunteer fire-fighters have been tirelessly working to repair all damaged stations. We've repaired around 80 now but there's still as many left and that's not taking into account future attacks that we're all bracing for.
Last year we raised $1100 for a great charity and this year we're doing the same with a new organization, The Cancer Research Institute. We lost one of our own to cancer a few months back so we're dedicating the Haul to him and hoping to raise awareness. Its a great organization.
This year we'll also have several events ongoing across the Haul. Convoys, Races, a One & Done event which is where we repair a Space Station in one day. We'll also be giving out prizes and we have some streamers who will be helping us out as well."
) to the start of the "stuff to do with VR" section plus his really interesting new collection of shader mod's and tweaks ("Amazingly Realistic Immersion Mod") a bit lower down in the same section, plus I've added a link to the new GameGlass Elite: Dangerous app (basically another of those tablet control app's) to the "accessories, add-ons and tools to improve the ED experience" section. I have to say it looks EXTREMELY cool!
