Someone once said "we'll go to the Moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"...judging from the first reports that are coming to the race committee, things appear to be hard indeed
Spectators at Moon Prospect were attending a reenactment of the construction of the first permanent structures on Earth's Moon by autonomous robots in the late 21st century, when they witnessed a small, high speed object coming down from the sky and impacting the ground in the far distance, raising a big cloud of dust and sending sparkling debris all over. At first they thought it was part of some exhibition about the first human probes reaching the Moon at the start of the space age. It turned out be just CMDR Bruski performing a by-the-book lithobraking maneuver. Watch out for that hull, Eagles are cheap for a reason!
A small clarification about that part of the rules: since the boards will show both flight time and SRV time, I opted to have both a screenshot with the landed ship, counting for the hull penalty, and a SRV screenshot in view of the base to use as starting reference for the SRV time. The final time won't be flight+SRV+penalty, but will also include the seconds needed to deploy the rover and point it in the right direction. Since the SRV time is in the board just for added information and won't count for any particular award on its own, there's no need to be too tight with the relative rule.
To sum it up, if you grab the screenshot in the correct way, it will just count for showing more precisely your SRV time in the board. If you miss the first SRV screen, I'll count your landed ship one for SRV start time. The landed ship one is mandatory, if you miss it it will be a DSQ run.
Stay tuned for first boards update, coming soon!
P.S: @Bruski - I like "Finietur in Ignis" very much, it's more in the fiery Bucky spirit than "Lacryimis", I'll do the change if you are ok with it
Spectators at Moon Prospect were attending a reenactment of the construction of the first permanent structures on Earth's Moon by autonomous robots in the late 21st century, when they witnessed a small, high speed object coming down from the sky and impacting the ground in the far distance, raising a big cloud of dust and sending sparkling debris all over. At first they thought it was part of some exhibition about the first human probes reaching the Moon at the start of the space age. It turned out be just CMDR Bruski performing a by-the-book lithobraking maneuver. Watch out for that hull, Eagles are cheap for a reason!
Also I forgot to target Moon Prospect directly after SRV deployment so I don't have that required screenshot with distance and clock while standing still. Let me know if that's a reason for a DSQ (it definetely is with a strict interpretation of the rules) or if I should submit anyway and upload the video of that part of the run.
A small clarification about that part of the rules: since the boards will show both flight time and SRV time, I opted to have both a screenshot with the landed ship, counting for the hull penalty, and a SRV screenshot in view of the base to use as starting reference for the SRV time. The final time won't be flight+SRV+penalty, but will also include the seconds needed to deploy the rover and point it in the right direction. Since the SRV time is in the board just for added information and won't count for any particular award on its own, there's no need to be too tight with the relative rule.
To sum it up, if you grab the screenshot in the correct way, it will just count for showing more precisely your SRV time in the board. If you miss the first SRV screen, I'll count your landed ship one for SRV start time. The landed ship one is mandatory, if you miss it it will be a DSQ run.
Stay tuned for first boards update, coming soon!
P.S: @Bruski - I like "Finietur in Ignis" very much, it's more in the fiery Bucky spirit than "Lacryimis", I'll do the change if you are ok with it
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