Community Event / Creation Buckyball Racing Club presents: Multi Ship Madness (12th - 14th July)
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A lot of racing activity today!
In Open Unlimited, CMDR Stern Winter took the Asp Cool Runnings and the Hauler Yellow Snow out on the course. Despite both ships being unmodded and the letterbox of Hopkins Port suddenly being in the way he broke the 20 minute barrier.
But CMDR furrycat showed up in two long ranged Lakon Explorers and clearly demonstrated what can be done on this course. Will anyone be able to beat his time?
The One-Design-Class saw a clearly improved time by CMDR <-lightspeed-> and new entries by CMDR Aken B. and CMDR Markzx59. We might see a battle evolving on the last race day as the time differences aren't big and Cookiebot Estimation TechnologyTM suggests some room for improvement. Is everybody on top of the route planner's shenanigans yet?
Fly risky CMDRs!
In Open Unlimited, CMDR Stern Winter took the Asp Cool Runnings and the Hauler Yellow Snow out on the course. Despite both ships being unmodded and the letterbox of Hopkins Port suddenly being in the way he broke the 20 minute barrier.
But CMDR furrycat showed up in two long ranged Lakon Explorers and clearly demonstrated what can be done on this course. Will anyone be able to beat his time?
The One-Design-Class saw a clearly improved time by CMDR <-lightspeed-> and new entries by CMDR Aken B. and CMDR Markzx59. We might see a battle evolving on the last race day as the time differences aren't big and Cookiebot Estimation TechnologyTM suggests some room for improvement. Is everybody on top of the route planner's shenanigans yet?
Fly risky CMDRs!
I'm getting really suspicious about this route planner thing, because I have no clue what he's referring to. Gonna have to keep an eye out for that tonight.
Just got back from a jaunt to the Pleiades Sector, should have enough stupid materials for a few nice upgrades...
Intent to Race
CMDR Bruski
Open Unlimited
Ship 1, Asp Explorer, Sugar Glider
Ship 2, Hauler, Lazarus
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They need to add seating options like in Euro Truck Simulator.
Actually I wish they'd just steal all the view mechanics from it.
I HOPE THEY'RE HAPPY NOW!
*mumbles* Poor Lazarus, you'll be better soon. Those damn mechanics sure do charge an arm and a leg though.
*louder* I mean, thank you very much to our "sponsors"! Without them I wouldn't have an opportunity to crash such a fine ship!
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Regarding the route planner
It is a bit conservative. It often splits jumps that are just below you max jump range full tank into two jumps. This may or may not be applicable in the One-Design class You can manually override it.
You can manually override it.More time to come from me hopefully. My viper was about 1 nano gram short of fuel at one point and I had to loop back to the star. Plus various sub optimal landings and station over shoots. All good fun though
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The trick is to do less time.
Good point lol.
Exception Regulation
Due to ambiguous fine print in the race regulations, multiple racers have hit 'Launch' in ship 2 at the start of lap 2 before returning to the surface. As this doesn't provide major time benefits but negatively affects the total calculated time by around 20s in most cases, there will be an exception:
For racers who provide both
A 3-second penalty will be applied in these cases.
Please note that this exception regulation is intended to compensate for mistakes in existing runs caused by misunderstandings with the original rules and their description.
This will only have a minor effect on the times currently on the leaderboard, as it was already taken into account with the last board update.
For new runs: Please make sure that you return to the surface in ship 2 before hitting 'launch' at the start of lap 2.
I hope this is a suitable compromise, tell me if there are any further questions.
Next board update coming soon.
Due to ambiguous fine print in the race regulations, multiple racers have hit 'Launch' in ship 2 at the start of lap 2 before returning to the surface. As this doesn't provide major time benefits but negatively affects the total calculated time by around 20s in most cases, there will be an exception:
For racers who provide both
- the station dashboard screenshot in ship 2 (official start of lap 2 according to the updated full regulations) and
- a screenshot in the same ship just before taking off with the cockpit clock clearly visible and the 'leave station' message above the radar showing 4:59 or more
A 3-second penalty will be applied in these cases.
Please note that this exception regulation is intended to compensate for mistakes in existing runs caused by misunderstandings with the original rules and their description.
This will only have a minor effect on the times currently on the leaderboard, as it was already taken into account with the last board update.
For new runs: Please make sure that you return to the surface in ship 2 before hitting 'launch' at the start of lap 2.
I hope this is a suitable compromise, tell me if there are any further questions.
Next board update coming soon.
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Not much has happened in the Unlimited Class over night, but I managed to peel that BRC Sticker off the board.
The One-Design Class saw some action though. CMDR Kliggy ran the course pretty fast despite some visibility issues in the Adder. But an improved run by CMDR Aken B. that first looked like a tie turned out to be much faster - what was that pit-stop time rule again? I don't establish confusing regulations in my races. Never Ever.
CMDR Bruski also shaved quite some time off his run in spite of some docking request issues.
In the staging area, CMDR Bruski is preparing another combination of AspX and Hauler. Between the Dangerous Games, presentations and other stuff it's unsure how many attempts will be possible until the closing of the race course. But there's still time, so fly dangerously!
The One-Design Class saw some action though. CMDR Kliggy ran the course pretty fast despite some visibility issues in the Adder. But an improved run by CMDR Aken B. that first looked like a tie turned out to be much faster - what was that pit-stop time rule again? I don't establish confusing regulations in my races. Never Ever.
CMDR Bruski also shaved quite some time off his run in spite of some docking request issues.
In the staging area, CMDR Bruski is preparing another combination of AspX and Hauler. Between the Dangerous Games, presentations and other stuff it's unsure how many attempts will be possible until the closing of the race course. But there's still time, so fly dangerously!
I fear I might not... I might well be finishing off the presentation in the car on the way to Lavecon at this rate! (Good job I'm a passenger...)
(Good job I'm a passenger...)
I fear I might not... I might well be finishing off the presentation in the car on the way to Lavecon at this rate!
This "presentation" intrigues me greatly. Is there a particular day/time I should leave free in my busy weekend schedule?
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Make sure to get everyone excited for racing, just in time for The BuckyBubble.I fear I might not... I might well be finishing off the presentation in the car on the way to Lavecon at this rate!
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I was going to sit this out to focus on getting The BuckyBubble ready, but it's starting to look like there won't be any races running parallel to it for me to race in, so I'll try to squeeze a run in before I take the daughter-bot swimming with her nana today..
CMDR Seneh
Open Unlimited
#1: Black Lightning (Hauler)
#2: Black (Adder)
Yep, me too. Submitting first run. It was really horrible, but fun.
If you check the Lavecon programme, you might be able to guess which one's me.
(In case you can't, Saturday at 6pm. It's the same time as the quiz, which makes it a bit of a hard sell...)