Community Event / Creation Buckyball Racing Club presents: The Bucky Files:- The Case of the Missing Comet (23-25 May)

Ozric · May 23, 2016

Terrorsidic said:
Can I be lazy and just link to my video?

Sure if you state your intent to race

and your video includes a shot of your modules (and credits if doing the SSS).

robinjb · May 23, 2016

Cool, did you post to galnet submissions ?.. they said they were looking for community events like buckyballs for the news feed.
Intent to race:- CMDR Kligg, Cobra Mk3 Bingo wings , unlimited.

Ozric · May 23, 2016

robinjb said:
Cool, did you post to galnet submissions ?.. they said they were looking for community events like buckyballs for the news feed.
Intent to race:- CMDR Kligg, Cobra Mk3 Bingo wings , unlimited.

No, I completely forgot to do that, I'll do it when I get home. Great to have you along

robinjb · May 23, 2016

Its a great course.. looks like it was specifically designed for a buckyball landing race

I'm seeing 6 stations.. though what they are orbiting ive not yet had a look because if you don't select something near you can speed off pretty easily.
I did a run and missed the middle screen shot but it was good to get a practice run in.

Ozric · May 23, 2016

robinjb said:
though what they are orbiting ive not yet had a look

That's what you're all here for

And here at race control... We're just sitting back relaxing waiting for all hell to break loose...

Rankaze · May 23, 2016

Ah, what the heck. Looks like fun and will help me shake off the rust in time for BBRX. I'm in.

CMDR Name: Timothy Knight
Ship Name: Cortana
Ship Class: Imperial Eagle
Division: Unlimited

Raiko · May 23, 2016

Oops I forgot this week's race was starting early! I've been playing ED this afternoon doing non-racing when I could have been racing.

Intent to race :

CMDR Raiko
Imperial Courier
Spirit of Icarus
Open.

drakhyr · May 23, 2016

Of course the most important question is: in which bar are you residing between attempts?

You'll currently find me at Webb Station.

Cmdr Samwell Drakhyr
al-Rassan
Viper mkIII
Open

Edelgard von Rhein · May 23, 2016

Just submitted an entry with my Imperial Eagle. There were some minor delays and mishaps caused by a lack of caffeine and a bad memory and I had a blue screen of death whilst compiling the images afterwards... so now I need to log back in before that fine for hitting another ship boosting out the airlock turns to a bounty... . It's a hectic race but fun! That said, I want to do some exploring before 2.1 drops, so I'm going to head out into the black for a bit. Have fun everyone!

Ozric · May 23, 2016

Well you are top of the leaderboard at the moment and no-one can ever take that away from you

Thanks for at least giving it a go, fly safe out there.

drakhyr · May 23, 2016

My first attempt led to a lot of examples of How Not To Dock. My second attempt was going a bit better, until this happened...

[video=youtube;GEjdSC5HdbM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEjdSC5HdbM[/video]

superflyguy · May 23, 2016

Well, that's no fun at all!

i think i've got a blister from boosting so much! Boost!

Rankaze · May 23, 2016

That's really bizarre. Wow.

The missing stations, I mean.

racer1 · May 23, 2016

Seeing as I'm in drakhyr's video I'd better declare my intent to race.

CMDR Markzx59
Cobra mkIII - Fifty Nine
Open

Alec Turner · May 23, 2016

drakhyr said:
My second attempt was going a bit better, until this happened...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEjdSC5HdbM

See! I'm not crazy ... there's something weird 'bout this system I tell you, 'taint natural!

Ozric · May 23, 2016

drakhyr said:
My first attempt led to a lot of examples of How Not To Dock. My second attempt was going a bit better, until this happened...

Alec Turner said:
See! I'm not crazy ... there's something weird 'bout this system I tell you, 'taint natural!

Yep there's definitely strange things going on in Pareco alright...

Well I've had 2 official entries so far and so at almost the close of play on day one I can give a provisional leaderboard. I'm not sure how close the times will be so for the moment I've decided to just show the minutes, just to keep you guessing

racer1 · May 23, 2016

Just completed my first couple of attempts. My time seems similar to drakhyr's. Plenty left to shave off though.

Finished with 3% hull lol.

Will probably not get screenies over to you until morning.

Bonkers system. You could do a live race there, with a specific station order.

Terrorsidic · May 24, 2016

racer1 said:
Bonkers system. You could do a live race there, with a specific station order.

We'll for my entry, I flew between Crown and Garden in normal space.
Trip was about 6:30 @ between 430-464m/s

If Engineers can double my speed, a race between the 2 would in theory take 3:15

At 6:30, it would be a bit boring (but maybe not if it was a group race?)

Also, I made this map for my video, maybe of interest here,

Rankaze · May 24, 2016

My first run is completed and submitted. Sloppy as all get out, so I am about to make another try.

My speed docking is very rusty, that much is clear. On the other hand, I managed to not explode? I guess that counts for something.

EDIT: Second run also done. A little better than the first, but not what I'd call good.

I've been away too long - forgotten all the bay numbers and where they're located. I used to have a chart of them somewhere, maybe I can find it again.

EDIT 2: Found one. Not the same one I had before, but it will do.

EDIT 3: Anyone remember that weird crash in BBR7 where I barely scraped the top of the slot and it decided that was enough to blow me up? Happened again on my third run.

Fourth run, dropping out of SC on stop 10, lost connection to server.

That's a sign, I'm calling it a night.

Alec Turner · May 24, 2016

New entry just submitted, this time featuring all six stations.

I think I'm ready for the SSS.

P.S. Hi to Kligg who was also out on the course this morning, sorry for not being very commmunicative - bit rushed today.