That's absolutely excellent!RARRRRRRRRR!
Still the one good thing to come out of tonight, was this.
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That's absolutely excellent!RARRRRRRRRR!
Still the one good thing to come out of tonight, was this.
Still the one good thing to come out of tonight, was this.
Commander Aken B., the commander with the highest Buckyball participation (71 races!), flying his Orca "Italia", submitted a time of 31:38 after applying the Honour Bonus.
Commander Alec Turner, today woke up VERY early in the morning and (after reading the rules) jumped into the cabin of the "Fandango Bananery" to make an impressive run. He made only 22:29, counting the bonus "Honor to the Explorer", placing himself in second place (for now). Then he proceeded to send his submission and prepared a pitcher full of Any Na Coffee; all of this before 6:30 AM (no 4H Guardian FSD Booster was used in the process). This makes two possible scenarios... Alec is an "early morning" guy... or Alec wife doesn't allow him to fly after 6:30AM.
And my day of pride continued because, after I downed my Any Na Coffee I drove to Southampton with the family to see my daughter get presented with her philosophy degree. Go girl! Dad's super of ya!
Does anyone have any objections to me posting my bookmarks for the trip to and from Lagoon Sector as well as my loadout?
I still intend to complete another run and submit a negative time
I have to say I was rather pleased with that run! The second of the morning (yes, I play Elite VERY early), it was about 2 minutes faster than my first attempt, thanks mostly to swapping a planetary Amundsen for an outpost Amundsen ... all I can say is, thank god I didn't fly 4.5kly all the way to a Lagoon Sector Amundsen just to find that I could have done better by staying in the bubble. Boy would I have felt daft if I'd done that! (sorry Bruski, couldn't resist it) And my day of pride continued because, after I downed my Any Na Coffee I drove to Southampton with the family to see my daughter get presented with her philosophy degree. Go girl! Dad's super proud of ya!
P.S. as to the reason I play so early, it started out as the latter and has conditioned me to become the former!
In the Extreme Explorer (Unlimited) Class, Making his first appearance in the a Buckyball race, Cmdr Sulu took his DBX "The Crimson Haybaler" to a hot tour of "scooping while charging" doing a commendable time of 37:46 for a first participation.
Sorry to play again the nit-picker part Inodoro , but to be honest to Sulu, even though he may not be a BRCmaniacregular as me or others, I'm pretty sure he has had quite his share of Buckyball antics already.
Eeesh! That's close ... too close. Haven't had this quandry for a while ... what to do, push on with my regulation run or defend my 2nd place position in Unlimited?Cmdr Samwel Drakhyr finalized the engineering of his "Black Maria" DBX, and took it to a new run. The differences with the T-6 is quite noticeable, the sluggish scooping is clearly offset by the jump capacities of the controversial DBX; making an excellent time of 22:35, positioning him in the third place, only six seconds behind Cmdr Alec Turner. Drakhyr report that this was a "getting used to the DBX" run, and those seconds can be shaved with a more aggressive scooping/charging (but not letting the cargo hatch to get incontinent).
Breackfast today...
Eeesh! That's close ... too close. Haven't had this quandry for a while ... what to do, push on with my regulation run or defend my 2nd place position in Unlimited?
You could try for 1st place in unlimited