Community Event / Creation Buckyball Racing Club presents: Yggdrasil (21 - 29 October 3303)
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Intent to brave the trials of Ratatosk, as soon as my steed is ready for the challenge ahead.
Cmdr Aken B.
Aquila Imperialis, "Anteoccupo Dirùptio"
I'm going to use a very old battlecry/greeting formula from my faraway land: Vola cèlere et in astra non perìre, O septem!
To this day, our scholars and philosophers are still debating on the origins of such an unusual way of saying, but as long as it brings good fortune, I'll not be the one to question the ways of our ancestors.
Cmdr Aken B.
Aquila Imperialis, "Anteoccupo Dirùptio"
I'm going to use a very old battlecry/greeting formula from my faraway land: Vola cèlere et in astra non perìre, O septem!
To this day, our scholars and philosophers are still debating on the origins of such an unusual way of saying, but as long as it brings good fortune, I'll not be the one to question the ways of our ancestors.
An excellent choice!
However after doing some route planning I've realizing how many jumps this will take even with 50+LY capable ships. Maybe one flagon of mead per FSD charge is a bit much... one per race checkpoint then.
Speaking of route planning, do any of you recommend a program or website that can do the travelling salesman thing and determine a route of shortest distance? Would that be considered bad form? I am having a bit of fun playing with the raikogram in excel.
[knocked out] I owe it to the blot.
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It is not bad form to use software to help with route-plotting. I usually write/modify my own custom script when I'm in the mood for it. CMDR Alot had a tool that a bunch of people used, but I'm not sure where to find it anymore.
Intent to race! Beautiful artwork and nice theme, now I'll only have to decide which class to race in and what ship(s) to choose 
For the battle cry I fear I can't come up with anything meaningful, each time I'm trying to think about it my subconscious just starts screaming "COOOKIES!!!" way too vehemently to allow any other thoughts
For the battle cry I fear I can't come up with anything meaningful, each time I'm trying to think about it my subconscious just starts screaming "COOOKIES!!!" way too vehemently to allow any other thoughts
I nearly always use CMDR Alot's EDTS command line tool for route plotting. It has a lot of options and once you have found the correct words to put in the correct places ("python edts -help" is a good place to start) it's very useful for finding out the number of jumps, critical jump ranges and so on. I guess I'm way too impatient for the MKI approach
I was going to post a link to EDTS, which I've never used but I know that a lot (lol) of other BRC cmdrs use, but Cookiehole beat me - nothing new there!
If you're playing with the Raikogram in excel anyway though, you can use the solver plugin to solve travelling salesman problems, which is what I normally do. I tend to chuck everything Buckyball related into excel anyway.
Just Google for "excel solver travelling salesman". The solver plugin is a part of excel, it's not a third party plugin, you just need to activate it.
As most of our races only have four or five stops, and since number of jumps is a smaller number than lightyears, I usually have a go manually first and then check with excel.
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Intent to race! Beautiful artwork and nice theme, now I'll only have to decide which class to race in and what ship(s) to choose
For the battle cry I fear I can't come up with anything meaningful, each time I'm trying to think about it my subconscious just starts screaming "COOOKIES!!!" way too vehemently to allow any other thoughts
I don't think there will be a Norse translation of, "I said Cookiebots, not Boogiebots!"
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For the battle cry I fear I can't come up with anything meaningful, each time I'm trying to think about it my subconscious just starts screaming "COOOKIES!!!" way too vehemently to allow any other thoughts
Hmmm... how about linking your subconscious to Google Translate?
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Eh...
Look a meteor!*
(hides)
* No, it was another eagle.
The funny thing is that Google almost translates that correctly!
Race update!
Njord is still looking smug with his champion at the top of the table. But two other eagles has landed. CMDR Jak, who managed to keep the eagle in (almost) one piece despite malfunctioning heat-sinks and a CMDR Beurre, who came out of nowhere to grab the second place. Who is this Beurre you ask? Well, the race officials hasn't got a clue, but it is a respectable time! Maybe Loki got something to do with this?
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Current location: Shinrarta Dezhra
Cargo: 0 x Buckyball Beermats
Mission: a very special blot
Status: End of day #3 - the mission (to toss the beer mats into the heart of a geyser) has been abandoned as, after approx. 5 hrs of searching, I've still not been unable to locate any geyers on Frey 4 C A. I'm now docked at Jameson Memorial so I can outfit an appropriate racing ship (make and model yet to be determined). No doubt the gods will be disappointed that I have failed them but I hope my final blot will at least lessen their displeasure and allow them to think favourably of me when I put my metal to the test in the coming week.
Vér hyggja við gera þessi hlutr!
Cargo: 0 x Buckyball Beermats
Mission: a very special blot
Status: End of day #3 - the mission (to toss the beer mats into the heart of a geyser) has been abandoned as, after approx. 5 hrs of searching, I've still not been unable to locate any geyers on Frey 4 C A. I'm now docked at Jameson Memorial so I can outfit an appropriate racing ship (make and model yet to be determined). No doubt the gods will be disappointed that I have failed them but I hope my final blot will at least lessen their displeasure and allow them to think favourably of me when I put my metal to the test in the coming week.
Vér hyggja við gera þessi hlutr!
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The word in Valhalla (and Alfheim) is that the Gods are very happy with all the blots. The effort you guys has put into is amazing! The human rights observers are also relieved that no one has bloted slaves so far. Let's keep it that way, shall we?
The update tomorrow will be interesting. New runs in both the Squirrel and the Wyrm has already been received.
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Now that my first run in the Road Racing Rally is finished, I'm in the process of collecting an epic Blot to the gods. I've loved following this race to far, the rules are a saga unto themselves, and the blots have been most magnificent!
Am I right in guessing that the Baldr system is also an acceptable one?
Now I'm not saying that "American Gods" (by Neil Gaiman) is a definitive source, but I just finished reading it, and Odin seems pretty big into human sacrifice. Just sayin...
Am I right in guessing that the Baldr system is also an acceptable one?
Now I'm not saying that "American Gods" (by Neil Gaiman) is a definitive source, but I just finished reading it, and Odin seems pretty big into human sacrifice. Just sayin...
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Yes, Baldr should have been on the list. Feel free to choose him!
As I wrote in an earlier post, I believe that Neil Gaiman has got a very good insight in norse mythology.
The blot has been made. I hope with this to be worthy of the favour of your gods.
[video=youtube_share;a-jVIXxLvVI]https://youtu.be/a-jVIXxLvVI[/video]
I humbly apologise for any improper use I may have made of the incredibly awe-inspiring music by Wardruna. ("Solringen" seemed moderately fitting though)
Also, Edtracker FTW!
[video=youtube_share;a-jVIXxLvVI]https://youtu.be/a-jVIXxLvVI[/video]
I humbly apologise for any improper use I may have made of the incredibly awe-inspiring music by Wardruna. ("Solringen" seemed moderately fitting though
)Also, Edtracker FTW!
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These blots are no joke. FD should make blotting an official game mechanic.
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The blot has been made. I hope with this to be worthy of the favour of your gods.
https://youtu.be/a-jVIXxLvVI
I humbly apologise for any improper use I may have made of the incredibly awe-inspiring music by Wardruna. ("Solringen" seemed moderately fitting though
Also, Edtracker FTW!
That was really quite rousing! Awesome video.
Oh, and yeah ... look at you looking around your cockpit ... good innit! (have you tried fliving with it yet?)
Edit: intent to race The Wyrm in my Asp Explorer "The Wedding Anniversary"
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This looks like a great race. I love the artwork and back story. Plus it will give me a chance to fly my eagle again although I will have to take off all the mods
The bad news is that I am finding it more difficult to get time to fly and haven't even thought of a battle cry yet let alone made my blot. At this rate I will be lucky to get even one run in by the deadline.
I wonder whether these races with more than one course should last for 2 weeks instead of one?
The bad news is that I am finding it more difficult to get time to fly and haven't even thought of a battle cry yet let alone made my blot. At this rate I will be lucky to get even one run in by the deadline.
I wonder whether these races with more than one course should last for 2 weeks instead of one?