Oohhhh, that sounds very shiny indeed! Maybe someone can continue the tradition of beating my time just as I finish the video about it...
Kligg? Kligg?
Are you listening?
Community Event / Creation Buckyball Run A*: What do you do when a mountain is there? Move it.
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Kligg? Kligg?
Are you listening?
Not too fast!!
I need a Big Board shot first, otherwise it'll be time for some serious reworking Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot to say - Raiko, you and Metta have cameos in this one
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I don't understand any of it either, but apparently this one does: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=106861
A small quote of chapter 1: "First things first: the FSD is *not* an Alcubierre Drive."
Again, I am just a racer... I have no understanding of these things, but it is interesting reading about it
I started to read it. Seems the FSD is something like a penguin or runs on penguins or something...
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Thank you - and I think the drinks will be one me, seeing as I've sold off all my data once more: 15.5 MCr earned. Given that I paid about 5 MCr for the ship and the subsequent repairs, I'd say that's a niftly little profit of a little over 10 MCr. By the rate this is going, I'll have reached Elite in exploration just from Buckyballing it to Sadge and back in 4 to 7 runs!
Unfortunately, I've already reached Allied with all the known Independent factions that offer permits, so I've sold them off for Federal Rep this time around; hoping to get my rank up with them. Always make the most of your exploration data, Commanders!
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We made quite a nice progress with Chance (1/4 or so, idk), it's nothing record-breaking but It's about reaching A*, right? Looking forward to take the selfie with Chance and A*, hah! Now it's time for a space nap.
Also I happened to catch this nice moment.
I fell asleep haha. Either way, I'm going to be running for a few hours now so hopefully I'll catch up to you atleast.
Findings regarding PowerPlay and Its Effects on Buckyball Runs (current and future)
In a nutshell... almost no effect. "Civilizsed space will be hostile to the majority of players" (only to those who have pledged to a power), while technically true, is underwhelming. It was no more dangerous than taking a stroll in an anarchy system.
In order not to present a "wall of text" for people who are not interested, the rest of this post is placed inside spoiler tags.
As you can see, it's almost no difference whether you pledged in PP or not. It may make a difference if you're a trader or a bounty hunter where you may probably need to pay attention to who controls what, but for people like me who are mainly explorers, PP made not a lick of difference. It should also make almost no difference to future Buckyball Runs.
Still I clicked "LEAVE ALLEGIANCE" once I got out to about 400 LY away on my next exploration trip
In a nutshell... almost no effect. "Civilizsed space will be hostile to the majority of players" (only to those who have pledged to a power), while technically true, is underwhelming. It was no more dangerous than taking a stroll in an anarchy system.
In order not to present a "wall of text" for people who are not interested, the rest of this post is placed inside spoiler tags.
Before I started my test, these are the conditions:
1. Friendly to Federation
2. Neutal to Empire and Alliance
3. Start location is Sol
4. ALLIED with all minor factions in Sol.
5. In SOLO mode - did not want players to muck up my tests
Since I wanted to test hosilities, I deliberately picked an Empire power to pledge to.. and who better than that hot chick Aisling?
After pledging, I noticed the word "HOSTILE" on my dashboard, where the usual "Speeding" and "WANTED" labels are. So now I'm supposedly in hostile space, in Sol.
I launched from Abraham Lincoln, and all ships are still GREEN to me. I saw a couple of neutral ships, they were supporting some other people (Edward and Archon something). They ignored me, I ignored them. Nothing happened.
I jumped into SC, headed for Titan. Primarily I just wanted to fly around and see what the reaction was. I got interdicted twice - once by "Federal Agents" belonging to that Archon guy (which I promptly dispatched and earned 600 cr for all 3 of them), and the 2nd time was by a Sol authority system vessel.. the cops. Interesting since I'm CLEAN and cops normally don't interdict "clean" players. So I dropped out and let him scan me. He's GREEN to me. After that he just jumped out with no shots fired.
Incidentally that was when I learnt Sol was under the control of Hudson. Maybe that's why I got interdicted by the cops (different PP faction) but no shots fired (ALLIED Federal Congress).
Step 2 test - jump to another Federation system where I am not ALLIED with the minor factions. So I did, to EZ Aquarii. Ships still GREEN to me, cuz I am "friendly" with Federation. No interdictions happened.
Step 3 - Empire system test. I picked ZELAND because it's under control of Patreus, directly opposing Aisling (the one I pledged support to). Jumped in, no "HOSTILE" tag. Interesting. All ships neutral, could see a couple of GREEN ships cuz they were traders from Federation. No interdictions all the way in to the station.
Step 4 - Alliance system test. I picked LAVE (good old Lave!). Nothing happened on the way to Lave. After arriving at Lave, about 50% ships were GREEN to me. Ah, probably due to being friendly for trading rares in the past. "HOSTILE" tag appeared. No interdictions all the way to Lave station.
1. Friendly to Federation
2. Neutal to Empire and Alliance
3. Start location is Sol
4. ALLIED with all minor factions in Sol.
5. In SOLO mode - did not want players to muck up my tests
Since I wanted to test hosilities, I deliberately picked an Empire power to pledge to.. and who better than that hot chick Aisling?
After pledging, I noticed the word "HOSTILE" on my dashboard, where the usual "Speeding" and "WANTED" labels are. So now I'm supposedly in hostile space, in Sol.
I launched from Abraham Lincoln, and all ships are still GREEN to me. I saw a couple of neutral ships, they were supporting some other people (Edward and Archon something). They ignored me, I ignored them. Nothing happened.
I jumped into SC, headed for Titan. Primarily I just wanted to fly around and see what the reaction was. I got interdicted twice - once by "Federal Agents" belonging to that Archon guy (which I promptly dispatched and earned 600 cr for all 3 of them), and the 2nd time was by a Sol authority system vessel.. the cops. Interesting since I'm CLEAN and cops normally don't interdict "clean" players. So I dropped out and let him scan me. He's GREEN to me. After that he just jumped out with no shots fired.
Incidentally that was when I learnt Sol was under the control of Hudson. Maybe that's why I got interdicted by the cops (different PP faction) but no shots fired (ALLIED Federal Congress).
Step 2 test - jump to another Federation system where I am not ALLIED with the minor factions. So I did, to EZ Aquarii. Ships still GREEN to me, cuz I am "friendly" with Federation. No interdictions happened.
Step 3 - Empire system test. I picked ZELAND because it's under control of Patreus, directly opposing Aisling (the one I pledged support to). Jumped in, no "HOSTILE" tag. Interesting. All ships neutral, could see a couple of GREEN ships cuz they were traders from Federation. No interdictions all the way in to the station.
Step 4 - Alliance system test. I picked LAVE (good old Lave!). Nothing happened on the way to Lave. After arriving at Lave, about 50% ships were GREEN to me. Ah, probably due to being friendly for trading rares in the past. "HOSTILE" tag appeared. No interdictions all the way to Lave station.
As you can see, it's almost no difference whether you pledged in PP or not. It may make a difference if you're a trader or a bounty hunter where you may probably need to pay attention to who controls what, but for people like me who are mainly explorers, PP made not a lick of difference. It should also make almost no difference to future Buckyball Runs.
Still I clicked "LEAVE ALLEGIANCE" once I got out to about 400 LY away on my next exploration trip
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We made quite a nice progress with Chance (1/4 or so, idk), it's nothing record-breaking but It's about reaching A*, right? Looking forward to take the selfie with Chance and A*, hah! Now it's time for a space nap.
Also I happened to catch this nice moment.
Apologies if I missed the original post, are you and Chance attempting to do this in a wing or just vaguely "together"?
Anyway, god speed commanders.
Oh, and that's a fantastic screnshot by the way
Still I clicked "LEAVE ALLEGIANCE" once I got out to about 400 LY away on my next exploration trip
I can't wait to find our whether an NPC assassin follows you all the way out there? I wonder if it's possible to kite an NPC all the way to Sag A, and if so, what sort of time would they do it in and would EZ put them on the big board?
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Excellent work! Somewhat disappointing results, but still, excellent work!
Although when viewing in my crystal ball, I foresee some tweaking to your findings, which we may or may not like.
Let's see... someone going all the way to Sag A* just to kill someone... that's just crazy... and unrealistic. Oh wait a minute...
G'day cobbers!
It's been a slow trip in 'The Spanish Inquisition'. I am only 7.5KLy from Sol, and I am averaging less than 500Ly per day.
I had a chat with CMDR Kligg this evening, who was horrified to hear that I has detoured 300Ly because I saw some pretty stars. Actually it was my copilot who spotted them, and once she sees 'shiny things' there is no stopping her. She said 'glitter!' every time we jumped, and on arrival at the triplet of yellow supergiants she said 'squeeeeeee!' for about an hour. On the plus side, the triplet of stars (3 Class F supergiants with 2Ly) were all undiscovered, so at least there is some benefit.
Meanwhile, back in the RealWorld™...
A 3D printed Cobra. This is why I fly into stars so much.
It's been a slow trip in 'The Spanish Inquisition'. I am only 7.5KLy from Sol, and I am averaging less than 500Ly per day.
I had a chat with CMDR Kligg this evening, who was horrified to hear that I has detoured 300Ly because I saw some pretty stars. Actually it was my copilot who spotted them, and once she sees 'shiny things' there is no stopping her. She said 'glitter!' every time we jumped, and on arrival at the triplet of yellow supergiants she said 'squeeeeeee!' for about an hour. On the plus side, the triplet of stars (3 Class F supergiants with 2Ly) were all undiscovered, so at least there is some benefit.
Meanwhile, back in the RealWorld™...
A 3D printed Cobra. This is why I fly into stars so much.
Hey CMDR, sorry I didn't stop and chat as I passed you, was in a bit of a hurry! Under normal circumstances I would have detoured the couple of jumps, pulled alongside and swapped tales over a nice Kongga Ale or three
Nice work on the Cobra
Apologies if I missed the original post, are you and Chance attempting to do this in a wing or just vaguely "together"?
Anyway, god speed commanders.
Oh, and that's a fantastic screnshot by the way
We are currently in a wing but running at different paces and over different time periods ( we both have irl constraints keeping us from doing this all in one run) but we are generally within a few hundred LYs of each other.
Hello my old friend!
I crawled out of the bar on Galileo sometime last night and decided to head off early to beat the worst of the traffic, like all good Brits going on holiday.
In the end, it didn't take as long as you would have thought to get to Sag A* in a 1.4M ship.
Whilst I am very, very pleased with the time, I was on track for a much better time for the first 18 Kylies or so...then the GalMap absolutely slaughtered me, with nearly 54 minutes spent on the last 8 plots. Remember that I travelled 17 kylies last weekend just to make sure I had my magic numbers sorted, so I thought I would do better than this.
I tried absolutely everything to get a good time but the map just locked solid at 0 fps once a plot was started, I even had to exit (very, very slowly) to main menu to kill one plot (which worked). The map performance was very variable over the last 10 kylies. with frame rates between 5 and 15 fps just looking at it, let alone plotting.
Anyway, the last 811 LY was an exciting race against time - I wanted to break 11 hrs! I was at 10 hrs 21 mins, with a 25 Jump route to plot. 15.5 mins later I finally got a plot and was off. I don't think she was much below 75% heat for those last few jumps
Here are some numbers for those who enjoy such things:
Considering that I have exceeded the manufacturers limits on running at sustained high temperatures. Running Bare has come out of this very well.
Finally, the most important modification,
Red Paint does make you go faster, especially with speed stripes
I crawled out of the bar on Galileo sometime last night and decided to head off early to beat the worst of the traffic, like all good Brits going on holiday.
In the end, it didn't take as long as you would have thought to get to Sag A* in a 1.4M ship.
Yes, that is 10 hrs 54 Mins and 20 Secs
Whilst I am very, very pleased with the time, I was on track for a much better time for the first 18 Kylies or so...then the GalMap absolutely slaughtered me, with nearly 54 minutes spent on the last 8 plots. Remember that I travelled 17 kylies last weekend just to make sure I had my magic numbers sorted, so I thought I would do better than this.
I tried absolutely everything to get a good time but the map just locked solid at 0 fps once a plot was started, I even had to exit (very, very slowly) to main menu to kill one plot (which worked). The map performance was very variable over the last 10 kylies. with frame rates between 5 and 15 fps just looking at it, let alone plotting.
Anyway, the last 811 LY was an exciting race against time - I wanted to break 11 hrs! I was at 10 hrs 21 mins, with a 25 Jump route to plot. 15.5 mins later I finally got a plot and was off. I don't think she was much below 75% heat for those last few jumps
Here are some numbers for those who enjoy such things:
- Running Bare had a max range of 34.9 LY, and a jerry can for a fuel tank
- 795 Jumps, averaging 32.6 LY per jump (straight line, not actual, haven't calculated that distance yet)
- 26 plots, totalling 1 hr 19 mins 21 secs
- Average of 49 seconds per jump (including all that plot time)
- Only 1 instance of 2 non-scoopables in a row, but lead to 2 replots to manually get past a cluster of browns
- Not one emergency stop but a fair few 'hot, sparky, clanging alarm' moments
Considering that I have exceeded the manufacturers limits on running at sustained high temperatures. Running Bare has come out of this very well.
Finally, the most important modification,
Red Paint does make you go faster, especially with speed stripes
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Yes, that is 10 hrs 54 Mins and 20 Secs
Wowowow... That is one hell of a time!
Well done CMDR! o7
In other news... I went to page 1 to check who the previous fastest Hauler was... Only to find something a bit unexpected.
I think someone's back...
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- Running Bare had a max range of 34.9 LY, and a jerry can for a fuel tank
- 795 Jumps, averaging 32.6 LY per jump (straight line, not actual, haven't calculated that distance yet)
- 26 plots, totalling 1 hr 19 mins 21 secs
- Average of 49 seconds per jump (including all that plot time)
- Only 1 instance of 2 non-scoopables in a row, but lead to 2 replots to manually get past a cluster of browns
- Not one emergency stop
I have only 24.23 LY D:
Tranquility base here, the Roo has landed!
Back after a two-week self-imposed exile, Bucky will be back on the job updating the leaderboard and mailing out bumper stickers. From the looks of things, looks like we're gonna need another roll of stamps.
So, in case anyone's wondering why Bucky and I were gone, a couple weeks back I illegally parked the Shipwrecked and Comatose at Parkinson Dock in Eotienses. The cop who left the citation failed to digitally certify the document or set it to "read only" so I changed the registration to "Felicia Winters" and wrote "Denton Patreus can suck it" on the signature line. Turns out the good Senator doesn't have a sense of humor and I had to take a little vacation in an uncharted region of space.
And in my absence, it appears that the galaxy has gone a little haywire, what with everybody marking the map in their favorite color and putting up boundaries and control points everywhere. If all of this is the result of my ticket, I'd just like to say, "my bad."
So, back to business! Two weeks have gone by, and there's a lot of updates to get to! First off, HUGE THANKS again for Drakhyr taking upon itself to keep up with an unofficial leaderboard. As you can see I've seamlessly integrated his tireless work onto the Big Board:
So, race summary! Uh... A bunch of stuff happened. Alot's back on top. Ughhhh... I got some work to do.
Be nice to play some 1.3 at some point, too. And get some sleep. Seriously, I got some world class jet-lag setting in.
So anyway, maybe in the next couple of days I'll get it all straightened out. Or maybe not. You know how it goes.
Back after a two-week self-imposed exile, Bucky will be back on the job updating the leaderboard and mailing out bumper stickers. From the looks of things, looks like we're gonna need another roll of stamps.
So, in case anyone's wondering why Bucky and I were gone, a couple weeks back I illegally parked the Shipwrecked and Comatose at Parkinson Dock in Eotienses. The cop who left the citation failed to digitally certify the document or set it to "read only" so I changed the registration to "Felicia Winters" and wrote "Denton Patreus can suck it" on the signature line. Turns out the good Senator doesn't have a sense of humor and I had to take a little vacation in an uncharted region of space.
And in my absence, it appears that the galaxy has gone a little haywire, what with everybody marking the map in their favorite color and putting up boundaries and control points everywhere. If all of this is the result of my ticket, I'd just like to say, "my bad."
So, back to business! Two weeks have gone by, and there's a lot of updates to get to! First off, HUGE THANKS again for Drakhyr taking upon itself to keep up with an unofficial leaderboard. As you can see I've seamlessly integrated his tireless work onto the Big Board:
So, race summary! Uh... A bunch of stuff happened. Alot's back on top. Ughhhh... I got some work to do.
Be nice to play some 1.3 at some point, too. And get some sleep. Seriously, I got some world class jet-lag setting in.
So anyway, maybe in the next couple of days I'll get it all straightened out. Or maybe not. You know how it goes.
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