Community Event / Creation Buckyball Run A*: What do you do when a mountain is there? Move it.

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c64orinoco

c64orinoco
Ahoy, cobbers!

I'm over half-way to Sag A*! Unlike Alot I haven't lost my cargo hatch, so I still have a hold full of booze. Hey Alot, awesome video! Where you get the time I have no idea.

My estimate arrival at Sag A* is about two weeks, and I won't be heading home until all 6t of alcohol and 1t of Onionhead is gone. The remaining ton is Tauri Chimes, which I will hang up on some small asteroid.

'The Spanish Inquisition' is holding up well, with only one heat-related mishap so far. The interior though... Gin bottles, Lego, empty caviar tins, it's getting a bit messy in here. You wouldn't believe how messy such a large cabin can get with just one human and one inflatable helium-based AI on board. Still, the Orca is a very comfortable ship, if not exactly fast.

If you're thinking of heading out to Sag A* soon, there will be one hell of a party when I get there. All are welcome board 'The Spanish Inquisition', and I think the zero-g spa can fit about 20!
 
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ElectricZ

ElectricZ
milominderbender said:
Another Buckyball entry.


  • commander's name: MiloMinderbender
  • Ship Name: Forgotten Country
  • Ship Type: Diamondback Explorer

I'm offering trash hauling services if anyone has something they want dumped in Sag A*.
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How about Denton Patreus's hairpiece?

That's some catch, that Catch-22!

mjmw said:
I ended up finishing at 10:36:43. Sorry Raiko, looks like I only just made it past you. And sorry for being brief in chat earlier - I was trying to type during FSD charges ;)

Over to Drakhyr to put in a blazing Asp time :)
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Man it doesn't get much closer than that! Stuff like that makes you question taking any breaks or every single extra second of Galmap Madness. Great run though, MJ!

johnUK said:
Hi All
Going to have an attempt.
Diamondback Explorer "Žlutá Beruška"
Heading off soon. I don't like being "hostile" whilst pretty much defenseless, but hopefully I won't get taken down by Hudson sidey on my way out of the bubble/bubbles.
John
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Hopefully pilots won't carry grudges outside the bubble but be careful. There's a history of people with bad attitudes out there. But there's also a history of CMDRs being bros out there in the black, too. Good luck, CMDR!

crotalus said:
going out again ship type clipper time of departure within 5 minutes
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Raiko said:
It depends on when Z announces BB8 as I don't want to self-destruct at Sadge.
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Looking like the 1st or 2nd week of July, depending on if I can figure out a technical aspect of a race.

So here's one for the peanut gallery: I'm trying to figure out how to record a pilot's arrival time at a particular location, be it a station, a resource extraction site, a particular planet, etc. I thought it was going to be easy now that you could navigate via the System Map. There's a clock in the corner of the sysmap just like the galmap and I thought it would be a no-brainer to open the sysmap and snapshot your current location.

Except that the sysmap doesn't show it like the galmap does with the pretty blue arrow. :( Having the navigation screen open would show location, but there's no indicator of time on screen. FDev has a lot on their plate to fix, but I actually wouldn't mind seeing my location on the sysmap relative to everything else, so I'm gonna make a request but who knows? It might be a simple thing to implement since a navigation marker shows up when you click on soemthing.

Any ideas? Some of you guys lean towards smart. ;)
 

adipose

adipose
ElectricZ said:
Looking like the 1st or 2nd week of July, depending on if I can figure out a technical aspect of a race.

So here's one for the peanut gallery: I'm trying to figure out how to record a pilot's arrival time at a particular location, be it a station, a resource extraction site, a particular planet, etc. I thought it was going to be easy now that you could navigate via the System Map. There's a clock in the corner of the sysmap just like the galmap and I thought it would be a no-brainer to open the sysmap and snapshot your current location.

Except that the sysmap doesn't show it like the galmap does with the pretty blue arrow. :( Having the navigation screen open would show location, but there's no indicator of time on screen. FDev has a lot on their plate to fix, but I actually wouldn't mind seeing my location on the sysmap relative to everything else, so I'm gonna make a request but who knows? It might be a simple thing to implement since a navigation marker shows up when you click on soemthing.

Any ideas? Some of you guys lean towards smart. ;)
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As a computer and physics nerd, you propose an interesting problem. the low-tech solution would be to have everyone record their session, opening the map on arrival from witchspace and then head to the objective, measuring time from how long into the video they arrive at the destination, but that requires a lot of work, and I get the vibeyou don't like work around here ;).

There must be a better solution:rolleyes:.

I'll put the monkeys on it.
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Chance-

Chance-
ElectricZ said:
So here's one for the peanut gallery: I'm trying to figure out how to record a pilot's arrival time at a particular location, be it a station, a resource extraction site, a particular planet, etc. I thought it was going to be easy now that you could navigate via the System Map. There's a clock in the corner of the sysmap just like the galmap and I thought it would be a no-brainer to open the sysmap and snapshot your current location.

Except that the sysmap doesn't show it like the galmap does with the pretty blue arrow. :( Having the navigation screen open would show location, but there's no indicator of time on screen. FDev has a lot on their plate to fix, but I actually wouldn't mind seeing my location on the sysmap relative to everything else, so I'm gonna make a request but who knows? It might be a simple thing to implement since a navigation marker shows up when you click on soemthing.

Any ideas? Some of you guys lean towards smart. ;)
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After a solid 10 minutes of messing with it trying to figure it out, I have come to the conclusion that if there is an obvious answer to this issue, I am not smart enough to find it.
 
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Raiko

Raiko
ElectricZ said:
ATTENTION: BUMPER STICKER SHORTAGE! Due to an unfortunate misunderstanding, our latest shipment of bumper stickers was interdicted and confiscated by Senator Denton Patreus. Anybody who has completed the BBRA* as of 17 Jun is covered. Anybody after that, well... Write the good Senator and let him know what you think.
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Well I need to visit the good senator's homeworld when I get back, as he still owes me some creds from the CG to upgrade his station.

I'll pick up a hold full of biowaste enroute and release it all in orbit above his house. Ya hear that Patreus? It's going to be raining Kangaroo Poo on you real soon! Let's call it terraforming... :D

c64orinoco said:
If you're thinking of heading out to Sag A* soon, there will be one hell of a party when I get there. All are welcome board 'The Spanish Inquisition', and I think the zero-g spa can fit about 20!
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I hope to be back in time to make your party, repped you again 'cus The Spanish Inquisition is just too awesome not to rep! :)
 

adipose

adipose
The Monkeys have given me a preliminary finding, with quite a few crazy suggestions.

The one I think might work is to figure out a way to tell time by the relative position of nearby planets or moons. For example, one of Jupiter's moons (I forget which one) has a 30 minute orbit, and points towards the sun at each quarter and three-quarters hour (that is earth-minutes, of course).

This would require a LOT of preliminary work, but might save time in the long run. You would just have the racer screenshot the target object, then the reference object to figure out the time.

This is still the initial findings, Me and the monkeys have a buttload of other Ideas to go through.
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loveto see what someone else comes up with:).
 

Raiko

Raiko
Chance- said:
After a solid 10 minutes of messing with it trying to figure it out, I have come to the conclusion that if there is an obvious answer to this issue, I am not smart enough to find it.
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I've also not really got a clue, but maybe screenshots without the clock would still work? So long as it's not the start or finish - or maybe I'm just too trusting.

Most of us record our 'normal length' Buckyball Runs (I've just never gotten around to uploading any of mine to Youtube yet). Maybe require everyone to record their runs and ensure that all the winners at least upload their's?
 

johnUK

J
i don't know, probably the monkeys will get it.
could do it with ED in a window - so can see a clock in the desktop.
An overlay could be created like TCE which could show the time - using the frameless window mode thingy. TCE's creator could probably help out with that.
John
 

Macros Black

Macros Black
Only humanly possible explanation is that you parked your Asp _inside_ an Anaconda after you allegedly took some letterbox hull damage, flew the Anaconda to Sag A*, took the Asp out, parked the Anaconda aside aways so it wouldn't show up on the group picture. That must be it, I see no other way ;-)

Congrats on the great time Cmdr.
 

Jez146

J
If anyone has recently got to SgrA* then do say hi to CMDR Vonpaulus who is patrolling the area. He is a good guy.

One thought on the dilema... dont the BMP's generated by an f10 have a time stamp?

Cheers

Jez
[Cmdr Jez146]
 

mw_aurora

mw_aurora
drakhyr said:
Who needs an Anaconda? :D

http://i.imgur.com/GVIE4ve.jpg
That's 9 hours, 22 minutes and 8 seconds :)
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Awesomeness CMDR! I think that is Alot jump pace, if not slightly faster! At least I had fastest Asp for a few hours, even if it didn't make the big board ;)

(and that is twice in a few days I have used the A word) :D

johnUK said:
made it at last
"wow" for the sight/achievement and for the * plotting system in ED!
John
pics soon
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crotalus said:
made it 15 hours 28 minutes and 48 seconds in an imperial clipper I will upload some pics later
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Congrats CMDRs!
 
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