Can someone try to simulate what would happen if you're on SRV and your ship got destroyed, and run the game on 1.6? I think so far no one is sure what would happen on this scenario.
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- Thread starter Bomba Luigi
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Aye, and I lament the death of Imagination as we grow older. This thread brings back memories of all the adventures I used to have as a kid out at the local park or the playground. Simple contraptions, but I was fighting aliens, killing pirates etc there.
Bomba if you're over 30 years old, stay this way - you still have your imagination whereas most people would have lost theirs by now.
However I think it would be so cool if FD would, eventually, make a real way for pilots like Bomba to have an real, immersive, in-game rescue - like sending a distress signal, a ship would come and ferry you to the nearest inhabited system where you can then buy a taxi-ship to go get your other ships.
Here is the video of the recovery of CMDR Bomba Luigi from the Pit of Despair last night. This is just the final 11 minutes or so, where everything finally came together just right - the entire endeavour took more than two hours.
[video=youtube;4_Ycq_PCLBQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Ycq_PCLBQ[/video]
[video=youtube;4_Ycq_PCLBQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Ycq_PCLBQ[/video]
I agree with this! This is simply too good to pass up something like this. Maybe a crashed model of his/her (sorry I don't know) Asp and a broken down degraded hull of an SRV a ways off?
So, I brought some pictures! First lets get a bit unimmersive with some reality braking pictures, but they show really good how tight it was in there for the ships:
Drake was the first who found me, he also found out that the hole is almost Anaconda shaped!
And here you can see on what little space Dormus manouvered his Sidewinder
And me drving on the sidewinder and hugging it (I owe you a Shipwash Dormus )
Traffic Report: I have seen system with a lower traffic report then this hole!
But at the end of the Day I made it out!
And of course the hero of the Day!
[video=youtube_share;OBwS66EBUcY]https://youtu.be/OBwS66EBUcY[/video]
The Coordinates of the hole are -11.8888, 155.5631, its right next to the tea party but it needs its own name! Maybe "The Dormus Challenge"? People looking for a challenge can go there, one hops in the hole with a srv and the other tries to get him out with a Sidewinder
@FoxTwo: I am above 30 but the child in me has never gone away and never will
And thanks for the Vid Drake, looks crazy from your perspective! Just seeing the hole from up in the Air is already crazy, it looks like I should have never been able to get there out alive
Oh, and as to what I do: Well, not thinking too much ahead! But I had the goal of getting out of the Canyon and writing a big SOS in the Ground, no Idea what comes after that!
Drake was the first who found me, he also found out that the hole is almost Anaconda shaped!
And here you can see on what little space Dormus manouvered his Sidewinder
And me drving on the sidewinder and hugging it (I owe you a Shipwash Dormus
)
Traffic Report: I have seen system with a lower traffic report then this hole!
But at the end of the Day I made it out!
And of course the hero of the Day!
[video=youtube_share;OBwS66EBUcY]https://youtu.be/OBwS66EBUcY[/video]
The Coordinates of the hole are -11.8888, 155.5631, its right next to the tea party but it needs its own name! Maybe "The Dormus Challenge"? People looking for a challenge can go there, one hops in the hole with a srv and the other tries to get him out with a Sidewinder
@FoxTwo: I am above 30 but the child in me has never gone away and never will
And thanks for the Vid Drake, looks crazy from your perspective! Just seeing the hole from up in the Air is already crazy, it looks like I should have never been able to get there out alive
Oh, and as to what I do: Well, not thinking too much ahead! But I had the goal of getting out of the Canyon and writing a big SOS in the Ground, no Idea what comes after that!
Awesome pictures Bomba. I knew it was a tight squeeze, but it's only now that I can see exactly how tight!
I wish I could rep you again.
I wish I could rep you again.
Well done cmndrs it was spell binding , nail biting , on the edge of your seat drama . This is movie of the week stuff .
Woot well done everyone! The video was incredibly tense for some reason!
Then right at the end when Bomba dropped from the Sidey it looked like he fell off or something... I thought he might drop back into the hole....but yeah good thing the Anaconda was there to act as a safety net ....
Then right at the end when Bomba dropped from the Sidey it looked like he fell off or something... I thought he might drop back into the hole....but yeah good thing the Anaconda was there to act as a safety net ....
I think the other commanders rallying around fleshed out the situation, I'm not so sure Bomba would be willing to stay down there solo for the 5 or so days he's been there otherwise.
The planet is pretty small, I can't log in to check right now, but it's an icy/rocky body with 0.07G, but I think it very unlikely to be able to circumnavigate in the SRV, because the whole place is littered with canyons, many deeper than this one.
Nice one Drake...I was plugging the hole below Bomba & Dorma, so couldn't see what was going on properly.
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I can breath...
Can we save him?
Can we save him?
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Well technically we can if he drives on top of a ship, but the moment they go into super cruise he'll be in an even worse situation. But if anyone wants to keep their computers on for several days or weeks then someone could move him to another planet. Assuming that he has enough material to replenish his fuel supply that is and doesn't mind not sleeping for several days.
I can imagine waking up one morning to find that the SRV has slipped off the hull and has been left behind somewhere in deep space.
You picked an interesting planet to strand on, Bomba.
This has been, and still is, one of the most amazing in game Elite stories I've read! It's been a long while since I've played, and reading this has made me want to jump in again. Thank you guys! Where does the rescue go from here? Now that he's out of the Pit of Despair, how does Bomba get his ship back? How will he successfully escape Planet Wilson??
Can someone fill me in on how Horizons works?
Question is does he still have all the FEDEX parcels he started with?
So glad you made it out thanks to some brilliant CMDR's! This is by far the best story in the game right now, forget aliens, songs and probes.
The rescue of Bomba will always be remembered!
The rescue of Bomba will always be remembered!
Great story material here. Kudos on you Bomba for sticking this out.
Failure is not an option!!! Love it.
Well done to all involved. Wish I'd been able to come and help but I've only just got my internet back after a week of cold turkey. Thanks Openreach !
It's this kind of adventure that sandbox games like ED excel at. I see far too many players who don't know how to make their own fun.
When I snagged my Sidey on an antenna at an engineer's base none of the commanders present would come and give me a nudge to try and free me. I was just told to re-log like I was some idiot who didn't know the simple technical solution. What I wanted was a complex and fun in game solution.
Age has nothing to with it. I know over 60s with more sense of fun, creativity and imagination than some children.
!It's this kind of adventure that sandbox games like ED excel at. I see far too many players who don't know how to make their own fun.
When I snagged my Sidey on an antenna at an engineer's base none of the commanders present would come and give me a nudge to try and free me. I was just told to re-log like I was some idiot who didn't know the simple technical solution. What I wanted was a complex and fun in game solution.
Age has nothing to with it. I know over 60s with more sense of fun, creativity and imagination than some children.
They published the daily round of GalNet articles and it looks like they passed us over. Sorry guys. They don't give their reasons. You either get published or you don't.
Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe? Maybe if you build up enough speed in your SRV and hit a steep incline at the right speed you could launch yourself into a low orbit?