My God, it's full of ice

Thoris

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Nice rings. One question to experienced explorers: How can you get that close to the rings? I mean, obviously there's no RES site or anything out there which you can lock on..
So, do you just approach until some point, then drop from SC and slow-boat it in normal space?
 

Aeropilot

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If you approach slow enough, you will drop out automatically when you are close. You will drop out when your're going too fast as well, but you will also take damage.
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
I remember encountering a similarly super-bright set of ice rings around a class III gas giant back in Beta. It looked like a gigantic Polo mint. :)

It's a pity we can't do much resource extraction from ice rings. I can imagine lots of colonies who might need either water for industrial uses, electrolysis into oxygen and hydrogen, agriculture, and ice for exotic cocktails.
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
Zion Ravescene said:
I remember encountering a similarly super-bright set of ice rings around a class III gas giant back in Beta. It looked like a gigantic Polo mint. :)

It's a pity we can't do much resource extraction from ice rings. I can imagine lots of colonies who might need either water for industrial uses, electrolysis into oxygen and hydrogen, agriculture, and ice for exotic cocktails.
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Yes, good idea. I would love more activity in those beautiful ice rings too.

There might also be a planet nearby that is being terraformed and the ice is being shipped there in large quantities.
 

Tinman

Tinman
Thoris said:
Nice rings. One question to experienced explorers: How can you get that close to the rings? I mean, obviously there's no RES site or anything out there which you can lock on..
So, do you just approach until some point, then drop from SC and slow-boat it in normal space?
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What the others have said already. Get close enough (not to fast though) and you'll drop out automatically. Keep in mind that you can always drop out at any given location in a system. It doesn't have to be at POIs. The systems are one (very very) large map already. What happens when you drop at a location is that the matchmaking server checks your position and sees if anyone else is there. If that is the case it does a "handshake" between you and the other(s) so you connect to each other and can meet.

In theory you could drop out into normal space in the middle of nowhere and if someone else just happens to do the same thing in the same exact location you would meet. The chance of that happening in practice is pretty much zero though which is why we have POIs and the recently added beacons so that we can meet.
 

Fen Harel

Fen Harel
Aeropilot said:
If you approach slow enough, you will drop out automatically when you are close. You will drop out when your're going too fast as well, but you will also take damage.
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Wow! I had no idea. I'm a dope. When I have tried to get pictures in rings I try to get close and then drop, figuring I'd have to fly for twenty minutes in normal space.

Thanks for the tip!
 

Thoris

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Fen Harel said:
Wow! I had no idea. I'm a dope. When I have tried to get pictures in rings I try to get close and then drop, figuring I'd have to fly for twenty minutes in normal space.

Thanks for the tip!
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Yep, thanks! That^ was my thought also. I think I'll try that once I get a bit closer to home though...don't want to end up with a badly damaged ship far out hehe.
 
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