Okay But Really, Proxima Centauri?

Muzz UK

Muzz UK
So so amusing that even since Elite Frontier II and First Encounters in the early 90s people are still getting caught out by Hutton Orbital :-D

Welcome to a very big club CMDR! :-D

You won't be the last........ enjoy the experience and be safe in the the weird and wonderful knowledge that there's a player group and squadron Hutton Truckers formed around this well known run.

EDIT Just noticed this is a 2018 post lol.... maybe he's still in supercruise on his way!
 

Friedenreich Xante

Friedenreich Xante
Just to mention, Fuel Rats get to save a LOT of commanders going to Hutton and gettin out of fuel while enroute, because they jumped almost on fumes and didn't account for the fuel consumption during supercruise - or for the landing pad size at Hutton. Most of those cases are code red, with the commander being on life support, and the rescue is difficult, as we have to find the stranded commander somewhere on a 7 million lightseconds long road.
 

znôrt

znôrt
necro approved, nice to re-read this thread. btw, i still don't have the mug :ROFLMAO:

remember: "time not important. only life important".
 

VR SenseiMatty

VR SenseiMatty
DanHyder said:
As I type this, I am going into my 30th minute of travelling to Hutton Orbital in the Centauri system near Sol for a passenger run mission. I took the mission, reading the target distance from drop point as .22Ls, and thought "Oh jeez, that's pretty close. Should be a peace of cake." I jump about 200ly from the system I got the mission, dropped into Centauri, and started looking around. No sight of Hutton Orbital. "Okay", I thought. "Let's look at the Nav Page then." I open it, and then I see it. Not 22 hundredths of a lightsecond. 22 hundreds of a light year. I need to travel .22ly in Supercruise for a measly 1m.

The point of this thread is to point out how ridiculous some of the distance in binary and higher magnitudes are between drop point and anything you need to get to. In the Erevate neighborhood, there's a star named GD 215. A white dwarf with a G-Type star orbiting at 395kLs. The funny thing is that GD 215 has absolutely nothing at all in orbit around it, while its companion star has everything else. These distances are absurd, and the time it takes to travel these distances is equally so.

So, while I sit here and watch another Let's Play video as I wait for my ship to cross another .19Ly at 2,000c, please know that I disdain this greatly, and next time I will do what I can to not mistake a Y for an S.
[REDACTED: I now understand what this trek means to people. I apologize for my comments on it]
Click to expand...
I agree with you for the afk part of the game. Space needs to be big but not boring. Unfortunately Supercruise is very boring and your presence in the cockpit is not even required at all. That's a shame because we spend a lot of time doing nothing.
 

varonica

varonica
AngryAntz said:
At least the more socially acceptable version to non-aussies :)

Do you hear that crow calling? :)

There is another word we like to, but that is even less socially acceptable, even for Aussies :) Rhymes with can't.
Click to expand...

That's not a crow, that's Graham Kennedy! (something I am sure no non-aussie will understand)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom