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dynamicbob
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and thats why the intelligent silent majority are lifting sothis gold for all the reasons discussed a few pages back up to almost in second place. There are some solid reasons
And if not shiny shiny shiny expensive sothis gold will make a motsa for rares traders and returning explorers. Sothis also has within 150LY a massive amount of earthlikes water worlds and metal rich worlds which yield large amounts of exploration data. Tied in with the lembava community exporation data goals that have led to this sothis being founded. Explorers should be lining up with hudnreds of votes today to get us over the line.
Maybe as a secondary the diamonds if u dont want to vote for the gold both are reasonable choices
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Back in 1984 we had Blue Slimy Frogs, Fat Black Felines, Edible Arts Graduates and many other procedurally generated nuggets of silliness (Including Leestian Evil Juice, Killer Poets and 'This world is famous for the glorious pink volcanoes and killer mountain lions').
I think the reason that the more eccentric items are doing well harks back to these origins (and the time of books like H2G2) - many of the backers and lovers of this game were university students at its peak and the humour is very reminiscent of that.
I should have entered Wow-Wow sauce ... that so totally would not have made the shortlist to get absolutely no votes whatsoever.
Didn't that have a psychedelic reaction where all the colours of the rainbow merged with a unicorn and I could swear the sound of a waterfall could be heard in the background.
I'd rather have that than a mug I have to travel for an hour for in supercruise to get.
GG Vingtetun, considering it'll be a community goal to make it happen, no-one is going to go back and forth to Hutton Orbital and so you'll have wasted the opportunity to have a player chosen Rare good in the game. I'm not voting at all because I wanted a Discworld rare good in there, and it's not like there weren't plenty to choose from ...
dynamicbob
Banned
then theres a few alternatives to vote for and one is to expand the frontier and its shiny and golden
I kinda agree, I had one of the Discworld items. Seems like all the winning entries were of a more serious and less humourous nature. I can see why they went that route, although I was hoping somene at FD would have a sense of humour
(Joke by the way) A potted history of the Hutton Mug for those interested in its origins:
"The origin of the Hutton Mug, unlike many of the rarest items in the Milky Way isn’t borne out of the mists of mystery, nor out of splendour, majesty and aesthetic brilliance as with some of the more precious items.
The Hutton Mug started life as a utilitarian, functional item. Alpha Centauri’s only station is far and above the furthest away from any jump point in the inhabited systems and as such, the crews that look after the station have much time on their hands between visitors.
It is a testament to the altruistic trading behaviour of commanders from the Pilot’s Federation that the station remains well stocked with food, clothing and medical essentials, despite the epic journey.
Galnet has a few flaws, spelling is one, grammar is another but by far the worst is the failure to understand the sheer distances involved in space travel.
Galnet’s intrepid teams of reporters would hear tales of Hutton being short on Leather, or Food and immediately post up stories of half clothed, fully starved, emaciated station crews desperate for help.
The bulletin boards of local systems became clogged with delivery missions for just these items, failing to notice that any profit made from the haul would be absorbed in ship repairs and fuel. The station was making more profit from repairs than it was from the goods themselves.
“Hutton Orbital” soon became the stock answer for any Neophyte asking in the station bar for “anywhere that sells Class 3 Gimballed Beams”, or “Any trade route that delivers more than 1000cr/tonne profit for Marine Equipment”.
“Question: Where do I get a permit for Sol? Answer: Hutton Orbital.”
The docking crews soon became aware of the system’s notoriety and soon began, in the tradition of scrimshaw from Earth sailors of old, to make souvenir goods for the pilots that made the mission. Hand etched name tags, holographic videos of your ship arriving at Hutton, t-shirts bearing the legend “I went to Hutton and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”.
By far the most popular were the hand made mugs by a former Barnard’s Star docker – as with old Earth artist Banksy, his real name is still unknown – everyone simply calls him “Muggsy”. In his Type-6, he spent months searching the space lanes between the jump in point and the station, salvaging every scrap he could of ships that detonated in despair having failed to make it to Hutton. Once or twice a week, a ship would message in for a rescue for the pilot, always found floating with his Remlok active and fuming that he fell for the joke.
Muggsy would load his ship up, strip Frame Shift drive plates, scan them in detail to find the ones laced with latent FSD energies and then hand beat the mugs from the plates. The finished product would be engraved with one word: Hutton.
The one thing that makes these mugs different from any other, powered or otherwise is that when in supercruise, they resonate at an atomic level, keeping any drink in them warm.
As of yet, no one has replicated the means by which this works and for that reason, and purely so that they can own a Muggsy original, they fetch higher and higher values the further away you get from Hutton.
The Hutton Mug Co was formed and the rest is a rather dubious history."
"The origin of the Hutton Mug, unlike many of the rarest items in the Milky Way isn’t borne out of the mists of mystery, nor out of splendour, majesty and aesthetic brilliance as with some of the more precious items.
The Hutton Mug started life as a utilitarian, functional item. Alpha Centauri’s only station is far and above the furthest away from any jump point in the inhabited systems and as such, the crews that look after the station have much time on their hands between visitors.
It is a testament to the altruistic trading behaviour of commanders from the Pilot’s Federation that the station remains well stocked with food, clothing and medical essentials, despite the epic journey.
Galnet has a few flaws, spelling is one, grammar is another but by far the worst is the failure to understand the sheer distances involved in space travel.
Galnet’s intrepid teams of reporters would hear tales of Hutton being short on Leather, or Food and immediately post up stories of half clothed, fully starved, emaciated station crews desperate for help.
The bulletin boards of local systems became clogged with delivery missions for just these items, failing to notice that any profit made from the haul would be absorbed in ship repairs and fuel. The station was making more profit from repairs than it was from the goods themselves.
“Hutton Orbital” soon became the stock answer for any Neophyte asking in the station bar for “anywhere that sells Class 3 Gimballed Beams”, or “Any trade route that delivers more than 1000cr/tonne profit for Marine Equipment”.
“Question: Where do I get a permit for Sol? Answer: Hutton Orbital.”
The docking crews soon became aware of the system’s notoriety and soon began, in the tradition of scrimshaw from Earth sailors of old, to make souvenir goods for the pilots that made the mission. Hand etched name tags, holographic videos of your ship arriving at Hutton, t-shirts bearing the legend “I went to Hutton and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”.
By far the most popular were the hand made mugs by a former Barnard’s Star docker – as with old Earth artist Banksy, his real name is still unknown – everyone simply calls him “Muggsy”. In his Type-6, he spent months searching the space lanes between the jump in point and the station, salvaging every scrap he could of ships that detonated in despair having failed to make it to Hutton. Once or twice a week, a ship would message in for a rescue for the pilot, always found floating with his Remlok active and fuming that he fell for the joke.
Muggsy would load his ship up, strip Frame Shift drive plates, scan them in detail to find the ones laced with latent FSD energies and then hand beat the mugs from the plates. The finished product would be engraved with one word: Hutton.
The one thing that makes these mugs different from any other, powered or otherwise is that when in supercruise, they resonate at an atomic level, keeping any drink in them warm.
As of yet, no one has replicated the means by which this works and for that reason, and purely so that they can own a Muggsy original, they fetch higher and higher values the further away you get from Hutton.
The Hutton Mug Co was formed and the rest is a rather dubious history."
Just to put it out there.
You folks all realise the Hutton Mug will require a community goal to deliver salvage to Hutton. That sounds like a bad idea to me.
First you have to get there, then find USS and WSS and then deliver them. If you jump out you have a lengthy travel to return.
My bet is the CG fails and we don't get a new rare good at all. But then again I am a total pessimist with these things
Agreed. There will be a few, maybe even many that will attempt to fulfill the CG, but what a grind! CMDRs complain about grinding ... this is the ultimate grind.
Thanks to ALL those who posted entries. There were many that were well thought out, clever and/or humorous and fun to read.
Incidentally I hope special items such as the Hutton Mug will be possible to display in the cockpit at some point, along with bobbleheads. As it is, the cockpits look far too sterile. My pilot would most definitely have a coffee mug within close proximity.
There were three bobblehead related entries. None made the short list. I doubt FD will do cockpit mugs if they won't even bring back bobbleheads for which there is some demand.
dynamicbob
Banned
If u hate group think and want to do something good for the game rmemeber to vote for sothis gold, its one of the rare metal rares in the game if it goes through, it supports terraforming and it gives a destination for players looking for near range exploration as sothis is 500ly from sol.
Sorry, I finally voted and it was for the Faustian GGelly Fish ... because it is near the bottom; I like the 'fireworks' idea; as you suggest, I dislike group think. There is, IMO an "irrational exuberance" around the mug idea (not a bad idea, don't get me wrong) that is almost a frenzy. As stated by a number of observers, this is unlikely to succeed as a CG and certainly won't end up on dashboards (prove me wrong and shame me FD).
Also David Broobin swears by mugs.
No, no. His preferred brand is the Barnard's Star Mug Co Mug. Fragile but pleasing to the ear when thrown.
dynamicbob
Banned
well thankfully the insane mug idea is being overtaken by more rational soths gold and the playtpus idea. So keep voting for either of those two folks
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