Just wanted to publicly thank Isinona for their YouTube series of ED videos. After watching them all, I had a little adventure of my own.
Proceeded on a simple recovery mission. An independent station offered a mission of three Rebel Broadcasts for 15K. While looking for the items a counter-offer appeared offering me 20K if I could deliver to an alternate Federation outpost. Knowing I'd have to smuggle the "stolen" items past Federation Security Ships I was not worried. I'd seen Isinona's smuggling example which made it look easy, so I eagerly accepted the counter-offer and so began my first smuggling operation.
I approached the station shutting down everything. I stayed fairly far away until the blockade ships were well clear. Then using thrusters only I nudged forward getting more and more apprehensive the closer I got. Feeling like a WW2 sub commander approaching a convoy I kept my head on a swivel looking for the inevitable scan to reveal my ill-gotten cargo. What looked like an ASP got shot up by station defenses which brought the seriousness of my situation home. I begin to wonder if I should go back to the independent station for an easy 15K. Knowing Isinona had done it, I called for permission to dock and the countdown started.
I approached the ringed station at a 45 degree angle to the entrance as I wanted to keep the mass of the station between me and the Fed ships. My pulse rate was racing. As I got closer, I saw the entrance looked different then other stations I'd encountered in my four days of playing ED. Initially, I thought it was holographic and didn't pay it much mind as I wanted to get inside ASAP. The first impact revealed it was a skeletal metal structure surrounding and standing proud of the entrance. Never seen that before. I ground the bottom of my ship against it trying to get free, but it didn't work. Running low on air, I turned my systems back on. I'd forgotten I had a little reverse thrust set and immediately the ship began grinding along the superstructure once more. At this point I was frantic trying to get free of the entrance as I knew with systems on I was a lot easier to spot.
Finally got clear by sliding off the edge and back in open space I made for the slot again. A security scan started, but I knew I had five seconds to get in so I throttled up and aimed for the entrance while counting out loud. 5... 4... 3... Then I spot an Anaconda departing the station. I aimed for the small space between it and the edge of the slot. I hit the Anaconda, bounced off to hit the bottom, side and top of the slot before coming to rest inside the entrance hard up against the inner wall. Breathing a sigh of relief I notice I only have 0:32 seconds left to dock. Again my heart rate goes rocketing skywards and I rush to get onto my pad. I connect, literally with 2 seconds to spare.
I pull my hands off the controls and see they are shaking. Then the laughing begins and I hope no one in the station had their video recorder turned on. The 20K was my biggest paycheck to date, but my word I worked for it. I spent a few hundred re-painting every panel on the ship as well.
Isinona, you make it look so darned easy, but I now know that it isn't. Still, thanks for the vids and showing me the standard I need to work toward.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Isinona
Proceeded on a simple recovery mission. An independent station offered a mission of three Rebel Broadcasts for 15K. While looking for the items a counter-offer appeared offering me 20K if I could deliver to an alternate Federation outpost. Knowing I'd have to smuggle the "stolen" items past Federation Security Ships I was not worried. I'd seen Isinona's smuggling example which made it look easy, so I eagerly accepted the counter-offer and so began my first smuggling operation.
I approached the station shutting down everything. I stayed fairly far away until the blockade ships were well clear. Then using thrusters only I nudged forward getting more and more apprehensive the closer I got. Feeling like a WW2 sub commander approaching a convoy I kept my head on a swivel looking for the inevitable scan to reveal my ill-gotten cargo. What looked like an ASP got shot up by station defenses which brought the seriousness of my situation home. I begin to wonder if I should go back to the independent station for an easy 15K. Knowing Isinona had done it, I called for permission to dock and the countdown started.
I approached the ringed station at a 45 degree angle to the entrance as I wanted to keep the mass of the station between me and the Fed ships. My pulse rate was racing. As I got closer, I saw the entrance looked different then other stations I'd encountered in my four days of playing ED. Initially, I thought it was holographic and didn't pay it much mind as I wanted to get inside ASAP. The first impact revealed it was a skeletal metal structure surrounding and standing proud of the entrance. Never seen that before. I ground the bottom of my ship against it trying to get free, but it didn't work. Running low on air, I turned my systems back on. I'd forgotten I had a little reverse thrust set and immediately the ship began grinding along the superstructure once more. At this point I was frantic trying to get free of the entrance as I knew with systems on I was a lot easier to spot.
Finally got clear by sliding off the edge and back in open space I made for the slot again. A security scan started, but I knew I had five seconds to get in so I throttled up and aimed for the entrance while counting out loud. 5... 4... 3... Then I spot an Anaconda departing the station. I aimed for the small space between it and the edge of the slot. I hit the Anaconda, bounced off to hit the bottom, side and top of the slot before coming to rest inside the entrance hard up against the inner wall. Breathing a sigh of relief I notice I only have 0:32 seconds left to dock. Again my heart rate goes rocketing skywards and I rush to get onto my pad. I connect, literally with 2 seconds to spare.
I pull my hands off the controls and see they are shaking. Then the laughing begins and I hope no one in the station had their video recorder turned on. The 20K was my biggest paycheck to date, but my word I worked for it. I spent a few hundred re-painting every panel on the ship as well.
Isinona, you make it look so darned easy, but I now know that it isn't. Still, thanks for the vids and showing me the standard I need to work toward.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Isinona
