Need to take a break from ranting about engineers and so I tell you today a thing that might well be totally meaningless to you, but it was actually a highlight of Horizons to me:
The Blue Mountain
As I was aimlessly cruising the stars with my Asp E, searching without a clue for (I think) Arsenic (back then noone had a clue - a tooltip had to be inserted to give players at least one planet to find it more or less reliably) I entered orbit of a brownish rocky planet with interesting crevices.
I milled around in some of these, but they were steep and craggy and a pain to navigate. I skimmed some craters and popped up in the Asp when I spotted that curious blueish hue. It was an elevation, too. Not too small. So I went to investigate. It was a mountain - it's rock was a not to deep matte blue and to my surprise it had one side that wasn't steep and craggy at all - no there was a ramp right up almost to the top of it.
That ramp! I tell you. It was wide. Like really wide. I didn't measure it but it took like 30 secs-1 minute to go from edge to edge in the buggy. And it allowed to speed upwards very conveniently. So I climbed that mountain, only stopping twice otr thrice to pick up a signal. I imagined people racing that track - it was literally a perfect racing track!
At the end of the ramp the mountain turned craggy again but it wasn't long way to the summit, a somewhat craggy mesa. I called the ship again and bridged the last couple km to the edge of that craggy mesa that over´looked the plains where I originally came from. There I parked the golden Asp in the sunlight on the blue rock.
And under me I spotted the terminator distictly crossing the plains dividing light and shadow in twilight.
That is all.
The Blue Mountain
As I was aimlessly cruising the stars with my Asp E, searching without a clue for (I think) Arsenic (back then noone had a clue - a tooltip had to be inserted to give players at least one planet to find it more or less reliably) I entered orbit of a brownish rocky planet with interesting crevices.
I milled around in some of these, but they were steep and craggy and a pain to navigate. I skimmed some craters and popped up in the Asp when I spotted that curious blueish hue. It was an elevation, too. Not too small. So I went to investigate. It was a mountain - it's rock was a not to deep matte blue and to my surprise it had one side that wasn't steep and craggy at all - no there was a ramp right up almost to the top of it.
That ramp! I tell you. It was wide. Like really wide. I didn't measure it but it took like 30 secs-1 minute to go from edge to edge in the buggy. And it allowed to speed upwards very conveniently. So I climbed that mountain, only stopping twice otr thrice to pick up a signal. I imagined people racing that track - it was literally a perfect racing track!
At the end of the ramp the mountain turned craggy again but it wasn't long way to the summit, a somewhat craggy mesa. I called the ship again and bridged the last couple km to the edge of that craggy mesa that over´looked the plains where I originally came from. There I parked the golden Asp in the sunlight on the blue rock.
And under me I spotted the terminator distictly crossing the plains dividing light and shadow in twilight.
That is all.
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