The Buckyball Racing Club Presents: Close Encounters of the Bucky Kind (Swift-16 Championship, Race 8)
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The adverts on the outside are the right way up if you have green to your right. (Hard to judge at speed, I know!)
Honestly you have to get so close to even tell which is which in Odyssey you might as well guess. On a more serious note, the advertisements are right side up if the green lights are on your right. They might be easier to spot. The blinking I've not noticed until checking now, but it's so slow you can't use it as an indicator if you are going fast.
Edit: As Edelgard already said
Well, as of now, the speed is not an issue. Still trying to get comfortable with getting in there in one piece and get those curves right.
EDIT: I just learned that there are some lights on the outer ends of the toastrack which are the ones that all those sources are referring to.
Is it just me that feels like those stations aren't solely rotating along one axis?
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Wow, I completely screwed up my Dolphin conversion then. Serves me right for doing it in semi-panic at the last minute!
Quite right - it's a giant housebrick, with a greenhouse stuck on the front!Ah, but science says it's an unfair comparison...
https://canonn.science/codex/research-notes/type-7-transporter-aerodynamics/
@CMDR Timber McWolf - the red and green lights were much clearer in Legacy, but that's not gonna help you much. Have you worked out the repeating pattern of the pads yet? 1-15 at 6 o'clock to 9, then 16-30 at 9 o'clock to 1, then 31-45 at 2 o'clock to 5. That way you know at least which
Even then I can't remember having seen them, to be honest.
EDCopilot helps me a lot in finding my pads.
The repeating patterns haven't settled in, yet, as the number of pads the stations gave me during the race were quite limited. Which on the other hand means, that I was able to find one of these in yesterday's session while flying "blind", without the help of EDC. A second try suffered from the low resolution of the compass, as I got presented with a pad I hadn't seen all race. But I think I now know where it is to be found - six o'clock in the back when entering with the greens on my right.
Or twelve, if I enter upside down, relative to the station.Well, that improves the aerodynamic properties quite a bit, don't you think?Quite right - it's a giant housebrick, with a greenhouse stuck on the front!
And at least it doesn't have the aerodynamic properties of the Buckingham Palace...
Technically, they would have to be to maintain their orientation relative to the body they’re orbiting at all times, but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking about. If that truly is the case in game, that’s some mighty impressive attention to detail from the original dev-team…
You might not notice it, because you go in there way faster than I am able to right now.
I really struggle to line up to the mailslot as it always seems to move up (or down, depending on my orientation) diagonally while also spinning along the axis perpendicular to the center of the mailslot.
You should be able to experience it if you slow down to the "legal" speed of 99m/s or below.
Actually many or even most of the ships will go through the slot at any orientation except sideways (even then for small ones) so try not to worry so much about lining up. Just go through and not worry about it. Eventually you will ignore it.
"You should be able to experience it if you slow down to the "legal" speed of 99m/s or below." I`m sorry we don`t do this, that warning is a minimum speed warning for a Buckyballer.
"You should be able to experience it if you slow down to the "legal" speed of 99m/s or below." I`m sorry we don`t do this, that warning is a minimum speed warning for a Buckyballer.
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It needs a keen eye to spot your pad in a blimk of an eye. Something that doesn't work that well for me, at the moment, due to health issues.
That won't stop me from racing, though. There's always a workaround.
Isn't there some option to align the roll to the station? A 3-axis tumble is very difficult to analyse visually. You can try just focussing on the object, then again - it's what you do in ED. Sometimes you can make out a clear extreme in one of the three axis, then align your axis, look for the next candidate, approximate that and by and by you can equalise. But that requires total free axis input, no director, no damping. You need curves for that, too, vanilla ED can't be handled FAOff by normal humans.
Ozric
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I think it's just perception because of how hard it is to get dead perfect in line with the mailslot. If you're using lateral thrusters as well, then you have to bear in mind that depending on how much you use them and how long it's been for, different ships will take different amounts of time to scrub off that directional thrust. It's part of the reason why I stopped worrying so much in my earlier days of racing and just used the toast rack to bounce off
But over the two years of doing these championships I've really learnt how much the Cobra keeps the thrust, which makes approaching stations a lot more comfortable from any angle.But when I used to go smuggling (when silent running was dangerous) I would line myself up with the mailslot 7.5Km out. Request docking and sit there watching the security forces circling for a while, before making a break for the station. Once you're sat stationary in front of it, the mailslot never moves other than the circular rotation.
Nowadays you can just casually fly into the station and no one scans you quick enough anyway.
I wish I could take a video of what I'm experiencing.
I had the exact same experience wit an IEagle, a Hauler, an Adder, a Python and an Alliance Challenger. The rotational correction only seems to set in once I enter the mailslot.
I had the exact same experience wit an IEagle, a Hauler, an Adder, a Python and an Alliance Challenger. The rotational correction only seems to set in once I enter the mailslot.
Ozric
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You have probably mentioned before, but can you not take a video? Either using your GPU software, or downloading OBS.
But yes as Sulu said earlier, Rotational Correction only takes effect once you are inside the station itself.