Community Event / Creation The Buckyball Racing Club presents: Once Upon a Time in Leesti (Triple Eight Championship, Race 7)

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Okay folks, Once Upon a Time in Leesti is into the final weekend now, so this will be the last update before the race ends. In regulation Cmdr Tobias Von Brandt keeps making those marginal gains that keep moving him up the leaderboard. This time an excellent run of 28m02s in Sag Wagon was good enough to overtake Cmdr Sulu and claim 4th place.

That was the only registered run in Once Upon a Time class today, but Ozric has at least one improved run, and when he wasn't posing at the start line in a shiny new, but sadly illegal, Mandalay Cmdr Sgurr has been blowing the cobwebs off his own Regulation Cobra. So it could be all changed on the podium before the end.
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In Shenanigan class, the race marshalls sadly were having their wicked way again with the V.A.R.S. - this time Cmdr Inga Stevenson was their victim. An otherwise perfectly good run in Medusa's Gambit was ruined when V.A.R.S. showed that Inga had picked a normal holo-banner, rather than one of the CQC banners as the exit gate.

Sulu meanwhile was Cmdr Tobias Von Brandt's victim yet again. Tobias knocked over a minute off his previous best to move in third place, despite getting a little lost at The Orange Sidewinder.​

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@Darkfyre99, I'm feeling a little guilt in case my previous update has caused confusion, but you still need to fly through one of the 3 CQC / Core Dynamics ads shown in the original guide in post#3. It's just that they sometimes now show a 3rd powerplay related banner now, so you just need to avoid the Core Dynamics state.​
 
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@Darkfyre99, I'm feeling a little guilt in case my previous update has caused confusion, but you still need to fly through one of the 3 CQC / Core Dynamics ads shown in the original guide in post#3. It's just that they sometimes now show a 3rd powerplay related banner now, so you just need to avoid the Core Dynamics state.

I’m pretty sure that ad switched from CQC to Mahon as I flew through the last Latvian Brandy ad. But I’m also pretty sure that I can beat that time, so I’m not going to appeal. ;)
 
I’m pretty sure that ad switched from CQC to Mahon as I flew through the last Latvian Brandy ad. But I’m also pretty sure that I can beat that time, so I’m not going to appeal. ;)
Ah gotcha. (y)

I double checked, in case there was yet another new wrinkle in the race. The holo that you flew through is a standard ad-screen, it switched from Epic Mountain Canyon Cup Rally to Mahon propaganda as you go through the Lavian Brandy holo.

I don't think any of the three CQC banners are actually visible as you pass through the Brandy ads.
 
Ah gotcha. (y)

I double checked, in case there was yet another new wrinkle in the race. The holo that you flew through is a standard ad-screen, it switched from Epic Mountain Canyon Cup Rally to Mahon propaganda as you go through the Lavian Brandy holo.

I don't think any of the three CQC banners are actually visible as you pass through the Brandy ads.

Thank you for double checking. I probably saw the cup and thought CQC “championship trophy.” 🤦‍♀️

One more thing to keep in mind for tonight!
 
When I finally got home last night, I decided that I’d skip straight to plan B, given how few opportunities will exist to do more runs in this race. I didn’t get a chance to make a run afterwards, but when I saw the results, I’m feeling hopeful. Especially since the end of daylight savings time is effectively giving me an extra run this morning. :D
 
One of these days, I'm going to learn not to tempt fate like this:

The servers are back up now, although there is still a message saying that they're investigating the issues.

I only signed in to confirm that the servers are back up, haven't got time to race right now, so I've no idea how stable the game is.
 
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Real life, not to mention my poor flying/flyving skills, got seriously in the way this week. But at least I didn't encounter all the server problems some of you have had, and my right thumb is starting to learn the new way of switching to Contacts and requesting Docking permission. New Unlimited and Regulation entries submitted.
 
Frustrating. Not the race, but those honourless Targs that are commonly known as Gankers.
Ruined the run before it had even started by draining my focus.
I had two short-lived attempts that day.
Here's how far I made it.
Attempt #1:

Attempt #2:


The Targ had caught me while I was on my way to Leesti 4. Honking didn't work. I had to fly over there.




Note: Editing the highlight reel from my first attempt where I was already on my way to the drop off destinations when I realized that I had forgotten one commodity has proven to be a bit more tedious. It will appear some time later, once I found the time to edit it.
 
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Ozric

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Managed to sneak in another run this morning before starting work as I couldn't yesterday, but it was somehow slower that Saturday's despite feeling very fast. I also had another two long hyperspace tunnels. My Saturday run had to add a minute for the tunnels.

Thanks a lot for hosting the race though Raiko. It's been great to do an old rares run again, reminds me of good old days. I felt like there should have been a way to save a jump or two compared to what the plotter wanted to do, but I couldn't see it and so it was left to the approaches. Which I found incredibly frustrating 😄 ELWs are so fickle to use for gravity braking, because if you push it too close and the gravity well properly gets hold of you it just saps all your speed. Great fun all round though, just a shame I didn't have more time, but such is life 🙂

I had two short-lived attempts that day.
Just so you're aware for me the preview says "Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner"
 
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