Excellent, welcome to Drakhyr commanders, look forward to seeing you at the start line!Me (CMDR skyeyemx) and CMDR Lilybean are joining up as a team! Now it's just down to finding a nice racing livery
The Buckyball Racing Club presents: The 3311 Drakhyr Rally
- Thread starter Alec Turner
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It was perhaps a mistake to feature that level of driving in the video and I sincerely hope it hasn’t put people off. With a few exceptions (the so-called "experts" mentioned in the rules) I’m hoping people of all abilities will come along and give this a try. In many ways I’d be more impressed by a team who finished together after an epic 4 hour struggle than by an eventual winner who completes the journey in 20 minutes. Hopefully see you at Camp Bucky … o7
Oh wow, that’s amazing, what a wonderful memory that must be! It’s a shame we don’t have more variety of SRVs, would love to see all sorts of vehicles turning up to this (for some reason I keep picturing the Wacky Races if anyone remembers that?) but hopefully we’ll at least get a mix of Scarabs and Scorpions and all sorts of different paint jobs! And yeah, good point from skyeyemx earlier … team members might want to think about coordinating!
A short slideshow of the cars that have marked the 47 years of the Paris-Dakat rally.
Since 1979 and the first edition of the Dakar, these cars have crossed the African, South American and Saudi deserts, and have made generations of rally-raid fans dream.
https://www.lequipe.fr/Rallye-raid/...voitures-mythiques-du-dakar-en-images/1528526
Since 1979 and the first edition of the Dakar, these cars have crossed the African, South American and Saudi deserts, and have made generations of rally-raid fans dream.
https://www.lequipe.fr/Rallye-raid/...voitures-mythiques-du-dakar-en-images/1528526
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This is really interesting to me, thanks for sharing! I actually don’t know all that much about the Paris-Dakar so am enjoying learning a bit more. I had no idea Carlos Sainz won last year (I assume this is the F1 driver), that's pretty cool, driving F1 and driving across deserts must be very different skills (but that said a lot of top SRV drivers are also top Buckyball ship racers so I guess natural instincts and a driven nature to learn and improve count for a lot).
No it is the Father Calos Sainz Sr with two WRC titles and 26 world championship victories. In a vote on the official World Rally Championship website in 2020, fans around the world voted him the best driver of all time, even beating out nine-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb. Sainz's desert adventures began in 2006 with Volkswagen, where he participated in the last two editions of the Dakar Rally in Africa. But it wasn't until 2010, in South America, that he and his inseparable co-driver Lucas Cruz lifted the famous Bedouin Trophy. The two Spaniards repeated the feat with Peugeot in 2018 and Mini X-raid in 2020. The Madrilenian claimed his fourth victory in the 2024 Dakar Rally in style, becoming the first winner with a vehicle powered by electric motors and a range extender and the first to win the race with four different brands. At 62, Carlos Sainz has lost none of his characteristic competitive spirit and is aiming for a fifth victory, this time with Ford, the manufacturer that gave him his first official WRC seat in 1987. Perhaps then, the circle would be complete.
Carlos Sainz Jr is F1 Pilot , his son !
Yeah, I’m not all that hot at flyving. I’m pretty practiced at rollving and bouncing upside down though. Still having a go!
Had a practice run at this route earlier today. Some notes from a complete beginner at this sort of thing:
1. My god is the starting terrain frustrating to traverse. Lot of bumps and boulders that seem specially designed to send you spinning off facing into the wrong direction. It put me in a murderous mood!
2. It was local twilight when I did my practice run. Night vision is better than stumbling around in the dark, but it's no substitute for daylight. I really hope that the sun is high in the sky on the actual day.
3. I exploded after 60km, despite taking care to repair my SRV at one point. Alec Turner makes it look easy, but don't be fooled, the route is brutal.
I'm gonna try it again, probably next Sunday. Hopefully I can find my inner peace before the day of the race.
1. My god is the starting terrain frustrating to traverse. Lot of bumps and boulders that seem specially designed to send you spinning off facing into the wrong direction. It put me in a murderous mood!
2. It was local twilight when I did my practice run. Night vision is better than stumbling around in the dark, but it's no substitute for daylight. I really hope that the sun is high in the sky on the actual day.
3. I exploded after 60km, despite taking care to repair my SRV at one point. Alec Turner makes it look easy, but don't be fooled, the route is brutal.
I'm gonna try it again, probably next Sunday. Hopefully I can find my inner peace before the day of the race.
Unfortunately the terrain is pretty rocky, especially at the start, with lots of late spawning rocks adding to the difficulty. The best way over this stuff really is constant use of the boosters to float over the worst bits. I'm going to try and make some short instructional videos to give folks some hints and tips on this I think. On visibility, if my calculations are correct it should be pretty much midday on race day, full sunlight and excellent visibility.
It’s a flyving baptism of fire to be sure.
I'll add this here since it might be an interesting strategy for someone that I (and others) thought of.
Players in an in-game team can do physical multicrew where player A can enter player B:s ship (provided it has the extra seats for it, they cannot fly it); in this scenario either one of them can launch an SRV and drive around as they please.
The idea here is that player B now can act as support for player A who does the SRV driving. They can coordinate to refit spots where player A can redock and repair.
The downside of this is that if the players are more than 15 km apart, the SRV will begin a self-destruct countdown and eventually blow up.
The upsides are team play is more fun and the SRV driver does not need to wait for their ship to come out of supercruise to repair. The support ship can just follow along and land while the driver is busy stopping, eliminating the wait and random element of computerized ship landing (e.g. on rocks just beneath the SRV bay, kilometers behind you, etc.).
This would also work for multiple SRV drivers (up to the number of seats in the support ship) but everyone would still need to keep within 15km of the support ship.
Another idea was floated in the discord chat about having the support pilot drop off an SRV in a designated place for the other teammember to switch to, but it would still be subject to the 15km limit once the pilot switches of course.
Players in an in-game team can do physical multicrew where player A can enter player B:s ship (provided it has the extra seats for it, they cannot fly it); in this scenario either one of them can launch an SRV and drive around as they please.
The idea here is that player B now can act as support for player A who does the SRV driving. They can coordinate to refit spots where player A can redock and repair.
The downside of this is that if the players are more than 15 km apart, the SRV will begin a self-destruct countdown and eventually blow up.
The upsides are team play is more fun and the SRV driver does not need to wait for their ship to come out of supercruise to repair. The support ship can just follow along and land while the driver is busy stopping, eliminating the wait and random element of computerized ship landing (e.g. on rocks just beneath the SRV bay, kilometers behind you, etc.).
This would also work for multiple SRV drivers (up to the number of seats in the support ship) but everyone would still need to keep within 15km of the support ship.
Another idea was floated in the discord chat about having the support pilot drop off an SRV in a designated place for the other teammember to switch to, but it would still be subject to the 15km limit once the pilot switches of course.
I will be terrible at this. I'm in.
Ugh! It's too hot. PC is like a flippin' electric heater. I'm just jumping the carrier and.....too hot. No PC until the weather cools....
I do love the idea of teams but obviously a lot of players (myself included to some extent) are shy about approaching others, unsure if they already have their own group of mates or wary of slowing a faster team down. What we need is an LFG channel in the Discord server. I’ll add that today.
EDIT: done - see #drakhyr-lfg channel under THE DRAKHYR RALLY category in the Buckyball discord server linked in the OP.
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OK folks - here's the first in my series of Drakhyr Rally driving tutorials.
Lesson 1 - preparation and basic manoeuvring exercises.
Source: https://youtu.be/pOgiMfSdSIg
Lesson 1 - preparation and basic manoeuvring exercises.