Thing's have gotten...... strange around here!

Yeah, it's...... an experience lol luckily I've been okay so far :)
I'm only a lowly porter though, so I'm very grateful to those on the front line. They are rock stars in my eyes lol

Yeah they are putting themselves at risk for our benefit and should be rewarded for that. I have a physio friend in the US that got laid off her rehab position and given the task instead to do COVID testing wearing inadequate PPE. Makes me feel safe and privileged here in my bubble in little isolated NZ in the unfashionable corner of the Pacific Ocean.

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That’s a lot of hooplah

couldn’t resist
LOL! I take that as a compliment. :)

What I cannot figure out is why am I playing this silly game? If I spent all this time learning to say play a piano would life be better? Like ED it is a skill with a huge learning curve and will never be perfect. Philosophy 101.

Here is my banner I post sometimes to make a point on something I know about in the game.
Flying a Fleet Carrier in Beta it means absolutely nothing.
 
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Yeah they are putting themselves at risk for our benefit and should be rewarded for that. I have a physio friend in the US that got laid off her rehab position and given the task instead to do COVID testing wearing inadequate PPE. Makes me feel safe and privileged here in my bubble in little isolated NZ in the unfashionable corner of the Pacific Ocean.

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I'm so jealous... you are practically in middle fooking earth lol
 
On the forum atm it's basically 1of 2 flavours; either
"yes they are a little pricey, but they will still turn a profit 'tally ho chocks away last one back... etc'
Or
"W...T...F aghhh FDEV let's gettum" sounds of angry mob gathering pitchforks and torches.
 
I'm so jealous... you are practically in middle fooking earth lol

Thank you. Yes it is rather wonderful here, and I'm happy to be here mostly because I ended up here by accident and really had no wish or reason to go live here (long story). However, the lockdown worries me slightly. I am used to working from home, and have spend long stretches in fieldwork in isolated and sometimes hostile places. The time it was least pleasant to be stuck in a camp was during UN service in the 90s, when the UN lost its mandate in Yugoslavia and we couldn't do anything but sit on our bums in camp. People crashed mentally in droves from having nothing to do, yet surrounded by plenty of meaningful stuff they could be doing if allowed to. The lockdown here feels a little bit like the same could happen, and we already have reports of escalating domestic violence just halfway through the lockdown period...

But I'm lucky again, I guess. My work is busy and I can do it largely remotely anyway.

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@Cmdr_Ajay31091

1. Fleet Carriers anouncement hype
2. But COVID-19. What will happen with Carriers?
3. FDevs homeoffice. There will be prerecorded video stream.
4. Hype but also anger: "Give us details!!!"
5. Here is details. Lot of credits. 5 billion credits for the Carrier!
6. What is happening in Borann system?
7. Why so many commanders online? And why in Borann?
8. Steam charts going crazy! Thousends of players play the game!
9. O, that Borann! There are some crazy Low Temp Diamonds hot spots!
10. Let's go everybody! Let's go mining!
11. Let's go ganking to Borann!
12. Crazy guys are mining like crazy! But more crazy are those guys who mining in open.
13. Yes! We got this! Fleet Carriers stream day! Thousends of players are watching.
14. Carriers are big and doing a lot of noise and have nice jumping scene and sound fx! There will be beta for them!
15. But those numbers! Those numbers! Billions do buy. Billions for upgrade! Hundrets of millions for upkeep.
16. Let's play beta. Let's test Carriers!
17. Booooooo! No Universal Cartographics on carriers!
18. Beta day. Billions and trillions of bugs. Again!
19. Doom. Why FDevs don't listening again? Game is dead for a seventh time in this year.
20. But you saw that guys on the stream? They have no idea why they made these carriers. Just look at them. They exhausted and sad.
21. Two years! Two years for that? So you need to buy shipyard for fleet carrier. If not, carrier will not carry any fleet.
22. Trillions of topics about carriers on forums.
23. They will burn forums and Frontier to the ground?
24. Some guys leaving the game... This time for good. 'Can I haz your stuffz?' of course.
25. FDevs are quite silent, but they said they hear the community. Some billions probably will be changed from 6 gazillion to 4,5 gazillion.
26. Lot of us are testing the carriers in beta.
27. Issue tracker gone crazy!
28. Guys in Borann mining their gazillion piece of Low Temp Diamonds.

...in short :D
 
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tl;dr version:

We got the fleet carriers we've been asking for, and boy did we ask for it.

in a way yes...but FD is way too secretive about this game, and as far as i am concerned for no good reason...this could have been avoided if they reached out to the community and got a feel for what people wanted for FC's.
 
We are left off the world map from time to time, inconvenient little upside-down Italy-looking thing way off Australia...

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LOL I know, I've seen maps like that. It's like the cartographers said:

"Hey, there's lots of absolutely nothing out here, do we really need to bother with showing half a hemisphere of nothing?"

"But New Zealand is there!"

"Yeah, but no one will notice except for people that no one notices."

"Will no one think of the Polynesians?!"

"Probably not."
 
I haven't figured out how to move my Fleet Carrier from where I collected it to an orbiting station in the same system. ED doesn't like me. Maybe I need to fly to the station in my Asp Explorer then tell my Fleet Carrier to meet me. I'm missing some basic Nav skills thinking too much. It is also confusing if I set a destination is it for the Asp Explorer or the Fleet Carrier? OK, I figured that out. So I can jump to systems but not to a specific station as I don't have control standing on the bridge of the FC. There is no bridge and after paying 5 billion why not? Well i found a bridge moving ships to the FC. It also takes an hour before jumping even in the bubble. An engineered explorer ship can travel a lot farther in an hour versus a Fleet Carrier. I cannot maneuver my FC to an orbiting station in a system. I'm missing something here.or maybe the Devs don't like players. Maybe they are evil. Could go either way.
 
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I personally believe TERRA AVSTRALIS RECENTER INVENTA SED NONDUM PLENE COGNITA does indeed exist, because Earth, being a sphere, must be constituted of regions at harmonious intervals or otherwise it would tip over and fall. The Dream of Scipio seems to recommend this view.

"Moreover you see that this earth is girdled and surrounded by certain belts, as it were; of which two, the most remote from each other, and which rest upon the poles of the heaven at either end, have become rigid with frost; while that one in the middle, which is also the largest, is scorched by the burning heat of the sun. Two are habitable; of these, that one in the South—men standing in which have their feet planted right opposite to yours—has no connection with your race: moreover this other, in the Northern hemisphere which you inhabit, see in how small a measure it concerns you! For all the earth, which you inhabit, being narrow in the direction of the poles, broader East and West, is a kind of little island surrounded by the waters of that sea, which you on earth call the Atlantic, the Great Sea, the Ocean; and yet though it has such a grand name, see how small it really is!"
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