Eep. Fat fingers. Meant T9; I was going to skip the 7...
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Nobody likes the Type-7. 
This week I am mostly (entirely?) devoting myself to the latest Buckyball Race.
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Since people had mentioned that the T-9 had been given some lurve since I last flew one of these slabs I decided to give one a try yesterday.
Now I have to decide whether to abandon my iron-man rule, adopt a plastic-man rule or clear save.
Wow that thing is hopeless, 7A G5 dirty drives and it can't evade an interdiction - not even close to following the blue circle - so submit (to save cool-down), select next system, start to charge high-wake - BOOM!
My fault for using it with a couple of missions active so collected a Deady anaconda with a vicious fighter.
5M rebuy, lord knows how much the cargo was worth - first death in yonks. Really don't want that engineering nonsense again so going to abandon iron-man now to decide whether to do plastic man or just live with an inn-sever-ants claim in the stats.
Still, I can re-use the G5-modded Thrusters, FSD and Shield Gen but still a waste of money.
Add in the cost of replacement HOTAS joysticks due to excessive and vigorous waggling and the T9 can quickly become very expensive indeed. That said, since I re-engineered mine I haven't lost an interdiction in it yet....though quite what difference the engineering really makes I don't know. I think I'm just used to bigger, slower ships now.
Today, I've been looking for the craquelure paintjob for the Krait MkII.
I'm now going to wash the old girl with my own tears, wept quietly throughout a lonely journey.
Nobody likes the Type-7.
:O
I love the T7! 288T cargo capacity, jumps almost 40ly, great at evading interdictions, I made a fortune from mine, it's my favourite ship so far in the game!
Except this week I saved up that fortune and bought a T9, which I also love, although I have a 7A shield, engineered shield boosters, engineered fast boot FSD and a fighter hangar, so I just always submit, send my pilot after them and am gone in a puff of smoke. So I guess I just have a thing for T series ships.
We're all different!
o7
The Clipper is my second favourite ship after the T7, although my newly-purchased T9 might be about to overtake them both. I think with all three of those ships they're quite dependent on loadout. With a T9 I figured it's supposed to be a very big ship, so give up on running and fit it out as though it definitely won't manage to run away. So a 7A shield, engineered boosters, beef up the hull. I have been interdicted several times and haven't lost the old girl, yet. And that was before I fitted my (as yet untested, does he deploy automatically or do I have to tell him to go do his job?) fighter pilot/hangar. So I'd try the T9 out. My Clipper has become an exploration ship now that I have the T9.
(Sorry for this incoherent ramble, have no idea what happened!)
Is that a David Braben wobbly-head on your panel? If they do a slow version of this or one where I need to hold an egg on a spoon I might be capable but this just highlights how abysmal my SRV skills are, though I have thought at some point the planetary circumnavigation looks interesting - if time needn't be the ultimate factor. Kudos to you all though.
Give yourself a mulligan. We won't tell :x
Yup, little David goes with me everywhere! Sometimes he even gets into the music I'm playing ...
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I think he's more of a "jazz" man!
I think he's more of a "jazz" man!
Seriously tho, with a planetary circumnavigation time is definitely not a factor. Also, there's a number of people who've embarked on a planetary circumnavigation as a relative novice at SRV driving but by the time they've finished they've become incredibly good!
Yup, little David goes with me everywhere! Sometimes he even gets into the music I'm playing ...
There are three key things to remember with regard to driving the SRV at high speed ... practice ... practice ... and practice.I think he's more of a "jazz" man!
Seriously tho, with a planetary circumnavigation time is definitely not a factor. Also, there's a number of people who've embarked on a planetary circumnavigation as a relative novice at SRV driving but by the time they've finished they've become incredibly good!
Perhaps it's the perfect practice as you say, learn the SRV (properly) and finally master some surface navigation. I have noticed a few threads pop up recently with people trying it out for the first time but I think I need to find the galaxy's, confirmed, smallest planet.
So, was David an event reward/giveaway or was he sold for a while and, I suppose the question I really want to ask, does he have a hula skirt that you can pop on him!?
Just out of curiosity...
What are you guys "working" on at present?
I've just hauled my sorry behind to
Seos (yay, I got learnec in scooping) so I can hop back and forth to
Sothis for Sirius Corp faction.
I'm just interested so it gives me ideas for future ventures.
O7
(although I now prefet "The Rimmer" - @@@O - brilliant
Building a pirate Cutter and Conda, invastigating gameplay around installations in anarchy systems.
I really can't remember where I got David - might have been an early beta reward or something like that. (edit: looks like it might have been a limited edition sale back in 2016).
Re: finding small planets, there's actually a list at the end of the first post in the Planetary Circumnavigation Club forum thread.
Thanks Alec - looks like you're going to have another attemptee. I assume using an Alt account is okay? I've hardly done any prospecting with that so could combine the two.
Oh sure, use whatever you want ... it's very informal! If you do decide to go for it I recommend creating a forum thread to log your adventures. It's nice to get encouragement from fellow circumnavigators plus putting your commitment to do this thing out there is a great motivator to prevent you bailing out half way round. Check the various linked travelogues in my thread. Some people roleplay it, some post screenshots, some get into the science of it, whatever you feel like. Don't underestimate it, do the sums to get the circumference and work out an estimated journey time based on your average speed ... then maybe double that! It doesn't hurt to be realistic about how long it will take but I heartily recommend it as one of THE great Elite Dangerous personal experiences. Oh, and post in my thread when you go for it 'cos we really like to know about these (you might even get some friendly visitors who will come and drive along with you for short stretches of the journey).
o7
Now... I think the 'shrooms are messing with my mind again (cue some Emmerson Lake and Palmer synth noodling)... I swear the game told me "Post Captain" but, according to Inara it's "Post Commander". And stuff on Inara isn't accurate; my ships are not all docked where it says they are.
I need to lay off the jalfrezi - maybe there were too many Scovilles in the chilli I used.
There are both ranks in the Fed navy - Post Commander then Post Captain. I have never come across "Post Commander" outside of this game, it was never a RN rank for example.
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Nobody likes the Type-7.
Hello my name is apparently nobody.
The T7 is possibly the most manoeuvrable ship in the game when in supercruise and rarely looses to NPCs when interdicted in my experience , and that was before I started throttling back to the manoeuvre zone.
Admittedly it is so ugly it looks ugly, and handles worse than the brick it looks like when not in cruise but for hauling freight in high interdiction areas it is hard to beat.
12.2857 stone but i have been consuming more beer now that the kids are all out on their own....