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Badman76

Badman76
At Colonia, for 3 hours going around systems in boom state, 'hunting' for grade 4/5 manufactured materials, to then trade them in for the materials i do need to go back to the engineer and upgrade my ship.... to find out i got the wrong materials... i was gutted!

I had a good test to see how strong my 3D shields are, when going to the Manufactured material trader at colonia (its in a planetary ring), as i disengaged from super cruise it dropped me right in-front of a asteroid, Nice... only took 3 points of hull damage though!
 
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Phongsalt

Phongsalt
Badman76 said:
At Colonia, for 3 hours going around systems in boom state, collecting grade 4/5 manufactured materials, to then trade them in for the materials i do need to go back to the engineer to upgrade my ship.... to find out i got the wrong materials...
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Which engineers are you using?There are some there,but i don't remember the introduction requirements.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Meandered back home as well. Got a few first discoveries. Now I've got that out of my system, it's time to beef up the FdL a bit and see how she handles. And it need a new name - "Quizatz Haderach" was hastily added in a drunken stupour with an added dash of galloping senility.
 

McGyverCP

McGyverCP
Last night I had to tear into my Hotas One joystick...I was getting a lot of uncommanded Yaw (the normal complaint I guess) and had heard that it might work. So I pull out the 4 screws that hold it together...so far so good. Get the left side of the grip off and look at the guts. I don't envy the guys who are building these things. My 55 year old eyes with cheaters on still have a problem seeing what is what.

So I look at the stuff inside, realize that there isn't a lot I can do to it, put it back together and fire up the joystick program. It shows that I have the yaw with a slight left pull. I fire up ED and go into the game. Take off and realize that what looked like a small imbalance was not so small in game. It was like I was having to do a constant counter to the pull and realized that this wasn't going to work. I get turned around, land at the dock and log out again.

This time, when I take it apart, I have the Joystick program going at the same time to see what the pots are telling me and how far they are from zeroed. The second time I take it apart, I get the left side off again, and everything proceeds to start falling apart. This time the right side slides back and the little spring jumps the track, the YAW locking device (looks like a bar with a semi-circle of plastic in the middle) falls out, the button platform with buttons 2,3,and 4 drops down...all of it. I am sitting there thinking, "Oh crud"...

So I start putting it back and get one piece in place, go to put the second one in and the first one falls, then the spring wants to keep popping off (I was doing it backwards). I FINALLY get it put back together and I look at the program and the pots are dead on the money, no jitters from YAW at all...I fire up ED again, and this time it is like a dream. Perfect Yaw control and no signs of drift (knock on hullplate). I flew a few missions (currently in the Ceos/Sothis area to hopefully rank up to Rear Admiral - Almost there) and had no problems with Yaw. Mind you, don't know what I did exactly, but maybe the joystick gods took pity on me.

Take Care and Check Six Commanders! o7
 

Shir

Shir
Flying around with Cerberus, my Python core miner. Had enough mining for a while, so going after high grade signals to get some engineering mats. Have a few new ships to finish engineering!

No hurry to get $$ now that carriers have been cancelled again...
 

Phongsalt

Phongsalt
Found another bark mound nursery system.They're not the most exciting of biologicals, and are resistant to interaction, but they seem to thrive on HMC with iron, nickle, sulpher, carbon, manganese and phosphorous.All low gravity worlds,(highest 0.35g),temperature ranges from 200k to 420k.Not first discovered though,but first mapped.There seem to be quite a few commanders have been through here 'in the olden days' before probes were a thing.
Off to find a nice water geyser planet,have a brew and a hot bath and watch the stars.
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After scanning some 1500 Systems in The Void, things became a tad bland there... So I figured why not give the adjacent Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm a visit?

As usual, will try to "fill in the blanks" for the Codex there and hopefully scoop up some ELWs along the way.
(already wondering if I should make a quick detour to Beagle Point after that)

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TomcatMF

TomcatMF
I thought that I only collected 11 million credits of exporation data, but it turned out that it was more like 50 million credits. The 11 million was on the first page of data. I didn't actually cash it in until yesterday so that was why my number was so off.
After cashing in the exploration data, I made my way to the crashed Thargoid ship site (7 jumps from Sol in my Asp Ex) using FSS on each unexplored system along the way. Scanned a lot of non-human signals in the systems approaching the crashed Thargoid ship site. I had thought about checking one of those out, but they all had medium to high threat levels, and my ship is not equipped for any type of combat, so I thought the better of it and continued on to my objective. After touching down at the crashed ship site I shut down for the night. My next session will entail gathering the sensor fragments.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
I am 1kly away from home again, after heading almost straight "down". The stars are beginning to thin a lot and I haven't yet boldy gone where no one had gone before but the planets, so far, are on the valuable side. The Synuefe systems were rubbish (at least the ones I saw were, having only a star or two in them).

Once I'd got down to the Blanco 1 area, things picked up a bit and I found a nice antimony hotspot.

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aRJay

aRJay
There are lots of visited systems in the following directions.
Up/Down from the bubble.
Bubble to Pleiades
Bubble to Witch Head Nebula systems
Bubble to Colonia
In fact Bubble to <insert famous location here>
Doesn’t mean there are no unexplored/unmapped systems along those routes, but Tyres if you head off towards a point below the California Nebula from where you are that is probably going to be relatively unknown territory and you won’t be to far from somewhere that claims to be civilised plus the California Nebula is a pretty thing to fly towards.
 

MaxG10

MaxG10
Just left a climate change discussion on this forum, too much trolling and nonsense injected by the usual small minority of climate change contrarians.

Apart from that, conda at 3.500 integrity sounds tanky enough, but will go even higher close to 5k.... after I find grind the mats... LOL
 
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