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algwat

algwat
Oh ok, they seem to blow up quickly when PD is zeroed in my targeting info.
Don't they need to repair or reboot to correct the destroyed PD?
Still trying not to destroy the ship completely, hit the thruster's first may be? answerd already thanks Northpin.

But is the ship still firing at the pirate?
 
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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
In the end, I decided to do a spot of planet and star tagging and I wanted to get to "my" area quickly so I jumped into the Phantom rather than the Clipper. I may stay out a while this time as mining, for me, has lost its draw. I can't shake the feeling something nifty is just around the corner for me to discover :D
 
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aRJay

aRJay
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
Some of those passed me by. A for Andromeda is a new one on me!
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Very early 1960’s earlier than Space Patrol, to be honest I remember very little of it from the time it was remade about 15 years ago.
Written by scientist Fred Hoyle, who coined the phrase The Big Bang to denigrate the new model of the universe, about what you get if you follow the instructions in an alien signal picked up via radio telescope.
 

aRJay

aRJay
Ant hill said:
I doubt that.
'Terribly well' is very English English. Idiom, more than language. The language has long ago left England and is no longer any counties sole property. Tom-a-toe, Tom-ar-toe.

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Reminds me of the often miss attributed James Nicoll quote.

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse e. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
 

Ant hill

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Pixie40 said:
The thuggish nature of English Language is a frequent topic over on Sufficient Velocity.
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I forget sometimes that at least half of the forum members are not native speakers. Native English speakers are blessed and we (I) should try and remember to be considerate. But sadly the joy I take by twisting language up into shapes has always been strong in me.
 

Pixie40

Pixie40
Ant hill said:
I forget sometimes that at least half of the forum members are not native speakers. Native English speakers are blessed and we (I) should try and remember to be considerate. But sadly the joy I take by twisting language up into shapes has always been strong in me.
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I feel your pain*. I enjoy engaging in wordplay... But sometimes other languages report things to the authorities. And nobody wants a visit by the grammar .

EDIT: Why did the word "pain" get replaced with "fun" when I went to post?!
 

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos

[PS4] Lorenzo Waringos
It's a well established fact that I am dim, slow, not a fast learner. I have learned something in the last couple of days though.

When using collector limpets, do not target the thing you want to collect for this shall collect that one item and the limpet expire. No. Target nothing, release a limpet and if items are in reach, the limpet will collect one then head back out to collect more.

In other news, I'm doing well on the mining front, far better now than ever before. Not making billions but millions,. This is good enough for me.

I'm still on a tight (ish) budget. Carrier has 80m with 11m a week upkeep, Personal (ship wealth) of just over 20m. I also purchased Sidewinder for landing on wildly gravitational planets out in the black (testing myself) to keep rebuy costs down.

I have also purchased a Vulture that I have named Hassan I Sabbah leader of the group known as the 'Order of the Assassins', often referred to as 'Hashshashin' for their use of cannabis to get them in the mood for assassinating. Also, the name of a Hawkwind track in keeping with my Gong/Hawkwind fleet names. I shall convert this into a combat model very much based on the one as used by @WeComeInPeace (thanks to them for sharing the build). This will have to wait until I get to the Bubble however.

Going to hang around this system I found that hands out lucrative cargo contacts, 5, 8 and 10m a pop. They just happen to be Communists. Perfect.
 

Pixie40

Pixie40
Well, I signed in and checked the markets. This showed that I could now sell my current cargo for... 3 credits per ton of profit.
sighs
So I cleared out my hold and looked over the current state of the market. Nothing really seemed worth the trip, profit wise. And there weren't any good delivery missions available. Or any at all, it was mostly hunting pirates. And I'm not a military pilot, I'm a trader by profession. This lead me to accepting a mail run. When I got there, again nothing worth buying for trade and no delivery missions. I ended up spending the last couple hours delivering mail from one system to another for 5-10 thousand credits a trip. And then I went to check the board, and found out I was now too high ranked for missions in the newbie area. Seems I'm too well known as a trader, so the only mission was to head out into the wider galaxy. And since I have no idea what the market demands are where I'm going (yet), I didn't want to risk picking up any cargo.
sighs again
During the trip the Pilot Federation kept feeling the need to message me about how once I dock I'd be unable to return to those systems. I'm well aware of that, but there wasn't really anything holding me there anymore. Trade has mostly dried up for me, with profits only being a couple hundred credits per ton on average and several trips ending up being a waste of credits. I suppose this is where Seelie Deliveries really starts to make their mark on the galaxy.
 

Pixie40

Pixie40
Since I frequently play in VR, using a 3rd party site isn't really an option. Not that I want to use them anyway. My methods work, even if I can't use the paper, pencil, and tablet. I can get my info from in-game anyway, since my 'out of game' tools are just me taking notes on what I see in-game.
 
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