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Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian
nemolomen said:
I learned long ago that people will do terrible things to other people for "reasons". Its been going on for thousands of years and I, unfortunately, don't think its going to end anytime soon, no matter what some people believe...

But that's not what we're here to talk about...

So @Marvin the Martian , I'll be arriving in like an hour and a half or so. Everything should be good to go when you get there.

Not sure if/when I'll be available tomorrow. Feel free to use the place like home...
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Arrived just now.

Took me a while to figure out I had to get off the ship and go inside and all. Nice place you have here! Bought the suit and went ahead and bought a rifle and pistol as well, just in case. Also fueled up, turned in what little exploration I had and repaired.

Thanks a lot, once again.

You do really need to do something about that elevator music though. I felt like I was a Macy's. ;)
 

Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian
Ashnak said:
Not that easy.
EDMC, or the ED Market Connector: https://github.com/EDCD/EDMarketConnector/wiki ; originally the main purpose was to populate the database with market data - what sells where for how much. That also includes more information about the "what" and the "where".

EDDiscovery: https://github.com/EDDiscovery/EDDiscovery/wiki ; originally focussed (I got to be careful what I'm saying here, the author recently reprimanded me for ignoring the last 4 years of development ;) ) on keeping an explorer's log, nowadays doing nearly everything you might wish, except maybe make the coffee. Great to check what you have been doing, who shot you the last time or how much money exactly your NPC copilot siphoned off (i.e. it will render the sttuff the game writes into your player journal into an easier readable format).

Elite Observatory: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...f-new-ones-on-the-fly-while-exploring.521544/ ; don't know exactly what it does right now, but it started off as a program that would take a look at the FSS scan data and notify you of interesting stuff in the system, like moons inside rings (anything you want to know - it's configurable)

EDAstro is one of the sites that makes use of the data collected by these apps, like EDDB or EDSM. In this case, the focus is on visualizations - and especially short movie clips.

The programs have space for various plugins - most of which I don't use (I think I still have the Huttton Helper linked into EDMC) since they often make use of screen overlays - which won't work when playing in VR. But on pancake, these can tell you about wanted CMDRs in the system you just jumped into, which direction to drive in your SRV if want to get to a certain point on a planet,... stuff like that. The Hutton Helper is the plugin of the Hutton Orbital Truckers, keeping track of stuff you do for Hutton, or logging your time for the Hutton Orbital race.
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So all of that looks as if I'd be spending the next three weeks trying to get it all to work.

Anytime Github comes into play, I'm pretty much out. Like Reddit, I've never been able to make any sense of that place at all.
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
Marvin the Martian said:
Arrived just now.

Took me a while to figure out I had to get off the ship and go inside and all. Nice place you have here! Bought the suit and went ahead and bought a rifle and pistol as well, just in case. Also fueled up, turned in what little exploration I had and repaired.

Thanks a lot, once again.

You do really need to do something about that elevator music though. I felt like I was a Macy's. ;)
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Glad I could help you out.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
Marvin the Martian said:
Anytime Github comes into play, I'm pretty much out. Like Reddit, I've never been able to make any sense of that place at all.
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At least EDDiscovery has a link to some Youtube videos right at the start of that wiki page :) . And no, you won't have to slog through a directory structure and guess which package to load for those tools, I tried to link to the respective wikis which should tell you what to do (or where to go to find out).
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Ashnak said:
At least EDDiscovery has a link to some Youtube videos right at the start of that wiki page :) . And no, you won't have to slog through a directory structure and guess which package to load for those tools, I tried to link to the respective wikis which should tell you what to do (or where to go to find out).
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One thing I learned about EDDiscovery - it's very slow if you place your dbase (you can keep program itself wherever) on an HDD. You can move it, of course, if you restart the app in safe mode: for some reason my dbase was on my hard drive but as soon as I shifted it to the SSD, things improved ten fold (at least).
 

Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian
Gotta admit, it's VERY cool!

first discoverd by me.jpg
 

aRJay

aRJay
Marvin the Martian said:
I can't find a thing. Of course, this planet is frozen and everything is white and it's dark and it's bacteria I'm looking for and have no clue what I'm doing, but at least in the new suit I'm not freezing to death.
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Bacteria can be a pain to find.

My usual method is to use my ship, I will about 100m above the ground at about 50,after a short distance I will stop and roll my ship on its side* (to maximise the field of view) then I pull back on the stick to do a full 360 look around, if I find nothing I head off and do it again.

What I am looking for is a small flat circular to clover leaf shaped patch with a different colour and texture to everything else unfortunately how distinctive it is varies with the light and the colour of the planet. Have your ship setup so that the content scanner is available it will bleep if you point the ship at a bio or geo target within its short scan range so is a useful check.

*Keep an eye on your altitude depending on your ship at gravities as low as 0.6g you could start drifting down to the ground, if this is an issue roll back to about 45 degrees which will let your landing thrusters help they are augmented by the planetary landing suite to better deal with the effects of gravity.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
aRJay said:
Bacteria can be a pain to find.

My usual method is to use my ship, I will about 100m above the ground at about 50,after a short distance I will stop and roll my ship on its side* (to maximise the field of view) then I pull back on the stick to do a full 360 look around, if I find nothing I head off and do it again.

What I am looking for is a small flat circular to clover leaf shaped patch with a different colour and texture to everything else unfortunately how distinctive it is varies with the light and the colour of the planet. Have your ship setup so that the content scanner is available it will bleep if you point the ship at a bio or geo target within its short scan range so is a useful check.

*Keep an eye on your altitude depending on your ship at gravities as low as 0.6g you could start drifting down to the ground, if this is an issue roll back to about 45 degrees which will let your landing thrusters help they are augmented by the planetary landing suite to better deal with the effects of gravity.
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I also use the camera. If you pan up quite high then look around, those bacterium are more visible.
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Marvin the Martian said:
I got it. I found three different piles of that and then three different plants so I got two full samples.

This is so freaking cool. But I really need a new GPU for this.
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Elite Observatory is great aid/tool when it comes to exo - even if you only use it to get the minimum distance travelled for diversity.

It does a lot more than just that though - it's pretty good for general exploration too
 
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