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What unconventional things have you done in ED?
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Took a fully armed & armoured 19ly Corvette to Beagle point in July 2017. It took over 7 months to get there up the Carina arm, it took three months to travel the last 2,000ly knowing only that it could be reached with a 36ly jump range my ship could do 38 with jumponium (so no route plotter help). I didn't dock that ship for over a year, spent the new year (2017/2018) at a party outside Jacques station in Colonia.
I reached Trade Elite in a Cobra MkIII doing long range trading.
This thread has reminded me I haven't gone off the beaten path for quite a while. The last few months I've been repairing stations. I like to set big challenges, break them down into manageable chunks and work towards achieving them.
I don't use external tools or how-to guides, I just play the game & figure stuff out. 6,000hrs in and not bored, it is a great game
I reached Trade Elite in a Cobra MkIII doing long range trading.
This thread has reminded me I haven't gone off the beaten path for quite a while. The last few months I've been repairing stations. I like to set big challenges, break them down into manageable chunks and work towards achieving them.
I don't use external tools or how-to guides, I just play the game & figure stuff out. 6,000hrs in and not bored, it is a great game
My T9 is still set up for old school mining (although I have added a surface blaster to pick of any painite I come across). There's something quite relaxing about drifting among the rings without worrying about what's inside the rock.
FDS makes a great core miner, enough slots for all the gadgets and still has space for weapons
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Many custom events with my community I think one of the most unconventional ones was Space Bowling with stock Sidewinders acting and pins and Cutters/Condas/Vettes as bowling balls
We also did an SRV jumping contest from a ramp onto a building, which had segments divided into various points zone, depending on where you've landed.
I think one of the most unconventional ones was Space Bowling with stock Sidewinders acting and pins and Cutters/Condas/Vettes as bowling balls We also did an SRV jumping contest from a ramp onto a building, which had segments divided into various points zone, depending on where you've landed.
Tried ECM on Goliath.
Escaped with SCV under railgun fire.
Trashed a whole station.
Escaped with SCV under railgun fire.
Trashed a whole station.
Exploring in a Mamba.
Maximizing travel speed. You can't change the duration of a jump, so this far it has seemed to me, that it was all about minimizing the amount of jumps, by maximizing jump range.
Currently I'm trying to optimize ships so that they get the highest miles per gallon. Adding extra fuel tanks can get you pretty far, without fuel scooping. ~15,000 ly in a Cutter. The other day I learned how to increase it even further using the Galaxy Map. Not useful in it's current state, since you need a lot of jumps.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-eco-friendly-spaceship.510059/#post-7757604
Next will be trying to travel only using brown dwarfs. It seems that you don't loose as much speed being kicked out of a jump, and getting around the star as quickly as possible increase travel speed.
Maximizing travel speed. You can't change the duration of a jump, so this far it has seemed to me, that it was all about minimizing the amount of jumps, by maximizing jump range.
Currently I'm trying to optimize ships so that they get the highest miles per gallon. Adding extra fuel tanks can get you pretty far, without fuel scooping. ~15,000 ly in a Cutter. The other day I learned how to increase it even further using the Galaxy Map. Not useful in it's current state, since you need a lot of jumps.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-eco-friendly-spaceship.510059/#post-7757604
Next will be trying to travel only using brown dwarfs. It seems that you don't loose as much speed being kicked out of a jump, and getting around the star as quickly as possible increase travel speed.
Gosh, where to begin ... it might be simpler to ask what conventional things I've done.
So right now I'm on day 32 of the First Great Planetary expedition - driving over 5000km around Kumay in an SRV along with 30+ other equally uncoventional commanders.
See our interactive 3D route map here (http://buckyballracing.org.uk/kumay.html) or click my sig for more info.
Other than that, I've been a long time member of the Buckyball Racing Club so I've spent a lot of time perfecting the art of high speed supercruise approaches and landings in ships stripped for racing (weaponless, shieldless, tuned to go as far and fast as possible). There's a back catalogue of some of the races I've taken part in over here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/alecs-buckyball-discography.291110/ (sadly the new forum has messed with all the embedded video links).
When I'm not doing things like this I'm usually "blazing my own trail" by going out of my way to seek unconventional things to do such as:
Getting a Ship Launched Fighter inside a Thargoid base
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Landing an SRV on a Thargoid's back and riding him like a donkey
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Shoving Guardian tech' into the Thargoid machine so I can watch it go frickin' nuts
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Following an SRV wheel while listening to jazz!
Organising a 50km long suicidal SRV race along one of the ridges of Pomeche 2C
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There's loads more (there's no limit to where the imagination and a sense of playfulness can take this game) but I'll leave you with this one (from my current planetary circumnavigation expedition) ... spent a pleasant hour gathering all the bits of wreckage from a WANTED ship I ran into (and sorta destroyed) and then carefully shunting it all into one nice big pile ... why? because it's there!
Source: https://youtu.be/vDXodaPDLaA
Fly safe commanders and remember ... try to think outside the box!
So right now I'm on day 32 of the First Great Planetary expedition - driving over 5000km around Kumay in an SRV along with 30+ other equally uncoventional commanders.
See our interactive 3D route map here (http://buckyballracing.org.uk/kumay.html) or click my sig for more info.
Other than that, I've been a long time member of the Buckyball Racing Club so I've spent a lot of time perfecting the art of high speed supercruise approaches and landings in ships stripped for racing (weaponless, shieldless, tuned to go as far and fast as possible). There's a back catalogue of some of the races I've taken part in over here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/alecs-buckyball-discography.291110/ (sadly the new forum has messed with all the embedded video links).
When I'm not doing things like this I'm usually "blazing my own trail" by going out of my way to seek unconventional things to do such as:
Getting a Ship Launched Fighter inside a Thargoid base
It's alright, I can laugh about it now (an alien base adventure)
The adventure begins when I re-spawn in my Asp X outside the alien base, delighted to find that I still have a UA in my hold after yesterday's adventures in the heart of darkness with Cmdr Cold_Za. I head back inside for one final look around before I return back to the bubble (to catch up with...
Attack on Penal Colony BV 2259 (SRV vs. Thargoid)
Captains log Date: 05.07.3304 Location: Penal Colony BV 2259, planet AB 1 A in the HIP 16217 system Time: early I arrive at the Penal Colony at around 4:30am to discover a disturbing scene, it seems they have unexpected company! I land on the colony's pad to better asses the situation...
Guide to seeing the Thargoid Machine go "medieval" on Guardian tech
So yeah ... if you fancy witnessing the above for yourself then here's how. You're going to need: 1 x SRV 1 x AMFU (optional) 1 x corrosion resistant cargo rack (optional) 1 x normal cargo rack 1 x Guardian item of your choosing (later) 1 x Thargoid Sensor (later) 1 x Thargoid Link (later)...
Organising a 50km long suicidal SRV race along one of the ridges of Pomeche 2C
The Pomeche Ridge Challenge: a standing SRV time trial in association with the Buckyball Racing Club
For a long time now I've been wanting to create a standing SRV time trial race which people can enter whenever they fancy (and as often as they fancy), something akin to the Buckyball A* Challenge (but for SRVs) that could run for many years. I think I've finally found the perfect location. It...
There's loads more (there's no limit to where the imagination and a sense of playfulness can take this game) but I'll leave you with this one (from my current planetary circumnavigation expedition) ... spent a pleasant hour gathering all the bits of wreckage from a WANTED ship I ran into (and sorta destroyed) and then carefully shunting it all into one nice big pile ... why? because it's there!
Fly safe commanders and remember ... try to think outside the box!
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Yes, I guess that qualifies. All of it
Orca ram ship, daft but a lot of fun and surprisingly effective
https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/orc....EweloBhBmSQUwIYHMA28QgIwVyKBQA==&bn=Orca Ram
Mine laying against pirate commanders at CG's in open (sry it's just such good fun)
https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/cob...weloBhBGA2EAcICmBDA5gG2SGF8hRFA&bn=Cobra mine
https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/orc....EweloBhBmSQUwIYHMA28QgIwVyKBQA==&bn=Orca Ram
Mine laying against pirate commanders at CG's in open (sry it's just such good fun
)https://coriolis.edcd.io/outfit/cob...weloBhBGA2EAcICmBDA5gG2SGF8hRFA&bn=Cobra mine
Sometimes I fly without my suit on and with my underwear on my head. Does that count as unconventional? I try not to do it near space stations...
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I did the most "Elite" thing one can do.It's all about blazing your own trail, so share some unusual ways that you blazed yours!
Mine is pretty boring; my first cargo/trader build was a stripped down Federal Dropship. I was just going through the game casually at that point, and had not yet availed myself of all the community resources and recommendations. But it was fun, if repetitive...
I took a Cobra III, filled it will Onionhead, and smuggled it into Hutton Orbital.
Can anyone top that?
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I dig Pink space cow!Yep, my Pink Laser Mining Space Cow agrees.
edit: witness the GLORY
After a discussion on the Economical routing in galaxy map vs fastest I put it to the test: Fastest- it showed a dashed line saying it couldn't do it- it will, just keep going it seems to change as you goIt's all about blazing your own trail, so share some unusual ways that you blazed yours!
Mine is pretty boring; my first cargo/trader build was a stripped down Federal Dropship. I was just going through the game casually at that point, and had not yet availed myself of all the community resources and recommendations. But it was fun, if repetitive...
Not sure what you mean. The dashed line simply means that you haven't got enough fuel to get to that part of the route unless you fill up on the way. If you scoop on the way, the dotted line should always be several jumps ahead... Am I missing something?
Unconventional eh? Well...
I’m currently out exploring the galactic rim in a Beluga.
I have an Orca I use when I want to pirate NPC’s.
And there was this one time I played with the BGS to induce a Boom state in a Refining system so I could purchase large amounts of metals that same station was handing out “We need” missions like they were candy for, and thus “mined” their markets and made a small fortune while the boom lasted.
I use a Dolphin for hauling toxic and corrosive cargo because it outjumps my old Keelback.
Oh, and I use an Avegant Glyph for 3d SBS VR.
I’m currently out exploring the galactic rim in a Beluga.
I have an Orca I use when I want to pirate NPC’s.
And there was this one time I played with the BGS to induce a Boom state in a Refining system so I could purchase large amounts of metals that same station was handing out “We need” missions like they were candy for, and thus “mined” their markets and made a small fortune while the boom lasted.
I use a Dolphin for hauling toxic and corrosive cargo because it outjumps my old Keelback.
Oh, and I use an Avegant Glyph for 3d SBS VR.
Apparently I am, watching youtube vids on this game is well- not good I guess, it said if there is a dashed line in you route switch to economy!Not sure what you mean. The dashed line simply means that you haven't got enough fuel to get to that part of the route unless you fill up on the way. If you scoop on the way, the dotted line should always be several jumps ahead... Am I missing something?
Guess I havn't done anything UN-conventional lol. My bad.
That reminds me of a YouTube video that was posted by a child, where someone had just told him about "ping". He proceeded to declare to the world that the TTL given when you ping google is the number of users that are looking at google at that moment in time. There were some other nuggets of "wisdom" too. Probably only appreciated by techies, but it made me laugh.
YouTube can be a great resource. But I'm not sure whether it provides more misinformation than fact...
Well I'm sure people have great intentions, but the changes that are made over time like the one we just had- make them all wrong as of the 19th? One of the bad things about joining a game that has been around a while. Well now I know if it has a dashed line at the end just keep going, I have wondered why making a jump to your max range would only use one or two of the fuel tabs at most- indicating that the jump range is much greater than it allows you to? If a fuel scoop is used it should use a different formula.That reminds me of a YouTube video that was posted by a child, where someone had just told him about "ping". He proceeded to declare to the world that the TTL given when you ping google is the number of users that are looking at google at that moment in time. There were some other nuggets of "wisdom" too. Probably only appreciated by techies, but it made me laugh.
YouTube can be a great resource. But I'm not sure whether it provides more misinformation than fact...