Week 4 - TRIP TO THE TOP OF THE UNIVERSE K2L - ACAB. (All Cops Are Bastards) in Elite Dangerous if your'e not careful
15 Jan 2021Trickyhicky
First before I go further the biggest of big shout out to Zetr0 over at Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius. Having read a post of mine over there and logbook and has given me loads of advice to add into my lesson plans for the next week or so. I have promised not to stalk him so I won't link to his profile unless he like the man from the Del Monte system "He says yes"The first one about how to get images to show in your post in BBcode means I will be able to post pictures as I go.
Another one to look into is the "Crazy Ivan"
This week has been another steep learning curve. In essence I have been getting used to my HOTAS or Hands On Throttle And Stick, what we simply called a joystick back in the day. This made my wife wince to say the least but it is worth it just for the feel. I have aLogitech X52 Which at about £145 ish was a bit of an ask in these days of Covid-19 but by asking for it as a Christmas present and chucking more than a few bob at it myself I am very pleased.
Now with all this of this century, you can mod these things to the max and have personal preferences. But for this simple Cmdr. What it came with I will use. But if you want to look at other ideas for setting it up head over to EDRefCard. I have to say that IMO as a newbie they all seemed very confusing, but that is me you may find it very useful. So again at the moment, I will stick with the plain old vanilla what it came with, but no doubt in time I will look at this again.
Now to go with the X52 and for the ambience, I also invested in a full version of VoiceAttack and an HCS Voice Pack Crusoe. Now she is a real bonus having her on board but she is a chopsy one. I will be getting Astra next month, as I understand she has more ability to take commands with a little less, how would you say, character. I love Crusoe but she has cost me one ship.
Let me put this in context. Earlier I had gone to the aid of a gold shipment that was being robbed by pirates. I put up a reasonable fight taking out one and working on the next. Then minus the "Woop Woop to the sound of the Police" steamed in a Federation Security ship. He flew across my bows straight into my pulse laser. Well, he didn't take kindly to that and turned on me and consigned me to jail at The Citadel of Justice | COL 285 SECTOR YG-Y B16-1, fecking Light years from where I was helping the freighter. Not a good move for an ex-copper, they don't like coppers in jail. When I say light years I mean light-years. So now to Crusoe, and how she pranged a brand new Explorer and forced me to for the second time in 10 minutes dip into my insurance pot to re-buy my ship.
So as we left our dock and headed for the door just this Monday gone, she said and I quote ish "Would you like me to set course for the next system?" and before I could say "NOOOOOO" we had crashed into the sill below the exit and crash into it before I could get my head around the problem, then came the call "Eject eject" BOOM". Good night Vienna, get back in the clink and buy a new ship sucker. I did call her a few choice names, which she ignored. She didn't ask me again, so far.
So over the period of 15 minutes, I went from Good Boy to Naughty Boy to Very Naughty Boy.
After this little faux pas it has taken me 5 hours to get back to where I was HIP 68801. Upon arrival what did I see in the Nav Log a "Distress call ". I Did attend but upon arrival, I thought "Nah Feck it" lit the afterburners and headed to Huxley Prospect for the night.
I did take three hours out the other night to go back to the Training Missions and practised the Combat missions. Still not good but getting better. As for the crazy Ivan that is definitely work in progress. But for now, I'm back on my route and tomorrow onwards to ALIOTH.
The other thing I have learned about this week is, drum roll, mapping planets. Now, this was an enigma to me, but after watching Down to Earth Astronomy, Exigeous, ObsidianAnt and GalacticBacon all from the comfort of my huge bath, perhaps a bit too much info I am now practising pinging off probes. That doesn't sound right after saying sitting in my big bath, but hey ho, that's for you to get rid of the image, not me. Also again thanks to Zetr07 for letting me know they, probes that is, they are infinite.
Lastly, save you graphics to Imgur. Then use the COPY A LINK icon and click on the 3 little dots, this pulls up a drop-down menu. so click on GET SHARE LINKS. Now select BBcode (Forums) and paste that link in rather than use the Insert Image Icon at the top of the log page. Saves a lot of bother and works luvly jubly.
So Lesson for next week
Lesson 1: Get that camera under my belt, still can't control the damn thing, keeps drifting around and disappearing into the black.
Lesson 2: Learn how to fight my Explorer
Lesson 3: Be a bit more discerning about which Planets to probe.
This is Trickyhicky now in Black Rat V.3 signing off for the week 07
PS I learnt 07 is saluting you all. The 0 is your bonce the 7 is you right arm chucking one up as we used to say in the army.
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