SEPTEMBER 2023 > TRIP TO COLONIA!!! <Exploration, New Experiences & Engineering>
09 Nov 2023Paxus
SEPTEMBER 2023 > TRIP TO COLONIA!!! <Exploration, New Experiences & Engineering>
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Wed 27th Sept '23
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≈14:00+
Changing GRAPHICS SETTINGS - Following Exigeous's channel settings for LOW END GPU's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7efYzpquIs
Wanted to see what 'Terrain' settings would look like, so i dropped down nearest planet (from Joel's carrier) and found CLUSTERS of Raw Mats!
⛏ More Colonia Raw Materials
Totally on accident (trying different graphics settings for new RTX 3050) found decent....
RAW MATS:
......CLUSTERS of Iron, Zinc, Nickle, Sulfur, Chromuim, Tin, Zinc, Phosphorous, Manganese etc
CARCOSA B 2 ---> Fly around and spot all the dark spots, geysers and lava geysers - Around coords:
15.35°, 152.88°
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Sun 24th Sept '23
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16:00 >>>> Logged on but have NO IDEA of what i am going to do, if ANYTHING...Also to see if any Rats are on... None now...
Need RAW mats and some Manufactured...could do that...
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UGH... Bushy just posted that we are going back to bubble in a week
"...we will be heading back to the bubble next weekend Saturday 30th September at 1pm UK time."
"....needs to be on board by 12.30 UK time.."
Colonia Jesus — Today at 4:37 PM
"...this is Eol Prou KW-L c8-32 green gas giant would make an awesome location for the hoedown before you all go..."
Hyde_SF — Today at 5:04 PM
"THE HOLY HOEDOWN will take place this Friday evening (29th) in Eol Prou KW-L c8-32. @Colonia Jesus Fleet Carrier ...."
".... Start Time Approx 21:00 discord server time ..." <--?? discord time?....
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Research for NEUTRON STAR JUMPING HOME:
FROM: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/7hm3s5/how_fast_can_you_get_from_the_bubble_to_colonia/
* Don't need premium to get there. Just neutrons will get you there in about 4 hours with a 50ish ly range.
* Around a 100 jumps
* I’m at waypoint 8 out of 89 on Hurt Highway (bubble -> colonia neutron star route) with 57ly DBX.
Its taken me about 45 mins so far(with planet scans), so I imagine about 5-6 hours total.
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FROM: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/wndpc8/welp_time_to_get_on_the_neutron_star_superhighway/
* Make that 2 AFMU if you have the space, one to repair the other
* Aim for the tip of the blue cone, fly slow and zero the throttle until FSD is supercharged. Then max throttle and start charging the FSD if it's a neutron star.
If you scoop from a white dwarf, beware of the wide exclusion zone. You might have to fly around it to find an accessible jet cone tip. Keep well away from
the exclusion zone - a faint blue area of the jet cone is enough. Never fly toward either of these star cores when super charging. Get more distance away
from a white dwarf before charging FSD - make sure ship heat level is going down before you start.
If you hit an exclusion zone and crash out of supercruise, the odds of survival are low. I did fight a jet cone one time and after several minutes of boosting to
try and line up with the escape vector, escaped with a severely damaged ship and all heatsinks used. I've lost a ship twice in a white dwarf jet cone. If I've
got a lot of exploration data on board or I'm far from a base, I'll avoid supercharging from white dwarves and plot a different route.
AFMU is essential. A 2A is more than enough to reach Colonia from the bubble.
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Sat 23rd Sept '23
================= [R/L] Feelin ROOLY weird and tired - barely any sleep when i got home - so about 0500?-10:00]
>> 17:00 Logged on - No Rats online but i just want to be in my ship for the peaceful vibe/hum of my ship...If someone jumps on, i will join or if i think of
something, i will do it.. Just lookin' for pew pew opportunities... Maybe want to make a missile boat and/or a torpedo boat
PConflict zone was LAME barely 800k combat bonds...
Chat with Skreggins and Hyde SF briefly... both won't be on during Mon-Thur... : (
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Fri 22nd Sept '23
================= [R/L] FAAAAAAAAAAAAARK - What a WASTED DAY! ???? ???????? - It was a good day in some ways but essentially wasted...
I got NOTHING done....
Least of all, constructive stuff! >:-( [R/L]
I logged on, even if i have NO time to do ANYTHING - just because i want to FEEL space and my space-ship....
Just ADMIRING the CARCOSA system: Curious system....
Relatively rare QUADRUPLE STAR SYSTEM - {4 STARS: It's 1st Star has 2 main bodies, {the 1st has the Asteroid station, "Robardin Rock", hangin' off it
hangin' off it... The 2nd is a Type III Gas Giant that has 8 sub-bodies, or moons, hangin' off it and a Platform-Station ("Aragon Silo")}
#2 ("B"), has an Asteroid Belt, 2 bodies and a Platform-Station ("Amber Dock")}
#3 ("C"), has an Asteroid Belt & 3 bodies...
↓ ↑Between "C" & "D" are 4 main bodies, 1 has 4 sub-bodies (or moons), and 1 has 1 moon....
#4 ("D"), has an Asteroid Belt, 2 bodies and a Platform-Station ("Amber Dock")}
"D" is also a brown dwarf....... some of the orbits are weird, like double orbits or as with ↑ seem to be orbiting a middle point between 2 other
bodies...
Also strange that such a busy system only has 2 small space stations and no large one......
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Thur 21st Sept '23
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>> Plan is to have FUN today because last 2 days were hectic drama and RL drama been getting me down (ANOTHER car accident! ~ Flying debris)
≈ 18:00 ish?? Went surface scraping with nasquer0n, who is doing SURFACE/FOOT MISSIONS - Was very fun, on CARCOSA (B1, i think)
23:30: Looking around CARCOSA for cnflicts or a resource extraction site to fight in, i decided i gotta see what this UNAUTHORISED INSTALLATION is all
about.
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Wed 20th Sept '23
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From ≈ 01:00-08:00 (Slept w ship sitting in space opp Jaques Station<GREAT for scanning Ships & Wake Signals for ENCODED MATERIALS!>
to clear my Notoriety from 1 to 0 Notoriety)
08:30-11:00>
FARRRRRRRRRRRRRK! Nearly lost ALL FUEL! ???? {Mental Note: 5-7 hrs IDLE will near-empty Krait MkII tank!!!}
- Had just enough to try another station but of course, they were run by Jaques faction too ????! Luckily i could hop out of Jaques Station SYS (to TRAKATH)...
So i was fueled now, but still NO Jaques, or even NON-Jaques-stations, will GET RID OF MY BOUNTY!!! ????! {Tried restarting E.D., tried Interstellar Factions
of Jaques and Non-Jaques - LAST OPTION/GUESS - SYSTEM FAR AWAY...i vaguel recall this being a thing to do....Then Frontier Ticket time....}
(Usually this type of problem is coz of having at least 1 Noteriety, but as i said, i CLEARED NOTERIETY already...to no avail...)
{ N.B. I noticed an AQUA-coloured Open Padlock icon, i don't remember ever seening before.... in the 'CONTACTS tab ????}
CAN'T CLEAR BOUNTY - Spent
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Tue 19th Sept '23
Sun 17th too
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So SPASTICALLY manic that i really have little idea WHAT exactly i have been doing from around 2100 last night ... till 08:00 today (Tue)....
I know i stayed on NasquerOn's AWFUL Planet: A 2 in TIR, where he found: Molybdenum & Yttrium... Was Bronsite, Zinc & Iron, for me....
Mind u, i saw NOTHING at his coords: Coords -33.2634°, 174.6388°, nor could i see what he meant about impact site or threat level... mind...i did think i saw
some torch lights while looking for craters... Found a crater at @ -132.7063°S, 174.8055°E (inside the crater) and that's where the Bronsite, Zinc & Iron was...
But SERIOUSLY, so far and few and in between and so RANDOM, i IMMEDIATELY LEFT AS FAST AS I COULD.. I ended up HATING that planet!
>: )P
So then i wanted to get some PvE, to get the RTX™ 3050 a run or play w graphics settings but for some reason i took not one but 2 or 3 of those stoopid
spying...data-collecting MISSIONS - u know the ones where u scan (data download) some link of
{About 51LY from Colonia bubble}?? RE??
Cmdr Dripnificence appeared in Ratpac Discord.
The Order of Dripnificence: https://inara.cz/elite/squadron-roster/13142/
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Mon 18th Sept '23
Sun 17th too
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Just trying to fix SHIP (game settings and now fuckin KEYBINDS!????)
11:00 Startup w HOTAS plugged in - Binds still REFUSE TO 'APPLY'
11:53: RESTART PC
≈15:00 FINALLY (was doin other stuff but still) figured out problem!: I had 2 .bind files plus the .start file was
'pointing' to the wrong .bind file (<Root PresetName="Custom6") name...
Found one that is very up to date and it's all set now - just double-checking because i know i did
a few changes recently that i didn't back up.
> Then i will see how far i can stretch my new GeForce RTX™ 3050 VENTUS 2X 8G OC
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Sat 16th Sept '23
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Just trying to fix SHIP (game settings and now fuckin KEYBINDS!????)
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Sat 16th Sept '23
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NEW GPU: GeForce RTX™ 3050 VENTUS 2X 8G OC
AFTER UNBELIEVABLE BS mistakes thanks to 'Gary'diot of Austin Computers in Obsbourne Park,
I INSTALLED AND GOT MY NEW GeForce RTX™ 3050 VENTUS 2X 8G OC WORKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CAN'T WAIT TO SEE PERFORMANCE INCREASE (IF IT EVEN HAS ONE) IN E.D!
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Thur 14th Sept '23
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>> 01:40 ........................................................NON-SPACE/ED-Related................................................................................................................
After NIGHTMARE due to storm killing my ROUTER - spent all day wasted trying to get INTERNET STARTED - then ended up
@ Austin Computers till they closed (Got new router and cable + BONUES RTX Graphics Card!!!!) - Also a nightmare getting Router
to work - but thanks to a "Justin" @ IINET... I HAVE INTERNET!!! --------- GPU tomorrow - too exhausted now...and headachey...............................
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>> So wanted to go RAW Materials hunting but realizing why Krieg had a hard time... Seems non around COLONIA...
Saw this one Reddit post from: Reddit User: k717171 (OP/6 mo. ago):
Eol Prou PK-D c13-148 has reliable G4 Raw materials in close proximity to Colonia.
It's not as good as a crystal forest, but I got ~80 G4 mats in an hour
Planet 2 A A was best
Crystalline Fragments = Selenium
Needle Crystals = Technetium
Coords: 13.3645 * -152.0435
>> Too tired now - might just look for fun stuff to do or perhaps engineer my Asp Explorer to Thrusters ⌬⌬⌬⌬⌬
>> Nas says CLOSER ONE!:
Molybdenum, Yttrium
Sys: TIR, Pleant: A 2 (Nearest: Impact Site (Threat &NBSP: 1)
Coords -33.2634°, 174.6388°
>>^^ Landed on TIR A2, it's quite beautiful, being on edge or partially inside that nebula - Didn't start farming yet.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
14:30+
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Wed 13th Sept '23
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00:20 - Finished swapping around Manufactured mats - they're all low now... ????
>> Gonna break for some video-watching then off to RAW mats...
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Tue 12th Sept '23
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UGH! Forgot to log journal - Took "Dread Pax" (Corvette) to Mel Brandon for the full engineering treatment (Did all 4 Beam Lasers - 2 Thermal Vent and 2 just
Extra umpf, did the Thrusters, of course, did SHIELDS, engineered FOUR shield BOOSTERS (i think one of each sorta thing... Thermal, strong and all resistences...)
Did the Shield Cell Bank... Yeh... all Engineered - RUNNING VERY LOW one one or two LEVEL 5 engineering req MATERIALS!
(E.g. Proto Heat Radiators, Pharmaceutical IsolatorsArsnic, Mercury, Arsnic....)
22:00-23:20 >> Did some conflict zone (Eukraine this time coz i jeard they run one of the only Traders needed) x 2 or 3?... for more mats (ran TWO limpet controllers)...
23:30 >> Now headed to TRADER {@ Foster Terminal in COEUS } to load up on Proto Heat Radiators, Pharmaceutical IsolatorsArsnic
- then gotta find the RAW mats Trader...{@ TolaGarf's Junkyard in KOJEARA}
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Mon 11th Sept '23
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14:00
If no Rats turn up, will go back n' forth, to Mel brandon (@ The Brig | LUCHTAINE) from Joel's CARRIER (in CARCOSA) to BEEF UP ALL MY
MAIN ships!
P >> Ended up watching "Iocracy" and basically just fuckin' about for who knows how may hrs...well duh....would be about 3-4 hrs...
23:45 - anyway, booting up to go to Mel's place now (in EAGLE)...
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Sun 10th Sept '23
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>>>>> Engineer access: Mel Brandon Grade 5 access <<<<<<
After (Saturday too) doing several (not many really) pirate killing missions and some donations, i was invited to Mel Brandon! (My Goal).
As I had the bounties saved up, i could go right to him and begin!
I was STOKED to not only have more than enough mats to get Thrusters ⌬⌬⌬⌬⌬ but upgraded almost EVERYTHING ELSE he does to ⌬⌬⌬⌬⌬
aswell! (From memory, Beams, Shield, Shield Cell Bank & Shield Booster (just one)) He does FSD and Interdictors and Burst & Pulse...too...
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Fri 8th Sept '23
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From Thur, through midnight, just doing Conflict Zones for pew pew, $$$ & mainly MATERIALS. (Some full now).
≈02:00:
ON WAY to MEDIUM CZ, i saw RIDGES! Had to drop in! ???? "B1 in CARCOSA" has fun-worthy ridges!
CARCOSA B1: - FLEW THE TAIPAIN down there!! YAY!
CARCOSA B1: Coords 8.4332°, -151.3051
Zzzzzzzzzzzz
15:05 > Logging on and might try to get "Mel Brandon" done!!!
I HAVE! 〈Grade 5 access〉, have: 100,000:bounty vouchers. Just not sure RE: Craft modules for a major increase.'←???
Went out - back now
19:30 Not enough time to do at my happy pace, so i will do tom but i found Manufactured Material Trader:
(nearby) Foster Terminal - COEUS (It's a MEGASHIP)
Then Mel Brandon @ The Brig | LUCHTAINE (Surface Engineer Base on planet A1 C)
MEETING REQUIREMENTS: Gain invitation from Colonia Council.
UNLOCK REQUIREMENTS Provide 100,000 credits worth of bounty vouchers.
REPUTATION GAIN Craft modules for a major increase.
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Thur 7th Sept '23
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Today - just lotsa pew pew for mats and enjoying the simple things - the sights.
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Wed 6th Sept '23
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≈0100 ish? 0200 - faffing around - tried last shot: "Akinyemi Horticultural Market"✔
Works for other ppl but not me apparently.... tried restarting each time 7 settlements i got scanned at ????
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Wed 6th Sept '23
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≈1500
MISSION expired! Grrrr but HAPPY accident: GreenRebel got killed(@ a Colonia settlement: Colonia 2 a) and sent to JAIL in
another SYSTEM a coupld of hops away, so perfect chance for SHUTTLING HIM BACK TO HIS SHIP!!! GREAT FUN!
>> Now (15:54 doing the '5 scans on 5 settlements requirement' for Engineer Eleanor Bresa (Personal Equipment only bwt):
Done: Bevis✔, Shore Cultivation✔, Edwards Foods✔, Hasegawa Agrecultural Garden✔, Ottos's Foundry✔,
NO JOY on re-start E.D. Going to Fiorentino Hydroponics Estate, if that doesn't do the trick, i'm off to do other
things or even log off for the night. (Just spend ages chatting and transfering screen-shots to my discord:
https://discord.gg/nEXQRy2d
Last shot: "Akinyemi Horticultural Market"✔
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Tue 5th Sept '23
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02:35 Back at RATSYLVANIA - after seeing JAQUES STATION, alien creatures, tourist beacons, cool installations
and even parking inside an asteroid station("ROBARDIN ROCK") just to see it!
>> Also checked out ALIEN LIFE!!:
Alas, coz i have to drive to hospital in the morinin' i need to log off.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
0800 up → Drove Shaz & Marissa to Hopsital → 13:30 Online
14:00 → Trying to work out Engineering steps best for my needs - A lot of the ⌬⌬⌬⌬⌬ Engineers are 20kLY from Colonia....
16:00 >> Almost head aching from all the ENGINEERING reseach - gonna just do some PEW PEW
RE: CALL TO WAR: Take CNFLICT ZONE ﹄missions﹃ in Carcosa for "The Nameless" (@ "ROBARDIN ROCK"
Fighting for the nameless against the "Ukraine colonists" or whatever they are called
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Mon 4th Sept '23
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21:05
>> Logged on in case of a case but not ready to DO stuff...
>> { BUSHY Announcement: WAR in CARCOSA, fighting for The Nameless - all hands on deck those in Colonia }
{ take conflict zone missions in Carcosa for the nameless }
{ Fighting for the nameless against the Ukraine colonists or whatever they are called }
21:20 Oh ruddy Nora, i see i'm floating above NOTHING...of course, CARRIER is in CARCOSA now....
Krieg said, i would be fine - (i was literally about to land when running late for work on Sun!
HAHAHHAHA Oh boy... Msg'd Krieg for some fuel
N.B. I am still in PENNSYLVANIA, and I can fly as far as EOL PROU TD-S D4-54 (to get as close
as possible to CARCOSA)
KOR'LA!!!
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Sun 2nd Sept '23
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08:24
: ABOARD JOOBAY's (discord name, jcoxpgh) CARRIER, "RATSYLVANIA -RATPLAGUE" K7B-N3G
>> Logging on JUST AS A JUMP IS STARTING IN 2 mins!!!
} The Mexican is online right now and is streaming on discord in gen chat
>> For my personal log's historical section i took screen-shot:
"RatPac Trip my1st WAYPOINT-PRUA PHOE GZ-T B35-28-2023.09.03.08.33.jpg"
WAYPOINT: PRUA PHOE GZ-T B35-28
>> @ 09:01 already got next jump klaxon! Seems the update bug of long carrier jumps is being kind!
CLOOKU KY-N C8-39
@ 09:34 CLOOKU VS-U C18-36
@ 09:46 already another hyperspace jump notice!!!
≈ 10:00 arrived NUEKUAE GU-H BO
≈ 10:20 arrived STUELOU HQ-K C10-23
≈ 10:40 arrived STUELOU VAR-R C20-153
loggin' or afk'ng - to go to bed....sooo tired
17:00:
>> Went out, came home about 17:00 to see
>> WE ARE IN PENNSYLVANIA
( I.e. 16.69LY from COLONIA!!!!!)
> Joel advised 'Self-Destruct' will send me to CARRIER
his podcast!: https://themenschandthemachine.com/
21:56 Landed on "The Pit" (image taken) - My 1st station (platform really) in this region!
Hoping for fule scoop
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Fri 1st Sept '23
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00:25: 650 Tonnes Tritium onto jcoxpgh' CARRIER (Ratsylvania)
01:09 667 Tonnes Tritium onto jcoxpgh' CARRIER (Ratsylvania) 1,317 for the trip!
00:47 Deposited 660 Tonnes Tritium onto my CARRIER
01:10 Prep to move ships for the trip to Colonia
01:15 Moved to Ratsylvania: My Eagle (R & R), Krait MkII (Defiant) & Corvette
Leaving T9 here on Ratsylvania also.
Arvo (16:00? onwards - now 19:22)
19:22 -> Deposted 473 tonnes Tritium into my Market/surplus....If i have done it
right, it's not listed for sale....