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Post by Souvarine on Feb 28, 2016 17:51:13 GMT
Hi chaps
**Race from Seyfert Installation to Brundage Installation on CD-63 201 9F in our SRVs**
These two stations are so close together you can see one from the other from the air. How about a race between them in our buggies, Mario Kart-style? SRV turret use thoroughly encouraged!
Anyone who drops out of the race can hop back in their ship and spectate from the air!
You guys around tomorrow (Monday) night to have a go?
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Post by Tanith Low on Feb 28, 2016 18:17:34 GMT
I think this sounds awesome. I'm in seedysticks tonight so I'll see how far apart those stations are.
See you tomorrow.
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Post by Tanith Low on Feb 28, 2016 22:02:46 GMT
OK, so I'm at those installations now. 2 things of note.
1, they are installations, not settlements, so no landing pads. Not really an issue, we can just land the ships a one and if the scarabs get destroyed we re spawn back at our ships (though they will be in orbit by then)
2, the Installations are 181km apart. This means that at absolute top speed it will take 1 hr 20 min to cover the distance. Given that we have to cross several and canyons I suspect it will take much longer than this, at a guess I would say a couple of hours. Again not an issue, just more of an endurance race.
Should point out that I am still totally up for this btw. Though we may want to re think the turret use, it's gonna be hard enough without having someone trying to blow you up while you're at it.
Also where do we stand on using materiel to repair the SRV?
FUCK...I left the Vindicta flying above the surface between the 2 installations while I was writing this. Heard a "CRUNCH" then and other "CRUNCH" and tabbed back to find her flying into the ground. With all of my exploration data still aboard. Fortunately still in one piece though.
So yeah. What do we think?
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Post by Ronnie Kane on Feb 28, 2016 22:15:23 GMT
I love the idea but would rather not do an endurance race. I prefer being able to drop out after a few short rounds to fit around other things going on. Like eating.
As there's no actual docking service we could pick two random points on interesting terrain. Park a ship at each end and race the loop A->B->A.
Maybe even lay down three as waypoints. Visit each other player's ship, return to yours and get into the air first.
Could go along a canyon floor, around craters or up+down mountains.
Lots of options - it sounds good.
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Post by Tanith Low on Feb 28, 2016 22:49:28 GMT
Using the ships as way points is awkward because when you get far enough away from them they dismiss themselves.
Perhaps a better idea would be to pick a settlement, then fly 30km away from it, land, then race back to the settlement.
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Post by Souvarine on Feb 29, 2016 7:51:59 GMT
Agreed - if we fly to a given distance from a settlement and then race from there to the settlement, we can choose the route and the distance.
Also agree with Ronan ref short and sweet, at least to begin with. Not sure that an endurance race would be as much fun.
How about we choose a planetary base that's in interesting terrain this evening, fly 30 km away, park up and race from there?
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Feb 29, 2016 8:15:57 GMT
This sounds like fun to me :-)
I agree with short races. I'd also say no to turret use for the first race, whilst we work out the logistics of it, how it works and so on. After then we'll see how we feel.
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Post by Souvarine on Feb 29, 2016 8:33:58 GMT
7.30 ish work for you guys?
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Post by Tanith Low on Feb 29, 2016 9:09:40 GMT
Sounds good to me.
Helen is cutting my hair so I may be a little late.
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Feb 29, 2016 9:40:18 GMT
Should be good :-)
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Post by Ronnie Kane on Feb 29, 2016 17:32:31 GMT
We could do it on Achenar 3 at 6.3G?
I may well be in later. It's release night so I might be working. Don't wait up for me...
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Mar 1, 2016 7:57:51 GMT
Tom got interdicted at least 5 times on the way to the race, I blew up my own ship before we even started, rk and I both wrote off our SRVs before we reached the 1.5km mark in a 30km race, rk plasma'ed Rob's SRV and Tom won by default before anyone had made it to the 5km mark.
I call that a successful night!
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Post by Ronnie Kane on Mar 1, 2016 8:38:04 GMT
We should definitely do that again.
I think I'd prefer a series of 5km or 10km races with more recklessness.
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Post by Souvarine on Mar 1, 2016 9:28:45 GMT
Absolutely, second that.
More recklessness and more turrets. Winner could be first man to the base / last man standing!
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Post by Tanith Low on Mar 1, 2016 9:31:34 GMT
I also like the idea of one of being in a ship. They loose if one person out of the 3 in SRV's makes it to the finish.
No Gimbals.
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Post by Souvarine on Mar 1, 2016 9:53:05 GMT
Yeah that works. Makes it all more interesting for the guys on the ground!
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Post by Al-pocalypse on Mar 1, 2016 10:20:13 GMT
The ship has to start in orbit
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Post by Tanith Low on Mar 1, 2016 12:30:42 GMT
We did this a little yesterday with Ronan deliberately trying to kill me. With fixed weapons it is bloody hard to hit the SRV. I would suggest that rather than starting in orbit we maybe we say fixed projectile weapons only.
Probably be quite hard but chasing SRV's with multi cannons would be fun and dodging around as the ground near you is chewed up by shells would be highly entertaining.
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Post by Souvarine on Mar 1, 2016 12:43:59 GMT
Yep, seconded.
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Post by Ronnie Kane on Mar 1, 2016 13:58:49 GMT
I also like the idea of one of being in a ship. They loose if one person out of the 3 in SRV's makes it to the finish. No Gimbals. This. I like this idea. |
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Post by Souvarine on Mar 5, 2016 9:30:01 GMT
Given that this was such a roaring success, here's another idea...
***LANDER TAG***
It's tag... in landers!
We pick a small crater on a low-G ice moon and duke it out. One player is designated 'it', and they tag other players by bringing down their shields. If the one who's 'it' brings your shields down, you're it!
Rob and I discovered that low-G ice moons make for some epic powerslides and handbrake turns, and the turrets' lacklustre auto-targeting means that no small amount of driving skill is required to bring another SRV's shields down.
THE RULES
1. Pick a crater - not a massive one. If you leave the crater, you become It.
2. Wing up, so everyone can see whose shields are down.
3. Once you have someone's shields down, stop shooting.
ENDORSEMENTS
"Lander Tag is definitely the most fun I've had in my short and forlorn life."
- Brent Flowers, career-NPC
"Why would grown men do this? Why don't they have jobs to go to? Who the hell are the 'Dangerous Characters', anyway?"
- Concerned Citizen, Dashiell Orbital
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