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#41

Gaming HQ / Re: Elite: Dangerous

Last post by Tamas - Today at 06:22:41 AM

So anyways, was it a couple of years ago or so that I kitted out a ship for exploration, managing a 64 light years jump range which is quite good. Could have done better but wanted to carry a surface vehicle.

Spent a lot of time doing exploration runs deep into unsettled space, ding deep scans of non-trivial planets and scanning life forms / anomalies on planets which had them. Made an absolute killing selling all that data. When I stopped playing had a type 9 heavy with 750ish cargo space, an Anaconda and a few smaller ships which I was trying to kit for combat but I wasn't too interested in that at the end, and still had 160 million credits left in the bank.

So I have decided to claim a system for my own. At 25 million it wasn't a big deal. Now I have 3 weeks to ferry resources for the first outpost to be built to lock everything in. You sell the materials to the colonisers shop so I suspect I will have made most of the 25 million back by the time I am done. Too bad my Type 9 has only a 17 LY range when laden, so it is going to take a while, I suspect.


I was originally hoping to colonise a system I explored for the first time but they are way too far, you have to be 15 light years from the nearest settled system to stake a claim

#42

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by mongers - Today at 06:10:23 AM

That seems like the perfect spot for a pan-European Languish meet up.

I can immediately see two 'death-marches', firstly around all of the outer defences, then inside to do another circuit of the main ramparts, followed by some symbolic walk through all four gates and then a collective collapse in a restaurant or bars in the central square. 

Interesting.

It's not too far from Colmar, with local public transportation (train station closed so bus), if you arrive from Paris or even from the Hiberno-British archipelago; or from Freiburg im Breisgau by S-Bahn to (Alt-) Breisach, if you arrive from Germany or the East, in general.

Sound good then, late Spring?

#43

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Duque de Bragança - Today at 05:39:01 AM

That seems like the perfect spot for a pan-European Languish meet up.

I can immediately see two 'death-marches', firstly around all of the outer defences, then inside to do another circuit of the main ramparts, followed by some symbolic walk through all four gates and then a collective collapse in a restaurant or bars in the central square. 

Interesting.

It's not too far from Colmar, with local public transportation (train station closed so bus), if you arrive from Paris or even from the Hiberno-British archipelago; or from Freiburg im Breisgau by S-Bahn to (Alt-) Breisach, if you arrive from Germany or the East, in general.

#44

Off the Record / Re: Refractory Gauls, or the F...

Last post by Duque de Bragança - Today at 05:26:51 AM

So...
Lecornu gets another chance. 

[Tron: Ares]

#45

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Duque de Bragança - Today at 05:23:27 AM

Tron: Ares

A departure from the previous two, specially TTron Legacy almost ignored, yet with some Tron fan-service. It targets people who have not seen the previous two says the script writer. I believe him. 

Disney wants a new franchise to milk it, a sequel more than alluded in the post-credits.

Technically, this is top-notch, CGI does not bother me for a movie such as Tron. However, given there is much more real world than grid this time, it may be more visible. Plenty of night shots though to compensate.

Did Jared Leto killed another cult movie? 

So nothing special, hence the hyping on chat shows all over the place?

Probably, yes. It's lukewarm or average for me. Not a disaster of epic proportions such as Episode I but nothing special.

Did not watch it in 3D, however. Might give it another shot.

#46

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Josquius - Today at 05:16:48 AM

That's why I've never really got into the Wrexham one. It's always been a bunch of random shit around the club, very episodic rather than a continuing narrative.
I'm biased AF but Sunderland Till I Die was far better.

#47

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Josquius - Today at 05:15:28 AM

I wonder though how many people buying gold are actually buying gold Ron Swanson style rather than gold as an asset - I imagine that would be just as worthless as anything else if things went to pot.

#48

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 05:00:58 AM

I agree that assets like stocks, bonds, property will be completely useless in a post apocalyptic society, but I do think gold will still be useful as the only effective currency left in such a world.

Food, ammunition, and cigarettes.  Maybe pharmaceuticals.

#49

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by The Brain - Today at 04:01:08 AM

I agree that assets like stocks, bonds, property will be completely useless in a post apocalyptic society, but I do think gold will still be useful as the only effective currency left in such a world.

No cap?

#50

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by PJL - Today at 03:49:41 AM

I agree that assets like stocks, bonds, property will be completely useless in a post apocalyptic society, but I do think gold will still be useful as the only effective currency left in such a world.