I remember when I first started, I was doing tourist missions in an unengineered Dolphin and accepted one with a huge paycheck to a site called "Amazing Sky". Turns out, the paycheck was huge because it was most of the way to Colonia, which I didn't even know was a thing back then. I didn't know about the Neutron Highway, didn't know about AFMUs, didn't know much really. I completed that mission successfully with a ship that had about a 22LY jump range. Knowing what I know now, I do NOT understand how I survived. Also, I have terminal space-madness.
This basically happened to mee too, though it was just data I was carrying. I changed ships *twice* on the way, bought an AFMU and made my first neutron jump half way to Colonia. It took me one *week* to make the entire trip. I've since then done the trip two more times, each time just about halving the travel time. I started playing about the time Jingles made his return to ED. So while Jingles has tried abit of everyting, I've kind of just travelled back and forth.
I remember seeing a video where someone was dishing out sweet justice to a player that killed a Fuel Rat. Just went in and said "CMDR sends his regards :)" and it was awesome! Remember kids, when you're bullying, there's always a bigger fish! PS: I think I stumbled across one of their carriers parked in a star system, something named Fuel Rat Rooftop? Made my heart jump and filled with glee :)
@@macbeth2354 the whole concept of the fuel rat's is so awesome in my opinion that I'd more than happily go out of my way to hunt players who bully the fuel rats. I'm still largely inexperienced in the game yet, but eventually, I'd do that just to dish out the justified karma.
As mentioned before, we neither participate nor encourage to hunt these who kill us rats. We are neutral, we only care about fuel. If we need to pay a rebuy, so what? We have fuel, you don't. Any questions? ;-)
@@dr.chives you Rats have fuel, we don't... But we have large guns and really don't like it when some moron shoots up our fuel supply! It makes us... Twitchy.
Jingles, I speak for many when I say I am loving this series. You have the rare ability to transport the viewer into the ship with you and share the ride, without the pain. Video editing par excellence. Eight or so years of following you is time well spent. Thank you.
when i tried to go out to colonia i got within 1k ly of it and decided to stop on a planet that had a biological signal on it only to forget to check the gravity until it was too late it was a 6.42g world... I was so upset when i respawned back at my home station
The extremely high star density near the core is pretty much the reason ive warned you from using those settings on a trip to colonia. :p Theres just so many stars that the engine literally chokes itself to death... (That and for some reason the engine totally dosent seem to like Colonias nebula in general) You might want to keep the higher res textures for the skybox and planets tho, they dont affect performance in any meaningful way but give you a much crisper image.
@@wes2129 The game can render them at a higher resolution allready, all you gotta do is modify the XML that stores your presets. Look up your "GraphicsConfiguration.xml" or "GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml" and change the values for "TextureSize" in the "GalaxyBackground" and "Planets" section respectively. You can go to 4k for the skybox and 8k textures for planets without noticable performance impact. The game gives you a nice amount of control there, you can increase the number of stars, brightness of the galaxy disc and nebulae etc. Even Ultra settings seem to be aimed at grafics cards with 2gb of vram, which is a little on the low side in 2020. Be warned about Colonia tho, even at stock settings the game takes quite some time to render the skybox when you change systems over there. Essentially, the witchspace animation is but a cleverly disguised loading screen, during wich the engine is composing the skybox image, according to what celestial objects are within a defined range. The more stuff its rendering the longer it takes, obviously. You can alter the number of stars, nebulae etc that will be part of the render, which in case of Colonia can spiral out of control rather rapidly.
After seeing the footage from this vid ive reverted the color and brightness settings back to stock (those were based on community recommendations, and even tho ive allready cut them in half its still been too much for my taste), and put up a copy for download: www.dropbox.com/s/4px14w75jfmzmqb/GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml?dl=0 Just replace the allready existing override file with this one, which has the benefit of not getting overwritten with every patch as opposed to altering the base config. These changes only apply to the highest grafics preset available, either Ultra or High, and if you expirience slowdowns in certain scenarios just pick a preset one step below the highest one the game offers you in the settings menue. Feel free to tinker with galaxy/nebula size and brightness values, it can yield quite cineastic results in the right part of the galaxy.
Anyone want to take bets on how long it's going to be before Jingles does need to call on the fuel rats? Would doing so constitute a Jingles landing on a star system?
Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy Kiss Me is what I use the most too, as, as you said, puts them in the order of hottest to coldest. But what that hurting me the most to watch is Jingles not turning off non necessary systems to put the fuel burn down and saving fuel that way. His 2,07 fuel burn rate will come back and bite his rear at some point. No matter how much fuel he had packed with (Which also decreases the jump range slightly) it will gonna bite him at some point. What there uses the most fuel beside the thrusters is the shield generator. But also the smaller things, like sensor, power distributor, plantery hangar and so on. In my diamondback explore, Im able to put my fuel burn rate down to 1,23 while in supercruise with a top rate powerplant that I can put in it. And that is with only thrusters, FSD and life support as running on the power. Even if I turn on sensor, it will add a 0,01 ton to the burn rate.
true. but never understood what the right order ist. some stars may not overheat the ship as fast as others, but I want to argue that it doesnt really play into it as you have time while exploring.
CMDR Axonteer here wishing you luck, way back when yeeears ago i did my colonia / sag A* trip with a 28ly DBX - i didnt even strip the guns lol... then i optimized it in colonia to 32 and went home via Sag A... a year or so later i ventured on a circumnavigation with my 52ly conda - took me a full year! (i have a job so my playtime is very limited) . By the time i was 2/3 trough Q4 update hit (2018, the famous Q4 update) so i had a new toy (FSS) to play with, and i even got some first discovered anomalies YAY ... although when i got home i realized that now you can easily push your conda to 70ly with some grinding for a week or two... well - i was glad i did it back when in my style, i heard nowdays there are carriers everywhere so the danger of flying damaged is very limited... oh - and the 3 billion i got from the exploration data? looking at how mining (never did it) is a goldmine now... well yea. im glad i did it when i did it. :D
You know, those shots were really pretty. Kind of reminded me oh Homeworld, where the epic music combined with the background space artwork, which is the best i've seen in a space game, really gave me goosebumps. But those were contemplative, out of reach, a distant dream ( even if the had a really powerfull impact, on me at least). There is something to be said about your journey, and the pretty sights you showed us along the way.. felt as if i could just reach out and touch... thanks for the series Jingles
Congrats on reaching Colonia! But I must say, I never felt the need to add extra fuel tanks on my exploration ships. If I ever ran low on fuel I just switched to economic planning instead of max range in the galaxy map and there usually is a scopeable star within 10-15ly. There really are a lot of stars out there, even in a 'desert'. You should definitely visit some of the most incredible places on your journey back, systems like The Dryau Awesomes (Dryau Ausms KG-Y e3390), The Collection of Wonders (Skaude AA-A h294), Dance of the Compact Quartet (Kyli Flyuae WO-A f39), Goliath’s Rest (Swoals IL-Y e0), Dances with Giants (Hypoe Bluae VP-O e6-8688) or Neighbouring Necklaces (Vegnoae BK-R d4-1105) are absolute worth a stop over!
@@102728 Definitely take a look at the itinerary for the Distant Worlds 2 expedition which was curated by some of the most experienced explorers in the game forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/dw2-oubound-route-map-archive-and-the-voyager-trail-route-home.507305/#post-7708584 You can check individual systems on www.edsm.net/, also check out E:D Market Connector to track your journey and progress on edsm and also inara.cz. You can check some screenshots from the DW2 expedition here roundme.com/tour/230658/view/1302952. And if you can afford it, get a VR headset :)
I would recommend at least *looking* at the FSS scan in each system, just in case there are any water-, ammonia- or earthlike worlds (Their frequencies are between the normal terrestrial planets and the gas giants; earthlikes have a very narrow band directly next to uninteresting planets, so you can't really tell if you have one from the FSS spectrum, but you can see if you have a candidate). These three types are pretty valuable, and earthlike worlds with your name on them are great for bragging rights ;)
@@procrastinatinggamer So you'd actually trust it. Cool, (Note, in zero G you can throw your ship all the way to colonia in theroy, it migh take a few billion years to get there but you could do it).
Yeah, it's way better to always FSS than to only do it in high count systems. High count systems are going to have lots and lots of little moons that are worth bugger all (1500cr each), whereas a single terraforming candidate is worth a million for a first find and surface map. I just came back from Colonia the long way, and sold 330m in data for my trouble (Would probably have been about 150-200m more if I mapped all HMCs but that takes forever). And the last 5000ly were in previously mapped space.
I made some 50 mil credits from my 5k light year trip. And going somewhere where no one has gone before and discovering new planets gives you nice bonus.
@@darthkarl99 That would imply that an astronaut on the ISS could throw something anywhere; I assure you, they can't. Gravity from other bodies still affects you out in space.
This and Subnautica. Thanks for posting the game play. I'll never get the time I'd like to play these, and they look great. Some of us don't get to do this, and we can live vicariously through your efforts. Great series of videos. Thank you.
OK, I have never considered getting this game (although I do enjoy watching you playing it) but that fattening up with that "eye candy" certainly is getting me rethinking that. Perhaps its time to dust off my Seitek joystick and crank up my 2080 Super and newly acquired 3900X to see this for myself. Many thanks Jingles! Keep up the good work! From A loyal Salt Miner from the Colonies.....
The game is much more newbie friendly than when I started right after horizons was released, if you’ve never got played it I’d give a thumbs up for a recommend.
It's worth it for the screenshots. Even the tutorial area has some stunning views. Outside of combat it can be super relaxing. Though doing more than 50 jumps usually gets a bit mind numbing.
If you're impressed by the size of this one galaxy, imagine how long it would take to get to a different galaxy let alone traveling between multiple galaxies... The sheer size of just the known universe is unimaginable let alone the stuff we can't see beyond that!
Well, just because a star system's planets have not been scanned or mapped doesn't necessarily mean you're the first person ever to see them - it can just mean the other guy had a Jingles Event before reaching a universal cartographics.
Well as they say, if you don't have a screen shot it didn't happen :) On a side note wouldn't suck if you made the hole 22K ly trip just to slam into the side of the station at the last second...
Jim S I made it to colonia from shinrarta dezrah last week and on entry I was killed on sight by an anaconda. It was not fun but luckily it let me spawn at the station in colonia even though I never made it to it
@@ryanhinson7329 That's why I never fly in open on trans-galactic journeys. Assholes don't care that you've been flying so long that your flight suit is fused to your backside, because they're assholes.
Ryan Hinson yeah, that’s the reason why I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve played in open. It’s like the entire player base is role playing psychopathic terrorists. Even in the Wild West people had a REASON to start shooting at each other. It might not have been a good reason. But they had one.
Started playing this game a week ago, after watching Jingles videos. Got it on sale off of steam and I must say to jingles < tongue in cheek > I hate you man for getting me involved in this game, haveing way to much fun. Cheers Admiral 🤩
Holy shit the difference in space with all the stars around from the start to the end of the video is amazing. It's so pretty at the end with all those stars.....
No jingles, there IS something more embarrassing then just running out of fuel and having to call for the fuel rats.. And that is doing so while livestreaming.... :)
The neutron star highway can be great but is exceedingly dangerous. I ran into a neutron star where the exclusion zone around it went almost all the way out to the end of the blue cones. I thought I could still get into the tips of the blue cones to supercharge my ship and go, but the moment I entered the very tip of the cone, it tumbled my ship into the exclusion zone, forcing me out of super-cruse, immediately knocking every system in my ship offline (including engines) and inevitably destroying my ship.
I would also suggest taking some repair limpets as well. This means you can repair your hull should have any close encounters with high gravity planets.
Remember Jingles you can inject your fsd , so taking a second fuel tank is redundant... have some minerals with you, the synthesis process is the best part of this game. For long trips, the best way is the neutron stars road, AFM module, and a decent amount of materials. You will never run out of fuel, ammo, or repairs. I did the 5000 ly trip in only one hour like that.
Grats, old man, very well done. Long trip, but doing it the way you did is definitely the right way. Loving the vids, keep it up! Been following you since the, well relatively early days of WoWS, and it was the Subnautica series that really got me hooked. Never gonna miss me a Jingles vid :) Good show!
Good timing on releasing this, Jingles. I'm getting ready to make an attempt to circumnavigate the galaxy, and let's just say that I'm really curious about how long it's gonna take me, even with my fully-kitted Anaconda.
Traveling in style. My first trip to Colonia was in a keelback with a stock fsd. 22,000 LYs at 15 LYs a jump. Two weeks of travel. Nowadays I've got my Conda, a VR headset, and OVRdrop to play shows while I fly into deep space for exploration.
Once CMDR Jingles struggled to transport tea in a sidewinder. Now he is in a Anaconda doing the infamous Colonia run. Enjoying the Elite Dangerous content very much.
If you get bored on your way and want to speed it up I recommend the spansh route plotter - it will give you a route via neutron stars (just remember to refuel every now and again), of course that route will be rather well travelled! Watching the view of the galaxy change as you move around the galaxy is one of the coolest things - enjoy the core where the stars dot the whole of the sky! If you ever go to the edge of the galaxy looking out it literally is just black - no light at all and you really feel like you're out on a limb in the middle of nothing! Have a good trip Jingles! You've come a long way since you regarded 500ly as a long way :-)! (Literally!)
"You can outfit your ship for speed or utility or the trip to Colonia." Oh there is a third option sir... doing it on whim. I opted to head out to Sagittarius mid way through a mission for power play when I got fed up with Power play. Just jumped on the map screen and said "Jumping into THE black hole would be better than this." I never fully expected to make the journey in my little diamond back that wasn't really properly fitted.. but I did. No shields, No repair hardware, no weapons. I made it, ( took me months as a scanned and landed on many of the worlds I saw. ) and opted to swing over to Colonia.. because it was slightly shorter than returning the way I came.
Just going to say that I grew up in a really rural area and seeing the milky way displayed before me cannot be replicated adequately on a computer screen.
I was disappointed that there wasn't another cock up. I was expecting some kind of disaster either part way or at the end. Come on Jingles, if you're not careful you're going to start getting a reputation as a competent space pilot! 😜
I started to follow you as a fan of Wot, then WoWs joined the party. After a few years, I am glad you showed us the ED, it is deffinately my favourite non-WG series.
Keep a eye out when your doing planet scanning. Guardian/human/thargoid sites are shown in location info when you scan each body. lots of stuff supposedly still to be found in the game
I flew to colonia once. I had about 45 mil at the time, and spent a few of it to purchase a diamondback explorer. Real cheap ship. I bought modules (no engineering) and outfitted for jump distance and fuel efficiency, with a fuel scoop and two field repair units. I flew in a private session because screw public. I used a route planner to take a neutron highway and proceeded to fly for about two or three hours a day for three days. I saw things most people never get to see. I experienced so much crazy in terms of super hyperactive neutron stars. I saw night skies that are beyond the wildest dreams of even the most primitive humans without so much as two campfires to pollute it. I made it to colonia. I ran some missions. I even bought a Krait Mk II and fell in love with the ship. Made a few million in exploration data. My name is on about fifteen entire systems out there along the route, mostly the ones I stopped to scoop fuel from along the way. Ran some missions out there, had fun, missed the hustle and bustle of the bubble and stations with good services, and my other ships. Colonia is great to visit, but there's so little there and the pirates are BAD. So I bought a sidewinder, hit the self-destruct button outside the station mass-lock and respawned in my ORIGINAL home system. Worked my way rapidly through several small ships until I made it back to my home station where all of my ships were. Ended up remote selling the krait and diamondback because it would have been hundreds of millions to get them home otherwise, and I didn't feel like doing that. Ah, good times.
Oh boy colonia run! (cries in 18ly jump range iClipper journey) Also another acronym for scoopable stars is "Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me", just in case you can't remember the other one.
No Jingles! You did it the Neutron star jump way, some of us did it before that was a thing. And myself, I did it in a Dolphin, 33 light years at a time. Over 890 jumps to get there. Then 450 jumps to go to SAG A, and...... then over 1000 jumps back too Founders' world. And even then was still 28% short of exploration Elite status. Oh yeah and the last 175 jumps were without a canopy. Several times i had to land to get synth materials to recharge the O2 on board. Second striping to bare minimums is not how anyone would prepare to go to Colonia in the first place! And even then anyone who did has less than 25 hours of sense ingame..... But just because you make your ship to the highest jump capacity there are sliders in the nav that allow you to set a max jump range so you can have a 84ly jump capable ship and limit it to half that with but a slider.
I love this game (unfortunatelly not too much time to play it "properly) for one thing. It makes your own plotline each time you play it. So far i had "star wars like" dogfight in the middle of asteroids field, smuggling and running from authorities, exploration run that took me a week of playtrough etc.
You're telling me the Anaconda doesn't come with a shower or a coffee machine? You need to steal, ahem, legally salvage yourself an MCRN Corvette-class frigate.
Jingles, it is entirely possible to have an 80Ly jump conda that is fully equipped for exporation with vehicle hanger and shields for landing (stripped, so useless for combat). Detailed Surface Scanner adds no weight, the key thing for neutron superhighway is probably AFMU for repairing frame shift drive after 30-40 supercharged jumps.
Well Jingles, sounds like you have the exploration bug. You are constantly going to wondering what else is there out here. You won't be back to the bubble anytime soon. Stay safe out there commander.
Glad you mentioned the Road to Colonia pit stops as I was contemplating doing the run - not for engineering as I'm taking a different pace to that from yourself, but more as something to do now it's not worth raising funds from mining and because I was thinking about doing it at some point anyhow to try and get close to Elite in exploration. Now looking to hit all 20 stops on the way out (I now know also there's a couple of systems with two stops), might also try and find Jaques Station if near by. Route back will be more direct, but I'll be in my Diamondback Explorer with a 58 light year jump range (max just under 62, no guardian tech).
Good vid , and you covered the fsd damage after the neutrons.. good point. When I went to colonia I did alot of exploration , it payed handsomely when I got there . Havnt returned to sol since going there . Making alot of doe exploring out here , plenty to blackholes so many infact I got bored doing those , so I tend to mix it up abit, looking for water worlds and earthlikes.
i am a volunteer Fuel rat (with 22 rat rescues to my name(while fuel rats are entirely voluntarily anyway)) and i have never felt any more joy than helping refuel a "client" even if its to get to the nearby fuel star, as a fuel rat it is honestly the best feeling. maybe if you do need us. the JumpyFuelyFliyer (my rat vessel) will be ready to assist ;)
I'm all for Fleet Carriers, but I am glad I made it to Beagle Point before Fleet Carriers were released. And I recognize that others made it there before Engineering and FSD Boosters.
That's amazing. A group of players doing their level best to ensure that others have the fuel (for a price) to get where they're going if they ever run out, and the developers like their services so much they honor them with advertising campaigns for their services outside of the various orbital stations, which cements them in the lore and history of the Elite universe. I approve wholeheartedly.
If I'm not mistaken, they do it for free. They come out, give you some fuel and some advice on how not to have it happen again and away they go. They have a website I think if you wanna read up more about them.
@@pastasmurfn7959 Not only for free, but also to the literal edge of the galaxy and then some. Check out the longest rat rescue, party of 3 just to be able to have enough fuel to get at least one of them all the way out and a 2 day run in SC. And most of the 2 day run was blind to save power. Like throwing a dart from a few light years and having it end up in orbit of the moon.
Those ads weren't placed there specificly for the fuel rats, some time ago the developers asked for players to submit ads and those and others were added to the game. The fuel rats do deserve all positive attention though, they're an amazing group.
@@nickierv13 The longest rescue was beyond Beagle Point, and then 3 weeks(!) in supercruise. Took five rats, who refuelled each other, plus a support ship.
@@pastasmurfn7959 Correct, the service of the rats is completely free. If you ever run out of fuel, do not hesitate, call us. We have fuel, you don't. ;-)
There are some E:D squadrons out there who spend a not-inconsiderable amount of time researching people who 'cat call' Fuel Rats (the term given for someone who fakes a call for help to bait out a Fuel Rat). This is so that said squadrons can send their regards to the cat callers in the form of several thousand multicannon slugs. Edit to add: The Fuel Rats do not participate in these counter-cat-calls by organizing them or leaking information about cats. The Fuel Rats are true E:D neutrals. The above noted cat hunter squadrons are just people who tend to take the concept of "sacred altruism" very, very seriously.
Just to mention it: The rats do not participate in this. We are strictly neutral, we only care about fuel. If we need to eat a rebuy, so what? I personally just like the irony of getting a "Fuel Transfer Complete" before they can kill me. Otoh, it is no big problem. Cats are rare.
@@dr.chives Yes, you are absolutely correct. I'll edit my initial statement. But I do chat up a few guys who are... how shall we say, of technically noble intent but extremely unkind methods.
Jingles; Ok, as far as the fields of Brown Dwarfs go (We used to call those "Badlands"...Jingles, if you look at the galaxy map with the grid on, you will notice numbers on those grids. Part of those numbers is "Altitude" above or below the galactic ZERO plane (dead center altitude). Those badlands comprise the ENTIRE AREA about 100 LY each, above and below that line throughout almost the entire galaxy (Minus the core region). Just stay above +100, or below -100 and you will be clear of it. It will not take thousands of LY to go around it. Just stay above or below it.
Jingles, if you ever get the chance while near the galactic core, take the opportunity to go as high as possible above the galactic plane as possible (preferably without getting yourself stuck there) to take in the view, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Back in 2017 myself and a couple of friends headed out into the black to visit Sag. A* and Colonia, (never believing for one minute that we would actually survive the trip.) At one point we decided totally out of the blue to go as high above the galactic plane as we could. The end result proved to be one the highlights of the entire trip, no pun intended. We ended up making a series our of our journey, posting it on RUclips.
This series got me back into elite. I got stuck for years in my cobra, not knowing to how move forward. Now, after doing some deep space mining I've managed to get myself a Krait Phantom and a Python and I'm looking forward to see what more you can do in this game. End goals is to make heavily engineered combat ships and to get myself a clipper
Glad you did that before the nerf.... i dont think fdev understands that easy mining actually makes the game better, you can focus on what you want to do, instead of endless grinding for money
Hey jingles got the game last week and absolutely loving it. doing the engineering grind at the moment,just went out to the crystal shard site you went too,however havent done what you did to get back quicker,i thought ird be a good idea to do the return journey aswell,i suppose it could be worse as i am in a krait phantom with a 40Ly jump range. Love the content keep up the great work
Just so you know jingles you can actually double charge from a neutron stars and get a massive increase. Its not the easiest thing to do but it is possible
"I have never need to call the fuel rats YET" That's because a Jingles mishap is a mishap rarely survived to call for help.
Indeed they are rarely survivable! You have to admit, it makes a better video!
Still, me and Jingles times the yet perfectly.
Fuel Flag activated!
I remember when I first started, I was doing tourist missions in an unengineered Dolphin and accepted one with a huge paycheck to a site called "Amazing Sky". Turns out, the paycheck was huge because it was most of the way to Colonia, which I didn't even know was a thing back then. I didn't know about the Neutron Highway, didn't know about AFMUs, didn't know much really. I completed that mission successfully with a ship that had about a 22LY jump range. Knowing what I know now, I do NOT understand how I survived.
Also, I have terminal space-madness.
This basically happened to mee too, though it was just data I was carrying.
I changed ships *twice* on the way, bought an AFMU and made my first neutron jump half way to Colonia. It took me one *week* to make the entire trip.
I've since then done the trip two more times, each time just about halving the travel time.
I started playing about the time Jingles made his return to ED. So while Jingles has tried abit of everyting, I've kind of just travelled back and forth.
Jingles: "I have never need to call the fuel rats YET." Because Jingles always crashes before he has a chance to run out of fuel.
I remember seeing a video where someone was dishing out sweet justice to a player that killed a Fuel Rat.
Just went in and said "CMDR sends his regards :)" and it was awesome!
Remember kids, when you're bullying, there's always a bigger fish!
PS: I think I stumbled across one of their carriers parked in a star system, something named Fuel Rat Rooftop? Made my heart jump and filled with glee :)
@Norman 04 never gets old! Space karma in effect!
@@macbeth2354 the whole concept of the fuel rat's is so awesome in my opinion that I'd more than happily go out of my way to hunt players who bully the fuel rats. I'm still largely inexperienced in the game yet, but eventually, I'd do that just to dish out the justified karma.
As mentioned before, we neither participate nor encourage to hunt these who kill us rats. We are neutral, we only care about fuel. If we need to pay a rebuy, so what? We have fuel, you don't. Any questions? ;-)
@@dr.chives you Rats have fuel, we don't...
But we have large guns and really don't like it when some moron shoots up our fuel supply!
It makes us... Twitchy.
@@dr.chives yes we get twitchy and fuel rat killers dont want to see us "twitchy"
those beauty shots would make great home screens, elite is such a pretty game
Agreed!
I think imma make some Wallpaper Engine Wallpapers out of those, I'll update you tomorrow on that (If I don't forget about it :D)
Ok so, I made two backgrounds, they´re out on Wallpaper Engine rn and they´re named: Elite Dangerous Star and Planet and Elite Dangerous Twin Stars
Almost as impressive as the ice vents.
Actually Jingles, KGB FOAM is a mnemonic rather than an acronym since the letters don't stand for anything.
....
Jingles?
*loading of a shotgun sound in the distance*
but their is one I heard O Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me
@@wolfdarstar Ornery beavers are fucking great killing machines
*sound of white phosphorus mortar being loaded*
I just want to remind everyone that a "carbon star" is a diamond the size of a star.
Jingles, I speak for many when I say I am loving this series. You have the rare ability to transport the viewer into the ship with you and share the ride, without the pain. Video editing par excellence. Eight or so years of following you is time well spent. Thank you.
"i am a galactic hipster"
-Jingles , 2020
Damn, beat me to it lol
when i tried to go out to colonia i got within 1k ly of it and decided to stop on a planet that had a biological signal on it only to forget to check the gravity until it was too late it was a 6.42g world...
I was so upset when i respawned back at my home station
Sounds like a good reason to check in at every little station on the highway to me.
So painful, how many RL months before you tried it again?
@@57thorns I haven't the kiddie pool(bubble) is enough for me after that fiasco
Biggest F imaginable.
The extremely high star density near the core is pretty much the reason ive warned you from using those settings on a trip to colonia. :p
Theres just so many stars that the engine literally chokes itself to death... (That and for some reason the engine totally dosent seem to like Colonias nebula in general)
You might want to keep the higher res textures for the skybox and planets tho, they dont affect performance in any meaningful way but give you a much crisper image.
Just wondering where I can get the high res textures for Elite? Can you point me in the right direction?
would like to know too
@@wes2129 The game can render them at a higher resolution allready, all you gotta do is modify the XML that stores your presets.
Look up your "GraphicsConfiguration.xml" or "GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml" and change the values for "TextureSize" in the "GalaxyBackground"
and "Planets" section respectively. You can go to 4k for the skybox and 8k textures for planets without noticable performance impact.
The game gives you a nice amount of control there, you can increase the number of stars, brightness of the galaxy disc and nebulae etc.
Even Ultra settings seem to be aimed at grafics cards with 2gb of vram, which is a little on the low side in 2020.
Be warned about Colonia tho, even at stock settings the game takes quite some time to render the skybox when you change systems over there.
Essentially, the witchspace animation is but a cleverly disguised loading screen, during wich the engine is composing the skybox image, according
to what celestial objects are within a defined range. The more stuff its rendering the longer it takes, obviously.
You can alter the number of stars, nebulae etc that will be part of the render, which in case of Colonia can spiral out of control rather rapidly.
After seeing the footage from this vid ive reverted the color and brightness settings back to stock (those were based on community recommendations, and even
tho ive allready cut them in half its still been too much for my taste), and put up a copy for download:
www.dropbox.com/s/4px14w75jfmzmqb/GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml?dl=0
Just replace the allready existing override file with this one, which has the benefit of not getting overwritten with every patch as opposed to altering the base config.
These changes only apply to the highest grafics preset available, either Ultra or High, and if you expirience slowdowns in certain scenarios just pick a preset one step
below the highest one the game offers you in the settings menue.
Feel free to tinker with galaxy/nebula size and brightness values, it can yield quite cineastic results in the right part of the galaxy.
@@CptMooney Awesome! Thanks for the info, I will definitely play around with these on my PC commander!
Loving this series, best moment of the day! Thank you so much!!
Anyone want to take bets on how long it's going to be before Jingles does need to call on the fuel rats? Would doing so constitute a Jingles landing on a star system?
No bet.
But I would still not call that a Jingles Landing (tm).
I always thought the Jingles landing on a star system would be shorting his FSD out in a neutron star jet cone
@@mercurylamp4009 ok, that I would call a Jingles Landing.
Jingles landings would be more of a Hull Seals problem
I feel the term Jingles Landing is being stretched a bit thin now by too many trying hard to find a new thing to apply it to.
KGBFOAM works, but
"Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me"
Actually puts them in the right order ;)
Lidl Potato yeah, but KGBFOAM lets you make a bunch of Cold War espionage jokes. :P
Only Bad Astronomers Feel Good Knowing Mneumonics, that's my favourite
Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy Kiss Me is what I use the most too, as, as you said, puts them in the order of hottest to coldest. But what that hurting me the most to watch is Jingles not turning off non necessary systems to put the fuel burn down and saving fuel that way. His 2,07 fuel burn rate will come back and bite his rear at some point. No matter how much fuel he had packed with (Which also decreases the jump range slightly) it will gonna bite him at some point. What there uses the most fuel beside the thrusters is the shield generator. But also the smaller things, like sensor, power distributor, plantery hangar and so on. In my diamondback explore, Im able to put my fuel burn rate down to 1,23 while in supercruise with a top rate powerplant that I can put in it. And that is with only thrusters, FSD and life support as running on the power. Even if I turn on sensor, it will add a 0,01 ton to the burn rate.
My personal favourite is "Always Be Fueling Or Gonna Kill Myself" .... which I did when I was new to brown-nosing dwarfs ....
true. but never understood what the right order ist. some stars may not overheat the ship as fast as others, but I want to argue that it doesnt really play into it as you have time while exploring.
During the eye candy bit, I broke once I saw the neutron star. I just can't stop envisioning it as a wacky wavy arm flailing inflatable tube man!
CMDR Axonteer here wishing you luck, way back when yeeears ago i did my colonia / sag A* trip with a 28ly DBX - i didnt even strip the guns lol... then i optimized it in colonia to 32 and went home via Sag A... a year or so later i ventured on a circumnavigation with my 52ly conda - took me a full year! (i have a job so my playtime is very limited)
. By the time i was 2/3 trough Q4 update hit (2018, the famous Q4 update) so i had a new toy (FSS) to play with, and i even got some first discovered anomalies YAY ... although when i got home i realized that now you can easily push your conda to 70ly with some grinding for a week or two... well - i was glad i did it back when in my style, i heard nowdays there are carriers everywhere so the danger of flying damaged is very limited... oh - and the 3 billion i got from the exploration data? looking at how mining (never did it) is a goldmine now... well yea. im glad i did it when i did it. :D
You know, those shots were really pretty. Kind of reminded me oh Homeworld, where the epic music combined with the background space artwork, which is the best i've seen in a space game, really gave me goosebumps. But those were contemplative, out of reach, a distant dream ( even if the had a really powerfull impact, on me at least). There is something to be said about your journey, and the pretty sights you showed us along the way.. felt as if i could just reach out and touch... thanks for the series Jingles
That's what's so cool about this game. If you see a star you like, you can go there!
@@davidmoore1253 To loosely quote Todd Howard, if you see it, you can go there!
Some say Elite is a screenshot tool, not a space game... ;-) There are so many beautiful places to go and to see, it seldom gets boring.
Homeworld will always hold a special place in my heart. I still listen to adagio for strings at least once a week 😅
Congrats on reaching Colonia! But I must say, I never felt the need to add extra fuel tanks on my exploration ships. If I ever ran low on fuel I just switched to economic planning instead of max range in the galaxy map and there usually is a scopeable star within 10-15ly. There really are a lot of stars out there, even in a 'desert'.
You should definitely visit some of the most incredible places on your journey back, systems like The Dryau Awesomes (Dryau Ausms KG-Y e3390), The Collection of Wonders (Skaude AA-A h294), Dance of the Compact Quartet (Kyli Flyuae WO-A f39), Goliath’s Rest (Swoals IL-Y e0), Dances with Giants (Hypoe Bluae VP-O e6-8688) or Neighbouring Necklaces (Vegnoae BK-R d4-1105) are absolute worth a stop over!
this is exactly what I tend to do, but I guess Jingles knows himself well enough to realize he needs the extra leeway :P
I'll be doing the long trek soon as well, where can I find these more special systems listed?
@@102728 Definitely take a look at the itinerary for the Distant Worlds 2 expedition which was curated by some of the most experienced explorers in the game forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/dw2-oubound-route-map-archive-and-the-voyager-trail-route-home.507305/#post-7708584 You can check individual systems on www.edsm.net/, also check out E:D Market Connector to track your journey and progress on edsm and also inara.cz. You can check some screenshots from the DW2 expedition here roundme.com/tour/230658/view/1302952. And if you can afford it, get a VR headset :)
I'm going to have to remember that list.
Well, on the colonia highway, I guess we need less than two hours to refuel someone. Thanks for the shoutout to us rats! :-) Would love to refuel you!
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@@deadmausish worst reply of the decade
I would recommend at least *looking* at the FSS scan in each system, just in case there are any water-, ammonia- or earthlike worlds (Their frequencies are between the normal terrestrial planets and the gas giants; earthlikes have a very narrow band directly next to uninteresting planets, so you can't really tell if you have one from the FSS spectrum, but you can see if you have a candidate).
These three types are pretty valuable, and earthlike worlds with your name on them are great for bragging rights ;)
Björn Seine if there’s ever a Planet Jingles and it gets a colony, I would trust its auto-landing systems about as far as I can throw my ship. :P
@@procrastinatinggamer So you'd actually trust it. Cool, (Note, in zero G you can throw your ship all the way to colonia in theroy, it migh take a few billion years to get there but you could do it).
Yeah, it's way better to always FSS than to only do it in high count systems. High count systems are going to have lots and lots of little moons that are worth bugger all (1500cr each), whereas a single terraforming candidate is worth a million for a first find and surface map.
I just came back from Colonia the long way, and sold 330m in data for my trouble (Would probably have been about 150-200m more if I mapped all HMCs but that takes forever). And the last 5000ly were in previously mapped space.
I made some 50 mil credits from my 5k light year trip. And going somewhere where no one has gone before and discovering new planets gives you nice bonus.
@@darthkarl99 That would imply that an astronaut on the ISS could throw something anywhere; I assure you, they can't. Gravity from other bodies still affects you out in space.
This and Subnautica. Thanks for posting the game play. I'll never get the time I'd like to play these, and they look great. Some of us don't get to do this, and we can live vicariously through your efforts. Great series of videos. Thank you.
OK, I have never considered getting this game (although I do enjoy watching you playing it) but that fattening up with that "eye candy" certainly is getting me rethinking that. Perhaps its time to dust off my Seitek joystick and crank up my 2080 Super and newly acquired 3900X to see this for myself. Many thanks Jingles! Keep up the good work!
From A loyal Salt Miner from the Colonies.....
The game is much more newbie friendly than when I started right after horizons was released, if you’ve never got played it I’d give a thumbs up for a recommend.
@@angiegamez8600 Totally. It wasn't really newbie friendly in 2014 when it came out.
It's worth it for the screenshots. Even the tutorial area has some stunning views.
Outside of combat it can be super relaxing. Though doing more than 50 jumps usually gets a bit mind numbing.
If you're impressed by the size of this one galaxy, imagine how long it would take to get to a different galaxy let alone traveling between multiple galaxies... The sheer size of just the known universe is unimaginable let alone the stuff we can't see beyond that!
Now this is a quality Jingles video!
Jingles, you forgot to being your commemerative mugs! You could have sold those for millions!
We are exposed to Jinglels' true passion. He is, at heart, a tourist. If the game had ranks of tourism, Jingles would START as Elite.
Well, just because a star system's planets have not been scanned or mapped doesn't necessarily mean you're the first person ever to see them - it can just mean the other guy had a Jingles Event before reaching a universal cartographics.
Well as they say, if you don't have a screen shot it didn't happen :)
On a side note wouldn't suck if you made the hole 22K ly trip just to slam into the side of the station at the last second...
Jim S I made it to colonia from shinrarta dezrah last week and on entry I was killed on sight by an anaconda. It was not fun but luckily it let me spawn at the station in colonia even though I never made it to it
@@ryanhinson7329
That's why I never fly in open on trans-galactic journeys. Assholes don't care that you've been flying so long that your flight suit is fused to your backside, because they're assholes.
@@ryanhinson7329 I would never do a journey like this in anything but solo mode. Open mode is for fuel rescue. Or were you smoked by an NPC?
Ryan Hinson yeah, that’s the reason why I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve played in open. It’s like the entire player base is role playing psychopathic terrorists. Even in the Wild West people had a REASON to start shooting at each other. It might not have been a good reason. But they had one.
Started playing this game a week ago, after watching Jingles videos. Got it on sale off of steam and I must say to jingles < tongue in cheek > I hate you man for getting me involved in this game, haveing way to much fun. Cheers Admiral 🤩
This is giving me serious Stargate Universe vibes, with the shape of the Anaconda, and the fuel scooping from stars. :D
I'm a fuel rat, had to rescue someone about 12K LY outside of the bubble. He was in a vulture. It must have taken him months to get out that far.
😂 it was me, i remember you😅 👍
Love this series, Its so funny that the day I am traveling across country, you upload a video about traveling across the galaxy.
Holy shit the difference in space with all the stars around from the start to the end of the video is amazing. It's so pretty at the end with all those stars.....
No jingles, there IS something more embarrassing then just running out of fuel and having to call for the fuel rats.. And that is doing so while livestreaming.... :)
Another acronym I find it easy to remember the star classes you can scoop from is...........
Always Be Fuelling Or Gonna Kill Myself
The neutron star highway can be great but is exceedingly dangerous. I ran into a neutron star where the exclusion zone around it went almost all the way out to the end of the blue cones. I thought I could still get into the tips of the blue cones to supercharge my ship and go, but the moment I entered the very tip of the cone, it tumbled my ship into the exclusion zone, forcing me out of super-cruse, immediately knocking every system in my ship offline (including engines) and inevitably destroying my ship.
Sounds like a white dwarf. Those have huge exclusion zones and are tricky to boost from. I consider them not worth the effort.
@@xacharon I very well might have confused it with a white dwarf. If that is the case, I will definitely be avoiding those in the future.
Congratulations on an incredible journey's end! :)
Elite really makes you appreciate how big space is.
I would also suggest taking some repair limpets as well. This means you can repair your hull should have any close encounters with high gravity planets.
Glad to see jingles, who ive been watching for years, playing a game i absolutely love and have been playing for years
That music the first minute. Makes me think of Elite 2 Frontier aaaaaah
The montage of stars and such are "Picturesque" and amazing. nice jingles. Back to the salt mine i go...
Remember... i am not salty, i am seasoned accordingly
I'm glad you mentioned the 100Ly of brown dwarfs, I just started my journey to Colonia and was getting worried as I jumped through that area
Jingles I have been a long time subscriber. enjoy all of your content. and would like to say. thank you from the kingdom of Jordan
Remember Jingles you can inject your fsd , so taking a second fuel tank is redundant... have some minerals with you, the synthesis process is the best part of this game.
For long trips, the best way is the neutron stars road, AFM module, and a decent amount of materials. You will never run out of fuel, ammo, or repairs. I did the 5000 ly trip in only one hour like that.
Grats, old man, very well done. Long trip, but doing it the way you did is definitely the right way. Loving the vids, keep it up! Been following you since the, well relatively early days of WoWS, and it was the Subnautica series that really got me hooked. Never gonna miss me a Jingles vid :) Good show!
Good timing on releasing this, Jingles. I'm getting ready to make an attempt to circumnavigate the galaxy, and let's just say that I'm really curious about how long it's gonna take me, even with my fully-kitted Anaconda.
Oh my, you add so many extra jumps and add so much scooping time taking extra fuel.
Fuel Rats vs gankers/griefers: it's amazing to me that Elite represents both the best and the worst of humanity all in one galaxy.
Traveling in style. My first trip to Colonia was in a keelback with a stock fsd. 22,000 LYs at 15 LYs a jump. Two weeks of travel.
Nowadays I've got my Conda, a VR headset, and OVRdrop to play shows while I fly into deep space for exploration.
NGL i was expecting a 3 or 4 part miniseries about your adventures to Colonia but this was still cool.
Once CMDR Jingles struggled to transport tea in a sidewinder. Now he is in a Anaconda doing the infamous Colonia run.
Enjoying the Elite Dangerous content very much.
If we've learned anything from The Expanse its this: if you don't have a coffee maker on your ship you're not a real spacer.
I am really enjoying this series. Please keep going.
I have loved watching your elite dangerous videos Jingles! It has made me decide to get the game and i have really enjoyed it!
If you get bored on your way and want to speed it up I recommend the spansh route plotter - it will give you a route via neutron stars (just remember to refuel every now and again), of course that route will be rather well travelled! Watching the view of the galaxy change as you move around the galaxy is one of the coolest things - enjoy the core where the stars dot the whole of the sky! If you ever go to the edge of the galaxy looking out it literally is just black - no light at all and you really feel like you're out on a limb in the middle of nothing! Have a good trip Jingles! You've come a long way since you regarded 500ly as a long way :-)! (Literally!)
"We're on a mission from Sol."
"You can outfit your ship for speed or utility or the trip to Colonia."
Oh there is a third option sir... doing it on whim.
I opted to head out to Sagittarius mid way through a mission for power play when I got fed up with Power play. Just jumped on the map screen and said "Jumping into THE black hole would be better than this."
I never fully expected to make the journey in my little diamond back that wasn't really properly fitted.. but I did. No shields, No repair hardware, no weapons.
I made it, ( took me months as a scanned and landed on many of the worlds I saw. ) and opted to swing over to Colonia.. because it was slightly shorter than returning the way I came.
Just going to say that I grew up in a really rural area and seeing the milky way displayed before me cannot be replicated adequately on a computer screen.
I have bought Elite Dangerous because of your Videos and have Been having a blast . Thank you for showing me this awesome game
Jingles drops a Blues Brothers quote in the description. Today is going to be a good day!
Bloody Jingles....first it was world of tanks, then Subnautica and now this!!!
Stop making me spend money 😂😂😂
Another great series chap. Keep it up 👍🏻
same here :)
I was disappointed that there wasn't another cock up. I was expecting some kind of disaster either part way or at the end. Come on Jingles, if you're not careful you're going to start getting a reputation as a competent space pilot! 😜
I started to follow you as a fan of Wot, then WoWs joined the party. After a few years, I am glad you showed us the ED, it is deffinately my favourite non-WG series.
Keep a eye out when your doing planet scanning. Guardian/human/thargoid sites are shown in location info when you scan each body. lots of stuff supposedly still to be found in the game
With Engineering and garudian tech you can get a Colonia trip down to 4 hours. But exploring is fun so slow boating is fun sometimes.
I'm a fuel rat. Thanks for the love commander. You've done the Colonia run now do the run to Beagle Point.
I really have to get back into this game. Haven't touched it in so long. Appreciate the video.
I flew to colonia once. I had about 45 mil at the time, and spent a few of it to purchase a diamondback explorer. Real cheap ship. I bought modules (no engineering) and outfitted for jump distance and fuel efficiency, with a fuel scoop and two field repair units. I flew in a private session because screw public. I used a route planner to take a neutron highway and proceeded to fly for about two or three hours a day for three days. I saw things most people never get to see. I experienced so much crazy in terms of super hyperactive neutron stars. I saw night skies that are beyond the wildest dreams of even the most primitive humans without so much as two campfires to pollute it. I made it to colonia. I ran some missions. I even bought a Krait Mk II and fell in love with the ship. Made a few million in exploration data. My name is on about fifteen entire systems out there along the route, mostly the ones I stopped to scoop fuel from along the way. Ran some missions out there, had fun, missed the hustle and bustle of the bubble and stations with good services, and my other ships. Colonia is great to visit, but there's so little there and the pirates are BAD. So I bought a sidewinder, hit the self-destruct button outside the station mass-lock and respawned in my ORIGINAL home system. Worked my way rapidly through several small ships until I made it back to my home station where all of my ships were. Ended up remote selling the krait and diamondback because it would have been hundreds of millions to get them home otherwise, and I didn't feel like doing that. Ah, good times.
just imagine Jingles would have crashed on the final landing .-p
Congratulations, Commander Jingles!
That was a thing of beauty Jingles! Congrats on reaching the Tier system.
Thank you Jingles. That was most enjoyable.
Oh boy colonia run! (cries in 18ly jump range iClipper journey)
Also another acronym for scoopable stars is "Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me", just in case you can't remember the other one.
haha, that's a new one for me
Point of order, that's a mnemonic device, not an acronym. But if it helps you remember it, it works.
@@ScottKenny1978 Oh cool, thanks for the clarification.
No Jingles! You did it the Neutron star jump way, some of us did it before that was a thing. And myself, I did it in a Dolphin, 33 light years at a time. Over 890 jumps to get there. Then 450 jumps to go to SAG A, and...... then over 1000 jumps back too Founders' world. And even then was still 28% short of exploration Elite status. Oh yeah and the last 175 jumps were without a canopy. Several times i had to land to get synth materials to recharge the O2 on board.
Second striping to bare minimums is not how anyone would prepare to go to Colonia in the first place! And even then anyone who did has less than 25 hours of sense ingame..... But just because you make your ship to the highest jump capacity there are sliders in the nav that allow you to set a max jump range so you can have a 84ly jump capable ship and limit it to half that with but a slider.
I love this game (unfortunatelly not too much time to play it "properly) for one thing. It makes your own plotline each time you play it. So far i had "star wars like" dogfight in the middle of asteroids field, smuggling and running from authorities, exploration run that took me a week of playtrough etc.
Well done, Jingles! I'm proud of you for not building a suicidal deck chair.
You're telling me the Anaconda doesn't come with a shower or a coffee machine? You need to steal, ahem, legally salvage yourself an MCRN Corvette-class frigate.
Jingles, it is entirely possible to have an 80Ly jump conda that is fully equipped for exporation with vehicle hanger and shields for landing (stripped, so useless for combat). Detailed Surface Scanner adds no weight, the key thing for neutron superhighway is probably AFMU for repairing frame shift drive after 30-40 supercharged jumps.
This is a great series. I have elite dangerous, but your videos make me want to get the dlc.
Well Jingles, sounds like you have the exploration bug. You are constantly going to wondering what else is there out here. You won't be back to the bubble anytime soon. Stay safe out there commander.
Glad you mentioned the Road to Colonia pit stops as I was contemplating doing the run - not for engineering as I'm taking a different pace to that from yourself, but more as something to do now it's not worth raising funds from mining and because I was thinking about doing it at some point anyhow to try and get close to Elite in exploration. Now looking to hit all 20 stops on the way out (I now know also there's a couple of systems with two stops), might also try and find Jaques Station if near by. Route back will be more direct, but I'll be in my Diamondback Explorer with a 58 light year jump range (max just under 62, no guardian tech).
You got to hand it to them, Frontier Developments made the space in Elite Dangerous look really awesome.
Ganking a Fuel Rat is a quick way to make yourself a public enemy in this game.
Good vid , and you covered the fsd damage after the neutrons.. good point. When I went to colonia I did alot of exploration , it payed handsomely when I got there . Havnt returned to sol since going there . Making alot of doe exploring out here , plenty to blackholes so many infact I got bored doing those , so I tend to mix it up abit, looking for water worlds and earthlikes.
i am a volunteer Fuel rat (with 22 rat rescues to my name(while fuel rats are entirely voluntarily anyway)) and i have never felt any more joy than helping refuel a "client" even if its to get to the nearby fuel star, as a fuel rat it is honestly the best feeling. maybe if you do need us. the JumpyFuelyFliyer (my rat vessel) will be ready to assist ;)
I'm all for Fleet Carriers, but I am glad I made it to Beagle Point before Fleet Carriers were released.
And I recognize that others made it there before Engineering and FSD Boosters.
OBAFGKM.... Hearing Jingles say "KGB-Foam" just hurts my soul :P
Thanks for the video Jingles.
That's amazing. A group of players doing their level best to ensure that others have the fuel (for a price) to get where they're going if they ever run out, and the developers like their services so much they honor them with advertising campaigns for their services outside of the various orbital stations, which cements them in the lore and history of the Elite universe. I approve wholeheartedly.
If I'm not mistaken, they do it for free. They come out, give you some fuel and some advice on how not to have it happen again and away they go. They have a website I think if you wanna read up more about them.
@@pastasmurfn7959 Not only for free, but also to the literal edge of the galaxy and then some. Check out the longest rat rescue, party of 3 just to be able to have enough fuel to get at least one of them all the way out and a 2 day run in SC. And most of the 2 day run was blind to save power. Like throwing a dart from a few light years and having it end up in orbit of the moon.
Those ads weren't placed there specificly for the fuel rats, some time ago the developers asked for players to submit ads and those and others were added to the game. The fuel rats do deserve all positive attention though, they're an amazing group.
@@nickierv13 The longest rescue was beyond Beagle Point, and then 3 weeks(!) in supercruise. Took five rats, who refuelled each other, plus a support ship.
@@pastasmurfn7959 Correct, the service of the rats is completely free. If you ever run out of fuel, do not hesitate, call us. We have fuel, you don't. ;-)
There are some E:D squadrons out there who spend a not-inconsiderable amount of time researching people who 'cat call' Fuel Rats (the term given for someone who fakes a call for help to bait out a Fuel Rat). This is so that said squadrons can send their regards to the cat callers in the form of several thousand multicannon slugs.
Edit to add: The Fuel Rats do not participate in these counter-cat-calls by organizing them or leaking information about cats. The Fuel Rats are true E:D neutrals. The above noted cat hunter squadrons are just people who tend to take the concept of "sacred altruism" very, very seriously.
Just to mention it: The rats do not participate in this. We are strictly neutral, we only care about fuel. If we need to eat a rebuy, so what? I personally just like the irony of getting a "Fuel Transfer Complete" before they can kill me. Otoh, it is no big problem. Cats are rare.
@@dr.chives Yes, you are absolutely correct. I'll edit my initial statement. But I do chat up a few guys who are... how shall we say, of technically noble intent but extremely unkind methods.
I hope you enjoyed your fresh coffee out of the hutton mug. You remembered to bring one, didn't you?
I recently started playing this game a few months ago and ive gotta say i love it
If acronyms are not your thing you can remember the star types with this little line. "Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy Kiss Me" It helped me remember them easy.
Jingles; Ok, as far as the fields of Brown Dwarfs go (We used to call those "Badlands"...Jingles, if you look at the galaxy map with the grid on, you will notice numbers on those grids. Part of those numbers is "Altitude" above or below the galactic ZERO plane (dead center altitude). Those badlands comprise the ENTIRE AREA about 100 LY each, above and below that line throughout almost the entire galaxy (Minus the core region). Just stay above +100, or below -100 and you will be clear of it. It will not take thousands of LY to go around it. Just stay above or below it.
Saw this video in private mode, knew something good was coming. Cheers!
Jingles, if you ever get the chance while near the galactic core, take the opportunity to go as high as possible above the galactic plane as possible (preferably without getting yourself stuck there) to take in the view, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. Back in 2017 myself and a couple of friends headed out into the black to visit Sag. A* and Colonia, (never believing for one minute that we would actually survive the trip.) At one point we decided totally out of the blue to go as high above the galactic plane as we could. The end result proved to be one the highlights of the entire trip, no pun intended. We ended up making a series our of our journey, posting it on RUclips.
This series got me back into elite. I got stuck for years in my cobra, not knowing to how move forward. Now, after doing some deep space mining I've managed to get myself a Krait Phantom and a Python and I'm looking forward to see what more you can do in this game. End goals is to make heavily engineered combat ships and to get myself a clipper
Glad you did that before the nerf.... i dont think fdev understands that easy mining actually makes the game better, you can focus on what you want to do, instead of endless grinding for money
Hey jingles got the game last week and absolutely loving it. doing the engineering grind at the moment,just went out to the crystal shard site you went too,however havent done what you did to get back quicker,i thought ird be a good idea to do the return journey aswell,i suppose it could be worse as i am in a krait phantom with a 40Ly jump range. Love the content keep up the great work
Just so you know jingles you can actually double charge from a neutron stars and get a massive increase. Its not the easiest thing to do but it is possible
Every time you mention you're going to Colonia I'm tempted to say: "Careful Jingles! Don't do it Jingles! They serve Kölsch there!"
its such an amazing game... no words for some of the stuff that i've seen ingame.. even if its not "real"