After making the trip to colonia in a DBX... Yes, the biggest best scoop is such a life saver. The puny 4a scoop on a DBX paired with the colossal fuel tank it sports is time consuming.
I had to take a break for a week or so. I looked down and noticed I'd already drinken a half-bottle of vodka while repeatedly singing "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" for an hour straight.
Funnily enough, setting down on a planet "for the night" is a common routine for me in my own little runarounds through the galaxy already. It just doesn't feel as comfortable to log out while adrift in space. While in civilised space, I pretty much never log out without docking first, unless I'm in a particular hurry.
you are not alone in that, I log out either, landed on a planet or in orbit of said planet.(IE bringing it into orbital cruise and drop out of frameshift, you will actually orbit around the planet.)
Same here. I tend to do it a lot. And, since my fursona (I know you’re a furry, too) is a space mercenary, he tends to place his ship in orbit before heading off to sleep. I ordered a commission based on that. I can show you if you’re interested, Snowy Fox. :3
I think space madness would be weaker with space legs: having no "home" (as a station or something) plays a big role on space Madness as you feel lost without a reference of home. With space legs, you feel more like a Man in a ship, and the ship becomes your home, your reference point. Walking around it when feeling mad would probably help
Great advice! Another protip that's saved me thousands of galactic seconds: You can start charging your FSD as soon as the star in your navigation map turns from red to yellow. You'll never overheat and you'll have plenty of time to orient yourself in the right direction before it reaches max charge.
I've discovered that it depends a lot on the star's temperature, but for red dwarf stars, you can usually start charging your FSD _as you're just beginning to pitch up away from the star_ and your heat level won't go above 100% This has saved me an inordinate amount of time on my expeditions
It is peculiar, that after a while the game starts impacting the psyche. My first couple of forays out of the bubble, I would chicken out after a couple weeks, and go back to the bubble. Then treated later trips into the galaxy as dares. Daring myself to go farther, or stay out longer. Then getting protective of the cartographic data, and not taking any risks. Now, I've come to terms with the desolation, and consider it peaceful. After a 6 month trip in the black, I went back to the bubble, got my Sol permit, and went to one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn or whatever. I landed near one of those tourist beacons, and it bothered me. The thought of, "others have been here," and "this place (the bubble) is too busy for my liking." It's fascinating that a game could have these impacts. Make friends with the madness, it's part of the trip. And listen to Pink Floyd.
If only we could build actual 'disposable' base camps, a la early structures in NMS. Even if other commanders couldn't find them later on, just being able to interact with more than the SRV would make a tremendous difference on space madness. That and the emotional departure would have that much of a better payoff. Here's hoping for New Era...
I would like nothing more than to be able to build your own bases in space and planet-side... And stumble upon other player-made bases on random moons and such out in the black.
Having friends in the bubble can help with space madness. Just multi-crew with them for a break, offer to be a gunner or a fighter pilot for a spell. Likewise if you find a really beautiful spot out in the deep black, invite them to your ship to be the second pair of human eyes to see that particular wonder.
"Nav computer screw ups are rare" I ran into 2 white dwarfs in a 30 minute period and they were filtered out. 2 of them! My heart can't take that in such close timing.
I’m pretty new so I probably don’t know what I’m talking about but I always get excited when I jump into a system with a white dwarf or a neutron star because I can take the highway
Best cure for space madness is to put the game down and go for a walk. Also taking breaks to play other games helps keep me fresh in my deep space exploration.
I wish the game had a custom music player. That would help a lot. I am playing in VR. I am now amazed that people can become immersed in a game from a simple rectangular screen. Having the scree wrap completely around you takes it to another level. Taking that headset off feels like coming back from another world.
Space madness affects me in two of the ways you've mentioned in this video: landing on a planet and sitting there for a ridiculous amount of time; and extremely risky and dangerous behavior. I'll often overheat my ship to 200% just to see how far I can push it, then land on a moon of a gas giant in a position where I can see the gas giant just cresting the horizon, disengaging all my internal modules with the SINGLE exception of my life support and sit there, staring at space for hours while listening to the quiet sounds of space, my ship, and the game's soundtrack.
I thought it was just me, my flatmate pilots like he's playing Forza while describing it as relaxing but I'm filled with a sense of dread and anxiety like I'm actually in the cockpit. I fly like a grandma drives and I'm still terrified, when I stop playing it feels like I'm still rolling side to side and I have to yaw around corners in the house so I don't tip over. I only started a couple of days ago so I'm hoping my brain is going to understand that it's just a game soon. I don't like the way it makes me feel at all but I keep logging back in. That's the maddest part.
Haha. Sounds like you have first hand experience of what it’s like to be an Ace Combat protagonist’s WSO. That, or what it’s like to be the hapless passenger of Takumi from Initial D. Steady on, old chap. We’ll make a speed demon out of you yet.
Whenever I go Exploring In my Jumpaconda I like to put together stories of my Commander on her journey like Living on the Anaconda and using a section of the Cargo hold as a Farm to give some realism on how she's gotten this far, making logs of her journeys and every now and then just relaxing in her chair with hands off the controls, stargazing through the canopy, she even begins referring to her Ships Voice as another person and talks to it on occasion to prevent herself from going mad sooner, then the relieving feeling when she finally sees that familiar station after returning from her journey
The insanely bored thing got me once. But I wasn't exploring outer space, I was delivering something to a station in a system where cruising there took about an hour of flight at max speed. I marked that System on my star charts as "STAY AWAY"
I literally started to hallucinate, I was travelling to sagittarius and the stars seemed to warp around me and form a floor and walls, like my brain was trying to make the space around more confined so I can understand it. I was also sleep deprived at the time but I literally felt like w was about to crash into a floor made of nothing.
Something that really accelerates the feelings this game brings me is VR. I personally have used VR enough that it doesnt make me motion sick like most people, and it adds a new level of immersion that no game has ever quite captured before
Dude, two days ago I jumped into an A type star system and nearly got fried because there were also TWO flippin neutron stars there lol. I totally understand the jitters.
I truly needed this right now. Lol. I’m out 1.7kLYs away from my home station looking for high tier raw mats while scanning a big system. I was getting burnt out until I listened to this. Thanks, dude. ❤️
Haha, I know how you feel, I've been playing Elite since the beta and I STILL get weirded out when I jump in to an unusual star type unprepared. I find that listening to audio books while out in the black staves off space madness, it usually only comes up to say hello when I'm landing on a planet in a previously undiscovered system, landing on new planets so far away from anyone really does make you feel insignificant.
One thing to note. Maximizing jump distance isn't everything in an expedition. Unless you're trying to reach some place specific, like Beagle Point, The Core, or some nebula. If you're goal is to write your name on as many systems as possible, set your router to Economical once you're in the region of space you want to explore. The route range is shorter, but instead focuses, on making as many jumps as possible. This will land you in a lot more systems that you would've otherwise jumped right past.
I made the trip to SagA*. I'm still working my way back. I recorded the whole trip there. Hours upon hours of videos on my channel lol. Nobody should watch it, but it's there. I'm about 100 jumps from occupied space. I'll make it eventually.
Ok, this is a good video to watch. Last night, I decided to travel to Colonia for the first time in my small little Diamondback Explorer with a bloody 34 LY jump range...I like to hang out in systems. Check if it was scanned and if not, take some time in FSS to unravel aaaalll the mysteries. Today, I have found a floating spiky crystal thingies and some molluscs in a system nobody visited before. It was... Well, rewarding. I still have some 400 jumps in front of me and I am looking forward for it. Oh, and even though I have only KGB FOAM stars enabled, navigation computer is dragging me throught blooming fields of brown dwarves.
I just got this game a few days ago and I already know space madness. I was in the Ehecatl system, which has 3 stars, and my mission was to go to a station orbiting one of the farthest planets of the farthest star. I engaged super cruise assist like normal until I realized about 10 mins later how long the trip was taking. That's when I realized I was going over 500 times the speed of light and still accelerating because I wasn't even close yet. If it weren't for the other commanders in the System chat I doubt I would've been able to hold it together long enough to arrive. This game is unlike any other
What I've been watching during my trip to Sothis? You, Yamiks, Ghost Giraffe and Mini-kill, and The Pilot. Also started checking out Exigeous recently. I'm able to derive endless entertainment from rewatching videos so long as I cycle them, and you guys have been a great help to me in starting out on this game. Watching you go bonkers on your Distant Worlds trip helps keep me from repeating some of your more esoteric stunts. o7
Sothis/Ceos is only 40 minutes. Fly out to the Elephant Trunk Nebula and visit the asteroid station there. It's surreal being that far out and still seeing civilization.
Reminds me of the first time I tried a deep space mission: Distant Worlds 2...in a Mk.III Cobra...with a 42ly jump range. Suffice to say, I was less than prepared. But I made it to Sag A* and got to bask in that crazy bastard's presence in VR so, despite borderline space madness - absolutely worth it.
I watch Star Trek! Just binge it on Netflix in a PiP window up at the top of my canopy which helps me see both. Used to do the dual monitor thing but gave one monitor to my dad.
My last major deep space exploration was to colonia, like 250 jumps or more. My problem was that i picked a way to underpowered fuel scoop so i had to circle a sun 3-5 times every jump. This combined with the 250+ jumps gave me space madness. I found myself talking more than normal in my head, daring my ship (and kinda helping it) to overheat, started making games and playing with the discovery scanner, scanning the system with my d-scanner multiple times cause i was paranoind i had forgotten and i also got really stressed irl. Ill remember this for my next deep space exploration
This video just arrived "perfectly" on my RUclips recommendations AFTER I finished my first long expidition from the California nebula to Branard's Loop. After the expedition I sold my system data I collected from every single star system I came by and then I destroyed my ship 3 times. Ramming on a planet, a fleet carrier and space gravel. I wasn't ready for this but I finished my expedition.
I made it colonia. And Sag A*. Then I started back to the bubble, and five jumps in I couldn't take it anymore. I self destructed and took the sidewinder to get back to the bubble.
I flew out to colonia on a luxury 42 ly jumprange beluga. Came back with it also. Those where insane 840 jumps (didnt took the most efficient route, visited some nebulas).
There is only one appropriate thing to do when you get space madness. Search a high gravity planet and proceed with a high speed landing while you laugh manically. If you survive, consider going back to the bubble for a moment.
I flew through my first black hole last night, then I turned around and flew as close as I could until I dropped out of Hypercruise. Then I continued to fly torwards it until I hit the exclusion zone.
My first big exploration was the second smallest planet yet discovered 8k lightyears away from the bubble. I had a friend with me who sadly died on our way home. The time i spend alone in the Black i listend to the Podcast Sagittarius Eye. Great journey.
I had a brush with this last night. I took my longest trip yet (1,500 LY) to HIP 36601, and as I got closer and closer to the spinward arm, I started to notice fewer and fewer stars in the direction I was going, and glancing back I could see the bright disk of the Milky Way stretching out in the opposite direction. And I got a brief sense of vertigo in my VR HMD as I contemplated what, exactly, that meant.
I used to think space madness was just a joke until I went on my first expedition. Was planning to make it to Beagle Point but turned around before I made it to Sagittarius A* because I couldn't take the emptiness any longer. Just neutron plotted my way back to the bubble and said late.
I keep a fighter bay in my exploration Anaconda just for canyon and crater diving. It's nice to get out of the calm, lumbering slowness of methodical scanning and mapping and get the pulse up a bit.
Space Madness for me was reconciled with risky Behavior. Finding heavy gravity planets and speed bowling in a anaconda without the ability to boost. Having more than 500 million dollars worth of cartographic data on board can definitely add to the intensity. During the last third of my exploration I calm the hell down because I really wanted that money and play it safe but the space Madness had pretty much reconciled itself already. I think space Madness would be reconciled somewhat if there were more unusual discoveries and if things were more dangerous for exploration. Enough Danger Will help mitigate any kind of boredom from vastness for repetitive jumping. Both of which are precursors to space Madness. Black holes should kill you instantly if you cross the exclusion Zone. Planets should heavily damaged you or destroy you if you hit one at Super Cruise speed. Planetary predators and dangerous weather like plasma storms are meteor showers I would also add to the excitement and keep things interesting. Strange anomalies like unknown signals or a far off Supernova detected could really add to the excitement and add in some unexpected thrills. As a matter of fact I think it would be awesome if there were events where stars are going supernova. imagine how many people would show up to witness it and attempt to outrun the blastwave or simply die? I think the new Odyssey expansion will help a little bit with space Madness. I prefer to always travel alone doing exploration. I personally love the solitude. I also refuse to answer chat or Discord for the duration of my journey unless I enter a system with a space station. but anyway, back to that making exploration more dangerous thing. There should be a lot more stories of people who have died on long-distance Explorations than we currently have.
I just encountered space madness for the first time. Funnily I have no problems at all with exploring far from the bubble and spending days jumping, scanning, mapping, jumping. But since yesterday morning I've been jumping between 2 systems to do courier jobs and grind imperial ranks to unlock the cutter. and this is getting me loopy! Not only am I genuinely dizzy but I can feel it fray at my sanity. I'll take a break for a few hours to relax and regain my sanity before I return to finish it. Almost there!
A tactic that works great for me is to break up a 200 jump journey into a ton of 10-20 jump journeys by visiting all the things in the codex for a given sector, and when those run out searching for h and g level sector stars. I bookmark them and then the next cool thing is always a few jumps away. It keeps the distances localized and bearable. I can’t handle a 100 jump trip, but with this method I was able to really enjoy a nearly 100 thousand light year trip out by heart and soul, all around Temple, and through the scutum Centaurus arm to colonia (taking a wacky, all over the place route) while fully scanning every system I went through, and mapping a ton of awesome planets like an earth like world orbiting a red giant
I had hours of exploration data. I made a trip to VY Canis Majoris (second largest known star). On the way I jumped in to a few systems that now have my name on them. While there I was checking the galaxy map and noticed that Thor's Helmet was nearby so I made my way over to it. Repeating the process I checked the Map and noticed that the Seagull and Rosette Nebulas were fairly close. I ended up in Hell port near the Seagull Nebula. From there I jumped to the Rosette nebula. By this point I was ready to start heading back. Bear in mind that I'm in an un-engineered Diamondback Explorer. So on my way back I stopped at Tau Canis Majoris (yes I like blue stars and supergiants). Though by this point I was seriously itching to get home and be done exploring. But I kept landing in undiscovered systems or finding water or ammonia world's. While there I was playing around on a 3g planet and you can guess what happened. It was horrible. Hours of scanning and mapping gone. To make things worse my re-buy ship spawned in Hell port back in the Seagull Nebula 3000 ly from the bubble. The most demoralizing experience in gaming. But now my FSD is fully engineered and I have the Guardian FSD booster. My Diamondback does 61ly per jump now and has grade 3 dirty drive thrusters for more planetary fun. I've even engineered my surface scanner probes. They cover more area and make getting efficiency bonuses pretty much guaranteed. I've managed to recreate my trip and collect most of my lost data.
You can make your scooping easier if you include all cargo racks where you can and when plotting the route, select the maximum cargo. That makes you use quite a startling amount less of fuel to jump and for ships where the fuel scoop fitted cannot be at least one class higher than the FSD much easier to deal with and only slightly increases the number of jumps.
I forced myself to do 1,620 jumps because my ship didnt have great jump range. Space madness felt like a bit of my soul was torn off and thrown into every star i passed. It was painful
After seeing a mighty jingles video on this game your channel popped up in my feed. After watching this one and several of your other videos on Elite Dangerous, I bought it. After what seemed like the most frustrating experience of my life trying to pilot my sidewinder through the tutorial with a mouse and keyboard I broke out my old Logitech joystick. Much easier. Needless to say, i'm hooked. Also, nice little arsenal you have on your desk. I approve!
A quick tip if you're bored and not currently on a deep space exploration. Just get into a combat ship in a populated system and go to a resource extraction site. Just shoot wanted people and stuff and tons of system authority will come and chaos will reign. It's perticularly fun in vr I've found out.
I just got back from a 5K ly exploration trip....out towards the Heart and Soul nebulae. Got really homesick and ignored many system FSS scans on the way home which prob cost me 100M or more. Just needed to dock again. Long trips are definitely crazy making! I found (first discovered ) many terraformables... quite a few water worlds, one Ammonia planet and NO Earth like planets. Those babies are few and very far between!
I can relate to several of the points that you raised in your video Commander. Currently my in game Commander is 'resting' on a planet in the black about 20 jumps away from the core on my return journey back to the bubble. For some reason I haven't been back in to the cockpit since landing for just over two weeks. I want to be back in the bubble but just can't find the motivation at the moment, maybe in the next few days.
For me, more important than the range of the ship, is that you enjoy flying it. My favorites are the Orca and the Beluga. Best bit about the Beluga is that you have that fighter bay to relieve the boredom. Though the Anaconda and Cutter can jump further, and refuel faster than the Beluga, I just don't enjoy flying them around systems or stars, and especially on planets.
I remember feeling some space madness just on my way to the Coalsack Nebula for the first time. I'm in for a wild time on my first trip to Beagle Point
For me. I took a fighter and an SRV. I was just manoeuvring around the canyons on planets letting my ‘conda follow me. I’m definitely a survivor of Space Madness
"internalize that your going to bed in your ship, when you wake up ready for the next leg" or something. I got finals and this sounds like a great way to escape them!
I would suggest a short goal, a number of jumps you will get to before you start checking for interesting things, a MVP goal that if you only get to, you will still say "Mission Accomplished". That further goal would be when you start looking to end the session unless you have found something to "homebase" to. E.g. 70 jumps with 100 max. If you feel the need to change the routine before 70, do so. If you get to 70, start looking at all likely looking planets (e.g. metal rich or giants and a number of bodies somewhere in the easy to scan 8-15 range, enough to have a good chance to find something interesting but not so much you spend ages just scanning to actually complete, because try to 100% it, even if most of the bodies are 300,000ls away). But if you find something before 100, stop there, job complete. If you don't find anything you particularly like by 100, then start looking for anything that will do.
Something that I noticed was my navigational computer was plotting jumps that were about 10 ly when I can jump 17. Manually selecting stars on the route has saved me many unnecessary jumps and working out jump distances is something to do and is therefore an ok counter to space madness
what triggered me the most on my exploration was the systems that partially were explored or just "honked" and I "had to" do the rest. It doesn't take long spot the planets and move on.. Yeah, yeah different priorities, but what explorer I would be if I don't map planets (not surfaces).. It's about creating a map of the galaxy-systems!!!!!
I play it in vr, I have a virtual screen set up so it looks like it’s part of my ship’s dashboard, I’ve been making my way through red dwarf while bounty hunting, but since I’ve figured out that setup I’ve been wanting to go exploring with Carl Sagan’s Cosmos for company. Might see if I can make it to the middle this time.
Am definitely in the middle of a bout of space madness, no surprise after been out in empty space for two and a half years, Binary systems are most definitely my trigger.
I just wish there was a mode of FTL that let you supercruise between the stars... maybe stop at a fuel star once in a while, do some pass-by scans, something that lets you look around and enjoy the sights than flying face-first into stars every 15 seconds allows for.
I just made IRL week trip to kashyapa, in a unmodified dolphin, I have to admit I don't want to play anymore after making it to my destination. I nearly was ready after accidentally almost drying up my fuel reserves in a neutron star system, broke my game in frustration, 100 jumps from my destination. Got to say space madness can get to you quite badly when you feel like you messed up. Lets just say that when I thought that I couldn't make it to my destination, I was ready to just jump into that neutron star and see if I got placed back at my star base, but luckily a fuel star was just close enough that I was able to jump to it and refuel. I am amazed though how much money I got from all the star systems scans I got from make a journey from the bubble to kashyapa. I made about 52 million just for my scans, and probably that same amount when I make it back. If you ask why I made this trip, Explorer was willing to pay 40 million, and I thought it wouldn't be a weight on me. I regret my disillusion greatly.
Only just found your excellent channel and I wish I had done so a few months ago.... Really like this particular video - it captures all of the underlying therapy for the mind that is available in this game if it is played in a certain way...(and probably by a certain kind of person). Exploration in Elite has been helping me sleep better, and this video really nails some of the aspects of why.....the mind blowing concept that this simulated world is not so simulated, and that mentally, at least, we can drift off into the great unknown, where daily problems don't have to exist if we don't want them to. I like it man, look forward to seeing more. By the way - do you have, or will you do, a combat guide for a single parent in his late 40s who is slow and tired and doesn't really know what's going on outside of family/work....(hence why I like exploration over combat - but I feel like I'm missing out on some fun there). :-)
Here’s a free tip: turn off flight assist and master maneuvering and fighting while it’s disabled. It makes you a lot more unpredictable and difficult to hit, meaning you take less damage and kill enemies faster. Players who fight with it on will stand no chance against you.
I took a massive journey out to the trifid nebula it took me 4 weeks of jumping and when I got out there I decided I had gone far enough and I wanted to go make a bit of cash with deep core mining. I think I wanna go back out this time to the core
After like 500 hours+ gametime I've set myself up for the first ever deep space operation: Visiting Tourist Spots. I kid you not was REALLY nervous about it, meditating for hours and hours on end. Tjem I've grabbed my Cutter, fitted it with scoop, and an additional fuel tank (didnt want to take any risks, module reapir, and an SRV) and picked up 3 missions, which have me a quasi loop, totalling in 35,000 lightyears (My cutter does 33ly). Dude I had to learn REAL FAST that if Im not doing anything (ANYTHING!!!) Im gonna get mad real fast. and oh boy the exact same points you've made came to me on a natural, unconscious way. Make 100 jumps a day Listen to a podcats Then make camp at a planet Took me about a month but my god THATS THE GAME. I mean ... after 500+ hours of gametime I've actually found the real game in Elite and for that I appreciate it even more. Watching distant star formations getting closer to you with every jump, going through nebulae, plotting course to fuel stars. Man ... thats the Elite experience.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has a rifle in the corner, handgun on the desk, lickies and chewies laying around... If you run out of MST3000, RiffTrax is done by the same guys. I never could sit through Twilight until I watched the RiffTrax version... My sides hurt so bad by the end of it!
A couple other suggestions..... 2001: A space odyssey, as well as Interstellar. It helps that Elite, uh... "borrowed" some of the music from each of those films. :)
I get this weird type of space madness where I'll jump into a system after maybe 300+ jumps and the sheer size of the star and scope of the system I'm in really starts creeping up on me, it's like I get paranoid in deep space thinking that someone is on the ship with me or worse....outside the ship. Then comes the everlasting fear of stars, white dwarfs, black holes and.....Oh God....neutron stars..... It really can be a scary game when you find yourself losing your mind in the deepest of deep space.
I cannot find your books for sale anymore. I wanted to get them. Oldenrai Archives, no? I am not very bright but I did want to get and read them. Left you a review on Amazon, though, because of your works on here and because you deserve it. Thanks for your great content! Someone once said to me in Elite that I couldn't find my Asp with both hands, directions, and help in the bright sunlight of Earth!
I'd have to look for a second monitor (I have one somewhere I'm sure) but I'm planning on rewatching Firefly - probably while exploring - because I watched the first episode again with a friend yesterday and now I have to finish what I started.
Can't say I have astrophobia but I do have this weird thing where by brain craves a "sense of place" for lack of a better term. I usually keep orbit lines on while moving through a system but will occasionally toggle THEM off to clean up my display or some other reason. There's something about vast open space without big bright lights saying "Here's where the stuff is!" makes my finite human brain go, "NOPE!!! DON'T LIKE THAT!" The only thing on Earth I can compare it to is swimming in the ocean (or any very deep body of water) and looking straight down below the surface.
@@combativeThinker Yeah, just hold one in your hand and work the actions and you'll immediately have to get one, lol. The CZ 75 P-O1 and its omega version are both must haves. Compact, metal not plastic... Best grip in the world, great triggers... Super nice. But if you're left handed, get the OMEGA version.
My space madness makes me terrified of stars, too scared to get close to then to fuel scoop, and jump in my chair every time i get face to face with one after a frameshift drive, Ill literally have a small panic attack after every jump. So i have to take a break, minimize the game and go do something else for a bit. Usually ill hang out with my girlfriend, she's an illustrator and a tattoo artist and ill just watch her draw her artworks and chat, which really helps to fend off the loneliness of space and brings me back to a state where i can go back a continue to explore
"Don't skimp on the fuel scoop" should be a t-shirt slogan, maybe in the style of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
After making the trip to colonia in a DBX... Yes, the biggest best scoop is such a life saver. The puny 4a scoop on a DBX paired with the colossal fuel tank it sports is time consuming.
I find consuming large amounts of Adult Beverages is a good Counter to space madness
Fly dangerous commander, and by that i mean get drunk and fly.
Alternatively some of that space haze
I had to take a break for a week or so. I looked down and noticed I'd already drinken a half-bottle of vodka while repeatedly singing "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" for an hour straight.
@@TheNeonParadox holy shit
and it works weather you do it in game or out of game
Funnily enough, setting down on a planet "for the night" is a common routine for me in my own little runarounds through the galaxy already. It just doesn't feel as comfortable to log out while adrift in space. While in civilised space, I pretty much never log out without docking first, unless I'm in a particular hurry.
you are not alone in that, I log out either, landed on a planet or in orbit of said planet.(IE bringing it into orbital cruise and drop out of frameshift, you will actually orbit around the planet.)
Same here
Yup! Lol
Same here. I tend to do it a lot. And, since my fursona (I know you’re a furry, too) is a space mercenary, he tends to place his ship in orbit before heading off to sleep. I ordered a commission based on that. I can show you if you’re interested, Snowy Fox. :3
@@AgentExeider That's neat! I didn't know it did that.
I think space madness would be weaker with space legs: having no "home" (as a station or something) plays a big role on space Madness as you feel lost without a reference of home. With space legs, you feel more like a Man in a ship, and the ship becomes your home, your reference point. Walking around it when feeling mad would probably help
@John Doe maybe to you but there's a portion who wants it, me included
You have a point. It does wonders to help alleviate symptoms in Star Citizen, Warframe, and similar titles.
Odyssey may provide this.
@@jerryscanas Oh no...
This didn't age well
Great advice! Another protip that's saved me thousands of galactic seconds: You can start charging your FSD as soon as the star in your navigation map turns from red to yellow. You'll never overheat and you'll have plenty of time to orient yourself in the right direction before it reaches max charge.
This information pleases me.
Thanks
@@graysontinker might differ from ship to ship
I've discovered that it depends a lot on the star's temperature, but for red dwarf stars, you can usually start charging your FSD _as you're just beginning to pitch up away from the star_ and your heat level won't go above 100%
This has saved me an inordinate amount of time on my expeditions
It is peculiar, that after a while the game starts impacting the psyche. My first couple of forays out of the bubble, I would chicken out after a couple weeks, and go back to the bubble. Then treated later trips into the galaxy as dares.
Daring myself to go farther, or stay out longer. Then getting protective of the cartographic data, and not taking any risks. Now, I've come to terms with the desolation, and consider it peaceful. After a 6 month trip in the black, I went back to the bubble, got my Sol permit, and went to one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn or whatever. I landed near one of those tourist beacons, and it bothered me. The thought of, "others have been here," and "this place (the bubble) is too busy for my liking." It's fascinating that a game could have these impacts. Make friends with the madness, it's part of the trip.
And listen to Pink Floyd.
If only we could build actual 'disposable' base camps, a la early structures in NMS. Even if other commanders couldn't find them later on, just being able to interact with more than the SRV would make a tremendous difference on space madness.
That and the emotional departure would have that much of a better payoff. Here's hoping for New Era...
I would like nothing more than to be able to build your own bases in space and planet-side... And stumble upon other player-made bases on random moons and such out in the black.
Having friends in the bubble can help with space madness. Just multi-crew with them for a break, offer to be a gunner or a fighter pilot for a spell. Likewise if you find a really beautiful spot out in the deep black, invite them to your ship to be the second pair of human eyes to see that particular wonder.
"Nav computer screw ups are rare"
I ran into 2 white dwarfs in a 30 minute period and they were filtered out. 2 of them! My heart can't take that in such close timing.
I’m pretty new so I probably don’t know what I’m talking about but I always get excited when I jump into a system with a white dwarf or a neutron star because I can take the highway
As much as I prefer your mnemonic, KGB FOAM has stuck into my mind like a bad jingle and it is the only one I can remember.
Yes, but it's not in main sequence order like the Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me is!
"Always Be Fueling Or Go Kill Myself" stuck with me as it is also good advice.
@John Doe Sure, if you filter your route. I prefer to not filter my route and just look in my info when I jump for the type of star I'm jumping to.
I use "Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me!"
I hadnt watched the whole video, op uses this too.
Also a good show to watch: Red Dwarf. In fact, I named my deep space exploration vessel Red Dwarf and gave him the Leo COVAS voice.
What better to roam aimlessly in space, feeling like the last human alive than a show about just that?
LOL. I named my DBX "Starbug" and binge watched the first few seasons on the way to Colonia.
“Which to red alert!”
I use the same one loved red dwarf they defo should of called Leo, holly
Well it's....
"Cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere"
Best cure for space madness is to put the game down and go for a walk. Also taking breaks to play other games helps keep me fresh in my deep space exploration.
I wish the game had a custom music player. That would help a lot.
I am playing in VR. I am now amazed that people can become immersed in a game from a simple rectangular screen. Having the scree wrap completely around you takes it to another level.
Taking that headset off feels like coming back from another world.
Space madness affects me in two of the ways you've mentioned in this video: landing on a planet and sitting there for a ridiculous amount of time; and extremely risky and dangerous behavior. I'll often overheat my ship to 200% just to see how far I can push it, then land on a moon of a gas giant in a position where I can see the gas giant just cresting the horizon, disengaging all my internal modules with the SINGLE exception of my life support and sit there, staring at space for hours while listening to the quiet sounds of space, my ship, and the game's soundtrack.
I thought it was just me, my flatmate pilots like he's playing Forza while describing it as relaxing but I'm filled with a sense of dread and anxiety like I'm actually in the cockpit. I fly like a grandma drives and I'm still terrified, when I stop playing it feels like I'm still rolling side to side and I have to yaw around corners in the house so I don't tip over. I only started a couple of days ago so I'm hoping my brain is going to understand that it's just a game soon. I don't like the way it makes me feel at all but I keep logging back in. That's the maddest part.
Haha. Sounds like you have first hand experience of what it’s like to be an Ace Combat protagonist’s WSO. That, or what it’s like to be the hapless passenger of Takumi from Initial D.
Steady on, old chap. We’ll make a speed demon out of you yet.
Space madness: GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS while dual screening.
Whenever I go Exploring In my Jumpaconda I like to put together stories of my Commander on her journey like Living on the Anaconda and using a section of the Cargo hold as a Farm to give some realism on how she's gotten this far, making logs of her journeys and every now and then just relaxing in her chair with hands off the controls, stargazing through the canopy, she even begins referring to her Ships Voice as another person and talks to it on occasion to prevent herself from going mad sooner, then the relieving feeling when she finally sees that familiar station after returning from her journey
The insanely bored thing got me once. But I wasn't exploring outer space, I was delivering something to a station in a system where cruising there took about an hour of flight at max speed. I marked that System on my star charts as "STAY AWAY"
I literally started to hallucinate, I was travelling to sagittarius and the stars seemed to warp around me and form a floor and walls, like my brain was trying to make the space around more confined so I can understand it. I was also sleep deprived at the time but I literally felt like w was about to crash into a floor made of nothing.
Something that really accelerates the feelings this game brings me is VR. I personally have used VR enough that it doesnt make me motion sick like most people, and it adds a new level of immersion that no game has ever quite captured before
Dude, two days ago I jumped into an A type star system and nearly got fried because there were also TWO flippin neutron stars there lol. I totally understand the jitters.
My home system has a neutron star positioned just so that whoever jumps into it blind runs a serious risk of suffering a conniption.
@@combativeThinker 🤣
I just made it to Sol for the first time today. My second-last jump put me in a system beside a neutron star...nearly crapped myself with the stress
I will head off onto deep dark crazy when I'm able to land on atmospheric planets.
I've just decided to resume my massive journey to beagle point, and this video really helped with my motivation. Thanks!
Landing on a seriously empty planet gives me the chills. I feel like something is about to jump at my screen any second.
I truly needed this right now. Lol. I’m out 1.7kLYs away from my home station looking for high tier raw mats while scanning a big system. I was getting burnt out until I listened to this. Thanks, dude. ❤️
Haha, I know how you feel, I've been playing Elite since the beta and I STILL get weirded out when I jump in to an unusual star type unprepared. I find that listening to audio books while out in the black staves off space madness, it usually only comes up to say hello when I'm landing on a planet in a previously undiscovered system, landing on new planets so far away from anyone really does make you feel insignificant.
One thing to note. Maximizing jump distance isn't everything in an expedition. Unless you're trying to reach some place specific, like Beagle Point, The Core, or some nebula. If you're goal is to write your name on as many systems as possible, set your router to Economical once you're in the region of space you want to explore. The route range is shorter, but instead focuses, on making as many jumps as possible. This will land you in a lot more systems that you would've otherwise jumped right past.
I made the trip to SagA*. I'm still working my way back. I recorded the whole trip there. Hours upon hours of videos on my channel lol. Nobody should watch it, but it's there. I'm about 100 jumps from occupied space. I'll make it eventually.
Took me a year to get around to returning from Sag A. Felt sooo good. Then I got interdicted in the first habited system.
ooh yeah, I'm not gonna play in open until I have turned in all my exploration data lol
“Taking on or doing deadly maneuvers” “ship fighter engaged” 😂
after a while the stars hitting me in the face start to feel like physical slaps.
Ok, this is a good video to watch. Last night, I decided to travel to Colonia for the first time in my small little Diamondback Explorer with a bloody 34 LY jump range...I like to hang out in systems. Check if it was scanned and if not, take some time in FSS to unravel aaaalll the mysteries. Today, I have found a floating spiky crystal thingies and some molluscs in a system nobody visited before. It was... Well, rewarding. I still have some 400 jumps in front of me and I am looking forward for it. Oh, and even though I have only KGB FOAM stars enabled, navigation computer is dragging me throught blooming fields of brown dwarves.
I just got this game a few days ago and I already know space madness. I was in the Ehecatl system, which has 3 stars, and my mission was to go to a station orbiting one of the farthest planets of the farthest star.
I engaged super cruise assist like normal until I realized about 10 mins later how long the trip was taking. That's when I realized I was going over 500 times the speed of light and still accelerating because I wasn't even close yet.
If it weren't for the other commanders in the System chat I doubt I would've been able to hold it together long enough to arrive.
This game is unlike any other
What I've been watching during my trip to Sothis? You, Yamiks, Ghost Giraffe and Mini-kill, and The Pilot. Also started checking out Exigeous recently. I'm able to derive endless entertainment from rewatching videos so long as I cycle them, and you guys have been a great help to me in starting out on this game. Watching you go bonkers on your Distant Worlds trip helps keep me from repeating some of your more esoteric stunts. o7
Sothis/Ceos is only 40 minutes. Fly out to the Elephant Trunk Nebula and visit the asteroid station there. It's surreal being that far out and still seeing civilization.
@@MJRSoap that isn’t far lmao. Try the Colonia connection highway, Kashyapa, Gandharvi, or Colonia itself
@@Spartan086 Dude I was out at colonia when I wrote that. It's not that weird out there since you KNOW it's there.
I needed this. Im on my first trip to Beagle Point
Nicolas M good luck
Now that you mention it, brown dwarfs do give me a slight bad feeling every time I jump to a system with one...
Great show in line with Elite... Space 1999, series from 70s. Faced issues like we do with counter intuitive gear, etc.
I'm planning my first trip further than the Pleiades pretty soon, I'll be thankful for this video then I'm sure.
Reminds me of the first time I tried a deep space mission: Distant Worlds 2...in a Mk.III Cobra...with a 42ly jump range.
Suffice to say, I was less than prepared. But I made it to Sag A* and got to bask in that crazy bastard's presence in VR so, despite borderline space madness - absolutely worth it.
I find "KGB Foam" a lot easier way to remember scooping stars
"Be stupid, but remember to survive."
Possible life advice
I think being able to walk around my own ship would be helpful
I watch Star Trek! Just binge it on Netflix in a PiP window up at the top of my canopy which helps me see both. Used to do the dual monitor thing but gave one monitor to my dad.
My last major deep space exploration was to colonia, like 250 jumps or more. My problem was that i picked a way to underpowered fuel scoop so i had to circle a sun 3-5 times every jump. This combined with the 250+ jumps gave me space madness. I found myself talking more than normal in my head, daring my ship (and kinda helping it) to overheat, started making games and playing with the discovery scanner, scanning the system with my d-scanner multiple times cause i was paranoind i had forgotten and i also got really stressed irl. Ill remember this for my next deep space exploration
The amount of weapons laying around your space madness portals had me laughing hard. Great comedic moment - it was a comedic moment... right? ROFL
You're not you when you're hungry, have a Snickers.
Lmfao
This video just arrived "perfectly" on my RUclips recommendations AFTER I finished my first long expidition from the California nebula to Branard's Loop. After the expedition I sold my system data I collected from every single star system I came by and then I destroyed my ship 3 times. Ramming on a planet, a fleet carrier and space gravel. I wasn't ready for this but I finished my expedition.
I made it colonia. And Sag A*. Then I started back to the bubble, and five jumps in I couldn't take it anymore. I self destructed and took the sidewinder to get back to the bubble.
I flew out to colonia on a luxury 42 ly jumprange beluga. Came back with it also. Those where insane 840 jumps (didnt took the most efficient route, visited some nebulas).
There is only one appropriate thing to do when you get space madness. Search a high gravity planet and proceed with a high speed landing while you laugh manically. If you survive, consider going back to the bubble for a moment.
Hahaha. That's so funny because mistry science theater is exactly what I watch while I'm playing. I lost my shit when you said that. Its perfect
I usually listen books in Audible, while flying around in the galaxy. I usually get overwhelmed by the sights and find myself just staring at it.
I flew through my first black hole last night, then I turned around and flew as close as I could until I dropped out of Hypercruise. Then I continued to fly torwards it until I hit the exclusion zone.
Mitchell Lerich dude going near one makes me have a fully fledged panic attack
I like the acronym KGB FOAM for scoopable stars.
My first big exploration was the second smallest planet yet discovered 8k lightyears away from the bubble. I had a friend with me who sadly died on our way home. The time i spend alone in the Black i listend to the Podcast Sagittarius Eye. Great journey.
I had a brush with this last night. I took my longest trip yet (1,500 LY) to HIP 36601, and as I got closer and closer to the spinward arm, I started to notice fewer and fewer stars in the direction I was going, and glancing back I could see the bright disk of the Milky Way stretching out in the opposite direction. And I got a brief sense of vertigo in my VR HMD as I contemplated what, exactly, that meant.
9:55 is the point that convinced me to sub to you. I plan on watching much more of your videos now.
I used to think space madness was just a joke until I went on my first expedition. Was planning to make it to Beagle Point but turned around before I made it to Sagittarius A* because I couldn't take the emptiness any longer. Just neutron plotted my way back to the bubble and said late.
I keep a fighter bay in my exploration Anaconda just for canyon and crater diving. It's nice to get out of the calm, lumbering slowness of methodical scanning and mapping and get the pulse up a bit.
Space Madness for me was reconciled with risky Behavior. Finding heavy gravity planets and speed bowling in a anaconda without the ability to boost. Having more than 500 million dollars worth of cartographic data on board can definitely add to the intensity. During the last third of my exploration I calm the hell down because I really wanted that money and play it safe but the space Madness had pretty much reconciled itself already.
I think space Madness would be reconciled somewhat if there were more unusual discoveries and if things were more dangerous for exploration. Enough Danger Will help mitigate any kind of boredom from vastness for repetitive jumping. Both of which are precursors to space Madness. Black holes should kill you instantly if you cross the exclusion Zone. Planets should heavily damaged you or destroy you if you hit one at Super Cruise speed. Planetary predators and dangerous weather like plasma storms are meteor showers I would also add to the excitement and keep things interesting. Strange anomalies like unknown signals or a far off Supernova detected could really add to the excitement and add in some unexpected thrills. As a matter of fact I think it would be awesome if there were events where stars are going supernova. imagine how many people would show up to witness it and attempt to outrun the blastwave or simply die? I think the new Odyssey expansion will help a little bit with space Madness. I prefer to always travel alone doing exploration. I personally love the solitude. I also refuse to answer chat or Discord for the duration of my journey unless I enter a system with a space station. but anyway, back to that making exploration more dangerous thing. There should be a lot more stories of people who have died on long-distance Explorations than we currently have.
I just encountered space madness for the first time. Funnily I have no problems at all with exploring far from the bubble and spending days jumping, scanning, mapping, jumping.
But since yesterday morning I've been jumping between 2 systems to do courier jobs and grind imperial ranks to unlock the cutter. and this is getting me loopy! Not only am I genuinely dizzy but I can feel it fray at my sanity. I'll take a break for a few hours to relax and regain my sanity before I return to finish it. Almost there!
A tactic that works great for me is to break up a 200 jump journey into a ton of 10-20 jump journeys by visiting all the things in the codex for a given sector, and when those run out searching for h and g level sector stars. I bookmark them and then the next cool thing is always a few jumps away. It keeps the distances localized and bearable. I can’t handle a 100 jump trip, but with this method I was able to really enjoy a nearly 100 thousand light year trip out by heart and soul, all around Temple, and through the scutum Centaurus arm to colonia (taking a wacky, all over the place route) while fully scanning every system I went through, and mapping a ton of awesome planets like an earth like world orbiting a red giant
I had hours of exploration data. I made a trip to VY Canis Majoris (second largest known star). On the way I jumped in to a few systems that now have my name on them. While there I was checking the galaxy map and noticed that Thor's Helmet was nearby so I made my way over to it. Repeating the process I checked the Map and noticed that the Seagull and Rosette Nebulas were fairly close. I ended up in Hell port near the Seagull Nebula. From there I jumped to the Rosette nebula. By this point I was ready to start heading back. Bear in mind that I'm in an un-engineered Diamondback Explorer. So on my way back I stopped at Tau Canis Majoris (yes I like blue stars and supergiants). Though by this point I was seriously itching to get home and be done exploring. But I kept landing in undiscovered systems or finding water or ammonia world's. While there I was playing around on a 3g planet and you can guess what happened. It was horrible. Hours of scanning and mapping gone. To make things worse my re-buy ship spawned in Hell port back in the Seagull Nebula 3000 ly from the bubble. The most demoralizing experience in gaming. But now my FSD is fully engineered and I have the Guardian FSD booster. My Diamondback does 61ly per jump now and has grade 3 dirty drive thrusters for more planetary fun. I've even engineered my surface scanner probes. They cover more area and make getting efficiency bonuses pretty much guaranteed. I've managed to recreate my trip and collect most of my lost data.
You can make your scooping easier if you include all cargo racks where you can and when plotting the route, select the maximum cargo. That makes you use quite a startling amount less of fuel to jump and for ships where the fuel scoop fitted cannot be at least one class higher than the FSD much easier to deal with and only slightly increases the number of jumps.
I forced myself to do 1,620 jumps because my ship didnt have great jump range. Space madness felt like a bit of my soul was torn off and thrown into every star i passed. It was painful
After seeing a mighty jingles video on this game your channel popped up in my feed. After watching this one and several of your other videos on Elite Dangerous, I bought it. After what seemed like the most frustrating experience of my life trying to pilot my sidewinder through the tutorial with a mouse and keyboard I broke out my old Logitech joystick. Much easier. Needless to say, i'm hooked.
Also, nice little arsenal you have on your desk. I approve!
A quick tip if you're bored and not currently on a deep space exploration. Just get into a combat ship in a populated system and go to a resource extraction site. Just shoot wanted people and stuff and tons of system authority will come and chaos will reign.
It's perticularly fun in vr I've found out.
I just got back from a 5K ly exploration trip....out towards the Heart and Soul nebulae. Got really homesick and ignored many system FSS scans on the way home which prob cost me 100M or more. Just needed to dock again. Long trips are definitely crazy making! I found (first discovered ) many terraformables... quite a few water worlds, one Ammonia planet and NO Earth like planets. Those babies are few and very far between!
GREAT STUFF AGAIN! Will definitely include this in the weekly roundup!
I can relate to several of the points that you raised in your video Commander. Currently my in game Commander is 'resting' on a planet in the black about 20 jumps away from the core on my return journey back to the bubble. For some reason I haven't been back in to the cockpit since landing for just over two weeks. I want to be back in the bubble but just can't find the motivation at the moment, maybe in the next few days.
Just promise yourself at least 100 solid jumps, turn on something else to watch on another screen, sit back with a drink and knock it out.
For me, more important than the range of the ship, is that you enjoy flying it. My favorites are the Orca and the Beluga. Best bit about the Beluga is that you have that fighter bay to relieve the boredom. Though the Anaconda and Cutter can jump further, and refuel faster than the Beluga, I just don't enjoy flying them around systems or stars, and especially on planets.
I remember feeling some space madness just on my way to the Coalsack Nebula for the first time. I'm in for a wild time on my first trip to Beagle Point
Interesting concept for a video and an appreciated one. I'll try a few of the suggestions. I usually listen to music or Radio Sidewinder
A video on ergonomics would be much appreciated. Not even just for ED, I’m a 911 dispatcher and would love to hear about it!
Aight. I'm on it.
I play movies and shows on my phone while out there. It makes me think I have a library of entertainment on my ship.
For me. I took a fighter and an SRV. I was just manoeuvring around the canyons on planets letting my ‘conda follow me. I’m definitely a survivor of Space Madness
Music helps everything, it’s why I never do deep-space without music.
"internalize that your going to bed in your ship, when you wake up ready for the next leg" or something. I got finals and this sounds like a great way to escape them!
I would suggest a short goal, a number of jumps you will get to before you start checking for interesting things, a MVP goal that if you only get to, you will still say "Mission Accomplished". That further goal would be when you start looking to end the session unless you have found something to "homebase" to. E.g. 70 jumps with 100 max. If you feel the need to change the routine before 70, do so. If you get to 70, start looking at all likely looking planets (e.g. metal rich or giants and a number of bodies somewhere in the easy to scan 8-15 range, enough to have a good chance to find something interesting but not so much you spend ages just scanning to actually complete, because try to 100% it, even if most of the bodies are 300,000ls away). But if you find something before 100, stop there, job complete. If you don't find anything you particularly like by 100, then start looking for anything that will do.
Mystery science theater was great
I think it happened to me, I went from being a chill explorer and miner to wanting to kill everyone I see.
Something that I noticed was my navigational computer was plotting jumps that were about 10 ly when I can jump 17.
Manually selecting stars on the route has saved me many unnecessary jumps and working out jump distances is something to do and is therefore an ok counter to space madness
what triggered me the most on my exploration was the systems that partially were explored or just "honked" and I "had to" do the rest. It doesn't take long spot the planets and move on..
Yeah, yeah different priorities, but what explorer I would be if I don't map planets (not surfaces).. It's about creating a map of the galaxy-systems!!!!!
I play it in vr, I have a virtual screen set up so it looks like it’s part of my ship’s dashboard, I’ve been making my way through red dwarf while bounty hunting, but since I’ve figured out that setup I’ve been wanting to go exploring with Carl Sagan’s Cosmos for company. Might see if I can make it to the middle this time.
Many people can't have such insight about themselves, it's good to watch your own behaviour and learn from and about yourself.
You do realize this video is like a metaphor for life ? Brilliant !! Very informative, thank you good sir.
Am definitely in the middle of a bout of space madness, no surprise after been out in empty space for two and a half years, Binary systems are most definitely my trigger.
I just wish there was a mode of FTL that let you supercruise between the stars... maybe stop at a fuel star once in a while, do some pass-by scans, something that lets you look around and enjoy the sights than flying face-first into stars every 15 seconds allows for.
I just made IRL week trip to kashyapa, in a unmodified dolphin, I have to admit I don't want to play anymore after making it to my destination. I nearly was ready after accidentally almost drying up my fuel reserves in a neutron star system, broke my game in frustration, 100 jumps from my destination. Got to say space madness can get to you quite badly when you feel like you messed up. Lets just say that when I thought that I couldn't make it to my destination, I was ready to just jump into that neutron star and see if I got placed back at my star base, but luckily a fuel star was just close enough that I was able to jump to it and refuel. I am amazed though how much money I got from all the star systems scans I got from make a journey from the bubble to kashyapa. I made about 52 million just for my scans, and probably that same amount when I make it back. If you ask why I made this trip, Explorer was willing to pay 40 million, and I thought it wouldn't be a weight on me. I regret my disillusion greatly.
Another good thing to watch; the old black and white Twilight Zone box sets.
MST3K! Yes! - I don't know if someone mentioned it already: There is an official MST3K twitch channel, streaming the movies 24/7.
Only just found your excellent channel and I wish I had done so a few months ago.... Really like this particular video - it captures all of the underlying therapy for the mind that is available in this game if it is played in a certain way...(and probably by a certain kind of person). Exploration in Elite has been helping me sleep better, and this video really nails some of the aspects of why.....the mind blowing concept that this simulated world is not so simulated, and that mentally, at least, we can drift off into the great unknown, where daily problems don't have to exist if we don't want them to. I like it man, look forward to seeing more. By the way - do you have, or will you do, a combat guide for a single parent in his late 40s who is slow and tired and doesn't really know what's going on outside of family/work....(hence why I like exploration over combat - but I feel like I'm missing out on some fun there). :-)
Here’s a free tip: turn off flight assist and master maneuvering and fighting while it’s disabled. It makes you a lot more unpredictable and difficult to hit, meaning you take less damage and kill enemies faster. Players who fight with it on will stand no chance against you.
I took a massive journey out to the trifid nebula it took me 4 weeks of jumping and when I got out there I decided I had gone far enough and I wanted to go make a bit of cash with deep core mining. I think I wanna go back out this time to the core
After like 500 hours+ gametime I've set myself up for the first ever deep space operation: Visiting Tourist Spots. I kid you not was REALLY nervous about it, meditating for hours and hours on end. Tjem I've grabbed my Cutter, fitted it with scoop, and an additional fuel tank (didnt want to take any risks, module reapir, and an SRV) and picked up 3 missions, which have me a quasi loop, totalling in 35,000 lightyears (My cutter does 33ly).
Dude I had to learn REAL FAST that if Im not doing anything (ANYTHING!!!) Im gonna get mad real fast. and oh boy the exact same points you've made came to me on a natural, unconscious way.
Make 100 jumps a day
Listen to a podcats
Then make camp at a planet
Took me about a month but my god THATS THE GAME. I mean ... after 500+ hours of gametime I've actually found the real game in Elite and for that I appreciate it even more.
Watching distant star formations getting closer to you with every jump, going through nebulae, plotting course to fuel stars. Man ... thats the Elite experience.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has a rifle in the corner, handgun on the desk, lickies and chewies laying around...
If you run out of MST3000, RiffTrax is done by the same guys. I never could sit through Twilight until I watched the RiffTrax version... My sides hurt so bad by the end of it!
A couple other suggestions..... 2001: A space odyssey, as well as Interstellar. It helps that Elite, uh... "borrowed" some of the music from each of those films. :)
I get this weird type of space madness where I'll jump into a system after maybe 300+ jumps and the sheer size of the star and scope of the system I'm in really starts creeping up on me, it's like I get paranoid in deep space thinking that someone is on the ship with me or worse....outside the ship.
Then comes the everlasting fear of stars, white dwarfs, black holes and.....Oh God....neutron stars.....
It really can be a scary game when you find yourself losing your mind in the deepest of deep space.
I cannot find your books for sale anymore. I wanted to get them. Oldenrai Archives, no? I am not very bright but I did want to get and read them. Left you a review on Amazon, though, because of your works on here and because you deserve it. Thanks for your great content! Someone once said to me in Elite that I couldn't find my Asp with both hands, directions, and help in the bright sunlight of Earth!
I'd have to look for a second monitor (I have one somewhere I'm sure) but I'm planning on rewatching Firefly - probably while exploring - because I watched the first episode again with a friend yesterday and now I have to finish what I started.
Great recommendation! MST3K has been one of my favorites for decades! I named my Commander and ships after quips from the series! Great fun!
Can't say I have astrophobia but I do have this weird thing where by brain craves a "sense of place" for lack of a better term. I usually keep orbit lines on while moving through a system but will occasionally toggle THEM off to clean up my display or some other reason. There's something about vast open space without big bright lights saying "Here's where the stuff is!" makes my finite human brain go, "NOPE!!! DON'T LIKE THAT!" The only thing on Earth I can compare it to is swimming in the ocean (or any very deep body of water) and looking straight down below the surface.
That gon collection tho
There are 11 guns in that pic. I own 30.
@@SepulcherGeist #goals
@@SepulcherGeist
Nice pieces, mate. Got my eye on a CZ 75 SP-01 myself.
@@combativeThinker Yeah, just hold one in your hand and work the actions and you'll immediately have to get one, lol. The CZ 75 P-O1 and its omega version are both must haves. Compact, metal not plastic... Best grip in the world, great triggers... Super nice. But if you're left handed, get the OMEGA version.
My space madness makes me terrified of stars, too scared to get close to then to fuel scoop, and jump in my chair every time i get face to face with one after a frameshift drive, Ill literally have a small panic attack after every jump. So i have to take a break, minimize the game and go do something else for a bit. Usually ill hang out with my girlfriend, she's an illustrator and a tattoo artist and ill just watch her draw her artworks and chat, which really helps to fend off the loneliness of space and brings me back to a state where i can go back a continue to explore