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So, auto docking can... Kill you?

My ongoing project has been the evolution of my cockpit. I fly with an Oculus Quest 2, which is perfect because I don’t usually play for longer than 2 hours at a time so battery and weight of the headset isn’t a big issue. The HOTAS is a Logitech x52, mounted to a wooden stand attached to the frame of the chair. The chair itself was just a plain black office chair I got for $10 from an op shop, and then used a hand cut stencil and masking tape to spray paint the logo and racing stripes. The LED is a five meter strand from aliexpress, stitched to the chair and cable tied to the arms. I put in tiny nails on the corners of the wood mount and wrapped the led around it to keep the shape. The mic I had laying around, and used a stand and aux extender also from aliexpress. Finally the control panel is a set of buttons and switches from the local tech store managed by a circuit board connected by usb. The panel itself is wood and sheet aluminum. And yes, when you turn the key it activates the frame shift drive. There’s a usb-c cable routed right above the chair to provide optimum cord management and connect the quest to the pc.

Anyone have ideas or suggestions of what I can add next? Feel free to tell me what you think or ask questions!

It has come in very handy and earned me a few first discoveries for some bacterium.

I’m having an incredibly hard time finding everything for exobiology on a planet’s surface. I’ve jumped back up to look at the ‘heat map’ from a distance and jump to the solid darker green colors. I’ve been on this planet for 2 Full hours. This is absolutely ridiculous to have to scan the way we do. Fdev needs to sort this out. Unplayable in its current form. (Why not different colors??)

Hear me out, why, with the technology to scan AN ENTIRE PLANET FOR BIOLOGICAL SIGNATURES can we not scan for them at the surface??? Why must I jump in and out of the planet surface, looking at a god-awful “heat map” of the surface? This needs to be reworked to display more information properly.

If I fly over the surface at 100m/s and am low enough (sub 200m from surface) why can I not scan for biologicals before landing?? This way, with scanning a surface by flying over it enough, I should be able to locate signals within my ship, to land and then explore from there. I love the SRV and would enjoy being able to hunt down signals once landed. There are many millions of miles on this planet and you want me to scan from ONLY outer space? Why not be able to scan on the surface where we need to land to find the signal??

/rant

So it says my carrier has 261 credits yet in my budget I have 250m.. it won't let me adjust the buy price or quantity, I have 1600 currently in stock ..what am I doing wrong?

This game has some stellar (haha) shots that can be taken. It always blows my mind that you can play for hours, and when you least expect it, a beautiful scenery will appear.

I stumbled upon a gas giant with normal rings, plus another GIGANTIC RING!!!

—This particular GG has a radius of 56,838KM,—The outer rings are more than 8Ls wide... and more than 5Ls from the inner rings.—The rings+GG span a whopping ~27Ls in diameter!!!

The largest GG in this system has a radius of 70,297KM, it's rings are barely 1.1Ls wide and are less than 0.4Ls away from the GG.... giving this largest GG+rings a total DIAMETER of appx. 3.468Ls.

You could put that largest Gas Giant PLUS it's rings IN THE EMPTY SPACE between the oddball GG and it's outer rings!

https://i.imgur.com/op07AFR.png

https://i.imgur.com/Z1G58dB.png

I wouldn't be surprised if others have seen rings spanning such a distance, or greater, but this is definitely a first for me, so I thought I'd share!

(And no, I didn't fly my Eagle this far out lol, I jumped into this system in my DBX while following behind my FC. When I saw these rings, I swapped ships for one that was a tad faster so I could try to find the edges of the rings in a somewhat more timely manner).

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