Greetings everyone, McGregor reporting in

[BrocMcGregor]

Greetings all! O7

If you have read my "greetings!" over on FirstGreatExpedition,
http://firstgreatexpedition.org/mybb/sh ... p?tid=2480
it's not your imagination, but these are pretty much the same post. BUT please read this one section before just skipping ahead -

[PLEASE READ]
I'm really excited to be here. Griefers are a pain to me. I just don't have the patience for them. So to have a "private" instance, or whatever it's called in this game, that really LIMITS that and ENFORCES against it, is great. Now, long term, I may go "hunting" in Open when the mood suits me. What can I say, I was inspired by Isinona. But I'm so happy that exists. Also, through my weeks of research, time and again, this forum seemed the most optimistic in its critiques of the game, in its beliefs that the game WILL get even better, that like EVE it will take time to mature (I remember EVE in 2004), and that as a community we can help make it happen.

I found ElitePVE through FirstGreatExpedition, and through this, I found Inara, Coriolis, Edshipyard, and an untold number of youtube videos and ideas on how to play this game. I just started and I feel like I genuinely know what I'm doing and that's a great feeling and already I feel a tremendous amount of accomplishment. For example - flight assist off, once I got my deadzones dialed in, I flew all the non-combat missions in the tutorials last night without dying. Yeah, I bumped a few bulkheads, but I would have been exponentially lost if it hadn't been for this forum and group.
[End of Pleading]

So I first heard about Elite Dangerous when I was researching the new Gog updates for X-Wing. Besides IL-2:1946, that's pretty much the last flight-sim I've played. In one review of how great those games still are, the writer talked about how it's taken nearly 20 years to replicate it with Elite Dangerous. He then went on to compare ED to X-Wing. I was immediately interested in finding out about ED. I saw he reviewed the game and that it should be forewarned people should do research before just "jumping in."

That was about three weeks ago.

During my initial research, I found a wonderful review of ED and this group, on Kotaku. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it:
http://kotaku.com/one-thousand-gamers-e ... 1677603818

I'm a veteran of the US Coast Guard. I was a Ship's Quartermaster and learned about azimuths, celestial navigation, the constellations, and ways of telling time out in sea with nothing to go on but our stars and our path around and among them.

To find out ED replicated this to the best of their knowledge, I was immediately enamored.

I then saw some youtube videos and noticed how we actually get to FLY and DOCK and all those great challenges, let alone the usual mix of pirates, smugglers, traders, cops, and bounty hunters. I was HOOKED.

Long story short - two days ago I picked up my custom PC from a friend who built it a few years back and it's "outdated" now for him. He works in post-editing and special effects. Apparently a
i7 - 3.2ghz
24 GB RAM DDR3
and GTX 560 Ti
are an "outdated dinosaur" and gave me one heck of a deal. He now has a system with three titans onboard and "gobs more" of RAM. LORD.

I flew all the tutorials last night. We were having internet issues where our speeds were down to 1mb/s... yep. But hey, at least the tutorials still worked out right. So me and my "Co-pilot," my 4 year old daughter, could at least fly a bit. I'm so excited.

My plans are to trade to make funds, run some rare routes, and my main goal:

explore all known systems according to http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/ and particularly -
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Nav_Star_Chart.php

I've always had a soft spot for Orion, I can't wait to actually "sail" there with RadioSidewinder playing in the background.

My flight controls profile is a dual joystick setup (no pedals) that I think works rather wonderfully. It was a "happy accident" in what happened. Fry's Electronics didn't have an additional Logitech 3D Pro, so I bought a Speedlink Phantom Hawk as my right stick. It was serendipitous and for once luck truly shined on me. My left stick (The 3Dpro) is my throttle and has all throttle/thruster controls and "shift" keys. My right stick (the Hawk) is my main stick with interfacing via the shift keys.

if anyone would like to know my profile, I have it saved in a doc and I'm currently working on a picture of it as well with the two sticks shown like others I have found.

I also am putting this in as my official spot to volunteer in any way I can for the expedition once it gets underway. As a "resume" of sorts, I've already made some routes for rares, and other trips I'll happily share both here, FirstGreatExpedition, and my blog. I swore I wouldn't go to hardcore, and yet before I even bought the game or tried it out, I had my Cobra, Hauler, Adder, Viper, Python, and Diamondback Explorer all kitted out on edshipyard.com/coriolis.io and routes made and saved in spreadsheets.

For example, my first "expedition" is going to be going to LHS 3006 to pay my respects at Leonard Nimoy Station. The route was already planned out before I had even purchased the game!

I'm IRL in USA, Arizona GMT -7/-6 (depends on daylight savings)

I'm going to usually be on 19:00 - 24:00 Galactic Standard Times however regardless. Until I get my ships and credits squared away I'll mainly be on the Mobius "instance."

My main forums I'll be participating in are of course, here, RadioSidewinder, and firstgreatexpedtion.org.

can't wait to see some of you out there in the black!

TLDR - I'm excited to be here, and hopefully I'm not too "noobish" since I've done so much research already!

Coming from a luddite, cynical, grumpy vet that was convinced to go PC after being so disappointed and returning an XboxONE instead of just giving up on gaming, because of a dear friend, and because of this game and this community, THANK YOU. YOU, this community, is why I am here in this game. You convinced me that any and all challenges are easily met and can be dealt with. Especially ones I made up in my head. I'm happy to say because of this, I have had zero issues with the game at all so far.

fair (solar) winds, and following (gravitational) seas, O7
Broc "Badger" McGregor

[Flip]

Welcome to the group and the forum, Commander! Nice intro! Your link to kotaku.com appears to be broken, though.

Feel free to add your name to the In game friend list thread and make sure to check the Policy page if you haven't already.

Fly safe!

[BrocMcGregor]

thanks for that head's up Flip. The link is fixed now.
Reading the policy page is what made me certain I wanted to be here. I'll go add myself to the in-game friend list right now!

[Mouse]

Welcome Commander!

[Casey Casem]

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar

Welcome to the Mobius community! I've been primarily playing on this private group for nearly three weeks and everyone I've encountered have been friendly and helpful. Sometimes hilarious

I'll keep an eye out for you and hope we cross paths in this vast Galaxy. My home system is Arissa Lavigny Duval's headquarters at Kamadhenu

[UnmarkedBoxcar]

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar

Quoted because I most certainly agree, and I find your enthusiasm to be contagious and refreshing and all around happy-making.

Thank you for giving me my warm-fuzzy feeling for the night.

And welcome to the loony-bin

[BrocMcGregor]

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar

Quoted because I most certainly agree, and I find your enthusiasm to be contagious and refreshing and all around happy-making.

Thank you for giving me my warm-fuzzy feeling for the night.

And welcome to the loony-bin

I'm making this reply via phone as I head off to bed. But I had to reply. So if there are errors I'll fix them in the morning.

Honestly thank you for the kind words. And Boxcar, "Red" has been such an inspiration for me you have no idea. I know the journey will be long and arduous, but getting there will be half the fun. Because of your posts and others in the "FDL or Python" thread showed me a true "earned skies the limit" ship I'd like.

Little did I know at the time the python was my ever elusive "sexy beast" I'd see on YouTube but not know which one she was. She's a gorgeous cross between a jedi starfighter from episode 2 with the back end of an aston martin all rolled into a package akin to "Flight of the Navigator's" ship.

So if I could return the favor, give you a smile and warm feelings than my work here is complete!

I figure 15K/T average for rares. About 62000K for my minimum kitted out python. Yep long haul but it's going to be an adventure.

Tonight I had to install windows 7 after some SNAFU with 8 that was on the system.

Wow... sometimes the download went down to .75mbps for the game install. And I know it isn't uncommon because I tried everything out there to try and speed it up. And what's worse, it DIDN'T happen on the 8.1 OS. That averaged about 5 mbps, which at the time I was disappointed in! Lol.

Then there were the drivers and monitor settings missing because of the fresh OS install. The game looked so terrible to begin with I couldn't believe it was the same hardwae!

It was a LONG night and I can understand other's frustrations.

For example I'm really glad I learned about backing up my bindings. But then in 7 it was a pain just to find that section again to paste it into! I figured at least I wrote them down in a notbook, just in case so the 3 hours I spent last night didn't go to waste.

But, I reflew the tutorial FSD mission and it was just all the more sweeter.

I hope to see you all in the black!

Fair (astral) winds and (gravitational) seas everyone O7

[Emanon]

Greetings and welcome commander! Hope to see you out there enjoying the many non-griefing goals you have.

[UnmarkedBoxcar]

... "Red" has been such an inspiration for me you have no idea. I know the journey will be long and arduous, but getting there will be half the fun. Because of your posts and others in the "FDL or Python" thread showed me a true "earned skies the limit" ship I'd like.

Little did I know at the time the python was my ever elusive "sexy beast" I'd see on YouTube but not know which one she was. She's a gorgeous cross between a jedi starfighter from episode 2 with the back end of an aston martin all rolled into a package akin to "Flight of the Navigator's" ship.

I hope to see you all in the black!

It warms my heart to hear that Red and I can be of some assistance/inspiration. It would very much be my pleasure... our pleasure...to assist in your fundraising endeavors. Whether it's scouting out decent bounty hunting sites and strategies, or dropping off a few tons of Palladium for you to sell/smuggle (I say smuggle because I'm not sure if cargo dropped from one ship to another still counts as "stolen goods".)

Given the suitable motives, Red and I are more than happy to travel to wherever you may be and provide any needed support, or--heck-- even unnecessary support.

[BrocMcGregor]

It warms my heart to hear that Red and I can be of some assistance/inspiration. It would very much be my pleasure... our pleasure...to assist in your fundraising endeavors. Whether it's scouting out decent bounty hunting sites and strategies, or dropping off a few tons of Palladium for you to sell/smuggle (I say smuggle because I'm not sure if cargo dropped from one ship to another still counts as "stolen goods".)

Given the suitable motives, Red and I are more than happy to travel to wherever you may be and provide any needed support, or--heck-- even unnecessary support.

wow...
honestly. I'm speechless. As far as dropping off a few tons, it's appreciated. But I'd rather earn it through whatever I can find.

I've already seen where certain RES spots post 1.3 are still doing well for my eventual upgrade to an Eagle
also where good RES spots are for say an Adder mining
and of course, with eliteraretrader, reddit and here, I have about 200+ routes to try out for rare trading and even general goods.

doesn't mean WE can't find more. O7

and it all started with this forum, with this group, and yeah, with you and Red.

If you ever want to fly with my little humble "Adventure" (my Sidey) I'd be honored at the company.

on that note, I'm having issues with my headsets.
My turtlebeach XOne (yeah from the Xbox1 days) hears just fine, can't get the mic to work.
my logitech cheapies can't hear anything but feedback from the mic.

I'm also going to post about that in the relevant area. That way everything stays organized. But yeah. Thanks Boxcar - it's seriously appreciated.